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NEW YORK, NY.- Throughout history, women have been creating art forever! They have also been overlooked and undervalued compared to their male counterparts. The challenges they have faced due to gender has created huge barriers in education, training, traveling and representation. They have also been stereotyped as using certain mediums such as textiles and ceramics with insinuations of demoting them to the category of arts and crafts. For as long as Vallarino has been an art dealer, he has dealt with women artists who have utilized a variety of mediums such as painting, sculpture and photography. He has found that women seemed to be freer with their creative attitudes and observations trusting their inner curiosity, intuition and following their instincts. This approach applied more to the late 19th and early 20th centuries as the majority of these artists, at that time, were from wealthy families and werent as competitive with t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Nahmad Contemporary is presenting Richard Prince: Cartoon Jokes, the first exhibition dedicated to the artistÂs brazen, large-scale Cartoon Joke paintings. On view from Nov. 12, 2020, through Jan. 16, 2021, the presentation features an impressive selection of works created between 1988 and 1991 from this notably rare series that appropriate irreverent humor and mark PrinceÂs cunning foray into painting.
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 | | Louis K. Meisel Gallery now representing Davis Cone and Rod E. Penner | | Asia Week New York 'LIVE' zooms-in on Tales of Conservation, Science, and Asian Art | | Nahmad Contemporary opens first exhibition dedicated to Richard Prince's brazen, large-scale Cartoon Joke paintings | 
Davis Cone,York/Walking the Dogs, 2019 (detail), acrylic on board, 24 x 24 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Louis K. Meisel Gallery announced its representation of artists Davis Cone and Rod E. Penner, Photorealists whose work have made instrumental developments to the movement. Both artists have long been championed by Louis Meisel, who has included them in his books on the subject, as well as numerous museum exhibitions worldwide. We are delighted to welcome both Cone and Penner to the gallery. I have greatly admired and celebrated their work for many decades, and we are very pleased to be working with them both, said Louis Meisel, founder of the gallery. We look forward to future presentations of their new work. Davis Cones beloved paintings of theatre marquees capture an American icon from a time gone by. Always a cityscape painter, Cone honed in on his signature imagerythe marqueeearly on, during the 1970s. To date, he has carefully and painstakingly painted over 100 works from locations acros ... More | | 
A Cosmetic Set of Seven Black-lacquer Boxes with Silver and Gold Appliqué, China, Western Han dynasty (2nd-1st c. BCE). Lengths range from 4.0 to 15.0 cm. (1 1/2 to 5 7/8 in.). Photo: Courtesy Kaikodo LLC.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Week New York is pleased to announce that Tales in Conservation: The Application of Science to Asian Arta live panel discussion featuring world renowned expertswill be held on Thursday, November 18 at 5:00 p.m. EST, 2:00 p.m. PST. This is a one-time opportunity to hear these speakers address issues that are important to collectors. "Science and conservation are inextricably aligned in the field of Asian art and Asia Week New York is thrilled to bring together this highly qualified group of people to offer their compelling stories and perspectives on the subject," says Dessa Goddard, U.S. Head, Asian Art Group, Bonhams, and member of the Asia Week New York Planning Committee. The participants include Leslie Gat, from the Art Conservation Group, Asian and Tribal art dealer Thomas Murray, of his eponymous ... More | | 
Richard Prince, Cant Read, Cant Write, Cant Swim, 1991. Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 96 x 75 inches (243.84 x 190.5 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Nahmad Contemporary is presenting Richard Prince: Cartoon Jokes, the first exhibition dedicated to the artists brazen, large-scale Cartoon Joke paintings. On view from Nov. 12, 2020, through Jan. 16, 2021, the presentation features an impressive selection of works created between 1988 and 1991 from this notably rare series that appropriate irreverent humor and mark Princes cunning foray into painting. The presentation also debuts five recent paintings of cartoon jokes from the artists body of work, Blue Ripples, created between 2017 and 2019. Throughout his career, Prince has mined popular culture to address American societal conventions while boldly dismantling notions of authorship. Having previously dedicated his practice to photographic appropriations of media and advertisements, the artist turned his attention to cartoons in 1984 with a series of simple drawings copied verbatim from ... More |
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| | Alexander Gray Associates opens an exhibition of work by Harmony Hammond | | Exhibition features an assembly of subtle and elegant works from the Tia Collection | | Inside the mystery of a country moonshine bunker | 
Harmony Hammond, Red Cross, 2019-2020. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 92.75h x 76.5w x 4.25d in (235.6h x 194.3w x 10.8d cm). Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York © Harmony Hammond/Licensed by VAGA via ARS, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Gray Associates, New York presents Crossings, its fourth exhibition of work by Harmony Hammond (b.1944). Featuring paintings dating from 20182020, the shows large-scale canvases boast built-up surfaces that further refine the artists interest in material engagement, expanding and subverting modernist abstraction to bring social and political content into the nonrepresentational realm. In Chenille #7 (2018), fraying pieces of coarse burlap and grommets are embedded in Hammonds signature layers of thick paint. Appearing at first glance to be a monochrome, up close, underlying colors are visible through cracks and peek out from flaps in the paintings sculptural surface. Patterns created by the works raised grommets recall the soft, cozy texture and domestic warmth ... More | | 
Richard Serra, July #17, 2011. Paintstick on handmade paper. Frame: 46 x 37.125 x 3 in. RSE002. Tia Collection.
SANTA FE, NM.- Charlotte Jackson Fine Art is presenting a specially curated exhibition, Follow the Line presented in collaboration with the Tia Collection. The show runs through November 30, 2020. The timing of this exhibition couldnt really be more apt. Although art itself is timeless, able to offer us its own unique voice regardless of when it was created or when it is viewed we are ourselves of course bound by time. We come through the door of a gallery or museum with the world trailing along behind us like streamers of chaos, concern, contentment, anxiety, and joy; with frenetic images and the blaring messages of our ever-present screens hovering always just nearby. We bring ourselves to quiet hallways and exhibition spaces and meet with the art there forging an experience that is part now, part then, part art, part us. Follow the Line is an exceptionally quiet exhibition. It is dominated by soft neutral tones of g ... More | | 
A painting of Dutch Schultz, the namesake of the Dutch's Spirits distillery in Pine Plains, N.Y., Nov. 7, 2020. Look past the picnic tables, food trucks and day drinkers, and Dutch's Spirits looks much the way it did during Prohibition, when it was one of the largest producers of moonshine in New York state. Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- About 30 miles north of Poughkeepsie, in the small town of Pine Plains, New York, is Ryan Road. Quiet and flanked by farmland, it has a discreet turnoff onto a long, gravelly driveway. At the end of that is a large, new-looking barn, with revelers sitting outside at picnic tables, sipping cocktails and eating pizza and smores. Inside the barn is a state-of-the-art distillery, bar and tasting room. But take away the picnic tables, food trucks and day drinkers, and the distillery looks like any other farm in Dutchess County, just the way it did during Prohibition, when it was one of the largest producers of moonshine in New York state. All of that came to an end in October 1932, when federal agents raided it. According ... More |
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| | Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian opens National Native American Veterans Memorial | | The nude pictures that won't go away | | PBS stations in Miami to air documentary of artist Rafael Soriano | 
The National Native American Veterans Memorial. Designed by Harvey Pratt (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes). Photo by Alan Karchmer for the National Museum of the American Indian.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of the American Indian opened the new National Native American Veterans Memorial Wednesday, Nov. 11. The moment has been marked with a short virtual message to honor the service and sacrifice of Native veterans and their families. The message is on both the museums website and its YouTube channel. The National Native American Veterans Memorial will serve as a reminder to the nation and the world of the service and sacrifice of Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian veterans, said Kevin Gover, director of the museum. Native Americans have always answered the call to serve, and this memorial is a fitting tribute to their patriotism and deep commitment to this ... More | | 
Danielle Hettara, Jonathan Leders ex-wife and former collaborator on their magazine, Jacques, in Kingston, N.Y., Nov. 8, 2020. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Jessica Testa
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In September, model and actress Emily Ratajkowski published an essay describing, among other injurious experiences, being sexually assaulted by a photographer named Jonathan Leder when she was 20. For years afterward, Ratajkowski wrote on The Cut, nude and seminude Polaroids from that shoot have been shown in galleries and republished without her permission. In response, Leder called Ratajkowskis accusations false and salacious, and her essay tawdry and baseless. Years ago, when Ratajkowski first began publicly denouncing Leder for publishing books of her nude shots, the photographer provided The New York Times ... More | | 
Rafael Soriano. Photo: Pedro Portal.
MIAMI, FLA.- Schler Productions announced the broadcast of the documentary Into the Light / Hacia La Luz, telling the story of one of Latin Americas most important artists, Rafael Soriano (1920-2015), on WXEL next Tuesday, November 17 from 10:30pm - 11:00pm. The trailer for the documentary can be seen here. Born in 1920 in Matanzas, Cuba, Rafael Soriano is one of the major Latin American artists of his generation. In 1962, Soriano left his homeland to begin a new life in Miami. Having been a leading artist in Cuba, his resulting loss of that professional identity left him in shock as an exile and immigrant. His paintings proceeded along the paths of geometric abstraction in the course of the 1950s. He was identified with Cubas Los Diez Pintores Concretos. By the late 1960s, after his arrival in Miami, Sorianos work took a radical turn, abstracting expressions ... More |
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| | A pledge to help artists becomes a lucrative lifeline | | DC Moore Gallery opens an exhibition of new mesh paintings created since August by Alexi Worth | | The 'detective work' behind a war novel | 
The artist Matthew Burrows outside his studio in Sussex, southern England, Oct. 12, 2020. Tom Jamieson/The New York Times.
by Scott Reyburn
UDIMORE (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It has always been difficult for artists to make a living. But in March, when fairs and galleries shut down across the world, even established names found their income streams suddenly drying up. When COVID happened, everybody left their posts. The gatekeepers left the door open, said Matthew Burrows, a British painter and founder of the Artist Support Pledge, an initiative on Instagram that has been helping artists sell modestly priced works to a global audience through the pandemic. I thought now is an opportunity to do something you cant normally do, he said in an interview in his studio in rural Sussex, southern England. This is the art world shutting down. Ive got to do my little bit. The idea is simple. Artists anywhere in the world use their own Instagram ... More | | 
Alexi Worth, Autumn Leaves, 2020 (detail). Acrylic on mesh, 36 x 50 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery is presenting Alexi Worth: Changing Table, an exhibition of new mesh paintings created since August, and partly inspired by Worths efforts to conduct civil dialogues with Trump supporters online. The exhibition runs from November 12 December 23. After many months of efforts to engage in exclusively mild, friendly terms, Worth writes, I needed an outlet for suppressed feelings of childish fury, bafflement, and irritable fascination. Using a new version of his distinctive spray technique, Worth envisioned lewd and absurd but not wholly improbable scenarios involving Kimberly Guilfoyle, Rush Limbaugh, Paul Manafort, Kanye West, and other political notables.* The show also includes images of babies, which are loosely autobiographical. Worth explains, When my aunt first met me, I urine-fountained all over myself. In later years, she liked to mention this mishap, with the i ... More | | 
An undated photograph collected by the writer Maaza Mengiste, in New York, Oct. 31, 2020. Naima Green/The New York Times.
by Wadzanai Mhute
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Maaza Mengiste found out that she was a Booker Prize finalist for her novel The Shadow King, I went from screaming into the phone, when my editor told me, to just sitting down very quietly, she said in a phone interview. I couldnt speak, I couldnt move, Mengiste added. I was just shaking. The book, about a young Ethiopian woman who becomes a soldier in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War in 1935, features some of the characters Mengiste introduced in her debut novel, Beneath the Lions Gaze, including Haile Selassie, Ethiopias emperor during that time. She spent years working on The Shadow King, scrapping an early draft that didnt work out and delving into research about people on both sides of the conflict. I ... More |
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 Inspiration from south of the border moves center stage in HoustonHOUSTON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- From the perspective of artist Amalia Mesa-Bains, whose parents emigrated to the United States from Mexico, Chicano art the affirming political expression of Mexican Americans experiences is often overlooked, she said, despite its tenure in Americas West and Southwest for more than a century. There havent been a lot of people in the museum world that have taken on a commitment to this vastly underrated area of art history, she said. Mesa-Bains own site-specific installations, which pay tribute to Mexican home altars, or ofrendas, did not easily find collectors, and as a result many never survived. But on Nov. 21, when the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, unveils its new building for modern and contemporary art, visitors will discover her mirrored altar, Transparent Migrations. It reflects the experience ... More A pianist loses himself in a musical 'labyrinth'NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Three years ago, in the underground crypt of a church in Harlem, in New York City, I watched pianist David Greilsammer perform Labyrinth, a program that daringly juxtaposed pieces from across centuries. As a young man, Greilsammer had a dream that strange, alluring sounds were guiding him through a labyrinth. This recital was his attempt to share that sensation. Playing without pause, Greilsammer audaciously shifted from early baroque works by Johann Jakob Froberger and Jean-Féry Rebel to fantasies by C.P.E. Bach and Mozart to Ofer Pelzs flinty new Repetition Blindness. Movements from Janaceks mercurial, dreamy, sometimes nightmarish suite On an Overgrown Path were inserted among the other pieces. Greilsammer played beautifully, but he wasnt fully satisfied. He kept refining the program ... More Why do pianists know so little about pianos?NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- My piano was overdue for a tuning in March, when my apartment building and the rest of New York City entered lockdown. All work by outside parties like housekeepers was not allowed, except for emergencies. An out-of-tune piano hardly seemed an emergency. Professional pianists across the city faced the same predicament. My piano was in horrible condition, Conrad Tao recalled recently. I finally went out in March and bought a tuning hammer, he added, referring to the standard tuning tool that is actually a wrenchlike lever. By tightening various strings, he tried his best to make the worst intervals between pitches, he said, a little better. Jeremy Denk who, like many pianists, doesnt know the first thing about piano technology, as he admitted in an interview summoned his skills of personal ... More David Easton, architect for an American gentry, dies at 83NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- David Easton, an architect and interior designer who created English-style palaces for an American aristocracy, died Oct. 29 at his home in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was 83. James Steinmeyer, his husband and only immediate survivor, said the cause was complications of dementia. In 1981, Easton was already an established architect and decorator when Alistair Stair, a principal of Stair & Co., an antiques dealer, suggested to Patricia Kluge, who had just married John Kluge, the much older billionaire head of MetroMedia, that Easton was the man to design the estate the couple wanted to build in Charlottesville, Virginia. Easton and Patricia Kluge met at the Carlyle hotel in Manhattan, and, as was his habit, he used a cocktail napkin to sketch his design for a 45-room brick manor that the Kluges would name ... More Rosanna Carteri, soprano who retired at her peak, dies at 89NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Rosanna Carteri, the Italian soprano whose meteoric career came to an early end when she chose to retire in her mid-30s at the height of her artistry, died Oct. 25 in Monte Carlo, Monaco. She was 89. Her death was confirmed by Milans Teatro alla Scala, where she appeared in 19 productions between 1951 and 1963. Carteri (pronounced car-TAIR-ee) was the final survivor of the 56 singers included in The Last Prima Donnas, Lanfranco Rasponis classic 1982 book of interviews with many of the women who dominated opera in the early and mid-20th century. While other divas who rose during that period remain alive among them Virginia Zeani (now 95), Leontyne Price (93) and Renata Scotto (86) Carteris death is nevertheless a marker on the slow diminuendo of an era. A graceful presence ... More French authors to pay fines of bookshops open despite virus closurePARIS (AFP).- One of France's best-known authors, Alexandre Jardin, vowed Sunday that writers would bail out rebel bookshop owners fined for opening in defiance of a nationwide coronavirus lockdown. Literature lovers are fuming over the government's shutting of bookstores, along with all other outlets selling "non-essential" goods or services, for the second time this year A handful of bookshops have openly flouted the shutdown, backed by writers, literary critics and tens of thousands of bookworms who argue that books are essential to well-being. Jardin, who penned bestselling romance novels "Le Zebre" and "Fanfan", has rallied in their defence. He said Sunday that authors would pay the fines incurred by rogue booksellers. Jardin told Europe 1 radio that Didier van Cauwelaert, winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize for his 1994 ... More Egypt's Siwa fortress renovation boosts hopes for ecotourismSIWA (AFP).- Tucked away in Egypt's Western Desert, the Shali fortress once protected inhabitants against the incursions of wandering tribes, but now there are hopes its renovation will attract ecotourists. The 13th-century edifice, called "Shali" or "home" in the local Siwi language, was built by Berber populations atop a hill in the pristine Siwa oasis, some 600 kilometres (370 miles) southwest of Cairo. The towering structure is made of kershef -- a mixture of clay, salt and rock which acts as a natural insulator in an area where the summer heat can be scorching. After it was worn away by erosion, and then torrential rains almost 100 years ago, the European Union and Egyptian company Environmental Quality International (EQI) began to restore the fortress in 2018, at a cost of over $600,000. "Teach your children, and mine, about what ancient Shali ... More Lyman Allyn Art Museum features the works of creative photographer and tinkerer Todd McLellanNEW LONDON, CONN.- Within every object, tool or device are dozens of components that work together to represent the highest levels of creativity, passion and achievement of their time. When it comes to the objects we use every day, the sum really is greater than the parts. Things Come Apart, a traveling exhibition circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), features the works of creative photographer and tinkerer Todd McLellan, who explores the evolution of the smartphone and dozens of other everyday technologies. The traveling exhibition opened at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum on Saturday, Nov. 14, and remains on view through Feb. 7, 2021 before continuing its 12-city national tour. This exhibit reveals to us the inner workings of our favorite things, said Sam Quigley, Director of the Lyman Allyn. If youve ever asked ... More Rare items in upcoming Artifacts of Hollywood and Music auctionLOS ANGELES, CA.- GWS Auctions has announced the Artifacts of Hollywood and Music auction event to take place Saturday, November 28, 2020 beginning at 10:00 a.m. P.T. The auction is the largest entertainment memorabilia auction in the companys history. Over 300 items will be offered, many for the first time. In the world of memorabilia, the auction represents the biggest names ever. The first TCB ring Elvis Presley designed and which he gave to J.D. Sumner on stage in front of 14,000 people after years of wearing it himself, is one of the most extravagant and sought-after pieces in the auction. Elvis Presleys mantra, Taking Care of Business, was created when he returned to the concert circuit in 1969. This coveted ring also includes sketches of the original design and audio of Elvis talking about the ring on stage. The Elvis Presley TCB ... More Ketterer Kunst announces online-only auction with rare original printsMUNICH.- The boom in online auctions at Ketterer Kunst continues. This is not least owed to the excellent range of offers. Currently a large number of fascinating expressionist works on paper from a Southern German private collection shows how attractive the digital sales offer is. Bidding is possible between November 22 and December 15 on www.ketterer-internet-auctions.com. Particularly interesting sheets from the 1920s come from Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: The drypoint etching Begegnung in der Nacht is both a very atmospheric, as well as a technically remarkable work that has been part of a private collection for more than 30 years. On top, it is one of to date only eight known copies. While it is going to enter the race with an estimate of 4,000-6,000, the estimate of the two etchings Zeichnender Maler in Landschaft ... More Jose Dávila reimagines Central Wharf Park to bring community together in time of pandemic isolationBOSTON, MASS.- Inside Central Wharf Park, an urban park lined with mature oak trees between Boston Harbor and the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Mexican artist Jose Dávila is designing a contemplative sculptural sanctuary with his installation, To Each Era, Its Art. To Art, Its Freedom so visitors can come together and experience the space and its meaning in the time of the pandemic. The work was unveiled this week and was guest curated by Pedro Alonzo for Now + There, a public art organization that brings site-specific, temporary works of art to all neighborhoods of Boston. Composed of 21 custom-made concrete shapes that are variations of a standard cube with river boulders balancing on top, To Each Era, Its Art. To Art, Its Freedom, creates a field of vibrant red-colored geometric forms that punctuate and accentuate Central ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, The Hoxne Hoard was discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes November 16, 1992. November 16, 1992.- The Hoxne Hoard is the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain, and the largest collection of gold and silver coins of the fourth and fifth century found anywhere within the Roman Empire. Found by a metal detectorist in the village of Hoxne in Suffolk, England, on 16 November 1992, the hoard consists of 14,865 Roman gold, silver and bronze coins from the late fourth and early fifth centuries, and approximately 200 items of silver tableware and gold jewellery.
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