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Emmanuelle Polack with her research materials at the Louvre Museums Centre du Dominique-Vivant Denon in Paris, June 23, 2021. Polack is the face of the French museums efforts to return stolen works. But some discoveries have put her employer in an awkward situation. Joann Pai/The New York Times.
by Elaine Sciolino
PARIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In a frenzied, four-day auction in the grand hall of the Savoy Hotel in Nice in June 1942, buyers bid on paintings, sculptures and drawings from the cabinet of a Parisian art lover. Among the 445 pieces for sale were works by Degas, Delacroix, Renoir and Rodin. The administrator monitoring the sale, appointed by the French collaborationist Vichy regime, and René Huyghe, a paintings curator at the Louvre, knew the real identity of the art lover: Armand Isaac Dorville, a successful Parisian lawyer. They also knew that he was Jewish. After Hitlers armies invaded and occupied Paris in 1940, the Vichy government began to actively persecute Jews. Barred from his law practice, Dorville fled Paris to the unoccupied free zone in southern France. He died there of natural causes in 1941. The Louvres Huyghe bought 12 lots from Dorvilles collection with government funds on behalf of Frances national museums, and the Vichy authorities seized the procee ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A series of major new commissions by international artists are being presented this summer by Artangel on Orford Ness -a windswept strip of land stretching several miles along the Suffolk coast owned by the National Trust and known locally as the 'island of secrets'.Accessible only by boat, Orford Ness's environment shifts from mud flats, salt marshes and brackish lagoons, to shingle ridges that are home to a unique ecosystem of flora and fauna and an eroding coastline.
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| 'Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Creativity and Competition' opens at the National Gallery of Canada | | Lucy Lacoste Gallery announces online exhibition 'Lily Fein and Josephine Burr: Articulating Space' | | Kota Ezawa reenvisions missing masterpieces | 
Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-portrait Wearing a Hat and Two Chains, c. 164243, oil on panel, 72 à 54.8 cm. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. (331 / 1976.90). Photo © Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
OTTAWA.- One of the most celebrated artists of the European tradition, Rembrandt van Rijn (16061669) was multi-talented: a painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Known for emotional authenticity and lifelike character expressed in all his work, Rembrandt created art that is broadly relatable and engaging. The National Gallery of Canada presents, from July 16 to September 6, 2021, the exhibition Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Creativity and Competition, which traces Rembrandts development during the transformative central decades of his career, beginning with his move in 1632 from Leiden to Amsterdam. The exhibition, organized by the National Gallery of Canada and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt, presents more than 120 works, drawn from more than 30 prestigious ... More | | 
Installation view.
CONCORD, MASS.- Lucy Lacoste Gallery is presenting Lily Fein and Josephine Burr: Articulating Space, showing July 10th through August 7th at 25 Main Street, Concord, MA. In this poetic show, two women ceramic artists with ties to Massachusetts challenge the boundaries of traditional ceramics and contemporary sculpture. The show is a visual treat with both artists using the age-old technique of coiling and pinching to create their forms yet producing very different work. Their work is contemporarytaking unusual shapes, embracing light in new ways, and shifting the expected boundaries of artist, object, viewer, and artistic convention. Lily Fein, working intuitively, makes soft, undulating forms suggesting or relating to the human body. Feins hand is manifestly present yet subsumed by the liveliness of her pieces. Josephine Burr gives us objectivity, tempered by the hand. Beneath the stillness and bare weight of Burrs practice, a ... More | | 
Kota Ezawa (Japanese-German, b. 1969), The Concert, 2015. Duratrans transparency and LED light box, 28 1/2 Ã 25 1/2 inches. Collection of Nion McEvoy.
ATHENS, GA.- Over 30 years ago, thieves disguised as police officers entered Bostons Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, tied up the night guards and stole paintings, including ones by Rembrandt, Manet, Degas and Vermeer. Despite this act being one of the largest art heists in history, the case remains cold and the art is still missing. The traveling exhibition Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art is on display at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia from July 17 until December 5, 2021. The exhibition includes 13 works of art that pay homage to the objects stolen during the Gardner Museum heist in 1990. The California-based artist Kota Ezawa uses light boxes, color-blocked graphics and video animation to re-create the missing masterpieces. Although his re-creations are simplified, they remain instantly recognizable, which illustrates the hold that certain ... More |
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| New exhibitions with works by Charly Palmer, Jerry Jordan, and Barber open at Portrait Society Gallery | | Ellsworth Kelly's lifelong practice of collaged postcards are the focus of a major museum exhibition | | Exhibition of two hundred works on paper by Lee Lozano opens at Karma | 
Charly Palmer, Peace. Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 in.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art is presenting a new exhibition, Charly Palmer: On the Shoulders of Many, running through September 4. In addition, two adjacent shows present work by Jerry Jordan and the artist known as Barber. Charly Palmer will be in Milwaukee to discuss his work at 6 p.m. July 30. Palmer presents a new group of work that addresses the influences of both historic and contemporary individuals. Originally from Milwaukee, Charly Palmer (b. 1960) has lived in Atlanta, Georgia since 1991. This is the first time he has shown his work in Milwaukee since he left 30 years ago. In recent years, Palmer has achieved national acclaim. His painting In Her Eyes was featured on the cover of Time Magazine (July 6, 2020), when he was commissioned by Time to respond to the murder of George Floyd. His painting His Story was part of Maya Angelous art collection, au ... More | | 
Ellsworth Kelly, Nose / Sailboat, 1974, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches, collection of Ellsworth Kelly Studio and Jack Shear, © Ellsworth Kelly Foundation.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY.- The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery presents Ellsworth Kelly: Postcards, a comprehensive survey of postcard collages by American artist Ellsworth Kelly, on view from July 10 through November 28, 2021. The exhibition marks the first time Kellys lifelong practice of collaged postcards are the focus of a major museum exhibition. Widely regarded as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Kelly (19232015) is known for his abstract paintings, sculptures, and prints that are masterworks in the exploration of line, form, and color. Over the course of more than fifty years, the artist made approximately 400 postcard collages, some of which served as exploratory musings and others as studies for larger works in other media. They range from his first monochrome in 1949 ... More | | 
Lee Lozano, no title, 1959. Ink and brush on board, 16¾ x 13⅞ inches; 42.7 x 35.3 cm. 18⅞ x 15⅞ in. (framed); 48 x 40.3 cm (framed). © The Estate of Lee Lozano, courtesy of Hauser & Wirth and Karma, New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Karma is presenting Lee Lozano: Drawings 195964, a solo exhibition of two hundred works on paper. The comprehensive survey inaugurates Karmas 22 East 2nd Street location. Lozanos drawings register a social consciousness that was radical for its time and continues to be groundbreaking in the present day. Her transgressive and experimental illustrations dissect institutionalized power, behavioral propriety, and gender socialization with zealous intensity. Challenging norms of respectability, Lozanos works are anti-skill, antisocial, antithetical, a manly, macho display, figured in the touch and tone as much as in the innuendos and imagery, as Tamar Gabar aptly notes. The works on display span from ... More |
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| Solo exhibition of new work by Phillip Lai on view at Modern Art | | Sikkema Jenkins & Co. presents a group show featuring works by Brenda Goodman, Arturo Herrera, and Cameron Martin | | Stephenson's to host surprise-filled Mid-Summer Trains & Toys Auction, July 23 | 
Phillip Lai, Blue Food, 2021. Cast pigmented concrete, 9.5 x 286 x 64 cm. 3 3/4 x 112 5/8 x 25 1/4 ins. © Phillip Lai. Courtesy: the artist and Modern Art, London. Photo: Ben Westoby.
LONDON.- Modern Art is presenting a solo exhibition of new work by Phillip Lai. Since the early 1990s, Phillip Lai has been working with sculpture to develop a visual language that enables a certain kind of thinking about abstraction and specificity in the ubiquitous objects and material that much of human life depends upon for sustenance and survival. Lai returns to similar typologies of objects in his work. Containers plates, sinks, bowls, or barrels the receptacles that typically carry raw materials or food, repeatedly appear in Lais sculptures, often alongside other motifs, such as cloth in the form of jute, clothing, tarpaulin layers utilized to provide protection, shelter or warmth. Lai works within a language of these foundational formal motifs to consider how visual and conceptual attention is structured in daily life. Phillip ... More | | 
Arturo Herrera, Untitled, 2016. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 15.375 x 11.375 inches (39 x 29 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is presenting a group show featuring works by Brenda Goodman, Arturo Herrera, and Cameron Martin. The exhibition explores each artists unique interpretation of abstraction through the accumulation of layers. Cameron Martins works on paper ripple with the meticulous application of marker, melding stroke into stroke to effect a shimmering, dimensional color field. His canvases are painted in overlapping, often transparent layers using techniques that complicate the distinction between the handmade and the mechanical. Both Brenda Goodman and Arturo Herrera consider the presence of negative space in their paintings, through differing compositional processes. Herreras collages are created by the application of loose, bold paint strokes upon cut photographs and found media. Alternately concealing and revealing visual information, the resulting work ... More | | 
1930s Schuco (Germany) tin wind-up violin player, felt clothing, 6in tall. Estimate $125-$250.
SOUTHAMPTON, PA.- On Friday, July 23, Stephensons Auctioneers of Southampton (suburban Philadelphia), Pa., will conduct the 2021 edition of its popular Mid-Summer Trains & Toys Auction, featuring antique and vintage items from collections and estates through the Mid-Atlantic region. The sale will take place at the companys spacious Bucks County gallery, with remote bidding available via phone or live online through LiveAuctioneers. A featured attraction of the 333-lot sale is a single-owner collection of factory-boxed HO-gauge brass loco/tenders and train cars with a timeline spanning the 1970s through 2000s. Most of the plastic-wrapped original boxes have never been opened, allowing the trains to remain in pristine condition for decades. There are many examples by the Korean manufacturers Samhongsa and Ajin Precision, a firm based in Seoul that produced high-quality sets for Overland Models Inc., of Muncie, ... More |
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| Amy Feldman now represented by Galerie Eva Presenhuber | | Artspace Projects announces new workforce housing development in Bentonville | | Leading artists support Art UK in September fundraising auction | 
Amy Feldman in her studio, Photo: Bjorn Iooss.
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber announced the representation of American artist Amy Feldman. Feldmans first exhibition with the gallery will open in New York on September 10, 2021. Feldman is also creating a new painting for Galerie Eva Presenhubers Art Basel presentation this September. I first saw a painting by Amy Feldman in 2015 when she was part of the exhibition 'New York Painting' at Kunstmuseum Bonn in Germany. The exhibition explored the renaissance painting was experiencing at the time through the works of 11 New York-based artists. Amys paintings spoke to me through their curious forms and quiet power, and I began to follow her work. I am thrilled that we are now working together and that we will be able to share her newest paintings with the gallery's audience in New York and Basel in just a few months. Eva Presenhuber Amy Feldman (b. 1981) lives and works in New York, NY, US. Feldman is recognized ... More | | 
New 50-unit development will provide work/live spaces that support Northwest Arkansas creative economy.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Minneapolis-based Artspace Projects announced plans to advance a new 50-unit mixed-use project with live/work housing for artists in downtown Bentonville, the SOMO Artspace Lofts. The medium density workforce housing development will help address critical housing needs in the region. SOMO Artspace Lofts will provide affordable housing for artists, creatives and their families, and provide vital infrastructure to help sustain a rapidly growing creative workforce in an emerging arts destination in the Heartland. A grant from the Walton Family Foundation supported the buildings design. The SOMO Artspace Lofts will build on community efforts to support Northwest Arkansas creative workforce by providing access to affordable spaces to live and create art, said Greg Handberg, senior vice president of properties at Artspace. SOMO stands for South of the Momentary, as the project is directly south of the ... More | | 
Eileen Cooper, The Watcher and the Dancer, 2020, oil on canvas, 56 x 45cm © Eileen Cooper. Photo: Justin Piperger.
LONDON.- This September, Art UK - the cultural education charity that is bringing together the nations art on one platform - launches a major fundraising initiative comprising an auction and a fixed-price sale of print editions. The initiative will feature some of the UKs leading contemporary artists together with some of the nations most exciting new generation of painters, sculptors and printmakers. Over 60 artists including Rana Begum RA, Marius Bercea, Stephen Chambers RA, Eileen Cooper RA, Richard Deacon RA, David Mach RA, Humphrey Ocean RA, Cornelia Parker OBE RA, Veronica Ryan, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, Bob and Roberta Smith OBE RA, Bernar Venet and Rose Wylie RA are among those confirmed, with a full list of artist names to be announced in September. Aligning with Art UKs mission to democratise the world of art, the auction and print sale ... More |
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 Underexamined, women-led pattern and decoration movement explored in expansive exhibitionANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY.- The Hessel Museum of Art is presenting With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 19721985, the first full-scale scholarly North American survey of the groundbreaking yet understudied Pattern and Decoration art movement, originally on view at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), from October 2019 to March 2020. Spanning the years 1972 to 1985 and featuring 45 artists from across the United States, With Pleasure examines the Pattern and Decoration movements defiant embrace of forms traditionally coded as feminine, domestic, ornamental, or craft-based and thought to be categorically inferior to fine art. On view from June 26 to November 28, 2021, as part of CCS Bards 30th anniversary season, the exhibition includes major works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection of Contemporary ... More  Nevada Museum of Art presents exhibition of Andrea Zittel and High Desert Test SitesRENO, NV.- In 2000, artist Andrea Zittel relocated from Brooklyn, New York, to a property she purchased in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree National Park, where she established a home, studio, and testing grounds called A-Z West. In 2002, with collaborators Andy Stillpass, John Connelly, Lisa Anne Auerbach, and Shaun Caley Regen, she established High Desert Test Sites (HDTS)a series of ephemeral, experimental site-specific projects including sculpture, performance, workshops, and intimate exchanges. HDTS became best known for its roving biennial events, with installations spread across locations that have stretched from Joshua Tree to Albuquerque. HDTS also hosts a residency program, holds film screenings, produces publications, and conducts community-based programs such as Kips Desert Book Club and High Desert Test ... More  Exhibition of works by Anne Appleby, Vija Celmins, On Kawara, and Daniel Turner opens at Franklin Parrasch GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Franklin Parrasch Gallery is presenting Moments Between Events, an exhibition of works by Anne Appleby, Vija Celmins, On Kawara, and Daniel Turner. In a 1977 interview with writer Tony Hiss, MoMAs then-curator of photography John Sworkowski used the phrase moments between events to describe the sensibility of time and space in the work of photographer Stephen Shore (1), adding that these points are not boring, not empty - but suspended. The frailty and fragility of life, memory, and matter, and how those things never completely leave but are continuously in a state of transformation, is a thought concertedly addressed by each of these artists. The works in this show engage a transition where materials ... More  Kandis Williams receives 2020 Mohn AwardLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum announced that Kandis Williams will receive the $100,000 Mohn Award honoring artistic excellence, in conjunction with Made in L.A. 2020: a version. The museum will also produce a monograph of Williamss work as part of the Mohn Award. Monica Majoli will receive the Career Achievement Award honoring brilliance and resilience, and Fulton Leroy Washington (MR. WASH) will receive the Public Recognition Award, as chosen by visitors to the Made in L.A. 2020 exhibition at both the Hammer Museum and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Majoli and MR. WASH will each receive $25,000. Funded by Los Angeles philanthropists and art collectors Jarl and Pamela Mohn, the Mohn Awards have been given to artists with each edition of the Made in L.A. biennial, which began in 2012. ... More  Exhibition features work by contemporary Black artists who engage both historical events and current discourseCLEVELAND, OH.- New Histories, New Futures centers on three contemporary Black artists engagement with time and historical revisionism. Johnny Coleman (b. 1958, based in Oberlin, OH) uses sculpture, sound and projection in a large-scale immersive installation that revitalizes the marginalized history of one groups journey north on the Underground Railroad. Antwoine Washington (b. 1980, based in Cleveland, OH) paints portraits of his own young family to counteract the stereotype of the absent Black father in a style that pays homage to artists of the Harlem Renaissance. The North Star project by Kambui Olujimi (b. 1976, based in Queens, NY) features eight never-before-seen paintings of weightless, floating Black ... More  Exhibition presents a dialogue between Cologne-based artist David Ostrowski and Berlin-based artist Oliver OsborneBARCELONA.- Pas une Orange is presenting kSuL22svwBxgJ2Z, its second exhibition, a dialogue between Cologne-based artist David Ostrowski and Berlin-based artist Oliver Osborne. The show presents several paintings of Ostrowski's new series 'F (Design Object), 2021' and a selection of Osborne's serie of rubber plants (all 2020), which are part of an ongoing exploration of this subject that the artist started in 2013. This selection of 8 works, presented for the first time in Spain, represent the first collaboration between the two artists. The show will be open until September 19th, 2021 for the Barcelona Gallery Weekend. Trying to paint in the same way as Flaubert was trying to write "a book about nothing", about writing itself. ... More  Derek Eller Gallery opens solo exhibitions of works by William Downs and André EthierNEW YORK, NY.- Derek Eller Gallery is presenting Pieces of a Man, a solo exhibition of monumental black ink and spray paint works on canvas and paper by William Downs. Utilizing his own well-developed visual language in which androgynous moving bodies fluidly interact within a Bosch-ian landscape, Downs composes scenes which evoke compassion, vulnerability, darkness, and light. Downs applies India ink with brushes, sticks, and brooms, creating a lexicon of mark-making which denotes movement, weight, and depth. Rendered in a line which fluctuates from tight and calligraphic to watery and loose, Downs figures are hairless and barefoot. At times, facial features are blurred and repeated, indicating motion. Bodies are either naked or clad in cactus suits, a prickly protective layer which covers most everything but leaves the face and buttocks ... More  Early-career artists selected for Film London's FLAMIN Fellowship development schemeLONDON.- Six early-career artist-filmmakers have been selected for the fourth edition of Film Londons FLAMIN Fellowship scheme, a development programme offering mentoring, seed finance and professional development alongside access to audiences, curators and established artist advisors. Taking vastly different approaches to the moving image, the selected artists utilize hybrid documentary, performance, 3D world-building, puppetry, collage, archival footage, text and poetry within their varied work. Projects supported through this round of The Fellowship explore bold and diverse themes, offering insights into the mythical landscapes of Ireland and North Africa, queer counter-histories and rainbow capitalism, as well as Afro-Caribbean folklore. Other projects will explore systems of caste, diasporic memory and transgenerational trauma ... More  Elton John's Steinway piano that traveled the world for 20 years sold for $915,000 at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- Sir Elton Johns much-loved Steinway Grand Piano, (circa 1972) sold for an astounding $915,000 Saturday, July 17, during Heritage Auctions landmark Entertainment & Music memorabilia event. Aggressive bidding skyrocketed the auction price as a bidding war broke out between phone bidders while others bid through the internet on Heritage LIVE!. Bidding opened Saturday afternoon at $240,000. But befitting an instrument used by the Rocket Man, it quickly took off from there. The piano set an auction house record as the most expensive musical instrument Heritage has ever sold. Sir Elton signed the piano on the gilded cast-iron frame. In permanent black ink, he wrote, Enjoy this as much as I have, Elton John. Talk about a personal touch for his personal favorite guitar. It was offered at auction by Curtis Schwartz, a longtime music ... More  Tiwani Contemporary opens an exhibition of work by a group of new, emerging voices in contemporary artLONDON.- Tiwani Contemporary is presenting a three-person exhibition of work by a group of new, emerging voices in contemporary art including Ryan Christopher (UK), Miranda Forrester (UK) and Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson (USA). Poetic Sustenance marks the debut showing of these artists at the gallery. Ryan Christopher considers faith, ephemera, experience, the everyday, the hidden and the peripheral. Emerging from collective experiences and artistic practices peculiar to the African, Caribbean and Asian diaspora, the artists cross-disciplinary work presents chance, elliptical encounters with objects, materials, and images. In doing so, he draws on horticulture, theological anthropology, reflective film, Antillean literature, postcolonial theory to emphasise ideas around poetic knowledge, renewal, possibility, emancipatory thinking, ... More  A fashion show that pretty much was a work of artNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Venice Biennale has long been a magnet for the fashion flock, a place to trawl for art and ideas the way it once shopped for buttons and trim in the garment districts of the world; to perhaps engineer the Next Big Art/Fashion collaboration, a mutually beneficial back-scratching arrangement of marketing and commerce that has begun to seem as mechanical as the Ford assembly line. This past week, however, with a couture show at the Architecture Biennale, Pierpaolo Piccioli of Valentino took the relationship to an entirely different, more meaningful, level. Since around October 2020, he has been conversing with 17 contemporary artists about their work, sure, but mostly about life in general, process, emotion, what turns them on thinking about how to integrate their points of commonality in cloth. Not ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Edgar Degas was born July 19, 1834. Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 - 27 September 1917), was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist. A superb draftsman, he is especially identified with the subject of the dance, and over half of his works depict dancers. In this image: An auction house worker poses for the photographers behind a sculpture by Edgar Degas, ahead of an auction sale in central London, Friday, June 15, 2012.
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