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This Shirvan woven in the Southeast Caucasian region ca. 1875 is a Connoisseur-Caliber piece that measures 3'9" x 4'-ll."
By Jan David Winitz
President/Founder
Claremont Rug Company
OAKLAND, CA.- In the first article of this three-part series about antique Caucasian rugs woven during the Second Golden Age of Persian Weaving (ca. 1800 to ca. 1900), I examined the people, environment, and cosmology of the tribal weaving groups that wove these magnificent representations of the people (primarily women) who created them. In this segment, I will discuss a core underpinning of the art of Caucasian rugs: an innate recognition of the impact of color. Their weavers knew which hues worked harmoniously together and how they could be pushed to resonate with each other, something the French Impressionist painters discovered later at work on their canvases and 1970s scientists encountered in their labs. Experience taught the weavers that outlining sections with grey, blue, or red amplified dimensionality and that, given the eyes propensity to blend colors, the right adjacent colors created the illusion of a greater range of hues than were there. All of whi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Robert Rauschenberg: Channel Surfing 540 West 25th Street, New York September 10 - October 23, 2021 Photography courtesy of Pace Gallery.
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| Wrapping of Arc de Triomphe begins in Christo tribute | | The Fundació Joan Miró receives a new set of works by Joan Miró on long-term loan from the artist's family | | Adam Pendleton is rethinking the museum |
Workers unravel silver blue fabric, part of the process of wrapping L'Arc de Triomphe in Paris early September 12, 2021, designed by the late artist Christo. Lucas BARIOULET / AFP.
by Eric Randolph
PARIS.- A first giant sheet of fabric was draped down the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Sunday as work started to wrap the monument in a tribute to late artist Christo. After weeks of preparations, the final stage of the art installation has begun, with a silver-blue sheet of recyclable polypropylene unfurled from the top of the imposing war memorial at the top of the Champs-Elysees. Over the next few days, the entire Arc will be wrapped in 25,000 square metres (270,000 square feet) of fabric -- the signature of Bulgarian-born Christo, who died last year. He had dreamed of sheathing the 50-metre-high monument since renting a nearby apartment in the 1960s. But despite completing other major public works during his lifetime, including wrapping the oldest bridge in Paris in 1985 and the German parliament ... More | |
Joan Miró, Femmes, filette sautant à la corde, oiseau, étoiles, 1944. Tinta xinesa i aquarel·la damunt tela, 46 x 38 cm © Successió Miró, 2021.
BARCELONA.- Sara Puig Alsina, President of the Fundació Joan Mirós Board of Trustees, wishes to give her sincere thanks for the support and generosity shown by the artists family, and has announced the arrival, at the end of this year, of this new set of works to be shown in the spring/summer of 2022. At a special meeting, the Board celebrated and acknowledged the significance of the decision taken by the Miró family. At the same meeting, the Board welcomed a new Member, the artist Ignasi AballÃ. The new group of works comprises 54 pieces by Joan Miró 44 paintings, 9 drawings and 1 ceramic piece and 5 works by Alexander Calder 1 painting and 4 mobiles which will serve to reinforce the discourse of the Collection and reconstruct the artists legacy. The pieces that make up the Fundació Joan Miró Collection originally came from the gift the artist made when the museum first opened in 1975, and which has g ... More | |
The artist Adam Pendleton in Richmond, Va., July 12, 2021. Who is Queen? at New Yorks Museum of Modern Art is the artists most personal and ambitious show yet, exploring how we might live beyond labels in American society. I want to overwhelm the museum, he said. Matt Eich/The New York Times.
by Siddhartha Mitter
NEW YORK, NY.- The Marron Atrium of the Museum of Modern Art is a big, awkward space, a hollow that rises from the second to the sixth floor. Since opening amid MoMAs 2004 expansion, it has hosted many projects but few as complex as Who Is Queen? by Adam Pendleton, which arrives on Sept. 18. Over several months, the artist has built three black scaffold structures 60 feet high, off the walls, like an endoskeleton. Each forms a layered, irregular grid, with internal ladders and landings. The ensemble fires off references De Stijl, Le Corbusiers Unités dHabitation, Manhattan tenements. But the use of lumber two-by-fours and so on evokes humble homebuilding, and the overlaps ... More |
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| Exhibition reveals Aristotle's ongoing legacy through rare books and manuscripts from early modern Europe | | Regen Projects opens a career-spanning exhibition of works by Jack Pierson | | National Portrait Gallery's iconic Tudor and Bloomsbury portraits to go on tour |
Aristotle, Eorum quae Physica sequuntur sive Metaphysicorum, ut vocant, in libri tredecim. Paris: Thomas Richardus, 1564. Courtesy of Martin J. Gross.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New-York Historical Society presents Aristotle: From Antiquity to the Modern Era, an exhibition showcasing more than 30 rare books and manuscriptsmany on public view for the first timefrom the collection of Martin J. Gross. On view September 10, 2021 January 2, 2022, the displays centerpiece is the multi-volume edition of Aristotles works in Greek by the noted printer and publisher Aldus Manutius of Venice, who died in 1515. Copious annotations to the books and manuscripts reveal how scholars in early modern Europe (1500-1800) wrestled with and transmitted the philosophy of Aristotle of Stagira (384-322 BCE), which had remained almost uniquely influential over the centuries as one of the great philosophers of Ancient Greece. This exhibition is a celebration of the importance of scholarship and learning, which is at the core of what we do at ... More | |
Jack Pierson, 2 Weeks in the Desert, 2021. Wrapping paper, 90 x 78 1/2 inches (228.6 x 199.4 cm) © Jack Pierson, Courtesy Regen Projects.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects is presenting Less and more, a career-spanning exhibition of works by Jack Pierson. This marks the artists tenth solo presentation at the gallery. Over the course of more than three decades Pierson has wryly and poetically explored themes of memory, desire, longing, beauty, despair, loss, and glamour. Although Pierson emerged as the youngest member of the so-called Boston School, which included fellow photographers David Armstrong, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, and Mark Morrisroe, his practice quickly expanded beyond photography into drawing, painting, collage, installation, and text-based sculpture. Pierson is known for his ability to subtly coax the poetic from the everydaymanifesting romantic affect, longing, and desire through seemingly banal objects, rough sketches, and charged turns of phrase. As ... More | |
Queen Elizabeth I by Unknown English artist, circa 1588.
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery, London is partnering with four UK Galleries to stage two major new exhibitions featuring some of the best-loved works from the Gallery's Collection. The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics, will open at The Holburne Museum in Bath in January 2022, with twenty-five of the Gallery's most famous Tudor portraits. This will be followed by an expanded exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool in May 2022, featuring sixty-eight works. It is the first time that such a significant number of the Gallery's renowned Tudor portraits have been lent for exhibition. Also on loan together for the first time, will be fifty-eight of the Gallery's portraits of the Bloomsbury Group and their closest associates in Beyond Bloomsbury: Life, Love and Legacy, opening at the Millennium Gallery in Sheffield in November 2021, before traveling to York Art Gallery in March 2022. The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics presents ... More |
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| George Soros is making changes at his foundation while he still can | | Exhibition offers a focused survey of the later years of Robert Rauschenberg's career | | Sculpture By The Sea, Bondi delayed to 2022 |
The billionaire investor George Soros in Southampton, N.Y., on July 3, 2018. Soros is the founder of Open Society Foundations, which opposes authoritarianism and supports civil society groups. Damon Winter/The New York Times.
by Nicholas Kulish
NEW YORK, NY.- The mass email that went out to Open Society Foundations grant recipients in the United States in March began with an upbeat note about how resistance is translating into real progress. The bad news was buried farther down. The left-leaning foundation started by billionaire investor George Soros and today the second-largest private charitable foundation in the United States was beginning a transformation, as officials there refer to their restructuring plan. So, the email said, the nature of many partnerships will shift. What that actually meant in practice only became clear amid a flurry of phone calls between concerned nonprofit leaders and foundation staff in the days that followed. Many of the ... More | |
Installation view of Robert Rauschenberg: Channel Surfing, 540 West 25th Street, New York, September 10 October 23, 2021. Photography courtesy of Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace is presenting Robert Rauschenberg: Channel Surfing, an exhibition of more than 30 works by the renowned American artist at 540 West 25th Street in New York. Running from September 10 to October 23, 2021, the presentation focuses on Rauschenbergs response to the rise of global media culture from the early 1980s to the mid-2000s. Spotlighting Rauschenbergs return to painting after a decade-long hiatus from the medium, this exhibition examines the artists development of a radical new approach to his canvases that combined elements of photography, printmaking, and sculpture. Robert Rauschenberg: Channel Surfing traces the artists creation of a visual language that addresses fundamental transformations in media culture in the late 20th-century, a period marked by the apotheosis of television and the emergence of the internet. ... More | |
Cave Urban, Save Our Souls. Sculpture By The Sea Bondi 2014. Photo: Gareth Carr.
SYDNEY.- Sculpture by the Sea announced today that this years Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi exhibition planned to open on 21 October would be postponed for the second year in a row due to the Public Health Orders in place across Sydney. While plans are being considered for when it might be possible to stage the exhibition in 2022, organisers have continued to work with the Government, sponsors and donors to provide financial support for the exhibiting artists. Sculpture by the Sea was announced this week as one of the many beneficiaries of the Federal Governments $200 million Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund. The not for profit organisation will receive $2 million over two years towards the Sculpture by the Sea exhibitions at Bondi and Cottesloe beach in Perth. Importantly, this includes $500,000 to ensure all Australian artists in the Bondi and Cottesloe exhibitions over the next two years will each be ... More |
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| Bertrand Lavier's 'Nouveaux tableaux 2005' opens at kamel mennour | | Old San Francisco dime sells for $1.8 million | | Exhibition of American drawings reflects broader image of nation |
Exhibition view « Nouveaux tableaux 2005 », kamel mennour (5 rue du Pont de Lodi), Paris 6, 2021 © Photo. archives kamel mennour, Paris/London © ADAGP Bertrand Lavier. Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris/London.
PARIS.- Bertrand Lavier's work has too often been reduced to a set of variations on Marcel Duchamp's readymade. Pure critical sloth. Paolo Uccello may have used perspective after Masaccio, but that does not make him the latter's epigone. Uccello was simply using a symbolic system invented before he came alongand giving it a very personal twist. This is what Lavier does: the readymade being for our time what perspective was for the Renaissance, i.e. a visual system, he uses it to talk about the world around him, to express his astonishment at our relationship to history, to time, to representation. Moreover, he apprehends the notion of readymade in an original, cinematic way: he neither exhibits or paints objectshe films them. Let us take the word "film" in both senses: covering with film or recording with a camera. Bertrand Lavier's camera is the exhibition space itself. And by way of film, he coats images ... More | |
This silver dime, one of only nine known surviving examples of the 24 that were struck in 1894 at the San Francisco Mint, was purchased for $1.8 million by Legend Numismatics. Photo: Professional Coin Grading Service.
LINCROFT, NJ.- Who says ten cents wont buy a cup of coffee anymore? A small silver dime made in 1894 at the San Francisco Mint has been sold for $1.8 million. Mint records indicate only 24 dimes were struck at the San Francisco Mint in 1894. Today only nine of them with that date on the front and the letter S mintmark on the back are known to still exist. This was a record price for this particular example, explained Laura Sperber president of Legend Numismatics of Lincroft, New Jersey. She acquired the coin for $1.8 million on behalf of collector Bruce Morelan of Las Vegas, Nevada. Bruce now owns the trifecta of multi-million-dollar United States numismatics: one of the eight known original 1804 U.S. silver dollars, one of the five known 1913 Liberty Head nickels and now one of the nine known 1894 San Francisco dimes. We are looking at the possibilities of publicly exhibiting all three together at a major rare coi ... More | |
Arthur Burdett Frost (American, 1851 - 1928), The Cellist (Portrait of Antonio Knauth, 1855-1915), ca. 1875. Watercolor and white gouache on beige wove paper. Gift of D. Frederick Baker from the Baker / Pisano Collection.
MADISON, WIS.- A survey of American drawings from the 18th century to the early 20th century introduces audiences to a range of artists, from anonymous to well-known practitioners, who excelled in a variety of drawing media and subject matter. Organized by the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of WisconsinMadison, Picturing a Nation: American Drawings and Watercolors traces colonial folk art to European-inspired academic styles to a distinctly modern, American form of draftsmanship. With pen and ink, graphite, watercolor, chalk and pastels, these artists composed incisive portraits, sweeping landscapes, historical narratives and scenes of everyday life. The exhibition is on view exclusively at the Chazen Museum of Art through Nov. 28, 2021. Picturing a Nation: American Drawings and Watercolors is co-curated by the Chazens Janine Yorimoto Boldt, associate curator of American ... More |
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Steidl to publish a new book by Philipp Keel
NEW YORK, NY.- The most beautiful summers are often also the most painful. We rarely feel more alive. And at the end of those summers, were reminded all the more strongly that everything passes. Looking at Philipp Keel's new works in Last Summer there is the absenceapart from a single nudeof people. Instead, there are still lifes and above all pictures of palms, pools, drinks, initially seeming cool and summery, as well as many captured moments and incidental poetry. Common to them all is Keels eye for specific details and moods, and yet on closer inspection melancholy permeates many of his works. At times, the moment has already passed or is only visible on the blurred margins of our consciousness. What remains is a feeling of transience, perhaps even a faint touch of loneliness. One of the great strengths of Keels works is that they ... More
Exhibition features key works dating from the 1980s to the 2000s by Regina Vater
SAO PAULO.- Galeria Jaqueline Martins is presenting its second solo show by the artist, and the first to bring key artworks from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s in one single setting. The show takes up all three gallery floors, featuring photograph series as well as large-scale installations. During the past five decades, Regina Vater (Rio de Janeiro, 1943) developed a complex, sophisticated body of work where each piece lends shape to a questioning of the relationship between society, nature, and technology. This activist and transmedia artist has always woven up the poetical nature of her oeuvre in such a way as to highlight and honor ancestral myths and cosmologies that offer different approaches to time and nature, and ones that oppose mainstream Western/European discourse. Regina Vater started her career in the arts in the 60s, ... More
For a fractured Israel, a film offers ominous lessons from ancient past
JERUSALEM.- A gripping political thriller swept across cinema screens in Israel this summer, with the movie prompting impassioned debate and striking a particularly resonant chord with Israels precarious new government. The epic, animated drama, Legend of Destruction, is being widely cast as a cautionary tale for a profoundly polarized society. The movies impact is all the more surprising given that it depicts calamitous events in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago. At that time, the first Jewish revolt against the Romans had devolved into a bloody civil war between rival Jewish factions, culminating in the sacking and destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans and their reconquest of the holy city. The bitter civil war changed the course of Judaism and spawned the Talmudic concept that the fall of Jerusalem was caused by infighting and sinat ... More
Solo exhibition of new work by Bettina Pousttchi opens at The Buchmann Galerie
BERLIN.- The Buchmann Galerie is presenting a solo exhibition of new work by Bettina Pousttchi for Gallery Weekend Berlin. Following her exhibition In Recent Years (2019/20) at Berlinische Galerie, which provided a comprehensive overview of the artists sculptural and photographic work, the installation Panorama at KINDL's Kesselhaus (2019/20) and the large photographic installation Amplifier this summer on the main façade of Konzerthaus Berlin, the exhibition at the Buchmann Galerie focuses on new sculptures, wall reliefs and photographic works. In the new works, Bettina Pousttchi deals with the objects and sign systems of the continually changing urban space as an environment for living. Directions is the title of a new group of works by the artist that is the focus of the exhibition. It is a series of wall reliefs made out of cut and colour-coated ... More
Van Eaton Galleries to offer over 1,000 lots of extraordinary pop culture artifacts
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Van Eaton Galleries, one of the worlds premiere animation and collectibles auction houses, has announced the It Came From Van Eaton Galleries! auction featuring over 1,000 lots of extraordinary pop culture artifacts. Of the many rare and unusual items to be offered, nothing quite compares to the collection of vintage movie memorabilia from Linda Ondo. Ondo inherited a massive vintage sci-fi collection after the passing of her cousin, David, and was shocked to learn it was one of the greatest collections of vintage sci-fi posters ever seen in private hands. The vintage Sci-Fi posters in the collection are extremely rare and feature sought-after titles including Forbidden Planet, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Invasion of the Saucer Men, War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and many more. Mike Van Eaton recalls, When ... More
Fine Asian antiques will headline EstateOfMind's two-session auction
MIDDLETOWN, NY.- Items from the living estate of Mr. Richard S. Ravenal the now long-retired purveyor of Asian art and antiques and former owner of Asian Gallery in New York City will headline a two-session auction planned for Saturday, October 2nd, by EstateOfMind, online and live in the Middletown gallery at 195 Derby Road. A preview will be held at 7 am Eastern. Session 1, beginning at 10 am, will feature more than 100 lots of guns, ammunition and other militaria. Session 2, starting an hour later, will be the main sale, with the Mr. Richard S. Ravenal collection and other fine items pulled from prominent local estates and collections. Internet bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be taken. Also offered will be exceptional estate jewelry and watches, original artworks ranging from Old ... More
Everything you need to know about the Met Gala 2021
NEW YORK, NY.- Officially, its the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute benefit, a black-tie extravaganza normally held the first Monday in May to raise money for the Costume Institute. Unofficially, the nights festivities have been called many things, including the party of the year, the Oscars of the East Coast (mostly because of the star quotient and the elaborate red carpet, where guests pose on the grand entrance stairs to the museum) and, somewhat pointedly, an ATM for the Met, the last by publicist Paul Wilmot. The party signals the opening of the Costume Institutes annual blockbuster show. This years exhibition is In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, which sounds kind of like Bruce Chatwins In Patagonia, but is actually part one of a two-part mega-show/argument for the relevancy and power of American fashion. The hosts ... More
The 12th Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts goes to Theaster Gates
VIENNA.- The Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation announced that the USAmerican artist Theaster Gates has been awarded the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts, one of the most highly endowed international prizes in this area. Born in Chicago in 1973, Theaster Gates is one of the most original artists of our time. Among many other disciplines, Theaster Gates is a trained sculptor, ceramicist, and social innovator. His work addresses aspects of the spatial design, restoration, and reactivation of vacant space with a focus on community enrichment through ambitious cultural initiatives and the preservation of Black culture in America. He employs a range of artistic methods, in particular sculpture and painting, as well as spatial interventions, film, and music. His cultural projects, which focus on the long term, are ... More
Jane Campion, New Zealand's humble cinema giant
VENICE.- New Zealand's Jane Campion underlined her status as one of the leading film-makers of her generation, taking home the best director trophy at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. "The Power of the Dog", an emotionally complex tale about feuding brothers on a 1920s Montana ranch, was Campion's first film in more than a decade and won immediate acclaim from critics. Campion was already a major figure in the history of cinema as the first woman to win a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, for "The Piano", and only the second ever nominated for a directing Oscar. Benedict Cumberbatch, who stars in her new film, told reporters she was a "key icon" of the women's movement. "She's a great filmmaker and a very powerful woman in our industry. She handles it all so adeptly, and she's so ridiculously humble about it," he said in Venice. ... More
Gallery 16 opens an exhibition with Jim Melchert
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Jim Melcherts work of the past thirty years can be described, at once accurately and poetically, as a transcendent exploration of mending. Using commercially-manufactured floor tile as his primary material, Melchert engages in deliberate breakage and consequent, system-based repair and elaboration. Still, these words hardly seem to do justice to the elegant permutations and combinations of color and line that spread across Melcherts compositions of reassembled shards. In pieces that range in size from a single twelve-inch square to dozens of them combined together in a vast mural, he systematically follows lines of fracture with planned actions. These include, but are not limited to, painting lines of glazesingle marks or repeated bands that echo across the reassembled surface; marking the surface with dots that ... More
Top orchestras have no female conductors. Is change coming?
NEW YORK, NY.- For years, they have worked their way to the top of the classical music industry. They have confronted stereotypes that they are too weak to lead. They have shared advice about how to deal with sexist comments and even how to dress. Now a group of women could be on the cusp of breaking barriers in one of musics most stubbornly homogeneous spheres: the male-dominated world of orchestral conducting. In the history of American orchestras, only one woman has risen to lead a top-tier ensemble: Marin Alsop, whose tenure as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra ended last month. Her departure has ushered in an unsettling era for the countrys musical landscape. Among the 25 largest ensembles, there are now no women serving as music directors. Alsop, 64, said in an interview that she was surprised ... More
Teresa Zylis-Gara, plush-voiced Polish soprano, dies at 91
NEW YORK, NY.- Teresa Zylis-Gara, a Polish soprano who displayed a plush voice, impressive versatility and beguiling stage presence during a three-decade international career that included a stretch at the Metropolitan Opera during her prime in the 1970s, died Aug. 28 in Lodz, Poland. She was 91. Her death was announced by the Polish National Opera. In her early years, Zylis-Gara was essentially a lyric soprano who excelled in Mozart and other roles suited to a lighter voice. But as she developed more richness and body in her sound, she moved into the lirico-spinto repertory, which calls for dramatic heft along with lyricism, including the title role of Puccinis Tosca, Tatiana in Tchaikovskys Eugene Onegin and Elisabeth in Wagners Tannhäuser. Her repertory ranged from the Baroque, including works by Claudio Monteverdi, to 20th- ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Japanese architect Tadao Ando was born September 13, 1941. Tadao Ando (born September 13, 1941, in Minato-ku, Osaka, Japan and raised in Asahi-ku in the city) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was categorized by Francesco Dal Co as critical regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field. He visited buildings designed by renowned architects like Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn before returning to Osaka in 1968 and established his own design studio, Tadao Ando Architect and Associates.
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