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Center, a family portrait, circa 1608, by an anonymous master of Delft at Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts during the 70th edition of the Winter Show at the Park Avenue Armory, in Manhattan on Jan. 17, 2024. The storied arts and antiques fair at the Park Avenue Armory has something for every taste. Our critics choice of booths to get you started. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
by Will Heinrich
NEW YORK, NY.- As it has done every year for the past seven straight decades, the Winter Show, the venerable arts and antiquities fair that benefits the East Side House Settlement in the Bronx, has brought together an incredible range of objects, most of those years under the capacious roof of the Park Avenue Armory. A concert piano with a curved keyboard, designed by architect Rafael Viñoly and built by Chris Maene. (Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts LLC, C1). A couple of Bonnards for the foyer (Jill Newhouse Gallery, A7). A contemporary painter responding to Italian old masters (Robert Simon Fine Art, C10). A red, white and blue Centennial-year bird cage in the shape of the U.S. Capitol (Focus: Americana, curated by Alexandra Kirtley of the Philadelphia Museum of Art). What about a butter dish shaped like a bundle of asparagus (Michele Beiny, D1)? Or first editions of Edmund Spensers The Faerie Queene and Leaves of Grass (Peter Harrington, C12)? That last item alone made it h ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day From today until 28 January, the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) invites visitors to trade their own tennis balls for one of over 8,000 new balls lining the walls of Melbourne Tennis Ball Exchange, a participatory artwork by leading British artist David Shrigley.
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| Brazilian police make arrest in killing of New York art dealer | | Beautiful T206 cards, 'Stunning' find of sealed wax, signed 1950s legends lead off Heritage's sports event | | V&A to display collection of rare and unique Lucian Freud etchings |
Brent Sikkema in an undated photo. A man was arrested in Brazil on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, in connection with the killing of Brent Sikkema, a New York art dealer who was found with stab wounds in his Rio de Janeiro apartment this week. (Sikkema Jenkins Co. via The New York Times)
by Ana Ionova and Zachary Small
RIO DE JANEIRO.- A man was arrested in Brazil on Thursday in connection with the killing of Brent Sikkema, a New York art dealer who was found with 18 stab wounds in his Rio de Janeiro apartment this week. The man, Alejandro Triana Trevez, knew Sikkema and was believed to have stolen cash from the scene before fleeing, said Detective Alexandre Herdy, head of the citys police homicide unit. Police believe that Sikkema had brought more than $40,000 to spend on furnishing a new apartment in Rio. Officers recovered a bloodied knife from the apartment. He staked out on the street, Herdy said. He ... More | |
1916 M101-5 Blank Backs Babe Ruth Rookie #151 SGC EX+ 5.5.
DALLAS, TX.- Moments after Heritages January 26-27 Winter Sports Card Catalog Auction opened for bidding, icons of The Hobby began crowding the playing field, led by the lone highest-graded blank-back 1916 M101-5 Babe Ruth rookie, a PSA Gem Mint 10 Michael Jordan rookie made by Fleer in 1986 and an uncut sheet of 86 Fleer featuring all 132 cards from that beloved set. In early December, Sports Collectors Daily also offered a lengthy look at the stunning and historic find of sealed wax available in this auction, including a 1970 Topps baseball cello box with 24 unopened packs and a 1968 Topps football cello box with 36 (!) unopened packs. But Heritages first major sports event of 2024 is defined as much by its special collections as its singular highlights. Scattered throughout this expansive auction which consists of more than 2,800 offerings! are several remarkab ... More | |
Trial proof of Pluto Aged Twelve, 2000, etching by Lucian Freud. Museum no. E.363-2020 © The Estate of Lucian Freud. All Rights Reserved 2023, Bridgeman Images.
LONDON.- One of the foremost British artists of the 20th century, Lucian Freud is best known for his figurative paintings, but he also made many etchings, often of the subjects and sitters featured in his painted works. A selection of 38 of these intricate and intimate prints will be on display at V&A South Kensington from 22nd January 2024. The display will explore this lesser-known aspect of Freuds work and will feature highlights from a unique collection of trial proofs amassed by master printer Marc Balakjian, who worked with Freud for more than 20 years. Since most of these proofs have never been exhibited anywhere before, the display will offer fresh insights into Freuds working practice. The collection is a remarkable record of Freuds sustained engagement with printmaking and offers a vivid ... More |
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| Rolf Sachs unveils new solo exhibition at Stalla Madulain, conceived as multisensorial poetic journey | | Augmented reality try-on experience in celebration of fashioning San Francisco 'A Century of Style' | | As part of CONDO London 2024, Kate MacGarry is hosting 'Bureau' |
Rolf Sachs, Portrait. Photography by Katja Meuli.
MADULAIN.- For his carte blanche at Stalla Madulain gallery, artist Rolf Sachs presents So ein Mist! (What B.S), a multidisciplinary exhibition spanning sculpture, installation, video, painting and works on paper. Consisting almost entirely of new work, with interventions both inside and outside, the artist envisioned So ein Mist! as a carefully orchestrated multisensorial and poetic journey. On view through March 17, the exhibition encapsulates much of Sachs enduring interest in materiality and recontextualizing everyday objects, all the while unveiling a series of never seen before paintings and drawings, his Défroissage series. Many of the works in So ein Mist! subtly relate to Stalla Madulains history as an agricultural barn in the mountains. The hayloft, a stable on the middle floor where the animals lived, and the basement, which was used both as a storage room and as ... More | |
Valentino Garavani (b. 1932) (Designer) Evening gown, 1987. Printed silk taffeta, silk and lurex velvet. Collection of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Gift of Carole McNeil, 2021, 41.2. Photograph by Randy Dodson, courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Snap Inc. are now starting an interactive augmented reality installation at the de Young museum that celebrates how technology is transforming the way we experience fashion and culture. It will launch today, at the opening of the Fine Arts Museums major exhibition Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style, which spans a century of high fashion and haute couture worn by Bay Area women. It marks the first time Snap's AR Mirrors have been featured in a US museum. From bohemian styles to elegant evening wear, fashion is an important form of personal expression for ... More | |
Kate MacGarry hosting Bureau, based in New York, USA as part of CONDO London 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kate MacGarry is now hosting Bureau, based in New York, USA. As part of CONDO London 2024, Bureau presents work by three artists alongside three artists represented by Kate MacGarry. Wojciech Bąkowski works in sculpture, sound, poetry, drawing and animation. Bąkowski will present a suite of drawings using his recent technique of charcoal on sanded cardboard. The imagery in Bąkowskis somber and haunting drawings translate the mystifying connections between time and memory. A lucid dreamer, Bąkowski relays how urban dwellers map the unconscious mind onto the streets we pace and how memories unfold along curving tram lines. The shape of dreams conform to Bąkowskis familiar skyline of post-soviet housing estates. The walls and furnishings of a bedroom interchange with enigmatic ... More |
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| Joel Sternfeld: Walking the High Line, text by Adam Gopnik and John Stilgoe, out now | | Four decades of African American printmaking focus of new HoMA exhibition 'Forward Together' | | Schoelkopf Gallery announces 'Max Weber: Art and Life Are Not Apart' now opening |
Images © Joel Sternfeld
NEW YORK, NY.- In one of his last acts as mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani signed an order permitting the High Line, that beloved elevated railroad ruin which snaked down the west side of Manhattan, to be torn down. Everyone who had managed to climb up onto the High Line loved it: the wildflowers growing through disused tracks, the birds that followed the path north in spring, and south again in fallthat rural feeling magically flowing through the city like an unbidden river. Who didnt love the High Line? Those who owned the land beneath it and longed to erect high-rise buildings on the site, if only the High Line wasnt blocking their way. And so when Giuliani signed that order, the Friends of the High Line, the small community organization led by Robert Hammond and Joshua David, sprang into legal action, seeking an injunction. For over a year, Joel Sternfeld had already been photographing this hidden jewel in every sea ... More | |
Faith Ringgold (American, b. 1930),Wyntons Tune, 2004. Screenprint. Partial gift of Robert and Jean Steele; partial purchase with funds from the John V. Levas Trust, 2023 (2023-06-04). ©2023 Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy ACA Galleries, New York.
HONOLULU.- The newly opened exhibition 'Forward Together' at the Honolulu Museum of Art features works that present visitors with a whos who of African American creatives. A supernaturally powerful, self-reliant matriarch is the focus of Romare Beardens Pilate, a 1979 print that depicts Pilate Dead from Toni Morrisons novel Song of Solomon. Morrison was a friend of Bearden. Bearden, in turn, was a longtime friend of Robert Blackburn, a lauded printmaker whose Printmaking Workshop, founded in 1947 in New York, was hugely influential to a generation of artists. Blackburn, also the first master printer at Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) in ... More | |
Max Weber, Egyptian Pot and Fruit, 1923.
NEW YORK, NY.- Schoelkopf Gallery specializing in 19th and 20th century American fine art has opened Max Weber: Art and Life Are Not Apart an exhibition of 26 paintings and works on paper by Max Weber directly from the Max Weber Foundation. Opened yesterday, January 19 and running through April 5, 2024, the exhibition will span the full scope of the artist's career-long still life practice from 1907 to 1955. Informed by Paul Cézanne and Pablo Picasso, Weber's still lifes occupy a pivotal position between the European avant-garde and American modernism. The exhibition, which encompasses a variety of materials including oil, gold leaf collage, pastel, gouache and watercolor, investigates Webers important contributions and reactions to a range of twentieth- century movements such as Cubism, Fauvism and Surrealism. In 1916, Weber claimed that art and life are not apart, positioning himself within ... More |
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| Exhibition at Claire Oliver Gallery sheds light on the need for the fluidity of history | | Photo London announces Valérie Belin as Master of Photography 2024 and other highlights | | At 70, composer Georg Friedrich Haas encourages self-discovery |
Simone Elizabeth Saunders, (Be)Longing VI, 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- Claire Oliver Gallery is opening Reimagining Icons: Counter-Narratives and Histories Enriched, an exhibition created by Canadian curator Evlyne Laurin and featuring new works by artists Moridja Kitenge Banza, Simone Elizabeth Saunders, Erika DeFreitas, and Shanna Strauss. The exhibition highlights the experience of a global diaspora of Black communities through art. The four artists work are in dialogue, they explore and reclaim the complexities and intricacies around the dualism of diasporic identity and a collective reimagining of heritage. Their artwork, which ranges from paintings to works on wood and sculptures, will be on view at Claire Oliver Gallerys Harlem space, opening January 19 and running through March 9, 2024. Through Laurins curatorial perspective, Banza, Saunders, DeFreitas, and Strauss revisit conventionally accepted art historical doctrines to provide counter-narratives and alternative perspe ... More | |
Daniel Jack Lyons, Wendell in Drag, 2019 © Daniel Jack Lyons. Courtesy of Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation.
LONDON.- Photo London today announces its ninth edition with French photographer Valérie Belin named Photo London Master of Photography 2024, alongside two further major exhibitions as part of its Public Programme, and an exciting line-up of exhibitors. A celebration of the medium in all its forms, Photo London presents the best of the past, present and future of photography. Highlights of the 2024 edition include: ● Valérie Belin, Photo London Master of Photography 2024, presents the exhibition Silent Stories; ● Robert Hershkowitz curates The Magic Art of French Calotype. Paper Negative Photography 1846 1860; ● Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation celebrates the 25th anniversary of its collection with the exhibition See/Change Art Collection Deutsche Börse @25 curated by Anne-Marie Beckmann and Renée Mussai; ● Belmond is curating ... More | |
A former student of Georg Friedrich Haas reflects on his time with the composer, and lessons on music, doubt and influence. (Mikyung Lee/The New York Times)
by Jeffrey Arlo Brown
NEW YORK, NY.- One evening in 2013, during my graduate recital in composition at the City of Basel Music Academy in Switzerland, an instrument I had built went flying into the audience. It was a small loudspeaker duct-taped to a string I called it a sound pendulum and when the musician twirled it, the tape didnt hold. Almost everything that could have gone wrong, did. A pianist lost her place in the music. A saxophonist mixed up the performance time and rushed in wearing flip-flops after a frantic phone call from me. In the composition I was most excited about, I badly misjudged an important combination of instruments: A passage meant to sound sleekly metallic was merely tinny. I had a panic attack. I went outside to get some ... More |
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Peter Crombie, a menacing presence on 'Seinfeld,' dies at 71
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Crombie, an actor who was probably best known for his memorable portrayal of Crazy Joe Davola on five episodes of Seinfeld, died Jan. 10 in a health care facility in Palm Springs, California. He was 71. His ex-wife, Nadine Kijner, confirmed the death. She said he had been recovering from surgery, but did not specify its nature. Crombies Joe Davola is a temperamental character who develops a deep hatred of Jerry a semi-fictionalized version of the hit sitcoms star and co-creator, comedian Jerry Seinfeld and ends up stalking him. His first appearance was in The Pitch, an episode in the shows fourth season, in which they encounter each other at the NBC offices and Joe, a writer, ends up blaming Jerry when the network rejects a script he has written. His final appearance was in the season finale, when he tries ... More
She wrote a bestseller on women's sex lives. Then her own fell apart.
NEW YORK, NY.- A decade ago, as sex educator Emily Nagoski was researching and writing her first book, Come as You Are a soon-to-be bestseller exploring the science of womens sexuality she and her husband stopped having sex. Nagoski began appearing everywhere, reassuring women that their sexuality was not a problem that needed to be solved or treated. She talked to author Glennon Doyle and her wife, soccer player Abby Wambach, about body image and shame on their podcast. She published a workbook to help women better understand their sexual temperament and sexual cues. Her TED Talks have been viewed millions of times. But at home, she and her husband, Rich Stevens a cartoonist whom she met on the dating site OkCupid in 2011 were cycling in and out of monthslong sexual dry spells stemming ... More
'Gutenberg!': A guide to the inventor behind the Broadway musical
NEW YORK, NY.- Gutenberg! The Musical!, a comic meta-musical about two talentless dolts pitching a show about the father of the printing press, wraps up its limited Broadway run on Jan. 28. Written by Scott Brown and Anthony King and starring Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells (reprising their Book of Mormon buddy act), the show has drawn mixed reviews and strong box-office returns. But even before it opened, its mere existence on Broadway sent book and library nerds vibrating with anticipation and a bit of disbelief. There have also been grumblings from some traditionalists (of the rare book, not the Rodgers and Hammerstein, variety), along with some resignation. Well, why not a musical about Johannes Gutenberg? If Broadway can turn a semi-overlooked founding father like Alexander Hamilton into a household name ... More
'Happy Days' got us unstuck in time
NEW YORK, NY.- Mention Happy Days to TV viewers of a certain age (raises hand), and the first thing they remember might be not an episode or a scene or a catchphrase but a lunchbox. Im specifically thinking of a cool Thermos-brand one featuring Henry Winkler as the shows pop-phenom greaser, Arthur Fonzarelli, aka Fonzie, aka the Fonz which luckier 70s kids than I got to schlep their PBJs to school in and which is now in the collection of the Smithsonian. To remember Happy Days is to remember your youth, which was also the function of Happy Days when it premiered in 1974. Well, at least it sort of was. Ostensibly, the show appealed to grown-ups who were young during its time period roughly, the mid-50s to mid-60s, over 11 seasons. But some of its most ardent fans were the lunchbox toters toddling down someone ... More
The man in the sequined tuxedo who built a dance community
NEW YORK, NY.- Oscar winner Ariana DeBose. Dancing With the Stars judge Derek Hough. Ballet luminaries Catherine Hurlin, Tiler Peck and Taylor Stanley. Eleven cast members of last years Broadway production of Bob Fosses Dancin. Those are just a few notable alumni of New York City Dance Alliance, a dance competition and convention celebrating its 30th anniversary this winter. Its also the kind of name parade that makes Joe Lanteri, the organizations founder and executive director, uncomfortable. Of course Im so proud of all these dancers, Lanteri said. But I cant take credit for their success for the work that every dance teacher and studio owner did with them in the trenches, for the whole community that helped them. Lanteris impulse to deflect attention might seem at odds with the look-at-me energy that defines ... More
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Ava DuVernay on the emotional journey of 'Origin'
NEW YORK, NY.- Ava DuVernay and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor were in the middle of shooting their new drama, Origin, when Ellis-Taylor gave the writer-director some last-minute homework. The two were hours away from filming a scene in which the actress character, Isabel Wilkerson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent, gets into an argument with her husband, Brett (Jon Bernthal), after a party. Ellis-Taylor felt the scene required a few extra beats of dialogue and asked DuVernay to write some. She said, I think we need something here, recalled DuVernay, who agreed to write the new material during her lunch break. I trusted that she, inside the character, knew what she was talking about. That level of trust, amid the daily high wire act of a modestly budgeted production filmed at a brisk pace ... More
Bill Reid Gallery exhibits retrospective of prominent Nuu-chah-nulth artist George Clutesi
VANCOUVER .- Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents the Vancouver premiere of the retrospective exhibition GEORGE CLUTESI: ḥašaḥʔap / ʔaapḥii / ʕc̓ik / ḥaaʔaksuqƛ / ʔiiḥmisʔap from January 20, 2024 January 19, 2025. The exhibition is a contemplative exploration of the life and legacy of Clutesi, whose actions have left an indelible mark on the preservation and celebration of the Nuu-chah-nulth communitys cultural traditions and customs. Featuring an extensive collection of Clutesis artworks, the exhibition also displays archival photographs and news clippings of his achievements, a documentary film about his long-lasting impact, and a curated selection of artworks from contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth artists and scholars, inspired by Clutesis activism and scholarship. Like Bill Reid, who also lived and worked in the mid 20th ... More
Last week to see Jesse Small exhibition 'Distant Signals' at Nancy Hoffman Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, December 14, 2023, an exhibition of recent sculptural works by artist Jesse Small opened at Nancy Hoffman Gallery, where it is still currently on view through Saturday, January 27, 2024. The exhibition will feature Smalls newest series of work, featuring layers of pierced metal screens which create a three-dimensional relief on the wall. The layers are well spaced to allow light to diffuse through the sculpture and generate shadows below. The artist writes of these new wall sculptures, The layered patterns come from drawings I have been working on for the past 15 years, right up until today. Compiled from hundreds of drawings observing nature: the accidental shadow of a branch, the natural structures on Spanish moss, kelp, erosion. The pieces are an open experiment into how information ... More
Belgian artist Sophie Kuijken opens exhibition at Galerie Nathalie Obadia
PARIS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia is now hosting a solo exhibition of Belgian artist Sophie Kuijken in Paris, represented by the gallery since 2014. Passionate about old master and modern art from a very young age, Sophie Kuijken aims to develop a body of work that is personal, far removed from imitation. After studying painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Ghent (K.A.S.K.) in 1988, the artist spent twenty years isolated in her studio, painting, locked away from prying eyes. This radical approach was accompanied by a complete break with the art world, exhibitions, newspapers and magazines that could influence her work as an artist. It was not until 2011 that her paintings were revealed for the first time. The artist met Joost Declercq (former director of the Dhondt Dhaenens Museum), who, awed by the virtuosity of her ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Jean-François Millet died January 20, 1875. Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 - January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers; he can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. In this image: The Angelus by Jean Francois Millet.
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