GENEVA.- All 60 Jewels from the personal collection of Suzanne Belperron (1900‐1983) sold today at Sotheby’s Geneva for the outstanding total of CHF 3,224,950 ($3,459,307), more than tripling the pre‐sale expectation of CHF 902,000‐1,365,000. The sale – the most significant collection of jewels by Suzanne Belperron ever presented at auction ‐ was a “white glove sale”, with 100% sold by lot and value. Demand for seminal pieces from Suzanne Belperron’s oeuvre was intense with international bidding driving prices well above estimates. Speaking after the sale, David Bennett, Chairman of Sotheby’s Jewellery Department in Europe and the Middle East and Co‐Chairman of Sotheby’s Switzerland, commented: “It has been a great pleasure to bring to sale the personal collection of Suzanne Belperron, who is in my view the most talented and influential female jeweller of t

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NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art auctions on Friday 11 May brought a combined total of $17,710,751, well over the pre-sale high estimate (total est. $9.7/14.8 million).* The single owner sale of the Muensterberger Collection brought $3,130,250, nearing the high estimate of $3.2 million. The various owner sale of African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art fetched $14,580,501, comfortably over the high estimate (est. $7.8/11.7 million). Numerous auction records were set, including for Luluwa Sculpture, Bamana Sculpture, Buyu Sculpture, Sapi Sculpture, an Azande Figure, and for a work by Magdalene Odundo. Jean Fritts, Chairman, African and Oceanic Art, commented: “We are delighted at the records achieved in the New York sale, the highest total ever for a various owner's auction in New York. We continue to see an expansion

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MUNICH.- Once again pleasing results and considerable increases in attractive commission bids were achieved in all segments of Hermann Historica – antiquities, arms and armour, arts and crafts, hunting collectibles and objects from history and military history – during this year's spring sale. A total of approximately 6,800 collectors' items were offered for bidding from 23 April to 4 May 2012. The assortment of early antique helmets in good condition offered in this auction was, again, well selected and thematically diversified. A very impressive example was an Illyrian bronze helmet from the 6th century BC and a finely chased iron cheek piece, 2nd/3rd century AD. The latter is coated with embossed bronze in relief, shows an eagle motif on the front side and found a new owner for its starting price of 8,000 Euros. For the helmet, however, with its bright green patina and large face opening, 12,000 Euros had to be spent. Another early Illyrian helmet with golden mounti

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LONDON.- The shortlist for the tenth Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries has been announced today. Including one national institution and one local museum, one radical new building and a painstakingly restored one, the shortlist reveals the diversity, eclecticism and quality of the UK’s museums. The four shortlisted museums are: · Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire Designed by acclaimed architect David Chipperfield, Hepworth Wakefield opened in May 2011 following a £35 million development. Presenting the collection of the old Wakefield Art Gallery alongside a unique collection of works by Barbara Hepworth and an innovative programme of temporary contemporary art exhibitions, the museum attracted more than 100,000 visitors in the first five months. · Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter, Devon The Museum for the city of Exeter, RAMM reopened in December 2011 following the first major rede-

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ATLANTA, GA.- The Atlanta Botanical Garden and Marlborough Gallery are presenting a group exhibition entitled Independent Visions: Sculpture in the Garden, featuring works by the artists Magdalena Abakanowicz, Chakaia Booker, Red Grooms, Clement Meadmore, Michele Oka Doner, Beverly Pepper, George Rickey, Kenneth Snelson, and Manolo Valdés. The exhibition will be on view from May through October 2012, and will comprise nineteen sculptures. This exhibition continues the Garden’s tradition of presenting works by internationally renowned artists in an extraordinary natural setting of thirty acres, including twelve thematic gardens. Past exhibitions have included the work of Dale Chihuly, Henry Moore, and Niki de Saint Phalle. Mary Pat Matheson, the Garden’s executive director states,” The Garden has become the Atlanta venue to see the best in contemporary art.” These nine artists have each p

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FORT WORTH, TX.- The Amon Carter Museum of American Art announces that it has received a $75,000 Access to the Artist Archives digitization grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The grant will allow the museum to digitize, catalog and publish online its archival collections of eight prominent American photographers of the 20th century—Carlotta Corpron (1901–1988), Nell Dorr (1893–1988), Laura Gilpin (1891–1979), Eliot Porter (1901–1990), Helen Post (1907–1979), Clara Sipprell (1885–1975), Erwin E. Smith (1886–1947) and Karl Struss (1886–1981). These collections are comprised of 22,000 photographic prints and 200,000 negatives, manuscripts, other ephemera, books and related collections. Approximately 70 percent of the eight archives have yet to be digitized, and the proposed timeline for the effort is two years.

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BUFFALO, TX (AP).- The dark suit and tie Joe Gutheinz wore set him apart from other customers inside a Texas eatery where the usual attire is jeans and cowboy hats. An appetite for down-home cooking wasn't what brought the former NASA investigator to the Pitt Grill recently. He was on a quest to identify and maybe recover some of the rarest treasure brought to Earth and then lost: moon rocks. "We're educating the states and countries of the world about how much they're worth on the black market and we need to increase the security in museums and need to put them back on display," Gutheinz said. The rock samples were collected by the dozen American astronauts who walked on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972. U.S. states, territories, the United Nations and foreign governments received them as gifts. The samples, which also were loaned to museums and given to scientists for research, range from dust particles to tiny pebbles. "A lot of them are in storage. And we need to put

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SANTA FE (AP).- Artist Tony Abeyta just can't help himself. Pushing up his sleeves and letting his fingers make one more run through his deliberately tousled hair, he reaches for a bit of charcoal on his studio table and goes at the three finished canvases again. In minutes, his fingertips are black, his forearms are smudged and there's one more layer on the triptych he has dubbed "Divine Intervention." Just in time for the curators to pick it up. The work will be hanging in the entry of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture as part of the annual Native Treasures Indian Arts Festival, which opens in Santa Fe on May 25 with Abeyta being recognized as this year's "living treasure." "I feel fortunate," the Navajo painter and jewelry designer says. "I have an immense amount of gratitude that I can do what I do. I basically come in here and do what I want. I don't have to be influenced by the market place, by my gallery, by collectors. I li

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NEW YORK, NY.- Today, American Express and World Monuments Fund announced $1 million in grant funding to six historic sites. This is the first allocation from a $5 million, five-year grant to the World Monuments Fund to support the World Monuments Watch. Each of the six locations was among the at-risk historical sites included on the 2012 Watch list, announced in October 2011. American Express is founding sponsor of the Watch program. The projects receiving funding are the Ruta de la Amistad in Mexico City, Mexico; Salvador de Bahia, Brazil; Balaji Ghat in Varanasi, India; the Canterbury Provincial Government buildings in Christchurch, New Zealand; the ruins of the former Cathedral of Saint Michael in Coventry, United Kingdom; and the town of Sawara in Japan. “WMF is grateful to American Express for its longstanding commitment to the World Monuments Watch,” says Bonnie Burnham, President of World Monuments Fund. “Over the years, the company’s steadfast supp

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FRESNO (AP).- Just in time for spring snowmelt: a webcam pointed at one of Yosemite National Park's main attractions, the soaring 2,425-foot Yosemite Falls. The HD camera went live on North America's tallest fall Monday, allowing anyone with computer access to watch in stunning detail as shadows race across the towering granite monolith over which Yosemite Creek crashes in a series of plunges and cascades. It's updated every 30 seconds through a high-speed DSL connection. To those for whom the park's breathtaking scenery revives the soul, getting a fix of spiritual uplift just got a little easier. For people who've never been to Yosemite, perhaps seeing one of the park's main attractions in real time will prove too enticing to resist. "In a lot of ways I equate it to all of the beautiful picture books that we've had on our coffee tables, or the art from the 1870s that made Yosemite exciting to people around the world when they saw it for the first time," said Michael Tollefson,

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By: Sandy Cohen, AP Entertainment Writer FRESNO (AP).- Michael Jackson's glittery gloves, spangled jackets, stage-worn costumes and personal fashion effects are going on a world tour. Celebrity auctioneer Darren Julien says clothing created by Jackson's longtime costume designers will be exhibited in South America, Europe and Asia before being sold to the highest bidder in December. The exhibit opens May 18 at the Museo de la Moda in Santiago, Chile. It features items such as Jackson's Captain EO shirt, the black spandex outfit from his "Scream" video and the breakaway suit he wore during his BAD tour in the late 1980s. The items will be sold by Julien's Auction on December 2, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting Guide Dogs of America and Nathan Adelson Hospice in Las Vegas.

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In his June 2011 Juxtapoz feature, James Franco admits to being drawn to stories about teenagers, with “Everything being heightened in that world.” There is definitelya very heightened, almost tactile immersion upon entering the long awaited Rebel installation, presented by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art at the JF Chen Gallery.

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Some people get excited about new Banksy pieces, but we are far more excited about the Jubilee Celebration, marking the Queen's 60-year reign as top dog monarch of the United Kingdom. The piece was spotted on Turnpike Lane in London, and it seems that Mr. Banksy is commenting on the fact that the Union Jack you buy is made by a kid with a really good sense of headwear style. We kid .. . or we don't.

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In an effort to bring attention to the amount of clothing discarded everyday in the U.K., fashion department store Marks & Spencer created a project call Shwopping.  Claiming that approximately 10,000 articles of clothing go to landfills every five minutes, the project constructed a public display of that exact number of clothing on the exterior of an East London building for better visualization.  

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Another transient day at the beach...... In this animated short Malcolm Sutherland lovingly pokes fun at the transient yet timeless life of the beach tourist. Animated ink on paper, made in 2007. Malcom is a filmmaker, animator and illustrator who is alive & well in Montreal, Quebec.

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Some great new illustration and painting work from Berkeley, CA based artist Deth P Sun from his recent show at Domy Books in Houston, TX- which just came down on April 26th!! Deth is originally I'm from San Diego, California, he studied for two years at San Francisco State University, until he transferred to the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he received his BFA in 2002 in Painting and Drawing.

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Egon Schiele, (June 12, 1890 – October 31, 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist produced. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism.

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Gearing up for summertime with a collection of vintage erotic photographs from The Sun Deck!! A collection of strange Kodachrome visions of gorgeously voluptuous mid-century nudism. Thank you to the creator of this series for putting together a great selection of educational and cultural photographs for the advancement of nudism. Happy sunbathing.

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Other was recently lurking around in South West Baltimore and painted a portrait of a local resident named Kaki.

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Awesome example of an illustrators process, step by step drawings from Randy Ortiz's piece 'Among the Rocks and Roots'.  Randy draws influence from the dead shells of insect vessels ravaged by parasitic cordyceps, careful not to inhale the deadly strings of ascospores created by the flask-shaped perithecia.

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