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NEW YORK, NY.- Welcome to VFA .Todays video focuses on the Black artist Barbara Johnson Zuber and her remarkable life. Barbara Johnson Zuber was a Black American painter who grew up during the Harlem Renaissance living at the famous Dunbar Garden Apartments built by John D. Rockefeller where many notable Black artists, musicians, actors and important civil rights leaders lived. She attended extremely progressive schools at the time such as The Little Red School House and the Walden School whose direction was to develop a students identification through the visual and performing arts. She then went on to attend Yale Universitys School of Fine Arts and is recognized as the first woman to graduate from the prestigious School of Fine Arts. Zubers art developed in three distinct experiences in her life. The first is from the time she grew up in Harlem being exposed to and interacting with the leading figures in the arts, business, sports and politics. Her circle included Jaco ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Chris Levine, 528 Hz Love Frequency at Houghton Hall, Installation view, 2021, Courtesy the artist, Photo Michael Fung.
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| Palestinians unveil huge mosaic at Jericho desert castle | | Patrick Hughes 60th anniversary exhibition opens at Hang-Up | | Archaeologists in Mexico find 1,000-year-old Mayan canoe |
One of the largest mosaic panels in the world has been unveiled following a multi-year restoration project at Hisham's Palace in the West Bank city of Jericho on October 28, 2021. ABBAS MOMANI AFP.
JERICHO.- Palestinian authorities on Thursday unveiled one of the largest floor mosaics in the world, in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, after years of restoration. Resembling a fine carpet, the vast mosaic covers 836 square metres (8,998 square feet) at the Hisham Palace, an Ummayad Islamic desert castle dating from the eighth century. The images, seen on dozens of panels, include a lion attacking a deer to symbolise war and two gazelles which symbolise peace, as well as delicate floral and geometric designs. Hisham Palace had lain forgotten for centuries until it was rediscovered in the 19th century, and explored in the 1930s. It was then that the mosaic was uncovered beneath the dust. But it still remained neglected until five years ago when the site was closed to visitors as a $12 million Japan-funded restoration ... More | |
Hughes iconic reverse perspectives explore the nature of perception by way of optical illusion.
LONDON.- Hang-Up Gallery is presenting a solo show by British artist and inventor of reverspective Patrick Hughes, celebrating sixty-years since his first exhibition and twenty-five years living and working in East London. Nearly all the pieces on show are new and have not been exhibited before, many were created during lockdown in Hughes Hoxton studio. The show includes a collection of limited-edition prints, Hughes world famous three-dimensional reverse perspective paintings, an illustrated timeline of his significant career and new sculptural works which continue Hughes lifelong investigation into paradoxical perspectives, language, and the psychology of perception. Hang-Up will host a live Q&A with Patrick Hughes and former BBC arts correspondent Rosie Millard on the 25 November. Hughes has had a long relationship with the city of London, and latterly the east end an area he once referred to as ... More | |
A team of INAH underwater archaeologists found the pre-Hispanic vessel between the southern states of Yucatan and Quintana Roo in a cenote. Photo: Courtesy Oficina PenÃnsula de Yucatán de la SAS-INAH.
MEXICO CITY.- A well-preserved Mayan canoe, estimated to be about 1,000 years old, has been found in Mexico during construction work on a major rail link, the country's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said. A team of INAH underwater archaeologists found the pre-Hispanic vessel between the southern states of Yucatan and Quintana Roo in a cenote -- underground rivers that are common in the Yucatan Peninsula and sacred to the Maya people. It was found during work on the "Maya Train", President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's controversial tourism project which is intended to link Caribbean resorts with ancient archaeological sites. "The small boat could have been used for the extraction of water from the cenote or for the deposit of offerings during rituals," INAH ... More |
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| Exhibition explores the artistic synergy between two 20th-century icons | | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers to hold 'Rookwood & Ohio Art Pottery' sale on November 10 curated by Riley Humler | | Julien's Auctions announces highlights included in the Icons & Idols: Rock 'n' Roll auction |
Alexander Calder, Caryatid, 1928, wood, 101 x 21.6 x 14 cm, Calder Foundation, New York. © 2020 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
HOUSTON, TX.- Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso, seminal figures of 20th-century art, both ceaselessly challenged orthodox concepts about form, line, and space. The international touring exhibition Calder-Picasso presents a fascinating encounter between them, conceived by the artists grandsons, Alexander S. C. Rower and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso. The exhibition explores the artists prolific affinities through 80 works, integrating Calders paintings, drawings, and revolutionary mobiles and stabiles with Picassos radically inventive work in all media. Central to the many resonances is their shared conceptual interrogation of the void, or absence of space. Calder-Picasso is on view in Houston from October 31, 2021, through January 30, 2022, following presentations at the de Young museum in San Francisco and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Organized in partnership with the Calder ... More | |
Maria Longworth Nichols Storer for Rookwood Pottery, monumental Limoges style earthenware vase with applied squeeze bag net holding fish and a shark along with two green, bug-eyed octopi and a small crab. Estimate $7,000-9,000.
OAK PARK, IL.- On Wednesday, November 10, 2021, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will hold a Rookwood & Ohio Art Pottery sale curated by Director of Ceramics Riley Humler with 424 lots total, including vases, bowls, pitchers, lamps, figural works, scenic plaques, and more by distinguished artists and makers. This will mark the second auction at Toomey & Co. dedicated solely to art pottery. During Keramics & Rookwood: American & European Art Pottery on June 17, 2021, which Riley Humler also curated, 413 lots had a 97% sell-through rate and combined to realize nearly $700,000. On November 10, multiple works by Rookwood Pottery founder Maria Longworth Nichols Storer will be featured, such as a monumental Limoges style earthenware vase with an applied squeeze bag net holding fish, a shark, octopi, and a crab (estimate $7,000-9,000). The sale also has many Kataro ... More | |
Leading the lineup will be a 1968 Martin D-45 acoustic guitar, previously owned and stage-played by the guitarist whose influence shaped the history and sound of classic rock and roll, Eric Clapton.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions has announced the preeminent headliners of Icons & Idols: Rock 'n' Roll, the world-record breaking auction house to the stars annual music event of the season on Friday, November 19th and Saturday, November 20th, 2021 live in Hard Rock Cafe® New York and online at juliensauctions.com. Nearly 1,000 sensational artifacts and memorabilia owned and used by some of the worlds legendary music artists of all-time including The Beatles, Guns N Roses, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Robert Plant, Elvis Presley, Trent Reznor, Keith Richards, Eddie Van Halen, U2, and more will be offered. Leading the lineup will be a 1968 Martin D-45 acoustic guitar, previously owned and stage-played by the guitarist whose influence shaped the history and sound of classic rock and roll, Eric Clapton. The instrument was used by the guitar legend of seminal bands, The ... More |
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| Milton Avery nude leads Bonhams American Art sale in New York | | Christie's Paris to offer the Daniel Lebard Collection | | Glimpsing a soon-to-vanish surrealist world in Chelsea |
Milton Avery (1885-1965), Robed Nude. 68 1/8 x 58 1/8 in. (173 x 147.6 cm.) (Painted in 1960). Estimate: $1,000,000 - 1,500,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Milton Avery (1885-1965) was an artist who preferred things stripped back to the essential elements. Hoping to reveal the essence of nature, in the late 1940s he began to distil the figurative elements of his works into their base forms, removing all details of the composition which he found unnecessary. Painted in 1960, during the most important period of his career, Milton Avery's Robed Nude encapsulates his mature style of chromatic abstraction on a monumental scale. The work leads Bonhams American Art sale on November, Thursday 18 in New York with an estimate of $1,000,000-1,500,000. Head of Sale, Morgan Martin, commented: Painted at a time when absolute abstraction was the pinnacle of creativity, Robed Nude personifies Avery's status as a solitary figure working against the stream as Adolph Gottlieb eulogized. Avery has simplified the figures partially nude body to the simplest li ... More | |
Charlotte Perriand & Jean Prouvé, Table de bibliothèque éclairante. Estimate: 800,000 - 1,200,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
PARIS.- Christie's Paris presents Daniel Lebard's collection on November the 3rd. Gathered with passion and erudition, composed of more than 300 lots for an overall estimate of between 13 and 19 million euros. This collection is the fruit of forty years of passion and research and will be one of the highlights of the autumn. Initiated at the birth of the specific market in the 1950s, this collection has remained very private and today offers us a historical perspective on the evolution of 20th century design: more precisely, from the birth of the Mouvement Moderne in the 20s and 30s to the French 50s, which constitute its core. The discovery of Jean Prouvé's work, his deep admiration for the man, his work, his political and social commitment will be the foundation for Daniel Lebards future choices and naturally introduce him to the work of other major personalities of the U.A.M. : Pierre Chareau, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret, ... More | |
A bejeweled mask in the apartment of gallerist Neil Zukerman and his husband Tom Shivers in New York, Oct. 14, 2021. Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times.
by Susan Mulcahy
NEW YORK, NY.- In a former industrial building in Chelsea, Tom Shivers donned a silver sequined mask to greet a visitor. Similar to the costumes he and his husband, the gallerist Neil Zukerman, wore regularly at the Carnival of Venice, the glittery mask acted as both a coronavirus precaution and a fitting introduction to the astonishing world the pair created in their 3,200-square-foot apartment. It is a world that will soon be largely dismantled, with some works headed toward a museum of fantasy and surreal art. From 1992 to 2009, Zukerman, who died of cancer in August at age 81, was the owner of CFM Gallery on Greene Street in New York. He was also an avid collector of art and books by Surrealists, magical realists and fantasists. Surrealism Beyond Borders, the new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shows ... More |
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| Whisky baron's 1962 Aston Martin for sale with H&H Classics | | Chris Levine transforms Houghton Hall for winter commission | | Galerie Guido W. Baudach opens an exhibition of new works by Yves Scherer |
One of just 185 'Series IV' cars made.
LONDON.- This stunning 1962 Aston Martin Seires IV was supplied new by Callanders Garages Ltd of Glasgow to Alexander Whyte Esq of the Whyte & Mackay whisky dynasty one of just 185 such cars made. It is now up for sale with H&H Classics on November 17th at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford. According to its accompanying copy build record, chassis DB4/822/R was supplied new via Callanders Garages Ltd of Glasgow to Andrew Whyte Esq. of Tudor House, Skelmorlie. A member of the Whyte & MacKay whisky dynasty and a petrolhead to boot who had previously owned WO and Derby Bentleys, Mr Whyte specified the Aston Martin in the handsome combination of Snow Shadow Grey with Red leather upholstery. Fitted with a replacement gearbox, overdrive and 3.77:1 rear axle under warranty when it was six months old, the DB4 is understood to have remained in Scotland until the mid-1970s. With matching chassis and engine number ... More | |
Chris Levine, Photo: Michael Fung.
KINGS LYNN.- British artist Chris Levine unveiled a new body of site specific-works created for the inaugural Autumn Winter exhibition at Houghton Hall, Norfolk. 528 Hz Love Frequency (22 October - 23 December 2021) is a major solo presentation that transforms and illuminates unique environs of the house and grounds. The centrepiece of the exhibition is Molecule of Light, a new six tonne monumental sculpture 25m in height, which comes to life as darkness falls, projecting light and 3D ambisonic soundscape across an imposing landscape. The exhibition also includes a series of new holographic artworks, prints and immersive laser and LED installations. Each distinctive work is characteristic of Levines unique and cutting-edge creations, which harness the immersive properties of light and sound. The artist describes his practice as using light and geometry to create a space where consciousness and the physical ... More | |
Yves Scherer, What if Yves made applejuice, 2021 Farbe und Lack auf Aluminium Paint and lacquer on aluminium, 145 x 85 x 70 cm. Courtesy the artist & Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin. Photo: Roman März.
BERLIN.- Galerie Guido W. Baudach is presenting its fourth solo exhibition of works by Swiss born and New York based artist Yves Scherer. Under the title Family Time, Scherer shows, among other things, new works from the three most important work groups of recent years: a hyperrealistic sculpture, lenticular prints and combined paintings. In continuation of the crosswork narrative that has always characterized his practice, a targeted linking of celebrity culture, fan fiction and his own, sometimes very personal life experiences takes place here. For those who associate Yves Scherer primarily with the artistic appropriation of acting stars such as Emma Watson, Lindsay Lohan and Vincent Cassel, the sculpture placed centrally in the exhibition may at first seem unfamiliar. It stands there, modelled larger than life, the figure of a ... More |
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Major new art installations announced for London
LONDON.- Paddington Square, Londons new quarter for work, retail and dining at the heart of Paddingtons regeneration, has today announced a major programme of public art commissions, comprising first London permanent public works by internationally renowned artists Ugo Rondinone, Pae White and Catherine Yass. The artworks will be unveiled with the full opening of Paddington Square next year. A site-specific 5-metre bronze sculpture by Ugo Rondinone will provide a bold new focal point for the millions of visitors travelling between Praed Street and Paddington station each year. Pae White will suspend a large and experiential installation that caps four levels of shops and restaurants both above and below ground, opening out onto a new public piazza and framing the entrance to the new landmark 14 storey workspace designed ... More
New body of sculptures from Nancy Rubins' Fluid Space series on view at Rhona Hoffman Gallery
CHICAGO, IL.- Rhona Hoffman Gallery is presenting a new body of sculptures from Nancy Rubins Fluid Space series, alongside new works on paper. Throughout her decades-long career, Rubins has been interested in forms and materials, often known best for her gravity-defying large-scale sculptures. In her most recent sculptural series, Rubins continues her practice of assembling found objects through the use of wiring. She has further developed this sculptural series by abstracting her found materials, and, working on a much more intimate scale, created calligraphic sculptural forms. Slippies Lane (2021) features a swirl of mixed metals and patterns, with organic forms resembling calla lilies and tendrils emanating from its center. Spinnies Orb (2021) is monochromatic in hue, featuring aluminum branches and curls composed in a helix-like form. Rubins ... More
Tunisia film festival opens with 'taboo' abortion movie
TUNIS.- Tunisia's prestigious Carthage Film Festival has opened with a screening of "Lingui" -- a movie from Chad about a teenage girl who seeks an abortion. The festival showcases 57 diverse films from 45 Arab and African countries, with screenings not only in cinemas, but in prisons and military barracks too. Social issues are a common thread of the festival, with the opening film Lingui, by Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, telling the story of a 15-year-old seeking an abortion in a country where it is condemned. Haroun said he was honoured to open the festival Saturday with "a taboo subject". "It is a... political choice on the part of the festival, because it is a sub-Saharan film, which talks about the rights of women, in Arab countries and around the world," he said. Under the slogan "Let's dream, Let's live", the festival is taking place across the capital ... More
Fridman Gallery opens Water Rhythms, an exhibition at its Beacon location
BEACON, NY.- Fridman Gallery is pleased to announce Water Rhythms, an exhibition at its Beacon location, presenting a recent series of sewn paintings by Paolo Arao and an eponymous multi-channel sound installation by Susie Ibarra and Michele Koppes. Paolo Araos textile works are pieced and sewn from handcrafted and found fabrics, such as drop cloths, second-hand clothing, and traditional weavings from his native Philippines. The resulting works resemble flags or quilts, mapping and embodying histories of the people and places from which they came. Reflecting Araos background as a concert pianist, his patterns recall chord progressions and may be read as graphic scores. The sound installation Water Rhythms is a collaboration between composer, percussionist, and sound artist Susie Ibarra and glaciologist, geographer, and climate ... More
Celebrating a phoenix of a home in Los Angeles
NEW YORK, NY.- When Joyce Poulson was awakened by her fire alarm in the early morning of Nov. 12, 2018, she didnt see any flames or smell smoke. She went upstairs in her butterfly-roof house in Los Angeles Silver Lake neighborhood to try to turn off the alarm and, failing at that, called the alarm company. While I was on the phone a tornado of fire came up the stairs, she said. I had to run by it to get to the door. I dont know how my nightgown did not catch on fire. By sunrise it was clear that her 1,640-square-foot, wood-frame home had burned to the studs because of an errant ember that had been trapped, invisible, between the fireplace and the wall. Her insurance company would soon call the historically important building a total loss. Today, the 69-year-old house, originally designed by Gregory Ain, Joseph Johnson and Alfred Day for Marjorie ... More
eL Seed unveils new art installation in Nepal, explores the topic of women empowerment
GIRANCHAUR.- French-Tunisian artist eL Seed unveiled a visually and emotionally arresting and gigantic art installation in Giranchaur, Nepal, a small village three hours from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. The 170 meter installation was realized with the assistance of 12 local women from the village and explores the topic of women empowerment. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal on April 25, 2015, collapsing buildings in Kathmandu, the capital city, and creating landslides and avalanches in the Himalaya Mountains, killing nearly 9,000 and leaving more than 22,000 injured. As the country began to rebuild, women took a leading role in the reconstruction of the society around them. In Giranchaur, a small village three hours away from Kathmandu, the many women of the village were trained in construction work and basic architecture, where others ... More
Jennifer Packer's first solo museum exhibition in New York features new paintings and rarely exhibited drawings
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, the Whitney presents Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing, the artists first major solo museum exhibition in New York. Jennifer Packer (b. 1984, Philadelphia, PA) combines observation, memory, and improvisation in paintings and drawings that focus on the emotional experience of Black people and the environments they inhabit. The exhibition features over thirty works from 201120, including new paintings and rarely exhibited drawings. Coming to the Whitney from Serpentine in London, the exhibition will be on view in the Museums eighthfloor Hurst Family Galleries from October 30, 2021 to Spring 2022. The Whitneys presentation of The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing ... More
Rarely seen installations by Betye Saar inaugurate fall season at ICA Miami
MIAMI, FLA.- Rarely-seen installation works by pioneering artist Betye Saar (b. 1926) receive their first dedicated exhibition in more than three decades at ICA Miami. Serious Moonlight spans significant installations created from 1984 to 1998, including Oasis (1984), a work that has been reconfigured for the first time in more than 30 years. Showcasing this lesser-known aspect of the artist's practice, the survey provides new insights into Saar's explorations of ritual, spirituality, and cosmologies, as well as themes of the African diaspora. Curated by ICA Miami Curator Stephanie Seidel, Serious Moonlight is on view at ICA Miami from October 28, 2021 through April 17, 2022. "Betye Saar's impact on art history is undeniable, yet important aspects of her innovative body of work have yet to be fully explored," said ICA Miami Artistic Director Alex Gartenfeld. "Serious ... More
Instituto Inhotim announces new artistic director and executives
BRUMADINHO.- Starting in January 2022, Instituto Inhotim will have a new executive and artistic board, Lucas Pessôa (managing director), Paula Azevedo (deputy managing director), and Julieta González (artistic director), who will head the museums exhibitions and programs. The main objective of the new board is to expand the institutions social outreach, and to make Inhotim more open and permeable to other forms of knowledge within its program. The ecological perspective in its broad dimension will take on a central role in the artistic and educational program, aiming to promote unique experiences and to foster critical thinking through an interdisciplinary approach. Inhotim has just commemorated its 15th anniversary, and this change stems from its desire to institutionalize management and project its future in an even more solid ... More
The Städel Museum exhibits 130 drawings and one video work by Marc Brandenburg
FRANKFURT.- The Städel Museum is presenting a solo exhibition dedicated to Marc Brandenburg from 28 October 2021 to 30 January 2022. Approximately 130 drawings and one video work are being shown in a site-specific installation: Shrouded in black light, Brandenburgs drawings, inverted into the negative, are reminiscent of a visual diary of thoughts, memories, and sensory impressions from the last thirty years. For nearly three decades, the artist Marc Brandenburg has been working on a graphic Gesamtkunstwerk. In doing so, he constantly expands the boundaries of the traditional medium of drawing and transfers it to our present day always at the interface with photography, the moving image, sound, or performance. His art builds a bridge to the Städel as a museum of images which, with more than 100,000 works on paper, ... More
Bobbie Moline-Kramer's second solo exhibition at Lichtundfire on view in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Lichtundfire is presenting The Power of One, Bobbie Moline-Kramers second solo exhibition at the gallery. Moline-Kramers new series of paintings is accompanied by suspended 3-D-printed sculptures, hanging lines that are based on each one of her paintings, depicting individuals that changed the world- presently and in the past. Based on both astronomy and astrology, Moline-Kramers mixed-media star chart paintings are individual portraits revealing and pointing to the power that a singular person posses to have a wide-reaching positive impact on our humanity that changes the until then anticipated course of history. In the artists own words: The concept of this body of work is twofold: the wonder of our world and the power of one person to change that world. When I was still in my early teens, I discovered through the Vietnam ... More
AstaGuru's Heirloom Jewellery, Silver, & Timepieces Online Auction garners INR 12,55,98,033 Crores
MUMBAI.- AstaGuru's recent auction titled Heirloom Jewellery, Silver, and Timepieces, held on October 26-27, 2021 generated a total sales value of INR 12,55,98,033 Crores (US$ 1,744,390). The jewellery segment of the auction was finely curated with 50 lots of exquisite heirloom and vintage pieces created with some of the highest quality gems from across the globe. The magnificent collection also showcased the deft jewellery craftsmanship from Europe and the Indian subcontinent with Art Deco pieces and traditional Indian gold jewellery. The auction with a total of 133 lots also showcased hallmark silver collectables, as well as exceptional timepieces from top watch brands in the world. Commenting on the results Jay Sagar, Jewellery Specialist, AstaGuru, said, We are very happy with the auction results which indicates the fact that ... More
New from the bearded badass of logo design, James Martin
BEVERLY, MASS.- In Made by James (Rockport Publishers / January 4, 2022 / US $40.00) UK-based graphic designer James Martin shares his wealth of experience, information, and advice with one goal in mind: to help designers of all levels create better work and enjoy the process. James has designed hundreds of logos for a variety of top brands, and shares his unique creative process, from concept to sketches to final design. Learn how to create outstanding logos, craft and refine your creative process, build great relationships with clients, and become prolific and consistent. Discover how James creates innovative, clever, and memorable logos with his own hands-on, step-by-step process that includes word mapping, rapid prototyping, and sketching ideas on paper. Learn how to become a visual storyteller by understanding the key ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and educator William Merritt Chase was born November 01, 1849. William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 - October 25, 1916) was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons The New School for Design. In this image: William Merritt Chase (American, 1849 - 1916), The Young Orphan (An Idle Moment) by 1884. Oil on canvas. National Academy Museum, New York. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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