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While visiting the Whitney Museum earlier this month to view the blockbuster Jasper Johns exhibition I wandered into an intimate exhibition titled, Labyrinth of Forms, Women and Abstraction 1930-1950.
by Jamie LaFleur
Founder and CEO ARTBnk
NEW YORK, NY.- While visiting the Whitney Museum earlier this month to view the blockbuster Jasper Johns exhibition I wandered into an intimate exhibition titled, Labyrinth of Forms, Women and Abstraction 1930-1950. The exhibit included artists that I expected to see such as Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, and Louise Nevelson, and some I was familiar with and delighted to see included such as Perle Fine, Hedde Sterne, and Blanche Lazzell. There was one stand out artist that I knew very little about but whos work captivated my attention, Irene Rice Pereira. This exhibition is an example of a larger movement by art institutions to re-examine the role played by female artists in the development of western art. Women artists have been systematically overlooked and too often dismissed by the art world. Through the efforts to bring marginalized artists the recognition they deserve we have the opportunity for revelations such as Irene Rice Pereira. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Shanzhai Lyric, Incomplete Poem (2015-ongoing) in Greater New York 2021 on view at MoMA PS1 from October 7, 2021 to April 18, 2022. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Noel Woodford.
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| Jimmie Durham, sculptor who explored Indigenous themes, dies at 81 | | Victoria Miro opens a major exhibition by Paula Rego | | Israel unveils remains of ancient Hellenistic fortress | 
Tlunh Datsi," 1984 by artist Jimmie Durham in New York on Oct. 31, 2017. The sculpture, incorporating a Puma skull, suggested oppression of Native Americans and was part of a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2017. Vincent Tullo/The New York Times.
by Jori Finkel
NEW YORK, NY.- Jimmie Durham, an artist celebrated for incorporating traditional Native American imagery and materials into lively, unconventional sculptures before his claim of Cherokee ancestry was widely challenged, setting off an intense art-world debate over his authenticity, died Wednesday in Berlin. He was 81. Monica Manzutto, the co-founder of his Mexico City gallery, Kurimanzutto, confirmed the death but did not specify the cause. Durham had lived in Europe, mainly in Berlin and Naples, Italy, since 1994. Durham began his career as an artist and activist in New York, working as an organizer for the American Indian Movement in the 1970s. He emerged as an important artist in the 1980s, ... More | | 
Paula Rego, La Marafona, 2005. Pastel on paper on aluminium, 187 x 135 cm. 73 5/8 x 53 1/8 in © Paula Rego. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro.
LONDON.- Victoria Miro announces The Forgotten, a major exhibition by Paula Rego. To be held across the entirety of its Wharf Road spaces, the gallerys first solo exhibition by the artist brings together significant individual works and important series, many rarely shown, drawn principally from the past 20 years. Celebrated as a peerless storyteller, Paula Rego has often brought immense psychological insight and imaginative power to the stories that we try to suppress or tell ourselves only in private. Testament to a career spent exploring these hidden narratives and their associated stigmas, The Forgotten encircles themes and subjects that are often masked or concealed out of politeness or embarrassment such as mental illness and old age. It includes works inspired by episodes from the artists childhood in Portugal, including the large-scale La Marafona, 2005, a tender portrayal that refers to the burden ... More | | 
Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archaeologist Saar Ganor presents pottery finds at an excavation site in Lachish Forest near the southern city of Kiryat Gat on November 16, 2021. GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP.
JERUSALEM.- Israeli archaeologists Tuesday unveiled the ruins of a Hellenistic fortress they said was devastated in the Maccabean Jewish revolt 2,100 years ago which is celebrated during the Hannukah holiday. The excavation in Lachish Forest, 60 kilometres (40 miles) southwest of Jerusalem, has revealed a fortified structure measuring 15 metres (50 feet) by 15 metres, with stone walls three meters thick, the Israel Antiquities Authority said. During the dig of the seven-room structure, archaeologists said, they discovered a layer of artifacts, including weapons, charred wooden beams and dozens of ancient coins. The excavation directors said the finds were "tangible evidence of the Hannukah story" behind the upcoming festival of lights, which Jewish people celebrate this year beginning November 28. The holiday marks the victory of Hasmonean Jewish warriors against the Seleucids, ... More |
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| Didier Aaron opens its fourth solo exhibition featuring the artwork of Victor Koulbak | | Major exhibition showcases some of the most exceptional European arms and armor in existence | | Glenn Ligon debuts all new works in Hauser & Wirth exhibition | 
Victor Koulbak, Marcella, 2019, silverpoint, watercolor, 12 x 9 ¾ in.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Didier Aaron Gallery has announced the opening of KOULBAK paintings and drawings, an exhibition of nearly 50 works which is on view at its New York gallery. Didier Aaron has been exhibiting the works of Koulbak since 2013 and this is their fourth exhibition in New York of his paintings and drawings. Victor Koulbak was born in 1946 in Moscow, where he studied at the Art School from 1958 until 1964. He then spent two years working as a draughtsman for various publishing houses. In 1966, he was admitted to the Polygraphic Institute of Moscow, where he studied for three years. He then continued to work as an illustrator to earn his living. Three exhibitions in which he tried to show his work were closed down within hours of their opening. In 1975, he left Russia and is presently living in France. His work has been shown in France, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Japan, Italy, England, Austria, Germany, Malta, C ... More | | 
Ceremonial Half-Armor with Repoussé Decoration, about 15801610, French, decorative motives attributed to Ãtienne Delaune, steel with traces of gilding and leather, The John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, 2014.70.
TOLEDO, OH.- The image of the knight in shining armor is familiar from fairy tales, films and games, but what was the reality behind the myth? Armor is as old as human civilization and has taken many forms and served many purposes through the ages. A new exhibition explores armor made for the battlefield, tournaments and ceremonies, highlighting armors practical function, and its cultural role as a symbol of personal identity, social prestige and the values of a heroic past. The Age of Armor: Treasures from the Higgins Armory Collection at the Worcester Art Museum presents European suits of armor from one of the most important and largest collections of the material in the U.S. The exhibition of more than 80 works focuses on the development and history of the classic knightly suit ... More | | 
Glenn Ligon, Debris Field (Red) #16, 2020 2021. Etching ink and acrylic on canvas, 114 x 88 x 1 ¾ in. © Glenn Ligon. Courtesy of the artist, Hauser & Wirth, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Thomas Dane Gallery, London and Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photo: Thomas Barratt.
NEW YORK, NY.- Renowned American artist Glenn Ligon debuts all new works in a presentation spanning two floors of Hauser & Wirths 22nd Street building. Continuing his four decades-long exploration of American history, literature, and society, Its Always a Little Bit Not Yet finds Ligon building upon his text-based works that draw from the influential words of leading 20th century cultural figures, including his ongoing series of neon installation and debris field paintings. The exhibition also features a monumental triptych, Stranger (Full Text) #2 (2020-2021), from Ligons Stranger painting series begun in 1997. In the series, Ligon renders excerpts from James Baldwins 1953 essay Stranger in the Village, in which the famed writer and activist ... More |
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| Kevin Beasley joins Regen Projects | | Exhibition at Kasmin presents presents three large-scale paintings by Judith Bernstein | | 'Trash music': Turkish band recycles rubbish into sounds | 
Installation view of Kevin Beasley: A view of a landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 15, 2018 March 10, 2019. Photo: Ron Amstutz.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects announced representation of Kevin Beasley. The artist will present his first exhibition with the gallery in April 2022. Beasleys practice is deeply invested in drawing out the histories latent in everyday materials and connecting these pasts to the present cultural landscape. This interest manifests in works that are produced by subjecting historically charged materials to transformative processes, reconfiguring and recontextualizing them to make new meaning. Harnessing the personal, cultural, and political associations of objects, Beasley investigates the history of power and race in America. Beasleys multifaceted practice includes sculpture, drawing, installation, sound, music, and performance. The artists process most notably involves the use of garments and raw cotton which he transforms using molds, resin, and polyurethane foam to make what was once soft and pliable into rigid and ... More | | 
Judith Bernstein, Gaslighting (Red), 2019. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 89 1/2 x 88 1/2 inches, 227.3 x 224.8 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Kasmin, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- In her exhibition GASLIGTING FOREVER, Judith Bernstein presents three large-scale paintings that represent the culmination of over a half-centurys commitment to confronting the injustices of power and politics within a sexual lens. Exhibited in the gallerys 514 West 28th Street location, this explosive series incorporates the artists signature use of fluorescent paint displayed under black light and is being displayed under black light and presented with a limited-edition silkscreen print entitled Equality (2021), created in the spirit of the artists iconic 1995 charcoal drawing of the same title. Gaslighting is a term coined by the 1944 thriller Gaslight, featuring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Referencing the movies plot, it has since come into popular lexicon to describe a situation wherein an abuser encourages their target to question and undermine their judgment and sanity. Gaslighting is a psychological ... More | | 
Fungistanbul band member Roni Aran poses as he prepares to perform with one of his instruments made with waste in Istanbul on November 8, 2021. Ozan KOSE / AFP.
by Fulya Ozerkan
ISTANBUL.- An empty can, the base of a lamp and string: what sound like rubbish to some are music to the ears of a Turkish band that turns waste into instruments to promote recycling. Fungistanbul, a trio that began experimenting with a sound they call "Trash Oriental" in 2019, have joined a growing global movement of groups that bang, strum and blow into things they find in dustbins. "We had no idea we would come up with this sound when we first started," band member Roni Aran admitted in the group's studio, tucked away in a grimy part of Istanbul filled with auto repair shops. "We were all surprised with the result, and so was the audience." Fungistanbul's emergence on the local music scene coincides with a steady rise in the environment's importance to Turkish voters -- especially the young, where it ranks next to the ... More |
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| Exhibition showcases the exquisite collection assembled by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. and Susan Cragg Stebbins | | The George Holloway Collection of Fine Sovereigns of Elizabeth I sells for £1,640,520 | | Miramax sues Tarantino over planned 'Pulp Fiction' NFTs | 
Mixed Flowers in a White Vase, 1861. Oil on canvas; Martin Johnson Heade, American, 18191904; 18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.6 cm) (2019-015:1).
WINTER PARK, FLA.- The Morses fall exhibition The Stebbins Collection: A Gift for the Morse Museum opened on November 9. The exhibition showcases the exquisite collection assembled by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. and Susan Cragg Stebbins over the course of fifty-five years. As announced in March of this year, the Stebbinses have given sixty-five works and have lent an additional five. Curated by Morse Curator of American Painting, Dr. Regina Palm, this exhibition debuts these works of American art as part of the Morse collection, introducing them to the public for the first time. The Stebbins Collection: A Gift for the Morse Museum consists of seventy paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by fifty-three artists across three museum galleries. The exhibition has been organized much in the same way the works were presented in the Stebbinses home. Rather than being arranged chronologically, by genre, or by medium, the works ... More | | 
Depicting the Queen seated on an ornamented throne holding an orb and sceptre on one side and the Royal arms in the centre of a Tudor rose on the other, this coin is one of only eight known to exist, and sold for £173,600 against an estimate of £60,000-80,000 [lot 1].
LONDON.- An impressive single-owner collection of 33 Sovereigns from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I sold for £1,640,520* against a pre-sale estimate of £800,000 at international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists Dix Noonan Webb, today (Wednesday, November 17, 2021). The George Holloway Collection of Fine Sovereigns of Elizabeth I was 100% sold and comprised 33 examples of the largest coin produced during Elizabeths reign and the collection is is thought to be about a tenth of the total number of specimens still in existence. Mr Holloway, who lived in the East Midlands, collected these coins over a 60-year period and the collection was sold by his family. As Peter Preston-Morley, Head of Coin Department at Dix Noonan Webb, commented: "The sale was a ... More | | 
Quentin Tarantino, right, and Uma Thurman, , a star of Pulp Fiction, at the National Board of Review annual awards gala at Cipriani 42nd Street, New York, Jan. 8, 2020. Krista Schlueter/The New York Times.
by Johnny Diaz
NEW YORK, NY.- The Hollywood studio Miramax filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing director Quentin Tarantino of copyright infringement for his plans to sell nonfungible tokens based on the screenplay for his 1994 movie Pulp Fiction. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, also accused Tarantino of breach of contract, trademark infringement and unfair competition, according to court documents. The director announced the sale of the NFTs blockchain-based collectibles whose popularity is currently booming at an annual crypto-art event in New York this month. Im excited to be presenting these exclusive scenes from Pulp Fiction to fans, Tarantino said in a news release, adding that the goal was to auction a collection of ... More |
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 Dave Frishberg, writer of songs sardonic and nostalgic, dies at 88NEW YORK, NY.- Dave Frishberg, a jazz songwriter whose sardonic wit as a lyricist and melodic cleverness as a composer placed him in the top echelon of his craft, died Wednesday in Portland, Oregon. He was 88. His wife, April Magnusson, confirmed the death. Frishberg, who also played piano and sang, was an anomaly, if not an anachronism, in American popular music: an accomplished, unregenerate jazz pianist who managed to outrun the eras of rock, soul, disco, punk and hip-hop by writing hyperliterate songs that harked back to Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer, by way of Stephen Sondheim. His songwriting wit was for grown-ups, yet he reached his widest audience with sharpshooting ditties for kids as a regular musical contributor to ABCs long-running Saturday morning television show Schoolhouse Rock! Merely being aware ... More  'The Antelope Party' review: Friendship is magic, with exceptionsNEW YORK, NY.- Eric John Meyers The Antelope Party, a presentation of the Dutch Kills Theater Company that had its New York premiere recently at the Wild Project, uses a classic movie thriller structure to explore the potential real-world dangers of wish-fulfillment fantasy groups. But is the kind of harm that befalls the Rust Belt Bronies Meet Up Group for Adult Fans of My Little Pony unique, or can it happen to any collective? These bronies and pegasisters as adult fans of the franchise are known gather regularly with the hushed secrecy of political subversives at the Western Pennsylvania home of their genial host, Ben (Edward Mawere), some time in the 2010s. Those who have answered Bens online call for a role-playing game include Maggie (Lindsley Howard), a young woman who lives with her protective father; the aloof 20-or-30-somethings ... More  Jason Mott wins National Book Award for 'Hell of a Book'NEW YORK, NY.- Jason Mott won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday for his novel Hell of a Book, an account of a Black authors book tour intertwined with one focused on a Black boy in the rural South and a third character, The Kid, who may be imaginary. Mott, who said that his agent had picked his work out of the unsolicited slush pile 10 years ago, is a poet and the author of three novels in addition to Hell of a Book. I would like to dedicate this award to all the other mad kids, to all the outsiders, the weirdos, the bullied, he said in his speech. The ones so strange they had no choice but to be misunderstood by the world and by those around them. The ones who, in spite of this, refuse to outgrow their imagination, refuse to abandon their dreams and refuse to deny, diminish their identity, or their truth, or their loves, unlike ... More  Young Dolph, promising Memphis rapper, shot and killed at 36NEW YORK, NY.- Young Dolph, a deeply skilled Memphis rapper with deadpan bravado and a fierce independent streak who emerged as one of hip-hops most promising new stars in recent years, was killed Wednesday in a shooting in his hometown. He was 36. The news, which had been reported by Fox 13 Memphis, was confirmed by the mayor of Memphis, Jim Strickland, who wrote on Twitter, The tragic shooting death of rap artist Young Dolph serves as another reminder of the pain that violent crime brings with it. Strickland added, To honor all victims of violent crime, I ask for calm in our city to allow the Memphis Police Department to do their duty to capture those responsible. The Memphis Police Department said a fatal shooting occurred at 2370 Airways Boulevard, the site of Makedas Homemade Butter Cookies, a bakery that Young Dolph had ... More  'Diana, the Musical' review: Exploiting the people's princessNEW YORK, NY.- "Was there ever a greater tabloid tale? Sung by a pack of slithering paparazzi amid an explosion of flashbulbs, so begins Diana, the Musical, which seems to exist to answer the question. Digging deep into the celebrity-bio-musical barrel, there to squabble for preeminence with pop divas and Jersey boys, it may well win the prize as the tawdriest and least excusable wholesaling of a supposedly true story ever to belt its way to Broadway. I doubt that was the intention behind the show, which opened on Wednesday at the Longacre Theater after somehow surviving two disasters: the pandemic, which knocked it down in March 2020; and a filmed version for Netflix (the years most hysterically awful hate-watch, wrote The Guardian) that did much the same thing earlier this fall. Still, its worth asking, as the poor womans corpse is forced ... More  Five university art museums acquire artwork from the collection of Souls Grown DeepATLANTA, GA.- Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership announced today that the Blanton Museum of Art (The University of Texas at Austin), Hampton University Museum, Hood Museum of Art (Dartmouth College), Princeton University Art Museum, and RISD Museum have made acquisitions from its collection of artworks by Black artists from the Southern United States, including Mary Lee Bendolph, Sally Mae Pettway Mixon, Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, and Purvis Young. The Hampton, Hood, Princeton, and RISD museums will also partner with the Foundation to offer paid internships to BIPOC undergraduate students for the Spring 2022 semester, marking the fourth cohort of the Foundation's Internship Grant Program. With these acquisitions, Souls Grown Deep has now placed over 500 works by more ... More  Up, up and away: The trippy tales behind 'Flying Over Sunset'NEW YORK, NY.- When James Lapine read an excerpt from Sylvia Jukes Morris masterly biography of Clare Boothe Luce, he saw the makings of a play. Dubbed The Woman of the Century during her illustrious lifetime, the complicated Luce had been a socialite, a madly accomplished writer (The Women), the ambassador to Italy, a Republican member of Congress, and the wife of Henry Luce, the founder of Time, Life and Fortune magazines. Though she died in 1987 and is likely remembered by very few, a surprising bit of her history was enough to grab Lapines attention and somewhat circuitously get him to the Vivian Beaumont Theater, where his new, risky and idiosyncratic musical Flying Over Sunset is in previews for a Dec. 13 opening at Lincoln Center Theater. Under the guidance of her friend, the writer and spiritualist Gerald Heard, ... More  Yannick Nézet-Séguin is now New York's conductorNEW YORK, NY.- The set for Porgy and Bess had been pushed to the back of the Metropolitan Operas stage on a recent Wednesday morning, and in front, lines of chairs and music stands had been set up. The companys orchestra and chorus were coming together for the first time with the cast of Eurydice a recent adaptation of Sarah Ruhls wistful play, with music by Matthew Aucoin to run through the score in whats known as a sitzprobe. Inside the vast and almost empty Met auditorium, Peter Gelb, the companys general manager, typed on his laptop near the back of the theater. Ruhl was in the house; Mary Zimmerman, the director of the production, which opens on Tuesday, watched, too. Aucoin dashed around, listening for balances. At breaks, he rushed down the aisle to the pit to confer with the leader of any sitzprobe: the conductor. ... More  The little lad? Berries and cream? Call it performance art.NEW YORK, NY.- The tale of the Little Lad is a yarn only the internet could spin. In 2007, performance artist Jack Ferver appeared in a cunningly strange commercial for Berries and Cream Starburst candy, playing a Little Lad in antique garb who sang and danced about his love for berries and cream. The screwball absurdity of the spot and an accompanying dance tutorial, in which the Lad paid tribute to his late mummy seemed to scratch a specific itch. Both videos became early viral hits online. Fourteen years and many iterations of social media culture later, podcaster and comedian Justin McElroy uploaded a clip of the berries and cream song and dance to TikTok, where mining 2000s nostalgia had become a trope. You dont want to get too hyperbolic about a 30-second commercial, but Jack as the Little Lad is both hysterical ... More  The Meters' Leo Nocentelli gets a solo career, 50 years lateNEW YORK, NY.- Leo Nocentelli decided to record a solo album just once, in the early 1970s. Though he was the guitarist and primary songwriter of the Meters the epochal house band of New Orleans funk he had a different palette in mind for his own LP: James Taylor and Elton John. He made Another Side, what he has referred to as his country-and-western album, and then it disappeared. I completely forgot about it, Nocentelli, 75, said on a video call, wearing a newsboy cap and shades at his home in New Orleans, noting that he didnt even have a copy of the record. It was like a distant memory. I didnt remember the songs. The quarter-inch master tapes of Another Side, out Friday in various formats after a 50-year delay, sat unreleased in storage for decades at Allen Toussaints Sea-Saint Recording Studio in New Orleans. When Hurricane ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American clothing designer Calvin Klein was born November 19, 1942. Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer of Hungarian origin who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc., in 1968. In addition to clothing, Klein has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewelry. In this image: Fashion designer Calvin Klein is seen in New York, June 28, 1983.
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