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Liubov Popova's 1918 "Painterly Architectonic," right, displayed beside a fake version in the exhibition "Russian Avant-Garde at the Museum Ludwig: Original and Fake" in Cologne, Germany, Sept. 25, 2020. The German institution found that many of its Russian avant-garde paintings werent genuine. The new exhibition puts those works front and center, despite protests from the gallery that sold some of the works. Albrecht Fuchs/The New York Times.
by Catherine Hickley
COLOGNE (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Museums dont usually advertise fakes in their collections. But the Museum Ludwig here is exposing them to public scrutiny in a taboo-breaking new exhibition. The paintings on show in Russian Avant-Garde at the Museum Ludwig: Original and Fake are all ostensibly by artists from that radical movement of the early 20th century. Yet displayed alongside bona fide works by renowned artists like Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko and Natalia Goncharova are paintings whose previous attributions museum researchers now reject. A tide of fakes has polluted this corner of the art market for decades, and the exhibition sheds new light on the pitfalls of buying, selling and collecting Russian avant-garde art. The museum, founded by an endowment from the chocolate magnate Peter Ludwig in the 1970s, is known for holding one of the largest collections of Russian avant-garde art in Western Europe. Ludwig and his wife, Irene, were avid collectors of the style, and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A man takes his own photograph in front of an art installation outside the Asian Civilisation Museum in Singapore on September 30, 2020. Roslan RAHMAN / AFP
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 | | Frick plans two-year stay during mansion redo | | Harvard Art Museums receive significant gift of German drawings and prints | | Whitney Biennial postponed until 2022 | 
The Frick Collection in New York, June 23, 2018. Emon Hassan/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the past, you might have seen Velázquez in a corner of the West Gallery, the Goyas in the East Gallery, and St. Jerome over the fireplace in the central Living Hall. But in the Breuer building on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, all of the Frick Collections Spanish holdings will hang together. This is one of the new ways announced Wednesday that the Fricks collection of paintings, sculptures, works on paper and decorative arts will be presented when the museum moves into its temporary home in the Breuer, which it is calling Frick Madison, early next year. The Fricks two-year tenure in the Breuer the 1966 Brutalist building owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art and recently occupied by the Metropolitan Museum of Art will allow it to continue exhibitions while its 1914 Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue undergoes renovation. Were taking advantage of a totally different space, Ian Wardropper, the Fricks director, s ... More | | 
Georg Baselitz, Untitled, 1967. Black and red chalk and graphite on paper. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Dorette Hildebrand-Staab, 2020.100. Artwork © Georg Baselitz. Photo: Lynette Roth; © President and Fellows of Harvard College.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The Harvard Art Museums announced an extraordinary gift of nearly 50 works by major figures in postwar German art from the collector Dorette Hildebrand-Staab, a member of the German Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum. The works include drawings by such notable artists as Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Antonius Höckelmann, Jörg Immendorff, Imi Knoebel, Sigmar Polke, and Eugen Schönebeck, as well as a suite of prints and multiples by these and other artists such as Hanne Darboven, A. R. Penck, and Dieter Roth. Dating roughly from the 1950s to 1980s, these works were made when many of these now-renowned artists were students at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin or the Düsseldorf Art Academy. In addition to the postwar works, a selection of late 18th- to early 19th-century etchings by German printmaker Carl Wilhelm Kolbe are also part of the gift. Dr. Hildebrand-Staab often purchased works directly from art ... More | | 
The Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan, March 5, 2020. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Whitney Biennial that was scheduled for spring 2021 has been postponed for a year, the museum said Thursday, months after the pandemic interrupted its exhibition schedule and cast a long shadow of uncertainty. Every two years, the Biennial takes over much of the Whitney Museum of American Art with a survey meant to reflect that social, political and cultural moment. But the museum, which was closed to the public for nearly six months, was forced to reassess, said Scott Rothkopf, the Whitneys senior deputy director and chief curator. Another reason for the postponement, he said: The Biennial curators heard from artists that the pandemic had stymied their work, limiting access to studio space and tools that they needed to make their art. We wanted to make sure artists had the space and time they needed to do their best work, Rothkopf said. The Biennial is now slated for April through August of 2022. Organizing the ... More |
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| | The incredible whiteness of the museum fashion collection | | Sotheby's to open new gallery in Palm Beach this November | | Sotheby's Dear Keith Auction 100% sold, soars to $4.6M | 
Christine Checinska, the first curator of African and African diaspora fashion at the Victoria & Albert, the largest applied and decorative arts museum in the world, in London, Sept. 26, 2020. Lauren Fleishman/The New York Times.
by Vanessa Friedman
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It would have been one of the most glamorous events of Paris Fashion Week. On Thursday, the Palais Galliera, the Paris fashion museum, is scheduled to reopen after a two-year and almost $10 million renovation with the blockbuster exhibition Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto, the first Paris retrospective of the designers work (hard as that may be to believe). There would have been a big party. There would have been Champagne and much swanning around. There would have been a lot of Chanel and Chanel-adjacent celebrities. Now, of course, the evening has been canceled because of the pandemic. The museum will reopen by appointment, and quietly. Still, select guests will get to ooh and aah ... More | | 
A rendering of Sotheby's Palm Beach Gallery in Palm Beach at The Royal Poinciana Plaza, opening in November. Courtesy Sotheby's.
PALM BEACH, FLA.- Sothebys announced the opening of a new gallery location in Palm Beach this November. Located at The Royal Poinciana Plaza, Sothebys Palm Beach gallery will showcase a wide-ranging selection of fine art, design, jewelry, watches and luxury cars in a curated lifestyle setting, all available for immediate purchase and continuously rotated throughout the coming months. Select auction highlights will also travel to the space for preview, ahead of their respective sales. Sothebys Palm Beach will launch this fall at The Royal Poinciana Plaza alongside new spaces from Pace and Acquavella Galleries. David Schrader, Sothebys Global Head of Private Sales, commented: We are incredibly excited to be opening a new gallery space in Palm Beach. This historic city has always been a popular destination for our clients, and with many of them staying longer-term under present circumstances, were ... More | | 
Andy Warhols portrait of Haring with Juan Dubose raises $504,000 doubling its $250,000 high estimate. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nearly 450 bidders, 29 artist records and an average of 33 bids per lot drove Sothebys white-glove sale of Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring, which achieved an outstanding $4.6 million more than three times the sales $1.4 million high estimate. 100% of the lots on offer sold, and 94% of them achieved prices above high estimate, with most lots soaring exponentially beyond expectations. The dedicated online auction featured 140+ works of art and objects from Haring's personal collection, on offer from the Keith Haring Foundation an organization established by the artist shortly before his death in 1990 from HIV/AIDS-related causes. In keeping with the Keith Haring Foundations mission to sustain and expand the artists legacy of philanthropy, full proceeds from the auction will benefit The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of ... More |
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| | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts acquires major work by Virginia Jaramillo | | Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles opens "Restless Index" curated by Kelly Akashi and Cayetano Ferrer | | The Evolution of Helen Rae now on view at Tierra Del Sol Gallery | 
Virginia Jaramillo, Time Fractal, 1973 (detail). Collection of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced their recent acquisition of a painting by American artist Virginia Jaramillo: Time Fractal , 1973. Virginia Jaramillo (b.1939, El Paso, TX) spent her formative years in California and studied at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. When she began working in her Watts, Los Angeles studio in the early 1960s, her paintings were dominated by single textural plains of color inspired by the rough, cracked terrain seen in the southwest. Following the Watts riots in 1965, Jaramillo and her family moved to New York. Jaramillos Curvilinear painting series, created between the late 1960s and early 1970s, features large canvases, filled with vivid fields of color surrounding thin, contrasting and undulating lines. VMFAs newly acquired work, Time Fractal , is from this series and features two dark lines against a saturated red background. We are working diligently to reconstitute the ofte ... More | | 
Lisa Williamson, Body Board (Constellation), 2019. Acrylic, flashe, microbeads on powder-coat primed aluminum, 80 x 40 x 2 1/2 inches; 203.2 x 101.6 x 6.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles. Photo: Jeff Mclane.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Inadequacies of languagewhether legal, symbolic, written or visualare cast into stark relief during moments of social upheaval. Associations once normalized by cultural hegemonies are opened up into sites of contention. Canons, monuments and institutional mandates are called into question, histories reassessed, and so too are visual codes that derive from those histories. Within this condition of restlessness, artists continue to revise, reshape, adapt and recondition existing cultural forms by breaking them down to their structural foundations or rehabilitating semantic objects in states of entropy. Employing a diverse range of media and underlying intentions, the work of the seven artists presented in Restless Index represents a vision within a ... More | | 
Helen Rae, Untitled (February 13, 2020), 2020, 24 x18. Graphite and color pencil on paper.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Tierra Del Sol Gallery is presenting The Evolution of Helen Rae featuring 15 works that represent the ongoing development of Raes studio practice and confirms her status as an iconic contemporary artist. Helen Rae was over 50 years old when she joined the Tierra Del Sol Studio, a program which fosters creativity for the disabled, and 76 years old when she had her first solo show in 2015 at The Good Luck Gallery, which was founded by Paige Wery. Now director of the Tierra Del Sol Gallery, Wery is instrumental in putting Helen on the international map of galleries, collectors and museums. In an arc that has included ceramic masks, sculpture and watercolor, Rae is now known for her vibrant, highly patterned, color dense pencil and graphite drawings inspired from couture magazines. In The Evolution of Helen Rae, she continues with her muse, yet ... More |
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| | A haven for wildlife and city dwellers opens | | Museum of Contemporary Art Australia opens major exhibition by Australian artist Lindy Lee | | Lost Roerich masterpiece leads MacDougall's Russian Art Auction | 
Madelyn Wils, president and chief executive of the Hudson River Park Trust, at the new Pier 26 in Manhattan, Sept 20, 2020. Celeste Sloman/The New York Times.
by Laurel Graeber
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Expanding a park usually means modifying an existing landscape. The designers of Pier 26 faced a far more daunting challenge: creating an entirely new one in the swift current of the Hudson River. The results could be seen Wednesday afternoon, when the revamped pier opened. The latest addition to Hudson River Park in Manhattan, this 2.5-acre expanse is the citys only public pier dedicated to river ecology. Incorporating a lawn, a sports court and decks elevated more than 12 feet above the water, it exhibits indigenous plants and trees that hark back to when only Native Americans occupied what is now New York. But the piers most distinctive feature is a feat of 21st-century artifice: Because ... More | | 
Lindy Lee, Doctrine of the Golden Flower, 2003, inkjet print, synthetic polymer paint on paper mounted on board, 25 parts: 40.6 x 28.6 cm each, 204.2 x 142.8 x 28.6 cm overall, Collection of The University of Queensland, gift of Lindy Lee through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2013.
SYDNEY.- A major exhibition by leading Australian artist Lindy Lee is being presented at Sydneys Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Curated by the MCA Director Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, the exhibition is the most comprehensive survey of the artists to date, spanning early works to more recent large-scale installations and sculptures. The exhibition draws on three decades of Lindy Lees work showcasing painting, photography, sculpture, installation and public art in the MCA Level 3 Galleries. The show encompasses her early photocopy artworks and wax paintings that reflect on Western art history through to recent large-scale installations and sculptures inspired by Buddhist philosophies, as well as much-loved public artworks and ... More | | 
Nicholas Roerich, Pechory Monastery, Internal Exit from the Old Belfry (detail).
LONDON.- Nicholas Roerich's monumental painting Pechory Monastery, Internal Exit from the Old Belfry, considered lost for over 115 years, will appear at 15 October Russian art auction at MacDougall's. The re-emergence of this masterpiece is a truly significant event for the Russian art market. The work belongs to the famous "Architectural Series", created by the artist during his trips across Russia in 1903-1904, organized by the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of Arts. It was after these trips that Roerich notes "It is time for a Russian educated person to discover and fall in love with Russia". Since Roerich worked en plein air, most of the works he created during his travels are small sketches painted on plywood. The absolute uniqueness of Pechory Monastery. Internal Exit from the Old Belfry is that it is a large, fully accomplished oil painting on canvas. The work Pechory Monastery. Internal Exit from the Old Belfry is no ... More |
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 Heritage's Erté Art & Design Auction spotlights 80 years of artworkDALLAS, TX.- A suite of 26 serigraphs on paper depicting each letter in the English language by Russian-born French artist Erté is among the top draws in Heritage Auctions Erté Art & Design Online Auction Oct. 23. The auction will be Heritage Auctions second online auction dedicated to the art and design of Erté, one of the most prolific and iconic makers of the 20th century. The first, which was held in February 2020, amassed $163,751 in sales. So popular was the first sale, which included nearly 100 lots, that consignments have soared for the sequel: the October event includes 146 lots ranging from original and editioned works on paper to bronze sculptures to decorative objects. Our second Erté Art & Design auction builds on the momentum of our first, offering an even wider array of lots that each embody his elegant style Poiret and ... More MOCA Tucson announces the appointment of new Executive Director, Kate GreenTUCSON, AZ.- MOCA Tucson announced the appointment of Kate Green, Ph.D. as Executive Director. Green will officially begin her new role in October and will be responsible for upholding MOCAs mission to inspire new ways of thinking through the cultivation, exhibition, and interpretation of contemporary art. Coming to Tucson from the El Paso Museum of Art, Green will bring her extensive knowledge of border communities and the international art world to Arizona, and will have the baton passed to her by MOCAs Interim Director and Curator Laura Copelin, who will continue to serve the Museum in a curatorial capacity in 2021. Of her appointment, Green says: MOCA Tucson has a vibrant history with artists and local communities, and with its iconic building has long played an important role in the cultural landscape. I am thrilled to join the ... More Fontaine's Fine & Decorative Arts auction realizes $2.4 millionPITTSFIELD, MASS.- Items produced by Tiffany Studios are always a highlight at Fontaines fine and decorative arts auctions. Its September 12 auction was no exception with over 100 fine Tiffany pieces crossing the block. The expected highlight of the sale was a Tiffany Studios Oriental Poppy chandelier, which was consigned by a client from Maryland, who had inherited it decades earlier and finally decided to part with it. Sure enough, bidders were eagerly anticipating when that lot crossed the block, and it attracted multiple internet and phone bidders before landing at $665,500 with the buyers premium. It sold to a private collector who bid on the phone. This was just a good, strong sale overall that totaled $2.4M, and the star was this chandelier, which had such bold and beautiful coloring, from vibrant red-orange Oriental poppy flowers rising out of green ... More HOTA, Home of the Arts, unveils major earth installation GaiaSURFERS PARADISE.- Contemporary cultural precinct HOTA, Home of the Arts, has today unveiled the major internationally renowned installation Gaia, marking the first time the artwork has been presented on Australia's East Coast. From today until 11 October, Gaia will be open to the public for free day and night viewing, against the backdrop of the Gold Coast city skyline. Created by UK multidisciplinary artist Luke Jerram, Gaia measures seven metres in diameter and combines 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the Earths surface with specially made surround sound composition by BAFTA award winning composer Dan Jones. Gaia is the personification of the Earth in Greek Mythology and this major artwork provides visitors the opportunity to view our planet as if they were astronauts looking on from outer space. A rich and captivating eleven-day live ... More Nye & Company announces highlights included in the Estate Treasures auctionBLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers online-only Estate Treasures auction on Wednesday, October 14th, at 10 am Eastern time, will offer a variety of fine and decorative arts. Real time Internet bidding and absentee bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and the Nye & Company website: www.nyeandcompany.com. Telephone bidding will also be available on a limited basis. In accordance with the New Jersey State mandate, we cannot open our doors to the public, said Andrew Holter of Nye & Company Auctioneers. However, we plan to deliver clients a seamless online experience and will strive to deliver accurate condition reports and images for all items on offer. Well be closely monitoring our email account and all the bidding platforms. The auction is headlined by several contemporary collections, including ... More Doctors' coats turned into Covid-fighting art in PanamaPANAMA CITY (AFP).- Artist Genaro Rodriguez was so moved after being commissioned to turn a Covid-19 doctor's white coat into a piece of art that he likened the experience to "painting a superhero's cape." Rodriguez is one of 22 Panamanian artists asked to transform frontline health workers' lab coats into auction-ready artwork to raise money for anti-virus equipment in the Central American country. Using acrylic paints, Rodriquez worked geometric patterns in vivid colors on to the white cotton garment. "In my work, I use a lot of gray, but here I used the white that was already in the coat instead, because for me it carries a meaning of hope," he told AFP in Panama City. Each of the two dozen coats in the collection bears its doctor's nametag, which forms part of the final work. The lab coat Rodriguez painted belongs to Fulvia Vergara, head ... More 1916 World Series/Red Sox/Babe Ruth button sets world records at Hake's YORK, PA.- It wasnt the Fourth of July, but there were plenty of auction fireworks going off during Hakes September 23-24 auction of pop culture memorabilia, which realized $2.1 million. As experts had predicted, the only known 1916 World Series Championship button emblazoned with images of the winning Red Sox manager and players soared to the top of prices realized and, in so doing, set not one, but two world auction records. With a winning bid of $62,980, the oversize button featuring three future Hall of Famers, including then-21-year-old pitching and batting phenom Babe Ruth, became the most expensive button of any genre ever sold at auction, not to mention the highest-priced baseball button. It was the most coveted piece in the late Dr. Paul Muchinskys incredible baseball button collection and was pictured on the ... More Pantomime dames hit London streets to urge virus fundingLONDON (AFP).- Extravagantly dressed pantomime dames brought a dash of colour to central London on Wednesday to highlight the plight of the coronavirus-ravaged arts sector. Dozens of dames -- male actors in grand frocks and gaudy make-up who are a staple of Britain's historic holiday-time stage shows -- were among protesters who marched on parliament. They were calling for further funding from the government to save jobs after the 2020 panto season over Christmas and the New Year was cancelled due to the virus. Many theatres have had to remain closed because of difficulties enforcing social distancing rules, plunging many into debt and forcing staff to be laid off. "Without a pantomime season, theatres are essentially losing in some cases almost 40 percent of the revenue they need to spread out to do the great work that they do every ... More Exhibition highlights recent acquisition of works by Pennsylvania Impressionist Fern CoppedgeDOYLESTOWN, PA.- The Michener Art Museum is presenting Fern Coppedge: New Discoveries, on view from September 12, 2020-April 18, 2021. This exhibition highlights the Micheners recent acquisition of four winter landscapes by Pennsylvania Impressionist Fern Coppedge (1883-1951). Additionally, the public will get an in-depth look at the private life of the artist with the recent digitization of Coppedges scrapbooks from the Museums Library and Archives. To see this exhibition, visitors must purchase timed tickets in advance and follow all Museum guidelines for a safe visit. Were thrilled to add these vibrant paintings by Coppedge to our permanent collection and excited to share the new information weve uncovered about these works with visitors, remarks Laura Turner Igoe, Ph.D., Curator of American Art at the Michener Art Museum. ... More Albright-Knox hires Curatorial Fellow to focus on Marisol bequestBUFFALO, NY.- Today the Albright-Knox announced the appointment of Julia M. Vázquez for a two-year curatorial fellowship. While Vázquez will participate fully in the museums Curatorial Department, her primary responsibility will be to assist with a major exhibition and larger research initiative dedicated to the work of Marisol (MarÃa Sol Escobar, Venezuelan and American, born France, 19302016). On her death in 2016, Marisol bequeathed her estate to the Albright-Knox. Spanning the entirety of her sixty-year career, the bequest includes more than 100 sculptures and three-dimensional studies, hundreds of works on paper, and thousands of photographs and slides, among other materials. With this bequest, the Albright-Knox holds the worlds most significant collection of Marisols work and is able to present a uniquely rich perspective ... More Lindsey Glen appointed new Director of House of IllustrationLONDON.- House of Illustration, the UKs centre for illustration and graphics, has appointed Lindsey Glen as its new Director. Lindsey joins House of Illustration from the Royal Opera House, where she is currently Head of Policy and Strategy. She will take up her new role on 30 November 2020. Current Acting Director Olivia Ahmad will return to her role as Artistic Director. Speaking about her appointment, Lindsey says "I am so excited by the vibrancy and immediacy of illustration: its rich heritage and its power to open up new stories, voices and ideas. Having long admired the imaginative and thoughtful ways in which House of Illustration has championed the artform, and the extraordinary practice of its founder Sir Quentin Blake, I am delighted to have been invited to lead it into its next phase, establishing the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Donna Karan was born October 02, 1948. Donna Karan (born October 2, 1948) is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels. In this image: Designer Donna Karan appears during an event in celebration of her Urban Zen collection and foundation Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 in New York.
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