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“Witness for the Prosecution” Celebrates 2000 Performances and Launches Writing Competition for Secondary School Students

Producers Eleanor Lloyd and Rebecca Stafford are delighted to announce the launch of a new story writing competition for secondary school students to celebrate 2000 performances of Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution at London County Hall.  The production is more popular than ever after a record-breaking 12 months playing to 98% capacity. Now in its seventh year, nearly 640,000 people have watched the gripping trial of Leonard Vole unfold in the magnificent setting of London County Hall. 

Eleanor Lloyd and Rebecca Stafford said ‘We are thrilled to have reached such a milestone moment for the production. What’s particularly wonderful is seeing so many young people enjoying the show through our popular Under 26 ticket scheme or on school trips. We wanted to launch this competition to inspire the next generation of writers and to celebrate Christie’s timeless work.’

To enter the competition, budding authors in Years 7 – 9 will need to write a short thriller of up to 2000 words inspired by Witness for the Prosecution for the chance to win tickets for their class to see the theatre production at County Hall.  Competition judges will include Agatha Christie’s great grandson James Prichard, and international bestselling author Kate Mosse.  For more information see https://witnesscountyhall.com/the-show/story-competition

Leonard Vole is accused of murdering a widow to inherit her wealth. The stakes are high. Will he be able to convince the jury of his innocence and escape the hangman’s noose?

Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution has captured the imagination of thousands gripped by the case of Leonard Vole, accused of murder in cold blood. Director Lucy Bailey (And Then There Were None, Tour) thrillingly places the audience in the thick of the action as Christie’s enthralling tale of justice, passion and betrayal unfolds around them. The twists and turns of the case are played out in a spectacular courtroom setting inside the atmospheric London County Hall as prosecution battles defence and witnesses take the stand to give their shocking testimonies.  The production received Best Revival nominations at the 2018 Olivier and WhatsOnStage Awards.

Witness for the Prosecution gives audiences the unique and rare experience to step inside the historic London County Hall in the heart of the capital. Designed by Ralph Knott, County Hall was officially opened just over 100 years ago by King George V in July 1922 after construction began prior to the First World War in 1911 2023 and for 64 years, served as the headquarters of local government for London.

The production is designed by William Dudley, with lighting by Chris Davey, sound design by Mic Pool and casting by Ellie Collyer-Bristow CDG.

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The Greatest Night in Pop: A documentary on Netflix about one of the most legendary songs in music history, We Are the World

Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Lionel Richie, or Cindy Lauper together in a song? Surely you remember it, we are talking about “We Are the World”. If you feel like finding out how it was recorded and how so many stars were brought together in one night, here’s this Netflix documentary that tells us everything, accompanied by the delightful Lionel Richie.

Cassettes, eccentric hairstyles, flashy colors, and shoulder-padded jackets… all that and more were the 80s. It was a time of glamour and eccentricity, of multifaceted artists, and above all, a time of great talent.

And if there is a song that represented that moment in all its glory, it was “We Are the World”, the song that managed to bring together the most outstanding singers of that era.

Would you like to know the origins of the song? “The Greatest Night in Pop” is a documentary about the filming and creation of this legendary musical piece.

About the documentary

“The Greatest Night in Pop” features some of the stars who participated in that song, especially Lionel Richie, who serves as the narrator and host of this story that brought together the great American artists.

It was Harry Belafonte, the actor, singer, and civil rights activist, who pulled the strings, from Hollywood and the world of social advocacy. How to bring together all those egos in one place?

“We Are the World” was recorded in a single night, and a video clip full of familiar faces helped it spread worldwide: the song was heard everywhere, carrying a message of solidarity and, through the universal language of music, making the world a happier place.

“The Greatest Night in Pop” is a documentary full of nostalgia but very joyful, capturing the spirit of fun of the 80s, that spirit of freedom and rebellion.

A documentary to remember one of the great songs of that wonderful era that some of us miss today.

Enjoy it.

Where to Watch “The Greatest Night in Pop”

Netflix

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A fast-paced documentary series on Netflix: “NASCAR: Full Speed”

NASCAR: Full Speed is a series created by Jackie Decker and Tim Mullen.

Netflix’s latest sports series follows the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs and championship race, documenting the fierce competition among drivers as they vie for one of the most prestigious titles in motorsports. The series offers exclusive and extensive access to a diverse range of drivers and teams, prominently featuring Ryan Blaney, William Byron, Ross Chastain, Denny Hamlin, Bubba Wallace, Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, Joey Logano, and Tyler Reddick. It takes fans behind the scenes, providing a captivating look at the physical, mental, and emotional challenges faced by competitors at the highest level of stock car racing.

Where to Watch “NASCAR: Full Speed”

Netflix

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Carlos Garaicoa: π=3,1416 – Galería Elba Benítez

The Galería Elba Benítez is pleased to announce Carlos Garaicoa’s coming exhibition at the gallery, opening on Saturday, February 24th.

Titled π=3.1416, the show will consist of a series of new works stemming from the artist’s desire to delve into the pictorial tradition of Latin American geometric abstraction, on this occasion on wood. The series, which will be shown for the first time at the Galería Elba Benitez, blurs the boundaries between painting and sculpture, architecture and design, geometric and figurative art.

The work of Carlos Garaicoa (Havana, 1967) is characterized by an informed engagement with the genius loci of contemporary cities (and in particular of his native Havana) as manifested in their architecture and infrastructure, to which Garaicoa brings a sharply critical yet restlessly inventive artistic vision. Garaicoa works in and across various mediums and disciplines —sculpture, photography, drawing, installation, architecture, urbanism and text-based work— yet always maintains an exquisite execution and a meticulous aesthetic in his finished works. While his Cuban heritage serves as a point of departure, the full scope of Garaicoa’s artistic practice extends to a broader range of subject matter, including 20th-century utopianism, classic modernist forms and ideals, the infrastructures of centralized state planning, the vestiges of colonial architecture and urbanism, and the current-day shifting political and economic terrain of post-colonial globalism.

Garaicoa has had solo exhibitions at the Fondation Brownstone (Paris, 2022); the Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna (Bologna, 2022); the Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, 2020); the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC) (Santiago de Compostela, 2018); the Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art (London, 2018); the Fondazione Merz (Turin, 2017); and the MAAT Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia (Lisbon, 2017) and elsewhere. He has been invited to participate in numerous international exhibitions such as the 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018), documenta 14 (2017), 18th Biennial of Sydney (2012), the 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010), and the 53rd Venice Biennial (2009). He is currently featured in the XVI Cuenca Biennial, where he is presenting the work Familia (2023). In 2021 Garaicoa received the PEM 2021 Award (Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA).

π=3.1416 is the artist’s fifth solo exhibition at the Galería Elba Benítez.

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Adam Pendleton: An Abstraction – Pace Gallery, New York

New York – Pace is pleased to present An Abstraction, an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by New York- based artist Adam Pendleton, at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York from May 3 to June 20. Pendleton’s first solo show at Pace’s New York gallery in ten years, An Abstraction follows a series of significant solo exhibitions by the artist at museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2021; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2022; and mumok, Vienna in 2023. The return to his home city marks a continuation of his career-long project of creating spaces of engagement and “fighting for the right to exist in and through abstraction.”

Pendleton’s work indexes and documents the physical process of painting to create layered pictorial fields that—in their painterly, psychic, and verbal expressions—announce a new mode of visual composition for the 21st century. He is guided by a visual and structural philosophy he has termed “Black Dada,” an ongoing inquiry into Blackness and its relationship to abstraction and conceptions of the avant-garde. Investigating Blackness as a color and theoretical proposition, the artist’s work reflects a contrapuntal understanding of the world in both sensorial and conceptual terms.

In An Abstraction, the artist’s 12 paintings and 13 drawings will hang within a monumental, site-specific architecture consisting of five black triangular forms. These sculptural walls will reorder the gallery into new, unexpected spaces and extend the visual language of the exhibited works.

Bringing together the artist’s Black Dada and Untitled (Days) bodies of work, the new paintings and drawings in the exhibition feature a variety of marks—spray painting, stenciled geometric forms, and expressionistic brushstrokes— to blur distinctions between painting, drawing, and photography and propose painting as a documentary and performative act.

Pendleton’s new Black Dada works imbue his iconic black and white compositions with focused and saturated colors. Each of the paintings and drawings in this body of work bears one or more typographic letters from the phrase “BLACK DADA,” rendered in a sans serif font amid the artist’s gestural marks. Continually transposing and overwriting these two modes of inscription, Pendleton cultivates a living library of his own ever-evolving gestures and processes.

Paintings and drawings from Pendleton’s Untitled (Days) body of work will also be featured in An Abstraction. Using collagist strategies of indexing, daily mark-making, fragmentation, and recombination, these works create a cumulative portrait of the artist’s experimentations in the studio.

In spring 2025, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. will present Love, Queen, a landmark exhibition of Pendleton’s work that will anchor the institution’s 50th anniversary year.

Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1984, Adam Pendleton completed the Artspace Independent Study Program in Pietrasanta, Italy, in 2002. His work has been featured at major museums around the world, including solo exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; and Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, among others. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Adam Pendleton: Who is Queen? (2021–22) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Adam Pendleton: These Things We’ve Done Together (2021–22) at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Biennial: Quiet as It’s Kept (2022) at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Adam Pendleton: Blackness, White and Light (2023–24) at the mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna; and Adam Pendleton: To Divide By (2023–24) at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis.

His work is in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; and Tate, London.

Pace is a leading international art gallery representing some of the most influential contemporary artists and estates from the past century, holding decades-long relationships with Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Barbara Hepworth, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, and Mark Rothko. Pace enjoys a unique U.S. heritage spanning East and West coasts through its early support of artists central to the Abstract Expressionist and Light and Space movements.

Since its founding by Arne Glimcher in 1960, Pace has developed a distinguished legacy as an artist-first gallery that mounts seminal historical and contemporary exhibitions. Under the current leadership of CEO Marc Glimcher, Pace continues to support its artists and share their visionary work with audiences worldwide by remaining at the forefront of innovation. Now in its seventh decade, the gallery advances its mission through a robust global program— comprising exhibitions, artist projects, public installations, institutional collaborations, performances, and interdisciplinary projects. Pace has a legacy in art bookmaking and has published over five hundred titles in close collaboration with artists, with a focus on original scholarship and on introducing new voices to the art historical canon.

Today, Pace has seven locations worldwide, including European footholds in London and Geneva as well as Berlin, where the gallery established an office in 2023. Pace maintains two galleries in New York—its headquarters at 540 West 25th Street, which welcomed almost 120,000 visitors and programmed 20 shows in its first six months, and an adjacent 8,000 sq. ft. exhibition space at 510 West 25th Street. Pace’s long and pioneering history in California includes a gallery in Palo Alto, which was open from 2016 to 2022. Pace’s engagement with Silicon Valley’s technology industry has had a lasting impact on the gallery at a global level, accelerating its initiatives connecting art and technology as well as its work with experiential artists. Pace consolidated its West Coast activity through its flagship in Los Angeles, which opened in 2022. Pace was one of the first international galleries to establish outposts in Asia, where it operates permanent gallery spaces in Hong Kong and Seoul, along with an office and viewing room in Beijing. In spring 2024, Pace will open its first gallery space in Japan in Tokyo’s new Azabudai Hills development.

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Netflix premieres “The Greatest Night in Pop,” a documentary about one of the most legendary songs in pop history, “We Are the World”

In 1985, the best artists of the pop music scene gathered to raise funds to help Africa. “The Greatest Night in Pop” is a documentary about what happened those days and how it gave rise to one of the most iconic songs in pop history that brought together Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Lionel Richie, Cindy Lauper and many other stars for a legendary song.

Where to Watch “The Greatest Night in Pop”

Netflix

USA For Africa – We Are The World (HQ official Video)

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Self-Portraits by Van Dyck, Rubens, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun & More Highlight Sotheby’s Masters Week in NY

NEW YORK, 26 January 2024 –  Spanning paintings, drawings, sculpture, furniture and more, Sotheby’s annual Masters Week sales kick off next week, underscored by works from renowned private collections including Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun’s remarkable self-portrait from private collection of preeminent scholar Joseph Baillio, as well as the collections of Jimmy Younger, Ian Irving, and Jordan Saunders.

This season’s Master Paintings sale is headlined by a strong group of pictures by Spanish artists, led by Luis Meléndez’s lush still-life of Artichokes and Tomatoes in a Landscape – one of only six large-scale still lifes that are set within outdoor settings (estimate $2-3 million); as well as a newly discovered early painting by El Greco, executed circa 1568 or 1569, almost immediately after the artist’s arrival in Venice from Crete (estimate $400-600,000). The sale is further highlighted by a beautiful marine by Salomon van Ruysdael (estimate $2-3 million); a group of five British and Italian works recently deaccessioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and being sold to benefit the Acquisition Fund; and two paintings from the Jacques Goudstikker collection, which were recently restituted to Goudstikker’s heir. This season’s sales are rounded out by recent re-discoveries, rare self-portraits by pioneering women artists, and some exceptional works on paper. 

The One will return for its second iteration, a unique, cross-category sale concept that tells an extraordinary story of excellence in craft, artistry, and endeavor from the great civilizations of antiquity to the sports and entertainment worlds of today. Through each object offered in the sale, The One showcases the very best examples of human ingenuity, achievement, and excellence. Led by The 2nd May 1840 Penny Black – the first piece of mail sent using a prepaid stamp –  the sale features an array of objects ranging from a gilt and painted cassetta dating to 1280 – 1290; The Hope Cup, a magnificent cup carved from the largest block of jasper ever seen, exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1855; and The Dynasty Collection – the complete set of Michael Jordan’s ‘Air Jordan’ Six Championship Sneakers (1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997 and 1998).

All works are on public view in Sotheby’s New York galleries beginning today, with auctions taking place from 26 January – 3 February. 

Sotheby’s Masters Week sale series is presented in partnership with Qatar Executive. 

RE-DISCOVERED SELF-PORTRAITS

Sir Anthony van Dyck
Self-Portrait
Estimate $2-3 million 

A recently re-discovered Self-Portrait by Sir Anthony van Dyck, painted in 1637-1639, represents what appears to be the artist’s penultimate self-portrait. The work was also likely a gift to King Charles I from van Dyck, who probably hoped it would be hung in Whitehall Palace alongside a portrait of his former master and rival Sir Peter Paul Rubens. The British Parliament sold the work after King Charles I’s death to Remigius van Leemput, an artist who frequently copied Van Dyck’s works and possibly an assistant to the master in his studio. The painting was later restored to the British Royal family, eventually travelling to Holland with King William III, where it hung in Paleis Het Loo. Sold by the Dutch state after the death of William III, the painting then passed through various collections – including, in a curious turn of fate – part of the collection of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center due to the similarities between the two legendary men’s mustaches. Though the attribution to Van Dyck seems to have fallen away in the 1980s, recent restoration and research has supported a full re-attribution of this late masterpiece by Van Dyck. 

Please find the full details on this work here.

Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Estimate $3-5 million

Painted by Sir Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp around 1610-1611, this self-portrait was created while the artist was a young man, approximately age thirty-three, shortly after his return from a transformative eight-year sojourn in Italy. A recent rediscovery, the work was painted in 1610-1611, when the artist was still establishing himself as one of the foremost painters of Northern Europe. It is thought to be the second standalone portrait completed by the artist and it remained in Rubens’s possession and that of his descendants (alongside all of his self-portraits) until 1853.

This artwork is likely contemporaneous with Rubens’s impressive Raising of the Cross triptych, which he painted for the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp. This masterpiece, which remains in place today, served as a herald of the Baroque style in Northern Europe, utilizes swift, sketch-like brushstrokes, are evident in both works, characteristic of his intimate portraits from the following decade. 

Lavinia Fontana
Portrait of a Pregnant Woman, Possibly a Self-Portrait
Estimate $100,000 – 150,000

This remarkable portrait by renowned Mannerist artist Lavinia Fontana is a recently rediscovered work depicting an elegant noblewoman at three-quarter length, holding a lace-trimmed handkerchief in her hand, which she rests on her pregnant belly – practically unparalleled in its portrayal of a visibly expectant mother. Widely regarded as the first professional woman artist and the subject of a recent, major exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland, Fontana directed her own studios, and fully supported her husband and children with her work – which included commissions from nobility and even an appointment as the pope’s portraitist. Remarkably, Fontana’s work commanded prices equal to those of her male counterparts at the time, including those of Anthony van Dyck. Her portraits of important Bolognese figures were the most sought after, first by men and then by the 1580s the noblewomen of the city. This work bears the hallmarks of Fontana’s grand portraits as well as the influence of the artist’s near-contemporary Caravaggio, and it is thought to is thought to represent Lavinia herself, who produced several self-portraits over the course of her career.

Please find the full details on this work here.

WORKS FROM ESTEEMED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

A Collection of Works by Pioneering Artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
Self-Portrait In Traveling Costume
Estimate $700,000 – 1 million

A group of paintings, drawings and sculpture from the collection of preeminent scholar Joseph Baillio is highlighted by portraits and landscapes by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. Representing the largest collection of works by the pioneering artist ever to come to auction, the works provide a rare glimpse of the scope of both her illustrious career and incredible life story, as she rose from humble beginnings to take her place at the heart of the French royal circle,  friend of Marie Antoinette, and the most internationally celebrated artist of her day. At the heart of the collection is a remarkable Self-Portrait executed just after she arrived in Italy after fleeing revolutionary Paris, showcasing her determination to succeed as a painter once again (estimate $700,000 – 1,000,000). Portrayed without frills or extravagance and looking younger than her true age, the work powerfully signifies her reinvention in spite of the circumstances that drove her from home. There is also a tender Portrait of the Artist’s Mother  – one of the artist’s earliest surviving paintings, executed when Le Brun was approximately 20 years old – a piece that she treasured and took with her everywhere like her own self-made amulet (estimate $100,000 – 150,000). 

Please find the full Catalogue available here

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino
Saint Mary Magdalene
Estimate $600,000 – 800,000
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino
Saint Mary Magdalene
Estimate $600,000 – 800,000

The Estate of Jimmy Younger

Comprising 16th and 17th century European Mannerist and Baroque drawings, paintings, sculptures, furniture, and works of decorative, The Estate of Jimmy Younger reflects the late Houston-based collector’s decades of passionate and dedicated collecting. Younger began his collecting journey with contemporary American painting, though shifted his focus on the art of the Dutch Golden Age, and later to Italian Mannerist and Baroque paintings and drawings. He became a true connoisseur, and served on boards at The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, The National Gallery, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Leading the sale is ’s large-scale painting of Saint Mary Magdalene, which will make its auction debut this month (estimate $600,000-800,000). A number of rare drawings underscore the collection, including a beautiful oil-on-paper study sheet by the leading Dutch Mannerist painter Cornelis Cornelisz. Van Haarlem – one of just four surviving works of its kind (estimate $350-550,000). Falling between Cornelis’s paintings and his drawings, the work combines the best qualities of both, including completed figures with oil paint, and other figures drawn with pencil. Although small monochrome paintings in oil, sometimes on paper, are not unknown in the works of fellow Haarlem painters, sheets like this of full-color oil figure studies are unprecedented in Dutch or Flemish art of the period. Further highlighting the group is a rare drawing by Perino del Vaga – one of Raphael’s most influential pupils (estimate $300-500,000). Unknown before its appearance on the art market and acquisition by Younger in 2003, the work is an important, double-sided addition to the corpus of his known drawings. 

Please find the full Catalogue available here.

The Pleasure of Objects: The Ian & Carolina Irving Collection

Many are the stories that make a home. For Ian and Carolina Irving, more than for most. In The Pleasure of Objects: The Ian and Carolina Irving Collection, the pair, a prominent expert in rare antique silver and an esteemed textile designer respectively, present a collection of pieces chosen and treasured over the course of the life they shared. There is a particular alchemy in its eclecticism; furniture, textiles, artworks and other objects layering one upon the other, outlining a decades-long trajectory of the couple’s respective tastes, interests and curatorial inclinations. The assortment, rich in tour-de-force craftsmanship, was never hidden in cupboards but out on display and always in use to decorate a quiet corner, host guests, or to elevate a simple family dinner.

Please find the full Catalogue available here.

Elegance & Wonder: The Jordan Saunders Collection

Elegance & Wonder: The Jordan Saunders Collection celebrates the interiors created by the collector and philanthropist Jordan Saunders in her Park Avenue penthouse triplex as a setting for her generous hospitality and distinguished collection of Old Master paintings, which are currently on loan to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia. Classic English and European furniture, silver and ceramics and Chinese Export porcelain combine with an important group of furniture and objects formerly belonging to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, to evoke a sense of Old World refinement not far removed from the Windsors’ own residence outside Paris. Like the Windsors, Mrs Saunders has expertly assembled a collection both beautiful and functional to be used and enjoyed on a daily basis.

Please find the full Catalogue available here.

Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

Netherlandish School, circa 1480-1500
Portrait of a Man, bust-length, wearing a fur hat
Estimate $300,000- 500,000

The latest iteration of the Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries sale once again presents a selection of drawings, watercolors, gouaches and pastels that together chart in fascinating ways the development of the art of drawing in Europe over the centuries, and the great variety of functions that this many-faceted art form served.

 This sophisticated and well-preserved portrait study of a man in a fur hat, most probably executed shortly before 1500, is a rare example of a type and quality of drawing that is almost unknown outside the context of major museum collections (estimate $300-500,000). Figure drawings and portrait studies in silverpoint were central to the artistic practice of the Netherlandish artist’s studio during the later 15th and early 16th centuries, though only very few Northern European silverpoint drawings such as this example are known. Given the nature of workshop practice, firm attributions to the leading masters themselves are rare: for example, there is only one drawing that is generally accepted as being from the hand of Jan van Eyck, and hardly more by Hugo van der Goes, to whom the present drawing was formerly attributed. As historian Fritz Koreny noted, this outstanding drawing of a man in a fur hat fits most closely into the Van Eyckian tradition, as it developed towards the end of the 15th century.

Pietro da Cortona’s striking study for a figure of Fury in the Palazzo Barberini Ceiling testifies to the artist’s talent as a draftsman (estimate $120 – 150,000). A major addition to the corpus of his graphic works, the drawing will be included in Dr. Jörg Martin Merz’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the drawings of the artist. The Barberini ceiling, executed in the  gran salone of the Palazzo Barberini, was the artist’s first monumental commission and considered to be Cortona’s major masterpiece. This study relates to the figure of Fury, in the right foreground of the left cove of the ceiling. Over his years of working on the Barberini ceiling, the artist must have made a large number of preliminary drawings, but almost all of these are now lost, making this drawing a rare survival.

Please find the full Catalogue available here.

CALENDAR OF EXHIBITIONS AND SALES

Exhibitions 

Sotheby’s New York
1334 York Avenue
26 January – 1 February 
Monday–Saturday, 10am–5pm | Sunday, 1pm–5pm

Live Auctions

The Pleasure of Objects: The Ian & Carolina Irving Collection (30 January, 10 AM ET)
A Scholar Collects (31 January, 10 AM ET)
Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries (31 January, 11 AM ET)
The Estate of Jimmy Younger (31 January, 2 PM ET)
Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I (1 February, 10 AM ET)
Master Paintings Part II (1 February, 2 PM ET)
The One (2 February 10 AM ET)
Master Sculpture & Works of Art (2 February, 11 AM ET)
19th Century European Paintings & Sculpture (2 February, 3 PM ET)
Elegance & Wonder: The Jordan Saunders Collection (3 February 10 AM ET)

Online Auctions

Old Master and British Works on Paper (26 January – 2 February) 

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Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre Choreography Workshop Habit Formed Motifs and Structures

Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre announces a choreography workshop based around the motifs and structures of Habit Formed on February 21, 2023 at 2pm at The BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, located on the campus of the Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, New York, NY 10007. For more info on the workshop, visit https://tribecapac.org/event/amanda-selwyn-dance-theatre-workshop. For CUNY students interested in participating in the workshop, please email marketing@tribecapac.org.

In this choreography workshop, Selwyn and her company of dancers will introduce some of the over-arching movement motifs that weave throughout Habit Formed. Then, she will guide students to develop short choreographic studies that explore these motifs and add their own nuance, musicality, and point of view. Students will share their creations and collectively, we will explore how these different studies can be combined into different patterns to create a larger work of choreography. Students should come prepared to move, to be creative, and to collaborate with one another.

The workshop is in anticipation of the world premiere of Habit Formed, which will take place March 1-2, 2024 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $40 general admission. Tickets to the 3/2 gala are $250 and include access to the performance and the reception immediately following, as well as a $50 tax-deductible gift to support Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre. Patron-level gala tickets are available for $500 and include the performance, reception and a $300 tax-deductible gift. Tickets may be purchased at https://tribecapac.org/event/amanda-selwyn-dance-theatre-presents-habit-formed/?instance_id=2240. For more information, visit https://amandaselwyndance.org/habit-formed-world-premiere/.

Habit Formed is an evening-length work that will premiere at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center as the company’s 24th Annual Performance Season. The piece explores how habits are created and broken in our lives. These habits can manifest strength, ease, and freedom and also create limits, boundaries, and affliction. The piece is set in a world of shifting physical structures (cages, netting, rocks) embodying the delicate balance between the growth potential and entrapment of habitual action. The piece lingers between the comfort of routine and the desire for change, as dancers break away from established patterns and embark on solo journeys of self-discovery.

Habit Formed weaves fluid, sensuous movements with sharp, distinctive gestures. The ensemble of ten dancers move from moments of synchrony to disruption, illustrating the tension between conformity, individuality, and the struggle to break free from ingrained patterns. The piece traverses a spectrum of emotions associated with habits, from euphoria to restlessness to liberation. From the shackles of habit to symphonic moments of self-awareness and agency, the dancers face personal change and the potential for transformation. The ultimate journey of the work is a story of discernment, unpacking how we can be empowered by intentional habits and not impaired by them. Habit Formed includes Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre’s company dancers, scenic design by Rob Dutiel and Anna-Alisa Belous, costume design by Anna-Alisa Belouw, lighting design by Dan Ozminkowski, and sound design by Joel Wilhelmi.

Habit Formed was created with the support of a 2023-24 CUNY Dance Initiative Residency at The BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, located on the campus of the Borough of Manhattan Community College.

BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, the longest operating performance venue in lower Manhattan, is dedicated to identifying, supporting and presenting established and emerging artists in a variety of disciplines, including music, dance and children’s theatre to the diverse Metropolitan audience. Located at 199 Chambers Street in a burgeoning downtown business and residential district and within a city-owned college facility (serving over 20,000 students), BMCC Tribeca PAC is Downtown Manhattan’s premiere presenter of the arts, reaching audiences from the college community, Downtown residential and business communities, schools, and audiences of all ages. BMCC Tribeca PAC strives to present a broad global perspective through the presentation of high quality artistic work in music, theater, dance, film and visual arts. We support emerging and established artists who create, inspire creativity and imagination, celebrate diversity and change, as well as instill emotional, social, and political awareness. Services

Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre creates dynamic dance theatre that activates emotional expression in a rich and abstract collage. Through an interplay between athletic and articulate motion, we present theatrical and immediate works that engage audiences from start to finish and beckon a response of thought, feeling, and soul.

Founded in 2000, Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre has presented over 95 productions at NYC venues including Baruch Performing Arts Center, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, New York Live Arts, Dance Theatre Workshop, Dance New Amsterdam, Danspace Project, Ailey Citigroup Theater, The Kumble Theater, John Jay College, and Mark Morris Dance Center. The company has been presented twice at Jacob’s Pillow, at Westfest, DUMBO Dance Festival, Dixon Place, Dance Teacher Summit, COOL NY, Movement Research, Wassaic Project, and Pushing Progress Series. Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre has toured to festivals, presented open rehearsals, interactive performance events and workshops, and offers arts education programming through Notes in Motion to students and families in the NYC public schools. For more information, visit www.amandaselwyndance.org.

Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre/Notes in Motion programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. The company is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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Keanu Reeves to Receive Inaugural Lance Reddick Legacy Award at 51st Annual Saturn Awards

Los Angeles, CA – January 26, 2024 – This year’s Saturn Awards show is not only dedicated to the memory of the Saturn Awards’ dear friend, acclaimed actor and former Saturn Awards host, Lance Reddick, but will also be presenting the debut of the Lance Reddick Legacy Award to his longtime co-star and friend from the blockbuster John Wick franchise, Keanu Reeves. The Award will be presented to Reeves by Titus Welliver (“Bosch”/“Bosch: Legacy”) at the upcoming 51st Annual Saturn Awards, hosted by Joel McHale on February 4, 2024 at 4PM PST that will be streamed live on ElectricNOW.  The announcement was made today by The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films.

Academy President Robert Holguin and Saturn producers Bradley and Kevin Marcus comment, “This award symbolizes and celebrates not only a performer’s talent, but their character; someone who’s a true goodwill ambassador in the industry. From Science Fiction (“The Matrix Trilogy”), Fantasy (“Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure”/”Constantine”) & Horror (Francis Ford Coppola’s “Dracula”/”The Devil’sAdvocate”), Keanu has done it all — not to mention ”Speed”and ”Point Break.” Keanu is not just a Hollywood icon but also a shining example of humility and gratitude. Throughout his incredible career, he has never forgotten the support of his fans and the filmmakers who’ve supported him all these years. We’re thrilled to celebrate Lance’s memory with a dear friend and a genre icon.”

Other prestigious awards presented at the upcoming ceremony will be announced shortly.

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Keanu Reeves recibirá el premio inaugural al legado de Lance Reddick en la 51ª edición de los Saturn Awards

Los Ángeles, CA – 26 de enero de 2024 – El espectáculo de los Saturn Awards de este año no sólo está dedicado a la memoria del querido amigo de los Saturn Awards, el aclamado actor y antiguo presentador de los Saturn Awards, Lance Reddick, sino que también se presentará el debut del Lance Reddick Legacy Award a su compañero de reparto y amigo desde hace mucho tiempo de la superproducción John Wickfranquicia, Keanu Reeves.El premio será entregado a Reeves por Titus Welliver («Bosch»/»Bosch: Legacy») en los próximos 51º Premios Anuales Saturn, presentados por Joel McHale el 4 de febrero de 2024 a las4PM PST que se retransmitirán en directo en ElectricNOW.  El anuncio ha sido realizado hoy por La Academia de Cine de Ciencia Ficción, Fantasía y Terror.

El presidente de la Academia, Robert Holguin, y los productores de Saturn, Bradley y Kevin Marcus, comentan: «Este premio simboliza y celebra no sólo el talento de un actor, sino también su carácter; alguien que es un verdadero embajador de buena voluntad en la industria». Desde Ciencia Ficción («La trilogía Matrix»), Fantasía («Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure»/»Constantine») & Terror («Drácula»/»El abogado del diablo» de Francis Ford Coppola), Keanu lo ha hecho todo – por no mencionar  «Speed «y  «Point Break.» Keanu no es sólo un icono de Hollywood, sino también un brillante ejemplo de humildad y gratitud. A lo largo de su increíble carrera, nunca ha olvidado el apoyo de sus fans y de los cineastas que le han apoyado todos estos años. Estamos encantados de celebrar la memoria de Lance con un querido amigo y un icono del género».

En breve se anunciarán otros prestigiosos galardones que se entregarán en la próxima ceremonia.

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