The beams of light in Lyken’s painting both draw you in and push you away—much like the effect of technology. Painting by Mark Lyken. Photograph courtesy of Recoat Gallery.
GLASGOW, Scotland – Mark Lykens’s first solo show at Recoat Gallery is now on display. He created the pieces during a residency period at the same gallery in which the public could drop by and watch him work.
In the exhibit, Mark explores the way technology disrupts human’s abilities to interact with each other despite all the networking capabilities it brings us. By sharing his artistic process with the public, as well as offering a website where people could share their thoughts and experiences based on the topic, he attempts to break down those same barriers that inspire this show.
He also created a mural in London along the same themes of the gallery, filling a black-painted brick wall with bright colors and an abstract design.
A musician as well as a painter, Lyken has released a composition available for free download from the Gamma Proforma record label (www.gammaproforma.com/lonelinessmachines). The music parallels his paintings—those pulses and vibrations reflected in the circular strokes and mixed with straight lines that appear to be reaching out of his work.
Lyken was at the forefront of the graffiti scene in Glasgow in the 1980s. Far more than basic tags, Mark’s works draw as much from the minute (cellular division and decay) as the infinite (meteorological phenomena and metamorphosis). His exhibits and graffiti have shown throughout the UK. The exhibition will run until March 4. Recoat Gallery: 323 N. Woodside Road, Glasgow, G20 6ND.
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The beams of light in Lyken’s painting both draw you in and push you away—much like the effect of technology. Painting by Mark Lyken. Photograph courtesy of Recoat Gallery.One of Lyken’s painting that reflects the theme the barriers between social interactions. Painting by Mark Lyken. photograph courtesy of Recoat Gallery.A mural in London. Mural by Mark Lyken. Photograph courtesy of Recoat Gallery.
Founded in 1860, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is Canada’s oldest art institution. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
MONTREAL (AFP) – A thief hurdled motion detectors and avoided video surveillance and round-the-clock guards at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to pocket two rare and valuable archeological artifacts last year, the museum announced Wednesday.
Details of the theft late last year of the archaeological fragments—an Assyrian low relief and a marble head dating from the Roman Empire—were withheld to avoid compromising a police investigation.
Now the museum’s insurer AXA Art is offering a $10,000 reward for help identifying a male suspect in his 30s from surveillance video footage, and an additional “substantial reward” for the safe recovery of the artifacts.
“Although the museum is naturally concerned about the monetary value of the stolen objects, it is particularly sorry to have lost these two quality objects from the collection and regrets that the museum’s visitors will no longer see them on display in the galleries,” museum spokeswoman Danielle Champagne said.
The museum has security guards on the premises at all times. Exhibits are protected by motion detectors and all of its pavilions are monitored by video surveillance.
“Recorded video surveillance footage of the incident clearly shows the perpetrator carrying out the theft,” said a statement.
Yet, the suspect carrying only a satchel managed to slip away with the items, each smaller than a loaf of bread.
Tyler & Co. fine art loss adjuster Mark Dalrymple said the items are “very rare” and estimated to be worth several hundreds of thousands of dollars.
But “any precise valuation would be meaningless” as it is illegal to trade in stolen antiquities, and “any knowledgeable dealer will know what they are,” he told AFP.
The thief, he added, “may be waiting for a few months” before attempting to sell them. Likely the easily portable objects have been sent outside Canada.
The museum published photographs and a video of the suspect wearing a black vest, jeans and a baseball cap, but his face is blurred.
Montreal police meanwhile are still investigating.
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LONDON – A rare Milanese gold 2 Zecchini coin with Renaissance style portraits of the young Duke Giovanna Sforza and his mother Bona di Savoia, dating from 1476-1481, was almost lost when the owners decided to sell unwanted jewelry items to a scrap gold merchant. Instead the coin will be a star attraction in TimeLine’s March 14-17 auction.
LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding.
The coin had been claw mounted and worn on a chain by an older member of the family. A younger member liked the look of it when he rummaged through the parcel before it was despatched and decided on a whim to keep the coin. Later he researched Milan’s money on the Internet and was astonished to discover the rarity of the piece. Auctioneers TimeLine have estimated its hammer price at $63,000.
A 38-inch-long hand-forged Viking iron sword with a Petersen Type H pommel inlaid with bronze and copper wire to both faces dates to the ninth century. This superb weapon is similar to a sword recovered from Dungolman River, County Meath, Eire, and now in the National Museum of Ireland. A hammer price of $19,000 is expected.
A Mycenaean gold finger ring from circa 1600-1100 B.C., formed as a single band of gold with granulations in lozenge panels, should reach $4,750. And a circa 800-600 B.C. Mesopotamian multistrand necklace with crenellated gold collars and a central ornament of gold and lapis lazuli beads is estimated at $8,000.
From the Tang Dynasy (A.D. 618-906) a Chinese ceramic figurine depicting a courtly lady riding a trotting horse should attract bids of around $3,500. The horse, on an integral base, sports a plaited tail, a saddle blanket and a saddle; the coiffured lady wears a loose riding coat with full sleeves.
Another eye-catching American lot, from the town of Natick, Mass., is a 17th century scrimshaw powder horn with incised rosette decoration, two mermaids, a serpent, the word NATIC and the date 1675 flanking the mermaids. The total length 6 inches. The rosettes are typical of Pennsylvania Dutch folk-art, and were used as amulets to ward off the power of the hex or malevolent witch. The estimated hammer price is $800.
Brett Hammond, TimeLine Auctions’ CEO, commented: “Once again we have attracted an eclectic range of consignments from across the world to our Bloomsbury venue. The catalog reflects the collecting interests of our numerous clients who give TimeLine Auctions their support because they know they can depend on discovering lots to interest them, and to match their budgets at both the high and low end of the coins and antiquities market. But however full the saleroom on auction days; and however busy the online action, we always offer a welcome to new buyers and sellers.”
For additional details on any lot in the sale, contact Christopher Wren by calling (United Kingdom) 011 44 1708 222824.
View the fully illustrated catalog and sign up to bid absentee or live via the Internet at www.LiveAuctioneers.com.
Holdcroft majolica Stork & Cattails umbrella stand, 21 1/2 inches high. Image courtesy Professional Appraisers and Liquidators. CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. – Antique Auctioneer, Charles Fudge, a veteran of the auction industry for 40 years, will conduct the estate auction of Gai Creesy-Carlson, which will be his Professional Appraisers & Liquidators’ premier auction for 2012.
This auction will be held at Citrus Hills Lodge (formerly the Best Western), 350 E. Norvell Bryant Highway, Hernando, FL 34442 – rather than the firm’s own gallery. Ms. Creesy-Carlson’s estate contains some fascinating heirlooms. For those who cannot attend the auction in person, Internet live bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com.
Four hundred lots will be offered for sale without reserves. The complete catalog can be accessed at charliefudge.com or through LiveAuctioneers.com.
Creesy-Carlson’s family tree has is remarkable. Her grandmother, Roberta Carlson Creesy, was a Beacon Hill socialite. She lived about three doors down from Joe Kennedy Sr. on Beacon Hill during the 1910s and 1920s. Also during the 1920s, when her grandmother, Lilian Carlson, married Armond Fontaine, the newspapers described the event as “the celebrity wedding of the season.” Also of note, her grandfather, G.B. Creesy was a Limoges porcelain artist, and two beautiful pieces signed by this artist, the daffodil cylinder vase and the lovely dresser tray, will cross the auction block as well. In fact, this fabulous auction will contain antiques from all the ancestors mentioned above.
Another item of interest directly related to the Creesy family legacy is the Jim Clary limited edition print of the clipper ship Flying Cloud. Gai Creesy-Carlson’s great-grandfather, Josiah Creesy, was the captain of the Flying Cloud, and grandmother Eleanor Creesy was the navigator. According to Wikipedia, “The Flying Cloud was a clipper ship that set the world’s sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours. In the early days of the California Gold Rush, it took more than 200 days for a ship to travel from New York to San Francisco, a voyage of more than 16,000 miles. The Flying Cloud’s better-than-halving that time (only 89 days) was a headline-grabbing world record that the ship itself beat three years later, setting a record that lasted for 136 years.”
The clipper ship was also famous for having a woman navigator, Eleanor Creesy, wife of Josiah Perkins Creesy, who skippered the Flying Cloud on two record-setting voyages from New York to San Francisco, and for sailing in the Australia and timber trades.
Says auctioneer Charles Fudge, “with seamen in her family history, it is only fitting that heir, Gai, was actually born on the French ocean liner Isle de’ France. This ship was the first major liner built after World War I and was launched on March 14,1926, with its major route from Havre to New York.”
Many of the items in this auction are from the family’s travel overseas, and the Oriental camphor chest and silk piano cover were purchased by Gai, while living as a military dependant in Okinawaw, Japan, during World War II.
Other items of interest in the auction are two samplers, one by Gai herself at age 10 and another 19th century sampler dated Sept. 22,1838, by Augusta L Holmes at 12 years of age.
Fudge says that his favorite highlights are the 1931 Model A Ford Deluxe Roadster automobile and the Bradley & Hubbard figural humidor, which is an example of the Sultans and Sheiks category featured in the reference book Figural Humidors by Joseph Horowitz, page 45. It’s considered rare. Another favorite of his is the hard to find 21-inch majolica Stork and Cattails umbrella stand. The doré bronze jewelry casket with hand-painted porcelain portrait of Marie Antoinette is yet another unusual piece from the collection.
Estate jewelry also abounds in this auction, with approximately 75 lots of fine gold, diamond and gemstone jewelry and watches to choose from. Highlights are the gold, platinum and diamond Art Deco pieces, which are in such demand these days. A showstopper in this category is the Victorian Guilloche enamel perfume bottle necklace / scent bottle, complete with original dauber and chain. Another favorite is the antique ruby and diamond dangling earrings.
Orientalia highlights are the 1930s Sarouk room-size rug, the pre-ban carved ivory and carved bone sculptures and jewelry, the Japanese enamel vases, and a 19th century carved peach seed opium pipe.
Art is well represented by bronze and ivory statues, miniature portrait paintings on ivory, and fine antique oil and watercolor paintings, many of which are signed by listed artists. This category includes a landscape by Mabel E Dickinson Pond (1870- ) Massachusetts, a Boris Riab (1898-1975) hunting dog watercolor painting, an antique watercolor and gouache seascape by B.A. Crown dated 1913, oil painting of cows in a barn by John T. Willing (1860-?), and cows in a pasture by George A Hays (1854-1945).
Also crossing the block will be some fine 19th century prints, etchings and engravings including The Village Blacksmith by George Patterson, a 19th century Herman Kaulbach etching titled Klostersuppe Soup for the Poor, a 19th century Boris Riab hunting dog hand-painted gravure, the Jim Clary limited edition print of Flying Cloud as mentioned above, and a deluxe edition of 30 India ink wash drawings as photogravures / engravings by renowned illustrator Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1822-1888) titled The Darley Gallery of Shakespearean Illustration which comes in its original oak case with engraved brass plaque.
In addition, the sale will contain porcelain, pottery, sterling silver, antique and mid-century modern furniture, clocks, a toleware scuttle, collectibles including Hummel, Lladro, Royal Doulton and Swarovski, and antique dolls by Armand Marseilles and Simon Halbig.
The glassware category features art glass vases which are attributed to Moser, Stevens & Williams and Webb, enamel decorated pieces, and several bearing rigaree, as well as a stunning bride’s basket. There is also an assortment of Brilliant Period cut glass items, many of which are signed.
For details, contact auctioneer Charles Fudge of Professional Appraisers & Liquidators Antique Auctions by email at webuyit@tampabay.rr.com or by phone: 352-795-2061.
A complete catalog with detailed descriptions and photographs depicting several views for each item can be found on the company’s website: http://www.charliefudge.com. Preview is Friday, Feb. 24 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and prior to each session on Saturday, beginning at 8 a.m.
A seminar for first-time bidders will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 24, 2012. Attendees will learn how to preview merchandise, how to bid, auction terminology and more. This class is by reservation only; call 352-795-2061 or for details about the auction.
To reach Charles Fudge directly for questions regarding buying, consigning items to auction, or buying or appraising estates, call his cell phone at 727-385-6109.
Holdcroft majolica Stork & Cattails umbrella stand, 21 1/2 inches high. Image courtesy Professional Appraisers and Liquidators.
Nineteenth century highboy. Image courtesy Professional Appraisers and Liquidators.
1931 Ford Model A Deluxe Roadster. Image courtesy Professional Appraisers and Liquidators.
Antique dore bronze jewelry casket with hand-painted porcelain insert portrait of Marie Antoinette. Image courtesy Professional Appraisers and Liquidators.
Antique George Hays oil painting, ‘Cows in Pasture,’ artist signed and dated 1900. Image courtesy Professional Appraisers and Liquidators.
Art Deco platinum and diamond ring. Image courtesy Professional Appraisers and Liquidators.
Francisco Franco in a 1969 photograph. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Franco in fridge sculpture stirs up Spain art fair
MADRID (AFP) – A sculpture of former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco set inside a refrigerator was a star attraction at a major contemporary art fair, which opened Wednesday in Madrid.
The work by Spanish artist Eugenio Merino depicts the general wearing a green uniform and dark sunglasses with his knees bent inside the fridge, which is decorated with a white and red design similar to the Coca-Cola logo.
Merino said his piece Always Franco is meant to be a comment on how the former dictator, who ruled from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 until his death in 1975, continues to make headlines in Spain.
“It represents the idea that in Spain people are keeping the image of Franco alive. We don’t stop talking about him, debating about him. A fridge is where things are kept alive and fresh,” he told AFP at the ARCO art fair.
He cited the trial this month of top judge Baltasar Garzon for trying to prosecute Franco-era atrocities, and a controversy over the publication last year of a favorable biography of Franco by Spain’s Royal Historical Academy.
The sculpture—made of resin, silicon and human hair—was one of the most sought after by photographers, television crews and visitors to the five-day fair, which features works from 215 art galleries in 29 countries.
“There are people who really like it, others who can’t stand it. Spain is very divided on the topic of the dictatorship,” said Merino, who was born just months before Franco died at the age of 82.
Barcelona-based gallery ADN is asking 30,000 euros ($40,000) for the sculpture.
Merino has made headlines at previous editions of the art fair. In 2010 the Israeli embassy in Madrid protested over his sculpture Stairway to Heaven. It depicts an Arab man on his knees praying, with a Catholic priest on the Arab’s back also knelt in prayer and a Rabbi in turn standing on the shoulders of the priest. The artist also sparked controversy at the fair in 2009 with a sculpture depicting British artist Damien Hirst shooting himself in the head.
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Marlon Brando in a publicity photo for the 1953 film ‘The Wild One.’ Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
MILWAUKEE (AP) – The Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee is paying tribute to the black leather jacket this summer.
The museum will look at its evolution beginning with its role to protect pilots and motorcyclists through its adoption by Hollywood celebrities, rock stars and others as a symbol of rebellion.
It will also look at its modern-day designs from fashion houses such as Jean Paul Gaultier and Gianni Versace.
There will be more than 100 artifacts during the exhibit’s run, including jackets worn by Elvis Presley and Taylor Lautner of the “Twilight” series.
“Worn to be Wild: The Black Leather Jacket” starts June 16.
The Harley-Davidson Museum put together the exhibit with EMP Museum in Seattle, formerly known as the Experience Music Project Museum. It will travel to the Seattle museum in October.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) – In one room, a ghastly photo wall of bloody, uncensored images showcases the mob’s greatest hits.
In another, visitors are taught to load a revolver. And for when a gun just won’t do, an oddball collection of household items—a shovel, a hammer, a baseball bat and an ice pick—show show the creative side of some of America’s most notorious killers.
On the 83rd anniversary of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Sin City is honoring one of its earliest relationships with the grand opening of a museum dedicated to the mobsters that made this desert town. There are tommy guns, money stacks and a bullet-riddled brick wall from the 1929 massacre that saw Al Capone seize control of the Chicago mob.
Las Vegas has long been enamored with its gangster roots. Its longtime former mayor played himself in the mob flick Casino and hotels here often promote their nefarious origins. But the publicly funded, $42 million Mob Museum represents a new height in Sin City’s lawlessness devotion. Even the local FBI agents are in on it.
“We wanted to make sure the truth came out,” said Ellen Knowlton, a former special agent in Las Vegas brought on to legitimize the downtown attraction.
It’s the second mob-themed attraction to open in Las Vegas in the past year. The Mob Experience at the Tropicana casino on the Las Vegas Strip quickly shut down because of slow ticket sales and other problems. It’s slated to reopen later this year under the name Mob Attraction Las Vegas.
City officials said their version will perform better because it’s an authentic examination of the decisions and circumstances that made Las Vegas an international symbol of debauchery and excess. The museum is housed in a former Depression-era federal courthouse where the seventh of 14 U.S. Senate hearings on organized crime was held in the early 1950s. The trials watched by 30 million people introduced the mob to most Americans.
But critics argue the government-backed attraction is a waste of tax dollars at a time when Nevada tops the nation in foreclosures and unemployment.
“It’s a risky bet,” said Andy Matthews, president of the conservative Nevada Policy Research Institute, which plans to protest the grand opening ceremony Tuesday.
Nevadans and mobsters have a long, storied history.
Casino workers and longtime visitors alike are known to wax nostalgic about the days when mob bosses kept drink prices low and streets violence free. Their casinos became celebrity playgrounds and architectural icons. The Stardust, El Cortez, Tropicana, Dunes Hotel, Desert Inn, Flamingo and Fremont hotel were all backed by the mob at one point. Elvis and Priscilla Presley tied the knot at the mob-controlled Aladdin resort and Wayne Newton later purchased it.
More recently, Las Vegans thrice made former mob attorney Oscar Goodman their mayor. And when he was term-limited from running again last year, they gave the job to his wife.
The mob, the story goes, helped build out the remote highway that would eventually become the Las Vegas Strip. Gangsters took over resorts built by front men, skimmed the profits and built nightclubs, country clubs, housing tracts and shopping centers.
Increased law enforcement scrutiny and competition from business titans like Howard Hughes saw Las Vegas turn corporate in the late 1960s. Then the celebrity chefs and Cirque du Soleil dancers moved in. These days, Las Vegas feels more like a raunchy version of Disney World than a mob hangout.
“We felt nostalgic the moment the old days ended,” said Michael Green, a history professor at the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas working with the museum. “To Americans, Las Vegas will always have that image and they don’t come here for Mickey Mouse.”
Museum officials deny that they are sensationalizing the mob experience to sell tickets, which cost up to $18 each. One exhibit shows the modern reach of organized crime through the drug cartels of Mexico, money laundering schemes in the Bahamas, counterfeit rings in China and human trafficking in Brazil.
The museum also attempts to show the personal motivations behind the mug shots. There are pictures of a baby-faced Anthony Spilotro marking his First Communion, Frank Costello relaxing in a hammock at home and gambling titan Meyer Lanksy with his daughter at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, his arm tenderly hooked around her waist. All three were among the mob’s most powerful men.
But the museum’s extensive photography collection depicting cratered heads, imploded cars and full body bags likely will be its biggest draw among fans expecting a hefty dose of mob violence. There’s Jack “Machine Gun” McGurn, his lifeless body splayed out in a Chicago bowling alley in 1939. Another photo depicts the death of Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria, assassinated at his favorite Italian restaurant in New York in 1931.
A small gift store also plays up the mob’s bloodthirsty reputation. The shelves lined with novelty items feature mobster paper dolls and gangster teddy bears dressed in striped suits and armed with plastic machine guns.
A T-shirt reads: “In Godfather We Trust.”
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NEW YORK (LAPRS) – LiveAuctioneers.com, the Manhattan-based provider of Internet live-bidding services to more than 1,200 auction houses worldwide, wrapped 2011 with robust 4th-quarter results.
During the final three months of last year, there were more than 6.8 million visits to LiveAuctioneers’ site – an 11.5% increase over the comparable quarter of 2010. Of those visits, more than half were attributable to unique visitors – 3,596,188 in all.
Significantly, the average amount of time spent per visit increased by 19%, and the number of site engagements that exceeded 30 minutes rose by 50.91% when compared to Q4 2010. The number of page views spiked, as well, with 64.8 million recorded in the last quarter of 2011 vis-a-vis 47.8 million page views in Q4 2010.
The dramatic increase in the number of people visiting online auction catalogs and placing bids via mobile devices was among the top trends noted in LiveAuctioneers’ Q4 2011 statistics.
“Mobile visits to LiveAuctioneers-supported auction catalogs were up nearly 180 percent in comparison to the fourth quarter of 2010. There are several reasons for this,” said LiveAuctioneers.com’s CEO, Julian R. Ellison. “People are much more comfortable with mobile devices, now. That’s one factor. Another is the mainstream acceptance of apps as a reliable and convenient means of conducting transactions via smart phones and tablets.” LiveAuctioneers.com currently offers apps for iPhone and Android; iPad and iPod Touch devices can access LiveAuctioneers through iPhone apps.
Another aspect of site visitation that saw a healthy boost was traffic referred from search engines. In the fourth quarter of 2011, visitors forwarded to LiveAuctioneers as a result of searches or click-throughs from Google, Yahoo, Ask and other search engines jumped by 30.54% over the comparable quarter of 2010.
“LiveAuctioneers.com is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2012, and we can already tell from early trending that it’s quite likely to be another record-setting year for us,” said Ellison. “In particular, we’ve noticed that auctioneers are paying much closer attention to our online-marketing products, such as e-newsletters, and they’re investing in professionally produced publicity campaigns from LiveAuctioneers PR Services. There’s definitely a competitive energy in the marketplace.”
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) – The Maldives’ national museum is reopening without some of its most valuable exhibits a week after a mob of suspected religious extremists smashed images from the pre-Islamic era of this Indian Ocean archipelago.
Museum Director Ali Waheed said Tuesday that about 35 exhibits—mostly images of Buddha and Hindu gods—were destroyed in the attack. Some of the artifacts dated back to the sixth century.
Waheed says 99 percent of the Maldives’ pre-Islamic artifacts from before the 12th century were destroyed in the attack.
The mob of apparent Muslim extremists attacked the museum during the Maldives’ unfolding political crisis. The country has seen weeks of protests and last week the president stepped down. He later said he was forced to resign at gunpoint.
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President Zachary Taylor in a daguerreotype, 1850. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – A portrait of former U.S. President Zachary Taylor has been unveiled in the Oklahoma House.
The painting of the 12th U.S. president, known as “Old Rough and Ready” for his military service, was unveiled Tuesday during a ceremony in the Oklahoma House chamber.
Painted by Oklahoma artist Mike Wimmer, the portrait is a gift of former state Rep. Larry Rice and his wife, Peggy.
Taylor’s military service in the U.S. Army included a stint at Fort Gibson in eastern Oklahoma, and he helped establish Fort Washita near the town of Nida.
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President Zachary Taylor in a daguerreotype, 1850. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
