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A visitor studies Alice Neels "Carlos EnrÃquez" 1926, in the exhibition People Come First at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, March 29, 2021. A large retrospective feels at home in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts grandest galleries and should silence any doubt about the artists originality or her importance. Sasha Arutyunova/The New York Times.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It is said that the future is female, and one can only hope. But it is important to remember that the past, through continuous excavation, is becoming more female all the time. The latest evidence is the gloriously relentless retrospective of Alice Neel (1900-1984), the radical realist painter of all things human, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Alice Neel: People Come First is a momentous show of more than 100 paintings, drawings and watercolors from streetscapes, still lifes and interiors to the portraits of a veritable cross section of New Yorkers, occasionally nude, that are considered her greatest works. The largest Neel retrospective yet seen in New York and the first in 20 years, it reigns over prime Met real estate the Tisch Galleries, typically host to historic figures like Michelangelo, Delacroix and Courbet, and only now to a female artist. This array confirms Neel as equal if not superior to artists like Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon and destined for ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors look at cars at the Petersen Automotive Museum on the day of its re-opening, March 25, 2021, in Los Angeles, California. VALERIE MACON / AFP
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| Museo Jumex presents 'Normal Exceptions: Contemporary Art in Mexico' | | Exhibition presents the Clyfford Still Museum art collection in two complementary but alternate ways | | Kunstmuseum Luzern opens first comprehensive solo exhibition dedicated to Rinus Van de Velde's work |
Installation view. Photo: Ramiro Chaves.
MEXICO CITY.- Museo Jumex reopened to the public on March 27 with Normal Exceptions: Contemporary Art in Mexico, a thematic survey of contemporary art in Mexico over the past 20 years, a period during which Mexico has become a nexus of the global art scene. Drawing from the Colección Jumex and including invited artists and organizations, Normal Exceptions considers undercurrents in artistic practices that connect with life and its material traces. The exhibition will be on view through August 15, and follows the museums temporary closure due to the pandemic. The exhibitions title is inspired by a term in microhistorythe study of history from the perspective of individuals and their encounters with authority, and proposes the idea of looking from a grassroots perspective upwards, rather than from the top down.
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Clyfford Still, PH-1184, 1953_57. Oil on canvas, 116 5/8 x 81 3/8 in. Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO © City and County of Denver - ARS, NY.
DENVER, CO.- The Clyfford Still Museum opened the new exhibition Stories We Tell: The Collection Two Ways. The exhibition digs deep into the Museums vaults to present works from the Museums collection in two complementary but alternate ways as a means to understand how artworks and their meaning can change based on curatorial strategy. Curated by Bailey Placzek, CSM associate curator and Dean Sobel, former CSM director, Stories We Tell: The Collection Two Ways presents Stills works arranged chronologically in the first five galleries and thematically in the remaining four rooms. According to Placzek and Sobel, the primary strategy for both curatorial displays is to illustrate some of the main artistic foundations that ground Stills art. These include his stylistic path from representation to abstraction; the role of figuration, color, ... More | |
Installation view of Rinus Van de Velde. Id rather stay at home, , Kunstmuseum Luzern, 2021. Photo: Marc Latzel.
LUCERNE.- Rinus Van de Velde (*1983) tells fictional autobiographical stories by means of large format charcoal drawings, three-dimensional cardboard worlds, films, photographs, coloured-pencil drawings and ceramics. Hovering between reality and fiction, imperfect heroes inhabit his works, high-minded researchers and lanky tennis players in long hotel corridors. With Id rather stay at home, the Kunstmuseum Luzern is devoting a first comprehensive solo exhibition to the Belgian artist Rinus Van de Velde. At the heart of the presentation are the videos The Villagers (20192020) and La Ruta Natural (20192021). The Villagers tells the stories of various protagonists linked by a mountain village and rainy weather: one adventurer roasts his suckling pig in the woods, another is driving along in the middle of nowhere, ... More |
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| Kehrer Verlag publishes 'Fotogalleriet Oslo (Hrsg.) Conversations on Photography' | | Christie's announces Magnificent Jewels New York | | New book features ancient Egyptian treasures from the Worcester Art Museum |
As the oldest fotohalle in the Nordic region, Fotogalleriet has, since 1977, pioneered a space dedicated to photography as a critical art practice.
NEW YORK, NY.- Instead of presenting an objective, historical overview, Conversations on Photography grapples with the rapidly expanding and forward-thinking nature of the photographic field from the perspective of the Nordic region by putting national and international contributors into conversation. These discussions between some of photographys foremost contemporary practitioners provide unique insights into overlooked or erased stories, moments, and movements in the history of the medium, and of Fotogalleriet. Their voices contribute to analyzing a discipline whose potential is yetto be fully acknowledged within the larger field of contemporary art a discipline that continues to spearhead new thinking around the role of art and its social motivations and responsibilities. Texts by Dag Alveng, Zayne Armstrong, Bjarne Bare, Liv Brissach, Susan Bright, Antonio Cataldo, Lill Ann Chepstow-Lusty, Ann Christine Eek, Matias ... More | |
Fancy Vivid Orange Diamond Ring of 2.34 carats. Estimate: $1,500,000-2,500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York announces the April 13 auction of Magnificent Jewels and the concurrent Jewels Online sale from April 8-20. The auction includes a significant selection of colorless diamonds, colored diamonds, and gemstones, along with signed pieces by Belperron, Bvlgari, Cartier, Graff, Harry Winston, Hemmerle, JAR, Lacloche, Tiffany & Co., and Van Cleef & Arpels. The sale will offer 217 lots, with estimates ranging from $10,000 to $2,500,000. An exhibition by appointment will be held at Christies New York by appointment from April 9-12. The April 13th auction is led by The Perfect Palette, a trio of sensational colored diamonds being offered as separate lots, which include a fancy vivid blue diamond ring of 2.13 carats ($2,000,000-3,000,000); a fancy vivid orange diamond ring of 2.34 carats ($1,500,000-2,500,000); and a fancy vivid purplish pink diamond ring of 2.17 carats ($1,500,000-2,500,000). Addit ... More | |
Brooch featuring a skiff with blossoms and an ancient plaquette. New Kingdom, ca. 15391077 BCE (plaquette); late 19thearly 20th century (mount). Gold and glazed steatite, 3.2 Ã 3.7 cm (1 1/4 Ã 1 7/16 in.) Gift of Mrs. E.D. Buffington, 1914.2
LEWES.- Jewels of the Nile celebrates the extensive range of Egyptian jewelry held by the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, a remarkable collection assembled by Laura and Kingsmill Marrs during the early 20th century. The Boston couple were advised by Howard Carter, the archaeologist who would later achieve worldwide recognition for his discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922; Carter guided their acquisition of an outstanding selection of scarabs, amulets, jewelry and cosmetic articles, including rare, blue-toned stone vessels as well as several of Carters own watercolor renditions of important Egyptian sites and royal figures. This book features beautiful full-color illustrations, and expertly photographed objects from the Worcesters stellar collection of Egyptian antiquities. Essays contributed by the curators and other leading scholars focus on the history of ... More |
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| Paul Simon sells his entire songwriting catalog to Sony | | Live performing arts are returning to New York, but not all at once | | Pace Gallery appoints Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle as first Online Sales Director |
Paul Simon in Vienna, Va., June 27, 2016. Simon has sold his entire songwriting catalog including classics like Bridge Over Troubled Water, The Sound of Silence and Still Crazy After All These Years to Sony Music Publishing, in the latest blockbuster transaction in the music publishing business. T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Paul Simon has sold his entire songwriting catalog including classics like Bridge Over Troubled Water, The Sound of Silence and Still Crazy After All These Years to Sony Music Publishing, in the latest blockbuster transaction in the music publishing business. In its announcement of the deal Wednesday, Sony gave few details, other than it was acquiring the complete collection of Simons compositions, including his work with Simon and Garfunkel and his solo material. The database of BMI, the performing rights organization that Simon is affiliated with, lists more than 400 titles under his name. Simons catalog includes some of the most popular songs of the past half-century. According to BMI, Bridge Over Troubled Water first released by ... More | |
Conrad Tao performs Rhapsody in Blue, with choreography by Caleb Teicher, in the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, March 20, 2021. Starting on Friday, April 2, theaters, comedy clubs and other arts venues can open at 33% capacity in New York but the formula doesnt work for everyone. Krista Schlueter/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- This is the weekend New York Citys theaters, music venues and comedy clubs have been waiting for the chance to start holding performances again for a live, flesh-and-blood audience. Last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that beginning April 2, performing arts establishments would be allowed to host audiences at 33% capacity, with a limit of 100 people indoors or 200 people outdoors. As that date has drawn closer, it became clear that the arts scene will not be springing back to life but inching toward it. It isnt just Broadway theaters and large concert halls that see the one-third capacity rule as prohibitive; its smaller venues, including some of the citys foremost jazz and rock clubs, as well. Still, green shoots are sprouting up across the city. On ... More | |
Boyle comes to Pace from CANADA, where she built and oversaw online sales strategies, which included the launch of the gallerys first-ever online viewing room and virtual performance platform.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery announced the appointment of Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle in the newly created position of Online Sales Director. Under the leadership of CEO & President Marc Glimcher, Boyle will expand the gallerys digital offerings and spearhead Paces online sales strategy with the goal of engaging new audiences. Boyle will also work to support artists in the development of NFTs and digitally native projects to be presented in collaboration with Pace. Boyle joins the gallery on May 3, 2021 and is based in New York. Boyle comes to Pace from CANADA, where she built and oversaw online sales strategies, which included the launch of the gallerys first-ever online viewing room and virtual performance platform. Boyle has a strong background in curatorial work and has collaborated with artists on new commissions for CANADAs digital platform as part of a series of special projects geared towards client cultivation. B ... More |
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| Works by Ernst Haas to be offered at Bonhams New York Photography sale | | James Cohan opens an exhibition of new work by Elias Sime | | China Guardian Hong Kong Spring Auctions 2021 to take place at HKCEC offering nearly 1,300 lots |
Ernst Haas (1921-1986), Route 66, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1964 (detail), 17 1/2 x 26 1/2in (44.5 x 67.3cm), sheet 20 x 30in (50.8 x 76.2cm), Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Recognized as a leading figure in the development of the history of photography in the 20th century, Austrian-American photographer Ernst Haas (1921-1986) is lauded worldwide for establishing the medium of color photography as a fine art form during a time when it was considered inferior to black-and-white. On Friday, April 9, Bonhams Photographs sale in New York will feature an important group of images taken by Ernst Haas to celebrate the centennial year of his birth. Bonhams New York Head of Photographs, Laura Paterson, commented, Ernst Haas was absolutely pivotal in reshaping global perceptions of color photography within the world of fine art. His MoMA exhibition in 1962 was a transformative moment for the medium that inspired many contemporary photographers as well as successive generations. The group ... More | |
Tightrope: Eyes and Ears of a Bat (1), 2020. Reclaimed electrical wires on wood, 47 1/4 x 83 1/2 in. 120 x 212 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting TIGHTROPE: ECHO!?, an exhibition of new work by Elias Sime, on view at 48 Walker Street from March 19 through April 24. This is Simes fourth solo exhibition at James Cohan. TIGHTROPE: ECHO!? is accompanied by an essay written by curator and anthropologist Meskerem Assegued, with whom Sime co-founded the Zoma Museum. Elias Sime deftly weaves, layers and assembles materials into abstract compositions that suggest topography, figuration, and sublime color fields. The history of his materials hold meaning, as they are the backbone of all communication systems, whether they be telephone or computer. They suggest the tenuousness of our interconnected world, alluding to the frictions between tradition and progress, human contact and social networks, nature and the man-made, and physical presence and the virtual. In this new chapter in the Tightrope series, the ... More | |
Wu Guanzhong, Pondside Households (Hometown). Oil on board. Painted in 1996, 61.4 Ã 46 cm. Est. HK$ 1.2m - 1.8m / US$ 1,538,000 - 2,307,000.
HONG KONG.- China Guardian Hong Kong Spring Auctions 2021 will take place from 18 to 23 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The sale series will showcase a wide array of artworks and collectibles from around the world, including Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy, Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art and Ceramics and Works of Art, offering nearly 1,300 lots. Prior to the Spring Auctions, Jewellery Watches and Luxury Goods offers a target-oriented private selling exhibition LUMIÃRE along with the Spring Auctions Preview at China Guardian (HK) G Art Gallery on 5th floor of Lippo Centre from 18 to 31 March. China Guardian (HK) will also introduce the live auction platform for art lovers to bid online. Ms. Hu Yanyan, President of China Guardian (HK) Auctions Co., Ltd., says, Greetings to you all and wishing everyone a glorious Spring! Looking back at the past year, the world was in search ... More |
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"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - 1884" by Georges Seurat
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di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art prominently places Mark di Suvero sculpture at entrance to property
NAPA, CA.- Miracles do happen. When Mark di Suvero and Rene di Rosa first dreamed about placing the thirty-foot tall sculpture For Veronica on the di Rosa campus in 1993, they agreed that the best place for it would be on the hillside in front of Winery Lake. In this highly visible location, the sculpture could be seen from every direction. This would identify di Rosa as an art center, not a winery. di Suvero and di Rosa were disappointed that the County did not approve the location at that time and so they installed the work on a hill in the sculpture garden where it has stood for over 25 years. Additional attempts were made to move the sculpture to the front of the property but the estimated cost to relocate it was simply beyond the reach of di Rosa. Executive Director Kate Eilertsen called on her friend Mark di Suvero who enthusiastically supported the project and committed his staff to ... More
Art Rotterdam 2021 summer edition: Indoor and outdoor exhibitions
ROTTERDAM.- The twenty-second edition of Art Rotterdam, once again to be held in the iconic Van Nelle Factory, is taking place at the height of summer from Thursday 1 July to Sunday 4 July. This year, there will be lots to experience and discover outdoors around the building. Apart from large-scale works of art and installations, many of which have been created especially for the occasion, there will also be several food trucks with drinks & bites on the factory grounds. With a surface area of over 10,000 m2, the inside of the factory has room for more than 100 galleries to exhibit the work of up-and-coming and established talents alike. Director of Art Rotterdam Fons Hof comments, "We are very much looking forward to welcoming participants and visitors to this unique summer edition of Art Rotterdam. The catalogue is being presented on GalleryViewer.com, Art Rotterdam's online ... More
394-pound meteorite will be auctioned online, April 6th, by Gallery 63
ATLANTA, GA.- A museum-quality, 394-pound meteorite by far the largest specimen of its kind for sale in the world will come up for bid in an online-only Premier Spring Estate Auction planned for Tuesday, April 6th, at 11 am Eastern time by Gallery 63 in Atlanta. Online bidding is via the Gallery 63 website, plus LiveaAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Meteorites of this size and importance do not come up for public sale very often, said Paul Brown, who serves as a consultant for Gallery 63, having passed along ownership to his son, Elijah. It wouldnt be out of place in any of the worlds museums. The meteorite, which comes with a custom-built iron stand measuring 74 inches tall, has an estimate of $100,000-$200,000. The meteorite is comprised of various platinum group metals. Based on that alone, Brown said, its valued at close to $500,000, but its real value is in its his ... More
'Wish you were here': Postcards help Germans connect in pandemic
BERLIN (AFP).- Brightly coloured rectangles of cardboard fill almost every wall of Gesa Funke's apartment in southern Berlin, with piles more stashed in corners and drawers -- some from places as far-flung as French Polynesia. The 29-year-old student has been sending and collecting postcards for years. But, like many Germans, she has found herself putting pen to paper more often as a result of travel and other restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic. "It's a little less effort than writing a letter, and it's still nice to receive something from another person, to have a bit of contact," she says. While many Germans have embraced digital technology in the virus era, others have turned to more traditional forms of communication to keep in touch with loved ones. In December, Deutsche Post said it had carried 11 percent more postcards than during the same month the previous year ... More
'The Guide' by John Myers published by RRB Photobooks
LONDON.- The Guide combines some of the best-loved photographs from John Myers career with his unique and wry prose on the method and theory of his work. The photographs in the book are some of most familiar images from The Portraits, Looking at the Overlooked and The End of Industry alongside five previously unpublished works. The images are published alongside insights to the circumstances behind the pictures, influences and Myers working practice, drawing the reader into conversation. A majority of the photographs in the book were taken within walking distance of Myers home in Stourbridge on his 5 x 4 Gandolfi plate camera between 1972 and 1988. He was driven by his admiration for the work of August Sander, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget and Walker Evans and he only ever shot approximately 1800 negatives. The photographs are a study of the mundane and every day ... More
Times Square Arts presents Allison Janae Hamilton's "Wacissa" for April Midnight Moment
NEW YORK, NY.- Times Square Arts, the largest public platform for contemporary performance and visual arts, is presenting Wacissa by Allison Janae Hamilton for the month of April as part of the organizations signature Midnight Moment series in partnership with Marianne Boesky Gallery. Midnight Moment is the worlds largest, longest-running digital art exhibition, synchronized on electronic billboards throughout Times Square nightly from 11:57pm to midnight. In Wacissa (2019), Hamilton transports viewers through a series of rivers in her home region of North Florida. The rivers she navigates are all linked through the areas Slave Canal, so-called as it was built via slave labor in the 1850s to aid the transport of cotton through the Florida panhandle. Filming from her kayak, Hamilton placed the camera into the water, plunging viewers directly into the river. ... More
With guitars played by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Metallica's Kirk Hammett, this auction goes to 11
DALLAS, TX.- The Martin acoustic Bruce Springsteen played during his earliest auditions and used on his first two records. The six-string Bob Dylan used to strum during visits to the apartment of then-girlfriend Suze Rotolo. The ESP Kirk Hammett wielded in Metallica's first, finest and most famous video, "One." The '64 Fender upon which Rev. Horton Heat had some mighty psychobilly freakouts. The Ludwig drum kit Buddy Rich played on The Tonight Show, then gifted to Johnny Carson. And a Frankenstrat made for who else? Eddie Van Halen. A rock-and-roll hall of fame's worth of instruments take center stage at Heritage Auctions this spring. Not to mention a 1956 Bigsby electric guitar made for Louisiana player and poet Luke Charpentier Jr. and, likely, the last axe ever made by Paul Bigsby, the oft-unheralded genius and solid-body pioneer who quietly did as much as anyone to ... More
Vienna's Secession opens an exhibition of works by Yuji Agematsu
VIENNA.- Secession is presenting Yuji Agematsus day-to-day collection of urban detritus finds turned into miniature sculptural formations from the entire 2020 calendar year. Displayed in custom-made acrylic glass shelves that represent monthly calendar sheets, and alongside diary entry notebooks, his 2020 zips offer a fresh and decidedly unique review of a most remarkable year. Yuji Agematsu is a kind of chronicler of our times and, moreover, he can be considered an experimental cartographer and archivist of only seemingly petty findings from the streets of his hometown. An urban flaneur, Agematsu has taken daily walks through the streets of New York ever since he moved there from Japan in the early 1980s. On this daily routine, which has now been part of his artistic practice for more than a quarter-century, he picks up and scrutinizes litter that attracts his attentionbits of paper, ... More
GRIMM opens a new solo exhibition by Caroline Walker
NEW YORK, NY.- GRIMM is presenting Nearby, a new solo exhibition by Caroline Walker (UK, 1982) in New York. Caroline Walker's paintings are a lens for the everyday lives of women, and her portraits of diverse subjects tell their story through the spaces they inhabit. Each of Walker's series conveys a distinct sense of time and place: from the undisguised luxury and class dynamics of beauty parlors in her series Painted Ladies, to the humanistic portraits of refugees and asylum seekers in Home, to scenes of anonymous women at work framed by the architecture of London in service. For her upcoming exhibition at GRIMM, Walker turns her focus to her immediate surroundings. She explores the boundary between being an observer - that is preserving the "objective" eye of an outsider - and magnifying the experience of a place which has become part of the fabric of her life. ... More
Ryan Lee opens exhibition of new photo-based images by Clifford Ross
NEW YORK, NY.- Ryan Lee is presenting Clifford Ross: Prints on Wood, an exhibition of new photo-based images in which the artist pursues his long-standing interest in capturing the sublime in nature by printing on hand-selected maple veneer. These include stark black and white negatives of details taken from his high-resolution color photographs of Mount Sopris, as well as dramatic crops of his black and white hurricane wave photographs. The altered images, in combination with the varied color and texture of the wood as a substrate, add drama and a distinctly nonphotographic quality to Rosss compositions, pushing his work toward the realms of drawing and painting, a return of sorts to his original media. Ive been missing the materiality of paint and canvas and found this mix of imagery and materials propelled my photography into an unexplored place, Ross explains. ... More
With open ears, Indian ragas and western melodies merge
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Amit Chaudhuri, an author and vocalist, blends memoir and music appreciation in Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music, out now from New York Review Books. In it, Chaudhuri charts a personal journey that began with a Western-oriented love for the singer-songwriter tradition, followed by a headlong immersion into Indian classical music. That heritage remained supreme for him until an accident of what he calls mishearing made him conscious of the elements shared by ragas and Western sounds a realization that led to his ongoing recording and performance project This Is Not Fusion. In the book, Chaudhuri reflects on the raga, the framework of Indian classical music. Resisting the urge to find an analogue to Western tradition, he writes: A raga is not a mode. That is, it isnt a linear movement. Its a simultaneity of ... More
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Mental Escapology, St. Moritz
TIM VAN LAERE GALLERY
Madelynn Green
Patrick Angus
Flashback On a day like today, botanist and illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian was born April 02, 1647. Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 - 13 January 1717) was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family. Merian was one of the first naturalists to observe insects directly. In this image: Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647 - 1717), Dwarf Caiman and False Coral Snake from The Insects of Suriname, 1719. Hand-colored etching. 87.5 x 53 cm EX.2008.2.14. Universiteitsbibliotheek, Groningen, Netherlands, 699Z. Photo: Dirk Fennema, Haren.
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