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The sculptor Hugh Hayden, at a fabrication space in Bayonne, N.J., Dec. 16, 2021. Brier Patch, Haydens installation for New Yorks Madison Square Park, takes on the thorny issues roiling American classrooms. Douglas Segars/The New York Times.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
NEW YORK, NY.- Just watch your eyes, sculptor Hugh Hayden warned as he circumnavigated the wooden school desk he had made from cedar logs, their branches still attached. The limbs erupted from the seat and desktop, in all directions strange, unruly, alive. Hayden, 38, was in the last stages of production at Showman Fabricators in Bayonne, New Jersey, completing his most ambitious project to date. Brier Patch, an art installation opening Tuesday in New York Citys Madison Square Park, assembles 100 newly minted school desks into outdoor classrooms across four lawns. The largest grouping morphs ground up from an orderly grid of right-angled chairs into a wild tangle of potential eye-scratching branches intersecting midair. Hes simultaneously questioning opportunity and inequity in the American education system, Brooke Kamin Rapaport, deputy director and chief curator at the Madison Square Park Conservancy, said, offering an interpretatio ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The new presentation of Museo Reina SofÃa's collection is now on view to the public. Throughout its still brief history of just over thirty years, there have been several partial reorganizations of the collection, sometimes restricting it to certain galleries or proposing new readings of artists or periods. What is now on display to the public involves an integral re-reading that affects the entire collection, from the origins of modernism in the late 19th century to the most contemporary art.
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| Dutch Royals to retire golden coach with echoes of colonialism | | Christie's announces highlights included in the Old Master and British Drawings Online Sale | | First solo exhibition of Roy DeCarava's work in London in over thirty years opens at David Zwirner |
The Golden Coach, built for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland in 1896, is emerging as a new focus of debate over slavery, colonialist oppression and history.
by Claire Moses
NEW YORK, NY.- The Dutch royal family will stop using a horse-drawn gold-covered coach dating from the late 19th century that has long drawn criticism for its painted panel glorifying the Netherlands history of colonialism. As long as people in the Netherlands are experiencing daily pain from discrimination, the past will cast a shadow over our time, King Willem-Alexander said in a video message announcing the decision Thursday. The Golden Coach will be able to ride again when the Netherlands is ready, which isnt the case right now. The city of Amsterdam presented the carriage as a gift to Queen Wilhelmina, the first woman to sit on the Dutch throne, in 1898. Its covered in gold and decorated with paintings on its side panels that were created by a prominent Dutch artist of the time, Nicolaas van der Waay. One of those paintings, Tribute from the Colonies, depicts a young woman on a throne, a ... More | |
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Il Guercino, (Cento 1591-1666 Bologna), Mars holding a sword. Estimate: $70,000-$100,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced Old Master & British Drawings, an online sale that will be open for bidding January 14-28. The sale features 76 lots from the 16th to the 19th Centuries from the Italian, French, Northern European, and British schools. The sale highlight is a recently rediscovered work by the 19th century Romantic artist, Caspar David Friedrich, Bohemian landscape with a chapel in a field, executed in graphite, pen and gray ink, and watercolor (estimate:$150,000-$250,000); from The Estates of Bernard and Helga Kramarksy is an important example of a pen drawing by Guercino, Mars holding a sword (estimate: $70,000-$100,000), and a Study of a female head in red chalk by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (estimate $20,000-$30,000). Among the French works in the auction are two gouaches by the 17th Century artist Pierre-Paul Sevin after Paolo Veroneses monumental canvases of The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the house of Levi ... More | |
Roy DeCarava, Billie Holiday 1952. © The Estate of Roy DeCarava. All rights reserved. Courtesy David Zwirner.
LONDON.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of photographs by Roy DeCarava (19192009) at its London location. This is the first solo exhibition of the artists work in London in over thirty years and the first presentation of his photographs in the city since inclusion in Tate Moderns Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power exhibition in 2017. Over the course of six decades, DeCarava produced a singular collection of black-and-white silver gelatin photographs that combines formal acuity with an intimate and deeply human treatment of his subjects. His pioneering work privileges the aesthetic qualities of the medium, providing a counterpoint to the prevailing view of photography as mere chronicle or document and helping it to gain acceptance as an art form in its own right. Having trained as a painter and draughtsman, DeCarava began working with the camera in the mid-1940s, seeking an inclusive artistic sta ... More |
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| The MSU Broad presents 'Kahlo Without Borders' | | Spider-Man's black costume origin sells for $3.36 million at Heritage Auctions to shatter comic art record | | Jeff Wall presents a group of "near documentary" realist pictures at Gagosian |
Antonio Kahlo, Frida con bastón (Frida with Cane), c. 1950. Courtesy Cristina Kahlo.
EAST LANSING, MICH.- The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University presents Kahlo Without Borders, on view Jan. 15Aug. 7, 2022. This exhibition coincides with the museums 10th year anniversary, as part of a roster of exhibitions highlighting the Zaha Hadid-designed building, the museums collections, and the conversations between the unique architecture and artwork within. Curated by photographer, and Frida Kahlos grandniece, Cristina Kahlo, MSU Broad Art Museum executive director Dr. Mónica RamÃrez-Montagut, and Javier Roque Vázquez Juárez, Kahlo Without Borders will include photographs and facsimiles from family archives belonging to Cristina Kahlo and other collections such as the Oaxaca Museum of Stamp Collecting (Museo de la Filatelia en Oaxaca), and never-before-seen medical archives from the Medical Center ABC in Mexico City, where Frida Kahlo was interned on several occasions. "We are ... More | |
Mike Zeck and Others Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #8 Story Page 25 Black Costume/Venom Original Art (Marvel, 1984).
DALLAS, TX.- Spider-Man was already the star of the most expensive comic book ever sold at auction. As of Thursday, the Web-Slinger is also responsible for what is now the world's most valuable page of original comic book artwork. Page 25 from 1984's Secret Wars No. 8, which tells the origin story of the Web-Slinger's now-iconic black costume, sold Thursday at Heritage Auctions for $3,360,000. Live bidding opened at $330,000, but it quickly became clear several bidders coveted Mike Zeck's artwork as it soared past the million-dollar mark. When it hit its final price, shattering all previous comic art records, the auction gallery erupted with cheers. Marvel Comics' Secret Wars might have been created to sell toys, but this week it forever altered the comic-art landscape, as Page 24 from the same book sold moments earlier for $288,000. That's $3,648,000 total. For two pages of art from one 1980s comic book. "We could ... More | |
Jeff Wall, Event, 2021. Inkjet print, 84 3/8 x 63 in, 214.3 x 160 cm. Edition 3 + 1 AP © Jeff Wall. Courtesy Gagosian.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Gagosian is presenting an exhibition of ten recent works by Jeff Wall. This is his first exhibition in Los Angeles in nearly twenty years. Seven of the photographs were made in Los Angeles, where Wall lives and works in addition to his native Vancouver. In this exhibition Wall presents a group of near documentary realist pictures, one of the principal directions his work has taken over several decades. Men confront each other in tense situations in Listener (2015) and Event (2021). Young people are absorbed in solitary momentsa reclining woman seems fascinated by the sparkling crystals of a necklace (A woman with a necklace, 2021); another, eyes shut, faces the blazing afternoon sunshine from atop an automobile (Sunseeker, 2021); a man reads something written on a hotel room mirror (Man at a mirror, 2019). And a man confronts a musing child: ... More |
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| Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art opens an exhibition of works by Bice Lazzari | | Landmark exhibition of African American art opens at Toledo Museum of Art | | She was named Europe's best director, but finds few fans at home |
Bice Lazzar, White and Black, 1954. Oil on canvas, 50 x 35 cm. Private collection, Rome.
LONDON.- The Estorick Collection presents the largest exhibition of work by Bice Lazzari (1900-1981) in the UK to date. One of the most innovative Italian abstract artists of the 20th century, she has been described as the Agnes Martin of Italy but has remained largely unknown outside the country of her birth despite her significant contribution. Bice Lazzari | Modernist Pioneer runs at the Estorick Collection from 14 January until 24 April 2022. Born in 1900 in Venice, Lazzari began her training during the 1920s. As a woman, she was advised not to pursue figurative drawing but to become a designer. In 1935 she moved to Rome, initially supporting herself by collaborating with architects and decorators on abstract designs for clients. It was not until after the Second World War that she was able to devote herself to painting. As she later wrote, During Italys Fascist era, creating abstract art was difficult ... More | |
Richard Dial (American, born 1955), The Comfort of the First Born, 1988. Mixed media (welded steel, plastic tubing, paint). 69 1/2 x 46 x 39 in. Toledo Museum of Art, 2020.30. © Richard Dial / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image: Ron Lee/The Silver Factory.
TOLEDO, OH.- Twenty-four exemplary works acquired over the last two years from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, one of the most important organizations supporting the work of African American artists from the southern United States, will debut in January at the Toledo Museum of Art. Living Legacies: Art of the African American South features works of art in a range of media by some of the most significant artists of their generation. Artists included in the exhibition are Leroy Almon, Thornton Dial, Thornton Dial, Jr., Richard Dial, Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, Joe Minter, John B. Murray, Royal Robertson, Georgia Speller, Henry Speller, Luster Willis and several generations of women quiltmakers, including Louisiana Bendolph, Mary Elizabeth ... More | |
The film director Jasmila Zbanic sits for a portrait in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on Jan. 7, 2022. Damir Sagolj/The New York Times.
by Andrew Higgins
SARAJEVO.- A celebrated Bosnian film director always knew her latest movie, the harrowing drama of a mother trying unsuccessfully to save her husband and two sons from the Srebrenica massacre in 1995, would be panned by Serb nationalists. But the filmmaker, Jasmila Zbanic, was still taken aback when Serbian media invited a convicted war criminal to opine on the movie, Quo Vadis, Aida?, for which she recently won Europes best director award. The chosen critic? Veselin Sljivancanin, a former Yugoslav army officer sentenced to prison by a tribunal in The Hague for aiding and abetting the murder of prisoners in Croatia in the Vukovar massacre. While asking such a notorious figure to comment on the movie was a surprise, his reaction to it wasnt: He denounced it as lies ... More |
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| Shannon's Internet Fine Art Auction, now thru January 20th | | Action Comics #1 copy sells for $3.18 million, setting record for third most expensive comic of all-time | | "This Tender, Fragile Thing" opens at The School |
Oil on canvas by Jane Peterson (American, 1876-1965), titled Bouquet, signed lower left, 30 inches by 24 inches (estimate: $5,000-$7,000).
MILFORD, CONN.- Online bidding is open now through January 20th at 2 pm Eastern time for 228 lots of fine art from the 19th century through the present in Shannons Internet-only fine art auction featuring paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture. To view the full catalog, condition reports and to bid live online, visit www.shannons.com. American art leads the auction with an original painting by Alfred T. Bricher from his early period, titled View Near Hudson, estimated at $15,000-$20,000; a large, impressively framed view of The Coast of Cornwall, England by William T. Richards, estimated at $8,000-$12,000; and a tonalist evening view by Dwight W. Tryon, titled November, estimated at $8,000-$12,000. Shannons will also offer a large, 52 inch by 77 inch painting of safari animals by celebrated French artist Henri Maik, estimated at $10,000-$15,000. Other French paintings in the sale include works by Adrien ... More | |
Goldin brokers $3.18 million deal for Action Comics #1 on behalf of private buyer.
RUNNEMEDE, NJ.- An extremely rare copy of Action Comics #1, considered by many to be the most important comic book ever issued, was purchased today for $3.18 million. The purchase was brokered by leading collectibles marketplace Goldin on behalf of a private client, and now sits firmly as one of the three most valuable comic book purchases of all time. Widely considered to be the beginning of the superhero genre, Action Comics #1 is one of the rarest and most sought-after comic books on earth. Graded a stunning CGC FN 6.0, the copy is one of the finest examples in existence. There really arent appropriate words to describe the impact that this item has had on the collectible industry, superhero comics and pop culture in general and were thrilled to win this auction on behalf of our client, said Founder and Executive Chairman Ken Goldin. Without Action Comics #1, there is no Superman. Without Superman, there are no D.C. a ... More | |
Installation view: Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Stephen Shames.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting This Tender, Fragile Thing, a group exhibition on view through April 30, 2022. The show shines a contemporary lens on the gallerys 2005 exhibition The Whole World is Rotten, which juxtaposed Black Panther materials from the gallery collection alongside works by contemporary artists. This creative exchange highlighted the culture of the 1960s and the development, goals, and achievements of the Black Power movement the call for people to define themselves and the world on their own terms. By expanding this concept across the 30,000 square feet of The School, the exhibition offers an opportunity to broaden the dialogue and display these pieces in an environment that encourages contemplation and learning. In an issue on view from The Black Panther dated July 3rd, 1971, the headline reads PROGRESS! PROGRESS?. An article sharing the same title goes on to discuss the realitie ... More |
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The Dual Nature of Christ: Sandro Botticelli's Defining Masterpiece Man of Sorrows
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BAMPFA's Senior Curator for Asian Art Julia White to retire after fifteen years
BERKELEY, CA.- The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive announced today the retirement of Julia White, who has held the position of senior curator for Asian art at the museum for the past fifteen years. White will step down from her position effective January 29. A search for her successor will begin later this year. BAMPFA has long been recognized for the strength of our Asian art holdingsespecially our collection of historical Chinese paintingsand under Julia Whites outstanding curatorial supervision, this important institutional resource has been brought to life in new and engaging ways, said BAMPFA Director Julie Rodrigues Widholm. Were deeply grateful to Julia for her service to the museum, where she has produced groundbreaking scholarship, launched new partnerships, and curated magnificent exhibitionsmany ... More
BIPOC Award recipients showcased in exhibition honoring remarkable Texas ceramicists
HOUSTON, TX.- This winter, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft presents Limitless: The 2021 Recipients of ClayHoustons Award for Texas BIPOC Ceramic Artists, an exhibition of work by Jihye Han, Tammie Rubin, and Earnest Snell. As members of the Texas clay community, these artists represent the versatility of clay, exemplifying the limitless potential of processes, forms, and styles, through narratives related to identity, acculturation, and belonging. The works on view demonstrate how clay as a material eloquently captures the ever-changing nature of identity, while embodying the gritty narratives of the human condition. As a member-based organization dedicated to cultivating, promoting, and advancing the ceramic arts in Houston and beyond, ClayHouston created this inaugural awards program to bring attention and funding ... More
Chrysler Museum of Art transforms gallery into a dark and glittering cosmos
NORFOLK, VA.- Lauren Fensterstocks The Totality of Time Lusters the Dusk, on view at the Chrysler Museum of Art Jan. 15June 19, 2022, invites visitors to come face to face with a dark and ominous cosmic landscape. A black cometencrusted with a dazzling mosaic of glass, crystals, and stones including onyx and hematitehovers at eye level and bursts through a collection of dark clouds; rain falls in streams of glass and crystal beads, pooling on the ground into puddles of reflective black Plexiglas and surrounded by an earthy black landscape dotted with paper plant forms. This installation is the first in Fensterstocks newest body of work, which reflects how humans have manipulated the natural world to express their cultures, views and values. Her works explore how weather and celestial activity have been used as a metaphor, which ... More
Mick Peter brings playful cartoon-like sculpture installations to Bath's Holburne Museum
BATH.- An exhibition of new work by Glasgow-based artist, Mick Peter, Old Ghosts takes a wry and affectionate look at the idea of history as an industry. In several surprising interventions, inside and outside the Holburne Museum, visitors will encounter amusing tableaux which appear to be cartoons that have come to life. Old Ghosts creates a narrative trail through the Museum and its Garden that humorously critiques the conventions of heritage sites. Visitors will experience Old Ghosts as a series of encounters. Outside the gallery, there will be what appears to be an archaeological dig complete with a half-buried Roman road, although the artefacts being revealed are somewhat wrong. Meanwhile, on the Holburnes famous facade known to Jane Austen as the Sydney Hotel, and more recently to fans of the Bridgerton TV series as the home of Lady ... More
Painting by Julie Hart Beers climbs to $20,000 in Bruneau & Co online auction
CRANSTON, RI.- An oil on canvas landscape painting by Hudson River School artist Julie Hart Beers (N.J./Mass., 1835-1913), titled Summer at Mossy Brook, was one of the top lots in an online-only Estate Fine Art & Antiques auction held January 6th by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, fetching a robust $20,000, including the buyers premium. Other original artworks also did well. The auction featured 386 lots, mostly pulled from estates and collections across New England. The auction was exciting to start the New Year off with a lot of bidding action on all platforms and on all categories from fine arts to Asian across the board, said Kevin Bruneau, Bruneau & Cos president and an auctioneer. It was good to see. We look forward to the rest of 2022. The Beers painting was a naturalistic depiction of towering birch trees beside a glistening ... More
Edward Kirkland, who helped preserve historic Chelsea, dies at 96
NEW YORK, NY.- Edward S. Kirkland, a preservationist who played a role in shaping some of the most beloved and characteristic sections of lower Manhattan, including the High Line, Hudson River Park and Chelseas historic districts, died Tuesday. He was 96. His death, at his Manhattan apartment, was confirmed by his guardian, Pamela Wolff. A New Englander who moved to New York in the late 1950s, Kirkland became a member of his block association in the West 20s in the Chelsea neighborhood. At the time, the historic low-rise district was threatened by residential and commercial development, and longtime tenants faced displacement. That involvement blossomed into full-time dedication to local governance and betterment. In 1982, he became a member of Community Board 4, where he headed the Preservation and Planning Committee. He was a founder ... More
Brian Gross Fine Art opens an exhibition of medium and large-scale photoworks by Keira Kotler
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Brian Gross Fine Art announced the opening of Keira Kotler: Light of Day on Saturday, January 15, 2022, with a reception from 3:005:00pm and an artist talk at 4:00pm. The exhibition will feature medium and large-scale photoworks comprised of Kotlers signature abstracted depictions of color and light. Full of sumptuous tonalities, Kotlers multi-part gridded arrangements combine radiant color with serial repetition of imagery to form dynamic, softedged patterned works. The exhibition will be on view through March 5, 2022. Continuing her exploration of light and color, Keira Kotlers new photographic works explore moments of illumination through subtle shifts of value. Drawn to the chromatic drama of natural light, Kotler captures this phenomena using her camera. Repeating and combining these images in different ... More
Camden Art Centre opens an exhibition of works by Allison Katz
LONDON.- Allison Katzs (b. 1980, Montreal, Canada) exhibition at Camden Art Centre is the London-based artists first institutional solo show in London. For more than a decade, Katz has been exploring paintings relationship to questions of identity and expression, selfhood and voice. Animated by a restless sense of humour and curiosity, her works articulate a tricksy language of recurring forms roosters, monkeys and cabbages, among other things that are by turns familiar and enigmatic, and through which the artists sustained and critical pursuit of genuine ambiguity takes shape. The work for Artery was developed over the last two years, in parallel with the disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic. The new paintings, posters and exhibition design are infused with questions of communication and connection, distancing and intimacy. For ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German photographer Andreas Gursky was born January 15, 1955. Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often employing a high point of view. In this image: Andreas Gursky, Tokyo Stock Exchange 1990. C-Print 205.0 x 260.0 x 6.2 cm © Andreas Gursky /VG Bild-Kunst. Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia. Courtesy: Monika Sprüth / Philomene Magers, Berlin London.
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