LONDON â Cindy Shermanâs groundbreaking series, Untitled Film Stills, 1977-80, has gone on public display for the first time in the UK in a major new retrospective of the artistâs work at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Opening on Thursday, June 27, the exhibition explores the development of the artistâs work from the mid-1970s to the present day.
NEW YORK â Dozens of designer handbags are offered in a Jasper52 auction of luxury fashion accessories that will be conducted Tuesday, July 2. Chanel, Gucci, Spartina, Michael Kors, Judith Leiber, Louis Vuitton and Valentino are all represented in this 100-lot online auction. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
DENVER, Pa. â When Keats wrote, âA thing of beauty is a joy forever â its loveliness increases,â he unwittingly created a tagline for Morphy Auctionsâ $3.3 million Fine & Decorative Arts sale held June 18-19. The breathtaking array of European and American antiques, glass and ceramics dazzled an international contingent of bidders who drove prices on many items to unexpected if not astounding levels. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
CHICAGO â The Art Institute of Chicago commemorates the centenary of Bauhaus with an exhibition highlighting the output of the acclaimed German art schoolâs textile workshop and its impact on modern and contemporary American art. âWeaving Beyond the Bauhaus,â on view from Aug. 3 to Feb. 16, 2020, features 50 works both on and off the loom by pioneering artists such as Anni Albers, Claire Zeisler, Lenore Tawney, Otti Berger, Gunta Stölzl, Else Regensteiner, Ethel Stein and Sheila Hicks.
CRANSTON, R.I. â Fine art coexisted in peaceful harmony alongside Asian objects at Bruneau & Co. Auctioneersâ antiques and fine art auction held on June 6, as a fine Chinese Qing Dynasty miniature bronze censer changed hands for $8,125 to take top lot honors, while paintings by Antonio Cirino, Giuseppe Castiglione and Jeremiah Wilson also performed well. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) â A Bible given to Abraham Lincoln in the final months of the Civil War ties together the 16th president’s budding views on spirituality and his belief that God was calling him to end slavery as well as his widow’s labors to solidify his religious standing, historians say.