Sunday, March 3, 2019 – 11:00 – Sunday, April 7, 2019 – 15:30Project IMage:
what makes you move
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On Thursday, February 21, Artemis Gallery will conduct a nearly 400-lot auction featuring museum-worthy examples of classical antiquities, Asian and ethnographic art. This highly significant sale showcases investment-grade art and artifacts from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near and Far Eastern, Pre-Columbian and African cultures. Additionally, there are Spanish colonial, Native American and Russian artworks and objects, as well as beautiful gold and silver jewelry, some with semiprecious stones. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers. The top-estimated lot of the sale is an incredible Urartu bronze helmet from the eastern Anatolia region of modern-day Armenia, Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Exhibiting astonishing artistry and iconography, the circa-8th-7th century BCE (Iron Age III) helmet is composed of bronze that has been skillfully hammered into a conical form to fit snugg
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Sorrell Kerrison makes stunning hand-embroidered, Fauvist-style expressionistic portraits. Each image explodes with colour and texture, giving life and movement to the subject’s face, hair and clothing. Her works require huge amounts of patience to complete; even the portrait backgrounds are often entirely hand-stitched.
Sorrell completed a BA (Hons) degree in Television and Radio and spent time working on music videos and documentary films, as a performer and a gig and festivals organiser. She was the singer/songwriter in the band No Plato from 2009 – 2011; the band was named after a W.H. Auden poem she loved. From 2013 – 2017 she was the singer and guitarist in a grunge garage band, Pinot Grigio. Moving into textile art, she combines her love of music and creating art with great passion, making portraits of musicians and other people who have made significant contributions to the people.
In 2017 Sorrell created the album cover artwork for Andrew Hung’s debut solo album “Realisationship” (Lex Records). She was also commissioned by Bolton Museum to create four embroidery portraits of significant benefactors and curators for their permanent collection. These were unveiled in 2018 and are housed in the Chadwick Rooms in the new Egyptology wing. Her work has been featured in the Embroiderers’ Guild Magazine, on the Selvedge blog and in the Stitchery Stories podcasts.
In this interview, you’ll discover how to use your passions in life to spur on your artwork. You’ll discover in detail how Sorrell creates her work.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art will return an ancient gilded coffin to Egypt after New York prosecutors determined that it had been looted from that country, the museum said. The museum had purchased the prized coffin, dating from the first century BCE, in July 2017 from a Paris art dealer for a price of nearly four million dollars. But the Manhattan district attorney’s office determined that the mummy-shaped golden coffin had been sold with fake documentation, including a forged 1971 Egyptian export license. It was not clear what had sparked the district attorney’s investigation. The statement Friday quoted Met CEO Daniel Weiss as apologizing to the Egyptian people and specifically to Antiquities Minister Khaled El-Enany. “After we learned that the Museum was a victim of fraud and unwittingly participated in the illegal trade of antiquities, we worked with the DA’s office for its return to Egypt,” Weiss said.
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On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Principality of Liechtenstein in 2019, the Albertina Museum is presenting a comprehensive selection of the most outstanding works from the Princely Collections under the title From Rubens to M akart. The museum is also devoting a simultaneous, separate jubilee exhibition to the Viennese watercolor, an important and central category of works within the Princely Collections, in an exhibition entitled Rudolf von Alt and his Time. Well over 100 of the most important paintings and sculptures from the exquisite collection of this family, rich in tradition like few others in Europe, span an impressive range from the Early Renaissance in Italy to the Baroque period, from Viennese Biedermeier to the historicism of the Makart era. Iconic works such as Antico’s Bust of Marcus Aurelius, which was acquired for the Princely Collections just recently, the life-size bronze sculptures o
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