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The tomb of Cecilia Metella on the ancient Appian Way, the ancient Roman road leading from Rome to Brindisi. (Chris Warde-Jones/The New York Times)
by Elisabetta Povoledo
NEW YORK, NY.- Its a question that has long eluded an answer: Where exactly was the beginning of the Appian Way, the ancient Roman thoroughfare so famous that it was known as the regina viarum, or queen of roads? Remains of the original Appian Way, named for Appius Claudius, a Roman consul, and begun in 312 B.C., are still visible (and make for a great walk) within Rome. But traces of the so-called first mile remain buried about 8 meters, or 26 feet, below the street level of contemporary Rome. In July, a team of archaeologists began a hunt for the lost starting point of the Via Appia by excavating a site in front of a row of ancient shops still visible that were once part of the monumental entrance to the thermal baths that the Emperor Caracalla built in 211. Digging down through Romes millenary history, archaeologists and historians collected plenty of information and data to crunch. T ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Tomás Saracenoâs contagious curiosity is on full display at Mona in a major new exhibition. Open until July 2023, Oceans of Air is a multi-sensory show, featuring a series of artworks spreading throughout the deepest floor of the museumâs subterranean galleries.
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| Tina Barney: The photographer's origin story | | Galerie Karsten Greve opens a new solo exhibition devoted to the American artist John Chamberlain | | Christie's announces highlights included in the 'Post-War to Present' sale |
Tina Barney, Waterslide in Fog, 1979 (detail), archival pigment print, 16 x 20 inches, 40.6 x 50.8 cm.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
NEW YORK, NY.- Tina Barney was home alone in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, during 2020 and needed a COVID-19 quarantine project. While many were cleaning their closets, the acclaimed photographer exhumed about 1,000 35 mm negatives shot in the late 1970s and early 80s, when she was learning the basics of her craft at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Idaho and turning a lens to rituals and relationships among her affluent circle of friends and family. Without a proper light table, she spent months editing images shot largely during summers in Rhode Island and New York many recognized only now as interesting by her mature eye. More than 50 early photos, most never before shown, are included in a show at the Kasmin Gallery in New York City (March 2 through April 22) and in a forthcoming book from Radius. Both are titled The Beginning, and together they capture an artist in the act of finding her voice. ... More | |
John Chamberlain, Opera Chocolates, 1994. Painted and chromium plated steel, 48 1/2 x 53 x 41 1/2 in. Photo: Galerie Karsten Greve. Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne Paris St. Moritz.
COLOGNE.- Galerie Karsten Greve is presenting JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Sculpture, a new solo exhibition in Cologne, devoted to the work of American artist John Chamberlain (1927 2011) a master of metal-folding and transformation and an exceptional colorist. The exhibition thus perpetuates the long artistic collaboration between the artist and the gallery owner Karsten Greve, which dates back to the beginning of the 1970s. Featuring a selection of eleven sculptural compositions, in addition to works on paper and photographs, created between 1967 and 2007, for the most part acquired by Karsten Greve directly from the artist , the exhibition enshrines John Chamberlains most marked forms of expression, exemplifying the developmental trajectory of the artists oeuvre and allowing for a truly all-encompassing artistic experience. The post-war zeitgeist (spirit of the time) propelled artists to experiment a ... More | |
Alex Katz (B. 1927), Orange Chair. Oil on board. Painted in 1950. Estimate: $90,000-120,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 10 March 2023, Christies will present Post-War to Present, an auction featuring top-quality artwork from the finest names in post-war and contemporary art taking place live in Rockefeller Center. Sale highlights include work from a cross-section of icons from the post-war era including Josef Albers, Lynne Drexler, and Ed Clark alongside outstanding examples from the most coveted names in the contemporary market including Nicolas Party, Loie Hollowell, Yayoi Kusama, Anna Weyant, Rashid Johnson, and many more. Leading the sale is Ada in front of 4PM, a 1977 example by Alex Katz (estimate: $1,200,000-1,800,000). In total, the sale is expected to realize in the region of $17,000,000. Among the many sale highlights is a select group of artworks: Artists for Poets: Works Sold to Benefit The Poetry Project. This distinguished group of contemporary works features prominent artists, including Cecily Brown, Alex Katz, Katherine Brad ... More |
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| Laurence des Cars appointed member of the Van Gogh Museum Supervisory Board | | Paris Print Fair announces exhibitors | | First exhibition in the US to trace the transformation of the arts in Tudor England opens in Cleveland |
The first female President-Director of the Louvre in its 230-year history, Laurence des Cars was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron in 2021.
AMSTERDAM.- Laurence des Cars (1966), President-Director of the Musée du Louvre, has been appointed to the Van Gogh Museum Supervisory Board as of 1 February 2023. Des Cars: It is an honour to join the Van Gogh Museum Supervisory Board, whose members I would like to thank for their trust. I look forward to fostering dialogue between European museums and sharing our experience, expertise and ideas. The Van Gogh Museum Supervisory Board has appointed Des Cars as a member for a period of four years. Jacobina Brinkman, Supervisory Board Treasurer: We are delighted that Laurence des Cars has been appointed as a new member. It is an honour to welcome the Director of the world-famous Musée du Louvre to the Board. The first female President-Director of the Louvre in its 230-year history, Laurence des ... More | |
Jenny Robinson, London gasometer, 2012
PARIS.- Following the success of its first edition last year, Paris Print Fair returns from March 23 to 26, 2023 and will be held in the refectory of the Couvent des Cordeliers, located in the heart of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France. This new edition will welcome twenty exhibitors, associate members of the Chambre Syndicale de l'Estampe, du Dessin et du Tableau (CSEDT), who have selected their most beautiful prints. Exhibitors from all over Europe, most of whom also attended last year's Paris Print Fair, will display an eclectic mix illustrating the full diversity of the printmaking world, from xylography to lithography, including etching and posters. Held at the same time as the Paris Drawing Week, the Paris Print Fair offers an intimate fair format where novices as well as enthusiasts will be able to take the time to exchange and admire the art on display. The exhibitors of this very specialised event will present works from diffe ... More | |
Rainbow Portrait, c. 1600. Attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (Flemish, 15101600). Oil on canvas; 128 x 101.6 cm. Reproduced with permission of the Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art announced the opening of The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England, the first exhibition in the US to trace the transformation of the arts in Tudor England. The exhibition captures the breathtaking scope of the finest artistic production of the English Renaissance, from intricately wrought armor and precious metal and porcelain objects to glittering tapestries woven with gold and portraits of sumptuously attired courtiers. The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England is on view from February 26, 2023, through May 14, 2023, in the CMAs Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall. Though the Tudor dynasty ruled for only three generations over 118 years, it oversaw the transformation of England ... More |
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| Overlooked no more: Clara Driscoll, designer of visions in glass for Tiffany | | White Cube West Palm Beach opens an exhibition of works by Park Seo-Bo | | USC Fisher Museum of Art opens Mulyana's first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles |
Close-up of a Tiffany Studios "Venetian" desk lamp, c. 191020. Wikipedia Loves Art participant "The_Grotto".
NEW YORK, NY.- Although there are existing photographs of Clara Driscoll, no one knows how tall she was, what her voice sounded like, or how she walked or moved. What is known is what she left behind: beautifully wrought lamps of many colors, which she designed over three separate tenures at Tiffany & Co., from 1888 to 1909. As head of the womens glass-cutting department, she led a staff called the Tiffany girls, who selected, cut and placed tiny pieces of glass in what would ultimately emerge as unique lamps, each given a name. There was the Cobweb lamp, with lacy cobwebs stretched taut against branches sprouting tiny blossoms. And there were the Arrowhead, the Butterfly and the Wisteria lamps, along with the Deep Sea, the Dragonfly and the Geranium. Elements of nature languid flowers and scurrying insects, lively fish and moving water were favorite motifs of Tiffany ... More | |
Ecriture No. 190416.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- Park Seo-Bo is one of the leading figures in contemporary Korean art, widely acknowledged as the father of the Dansaekhwa movement. Encompassing works from the 1970s to this year, this exhibition at White Cube West Palm Beach serves as an introduction to Parks influential practice, as well as being the first opportunity to see his work in the US since it was shown at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in 2019. A series of vividly coloured ceramic works made in the past year reveal an artist continuing to innovate into his nineties. In collaboration with a master ceramicists studio, Park has worked with wet clay in a similar manner as he has previously when he is manipulating the wet pulp of hanji paper, a medium he uses in other works. For this group of works, successive layers of wet clay slip are pinched and pushed line by line into long, parallel ridges, and, after firing and sanding, contrasting ... More | |
Mulyana, Ocean Wonderland, 2020, Yarn, Dacron, cable wire, plastic net, metal rod, felt fabric. Photo STUDIO MOGUS.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- USC Fisher Museum of Art is presenting Mulyana: Modular Utopia, the Indonesian artists first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles. The exhibition is an introduction to Mulyanas large kinetic environments composed of intricately constructed, knit modules of marine life sculptures that vividly portray an unadulterated underwater world. Through the beauty and wonder of his artworks, Mulyana hopes to instill a new consciousness of shared responsibility to protect the environment. Mulyanas diverse art practice centers on the themes of sustainability and human flourishing. His studio is based in the town of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, which has been the cultural capital for the visual arts in Indonesia for many decades. Mulyana settled there in 2014 and, from the very beginning, endeavored to create a ... More |
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| Open now at Mona: Oceans by Tomas Saraceno | | John Moran Auctioneers announces highlights included in its 'Art of the American West' sale | | Bouchra Khalili, Doris Salcedo, and Hajra Waheed awarded Sharjah Biennial Prize |
Installation view.
BERRIEDALE.- Tomás Saracenos contagious curiosity is on full display at Mona in a major new exhibition. Open until July 2023, Oceans of Air is a multi-sensory show, featuring a series of artworks spreading throughout the deepest floor of the museums subterranean galleries. Mona has been fascinated by Saraceno for some timean Argentinian contemporary artist based in Berlin attuned to the changes modern humans and capitalism have wrought on the world (in what he and others describe as a new era, called 'the Capitalocene'). In this exhibition he presents artworks and community projects, from tiny dust particles to large-scale installations, all informed by various perspectives. Oceans of Air includes a selection of existing works and new commissions created specially for Mona, and is a call for environmental action on the Earth, its atmosphere and beyond. David Walsh, Mona owner and founder said: Once upon a time artists used ... More | |
With an estimate of $3,000-5,000, the standing katsina (kachina) figure of carved cottonwood, with traces of polychrome painted clothing and face mask affixed to a modern black base.
MONROVIA, CALIF.- Morans will be presenting their Art of the American West sale on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at 10:00am PST. The 354 lot auction will feature an exciting and robust offering of fine art for a wide range of collecting aesthetics from historic to contemporary. There will be sixty lots of traditional and contemporary Navajo and Pueblo silver jewelry. Western interiors can be accented and refreshed by a fantastic collection of framed Ganado and Tees Nos Pos blankets, stunning Pueblo pottery, and even saddles from John Wayne. Finely woven examples of California Mission, Southwest, and Pacific Northwest Coast baskets, together with a handful of beautiful Native American beadwork will round out the plentiful collectible items on offer in this auction. One of the highlighted fine art works is the ... More | |
Doris Salcedo, Uprooted, 2020-2022. 804 dead trees and steel; 3000 x 650 x 500 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Juan Castro Photoholic.
SHARJAH.- Sharjah Art Foundation announced the winners of the Sharjah Biennial Prize at the opening gala for the Biennials 15th edition and 30-year anniversary on the evening of Tuesday 7 February 2023. Bouchra Khalili received the Prize for The Circle (2023); Doris Salcedo received the Prize for Uprooted (2023); and Hajra Waheed received the Prize for The Hum (2023). Lee Kai Chung, Gabriela Golder, Amar Kanwar, Tania El Khoury, Ibrahim Mahama, Joiri Minaya, and Varunika Saraf received Honourable Mentions. The winners were selected by a distinguished jury comprised of Solange Farkas (Curator and Director of Videobrasil Cultural Association), Salwa Mikdadi, (Professor of Art History and Director of the Arab Center for the Study of Art, NYU Abu Dhabi) and Elvira Dyangani Ose (Director of Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona). ... More |
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Art Basel reveals line-up of 285 of the world's leading galleries for its 2023 edition in Basel
BASEL.- For its 2023 edition in Basel, Art Basel will bring together 285 leading international galleries to present the highest quality artworks across all media from painting and sculpture to photography and digital works by artists ranging from early-twentieth-century Modern pioneers to contemporary practitioners. A strong line-up of galleries from across Europe will be joined by new and returning exhibitors from around the world. The 2023 edition of Art Basel in Basel will feature 21 first-time participants, including three galleries entering directly into the main Galleries sector of the show: blank projects from Cape Town, Empty Gallery from Hong Kong and Offer Waterman from London. 18 galleries will join the fair for the first time in the Feature and Statements sectors. First-time exhibitors in Feature: acb (Budapest) David Castillo (Miami) Thomas ... More
Forget about jazz hands, this Fosse show is about dancin'
NEW YORK, NY.- Karli Dinardo never imagined that, at 5 feet, 5 inches, she was tall enough to be a Bob Fosse dancer. Broadway veteran Dylis Croman was introduced to the Fosse style by Ann Reinking, one of his most influential dancers, when she was just 14 at a summer dance program in Florida; she thought, Where has this been all my life? Kolton Krouse, originally trained in ballet, left Juilliard before graduating to perform as Tumblebrutus in the revival of Cats. And Yeman Brown, who performed in Jagged Little Pill, has also danced with Reggie Wilson, a contemporary choreographer who has slyly referenced Fosse in his work for years. The cast of Bob Fosses Dancin isnt cookie cutter, and neither is Fosses choreography. Theres more to it than fishnet tights, bowler hats and thrusting hips. Fosses dance language subtle ... More
On Broadway, 'Bad Cinderella' is a rebel with a Brooklyn accent
NEW YORK, NY.- Linedy Genao vividly remembers the first time she saw herself represented on Broadway: In the first couple of lyrics, Usnavi says, Dominican Republic! I love it! Jesus, Im jealous of it and I almost jumped out of my seat in tears, Genao said of seeing In the Heights as a high school student in 2009. I was like: They said Dominican Republic on Broadway! I didnt know that was allowed! Fast forward 14 years, and Genao, 31, a Dominican American born in Brooklyn and raised in Hamden, Connecticut, is now in her first lead role on Broadway, starring in Andrew Lloyd Webbers Bad Cinderella, a contemporary musical adaptation of the classic fairy tale. I just hope to pave the way for so many other little Cinderellas who hopefully can see themselves represented onstage now, Genao, whose first name is pronounced ... More
The busy furniture hustlers of Silicon Valley
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Brandi Susewitz touched the curved stitching on a pair of bright red Arne Jacobsen Egg Chairs and announced they were worth around $5,000 each. The chairs were in pristine condition, perched in the reception area of the software company Sitecores office in downtown San Francisco. Trisha Murcia, Sitecores workplace manager, said she was most likely the only person who ever sat on them. Its really sad, she said. They opened this office in 2018 and then COVID happened. Murcia led Susewitz around Sitecores office, pointing out bar stools that had never been used, 90-inch flat screens, shiny conference room tables and accent chairs from the retailer Blu Dot. The whiteboard walls, outfitted with markers and erasers, were spotless. And rows upon rows of 30-by-60-inch height-adjustable Knoll desks ... More
Joshua Bell's London
LONDON.- The first time I came to London, I was 17, violinist Joshua Bell, now 54, told me. We were at dinner together following a recent performance of his at Wigmore Hall, a small but renowned concert hall. I came with my parents to make my first album, he continued. This was in the 80s, and I remember thinking there wasnt a lot of variety in food. Now, of course, its great. Bell estimates hes been to London around 70 times since then. So no, the virtuoso and onetime child prodigy doesnt live in London. But you could say hes a professional visitor. His London is one of exquisite taste, uncommonly good food and a handful of tiny places youd breeze right by if you didnt know they were there with, of course, a measure of music. Bell tends to favor lesser-known places, with one very notable exception: the Royal ... More
French documentary 'On the Adamant' wins top prize at Berlin Film Festival
BERLIN.- The top prize at this years Berlin International Film Festival, the Golden Bear, was awarded to On the Adamant, a French documentary about a floating barge in central Paris that offers care to people with mental disorders. The immersive feature, filmed by documentarian Nicolas Philibert over several months, follows the patients of the facility as they create music and artwork that often reflect their personal stories. The festivals top award is rarely given to a documentary, and in his acceptance speech, a clearly surprised Philibert asked the jury members if they were crazy. He said that he had made the film in part to reverse the stigmatizing views many have of people with mental health issues, and that his film aimed to erase the distinction between patients and caregivers. What unites us is a feeling of common humanity, he said. ... More
Fashioning a future in the face of war
NEW YORK, NY.- It has been 12 months since Russia began a brutal invasion of Ukraine, forcing millions to flee the country and devastating the local economy, including the budding fashion scene in Ukraines capital of Kyiv. The war is the reason that Ukraine Fashion Week came to London this season, with three designers Ivan Frolov, Ksenia Schnaider and Julie Paskal presenting new fall collections Feb. 21, the final day of shows at London Fashion Week. All of Ukraines fashion brand founders have faced numerous difficulties: deciding whether to leave their country or stay behind while under near constant attack; keeping their businesses afloat from a new city; and creating beauty in the face of such uncertainty. Here, four Ukrainian fashion designers share their stories of Feb. 24, 2022, and the months that followed. For them, continuing ... More
Ricardo DarÃn: Argentina's lucky charm at the Oscars
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIF.- Fortune has long favored Ricardo DarÃn. More than the subjective concept of talent, it is providence, manifested as other peoples unwavering confidence in his abilities, that the actor credits for his storied career as Argentinas most celebrated film star internationally. Ive had all the luck that my parents didnt have as actors, he said in Spanish during a recent interview at the Sunset Tower Hotel. Many times people have valued me far more than I value myself, and I often think, Do I deserve all that? The latest example of his relationship with Lady Luck is his turn as real-life prosecutor Julio Strassera in Argentina, 1985, a historical courtroom drama about the Trial of the Juntas, when military leaders were tried for human rights violations during the former dictatorship. Directed by Santiago Mitre, it earned ... More
Meet Vincent van Gogh Experience travels to Argentina
AMSTERDAM.- Following the successful edition of the Meet Vincent van Gogh Experience in Santiago de Chile, the Van Gogh Museum's only official Experience next travels to Buenos Aires. From 24 February 2023, visitors to the Argentinian capital can immerse themselves in Vincent van Goghs life story and iconic works as they experience interactive installations and lifelike decor. The Van Gogh Museum's mission is to inspire a diverse audience with the work and life story of Van Gogh and his time, at the museum in Amsterdam and beyond. The Meet Vincent van Gogh Experience is a journey through Vincent's life in six chapters, based on the knowledge and expertise of the Van Gogh Museums curators and Education Department. After visiting Beijing, Barcelona, London, Lisbon, Madrid and Santiago de Chile, and having sold ... More
Tom Luddy, a behind-the-scenes force in cinema, dies at 79
NEW YORK, NY.- Tom Luddy, a quietly influential film archivist and movie producer who was also a founder of the idiosyncratic Telluride Film Festival, died Feb. 13 at his home in Berkeley, California. He was 79. The cause was complications of Parkinsons disease, said Julie Huntsinger, executive director of the Telluride festival, a half-century-old gathering of cinephiles held in a tiny former mining town in Colorado. A transplant from the East Coast, Luddy landed in Berkeley in the 1960s, just in time to join the radical political activity that was afoot there, notably the Free Speech Movement that dominated the University of California campus in 1964. He worked at the Berkeley Cinema Guild, a two-screen art house that had once been managed by film critic Pauline Kael, after which he ran the Telegraph Repertory Cinema, another art-house theater, and joined the Pacific Film ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter JoaquÃn Sorolla was born February 27, 1863. JoaquÃn Sorolla y Bastida (27 February 1863 - 10 August 1923) was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the bright sunlight of his native land and sunlit water. In this image:JoaquÃn Sorolla y Bastida (1863â1923), Study of Hands, c. 1889. Charcoal on paper. Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas. Museum purchase with funds from Elizabeth Solender and Gary L. Scott, MM.2018.08. Photo by Kevin Todora.
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