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A spirit canoe (Nuu - chah - nulth) on display in the Northwest Coast Hall at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, May 4, 2022. The museums oldest gallery, Northwest Coast Hall, reopens May 13 with rare cultural objects and a fresh emphasis on the lives of Indigenous people who made them. Jasmine Clarke/The New York Times.
by Arthur Lubow
NEW YORK, NY.- Crafted of wood, iron, plant fiber and animal sinew, the model of 10 men paddling a canoe would strike most viewers as a beautiful object. But to Haayuups, head of the House of Takiishtakamlthat-h of the Huupachesat-h First Nation, on Vancouver Island, Canada, it also holds a mystical power. A spirit canoe, it represents the ripple of invisible oars in the water a sound that people of his community report hearing after they have purified themselves through fasting and bathing. When the Northwest Coast Hall at the American Museum of Natural History in New York reopens to the public May 13 after a five-year, $19 million renovation, the spirit canoe which was not previously shown will be one of more than 1,000 artifacts on view. Organized by Haayuups and Peter Whiteley, curator of North American ethnology at the museum, the redesigned exhibit expresses the perspectives of the 10 nations whose cultures are on display: placing an emphasis on the spirit ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition view Alejandra Riera. ( Garden of Mixtures: Attempts to Make Place, 1995 - ... ). Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa. May, 2022. Photo credit: Román Lores, JoaquÃn Cortés. Photographic Archive of Museo Reina SofÃa
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| Aboriginal Art returns to Sotheby's New York with largest & most significant auction ever staged outside Australia | | Christie's June 20/21 season to continue its celebration of the cultural dialogue between London and Paris | | Lark Mason Associates Sale of Asian, Ancient and Ethnographic Works of Art achieves $1,076,618 |
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, AlhalkereOld Man Emu and his Babies. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- For the first time since 2019, a live auction of Aboriginal Art returns to Sothebys New York this May, closely following Sothebys spring marquee sales of Contemporary and Modern Art. Featuring more than 100 lots, comprised of works by many of the leading historic Aboriginal artists, such as William Barak, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Willy Tjungurrayi, and Mick Namarari, among others, the auction will take place live from New York on 25 May. Featured among the sale highlights is a never-before-seen work by legendary indigenous Australian artist William Barak, whose work documents Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung culture and speaks to the survival of First Nations traditions in defiance of colonization. Many of Barak's paintings, drawings, carved weapons, and tools survive today because of his strong ... More | |
20/21 London to Paris will present iconic works by artists who defined the diverse and influential movements that shaped the 20th century, situating them alongside those working throughout the last 20 years who have continued to radicalise artistic practice in the 21st century. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- Taking place on 28 June 2022, three evening auctions will once again focus on the influential artistic synergies that exist between London and Paris. 20/21 London to Paris is comprised of the 20th / 21st Century: Collection Sale, which will launch the series from London, followed by the 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale, concluding with the 20th / 21st Century: Paris Evening Sale. The dynamism and energy of contemporary artists practising today will be showcased against the backdrop of those artists who changed the trajectory of art during the 20th century. Londons unique geographical position places the sales as a dynamic central platform that acts as a significant bridge between art ... More | |
Luo Zhongli Portrait of a Woman, oil-on-canvas.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lark Mason Associates sale of Asian, Ancient and Ethnographic Works of Art Achieves $1,076, 618 including BP. Leading off the two-session sale which closed on April 26th and 27th was a pair, each one far exceeding their $30,000-50,000 estimates. Commenting on the Zonghli paintings, Lark Mason, says: Both Zhongli paintings were hovering under $20,000 on the morning of the sales closing. It was in the final minutes that they rose, doubling and tripling the high estimate. The oil on canvas portraits, bought by the consignors parents in Beijing in 1987, hung on the wall together for nearly 40 years. We are delighted that both portraits are returning to Asia with their new owner. This sale had a number of superb works of art with competitive bidding from buyers from China and Europe, says Mason. Two of the standouts that caught their eye was a Qing Dynasty Chinese Porcelain Enamel Decorate ... More |
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| Haroon Mirza's first solo show in Germany on view at max goelitz gallery | | Inverted error stamp from 1901 brings $5,500 at Holabird auction | | 'Nadav Kander: The Thread' opens at Howard Greenberg Gallery |
Haroon Mirza, Entangled and Separated (Solar Powered LED Circuit Composition 44), 2021. Electrical wire, copper tape, magnetic wire, LED matrix, polyurethane resin, metal pigments, acetate, oil on canvas and QT Py on photovoltaic panel, 164 x 100 x 8cm. Courtesy of Lisson Gallery. Copyright the artist. Photo: Milena Wojhan.
MUNICH.- Haroon Mirzas in the epoch of waves is a multi-sensory presentation that reveals connections between technology, nature, humankind and the universe. His multi layered work-cycle The Wave Epoch - consisting of video, music and performance is complemented by wall works made of solar panels automatically generating electricity and representing the dynamic system of light, electrical signals and complex circuits. The central installation The Wave Epoch incorporates references from club culture, future archaeology, central belief systems as well as social rituals and was developed as a collaboration between Haroon Mirza and Jack Jelfs with musicians GAIKA and Elijha as part of the Collide Residency at the European Organization for Nuclear ... More | |
U.S. one-cent stamp commemorating the Pan American Exposition of 1901 with an inverted center an error stamp and one of the great philatelic rarities, but not well centered ($5,500).
RENO, NV.- A U.S. one-cent stamp commemorating the Pan American Exposition of 1901 with an inverted center an error stamp and one of the great philatelic rarities sold for $5,500 at Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLCs four-day Western Americana Auction held April 21st thru 24th, online and live in the Holabird gallery located at 3555 Airway Drive in Reno. The stamp, Scott Catalog #294A, was green in color and came with a service certificate from the American Philatelic Expertising Service dated May 19, 1976. It showed a graphic of a steamship (upside down) in an oval above the words Eastlake Navigation. The stamp probably would have sold for considerably more, but it wasnt well centered, a strike against it with collectors. Day 1, on April 21st, featured three major collecting categories: art, with just under 100 lots; Native Americana (a popular staple ... More | |
Rosamund Pike II, Los Angeles, USA, 2014. Pigment print, printed 2022. Image size: 26 x 22 inches. Paper size: 26 x 22 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition of photographs by the renowned London-based artist Nadav Kander is on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from April 21 through June 10, 2022. Nadav Kander: The Thread, the Prix Pictet-winning photographers first exhibition with Howard Greenberg Gallery, presents evocative landscapes and penetrating portraits from the 1990s-2020s that evoke the interconnectedness of humanity. The exhibition title, inspired by the poem The Way It Is by William Stafford, refers to this common thread. This connectivity is the only way we can come together as a species, Kander noted. My approach is to drill down to the essence of things, searching for feelings of vulnerability, quiet, and beauty, whether it be a familiar face or a riverscape. Widely regarded as one of the most insightful photographers of our time, Kanders work brings out the essence of his subjects in both subtle and powe ... More |
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| Sabrina Pritchett to join Dayton Art Institute leadership team as External Affairs Director | | Susanne Gaensheimer to remain Director of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen | | Michelangelo's Madonna of the Stairs and Battle of the Centaurs restored thanks to Friends of Florence |
She comes to the DAI from Central State University, where she served as Associate Director of University PR and Marketing for the past six years.
DAYTON, OH.- The Dayton Art Institute has announced that Sabrina Pritchett will join the Dayton Art Institute leadership team as the museums External Affairs Director. In her role as External Affairs Director, Pritchett will oversee all aspects of marketing, communications and media relations for the museum, as well as guiding the museums signature fundraising events, Art Ball, Oktoberfest and Bourbon & Bubbles. She comes to the DAI from Central State University, where she served as Associate Director of University PR and Marketing for the past six years. Passionate about all things related to digital, consumer engagement, and marketing and communications, Sabrina brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this position, said DAI Director & CEO Michael R. Roediger. She has spent the last 20 years developing award-winning campaigns for major organizations and has an extensive network of connections ... More | |
Prof. Dr. Susanne Gaensheimer © Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, photo: Andreas Endermann.
DUSSELDORF.- The State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen announce that the contract of Susanne Gaensheimer has been extended for a further seven years until August 31, 2031. The Board of Trustees of the Kunstsammlung and the State Cabinet have approved the extension. Susanne Gaensheimer is one of the outstanding museum directors in Germany and enjoys an international reputation. Under her direction, the two venues K20 and K21 have become open to pioneering international voices. Her exhibition projects on, among others, Carmen Herrera, Ai Weiwei, Pablo Picasso, Hito Steyerl, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, and Gerhard Richter, as well as the exhibition on Edvard Munch curated by Karl Ove Knausgård, have all met with great public acclaim. With the newly conceived collection presentations in both K20 and K21, which also include targeted acquisitions of both non-Western modernist positions and important ... More | |
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564). Battle of the Centaurs, 1491-1492. Marble, 80.5 x 88 cm. Details during restoration by Friends of Florence, 2021-22. Photo: Antonio Quattrone and Ottaviano Caruso.
FLORENCE.- The restoration of two early sculptures Michelangelo Buonarroti created when he was training in the Garden of San Marco in FlorenceMadonna of the Stairs (1490) and Battle of the Centaurs (1491-1492)was completed in March and the works have returned to public view. The project, approved by the Casa Buonarroti Foundation, was made possible thanks to a gift from Friends of Florence. The gift also enabled the refurbishment of the Room of Marbles where both works are displayed in Casa Buonarroti, a museum devoted to the Renaissance master that was once his home. The restoration of the two bas-reliefs were presented at the fifth edition of the Friends of Florence Award Grant at the Salone dellArte e del Restauro in 2020. Daniela Manna and Marina Vincenti restored the works under the direction of Casa Buonarroti and supervision of Soprintendenza Archeologia ... More |
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| Andrew Kreps Gallery now represents Clare Rojas | | Olga de Amaral to receive honorary degree | | Fondation Louis Vuitton presents Fugues in Color |
Clare Rojas, Shadow man and shadow friend in the spirit realm, 2021. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Andrew Kreps Gallery announced the representation of Clare Rojas (b. 1976, Columbus, OH) in partnership with Jessica Silverman, San Francisco. The gallery will include Rojas in its presentation at Frieze New York, and will additionally present a solo exhibition of Rojas work in Spring 2023. Rojas employs a deeply personal visual language in her work, alternating between dense figurative scenes, and minimal, abstract compositions. Rojas approaches both with a consistent, lyrical sensitivity as she interjects totemic references to her own life, seeking new ways to communicate narrative, playing on our instinctive desire to decode, and comprehend images. Drawing on her interest in languages shared throughout the natural world, particularly that of birds that are capable of recognizing human faces through geometric forms, Rojas looks to distill fleeting memories and experiences into concrete ... More | |
Olga de Amaral, 2017. © Diego Amaral.
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH.- Cranbrook Academy of Art and Cranbrook Art Museum, along with their Board of Governors, announced that an honorary Master of Fine Arts degree will be conferred upon Olga de Amaral in absentia during the Academys May 13 Commencement ceremony. Amaral is a fiber artist, and one of the most recognized names in Latin American art. She studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art from 19541955, but did not earn a degree, which was common at the time as students often visited for short periods of residency. She met her husband, Jim Amaral, a prolific sculptor, at Cranbrook and the two went on to make a life for themselves by operating a design atelier along with their artistic practices in Amarals native Bogotá, Colombia. Cranbrook Art Museum recently organized the exhibition Olga de Amaral: To Weave a Rock with The Museum of Fine Arts Houston. It was on view at Cranbrook from October 30, 2021, through March 27, 2022, and is now ... More | |
Installation view - Sam Gilliam, exhibition "Fugues in Color, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris.
PARIS.- The exhibition Fugues in Color brings together five painters from the international art scene, all from different backgrounds and generations: Sam Gilliam, Katharina Grosse, Steven Parrino, Megan Rooney, Niele Toroni. Through their own abstracted vocabularies, they push the traditional limits of the pictorial medium. Painting leaves the restricted field of the stretched canvas, discovering a new freedom in the color/support relationship, extending into space, across floor, wall, and ceiling. As variations on the expansion of color, the works brought together here engage in close dialogue with the architecture of Frank Gehry. In addition to the group of works by Sam Gilliam, Steven Parrino, and Niele Toroni, which include major loans, both private and from public institutions, Katharina Grosse and Megan Rooney have each created new ephemeral pieces for the exhibition. A multidisciplinary artist, Megan Rooney combines painting, sculpture, ... More |
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Cardi Gallery opens a retrospective dedicated to the work of Wolf Vostell
LONDON.- Cardi Gallery is presenting its first retrospective dedicated to the work of Wolf Vostell (Leverkusen, 1932 - Berlin, 1998). German by birth, the artist was deeply influenced by his native culture and several other historical European ones, particularly those of Spain and Italy. Shaping his practice through an honest, uncontaminated cultural fusion, they contributed to making him a key figure in the development of the artistic discourse across Europe over the second half of the Twentieth century. One of the founders of Fluxus, Vostell, was an eclectic pioneer engaged with a variety of media. He was among the first artists to adopt video and installation as essential linguistic tools in his practice and the first to include a television within an artwork in 1958. Through a selection of videos, paintings, sculptures and installations ... More
Sculpture by the Sea launches The Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail
PERTH.- The Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail, a major new, permanent public collection of over 25 sculptures by renowned artists from across Australia and the world, was officially opened today by the Hon. Stuart Ayres, NSW Minister for Tourism and Sport, as part of four days of local celebrations. Created in response to the Black Summer Fires of 2019-2020, the sculpture trail stretches along 100km of the stunning Snowy Valleys Way, a backroad from Sydney and Canberra to Melbourne in southern NSW. The Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail showcases sculptures in the historic towns of Adelong, Batlow, Tumbarumba, the hamlet of Tooma and the Tumbarumba wine region cellar doors at Courabyra Wines, Johansen Wines and Obsession Wines. Opening 25 years almost to the day after the world renowned Sculpture ... More
Claus Stangl awarded 2022 Archibald Packing Room Prize for portrait of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Taika Waititi
SYDNEY.- A 3D-style portrait of Academy Award-winning and Emmy-nominated New Zealand writer, director, and actor Taika Waititi by Sydney-based artist Claus Stangl has won this years Archibald Packing Room Prize. Stangls painting is one of 52 finalist works from 816 entries received for the Archibald Prize 2022. This is the fourth time Stangl has entered the Archibald Prize, and the second time he has been a finalist. The first time he was a finalist was in 2020 with his portrait of Sydney hip-hop musician Sukhdeep Singh Bhogal better known as L-FRESH The LION. The Packing Room Prize is a $3000 cash prize awarded to the best entry in the Archibald Prize as judged by the Art Gallery staff who ... More
In this Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee year...The Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair
PETWORTH.- In the middle of May, Petworth will be abuzz with visitors from around the UK and maybe even a few interior enthusiasts from abroad when The Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair marquee goes up, opening for the eighth year in a row for three days from Friday 13 to Sunday 15 May 2022. Situated in its usual place in the Lancelot Capability Brown grounds with views overlooking the 700 acre deer park, watched by the National Trust mansion, Petworth House, some 60 dealers are gathering to share their latest acquisitions for collectors, designers and interested buyers to view. Restrictions to the pandemic have eased and an antiques fair ticket once again gives the holders access to visit Petworth House and its magnificent collection of Britains art, including works by J.M.W. Turner, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir ... More
Cartier 101-carat Colombian emerald Art Deco bracelet leads NY Jewels Auction at Bonhams
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams New York Jewels sale is filled with Hollywood glamour and Art Deco treasures from three important American collections. On May 24, 2022, jewels on the auction block include a 101-carat Colombian emerald Art Deco bracelet by Cartier, circa 1926, from the collection of Hélène Irwin Crocker Fagan (18871966), one of the richest American heiresses in the world during the Belle Epoque and Art Deco eras. Daughter of William G. Irwin, an English capitalist who amassed a fortune as a sugar baron in Hawaii, Hélène married Templeton Crocker (grandson of Charles Crocker, one of the big four railroad magnates) in 1911. The newspapers went wild, and the San Francisco Call headline read, Crocker-Irwin Wedding Bells Clink of Gold: Vast Fortunes to be United at Altar. Hélène also owned a wonderful ... More
Winchester cartridge board hits the mark for CA$70,800 in Miller & Miller auction
NEW HAMBURG.- A very rare, circa 1884 Winchester cartridge board one of the most sought after, iconic examples of American sporting advertising hit the mark for $70,800 in an online-only Petroliana & Advertising Auction held April 23rd by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. The cartridge board was the top earner in a 482-lot auction that grossed $538,581. All prices in this report are in Canadian dollars and include an 18 percent buyers premium. The Winchester cartridge board, 38 inches tall by 28 inches wide, was a lithographed hardboard with an applied representation of one of Winchesters earliest lines of ammunition. Few survived intact due to their size and the fact that they were displayed in store windows and areas exposed to light. The one sold was housed in the original frame and was in untouched, original condition. The rest ... More
Take a joy ride through Disneyland history with Heritage Auctions May 21-22
DALLAS, TX.- Nearly 700 lots from one of the most significant assemblages of actual park-displayed signs, props, artifacts and more from Disneyland and Disney theme parks around the world will be offered May 21-22 in Heritage Auctions DISNEYLAND: THE AUCTION Signature® Auction. The founder of the collection, Scott Rummell, is instantly recognizable, even to those who dont know his name. He is a renowned voice actor who has lent his voice to everything from Marvel movie trailers to countless commercials and voiceovers on networks ranging from CBS to CNN. Disneyland was part of Scotts life since he was young. His wife, Terry, collected Donald Duck. In 1982, after they were married, his parents gave the young couple annual passes, after which Disney wasnt something we did, Scott says. It became ... More
New Orleans Museum of Art announces acquisition of Wangechi Mutu's Crocodylus
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art announces the acquisition of Crocodylus, a sculpture by Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu. A gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, Crocodylus is the newest addition to the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, and the final acquisition by the garden patrons before the passing of Sydney Besthoff in February 2022. The sculpture was first on view from November 2021 to January 2022 in New Orleans Crescent Park as part of Prospect.5. With his beloved wife Walda, Sydney Besthoff was a passionate supporter of the arts, dedicated to connecting audiences in New Orleans with art and artists from around the world, said Susan Taylor, Montine McDaniel Freeman Director of NOMA. The installation of Crocodylus was Sydney's last outing in February, ... More
Alejandra Riera's new project now on view at Museo Reina SofÃa
MADRID.- Museo Reina SofÃa presents ( Garden of Mixtures: Attempts to Make Place, 1995 - ) by Alejandra Riera, a series of works that continue part of the project she created at the museum in 2013. The exhibition is conceived without beginning or end, as a set of singular places linked through an open narrative with freedom of movement, in which underlies the idea of interweaving, intertwining lines and ideas, images and texts, braiding poetics whose common thread is intuited through the rooms. The project comprises different spaces of the museum: the vault rooms at the Sabatini building resume an action initiated in 2013 with poétique(s) de l'inachèvement [poetic(s) of incompletness], which included drilling a hole in a wall concealing a trapdoor in the old hospital where the museum is currently located, subsequently ... More
IU Eskenazi Museum of Art announces two new members of senior leadership team and three new hires
BLOOMINGTON, IN.- The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University announces the appointment of two new members of its senior leadership team. Danielle Johnson, previously Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Vero Beach Museum of Art, becomes the inaugural Director of Curatorial Affairs. Christine Baldwin, formerly Director of Philanthropy and Planned Giving at Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, has been appointed Director of Development. Both assumed these duties in spring 2022. Before working as Curator at the Vero Beach Museum of Art, Johnson held positions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Saint Louis Art Museum. She received her MA and PhD in art history from New York University and her BA in the history of art and French language and literature from Colgate ... More
Yun Mapplethorpe named Director of Katonah Museum of Art
KATONAH, NY.- The Board of Trustees of the Katonah Museum of Art announced today the appointment of Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe as the Museums next Executive Director. Bringing over 25 years of experience as a curator, art historian, and museum director, Yun Mapplethorpe comes to Katonah from Asia Society, where she has served for over a decade, most recently as Vice President for Global Artistic Programs and Director of the Asia Society Museum. As the KMAs Executive Director, Yun Mapplethorpe will enhance the KMAs dynamic multidisciplinary program and work closely with its Trustees and senior staff to strengthen the Museums role as an inclusive platform for the exchange of art, culture, and ideas. She will begin her tenure at the KMA on August 15, 2022. "Michelle is a seasoned museum ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German-Swiss painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was born May 06, 1880. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 - 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. In this image: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880-1938), Women on the Street (Frauen auf der Straße). 1915. Oil on canvas. 49 5/8 x 35 7/16" (126 x 90 cm). Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany. Photograph by Peter Frese. © Ingeborg and Dr. Wolfgang Henze-Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern.
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