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Hiroshi Furuyoshi, Maya. Oil on Artefex Panel, 5 x 7 inches. Signed.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rehs Contemporary, in partnership with Artefex, announced their upcoming exhibit, Beneath the Surface. Opening on Friday, March 25th, 2022 from 4-7 PM, Beneath the Surface features 17 premier contemporary artists and while most art exhibits are solely focused on the artwork aesthetics, Beneath the Surface highlights the fact that artworks are more than just a layer of paint. The oldest known paintings are tens of thousands of years old, and since then, millions of artworks have been created. But how many of those pieces still exist? Furthermore, how many of those exist in their original form? From the very moment an artwork is completed, it is in a constant battle; a battle with nature, from heat to humidity to sunlight, and a battle with humanity, from accidents to vandalism. The folks at Rehs Contemporary are all too familiar with the wide array of issues that may arise over the life of a work of art. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day One of the many exquisite highlights in Chinese Ceramics from Tang-Yuan Dynasty, the exhibition at Zetterquist Galleries, is a Xing-yao bottle vase from the Tang Dynasty. A porcelaneous stoneware bottle vase with baluster shaped body and a flat foot, this piece is beautifully proportioned, with a tapered neck rising from a cushioned indentation, which flares to a beveled mouth-rim.
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| Xavier Hufkens to open expanded gallery at historic flagship location in Brussels | | Kahlil Robert Irving roves across millennia at MoMA | | Art Basel announces name, leadership team and selection committee for new art fair in Paris |
Opening 2 June 2022, the inaugural show will be a major exhibition of recent works in a wide range of media by American artist Christopher Wool.
BRUSSELS.- Marking its 35th anniversary, Xavier Hufkens announces the opening of its gallery at 6 rue St-Georges, its flagship location in Brussels, following a two-year transformation led by the Belgian architecture firm Robbrecht & Daem. The design transforms and extends the 19th-century townhouse opened by Hufkens in 1992, nearly tripling its exhibition space, and creating a range of light-filled spaces for the exhibition of contemporary art. One of three gallery spaces in Brussels, the renewed and expanded space at rue St-Georges affirms the gallerys commitment to its home city and offers artists and visitors a destination for the art of our time in the heart of the Belgian capital. Opening 2 June 2022, the inaugural show will be a major exhibition of recent works in a wide range of media by American artist Christopher Wool (b. 1955), curated by Anne Pontégnie, curator-at-large for Le Consortium (Dijon) ... More | |
Kahlil Robert Irving. Construct-ING(MASS_withedges&Chimney)ManyMEENINGS+/ Remnants=Black, 2021. Glazed and unglazed Ceramic, luster, found and personally constructed decals, 22 x 17.5 x 15 in. Courtesy of the artist.
by John Vincler
NEW YORK, NY.- It would be a mistake to refer to St. Louis-based artist Kahlil Robert Irving as a mere ceramist. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Irvings current solo exhibition in the continuing Projects series at the Museum of Modern Art, where his trademark tabletop sculptures are almost overshadowed by his busy, even chaotic, installation environment of wallpapered collages. They draw from what the artist describes as an everlasting feedback loop of my experience, especially online. Images, as if projected from Irvings browser history, stretch across the length of the gallery walls, and on one wall, rise two stories high. This recreates for the viewer a distilled experience seemingly adapted from Irvings ... More | |
The name Paris+, par Art Basel celebrates the citys premier standing as a cultural epicenter and reflects Art Basels ambition to create a flagship event that radiates throughout Paris, highlighting the dynamic dialogue between its cultural industries from fashion and design to film and music.
PARIS.- Following its selection in January by the Réunion des musées nationaux Grand Palais as organizer of a new contemporary and Modern art fair in the iconic Grand Palais of Paris, Art Basel, together with its parent company MCH Group, announced the name, leadership team and Selection Committee for the show. The name Paris+, par Art Basel celebrates the citys premier standing as a cultural epicenter and reflects Art Basels ambition to create a flagship event that radiates throughout Paris, highlighting the dynamic dialogue between its cultural industries from fashion and design to film and music. The new show will be led by a senior leadership team comprising: Clément Delépine, Director: Delépine is the former Co-Director of Paris Internationale ... More |
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| Fairchain is the first-ever fine art tansaction tool to offer artists and galleries royalties on physical works | | Baltimore Museum guards take seats at the curators' table | | From the border, the Whitney Biennial asks what American art can be |
Max Kendrick and Charlie Jarvis.
NEW YORK, NY.- Fairchain, founded by Max Kendrick and Charlie Jarvis, is a platform dedicated to building a compelling new framework for a more equitable and sustainable art economy, created in partnership with an inter-generational group of artists, including Carroll Dunham, Eric Fischl, Alteronce Gumby, Jillian Mayer, Ludovic Nkoth, Duke Riley, Laurie Simmons, and Hank Willis Thomas. Fairchains title management, authentication, and transaction platform is the first ever to ensure that artists and their galleries receive royalties on all secondary sales, across the globe. The company is a new all-inclusive initiative that applies blockchain technology to streamline and revolutionize the way artists, galleries and collectors make, sell, and acquire art. In tandem with the new platform, Fairchain will also debut its registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, The Fairchain Fund for Working Artists, which functions as a key stakeholder ... More | |
Rob Kempton, a guard who curated an exhibit, Guarding the Art, observes Interior, The Creeks by Grace Hartigan, at the Baltimore Museum of Art, on March 18, 2022. Curated by 17 members of its security staff, the exhibit spotlights the perspectives of employees typically seen but rarely heard. Jared Soares/The New York Times.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
BALTIMORE, MD.- Museum guards have been a focal point of unionizing efforts and equity and safety conversations sweeping U.S. museums in the wake of COVID, Black Lives Matter protests and the recent stabbing at MoMA. Yet they have largely remained an anonymous group. When youre a guard, youre on display like everything else, but youre kind of invisible to the public, said artist Fred Wilson, who worked as a guard in the 1970s at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York. Pushing for institutions to become more self-aware, he created a sculpture in 1991 called Guarded View, showing four Black headless ... More | |
The artists Mónica Arreola, left, and Andrew Roberts, selected for the Whitney Museum of American Arts 2022 Biennial, titled Quiet as Its Kept, at the graffitied border wall in Tijuana, Mexico, on Feb. 6, 2022. Mexican perspectives on the border are of interest to the curators. Alejandro Cossio/The New York Times.
by Siddhartha Mitter
TIJUANA.- The frontier shapes this metropolis, most obviously in the form of the omnipresent border wall that runs along the edge of downtown and alongside major roadways as it slices westward to the ocean. Yet if the border is a binary divider Mexico on one side, the United States on the other the lived reality to which it gives rise is far more complex. It takes in the maquiladora factories that manufacture goods for the U.S. market; the flow of new arrivals seeking work who have made Tijuana Mexicos second-largest city; migrants from other countries who, barred from entering the United States, have settled here; cross-border commuters and tourists; families that live on ... More |
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| Sotheby's announces highlights of the Modern & Contemporary Auction | | National Treasures worth over £1 million saved from export in 2020-2021 | | Baltimore Museum of Art announces Interim Co-Directors Asma Naeem and Chris Dietze |
Katharina Grosse, Ohne Titel (2015_1043M). Acrylic on canvas, 162 by 127 cm., 63¾ by 50 in. Estimate: 140.000 240.000. Courtesy Sothebys.
COLOGNE.- The Palais Oppenheim in Cologne is Sotheby's new headquarters in Germany. The beautiful new premises that Sotheby's has moved to - a former palace with a number of magnificent rooms offering expansive views over the Rhine through a generously designed terrace - provide the perfect backdrop for exhibitions of works of art and luxury items and encompass the full spectrum of Sotheby's auction and private sale offerings. The season in Cologne kicks off in April with the Modern & Contemporary Auction, featuring 90 lots comprising a range of paintings, works on paper and sculptures by well-known national and international artists from modern to contemporary art, with estimates ranging from 1,000 to 200. 000, including a painting by German contemporary artist André Butzer's Ohne Titel (Mädchen) (Untitled (Girl)), a portrait, Liegender ... More | |
In 2020-21, 10 cases were considered by the Committee because the appropriate expert adviser had objected to the proposed export on the grounds of national importance as outlined in the Waverley Criteria. Nine cases were referred to the Secretary of State.
LONDON.- Today, the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (The Committee) publishes its sixty-sixth annual report, covering 2020-21. Following the Committees recommendation, the Secretary of State arranged for a diverse and varied range of the nations treasures to receive temporary export deferrals. Despite a challenging period for fundraising due to the Covid-19 pandemic, items including a mosaic, a sculpture and a set of drawings symbolic of the UKs history and national identity were successfully purchased by UK museums. The cultural items will now remain in the UK, enabling the public, as well as experts, to benefit from viewing and learning about these objects, and realise the potential to further the nations research and understanding ... More | |
Dr. Asma Naeem.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Board of Trustees of the Baltimore Museum of Art announced today that it has appointed two members of the museums senior leadership team to serve as Interim Co-Directors. Christine Dietze, the BMAs Chief Operating Officer, and Dr. Asma Naeem, The Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Chief Curator, will lead the museum following Christopher Bedfords departure as director on June 3, 2022. Dietze and Naeem were integral to the adoption of the BMAs strategic plan, which places equity and artistic excellence at the core of the museum, and have worked closely with the Board, management, and staff to implement this vision across the BMAs internal and external initiatives. Dietze also served as Interim Co-Director between 2015-2016. This news follows the February 9 announcement that Bedford will leave the institution to helm the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. On behalf of the board, I have every confidence i ... More |
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| Auction firm executive Julie Abrams joins collectibles insurer Hugh Wood Inc | | Ahlers & Ogletree's announces Spring Estates & Collections Auction | | Their family business? The other dimension. |
For the past ten years, she served as President of Legend Rare Coin Auctions where she will continue to serve in an advisory capacity.
NEW YORK, NY.- Veteran auction company executive Julie Abrams has been appointed Global Business Development Leader by Hugh Wood Inc., an international insurance company that provides services to collectors and dealers of antiques and collectibles including fine art, memorabilia, rare musical instruments, vintage toys, coins, and paper money. Abrams career in collectibles began in 1986 when she helped launch Teletrade, the first computerized auction company. She became President of Teletrade and helped increase the frequency of collectibles auctions and expanded annual sales to $24 million. In 1999, she was named Executive Vice President of Sales at Teletrades parent company, Greg Manning Auctions, Inc. In 2004, Abrams joined Stacks Bowers where she helped expand the companys e-commerce presence and online bidding platform and obtained major consignments for the firms auctions of historic rare coins, banknotes, tokens ... More | |
1957 Coca-Cola 10-cent vending machine, a Vendo model 81d with classic 1950s-era curved lines and spaces for small bottles, 58 inches by 27 inches (est. $5,000-$7,000).
ATLANTA, GA.- A 1984 photographic collage by David Hockney, a monumental 19th century Georgian breakfront and a 17th century landscape attributed to Herman Saftleven are a few of the expected top lots in Ahlers & Ogletrees two-day, two-session Spring Estates & Collections auction slated for the weekend of April 9-10. Over 1,000 lots will come up for bid. Also featured will be fine antique rugs, a selection of estate jewelry and watches, examples of design from the mid-20th century, fine art by listed artists, sterling silver and Boston coin silver, period antiques from America, the UK and Europe, and multiple artworks by Marcel Mouly, Nicola Simbari and Dr. Seuss. Start times both days are 10 am Eastern. There will be no in-person bidding, but bidders can register at one of the three online platforms: LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Bidsquare.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be taken. In-person previews will be held (no appoi ... More | |
Anastasia Damalas, 32, under a portrait of her great grandmother, medium Eileen J. Garrett, at the Parapsychology Foundation Library in Long Island on Feb. 12, 2022. She hesitates to embrace trance mediumship, even though shes had incidents her whole life. Shannon Taggart/The New York Times.
by Suzanne Clores
NEW YORK, NY.- Lisette Coly and Anastasia Damalas are at a crossroads. But, on a recent late-winter morning, they were also in the book-filled storefront of their foundation in the Greenport section of Long Island, when someone knocked at the door. Coly, 71, and her daughter, Damalas, 32, were leery. Their family nonprofit is appointment-only, and no appointments were scheduled. In walked a woman who said she had driven from Eatons Neck because she was interested in buying the building. She requested a tour, but Coly told her the foundation was closed for the day. Still, the woman made her way into the quiet and pristine space, toward the back archive where Coly had just unveiled 90-year-old photos of her grandmother that had never been shown to the public. The ... More |
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Art Brussels 2022 announces content of its 38th edition
BRUSSELS.- Now in its 38th edition, Art Brussels - one of Europes oldest and most established art fairs - reveals details of presentations by 157 galleries from 26 countries. With a strong and international line up and a mix of established and emerging talent as well as artists to rediscover, Art Brussels maintains its reputation as a place for discovery. It presents the best of the contemporary gallery scene, showcasing close to 1,000 artists as part of a vibrant programme. Alongside the new initiatives and works commissioned for the fair, Art Brussels will feature thought-provoking artworks which examine identity and the body, technology and environmental issues. The participating galleries are divided into different sections according to the fair programme: PRIME (for mid-career and established artists), DISCOVERY (emerging ... More
Manuel Mathieu joins Pilar Corrias with upcoming solo exhibition
LONDON.- Pilar Corrias announced representation of Manuel Mathieu, alongside Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Kavi Gupta Gallery and HdM Gallery. Mathieu (b. 1986) is a multi-disciplinary artist, working across painting, ceramics and installation. His work investigates themes of historical violence, erasure and cultural approaches to physicality, nature and spiritual legacy. Mathieus interests are partially informed from his upbringing in Haiti, and his experience emigrating to Montréal at the age of 19. Freely operating in between and borrowing from numerous historical influences and traditions, the artist aims to find meaning through a spiritual or asemic mode of apparition. Mathieu has developed a distinctive abstract visual language, used to create phenomenological encounters that confront our didactic traditions. Amorphous ... More
Jennifer Mora appointed Senior Director at Lehmann Maupin
NEW YORK, NY.- Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin announced that Jennifer Mora is now Senior Director at Lehmann Maupin. Mora has spent over a decade at the gallery, starting in 2010 as a gallery assistant. Since then, Mora has developed deep relationships with artists, collectors, and curators, and her new position recognizes her leadership, along with her strategic guidance of gallery relationships with such notable artists as Hernan Bas, Mr., OSGEMEOS, Calida Rawles, Do Ho Suh, and Erwin Wurm. In her role as Senior Director based in New York, Mora will continue to work closely with the gallerys executive leadership team to identify and cultivate new and existing artist relationships; liaise with museums and biennials on exhibition planning, organization, and production; consult on artist legacy and estate management; ... More
Major international art commissions announced for opening of Sydney Modern Project
SYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales announced today nine major commissions for the transformative Sydney Modern Project, which is expanding the Art Gallery with the addition of a state-of-the-art new building designed by Pritzker Prize-wining architects SANAA and a new public art garden, on a spectacular site overlooking Sydney Harbour. The expansion will open later this year. This is the largest commissioning program in the Art Gallerys 150-year history, and all the works are for the permanent collection. The commissioned artists, from Australia and around the world, are Lorraine Connelly-Northey (Australia), Karla Dickens (Australia), Simryn Gill (Australia/Malaysia), Jonathan Jones (Australia), Yayoi Kusama (Japan), Lee Mingwei (France/USA), Richard Lewer (Australia), Lisa Reihana (Aotearoa New Zealand), ... More
Galleria Poggiali opens the first Italian solo exhibition of Miguel Angel Payano Jr.
MILAN.- American, Caribbean and Chinese culture are inextricably meshed in Sojourn Summits, the first Italian solo exhibition of Miguel Angel Payano Jr. (1980, New York), who is presenting a series of new works in the Milan premises of the Galleria Poggiali from 24 March to 4 May 2022. In the artists research the three cultures that he belongs to come together to explore issues such as human socialisation and the mechanisms of identity formation, creating works that combine painting and sculpture and are at once productive and seductive. Motifs and objects originating from America, the Caribbean and China are overlaid in surreal anthropomorphic representations that gesticulate and, in a sarcastic and insolent manner, impel the observer to address questions of race, geography and identity. And, very often, the works of Miguel ... More
100 years of 'Nosferatu,' the vampire movie that won't die
NEW YORK, NY.- His silhouette precedes him: spindly limbs and a long black coat, fingernails like claws an otherworldly shadow that has loomed over cinema for 100 years. F.W. Murnaus silent film Nosferatu and its villain, Count Orlok, celebrate their centennial this year. The movie will return to theaters across Europe, and, around the world, festivals, conferences, art exhibitions and screenings accompanied by live music are scheduled to pay tribute to the undying influence of Nosferatu, which lives on as a fairy tale, a meme and a cinematic revenant. Across the decades, Nosferatu has inspired filmmakers, artists, musicians and designers, with Orloks figure surfacing in places as varied as the video game Red Dead Redemption 2 and as a visual gag in an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. Werner Herzog released ... More
John Korty, director of 'Miss Jane Pittman,' is dead at 85
NEW YORK, NY.- John Korty, a director best known for ambitious made-for-television projects, including the 1974 film The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, which won nine Emmy Awards, died March 9 at his home in Port Reyes Station, California. He was 85. His brother, Doug Korty, said the cause was vascular dementia. Miss Jane Pittman, a CBS presentation based on the Ernest Gaines novel in which a Black woman recounts more than a centurys worth of memories, featured an acclaimed performance by Cicely Tyson as the title character. John J. OConnor, reviewing the film in The New York Times, called it a splendid night for television. John Kortys direction is cool and restrained, he added, never underlining and always avoiding what could easily be mawkish. The Emmys that the film won included ... More
Hake's record-setting March 15-16 auction hits $3.2M, led by Star Wars figure that sold for $204,435
YORK, PA.- Record-setting prices just kept on coming at Hakes $3.2 million online auction of pop culture rarities and didnt stop until the last-minute clash of the titans that determined ownership of the sales top lot: a Star Wars Boba Fett J-slot rocket-firing prototype action figure. Conceived by Kenner in 1979, the J-slot Boba Fett Version 2 was designed with a J-shape triggering mechanism on its back for firing off rockets, but the toy never made it to the production stage due to safety concerns. On that basis alone, the pre-production archetypes became immediate rarities, but more than four decades of Star Wars mania have catapulted the J-slot prototype to an extraterrestrial level of desirability. The coveted example offered by Hakes ignited a bidding war that ended at a sky-high $204,435 a new auction record ... More
Ilana Savdie joins White Cube
LONDON.- White Cube announced representation of Ilana Savdie (b. 1986, raised in Barranquilla, Colombia). In her vibrant, large-scale figurative paintings, Savdie explores themes of performance, transgression, identity and power, aiming to dismantle ideas of binary and fixed identity. The artist assembles, blends and merges disembodied fragments into finely detailed compositions characterised by dreamlike illusion and a direct relationship to the body. Now living and working in New York, Savdie was raised in Barranquilla and draws extensively on the citys tradition of Carnaval, a week-long display of transgressive excess. For Savdie, the Carnaval characters are fluid and unrestricted, embodying the queer notion of performance as a potentially transformative tool. Visually recalling the colourful abstract works ... More
Sworders' to offer The Christopher Butterworth Collection
STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- To a generation of interior decorators, Pimlico Road dealer Christopher Butterworth scarcely requires an introduction. David Mlinaric describes his shop on the Chelsea thoroughfare as a fascinating Aladdins cave of lights and lamps where everything is interesting and beautiful. Nicky Haslam has described him as the best antiques dealer ever. Butterworths rise to the top of his profession came by an atypical route. There was no family background in art and antiques or an apprenticeship with a dealer or auction house. Instead, his formative years were spent working in Fleet Street as a journalist and buying furniture from the rag-and-bone men of South London. It was as a reader of House & Garden and World of Interiors that his eyes were opened to antiques and the sphere of antique lighting in particular. ... More
Sotheby's & Liverpool Football Club team up for first-of-its-kind NFT digital collectibles and fan community
NEW YORK, NY.- The Reds are entering the world of digital collectibles with the launch of their very first NFT collection, the LFC Heroes Club, a fun and innovative way to celebrate being an LFC fan from anywhere in the world. With the launch, fans will have the chance to own unique digital collectibles inspired by 24 stars of LFC mens team as well as engage with other NFT owners all in one NFT community dedicated to LFC fans. By owning an LFC NFT, supporters can join an innovative fan community, with access to an LFC community forum, unique experiences, virtual hang-outs, competitions, LFC retail discounts, and more, all while raising money for the LFC Foundation and supporting good causes in Liverpool and beyond. To create the LFC Heroes Club, LFC worked with leading auction house Sothebys. This ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor and painter Daniel Buren was born March 25, 1938. Daniel Buren (born 25 March 1938) is a French conceptual artist. Sometimes classified as a Minimalist, Buren is known best for using regular, contrasting colored stripes in an effort to integrate visual surface and architectural space, notably on historical, landmark architecture. In this image: Daniel Buren unveils permanent artwork 'Diamonds and Circles' works 'in situ' commissioned by Art on the Underground at Tottenham Court Road Station, London. Photo: David Parry/PA Wire.
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