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Jill Magid, I Can Burn Your Face: Miranda IV (Detail), 2019, Bridget Donahue, New York, Courtesy the artist and LABOR, Mexico City.
FRANKFURT.- The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is dedicating an international group exhibition to the fascination of espionage, highlighting this theme as a current source of artistic inspiration. Although spies are presented as glamorous in popular culture, the information they gather in covert actions can prove to be explosive within society. Spying is about the unauthorized obtaining of secret knowledge or confidential information. Whereas in the past, individuals or states were spied on by national governments, in times of digital communication citizens make state secrets public, and whistleblowers denounce the surveillance of the general population by their own government. Today, the openness and transparency of modern states is countered by new mechanisms of surveillance, manipulation, and espionage. Digital networks and technologies, as well as the willing spread of personal data, open up hitherto unforeseen possibilities for obtaining and dis ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day For Shadow of a Cloud Moving Slowly (2020), Dana Schutz, in her inaugural solo exhibition in London and first at Thomas Dane Gallery, presents a selection of new paintings and bronze sculptures continuing her visualization of fictional conditions, psychological sensation and subjective experience.
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 | | Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow presents an exhibition of photographs by Sergei Chilikov | | First edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species sells at auction for £38,400 | | A painter who puts it all on the line | 
Sergey Chilikov, Yalta, 2000. MAMM Collection.
MOSCOW.- This summer saw the passing of Sergei Chilikov, an outstanding photographer who has made a considerable contribution to Russian photography. A candidate of philosophical sciences and the author of three brilliant books on philosophy, he organised photography festivals in Cheboksary and Yoshkar-Ola between 1981 and 1992. These festivals became a very important factor in the development of Russian photography. Multimedia Art Museum, whose collection includes some 700 images by Sergei Chilikov, has actively collaborated with the artist since 2000, exhibiting his work both in Russia and abroad. Chilikov came to photography in the second half of the 1970s, during the Brezhnev era of stagnation. Not only did he express this time, he was ahead of it. Sergei Chilikov invented his own method, photo provocation. His camera directed at an individual became an emanation of the attention this person was effectively deprived of in their m ... More | | 
The book is a work of scientific literature and is widely considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.
NOTTINGHAM.- A First Edition of Charles Darwins famed On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection has sold at auction for a staggering £38,400. The 1859 ground-breaking work by Charles Darwin (1809-1882) the celebrated English biologist, geologist and naturalist, famed for his contributions to the science of evolution, sold to an American bidder at Mellors & Kirk auction house in Nottingham, in their Fine Art Sale, including Books and Manuscripts last Wednesday, September 16, 2020. It had been estimated to fetch £5,000-£7,000. Commenting on the sale Nigel Kirk, Director of Mellors & Kirk auction house in Nottingham, said: The very ordinariness of the modest green book-cloth of the publishers binding, and the short initial print run (1250 copies), seems with hindsight to be so at odds with Darwins genius, factors which help explain why the book has long been such a fabled rarity. Auction prices ... More | | 
Virginia Jamarillo at her home in Hampton Bays, N.Y., Sept. 2, 2020. At 81, Jaramillo is having her first solo museum exhibition, at the Menil Collection. What took so long? Heather Sten/The New York Times.
by Ted Loos
HAMPTON BAYS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Abstract painter Virginia Jaramillo has gotten very good at lines physically, drawing them to great effect, but also metaphorically crossing them, as a woman of Mexican heritage in the art world. At age 81, she has spent the last 60 years or so thinking about how important one line can be, she told me when I arrived at her Long Island studio on a Saturday morning in August. She was eager to discuss her paintings and her career, especially her exhibition at the Menil Collection in Houston, Virginia Jaramillo: The Curvilinear Paintings, 1969-1974, on view until July 3. The Menil show is Jaramillos first solo museum show. Ever. In the roomy studio, attached to her split-level house, were some ... More |
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| | First comprehensive overview of Hito Steyerl's work in a German museum opens at K21 | | World War II submarine is found in Southeast Asia | | Movies and museums are coming back. Should you go? | 
Hito Steyerl, How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013; HD video, single screen in architectural environment; 15 minutes, 52 seconds; Image CC 4.0 Hito Steyerl; Image courtesy of the Artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York and Esther Schipper, Berlin.
DUSSELDORF.- The exhibition Hito Steyerl. I Will Survive at K21 is the first comprehensive overview of the work of the artist, filmmaker, and author to be presented in a German museum. The exhibition developed jointly by the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and the Centre Pompidou will first be presented in Düsseldorf and will then travel to Paris, where it will be on view beginning in February 2021. Susanne Gaensheimer, Director of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: With the exhibition Hito Steyerl. I Will Survive at K21, we are very pleased to present a comprehensive overview of the work of this important artist, filmmaker, and author for the first time in Germany. Steyerl is currently one of the most important positions internationally when it comes to reflecting on the social role of art and museums, experimenting with forms of media presentation, and critically examining data and the use of artificial intelligence. At ... More | | 
In a photo provided by Jean Luc Rivoire, four divers believe they have located the USS Grenadier, which was scuttled off the coast of Thailand in April 1943 after being attacked by Japanese planes. Jean Luc Rivoire via The New York Times.
by Derrick Bryson Taylor
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the murky waters of the Strait of Malacca, about 90 miles south of Phuket, Thailand, four divers discovered a World War II submarine that was scuttled 77 years ago, now teeming with marine life. The wreckage, believed to be the USS Grenadier, was found last October by divers Jean Luc Rivoire, Lance Horowitz, Benoit Laborie and Ben Reymenants, the team announced this month. Over the subsequent six months, the men completed six dives to study and identify the submarine, Horowitz, 36, said Friday from Phuket. After measuring parts of the submarine and comparing them with technical drawings from the National Archives and Records Administration, the men felt confident that they had located the Grenadier, he said. It was as good as we were hoping for, really, Horowitz said of the teams $110,000 expedition. It was a very powerful ... More | | 
The Art Institute of Chicago. View of Michigan Avenue Entrance. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
by Courtney Rubin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Now that museums, art galleries and movie theaters are finally open in some states with COVID-19 protocols in place it may be tempting to race back to them. But should you? I hate to be a killjoy, but I think we need to forgo these things for now so we can get back faster to a world where we can enjoy them, said Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, formerly executive director of the Detroit health department. Anything indoors is a risk, he said, and were moving toward flu season, when people will be gathering indoors more. But several other experts interviewed said they would consider visiting museums and art galleries, especially at off hours. None said they planned to go to the movies or would advise you to, either. But if you choose to go, theyve offered some tips to mitigate the risk, though they caution that it should still be considered high-risk. When making your decision, John Swartzberg, an infectious disease specialist and clinical professor emerit ... More |
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| | Ruiz-Healy Art opens an exhibition featuring works by Richard Armendariz and Andrés Ferrandis | | Solo exhibition of the early work of seasoned New York artist Natvar Bhavsar opens at Aicon Art | | Dana Schutz presents a selection of new paintings and bronze sculptures at Thomas Dane Gallery | 
Andres Ferrandis, Popchock, 2020. Wood, polycarbonate, found object, silkscreen, cardboard, oil and acrylic painting, 24 x 13 x 4 in.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruiz-Healy Art is presenting Manos (Hands) at the San Antonio gallery featuring works by Richard Armendariz and Andrés Ferrandis. The exhibition focuses on the artists' shared attention toward the language of materials and the vast physical and mental landscapes found only in our memory. The exhibition will be on view through October 31, 2020. While operating in the seemingly opposing fields of figurative and abstract art, Richard Armendariz and Andrés Ferrandis share more similarities than differences in their approach to artmaking. The artists invoke their painterly origins to explore traditional genres of painting by manipulating text, color and materials to guide the viewer into the less tangible realms of time, memory and self-reflection. In Manos (Hands), Armendarizs work concerns notions of chance and astrology. Light bulbs are introduced as ... More | | 
Natvar Bhavsar, KAILAS XIX, 1986. Painting on paper, 37 x 31 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Aicon Art New York brought us through Natvar Bhavsar: Beginnings (March 1-April 6, 2019) an astonishing show on this Indian-American artists early color-field paintings. Now, by giving us Natvar Bhavsar: Sublime Light from September 26-October 31, 2020, the gallery is spotlighting his paintings from the late 1970s through the 1980s. They astonish us equally. Though each painting is a world unto itself, they have a common magical quality. They transport you to a realm beyond yourself and the world in which you have presence. Surely, Bhavsars effect is akin to the breakthrough (Durchbruch) that Theodor Adorno discussed in a course on aesthetics he gave in 1958/1959 and developed further in a book on Mahler, describing it as a moment when a shiver
passes for a second through the listener. Think of such experiences as goosebumps, awe, transcendence, union with a passage of music, a sudden h ... More | | 
Dana Schutz, Sailor, 2019. Bronze, 68.5 x 48.2 x 38.1 cm. 27 x 19 x 15 in. © Dana Schutz. Courtesy the artist; Petzel, New York; Thomas Dane Gallery; Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin. Photo: Jason Mandella.
LONDON.- For Shadow of a Cloud Moving Slowly (2020), Dana Schutz, in her inaugural solo exhibition in London and first at Thomas Dane Gallery, presents a selection of new paintings and bronze sculptures continuing her visualization of fictional conditions, psychological sensation and subjective experience. Shadow of a Cloud Moving Slowly confirms Schutzs interest in painting as a physical and affective space where imagined crises and social relations are held in tension. The paintings depict a beleaguered and bruised cast of characters that grope in the dark, struggle together in isolation, and wander alone in colour fields. Clouds fall like rocks from above, and a smoky sky, ablaze in green, serves as a vivid backdrop for a vacant-eyed protagonist, while costumed birds ... More |
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| | Muralist captures the Ursinus experience on landmark smokestack | | 'I am just going out and may be some time:' sketch of Captain Oates sells in Essex | | Princess Beatrice's wedding dress goes on display at Windsor Castle | 
The Ursinus smokestack is transformed into a mural by Brooklyn artist Katie Merz.
COLLEGEVILLE, PA.- Brooklyn artist Katie Merz is transforming the Ursinus smokestacklocated outside of the facilities buildinginto a dynamic mural that tells students stories through unique iconography. It will become a permanent fixture on the campus and serve as an enduring tribute to the Ursinus experience. The project began in recognition of the Class of 2020, whichlike the rest of the Ursinus communitytransitioned to online learning in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The class did not get to experience an in-person commencement in May, but its members submitted memories to Merz, who is translating them into the visual elements that now adorn the smokestack. This process was really organic because I didnt know a lot about Ursinus, Merz says. I have pages and pages of interviews [with students] that I have broken down into symbols. But the more Im actually here, the more I get it. I lo ... More | | 
Measuring 59 x 99cm and executed in pen, ink and watercolour heightened with white, this is the original sketch created by Dollman for the finished painting which hangs in the Cavalry Club, London.
STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- A sketch for a famous painting that depicts the Antarctic explorer Captain Lawrence Oates walking to his death in 1912 sold for £33,800 (including buyers premium) at Sworders. A Very Gallant Gentleman by John Charles Dollman (1851-1934) was purchased by a dealer known to be bidding on behalf of a collector of Polar exploration memorabilia. Measuring 59 x 99cm and executed in pen, ink and watercolour heightened with white, this is the original sketch created by Dollman for the finished painting which hangs in the Cavalry Club, London. It was commissioned by officers of the Inniskilling Dragoons in 1913 - the year after news arrived of the doomed 1912 expedition - and shown at the Royal Academy that year. A smaller preparatory sketch is in the Scott Polar Research Institute, at the University ... More | | 
HRH Prince Beatrice visits a special display of her wedding dress in the State Dining Room at Windsor Castle. Royal Collection Trust / © All Rights Reserved.
LONDON.- A visit to Windsor Castle now includes the special display of HRH Princess Beatrice of Yorks wedding dress, first worn by Her Majesty The Queen in the 1960s and designed by the renowned British fashion designer Sir Norman Hartnell. The wedding dress is on display in the State Dining Room, one of the Semi-State Rooms, which open to the public each year between September and March. Originally created as private apartments for George IV, the Semi-State Rooms are among the most richly decorated interiors in the Castle and are used by The Queen for official entertaining. Princess Beatrice chose to wear a vintage dress loaned by Her Majesty The Queen for her wedding to Mr Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi on 17 July 2020. It is made of ivory peau de soie taffeta and hand embroidered on the bodice, waist and hips in crystals and diamantés, while ... More |
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Franz Xaver Winterhalter's "Girl from the Sabine Hills" - Part 3: Provenance and Restitution
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 Rare artist's edition of the 'Missions Collection' made by Omega offered at auctionLISBON.- An extremely rare artists edition of the 'Missions Collection' made by OMEGA to celebrate the Speedmaster Professional's 40th Anniversary will be up for sale on October 1st, on a Watches sale held by VERITAS Art Auctioneers. Richly decorated with NASA mission patches, the Speedmaster Missions Collection relates the exceptional adventure of space exploration in which the Speedmaster Professional - the only watch worn on the moon - was greatly involved, accounts the branding brochures accompanying this notable launching of OMEGA. This collection, presented in a case made of the same white fabric used to make spacesuits, comprises 22 stainless steel automatic chronograph bracelet watches with further display movement featuring on their dials the logo of NASAs famous space missions (from 1965 Gemini V mission to Skylab ... More Mississippi Museum of Art presents monumental participatory sculpture in its outdoor art gardenJACKSON, MISS.- The Mississippi Museum of Art is presenting Leonardo Drew: City in the Grass, a participatory, public art sculpture that invites viewers to engage directly with the work, the space it occupies, and one another while maintaining a social distance. The Brooklyn, NY-based artist considers the work complete when people interact by sitting, standing, and walking on or around it, disrupting the do not touch directive at most public art installations and sculpture parks. On view September 26, 2020February 21, 2021 in the Museums Art Garden, City in the Grass (2019) is the first outdoor sculpture by Drew whose practice incorporates tactile materials like wood, metal, and canvas he distresses by hand. Exposed to the weather, physical use, and the passage of time, the sculpturemeasuring over 100 feet long and 30 ... More Fine Crimean War Naval V.C. to be offered at Dix Noonan WebbLONDON.- A fine Crimean War Naval V.C. awarded to Australian resident and Seaman James Gorman of H.M.S. Albion, for his gallantry while defending the Right Lancaster Battery at the Battle of Inkermann on November 5, 1864 will be offered by Dix Noonan Webb in their live/online auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Thursday, October 15, 2020 on their website www.dnw.co.uk. One of the first V.Cs to be awarded, it is estimated to fetch £120,000-160,000. Inkermann was one of the bloodiest and most desperate battles in British military history, when in darkness and through deep mist, the Russians launched a sudden and massive attack on the lightly defended British lines. Seaman Gorman declined the order to withdraw and leave the wounded, he proceeded to mount the defence works and, using the weapons of the disabled ... More Georgian film sweeps San Sebastian festival awardsSAN SEBASTIAN (AFP).- Georgian film "Beginning" dominated awards at Spain's San Sebastian film festival, taking the top Golden shell prize for best movie while Dea Kulumbegashvili won best director for her debut film. The Franco-Georgian production centres on a community of Jehovah's Witnesses in remote rural Georgia, and tracks the growing psychological torment of its leader's wife -- played by Ia Sukhitashvili who picked up the best actress award -- in the wake of an extremist attack on their place of worship. The movie, which had been set to premiere at the Cannes films festival earlier this year, which was called off due to the pandemic, also won the best screenplay prize at an awards ceremony late on Saturday. "I want to thank the jury for this fantastic, incredible day. It means a lot to me, it's a great honour," said Kulumbegashvili, ... More The lost weekendNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ah, New York. The city where, on this first autumn weekend, song-and-dance man Hugh Jackman will make mischief out of marching bands in Broadways The Music Man; reigning diva Anna Netrebko will pine stirringly as Aida for the Metropolitan Opera; and the chameleonic rocker Nick Cave will command the stage with the Bad Seeds at Barclays Center. The whole world seems to be here: Acts from Egypt, Morocco and Lebanon are expected to join an Arabic music festival at Joes Pub. In Midtown, parties and performances herald the long-awaited opening of a new $60 million home for the Irish Arts Center. And in Fort Greene, the reimagined Next Wave Festival is drawing adventurous artists from around the globe to BAM. Plus, oh yes: Josh Groban is playing Radio City Music Hall. Billy Joel returns to Madison ... More New book presents photographs by Carole Glauber taken with a Brownie Camera NEW YORK, NY.- For thirty years, photographer Carole Glauber pointed her Brownie Hawkeye camera at her children as they did what children do -- played outside with the hose, dug in the sand, twirled a hula hoop and as time goes by have a bar mitzvah, graduate from high school, marry. Presented chronologically in the book, the photographs capture the two boys growing up before the viewer's eyes. But the utilization of the Brownie year after year producing images with the camera's signature, ephemeral look, provides a consistent emotional content overlay, even as the sons change and mature. This is one family and their stories documented by a photographer who also happened to be a mother; yet one of photography's great gifts as a medium is that by providing a glimpse of someone else's narrative, the viewer is in essence borrowing ... More New commission by California artist Pae White at San José Museum of Art SAN JOSE, CA.- The San José Museum of Art announced a new commission by California artist Pae White. Commissioned to usher in the next 50 years of creative impact at SJMA, this new work will soar within the Museums thirty-foot high atrium and greet audiences. This site-specific work will be the artists second largest mobile completed to date and the most ambitious commission in SJMAs history. Unveiled in September 2020, Noisy Blushes will be on view through the buildings glass façade until the Museum re-opens to the public. This will be Whites first public artwork at a cultural institution on the West Coast to be on long-term view. In creating her colorful and dazzling mobiles, White looks to the natural worldflocks of birds, schools of fish, drifting cloudsto produce sculptures without volume, to find order within chaos, and to meditate ... More Collectors can score key LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and 'Greek Freak' modern cards DALLAS, TX.- A 1957 Bill Russell. Three 69 Lew Alcindors. Three 1980 cards featuring Larry Bird and Magic Johnson (and, between them, Julius Erving). A complete set of perfect-condition 1986 Fleers including the Michael Jordan card that seems to set world records every time it drives to the basket. There is no shortage of coveted rookie cards in Heritage Auctions Michael Jordan & Basketball Icons Sports Catalog event now open for bidding before extended bidding begins October 3. This all-star sale its full of 20th Century hall-of-famers still closer to Little Dribblers than retirement. Dont overlook, either, the more modern offerings those 21st Century rarities making new collectors of kids, investors of collectors and headlines of sale prices once thought out-of-reach for anything more current than, oh, 1952. The signed cards. The relic ... More 'Button Power' by Carter and Hake explores how pin-back buttons were the social media of their dayNEW YORK, NY.- With an itinerary that journeys through campaign rallies, rock concerts and pivotal events of our time, Button Power (Princeton Architectural Press; on-sale October 13, 2020; ISBN: 9781616898700) documents a people's history of American culture as seen through the pin-back button. Lively commentary from two of America's foremost button experts, Christen Carter and Ted Hake, explores how the small-but-powerful button has inspired, amused, and captured the spirit of events and movements that reflected society and changed history. Whether supporting womens suffrage, civil rights, or the 60s hippie ethos of peace, love and no nukes, nothing, it seems, has ever presented a more effective statement of ones own beliefs than a button. In line with the current news focus on protests and presidential elections, Button Power offers ... More Martin Luther, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau among fine autographs and artifacts up for auction BOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction's October Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction is filled with rare and remarkable pieces, including extraordinary letters from Martin Luther, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, James Dean, and Abraham Lincoln. Highlights include; a Martin Luther letter critical of Jews. In German, the one-page handwritten letter is signed "Martinus Luther D," circa September 1, 1543. An extensive, uncommonly well-preserved letter to Georg Buchholzer, Provost of St. Nikolai in Berlin, regarding the latter's altercation with the Brandenburgian court preacher Johann Agricola from Eisleben (also known as 'Magister Eisleben') about the treatment of the local Jews. Prince-Elector Joachim II, who in 1539 had introduced the Reformation to Brandenburg and whose tolerant politics toward Jews enraged ... More Lots bring high dollars at Holabird's Great American Pow-Wow AuctionRENO, NEV.- A Civil War-era military amputation kit sold for $5,000, a pair of circa 1910-1920 railroad signal lamps brought $5,375 and a choice, attractive crystalline gold specimen weighing 5.45 troy ounces hit $5,625 at a Great American Pow-Wow Auction held August 27th-August 31st by Holabird Western Americana Collections, online and live in the Reno gallery. Native and general Americana took center stage at the huge, five-day auction, which Holabird Western Americana Collections president and owner Fred Holabird said contained the best material we've offered in a hot August auction in many years. He added, The variety was outstanding, as was the quality of goods offered. There was truly something for everybody. The military amputation kit was made around 1861 by G. Tiemann & Co. (N.Y.), which had been making surgical instruments ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Geoffrey Beene died September 28, 2004. Geoffrey Beene (born Samuel Albert Bozeman Jr., August 30, 1924 - September 28, 2004) was an American fashion designer. Beene was one of New York's most famous fashion designers, recognized for his artistic and technical skills and for creating simple, comfortable and dressy women's wear. Beene's clients included Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Nancy Reagan, Faye Dunaway and Glenn Close. In this image: Three Geoffrey Beene Dresses, Spring 1992. The Geoffrey Beene Archive.
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