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On August 29th, while researching a work by Cortès, Howard Rehs, of Rehs Galleries, Inc., New York, came across an image from the UK gallery. Intrigued, he clicked on it and discovered several photos of the painting they had for sale, including a verso shot displaying a five-digit inventory number. The number caught his attention, triggering a sense of familiarity. Upon cross-referencing their records related to the Arnot theft, he confirmed that the same number was listed. Photo: Courtesy of Art Recovery International, LLC.
NEW YORK, NY.- Art Recovery International announced the recovery of a stolen painting by Edouard-Leon Cortés, one of 3000 paintings stolen from the Herbert Arnot Gallery in New York City over a 12-year period in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966, Louis Edelman, gallery manager and salesman for the Arnot Gallery at 250 West 57th Street, decided to leave his job there to open his own gallery nearby. It was later discovered that during his tenure, Edelman was selling the Arnot Gallery's paintings and invoicing buyers in his own name. By the time he was done, Edelman had absconded with over 3000 artworks worth over $1M from his employer. The thief was eventually arrested in Chicago by the FBI and convicted of transporting stolen artworks across state lines, a federal crime. While Edelman was sentenced to two years in prison and given a $10,000 fine, most of the 3000 paintings were never recovered. Edelman sold most of the paintings in Chicago, Kansa ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Haegue Yang, Chained Half Moon - Trustworthy #258, 2015. Installationsvy från utställningen Haegue Yang: Several Reenactments, S.M.A.K., Ghent, 2023. Med konstnärens tillstånd. Foto: Martin Corlazzoli.
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| Gagosian announces thematic group exhibition in collaboration with Jeffrey Deitch | | Is this the world's highest-grossing photograph? | | Edward S. Curtis's seminal The North American Indian stole the show in two days of Fine Books and Manuscript auctions |
Urs Fischer, Dew, 2023, Aluminum composite panel, aluminum honeycomb, polyurethane adhesive, epoxy primer, gesso, solvent-based screen printing paint, and water-based screen printing paint, 96 x 76 3/4 inches (243.8 x 194.9 cm) URS FISCHER Dew, 2023. Aluminum composite panel, aluminum honeycomb, polyurethane adhesive, epoxy primer, gesso, solvent-based screen printing paint, and water-based screen printing paint 96 x 76 3/4 inches (243.8 x 194.9 cm) © Urs Fischer. Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian
MIAMI,FL.- Forms, the eighth annual thematic group exhibition presented jointly by Jeffrey Deitch and Gagosian during Art Basel Miami Beach, will open at 35 Northeast 40th Street, in Miamis Design District, on December 5. The dominant narrative of modern art has focused largely on a swing between the stylistic oppositions of figuration and abstraction. Forms explores alternatives to these paired categories through works that investigate how objects ... More | |
Ogden Gigli with a print of Girls in the Window, taken by his father Ormond Gigli, in his photo studio in Pittsfield, Mass., on Nov. 16, 2023. (Kristen TomkowidThe New York Times)
by David Segal
NEW YORK, NY.- Standing on a second-story fire escape, a photographer named Ormond Gigli is shouting instructions through a bullhorn. Forty models are posing in the window frames of brownstones across East 58th Street on Manhattans Upper East Side, a menagerie of colorful dresses and evening gowns. Two more women stand on the sidewalk, next to a silver Rolls-Royce. It is the summer of 1960, and Gigli is in a rush. Demolition on the brownstones has already begun thats why theres no glass in those windows and the day after the shoot, the buildings will be razed. But the demolition supervisor has agreed to let Gigli commandeer the place for two hours during an extended lunch break, under one condition: The supervisor ... More | |
Plate CCCXI, an engraving of the American white pelican (lot 367), which sold for $88,200.
CHICAGO, IL.- A complete copy of Edward S. Curtiss seminal The North American Indian, arguably the most complete ethnographic record of the native peoples of North America ever assembled, stole the show in two days of Fine Books & Manuscript auctions at Hindman on November 9 and 10. The Curtis was the top lot of the single-owner Fine Books from the Dorros Family Collection auction on November 9, which saw a sales total of $1.5 million. Combined with the various-owner Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana auction on the following day, the Chicago auction house achieved $2.4 million during the back-to-back sales. Our entire team is incredibly proud of these two days of auctions, said Gretchen Hause, Hindmans Vice President and Director of Books & Manuscripts. It was an honor to handle Dr. Dorross collection, which included highlights from broad range of collecting ... More |
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| Hall is suing Oates. Over what is a mystery. | | AGSA acquires celebrated and influential British artist Chris Ofili painting, The Swing | | Bob Contant, dedicated bohemian bookseller, dies at 80 |
Daryl Hall, left, and John Oates, of Hall & Oates, accept their award during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Barclays Center in New York, April 10, 2014. (Richard Perry/The New York Times)
by Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK, NY.- With a string of No. 1 hits like Rich Girl, Maneater and Shes Gone in the 1970s and 80s, followed by a more recent cultural resurgence, Daryl Hall and John Oates have long been one of pop musics most celebrated duos. But over the decades, there have been hints that things were not entirely copacetic between the two men whose names are almost always uttered in sequence. (Oates is the one with the famous mustache.) In the 80s the group went on hiatus, and both members have at times pursued solo work. In 2020, they announced plans for a 19th studio album, but it never came to fruition; this year, the musicians performed separate tours. Now, the discord is undeniable as Hall, 77, has filed a lawsuit in Nashville, Tennessee, against Oates, 75, the partner with whom he was inducted into the Rock ... More | |
Chris Ofili, The Swing, 2020-2023. Oil and charcoal on linen 310.0 x 200.0 cm © Chris Ofili, courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro. Photo: Jack Hems The Swing acquired by the generosity of the James and Diana Ramsay Fund 2023 for the Art Gallery of South Australia.
ADELAIDE.- In an Australian first, the Art Gallery of South Australia today unveils a major new acquisition, a painting titled The Swing, 2020-23, by one of the most renowned and influential living British painters Chris Ofili thanks to the generosity of the visionary cultural philanthropists James and Diana Ramsay. All works of art that enter AGSAs collection are 100% supported via philanthropy, gifts, or fundraising. Made possible through the James and Diana Ramsay Fund, this acquisition exemplifies the extraordinary power of private generosity, and is a gift to all South Australians and our visitors. This ambitious acquisition dramatically expands the Gallerys holdings of Ofilis work given that it was already the first public gallery in Australia to acquire the artists work in 2008 with a suite of prints, entitled Black Kiss, 2006. AGSA Director, Rhana Devenport ONZM, ... More | |
From left, Bob Contant and Terry McCoy, owners of St. Marks Bookshop in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, on Sept. 15, 2011. (Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times).
NEW YORK, NY.- Bob Contant, who stubbornly sustained his countercultural bookshop for nearly four decades, even as it decamped farther and farther from its punk-rock playground on St. Marks Place in the East Village while the demand in that gentrifying neighborhood for titles on poststructuralist philosophy and critical theory dwindled, died on Nov. 6 at his home in Manhattan. He was 80. His wife, Marilyn Berkman, a poet, said the cause was complications of COVID. A career bookseller, Contant opened the St. Marks Bookshop in a storefront on St. Marks Place with three partners in 1977. It became a magnet for a wide range of authors and artists, among them Susan Sontag, Richard Howard, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Thurston Moore, Madonna and William S. Burroughs (who was drawn to the shop every Saturday to buy science fiction books and, Contant once said, because he had a crush on one of the employees). Contant was the principal owner and buyer for the shop, which, ... More |
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| Ketterer Kunst to offer Richter's first and Palermo's last work | | Heritage's December arms & armor event honors the Americans who flew for France in World War I, the Lafayette Escadrille | | Haegue Yang's ambitious sculptural ensembles take centre stage at HAM's exhibition halls |
Gerhard Richter, Alster (Hamburg) 1963 (detail).
MUNICH.- In terms of sales volume, the autumn auction at Ketterer Kunst on December 8/9 is Germanys biggest art auction. In the Evening Sale alone, almost 90% of the 78 works on offer are in 6-figure price realms or above. In addition to internationally sought-after artists of museum quality, works from renowned collections and top lots with interesting provenances will be called up. We expect a very strong autumn auction, as the current demand for top quality art remains at peak level. A quality range of offers like this is rare on the art market. It has always been our goal and the guarantee for our success. Along with a global visibility realized through a sophisticated marketing strategy, it is what our clients value the most. We have recently been entrusted with outstanding works of art from international collections. Said Robert Ketterer, auctioneer and owner of Ketterer Kunst, at a press conference in Munich ... More | |
Lafayette Flying Corps: Horizon Blue French Aviator's Uniform Jacket Belonging to Rufus R. Rand, Jr. [With:] Original Two-Volume Set of The Lafayette Flying Corps by James Norman Hall and Charles Bernard Nordhoff.
DALLAS, TX.- History offers myriad reasons why young Americans rushed to France upon the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, just as President Woodrow Wilson was insisting that "the United States must remain neutral in fact as well as in name during these days that try men's souls." Among their ranks were wealthy prep schoolers, farm boys and thrill-seekers on quests for adventure something to fulfill what fighter pilot-turned-filmmaker William Wellman later called "the sporting instinct." There were the restless, the lost, the curious, boys not yet quite men escaping bad jobs and broken homes, lured by the romanticism of battle on faraway shores. Yet despite their disparate backgrounds, all were seemingly bound by a single thread: "They felt a moral obligation to fight ... More | |
Haegue Yang. Photo: HAM Helsingfors konstmuseum / Sonja Hyytiäinen.
HELSINKI.- HAM Helsinki Art Museum is presenting Haegue Yangs first solo exhibition in Finland. Occupying HAMs two main exhibition halls, Continuous Reenactments offers a profound insight into Yangs prolific and virtuosic works until April 7, 2024. Dividing her time between Germany and Korea since the mid-1990s, Haegue Yang (Seoul, 1971) has been gathering inspiration from a wide range of social, historical, and cultural environments. Her relentless curiosity has led to philosophical inquiries into diverse fields, including socio-political narratives, scientific phenomena, and anthropological perspectives, positioning her at the forefront of the contemporary art world today. Yang is renowned for her labour-intensive, yet unrestricted craft-based methods drawn from various folk traditions, ... More |
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| Mark Purllant awarded BADA Art Prize 2023 | | Adrian Paci's ninth solo exhibition with kaufmann repetto opens today | | Casey Kaplan representing Amanda Williams & Art Basel Miami Beach 2023 |
Mark Purllant with BADA Chairman Louise Phillips.
LONDON.- BADA (The British Antique Dealers Association) is delighted to announce that visual artist Mark Purllant is the winner of the BADA Art Prize 2023. Launched in 2021, the BADA Art Prize seeks to promote the antiques of tomorrow by awarding a grant to an emerging contemporary artist whose work exemplifies the enduring ingenuity and quality illustrated by our members objects. The competition was stronger than ever this year with well over 200 exceptional works, in a wide variety of mediums, submitted for consideration. The esteemed judging panel included world-renowned artist Sir Anish Kapoor CBE, President of the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art Alain Dominique Perrin, TV host, pianist and bandleader Jools Holland OBE, and celebrated Scottish sculptor Philip Jackson CVO. Mark Purllants winning entry, entitled Freedom, is an oil painting in sculpture, utilising carved and steam bent ... More | |
Adrian Paci, Dancers, 2023. (detail)
MILAN.- kaufmann repetto is opening Dancers and Mourners, Adrian Pacis ninth solo exhibition with the gallery. The artist presents a new body of work on canvas, resulting from his ongoing research around the spiritual, the ritual and the collective act of celebration, portrayed through the lens of found footage, amateur videos and authorial cinema. Adrian Pacis multi-media practice stems from training as a painter at the Art Academy of Tirana in the early 1990s. Gaining popularity through videos such as Albanian Stories (1997) - his work was represented at the Albanian pavilion, 48th Venice Biennale in 1999 and at Manifesta in 2000 - over the years Paci developed a very personal approach to painting. While fluctuating between a variety of mediums, he has always described himself as a painter who makes videos and other things. For Paci, the use of existing images as subjects of his paintings becomes an occasion to analyze the withdrawal of subjective ... More | |
Amanda Williams, What black is this you say? "A west side imma snatch-yo-edges-back-with-a-hand-gesture black"black (08.27.2020), v1, 2023, Oil, mixed media on wood panel, 60 x 60 x 2.5" / 152.4 x 152.4 x 6.3cm. Photo: Jacob Hand
NEW YORK, NY.- Casey Kaplan announced representation of Amanda Williams. Amanda Williams (b. 1974, Evanston, IL) deconstructs the physical and psychological systems of inequity associated with race. Informed by her architectural background, Williams command of space shapes her meditations on race, color and value. Drawing from an array of source material and using color as an operative logic to interpret the elusive meaning of blackness, Williams complicates readings of our spatial surroundings. With a multidisciplinary practice that spans painting, works on paper, photography, sculpture and installation, Williams communicates through a chromatic language of abstract and material means. Historically discriminatory spatial policies have left a deep-seated imprint ... More |
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New and previously unseen paintings, sculptures and works on paper in group show at Stephen Friedman Gallery
LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery presents 'The Place I Am', a group show celebrating its gallery artists and the breadth of the programme. Bringing together new and previously unseen paintings, sculptures and works on paper, the exhibition takes its name from Peter Bennets eponymous poem, which examines the link between identity and sense of place. Artists include Mamma Andersson; Juan Araujo; Tonico Lemos Auad; Leilah Babirye; Jonathan Baldock; Stephan Balkenhol; Sarah Ball; Claire Barclay; Caroline Coon; Melvin Edwards; Andreas Eriksson; Manuel Espinosa; Denzil Forrester; Tom Friedman; Kendell Geers; Sky Glabush; Pam Glick; Jeffrey Gibson; Wayne Gonzales; Hulda Guzmán; ... More
Explore Seattle's rowing legacy at the museum of history and industry's 'Pulling Together' exhibit
SEATTLE, WA.- Experience Pulling Together: A Brief History of Rowing in Seattle on view at the Museum of History & Industry in celebration of the anticipated premiere of The Boys in the Boat film directed by George Clooney, visitors are invited to explore a selection of rare artifacts and photographs from the 1936 Olympic Gold medalist rowing team from the University of Washington, as well as the history of rowing in Seattle. To mark the opening of Pulling Together, MOHAI has organized an opening day celebration today including a panel discussion with former Seattle-based Olympic rowing medalists, screenings of the critically acclaimed American Experience documentary film, The Boys of '36, courtesy of KCTS 9 and a special Pop-Up-Shop at the MOHAI Mercantile featuring a wide-range of rowing-themed merchandise. "Rowing is part ... More
Museum of the Moving Image will celebrate Todd Haynes with 2023 Moving Image Award for Career Achievement
ASTORIA, NY.- Todd Haynes has been a cornerstone of the American independent film world since the early 1990s and remains one of the groundbreaking artists of our time. Museum of the Moving Image will celebrate Haynes throughout December with a comprehensive film retrospective and honor him with the 2023 Moving Image Award for Career Achievement at its winter benefit event on December 4. Prior to that, MoMI is now opening the exhibit Reflected Forms: Story and Character in the Films of Todd Haynes. Copies of MoMIs new book Todd Haynes: Rapturous Process will be on sale starting November 24. The Museums multifaceted Haynes programming coincided with the release ... More
Mid-Americana Gallery Auction serves up a visual feast of folk and outsider art at Soulis Auctions
LONE JACK, MO.- In September 2020, Soulis Auctions of suburban Kansas City knocked down record prices at their headline-making sale of the Richard and Valerie Tucker collection of carnival shooting gallery targets. The collection was notable for two reasons: it was arguably the finest of its type; and it triumphed in spite of being auctioned in the midst of the COVID pandemic. Offered alongside premier folk art, weathervanes, primitives and quirky handmade objects, the arcade targets found a cozy niche in which to reside. In so doing, they added a vibrant finishing touch to a formula Soulis would refine to perfection in subsequent Mid-Americana Gallery Auctions, the next of which is slated for Sunday, December 10. The pre-Christmas lineup includes so many tempting categories, the only way to uncover all of its hidden treasure ... More
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education announces appointment of new executive director
PORTLAND, OR.- After a six month national search, OJMCHE Board President Liz Lippoff announced that the board has finalized the appointment of Rebekah Sobel as the museum's new executive director. "Our search committee, headed by Immediate Past President Jeff Mazer, has worked tirelessly with a national search firm to find a candidate with the qualifications, experience, and passion to lead the museum," said Board President Liz Lippoff. "We could not be more pleased that Rebekah will be joining the OJMCHE community. She has a deep knowledge of collections management, enhancing visitors' learning experience, and strategic planning. This background is coupled with an education steeped ... More
Octavia Art Gallery will soon be opening 'Carmen Almon: The Botany of Desire'
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Botany of Desire is the title of a book by Michael Pollan, a favorite of mine, hence the title of this show. It puts forward the idea of a plant evolving according to its own particular desire to survive, attract and reproduce. I try to follow various of these botanical pathways towards the sun, defying gravity. My plants always have hints of decay, but always a strong will to live. Insects are ever present in my plants, not only because of their interdependence, but also in order to capture a moment in the eternal cycle of life and death.In all cultures, flowers are always there at significant events of celebration and mourning but often, we dont really see them as individuals. -Carmen Almon. In her latest sculpture collection, "Botany of Desire," Carmen Almon once again transports us into her extraordinary world, her extraordinary ... More
'Buena Vista Social Club,' a story of second chances, gets one more
NEW YORK, NY.- It was an improvisation to begin with. In 1996, a recording session was scheduled in Havana combining Cuban and Malian musicians, but the Africans had visa trouble and didnt arrive. So instead, an assemblage of veteran Cuban musicians, some coming out of long retirement, recorded a collection of classic Cuban songs. This was Buena Vista Social Club, which became not just the bestselling Cuban album ever but also a defining artifact of Cuban culture beloved around the world. More albums followed: outtakes, offshoots, live recordings of performances like the one at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Wim Wenders made a documentary film. And now, almost 30 years later, there is a stage musical: Buena Vista Social Club, in previews at the off-Broadway Atlantic Theater Company. This newest project started ... More
Theater to see in NYC this holiday season
NEW YORK, NY.- The holiday season is upon us, which means its an excellent time for theatergoers to pack into cozy venues for a feast of the eyes. Our critics have selected a handful of options for tourists and locals looking to catch up on Broadway and off-Broadway shows this holiday season. And weve included some other choices as well. For those who prefer to be entertained from home, the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade this year will feature performances by Broadway shows like & Juliet, Back to the Future: The Musical, How to Dance in Ohio, Shucked and Spamalot, along with an appearance by Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells of Gutenberg! The Musical! Other theater-related streaming options include Dicks: The Musical, with Nathan Lane, and the 2015 documentary that the How to Dance in Ohio musical is based ... More
At 40, J. Crew shakes off a midlife crisis
NEW YORK, NY.- Twenty-two stories above the palm-tree-studded court of the Brookfield Place mall in New Yorks Battery Park City, the creative director of J. Crew menswear, Brendon Babenzien, was dressed for work on a sunny October morning in a chambray shirt and jeans, topped by a Shetland wool cardigan. Bedecked with rows of pastel pink roses, blue daisies and purple irises, this tea cozy of a garment would have looked at home on Mrs. Doubtfire. On a founding father of fashions streetwear era who, its worth noting, designed the sweater not for his day job at J. Crew, but rather for his own label, Noah it read as intended: ironic, a little subversive. Very secure in its coolness. This was a garment that, in many ways, retailer Arthur Cinader could never have prognosticated back in 1983 when he founded J. Crew. At ... More
Buddy Holly poster and Jimmy Buffett painting steal the show in Heritage's $2 million music memorabilia event
DALLAS, TX.- Over three days and more than 700 lots of rich music history, Heritage Auctions realized nearly $2.1 million in a wide-ranging music memorabilia event that was led in part by some of America's most beloved musicians. The sale brimmed with significant concert posters, rare vinyl, a collection of personal items from the Grateful Dead's late co-founder Jerry Garcia, and a unique portrait painting of the king of parrotheads, Jimmy Buffett. Top honors in the event go to a 1959 concert poster that marks Buddy Holly & the Crickets' next-to-last performance and the band's last performance for which a poster was made. The historic "Winter Dance Party" poster, which sold for $250,000 last Sunday, ... More
Heritage Auctions announces 'Celebrating 100 Years of Disney! (1923-2023) Part II Signature Auction'
DALLAS, TX.- "Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive." -Walt Disney The long-range impact of Walt Disney's vision has shaped history. From technological breakthroughs in sight and sound to how we tell and understand stories, from care in the smallest detail to the pleasure of grand spectacle, one of the most popular and enduring of all American institutions is responsible for the modern world's relationship with entertainment. Throughout 2023 the Walt Disney Company's 100th anniversary has been underway the world over. In June, Heritage celebrated this centennial, as well as its successful ongoing relationship with Disney's glorious history, with a generous and wide-ranging auction that brought in nearly $5 million. Now it follows that record-setting event with a long-awaited follow-up: Celebrating ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born November 24, 1864. Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 - 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an Åuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times. In this image: A man passes in front of two posters by French artist Toulouse Lautrec, belonging to Brussels' Musée d'Ixelles, which were shown for the first time in Spain under the title 'Toulouse Lautrec. The origin of the modern poster', at Valencian Museum of Illustration and Modernity, in Valencia, eastern Spain, Thursday 29 September 2005.
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