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The artist Faith Ringgold at her dining table in Englewood, N.J., surrounded by her works from California Dah #3, 1983, Feb. 21, 2020. I always have to feel something to paint it, said Ringgold. Meron Tekie Menghistab/The New York Times.
by Bob Morris
ENGLEWOOD (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Faith Ringgold has seen plenty of shake-ups and strange moments in her 89 well-traveled years. But the provocative Harlem-born artist who has confronted race relations in this country from every angle, led protests to diversify museums decades ago, and even went to jail for an exhibition she organized has had no reference point for the pandemic keeping her in lockdown and creatively paralyzed in her home in this leafy suburb for much of the spring. Im trying to make sense of things, bring some light to the situation, she said a few weeks ago, when the distraction of the news kept her from climbing the stairs to the beautiful and airy studio she had built when she moved from Harlem 30 years ago. The children arent in school, and all over the world, the same situation, Ringgold, a former art teacher, mused, while her two grown daughters hovered and MSNBC played. Im just keeping my eyes wide open so I can find a point of view o ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Antun Urbic, known as Backo, poses on his mini train museum in Zagreb. With over 150 trains Antun Urbic has turned his lifelong passion into an impressive model railways museum in Croatia's capital. Backo Mini Train Museum is the largest in southeast Europe, has more than one kilometres of rails through an imaginary rural and urban landscape of villages, mountains, roads, churches, all presented in minutiose details. It has over 2,500 different figures, including mountaineers, wedding guests, people waiting at railway stations or rushing to work. Denis LOVROVIC / AFP
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| | British Airways to sell art as it struggles with virus impact | | Sotheby's announces two online auctions offering works from some of the world's leading Old Masters dealers | | Signs at Beatles pilgrimage site defaced in racism row |
British Airways passenger planes are pictured at the apron at London Heathrow Airport in west London. Adrian DENNIS / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- British Airways is selling off artworks thought to be worth millions of pounds as the troubled airline seeks to raise funds as it struggles through the coronavirus crisis, it was claimed Thursday. A collection of work by artists including Damien Hirst, Bridget Riley and Peter Doig, which have previously been displayed in the airline's lounges, are expected to be put up for sale. Some of the works are thought to be worth at least £1 million (1.1 million euros, $1.3 million) each. A British Airways spokesperson refused to confirm or deny the sale, but officials with knowledge of the matter said it was having some of its artwork valued as it seeks to prevent job losses because of the pandemic fallout. Last month, the airline's owner IAG reported a net loss of 1.68 billion euros ($1.8 billion) in the three months to the end of March. News ... More | |
Gerrit van Honthorst, A Shepherdess Holding Plums. Estimate $60,000-80,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys is set to offer works from the collections of many of the worlds leading Old Master dealers in two dedicated online sales, The Dealers Eye: London and The Dealers Eye: New York (18 25 June). Bringing together 39 internationally acclaimed dealers, each of whom has carefully selected three works for inclusion, the concurrent sales will feature exceptional examples of Old Master and 19th century paintings and drawings. Presenting over 66 lots representing 22 esteemed gallerists, The Dealers Eye: London will feature works by masters such as Jacopo Bassano, Thomas Gainsborough and Anthony Van Dyck, whilst The Dealers Eye: New York, will offer 51 works by artists including Govert Flinck and Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, selected from the collections of 17 dealers. Being drawn from the inventories of the leaders in the field ... More | |
Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson earlier this week denied that the road was named after slave trader James Penny. Photo: Richard Kemp CBE/Twitter.
LIVERPOOL (AFP).- Road signs on Liverpool's Penny Lane, immortalised by The Beatles in their classic 1967 hit, were graffitied over on Friday following claims it was named after a slave trader. Black spray paint covered writing on four signs on the road in the northwest English city, while the word "racist" was also daubed on a wall above one sign. Local residents later cleaned off the paint. Beatles songwriter Paul McCartney signed one of the signs when he visited the area in 2018. Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson earlier this week denied that the road was named after slave trader James Penny, although the city's International Slavery Museum is researching its origins. "There is some debate about whether Penny Lane was named after James Penny, but the evidence is not conclusive," said a spokesperson from the museum. ... More |
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| | National Portrait Gallery to go ahead with scheduled closure as works begin on Inspiring People redevelopment | | Major solo show of Kati Heck's work opens at Kunstmuseum Den Haag | | Dorotheum announces Contemporary Week with modern and contemporary art, wristwatches and pocket watches |
Proposed North Façade entrance and forecourt. Jamie Fobert Architects / image by Forbes Massie Studio.
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery will close as planned from the 29 June 2020 until spring 2023 while essential building works take place on the Gallerys Inspiring People redevelopment project. While the Gallery in London is closed, hundreds of portraits from the Collection will be shared across the UK through an exciting programme of partnerships and collaborations, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and a major grant from Art Fund. The Gallery will offer visitors another opportunity to see the critically acclaimed David Hockney: Drawing from Life by staging the exhibition again when the Gallery re-opens, and Cecil Beatons Bright Young Things will tour in the UK, with dates to be confirmed when possible. Inspiring People is the National Portrait Gallerys biggest ever development since the building in St Martins Place opened in 1896. The project will see a transformed National Portrait Gallery ... More | |
Kati Heck, Hecksphinx (Ein Selbst in der Warteschlange), 2020. Styrofoam, fabric, plastic, cup 185 x 140 x 205 cm. Courtesy Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp.
THE HAGUE.- The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is presenting the first major solo museum show in the Netherlands by Kati Heck (°1979, Düsseldorf, lives and works in Pulle, Belgium). The exhibition, entitled Hauruck d'Orange, brings together more than twenty new and recent works. Besides paintings, drawings, collages and sculptures, the exhibition also features a video work. The staging invites visitors to use not only their eyes, but also their body, their memory and their subconscious. Hauruck dOrange highlights Hecks combination of various media and visual idioms, with abundant references both to art history and literature and to folklore, popular culture and autobiography. From enigmatic realism to cartoonesque sketches: Heck creates a parallel world where categories and meanings are fluid. The work ... More | |
Tamara de Lempicka, Girl with white shawl, c. 1952, inscribed Cha on the stretcher, oil on canvas, 45.7 x 35.5 cm, on the reverse of the canvas stamp of the de Lempicka Estate (barely legible), estimate 80,000 - 120,000.
VIENNA.- At the end of June, Dorotheum will be switching into Contemporary mode. The auction week for modern and contemporary art will take place from 23 to 25 June 2020 and will include pieces of art from every era of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Wristwatches and pocket watches will follow on 26 June. Both Keith Haring and A. R. Penck worked with striking visual effects and symbols. Their works, which will make an appearance at the auction of contemporary art on 24 June 2020, are based on ancient signs and patterns. Modern hieroglyphics can be spied on Keith Harings pyramid sculpture stretching 75 cm tall and completed in 1989, one year before his death ( 120,000 160,000). Some of Harings characteristic symbols appear on this ecstatic celebration of life ... More |
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| | Christie's to offer works created during quarantine to benefit amfAR's fight against COVID-19 | | Stellar results for Bonhams Modern & Contemporary Middle Eastern Art sale | | The Oscars will add a diversity requirement for eligibility |
George Condo, Multiple Personalities, 2020 (detail). © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- On July 10, Christies and amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, will present From the Studio, a dedicated grouping of approximately 20 works that will be offered as part of Christies Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale. All sale proceeds from these works will benefit the amfAR Fund to Fight COVID-19, which was launched by the organization to expand their efforts to include research on the deadly coronavirus. From the Studio will encompass a selection of contemporary artworks generously donated by leading artists, which have been sourced with the help of Michael Nevin, Co-Founder of The Journal Gallery. Nearly all of the lots being offered in this grouping were created by the artists while in quarantine. Michael Nevin remarked: I am humbled by the generosity of artists in their support of the amfAR Fund to Fight COVID-19. Almost every artist contributing to the From The Studio benefit produced the work donated whil ... More | |
Monir Farmanfarmaian (Iran, 1924-2019) The Magnified Sacred. Sold for £168, 813. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art sale yesterday (11 June) in London achieved an impressive total of £2,082,680, with 74% sold by lot and 81% sold by value. The top lot was Divine Horses (From the Martys Epic) by Kadhim Hayder, which sold for £250,062. A highly significant work from his artistic prime part his most notable series, The Epic of the Martyr the work had been estimated at £50,000-80,000. A further highlight was a major mirror work by Monir Farmanfarmaian (Iran 1924-2019). The Magnificent Sacred, from her landmark Geometric Installations series, sold for £168,813. A metre-wide nonagon of mirrors and painted glass inlaid in wood, the work combined Farmanfarmaians deep understanding of numerology and symbolism with classical Islamic art and post-war abstraction. It was exhibited at Farmanfarmaians major retrospective ... More | |
In this file photo taken on February 08, 2020 an Oscars statue is displayed on the red carpet area on the eve of the 92nd Oscars ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. Mark RALSTON / AFP.
by Nicole Sperling
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which oversees the Academy Awards, announced Friday a handful of efforts to improve inclusion both within its organization and for the Oscars themselves. For the annual telecast, which next year may be in flux because of the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, the academy will create a task force to develop new inclusion standards for Oscar eligibility by the end of July. The academy has not yet determined what those standards will be, and films submitted this year will not be affected. The organization also announced that the best picture category will be set at 10 films rather than the fluctuating number of nominations that has been in effect since the 2010 Oscars ... More |
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| | Casey Kaplan now representing Igshaan Adams | | Internet Archive will end its program for free e-books | | Christie's announces global handbags sale calendar |
Igshaan Adams, Agter Om, 2020. Beads, rope, cotton twine, wire, fabric, 103.54 x 82" / 263 x 208cm. Photo: Mario Todeschini © Igshaan Adams. Image courtesy the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Casey Kaplan announced representation of Igshaan Adams. Adams (b. 1982, Cape Town, South Africa) multi-disciplinary practice is an ongoing examination of hybrid identity, exploring notions of race, religion, and generational trauma. Adams combines weaving, performance, and installation in an intersection of personal history and his native Cape Town roots. Raised in Bonteheuwel, a former Cape Coloured township in Cape Town created during apartheid, the race-based legislation of the 1950s, Adams reshapes materials representative of his lineage - sourcing rope, cotton, beads, prayer rugs, garden fencing, wire, and remnants of linoleum flooring found in homes of the working class, mixed-race and black communities. At the heart of Adams practice is the unresolved question of place. Heavily adorned, hanging tapestries mirror decorative floor patterns and ... More | |
Brewster Kahle, the Internet Archives founder, at a warehouse where books are stored in Richmond, Calif., Feb. 21, 2012. Lianne Milton/The New York Times.
by Elizabeth A. Harris
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Internet Archive is ending its program of offering free, unrestricted copies of e-books because of a lawsuit from publishers, which said lending out books without compensation for authors or publishing houses was willful mass copyright infringement. Since March, Internet Archive, a nonprofit, has made more than 1.3 million books available online without restriction, calling them a National Emergency Library. It said the program was in place to serve the nations displaced learners during the coronavirus pandemic, and that it would keep the library open until June 30 or the end of the U.S. national emergency, whichever came later. In a blog post published Wednesday, however, it said it would close the library next week. It said that the vast majority of people used the e-books ... More | |
A Custom Shiny Rose Scheherazade & Etain Niloticus Crocodile Sellier Kelly 24 with Gold Hardware, Hermès, 2017. Estimate: £26,000 - £30,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
LONDON.- Christies Handbags & Accessories department announces the global sales calendar for June and July 2020. A total of four live and online auctions are scheduled, presenting the most coveted handbags from brands including Hermès, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and more. Christies Handbags Online: The London Edition auction, open for bidding from 9 to 25 June, presents over 100 of the most collectible pieces ever created, comprising the most desirable brands including Hermès, Chanel, Fendi and Dior. With estimates ranging from £800 to £80,000 Christies online platform brings the King Street bidding experience into your home. Christies Hong Kong live Handbags & Accessories auction on 10 July will present a curated selection of the most coveted handbags currently on the market. The sale is led by the sensational Hermès Matte Gris Cendré Himalaya Niloticus Crocodile Diamond Birkin (HK$1,000,000 1,500,000 ... More |
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Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka exhibits performances from home
RIJEKA.- From 12th June-10th July 2020, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka (Croatia) presents Corpi Sul Palco | Performance Da Casa In Tempo Di Quarantena (Bodies On Stage | Performances From Home in the Time of Quarantine), curated by Andrea Contin in partnership with Teatro Linguaggicreativi, as part of the schedule of events for Rijeka 2020 European Capital of Culture. After selling out for two evenings at Teatro Linguaggicreativi in Milan in December 2019 and in the wake of the success of Bodies On Stage - featuring a cordoned-off stage to draw attention to inaccessibility - which was visible online from the beginning of May on the virtual stage of www.corpisulpalco.com ... More
In DR Congo, King Leopold's statue stoic as protests rage elsewhere
KINSHASA (AFP).- Overlooking Kinshasa from the seclusion of a presidential garden, the statue of Belgian King Leopold II stares over the Congo River far from the protests and rage targetting colonial figures elsewhere. The monument to the Belgian monarch, who made the Congo his personal fiefdom, stands next to his successor, Albert I, and a statue of British explorer Henry Stanley who founded the city that would become Kinshasa. This colonial trio from Democratic Republic of Congo's brutal past stand untouched behind the high gates of the Mont-Ngaliema presidential park, under a military guard, with panoramic views of the river between Kinshasa and Congo's Brazzaville. They stand in sharp contrast to the worldwide debate raging over statues and place names honouring slavers and colonial figures during anti-racism protests ... More
Chaos reigns over succession at troubled Paris Opera
PARIS (AFP).- The incoming director of the troubled Paris Opera told AFP Friday that he does not know if will be able to be in place in time to take over from departing director Stephane Lissner Lissner dropped a bombshell Thursday by saying he was leaving seven months early in January and that Europe's biggest opera and ballet company was "on its knees". But his successor Alexander Neef -- who was to take over next July -- told AFP that knew nothing of Lissner's early exit until two days ago. And he cast doubt on whether he would be able to immediately step into his shoes just as the opera faces one of the biggest crises in its 350-year history. Lissner made headlines on Thursday by saying that the company's two opera houses would not reopen until the end of the year and that it was running out of money, having lost 40 million euros ($45 million) ... More
Le Sidaner's La balustrade, Londres leads Heritage Fine European Art auction above estimates by 50.3%
DALLAS, TX.- Henri Eugène Le Sidaners luminous La balustrade, Londres, inspired by the morning light on the grounds of Englands Hampton Court, sold for $175,000 to lead Heritage Auctions Fine European Art Auction to $1,015,850 May 29. The auction, which raced past its pre-auction low estimate of $676,000, boasted outstanding sell-through rates of 98% by value and 95.6% by lots sold. "This was a gorgeous sale that had the impression of a carefully curated exhibition, Heritage Auctions Senior European Art Specialist Dr. Marianne Berardi said. "As a result, it was hardly a surprise that we had museums bidding quite aggressively alongside private collectors and dealers. The paintings and works on paper were of high quality, drawn largely from private collections. The beautiful state of preservation doubtless contributed ... More
'Spring' Dollar to shine at Heritage Auctions event
DALLAS, TX.- In the realm of Asian pedigrees, few rival the Dr. Norman Jacobs unequaled collection of Asian coins. As many collectors recall, Jacobs collection brought forth such legendary coins such as the finest known example of the Ex. Jacobs Hsüan-t'ung 'Spring Dollar. . The coveted piece finds its way to auction once again exclusively in Heritage Auctions two-day Hong Kong auctions. The sales, which will be held June 12-13 on HA.com, features supreme additional Asian rarities and specimens seen in remarkably few public appearances, including the Dr. Norman Jacobs Collection of Thai Coins "We are grateful to all of our consignors and clients who have worked with us through challenging times and helped us put together a superb auction catalog with impressive lots from vintage Chinese coins to modern issues, said Cristiano ... More
When the dancers have to miss the last dance
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It was May 10, and Hope Boykin was a wreck. That was the day, she said. That was supposed to be the final performance. Boykin, who radiates power in her fearless, generous dancing, has been a poetic force at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for the past 20 years. But recently she has found herself in a strange place. Battling injuries, first an ankle and then a knee, she had devoted herself to a goal: dancing with the company for a final year. She was getting close to her last performance when the pandemic struck. In March, the company canceled its tour. I was like, wait, I just did this and all I asked was for another year give me a break!, Boykin said. I was just trying to get through to the end because I wanted to have a finish, and the finish was just riddled with aches and pains. For dancers, as for most ... More
'Life During Wartime: Art in the Age of Coronavirus' online exhibition opens
TAMPA, FLA.- The USF Contemporary Art Museum, part of the USF Institute for Research in Art in the College of The Arts, launched its first major virtual exhibition, Life During Wartime: Art in the Age of the Coronavirus. It humbly engages a select company of international artists to respond to the overwhelming realities of the crisis that has gripped the planet since March 5, the date the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. The exhibition takes full advantage of one of the few outlets artists still havethe Internet. It aims to mobilize sentiment, thought and activity around art and its enduring possibilities: its role as a conceptual catalyst, its ability to trigger ideas, stories, conversations, emotions ... More
The work diary of Gray Malin, locked-down 'getaway' photographer
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The pristine aquamarine of a Hawaiian beach, shot from above to capture a smattering of bright umbrellas on the shore. Positano on a hazy summers day. Striped sun loungers in St. Tropez. Travel photographer Gray Malin has made his name with images like these colorful scenes that offer a quick dose of escapism. Now he, like everyone else, is grounded. I was so used to this life of one week at home, one week on the road, one week at home, one week on the road, Malin said. Instead of hovering in a doorless helicopter over a tropical locale, lining up the perfect aerial photograph, Malin, 34, has been at home in Los Angeles for the past three months with his husband, Jeff, and two children. That time has been filled with surprises for his business and lifestyle brand. What I didnt see coming was that my work ... More
Neither big nor small, music ensembles struggle in a pandemic
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When concert halls began shuttering in March, classical musicians were hit hard and quick. Huge opera companies furloughed orchestras and choruses; tiny groups like string quartets were threatened with collapse. But what of the ensembles between big and small? Such groups have a modest core membership half a dozen, 10 or 20 people and play together often. While they may feel like family, they are generally made up of freelancers, without guarantees of employment or compensation. For the Harlem Chamber Players and its core of 25 to 30 instrumentalists, the coronavirus put a freeze on an ambitious plan to perform R. Nathaniel Detts 1932 oratorio The Ordering of Moses this month. Liz Player, a clarinetist and the founder of the ensemble, described the cancellation in an interview as ... More
Little engines that can: Zagreb's model train museum
ZAGREB (AFP).- Soaring over mountain gorges, past snowy ski slopes and into bustling stations, the trains in Antun Urbic's minuscule landscape enthrall visitors to his model rail museum in Zagreb. The Backo Mini Express Museum, the largest of its kind in southeastern Europe, boasts more than a kilometre (half a mile) of tiny tracks traversing picturesque rural villages and city squares wrought in extraordinary detail. More than 2,500 figurines including mountaineers, wedding guests, police, construction workers and commuters populate the scenes. Urbic, who opened the museum in 2015, fell in love with trains 60 years ago when his father gave him a model set. "It was the only toy that moved by itself," said the 66-year-old who goes by the nickname Backo. He started building sets in the attic of his Zagreb home before moving to a bigger space ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born June 13, 1935. Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art. Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born on the same day, June 13, 1935; Christo in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, and Jeanne-Claude in Morocco. They first met in Paris in October 1958 when Christo painted a portrait of Jeanne-Claude's mother. They then fell in love through creating art work together. In this image: Workers build 'The Mastaba', an outdoor work made up of over 7000 stacked barrels by Bulgarian artist Christo on the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park in London on June 11, 2018. Niklas HALLEN / AFP
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