Stephenson s gathers estate treasures for April 9 Spring Decorative Arts Auction
Paulette Van Roekens, David and His World, a portrait of the artists son, SLL, 25½ x 21¾in (framed). Provenance: Estate of Davis Meltzer. Estimate $2,500-$5,000.
SOTHAMPTON, PA
.- This years edition of Stephensons popular Spring Decorative Arts Auction will be held live at the companys Southampton (suburban Philadelphia) gallery on Friday, April 9, with absentee and Internet live bidding available exclusively through LiveAuctioneers. The 451-lot sale features both fine and decorative art, Tiffany and other American silver, an outstanding selection of jewelry, more than 120 lots of furniture, including coveted Midcentury Modern productions; and many other treasures for collectors to discover. Most of the items set to cross the auction block were sourced from Philadelphia and other Mid-Atlantic estates and collections.
Flea circus contraptions to encore at Sworders Out of the Ordinary auction The Smallest Show On Earth , a collection of flea circus props and memorabilia from Professor Len Tomlin s Flea Circus at Belle Vue. Estimate £1,500-2,000.
STANSTED MOUNTFICHET
.- Numbering close to 600 lots, the Out of the Ordinary auction at Sworders on April 13-14 is the largest to date. In keeping with the name of the popular format, the sale brings together the weird and the wonderful from an original Dalek from the Doctor Who series to a sword presented by Catherine the Great to a cossack who helped put down a popular rebellion and the Smallest Show On Earth - the UKs only surviving flea circus.
Review: Dreamy cowboys and a ballet bath
Elle Macy and Dylan Wald in Alejandro Cerrudos Future Memory. The work by Alejandro Cerrudo is part of the Pacific Northwest Ballet s latest digital program. Angela Sterling via The New York Times.
by Brian Seibert
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- It takes only two oscillating notes to establish a world. The coyote howl that Ennio Morricone wrote for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly immediately conjures an idea of the American West: desert, tumbleweeds, gunslingers.
To hear those notes and see ballet pointe shoes thrown down like gauntlets is a joke. This is how Pacific Northwest Ballets latest digital program begins, with the Morricone theme playing over a montage of dancers rehearsing in masks, warming up, preparing for a show. The sequence is tongue-in-cheek but also establishes something serious: This excellent company is still at work, making and performing new dances.
MASSIMODECARLO opens an exhibition of new works by Aaron Garber-Maikovska
Installation view by Roberto Marossi. Courtesy MASSIMODECARLO.
MILAN
.-MASSIMODECARLO presents Yucaipa, an exhibition of new works by Aaron Garber Maikovska (b. 1978, Washington, D.C.). This is the Los Angeles-based artists second solo exhibition with the gallery and his first one in Milan.
Aaron Garber-Maikovskas oeuvre is intrinsically connected to the body, its experiences, its constraints and expressions possibilities and its immanence as a premise to the affirmation of the act of painting. Somatic is the artists preferred descriptor in this instance, with Garber-Maikovskas practice situated in an interstice between motion, performance, language, and painting. Using his homemade oil bars, the artist is able to articulate a specificity of color and light and layer and screen to embody his visual language.