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Nancy Whorf (American, 1930-2019), Winding Path, oil-on-Masonite street scene depicting Provincetown, Massachusetts; 20in x 24in. Dated (1993) Berta Walker Provincetown Gallery label on verso.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- After a hiatus of more than three years, Myers Fine Art will return to the auction spotlight on April 30 with a 459-lot gallery auction that bears all the hallmarks of their signature style. Bidders can look forward to seeing a high-quality, estate-fresh selection of scrupulously researched artworks with impeccable provenance. Each and every item has been personally curated by Myers owners Mike Myers and Mary Dowd, whose combined decades of experience in the fine art sector serve as the basis for auction catalogs whose scholarly descriptions are both lauded and trusted throughout the art world. After their last sale in 2019, Myers and Dowd set out on their traditional postsale sabbatical to the Northeast, in particular to the east end of Long Island. Unfortunately, the pandemic followed, Dowd said. We felt the only responsible thing to do was to hold off on any further gallery sales until we could be sure it ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Shop owner John Codara, whose gelato bar is located right next to the âLeonardoâ ferry along the Adda River, shows a wooden scale model of the ferry in Imbersago, Italy on April 18, 2023. Codara is convinced that the engineering of the ferry could handle low water. (Alessandro Grassani/The New York Times).
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| Early painting by Sir Alfred Munnings to be offered at Sloane Street Auctions | | Exhibition explores how the intersection of science, art and sound is instrumental to our understanding of the world | | Anderson Ranch Arts Center announces 2023 honorees and summer series lineup |
Sir Alfred Munnings KCVO PRA RI (1878 - 1959), Young Herdsman at Mendham (1910), Oil on canvas. Signed lower left 'A. J. Munnings / 1910'. (Canvas) 26.5 in. (H) x 35 in. (W) (Frame) 32 in. (H) x 42 in. (W).
LONDON.- An early work by the renowned equestrian painter Sir Alfred Munnings is to be offered by Sloane Street Auctions on 27 April. Painted in 1910, the work is characteristic of Munnings early experimentation within the Impressionist tradition, and exhibits the expressive and loose brushstrokes favoured by the artist in his early career. Esteemed for his equine portraits, Munnings himself regarded cows as a superior subject to paint, and purchased his own to model for pictures between 1911-14. It was around this time that Munnings employed a young stable boy known as Shrimp, who modelled ... More | |
Maria Sibylla Merian Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium Metamorphosis of Surinamese insects Amsterdam.
LONDON.- Animals: Art, Science and Sound (21 April 28 August 2023) at the British Library reveals how the intersection of science, art and sound has been instrumental in our understanding of the natural world and continues to evolve today. From an ancient Greek papyrus detailing the mating habits of dogs to the earliest photographs of Antarctic animals and a recording of the last Kauaʻi ʻōʻō songbird, this is the first major exhibition to explore the different ways in which animals have been written about, visualised and recorded. Journeying through darkness, water, land and air, visitors will encounter striking artworks, handwritten manuscripts, s ... More | |
Christian Marclay, International Artist Honoree.
ASPEN, CO.- This summer, Anderson Ranch Arts Center will honor Christian Marclay with the International Artist Award and Dana Farouki with the Service to the Arts Award during its Recognition Week celebration from July 10-15, 2023. This week-long celebration includes the Recognition Dinner on Thursday, July 13th and the beloved Annual Art Auction & Community Picnic on Saturday, July 15th. The arts center also releases its 2023 Summer Series: Featured Artists & Conversations lineup, with the first program on Thursday, July 6th, 2023. Anderson Ranch Arts Center, a premier destination for art-making and critical dialogue since 1966, celebrates creativity and service to the arts by recognizing the accomplishments and contributions of key figures in the art ... More |
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| In the footsteps of Charles III | | Unlocking the 'Rosetta Stone' of a dying language | | Amir Khojasteh and Sabrina Mendoza Malavé on view with 'Diana, New York: A Room Without a Door' |
British Library gates Paul Grundy.
NEW YORK, NY.- No royal heir in British history has waited longer than Charles III, the king formerly known as the Prince of Wales, to ascend the throne. When he is officially crowned, on May 6, Charles will be 74 years old 47 years older than his mother, Elizabeth II, was at her own coronation in the mid-20th century. A lot has changed in the monarchy, and in the monarch, since the early days of the queens reign. Elizabeth came to the top job through accidents of history and fate. Her uncle, Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936, disrupting the normal order of succession; her father, George VI, succeeded him but died 16 years later, at the age of 56, propelling Elizabeth onto the throne. By contrast, Charles the oldest Prince of Wales in British history to become king was born a monarch-in-waiting and has had a lifetime to prepare. The public, in turn, has had a lifetime to get to know Charles, starting from his rarefied childhood in the public eye. We had a ringside seat at his ... More | |
Holeigh Hill, the executive administrator of the Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa (Our Language Society) Mohawk language school on the Six Nations of the Grand River territory near Brantford, Ontario, Canada on June 16, 2022. The school teaches Mohawk to adults in the area. (Brett Gundlock/The New York Times)
by Ian Austen
SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND RIVER.- When Brian Maracle returned in his mid-40s to the Mohawk community near Toronto that he had left when he was just 5, he didnt have a job and knew almost no one there. But perhaps the biggest challenge facing him was that he neither spoke nor understood much Kanyenkeha, the Mohawk language. More than a century of attempts by Canadas government to stamp out Indigenous cultures had left Maracle and many other Indigenous people without their languages. Now, 30 years later, Maracle has become a champion of Mohawk and is helping revive it and other Indigenous languages, both in Canada and elsewhere, through his transformation of teaching ... More | |
Amir Khojasteh, A Man, Burning, 2022. Oil on canvas, 85 x 60 cm, 33 1/2 x 23 1/2 in.
DUBAI.- Amir Khojasteh and Sabrina Mendoza Malavés works intertwine on various levels. On the one hand, their respective countries Iran and Venezuela are incurring turbulent political situations. On the other hand, both artists touch those situations and include references to abstraction, pop culture, and poetry. As is inherent to Khojastehs practice, references play a crucial part. Rather than directly relaying what is depicted in those references, the artist extracts what feels relevant. Similarly, Mendozas approach includes a candid commentary on the current landscape in Venezuela by using fragments and phrases that allude to the countrys political polarization and the natural infrastructural decay that occurred over time. The resemblance of Khojastehs paintings to the reference images may be just a trace. Influenced by a wide array of images, such as portraits of iconic fighters, Art History, and, more recently, imagery from Iran and th ... More |
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| Artist Marina Pumani Brown, grandaughter of Milatjari Pumani, now on view at Gruin Gallery | | Mika Horibuchi exhibits work at Patron Gallery in second solo event | | Chrysler Museum of Art names new director of curatorial affairs |
Marina Pumani, Ngayuku Ngura Kuwari (My Home Now), 2022. Synthetic polymer paints on Belgian linen, 60 1/4 x 60 1/4 " (153 x 153 cm), 58412.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Marina Pumani Brown, on view now at Gruin Gallery was born in Mimili Community on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of South Australia. She comes from a long line of strong female painters. Her grandmother was Milatjari Pumani, who was one of the most famous artists in the APY region. Her mother is Betty Kuntiwa Pumani and her aunt was Ngupulya Pumani. Marina grew up watching these strong Pumani women paint. Marina has developed a distinctive interpretation of the Tjukurpa passed on to her through her family line. She expresses her role in the larger story of cultural continuity in unique and powerful paintings which resemble abstract ... More | |
Mika Horibuchi, Watercolor of Weeping Cherry Branches, 2023. Oil on linen, 107 Ã 140 Ã 4 cm. Courtesy: the artist and PATRON Gallery Chicago.
CHICAGO, IL.- PATRON opened Showcase, the gallerys second solo exhibition with Chicago-based artist Mika Horibuchi, for which the artist hosts a presentation of new painting and sculpture. Showcase extends two main tenets of Horibuchis practice her Watercolors, meditatively rendered trompe-loeil oil paintings of photographs of watercolor paintings completed by her grandmother, and her RD'' series, a series of gray paintings of duck rabbit. Appropriating an early illusionistic parlor trick, Horibuchi demonstrates that things are often not what they appear to be, but often how things can exist within a complexity of meanings and truths all true yet contradictory of each other. ... More | |
New Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Chrysler, Mark A. Castro.
NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art announced the appointment of Mark A. Castro as Director of Curatorial Affairs, who began work at the Museum on April 17, 2023. Following a national search, Castro was selected to oversee the Museums Curatorial, Conservation, and Collections & Exhibitions divisions, as well as serve on the Senior Leadership Team. In this role, he will help to shape the institutions overall artistic program, aligning it with the Museums strategic priorities and mission. Working collaboratively across the Museum as both a manager and curator, Castro will creatively utilize the Chryslers collections and exhibitions to engage, educate, and expand visitor participation, with the objective of enlivening the institutions offering ... More |
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| He lets his clothes do the peacocking for him | | 'Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Leaves in the Wind' at 125 Newbury in Tribeca | | As a Coronation approaches, the merch comes fast |
Christian Cowan in his Greenwich Village apartment on April 7, 2023. Cowen made his name as a designer with rambunctious creations at odds with his soft-spoken personality. (Seth Caplan/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A sprinkling of tiny tattoos covers Christian Cowans fingers and arms: a pale stag, a walrus, a sewing needle and the word intimacy, so faintly scrawled that it is barely legible. That fine ink is a tell. Im an introvert, Cowan said over lunch of vegetarian rigatoni at Sant Ambroeus in Greenwich Village last month. I vent any need to be out in the limelight through my work. His work is as raucous as his ink is discreet. Cowan, 28, a Londoner settled in New York City, made his name by confecting the vibrantly colorful sequined and feathered club wear that is catnip to the party crowd, to say nothing of the effusively spangled performance gear he has whipped up for high-wattage celebrities including Lady Gaga, Cardi B and Lil Nas X. These days, he is also linked ... More | |
Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Leaves in the Wind, 2019 © Sylvia Plimack Mangold.
NEW YORK, NY.- 125 Newbury has opened Sylvia Plimack Mangold, the first solo exhibition of new work by this pioneering figure in the history of post-1960s art since 2018. The exhibition debuts a suite of fifteen paintings and works on paper that Mangold has created over the past five years, all of which depict the maple tree outside the window of her studio in upstate New York. The exhibition, which is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with a new essay by John Yau and an interview with the artist, opened to the public on April 14th and will run through June 3rd.
For more than four decades, Sylvia Plimack Mangold has been painting the trees that surround her home and studio in Washingtonville, New York. Known since the 1960s for developing a singular visual language rooted in figuration, Mangolds paintings boil down nature to its purest ... More | |
Coronation tankard (front) being hand-finished with 22-carat gold.
LONDON.- When Dr. Imran Haq was a medical student in 2014, he had a chance encounter with King Charles III at an event. I was struck by how normal he was, said Haq, a surgeon for Britains National Health Service in Sheffield, England. About a decade later, the monarch became Haqs muse. After the death of Queen Elizabeth II last year, Haq said his fondness for the British royal family inspired him to take up a hobby: designing cereal boxes as merchandise to commemorate Charles coronation May 6. The boxes of his Coronation Flakes feature a cartoon rendering of the king on the front, along with the tagline They taste royally good. On the back, there are puzzles and a cutout mask of Charles face. Haq said he sometimes spent two to three hours a night working on the design for the boxes, which he filled with cornflakes from Lidl, a British supermarket chain. They each cost 22 British pounds ($27). ... More |
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Eureka! After California's heavy rains, gold seekers are giddy.
PLACERVILLE, CALIF.- Albert Fausel spends his days at the family hardware store sorting through boxes of bolts and pacing the old, creaking floorboards to greet his loyal clientele. But on a recent sunny afternoon, he threw on his wet suit and divers mask and inserted himself face down in the shallow creek near his home. An amateur gold seeker, Fausel used his gloved fingers to sweep aside the sand and gravel at the bottom of the creek and then, still underwater, let out a cry that was audible through the tube of his snorkel: Woooo-hoo-hoooo! He emerged with what gold seekers call a picker not quite a nugget, but big enough to pinch in your fingers and he delicately handed the glinting object to his fellow prospector, a friend with a long white beard who goes by Uncle Fuzzy. In just 20 minutes ... More
Traditional Filipino wedding gowns go modern
NEW YORK, NY.- Like many brides-to-be, Jessica Louise Balanban turned to social media to jump-start preparations for her Feb. 22, 2022, wedding in Los Gatos, California. In lieu of hiring a planner, Balanban, 31, a registered nurse at the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay in San Francisco who lives in San Leandro, California, relied on Instagram. Late-night scrolling helped her secure a photographer, videographer, makeup artist and hair stylist. But what she would wear at the reception remained a mystery. Balaban had already selected a white fit-and-flare dress for the ceremony, with 3D florals from top to bottom and off-the-shoulder, tulle sleeves. And after giving it some thought, she realized her reception dress presented an opportunity to honor her Filipino heritage. Born in the Philippines in 1991 to pare ... More
Nye & Company told hold three-day, online-only Chic and Antique Estate Treasures auction
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers three-day Chic and Antique Estate Treasures auction slated for Wednesday thru Friday, April 26th-28th will feature American and English Furniture, an extensive selection of silver and jewelry, plus a broad selection of fine art and prints, starting April 26th at 10 am Eastern time. The sale is online only; no live bidding. Offered will be just over 1,000 lots, a curated mix of fine and decorative arts spanning from the 17th century to present day, including selections from Part IV of the Stanley Weiss Collection. Real time Internet bidding and absentee bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com, Bidsquare.com and the Nye & Company. The well-known and highly regarded Rhode Island collector Stanley Weiss collected for over 30 years. During that time, h ... More
UNESCO City of Design Dundee appoints Stacey Hunter as curator of Dundee Design Festival 2024
DUNDEE.- UNESCO City of Design Dundee announced the appointment of Dr Stacey Hunter as curator of the 2024 Dundee Design Festival. The appointment of design curator and Local Heroes founder, Dr Stacey Hunter points to a change of direction for the 2024 Dundee Design Festival which will celebrate the citys 10th anniversary of UNESCO City of Design designation the UKs only UNESCO City of Design. The appointment is the latest in a series of high profile cultural coups for the city following the opening of the blockbuster TARTAN exhibition at V&A Dundee and the announcement of contemporary art festival Art Night taking place in the city on the 24 June. Since its designation in 2014, the UNESCO City of Design Dundee team has delivered four festivals which showcase the work of local and national ... More
Barry Humphries (Dame Edna to you, possums) is dead at 89
NEW YORK, NY.- Oh, possums, Dame Edna is no more. To be unflinchingly precise, Barry Humphries, the Australian-born actor and comic who for almost seven decades brought that divine doyenne of divadom, Dame Edna Everage, to delirious, dotty, disdainful dadaist life, died Saturday in Sydney. He was 89. His death was confirmed by the hospital where he had spent several days after undergoing hip surgery. In a tribute message posted on Twitter, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia praised Humphries as a great wit, satirist, writer and an absolute one-of-kind. A stiletto-heeled, stiletto-tongued persona who might well have been the spawn of a menage a quatre involving Oscar Wilde, Salvador DalÃ, Auntie Mame and Miss Piggy, Dame Edna was not so much a character as a cultural pheno ... More
Philadelphia Museum of Art opens traveling retrospective devoted to the acclaimed photographer
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art is the only U.S. venuefollowing Madrid, Paris, and the Haguefor the traveling retrospective exhibition devoted to the photographs of Judith Joy Ross, whose images offer a quietly penetrating portrait of our age. Spanning a period from the 1970s through the 2010s, Judith Joy Ross is the largest exhibition to feature the work of this preeminent portrait photographer to date. Rosss subjects include children at municipal parks or in the public schools of Hazleton, Pennsylvania; members of Congress in Washington, DC; and African immigrants in Paris. The nations wars and invasions have precipitated many arresting images by Ross, including visitors to the Vietnam War Memorial, reservists called into active duty, and civilians supporting or protest ... More
Leonardo's ferry left high and dry by global warming and red tape
IMBERSAGO.- On a recent sunny morning on the banks of the Adda River in northern Italy, schoolchildren on a class trip to Imbersago the Town of the Ferry of Leonardo da Vinci gathered next to a moored boat and listened as a guide explained how the flights of the rivers birds, the formations of its rocks and the workings of its ships inspired Leonardos genius. Why doesnt it move? one of the students interrupted, pointing to the ferry, which sat behind a chain and a sign reading, Service suspended. It looked like a deserted summer deck atop two rowboats. The water needs to be high enough for the current to move it, said Sara Asperti, 45. Also, theyre looking for a new ferryman. So, if any of you are interested. Since at least 500 years ago, when the opposing banks of the Adda be ... More
South Asian Muslims herald Eid al-Fitr with a night of communal revelry
NEW YORK, NY.- Eliyah Haque, 6, was getting her hands painted with henna in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens. Asked what her favorite part of Eid celebrations was, she said: We come together. South Asian Muslims both local to the area and from other boroughs and states flocked to Jackson Heights on Thursday evening to celebrate Chand Raat, a festival on the night before Eid al-Fitr to herald the holiday. Chand Raat, a South Asian Muslim celebration that encapsulates the intersection of religion and culture, translates to night of the moon in Urdu and Hindi. Its observed on the last night of Ramadan, when the new moon is sighted, indicating the end of the month of fasting. The nights action was centered in Diversity Plaza, the town square that honors the global mash-up of Jackson Heig ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch-American painter Willem de Kooning was born April 24, 1904. Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 - March 19, 1997) was a Dutch abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. He moved to the United States in 1926, and became an American citizen in 1962. On December 9, 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried. In this image: Installation view.of exhibition of Willem de Kooningâs late paintings at Skarstedt. © The Willem de Kooning Foundation Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London 2017.
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