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Bidding on memorabilia from the Emmy-winning drama ended on Saturday, drawing over $600,000 in total sales. A viciously mocked tote bag was among the auctions most expensive items.
by Callie Holtermann
DALLAS, TX.- An auction house in Dallas that is usually stocked with fine art and rare baseball cards now holds a 6-foot dog mascot suit last seen in Episode One of the HBO drama Succession. Audiences may recall a nauseated Cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun) putting on the costume and puking through its eyeballs. The item has been thoroughly cleansed of prop vomit, according to auction staff members, and is now among 236 lots of memorabilia from the show that were sold on the Heritage Auctions website Saturday. The furry mascot fetched just over $7,800. Even the eyeholes are mostly clean, said Robert Wilonsky, a spokesperson for the auction house. Succession, the story of ultrawealthy siblings jockeying for control of their fathers media empire, ended its four-season run in May and is up for 27 Emmys on Monday the most of any series. Fans and collectors wanting to own a piece of the show were able to bid on l ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Cătălin Marius Petrișor Hereșanu: It's all in your vivid imagination, at Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery 8th December 2023 – 20th January 2024. Photograph: Richard Ivey. Courtesy the Artist and Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery, London.
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| After fake Basquiats, Florida museum faces 'Severe Financial Crisis' | | Asia Week New York in partnership with The Winter Show present 'A Collecting Dynasty: The Rockefeller Family' | | This language was long believed extinct. Then one man spoke up. |
Fiorella Escalon, a former Acquisition Trust board member at the Orlando Museum Art, at home in Winter Park, Fla., Jan. 10, 2024. (Todd Anderson/The New York Times)
by Brett Sokol
NEW YORK, NY.- It was just days before Christmas, but Cathryn Mattson, executive director of the Orlando Museum of Art in Florida, sounded anything but festive. During a specially called meeting, she addressed several trustees and influential donors, confronting the fallout from the institutions last 18 months. We are in a severe financial crisis, she said, according to a recording of the internal meeting provided to The New York Times and confirmed by a meeting participant. The museum, known as OMA, was still reeling from its disastrous 2022 exhibition of paintings it had said were made by art world legend Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings that were seized off the museums walls that June by members of the FBIs Art Crime Team during a raid. A Los Angeles auctioneer ... More | |
Kangxi era, 1662-1722, Pair of lions on high pedestals. Porcelain with famille verte enamels.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Week New York, in partnership with The Winter Show, presents A Collecting Dynasty: The Rockefeller Family. The discussion, moderated by Joan B. Mirviss, will be held on Saturday, January 20th at 3:00 p.m. in the historic Board of Officers Room at the Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, New York. As passionate art collectors and philanthropists with an incredible range of interests that spanned the globe, the Rockefeller family, in so many ways, epitomizes the pinnacle of patronage in this country. Throughout several generations, beginning with Abby and John D Rockefeller, Jr., their unwavering support for the visual arts was critical to the development of many cultural institutions focused on the family members individual collecting interests, such as Asia Society, the Cloisters, Colonial Williamsburg and its Folk Art Museum, Japan Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. With over four deca ... More | |
The linguist Pedro Viegas Barros, who, with Blas Omar Jaime, published a Chana dictionary, in Parana, Argentina, Aug. 10, 2023. (Sebastian Lopez Brach/The New York Times)
by Natalie Alcoba
PARANÃ, ARGENTINA.- As a boy, Blas Omar Jaime spent many afternoons learning about his ancestors. Over yerba mate and torta fritas, his mother, Ederlinda Miguelina Yelón, passed along the knowledge she had stored in Chaná, a throaty language spoken by barely moving the lips or tongue. The Chaná are an Indigenous people in Argentina and Uruguay whose lives were intertwined with the mighty Paraná River, the second longest in South America. They revered silence, considered birds their guardians and sang their babies lullabies: Utalá tapey-é, uá utalá dioi sleep little one; the sun has gone to sleep. Miguelina Yelón urged her son to protect their stories by keeping them secret. So it was not until decades later, recently retired and seeking out people with whom he ... More |
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| A former Twitter exec builds his dream house in Wine Country | | Palm Springs Art Museum opens an exhibition of works by architect Albert Frey | | Chicago's latest attraction? A rat-shaped hole. |
A photo by Matthew Millman of the pool and adjacent living areas at the family home that Bruce Falck and his wife built with architecture firm Studio Vara using a design that encourages indoor-outdoor living, on a hilltop in Healdsburg, Calif., in Sonoma Countys wine country. (Matthew Millman via The New York Times)
by Tim McKeough
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Falck long dreamed of following the example set by his father, who ran a construction company in Johannesburg, South Africa: He wanted to build a house designed specifically for his family. My dad was a civil engineer, and he built both of the houses I grew up in, said Falck, 52, a former Twitter executive now working on a startup. I always thought of building a house as something a dad does for his family. In 2011, he came close. Falck and his wife, Lauren Weitzman, now 41, who works at Google, bought a house in San Francisco, hiring the architecture firm Studio Vara to do a gut renovation. But just as construction was about to begin in 2013, the couple had a change of heart. Kids were imminent, Falck said, and ... More | |
Julius Shulman. Architect: Albert Frey. Albert Frey in front of Frey House I, ca. 1955. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10).
PALM SPRINGS, CALIF.- In recognition of the iconic desert architect Albert Frey, Palm Springs Art Museum opened the most comprehensive exhibition and publication on his life and work to date. The exhibition, Albert Frey: Inventive Modernist, opened January 13, 2024 at the museums Architecture and Design Center, Edwards Harris Pavilion, and runs through June 3, 2024. It includes drawings, plans, images, and modelsmany from Freys personal archives which he bequeathed to the museum. Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Frey (1903-1998), had early career successes in Paris and New York before moving to Palm Springs where he realized most of his life work. His unique style of Desert Modernism cemented his legacy as one of the most influential architects, not only in the Coachella Valley, but also in the United States and the world. His personal residence, Frey House II, sits on the mountain side above Palm Springs Art Museum; it was also gifted to ... More | |
The fat rat-sized crevice that has drawn millions of views online is attracting Chicagoans to the quiet residential street. (Evan Jenkins/The New York Times)
by Emily Schmall
CHICAGO, IL.- Winslow Dumaine was heading to a store on Chicagos North Side when he saw it: a hole in the sidewalk on Roscoe Street with an uncanny resemblance to a rodent. Dumaine, who is an artist and comedian, said the hole represented two themes often present in his work: morbidity and whimsy. Had to make a pilgrimage to the Chicago Rat Hole, he wrote in a social media post this month, including a close-up photo of the concrete cutout. The post, which has since been viewed 5 million times, inspired an untold number of Chicagoans to make their own excursions to a quiet residential area of Roscoe Village, a neighborhood known for its cozy taverns, independent boutiques and old-fashioned bakeries. People have started making offerings to the mysterious, fat-rat-size crevice: candles, coins, flowers, a small tomb with a photo of a rat, and ... More |
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| Max Hetzler opens a solo exhibition of works by Grace Weaver | | Tel Aviv Museum of Art to open an exhibition of photographs by Uri Gershuni | | BLUM opens an inter-generational survey of Japanese art from the 1960s to today |
Grace Weaver, Touriste au Maroc, 2022. Mixed media on paper.
PARIS.- Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting Hotel Paintings, a solo exhibition of work by Grace Weaver, and the artists first solo presentation in France. The exhibition brings together a new body of paintings alongside a series of collages made during the artists recent travels in Morocco. Weaver explores the unique atmosphere elicited in hotel rooms as spaces which are both intimate and anonymous, timeless yet transitory. The controlled cast of figures participate in the specific script of behaviours conditioned by the limited provision of a hotel room: a highly staged, utopic domestic environment. Reading, lounging, writing, washing and thinking, the characters are presented in various stages of undress, capturing a sense of emotional liminality and fleeting in-betweenness. Weavers practice investigates what she self-terms as the poetry of tiny moments, the small increments that make up modern ... More | |
The series of land and airplane photographs was taken in the Gan Rashal neighborhood, established in the 1950s on the border of Herzliya and Ra'anana. Black-and-white photograph, archival inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist and Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv.
TEL AVIV.- Uri Gershuni operates in the field of photography like a lightning rod of stories and the traces they leave behind. His work is a form of clinging to what will pass and fade away. The exhibition "Earth to Earth" features two series of photographs, centered on clouds, plots of land, and planes crossing the sky. The series of land and airplane photographs was taken in the Gan Rashal neighborhood, established in the 1950s on the border of Herzliya and Ra'anana. Its name, Rashal, was formed from the Hebrew initials of Rachel, Sarah, and Leahthe biblical names of the mothers and wives of the first landowners of the Gan Rashal citrus grove, Gershuni's childhood district. His grandfather, agronomist Zvi Gershuni, built the family ... More | |
Koji Enokura, Intervention Ratio A No.5, 1978. Oil painting on cotton cloth, 46 x 35 7/8 x 3/4 inches. Photo: Martin Elder.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- BLUM is presenting Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood, a milestone exhibition celebrating the gallerys thirtieth anniversary, installed across its three locationsLos Angeles, Tokyo, and New York. Co-curated by Tim Blum and postwar Japanese art historian Mika Yoshitake, this presentation is an inter-generational survey of Japanese art from the 1960s to today. The title is excerpted from a line in Nobel Prize-nominated author Yukio Mishimas Runaway Horses, a celebrated novel that touches on themes of national identity, self-actualization, and the power of reincarnation. Impossible to encapsulate in its entirety, this exhibition strives to present a snapshot of the tremendous influence Japan has had on the gallery, reflecting on Blums first trip to Japan forty years ago and the relationship that has grown since. This vital exchange catalyzed ... More |
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| Xippas Paris opens 'A line is not a border' | | Solo exhibition of exceptional new works by Peter Lodato opens at William Turner Gallery | | Retrospective exhibition of work by Ken Grimes opens at parrasch heijnen |
Marco Maggi, Drawing Machine (Black and White: 10 possible starting points), 2015. Installation in situ; variable dimensions.
PARIS.- In his essay on the history of lines [1], anthropologist Tim Ingold groups lines into two categories: threads and traces. He also maintains that modernity has emphasized the straight line to the detriment of gesture. However, when our attention shifts to the period that follows (contemporary or post-modern) his concern may be questioned. The threads and traces remain, but lines also call upon gesture, even when they are straight. We also note that artists, whether abstract or figurative, focus in particular on the limits of the demarcation, physical or conceptual. What happens when we alter the boundaries drawn, twisting them, making them go beyond the frame, discontinuing them? When the surface disappears in favor of the line? The works of the eight artists presented here are inhabited by these questions. Their aesthetic proposals differ but they use the line ... More | |
Peter Lodato, Two + Two #2, 2023, oil on canvas, 60 x 48.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF.- William Turner Gallery is presenting, solo exhibition of exceptional new works by Peter Lodato, opening January 13th, 2024. Peter Lodatos (b. 1946) artistic journey reflects an evolution, from immersive light installations, to captivating paintings that explore the complexities of human perception over the course of his six decade-long career. In addition, Lodato would himself influence a number of artists, teaching Art History at Art Center in Pasadena, and University of California Irvine with notable students such as James Turrell and Chris Burden. His initial foray into art consisted of environmental light installations, characteristic of the West Coast's Light and Space movement in the 1960s, which sought to transform physical spaces into immersive experiences for viewers. He credits the Roman Pantheons oculus for his interest in interpreting his experience. This body ... More | |
Ken Grimes, Human/Alien, 2010 Acrylic on Masonite, 48 x 33 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- parrasch heijnen is presenting Ken Grimes: Evidence for Contact, a retrospective exhibition of work by Ken Grimes (b. 1947, New York, NY). This exhibition is organized on the occasion of the release of a major book titled Evidence for Contact: Ken Grimes, 1991-2021 (Anthology Editions, 2023) showcasing the artists nearly 40-year career. In Grimes work, graphic motifs and recurring patterns are the prima materia of an imagistic language. Often working with a black and white palette, simplified shapes, and flattened compositional forms, Grimes paintings and drawings postulate systems at once terrestrial and cosmic. Alongside the extensive use of text in his artwork, Grimes visualizes modes of communication: radio signals, satellite transmissions, musical staffs, binary codes. As perceptual fields of energy and transmission, they offer a foil to the linguistic and enter the realm of the symbolic. Often working ... More |
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A special Golden Age Comics auction, including The Secret Sound Collection, comes to Heritage
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Elizabeth Xi Bauer presents: It's all in your vivid imagination
LONDON.- Elizabeth Xi Bauer announces a survey of works by Cătălin Marius Petrișor Hereșanu, encompassing ten years of his artistic production. In this exhibition, seminal pieces are displayed with works from across the artists career, as well as newly created paintings, as a way of exploring the artists reinvention of style and practice. Cătălin Marius Petrișor Hereșanu is a multidisciplinary artist whose preference for the field of painting is evident in this show. Upon entering the gallery space, the viewer is faced with a wall containing twelve compositions dating from 2019 to the present. These are hung in an organic manner, establishing aesthetic affinities rather than telling a chronological story. Though the restlessness of his vivid imagination is felt through the variety of formats and motifs on display, a few common denominators can be noted, most prominently in terms of ... More
Richard Deacon presents sculptures and drawings from three groups of works at Thaddaeus Ropac
PARIS.- In his new exhibition in Paris, Richard Deacon presents sculptures and drawings from three groups of works, each characterised by the distinct use of a different material, spanning glazed ceramic, stainless steel and pencil on synthetic vellum. The artists work is invariably marked by his experiments with diverse materials and his deep-rooted interest in their specific consistencies and qualities. He remains faithful to the principles of craftsmanship that have driven his practice since the beginning of his career and constitute an integral part of his aesthetic. Deacon explains: The work in this show, which has several different materials, is all about colour, surface and shape. Among his most recent works are a group of sculptures in ceramic, a medium Deacon has been associated with for over 20 years. Marked by their shiny, ... More
Beverly Johnson, 'the Model With the Big Mouth'
NEW YORK, NY.- She was 18, new to New York, a tenderfoot in an industry said to eat its young. But Beverly Johnson was not short on brass. She had been quick in the early 1970s to sign with the formidable model agent Eileen Ford and just as swift, at 19, to inform her, I want to be on the cover of American Vogue. When Ford asked her curtly, Who do you think you are, Cleopatra?, Johnson was as curt with a comeback, murmuring, audibly enough, Thats exactly who I think I am. Johnson revisits that moment in In Vogue, her one-woman show set to open in Manhattan on Sunday. The play, largely derived from her 2015 memoir, Beverly Johnson: The Face That Changed It All, and written with playwright Josh Ravetch, is by turns an upbeat and cautionary account of her adventures and hairy misadventures in ... More
Leon Wildes, immigration lawyer who defended John Lennon, dies at 90
NEW YORK, NY.- Leon Wildes, a New York immigration lawyer who successfully fought the U.S. governments attempt to deport John Lennon, died Monday in Manhattan. He was 90. His death, at Lenox Hill Hospital, was confirmed by his son Michael. For more than three years, from early 1972 to the fall of 1975, Wildes doggedly battled the targeting by the Nixon administration and immigration officials of Lennon, a former Beatle, and his wife, Yoko Ono, marshaling a series of legal arguments that exposed both political chicanery and a hidden U.S. immigration policy. Uncovering secret records through the Freedom of Information Act, he showed that immigration officials, in practice, can exercise wide discretion in whom they choose to deport, a revelation that continues to resonate in immigration law. And he revealed that Lennon, ... More
The Art Institute of Chicago announces 2024 exhibition schedule
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced its exhibition schedule for the first half of 2024. This exciting lineup will spotlight works across mediumsfrom textiles to photography to paintingacross geographiesfrom iconic Chicago artists to emerging global namesand across time periodsfrom ancient practices to contemporary art. These presentations will culminate in a fresh take on artist Georgia OKeeffes lesser-known urban landscapes to kick off the summer. This presentation focuses on the explosion of innovative and technically ambitious compositions by Japanese women artists since 1970a body of work which they developed in parallel with, but often separately from, traditional, male-dominated Japanese practice and its countermovements. The Art Institute is the first U.S. museum showing the work of Hungarian sculptor ... More
Ronin Gallery presents 'Birds of Winter: Keinen Imao'
NEW YORK, NY.- This January, Ronin Gallery invites you to start the year with Keinen Imaos winter volume of Keinens Flower-and-Bird Painting Manual (1891-1892). Between plush pine needles and snow-covered plum boughs, this Meiji-period master of kacho-ga (bird-and-flower pictures) captures the quiet beauty of the season through its flora and fauna. Against the pale backdrop of the winter, Keinens compositions bristle with life as nimble feet curl around branches and delicate feathers rustle in myriad colors. Blending painterly lines and naturalistic representation, Keinens woodblock prints invite you to experience the life stirring beneath winters chill. Keinen Imao (1845-1923) was a preeminent artist of kacho-ga at the end of the 19th century. Born in Kyoto in 1845, Keinen began his artistic training in painting and calligraphy ... More
Peter Crombie, actor known for 'Seinfeld' appearances, dies at 71
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Crombie, the actor who was probably best known for playing the role of Crazy Joe Davola on five episodes of Seinfeld, died Wednesday in a health care facility in Palm Springs, California. He was 71. Crombie had been recovering from unspecified surgery, said his ex-wife, Nadine Kijner, who confirmed his death. In his role as Davola, Crombie played a temperamental character who stalks Jerry the hit television sitcoms semi-fictionalized version of comedian Jerry Seinfeld and develops a deep hatred of him. Tall and lanky, Crombies character had a flat, borderline menacing affect and an unblinking 1,000-yard stare. In the series, he also stalked the tough New Yorker character Elaine, in one case plastering a wall of his apartment with black-and-white surveillance photos of her. Aside from his part in Seinfeld, ... More
Over 100 works by Asian American artists acquired in 2023 to support the Asian American Art Initiative
STANFORD, CALIF.- The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announced the acquisition of over 100 works in 2023 by celebrated, underrecognized, and emerging Asian American artistsincluding Pacita Abad, Mel Chin, Ben Sakoguchi, Sasha Gordon, Hesoo Kwon, Kenneth Tam, Miljohn Ruperto, Stephanie Syjuco, and Benjamen Chinnin support of the Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI). As a long-term commitment and investment on the part of the Cantor Arts Center and Stanford University to presenting and acquiring art made by Asian American and diasporic Asian artists, the AAAI, with the help of community supporters, has invested great resources into collection-building. The recent addition of over 100 works establishes the Cantor as home to one of the largest and most significant collections of Asian American art ... More
Mendes Wood DM Paris presents 'Lamp black on sack cloth (love for fucksake)' by Michael Dean
PARIS.- Mendes Wood DM Paris is presenting a solo exhibition of new sculpture works by Michael Dean, Lamp black on sack cloth (love for fucksake). The show is the second to take place at the new Paris gallery, and marks a decade since Dean first started exhibiting at Mendes Wood DM. Michael Dean's sculptures are capable of transforming an exhibition space into a theater, into an action. They remind us of characters performing a scene. A group of works, which almost seem as if they are about to climb a set of stairs, shows how characters and language are central to his work. The sculptures in the room and on the walls interact with the space, forming a perfect triangle with the observer. The organic development of the alphabets trapped in concrete forms is further exalted in this exhibition. Dean's work always strikes a balance between ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German photographer Andreas Gursky was born January 15, 1955. Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often employing a high point of view. In this image: Andreas Gursky, Tokyo Stock Exchange 1990. C-Print 205.0 x 260.0 x 6.2 cm © Andreas Gursky /VG Bild-Kunst. Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia. Courtesy: Monika Sprüth / Philomene Magers, Berlin London.
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