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Banksy's Love Is in the Air is displayed during an auction at Sotheby's in New York, May 12, 2021. In the latest example of art market disruption, Loic Gouzer, a prominent former auction executive, teamed up with cryptocurrency experts in May to purchase the 2005 Banksy painting Love Is in the Air for $12.9 million and now plans to sell off 10,000 pieces of it as NFTs, or nonfungible tokens. Nina Westervelt/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- In the latest example of art market disruption, a prominent former auction executive teamed up with cryptocurrency experts in May to purchase the 2005 Banksy painting Love Is in the Air for $12.9 million and now plans to sell off 10,000 pieces of it as NFTs, or nonfungible tokens. The executive, Loic Gouzer, who upended the traditional auction format while he was at Christies most notably orchestrating the sale of a $450.3 million Leonardo da Vinci painting in a contemporary art auction in 2017 has helped found the company Particle, a platform that merges art and technology with a goal of reaching a broader pool of potential buyers. When I was a kid and I was looking at auctions and catalogs, I always felt it was impossible to participate financially and that I was by definition excluded, Gouzer said in a telephone interview. Fractionalizing the work in 10,000 NFTs allows a much wider audience to be part of a collecting experience. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of the Late Constable exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (30 October 2021 - 13 February 2022). Photo: © Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry.
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| New exhibition explores the long history of Anglo-Dutch relations from 1066 to 1688 | | Fine autographs and artifacts featuring science and technology up for auction | | Prints long thought to be bear tracks may have been made by human ancestor |
Illustration of the tournament organized by Edward III in honour of the countess of Salisbury, from a copy of Wavrins Croniques (fifteenth century, third quarter). Among the spectators at the tournament was Duke William II of Hainault, count of Holland and Zeeland. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 653, fol. 5r. © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
OXFORD.- North Sea Crossings, a new exhibition at the Bodleian Libraries, traces the long history of Anglo-Dutch relations. The exhibition is a pioneering collaborative project with the University of Bristol and the University of Cambridge, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Focusing on the period from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, items from the Bodleian Libraries collections illustrate the ways in which these exchanges have shaped literature, book production and institutions such as the Bodleian itself, on either side of the North Sea, inviting visitors to reflect on the way this cultural exchange still impacts British and Dutch societies today. From medieval manuscript books, to the birth of the printing press and the introduction of movable type in Europe, to maps that show the proximity of England and the Netherlands and the rapid spread of news between the two co ... More | |
Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed. Now At: $14,360 (12 bids)Estimate: $60,000+Ends on 12/08.
BOSTON, MASS.- With 1,000 lots up for bidding, RR Auction's December Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction features an extraordinary wealth of scientific autographsAlbert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Alfred Nobel, Nikola Tesla, James Watt, Henri Poincare, and Charles Darwin are among the key names. Highlights include an Albert Einstein signed letter where Einstein commented on his instant fame in 1920. The important one-page letter in German, is dated 11, February 2, 1920. Handwritten letter to fellow physicist Ludwig Hopf, commenting on his newfound fame brought about by the experimental confirmation of gravitational light deflection. In part (translated) At night I dream I am burning in hell and the postman is the devil and is continually screaming at me, hurling a fresh bundle of letters at my head because I still haven't answered the old ones." Sir Arthur Eddington performed the first tests of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity during t ... More | |
Left footprint, juvenile male black bear. Photo: E.McNutt.
by Isabella Grullón Paz
NEW YORK, NY.- Fossilized footprints that were found in Tanzania in the 1970s, dismissed for decades as having been made by bears, may have been left by an unidentified early human ancestor around 3.6 million years ago, new research suggests. The footprints were discovered in 1976 near the site at Laetoli in northern Tanzania where, two years later, paleontologist Mary Leakey and her team found another set of prints believed to have been made by the same species that left behind the famous Lucy skeleton that offered the first clear evidence of early humans walking on two feet. The first set of prints was overshadowed. A paleoanthropologists suggestion that they could have been bear tracks only diminished interest in the discovery, and the prints had largely been forgotten by archaeologists until now. But a study based on a new analysis of those prints, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, indicates that they were made by an unidentified hominin, or early human ... More |
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| Christie's results: The Paris Design sale achieves $9.7 million | | For Andy Warhol, faith and sexuality intertwined | | Etel Adnan's bittersweet arrival at the Guggenheim |
Top lot of the sale: Claude Lalanne (1925-2019), Crocodile armchair, 2016. Sold for: 1,460,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
PARIS.- The Design sale achieved a total of 8,695,375/£ 7,319,339/$ 9,763,998 selling 91% by value and 83% by lot. Leading the sale was the Crocodile armchair by Claude Lalanne, an iconic piece crystallizing her lyrical and poetic universe, sold for 1,460,000. Underlining further the strong interest in the work by the Lalanne couple was the strong price achieved for a very rare black marble Rhinocéros which achieved 788,000, highest price ever set at public auction for this design. Furthermore, two new world auction records were achieved for the artists Nora Auric and Ristue Mishima. Five exceptional collections were presented in this sale, which were led by an Emile-Jacques Rhulmann ensemble achieving 618,750, doubling its presale estimate the highlight of this section was the Collectionneur table sold for 225,000 against an estimate of 60,000. This was followed by the collection of objects by the French interior designer Jean Quinet totalling ... More | |
Andy Warhol, The Last Supper (Detail), 1986. Screen print and colored graphic art paper collage on HMP paper, 31 5/8 à 23 3/4 in. (80.3 à 60.3 cm). The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 1998.1.2125. © 2021 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
by Karen Rosenberg
NEW YORK, NY.- Art historian John Richardson, speaking to the glittering crowd at Andy Warhols memorial service at St. Patricks Cathedral in 1987, said of the artists Catholic faith, Those of you who knew him in circumstances that were the antithesis of spiritual may be surprised that such a side existed. But exist it did, and its key to the artists psyche. Andy Warhol: Revelation, a paradigm-shifting exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, takes this eulogy and runs with it, finding ample evidence of religious belief in Warhols public-facing art as well as the more private self observed by Richardson. It explores Warhols Catholicism in all its anxiety and complexity with full attention paid to his life as a gay man and to the secular consumer objects and celebrities of his pop art. These conflicts play out in his lesser-known works on view, like the 1985-86 painting The Last Supper (Be a Somebody With a Body), which merg ... More | |
A provided image shows Untitled, (1961/62) by Etel Adnan. The philosopher-artist reveled in nature and in exploring her inner life. The phosphorescence of her work has not dimmed. Etel Adnan via The New York Times.
by Max Lakin
NEW YORK, NY.- Went to the moon. Planet earth is old news, Etel Adnan writes in her 2011 essay The Cost for Love We Are Not Willing to Pay. Its the house we are discarding. We definitely dont love her. Adnans fantasy of escaping this planets gravity reverberates now with extra premonitory vision, but its also a lament of the violence we inflict upon it and ourselves, and the sadness of abandoning something so beautiful. Its the ache of displacement, with which this artist and author was intimately familiar. Adnan, who was born in Lebanon in 1925, lived much of her adult life outside the country of her birth: in Paris, where she studied philosophy; decades in Sausalito, California, where she began painting at age 34; Paris again, where she died last month. Adnan was cherished for her writing, impassioned protests of the wars in Vietnam and Lebanon and Frances colonial rule in Algeria, a struggle with which she express ... More |
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| Now on view at Museo Reina SofÃa: 'Collection 1881-2021. Communicating Vessels' | | Getty Museum acquires ten Rodney Smith photographs | | Gagosian announces the appointment of Christina You as China representative |
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MADRID.- The new presentation of Museo Reina SofÃas collection is now open to the public. Throughout its still brief history of just over thirty years, there have been several partial reorganizations of the collection, sometimes restricting it to certain galleries or proposing new readings of artists or periods. What is now on display to the public involves an integral re-reading that affects the entire collection, from the origins of modernism in the late 19th century to the most contemporary art. The result is the fruit of ten years of research and work with contributions from practically every department in the museum. The display is made up of a set of nearly 2,000 works grouped on six floors, four in the Sabatini Building (including the lowest floor of the south wing, which has been retrieved as an exhibition space after 30 years) and two in the Nouvel extension, making up a total exhibition space of more than 15,000 m2. A ... More | |
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LOS ANGELES, CA.- In commemoration of the fifth anniversary of Photographer Rodney Smiths passing, the artists estate announces the accession of ten of Smiths prints into the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. This significant group of works includes many of his most iconic images. The works were chosen by Paul Martineau, the Museums Curator of Photographs. A prominent image-maker, Rodney Smiths whimsical work invites comparison to that of surrealist painter Rene Magritte. Long acclaimed for his iconic black and white images that combine portraiture and landscape, Smith created enchanted worlds full of subtle contradictions and surprises. Using only film and light, his unretouched, dream-like images are matched in quality by the craft and physical beauty of his prints. He was a creator who cared deeply about sharing his vision of the world with humor, grace, and optimism. Over the course of a successful career that lasted more than 45 ... More | |
Prior to joining Gagosian, You was the Director of Development and Creative Strategy of UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, the groundbreaking museum with locations in Beijing, Beidaihe, and Shanghai.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian announced the appointment of Christina You to the role of China Representative for the gallery. You joins Gagosian following a distinguished six-year tenure at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, where she was most recently the Director of Development and Creative Strategy. Her appointment is effective immediately. Nick Simunovic, who has led Gagosians activities in Asia since 2007, commented, Christina brings deep relationships and regional expertise that will help us extend our reach in China in a strategic and thoughtful way. Her many years at one of the preeminent museums in Asia, combined with her experience in the West, provide her with unique perspectives that complement our existing team across China and the region as a whole. Prior to joining Gagosian, You was the Director of Development and Creative Strategy of UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, the groundbreaking museum with locations in ... More |
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| Sworders announces highlights included in the January Design sale | | Ellen Kozak's newest paintings debut at David Richard Gallery | | NADA & Pérez Art Museum Miami announce fourth annual acquisition gift selection |
This elm and wicker highback chair, designed by Koloman Moser (1868-1918) in 1902, is expected to bring £2000-3000 in the 25 January Design auction. The chair was purchased earlier this year by the seller in a junk shop for £5.
LONDON.- Sworders Design sale on January 25-26 includes one of only a handful of stained glass windows designed by William De Morgan (1839-1917). The 67cm wide by 97cm high panel depicting the archangel St Michael slaying a dragon, is expected to bring £80,000-120,000. Although De Morgan is renowned today as a ceramicist, some of his earliest work was in the medium of stained glass. Having trained as a painter at the Royal Academy Schools, in the early 1860s he was introduced to William Morris and became increasingly drawn to work as a designer for the applied arts. He contributed some designs to the Morris partnership and by the end of the decade was sharing a studio with J.T. Lyon & Co at 40 Fitzroy Square, London. During a relatively short period of just three or four years, De Morgan made cartoons for a number of Lyon & Co windows that survive in the churches for which they were made. Notable examples are a series of Apostles a ... More | |
Ellen Kozak, Barges, Tugs and Tankers No. 28, 2021. Oil on panel, 13 x 22 © Ellen Kozak, Courtesy David Richard Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery is presenting Vigil: New Paintings by Ellen Kozak, her first solo exhibition with the gallery and debut of her newest series, Barges, Tugs and Tankers. The series consists of 28 small horizontal oil paintings on panel measuring 13 x 22 inches, 19 of which are presented along with 8 near-square oil paintings on panel that measure roughly 27 x 30 to 29 x 33 inches. Kozaks paintings are rooted in color, specifically the interaction between reflected color and the surface of water. The surface of water is dynamic and ever changing, especially along the bank of the Hudson River near Hudson, New York, where the artists studio has been located for 25 years. Perceptions of color, color interactions and spatial depth change, responding to surface conditions, moonlight, sunlight, and the spreading illumination from the nighttime river traffic. The incidence of those light sources throughout the day ... More | |
Danielle De Jesus, Two men and their blue gate, 2021 (detail). Presented by Calderón, New York.
MIAMI, FLA.- The New Art Dealers Alliance and Pérez Art Museum Miami announced the selection of the fourth annual NADA Acquisition Gift for PAMM, an acquisition gift for the museums permanent collection. PAMM Curator MarÃa Elena Ortiz, Associate Curator Jennifer Inacio, and Curatorial Assistant and Publications Coordinator Maritza Lacayo have selected Two men and their blue gate, 2021 by Danielle De Jesus from Calderón. This year there were so many creative, beautiful and rigorous works at the fair, which made our selection very difficult. After much deliberation, we are delighted that this striking painting will be part of PAMMs collection. We are impressed by the artists attention to color, detail, and emotive gesture of depicting Latino communities. This work will have a strong impact with the diverse communities that compose Miamis cultural system, said PAMM Curator MarÃa Elena Ortiz, Associate Curator Jennifer Inacio, and Curatorial Assistant and Publication ... More |
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Dia Art Foundation announces the appointment of Humberto Moro as Deputy Director of Program
NEW YORK, NY.- Dia announced today the appointment of Humberto Moro to the position of Deputy Director of Program. Overseeing and amplifying the dynamic work of Dias Curatorial, Exhibition Design and Installation, Learning and Engagement, and Publications departments, Moro will play a key role in determining Dias future development and direction as it looks toward its 50th anniversary and beyond. Moro comes to Dia from the Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, where he is Deputy Director and Senior Curator, and SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, where he has held the position of Adjunct Curator since 2020 and was previously Curator from 2016 to 2020. In 2021, Moro completed a Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellowship, which included a residency at Dia. Moro will begin his new role in early 2022. I am thrilled that Humberto Moro is joining the Dia team at this pivotal moment in our history, said Jessica Morgan, Dias Nathalie de Gunzbu ... More
Ron Cephas Jones has something to prove again
NEW YORK, NY.- In the spring of 2020, a recurring nightmare began tormenting actor Ron Cephas Jones. A theater veteran known for his work on the NBC drama This Is Us, Jones is 64 and wiry, with short waves of black hair and an almond-shaped face. In the dream, he is delivering a monologue onstage darkened room, white backlights when he notices something amiss. Everyone in the audience is looking elsewhere, in seemingly every direction but his. Jones waves and shouts, trying to draw the crowds attention. But no matter how desperately he screams, no one registers his presence. He is there but not there, a ghost among the living. In the new Broadway play Clydes, Jones plays a kind of spiritual leader to a beleaguered crew of recently incarcerated sandwich cooks, and he is the shows transfixing center of gravity the very opposite of ghostly incorporeality. But when the nightmares began, Jones really was in mortal peril. In May 2020, he receiv ... More
Powerhouse unveils 'Five Hundred Arhats of Changnyeongsa Temple'
SYDNEY.- The Powerhouse has unveiled its major summer exhibition, Five Hundred Arhats of Changnyeongsa Temple. The arhats are ancient stone figures discovered in 2001-02 among the ruins of the Changnyeongsa Temple in South Koreas Gangwon-do Province, believed to have been built during Goryeo dynasty (918-1392) and destroyed in mid Joseon dynasty (1392-1879). The stone statues depict arhats - nahan in Korean - known in Buddhism as one who has attained enlightenment. The arhats represent five hundred disciples of the Buddha who gathered to compile his words into scriptures after the Buddha entered nirvana. Although they have attained enlightenment, they defer entering nirvana themselves and remain in their human state in order to teach and save sentient beings. The stone arhats have been carefully restored by Chuncheon National Museum of Korea and were first presented at the Museum ... More
Who's Afraid of Public Space? opens at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
MELBOURNE.- Over the summer season, ACCA will present a multifaceted project of exhibitions and programs exploring the role of public culture, the contested nature of public space, and the character and composition of public life. Taking place at ACCA, the project will also extend across the city through a series of satellite exhibitions in collaboration with cultural partners Abbotsford Convent, Arts Project Australia, Blak Dot Gallery, Bus Projects, City of Melbourne, Footscray Community Arts, Metro Tunnel Creative Program and Testing Grounds as well as installations and projects in the public realm. Whos Afraid of Public Space? continues ACCAs Big Picture exhibition series which explores contemporary arts relation to wider social, cultural and political contexts. This major exhibition and research project will engage contemporary art and cultural practices to consider critical ideas ... More
Addison Gallery appoints longtime staff curator Allison Kemmerer as next director
ANDOVER, MASS.- Phillips Academys Head of School Dr. Raynard Kington announced today that Allison Kemmerer has been appointed as the next Mary Stripp and R. Crosby Kemper Director of the Addison Gallery of American Art. Currently the Addisons Interim Director, Kemmerer first joined the museum in 1992 and has served in its curatorial department since, most recently overseeing its curatorial program and collection as the Mead Curator of Photography and Senior Curator of Contemporary Art. With an intimate knowledge of the museums history and nuanced understanding of its educational role within the local, regional, and national arts ecology, Kemmerer will continue to advance the Addisons standing as a premiere museum of American Art. Kemmerer will assume her new role effective December 1, 2021. "As we considered our search for the Addisons next director, we quickly realized the best person for the job was with us al ... More
The great 'West Side Story' debate
NEW YORK, NY.- Since its Broadway premiere in 1957, West Side Story a musical based on Romeo and Juliet and created by four white men has been at once beloved and vexing. The score, featuring such Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim classics as Somewhere and Maria, is considered one of the best in Broadway history. The cast album was a No. 1 smash. The 1961 movie won best picture and nine other Oscars. The show has been regularly revived, most recently on Broadway last year in a short-lived radical rethinking by Belgian director Ivo van Hove. And now, this month, a movie remake by none other than Steven Spielberg. And yet, from the beginning, the show (directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, with a book by Arthur Laurents) has discomfited some audience members and critics for its violence, its mix of tones and, especially, for the way it underscores stereotypes of Puerto Ricans as gang members. Not to mention that the 1961 movi ... More
Every object was a canvas
NEW YORK, NY.- Throughout his life, Virgil Abloh was obsessed with the idea of collaboration, and many of his partnership projects were cornerstones of hypebeast culture. This makes sense for a cross-disciplinary artist who sharpened the visions of other artists, including Kanye West and ASAP Rocky. As founder and CEO of Off-White and, later, artistic director of Louis Vuitton menswear, he expanded the idea of what a collaboration could be. Evian water bottles, Ikea furniture, Warby Parker frames, compostable Cha Cha Matcha cups. To Abloh, every object was a canvas. Today collaborations have become, in the eyes of many, a runaway train. The glut of partnerships inevitably means that they often feel void of emotional connection. This was never the case for Abloh, whose personal and artistic interests always acted as his compass. One day he would work with the vegan cafe he frequented for lunch, the next with a multinational brand. And the products almost always became instant totems. Many shoes to com ... More
'The Mood Room' review: 1980s anomie, California style
NEW YORK, NY.- The first thing we learn about the five sisters gathering in their childhood home in Annie-B Parsons The Mood Room is that it has been a year since their parents died. One of the sisters tells us that. They all talk a lot, though very little about grief. Something is clearly wrong. The sisters are anxious and depressed. They cannot always tell one another apart; their own identities are not stable. One sister has become allergic to the sun. The water is not clean. They have many ideas about how to fix the problems: doctors and diets, new lighting and other purchases and changes of scene, vacations to exotic locales or just a retreat to the room of the title. Even without a program note, you might guess from the sisters speech and from the interior décor that we are in the early 1980s a 1980s that has not ended. The production, which Big Dance Theater debuted at BAM Fisher Tuesday, takes its text from Five Sisters, a 1982 work by conceptual art ... More
Cherished words from theater's encourager-in-chief
NEW YORK, NY.- In the fictionalized movie version of his life, Jonathan Larson ignores the ringing phone and lets the answering machine pick up. Crouched on the bare wooden floor of his shabby apartment in 1990 New York City, he listens as Stephen Sondheim leaves a message instant balm to his battered artists soul. Jon? Steve Sondheim here, the voice says in Lin-Manuel Mirandas biomusical Tick, Tick Boom!, and it really is Sondheims voice we hear, offering a bit of badly needed praise for the prodigiously talented, profoundly discouraged Larson. Sondheim scripted that voicemail for the film himself, and goodness knows hed had decades of practice, offering just the right words to buoy the spirits of Larson and countless other young artists. When Sondheim died on Nov. 26 at 91, the American stage lost not only a composer and lyricist nonpareil but also its longtime encourager-in-chief. The story of his own early tutelage under Oscar Hammerst ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Gilbert Stuart was born December 03, 1755. Gilbert Charles Stuart (born Stewart) (December 3, 1755 - July 9, 1828) was an American painter from Rhode Island. In this image: Former President George W. Bush (L) and Mrs. Laura Bush (C) receive a tour of the Gilbert Stuart exhibition from Rusty Powell, director of the National Gallery of Art, during a visit Monday, July 25, 2005 in Washington D.C.
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