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Gio Swaby, Pretty Pretty 8, 2021 (detail), Thread and fabric sewn on canvas, Collection of Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Museum purchase in honor of James G. Sweeny.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg is presenting the first solo museum exhibition of multidisciplinary artist Gio Swaby (b. 1991, Nassau, Bahamas) whose work explores the intersection of Blackness and womanhood. The exhibition features more than 40 works ranging from intimate portraits to life-size textile panels fabricated from sewn line drawing and quilting techniques. Creating unique portraits through a range of textile-based methodologies, Swabys work is anchored in a celebration of the imperfect and complex humanity of Black women. The exhibition was co-organized by the MFA, St. Petersburg and the Art Institute of Chicago, and will open in St. Petersburg on May 28, 2022. In her interview with Nikole Hannah-Jones for the exhibition catalogue Gio Swaby: Fresh Up published by Rizzoli Electa, Swaby states, I would describe my work first and foremost as an act of love. She continues, For me, these physica ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A collection of significant paintings by Edvard Munch (1863-1944) have gone on show together for the first time in the UK in a new exhibition at The Courtauld.
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| Ernie Barnes soars past estimate at Bonhams American Art sale | | Major Edvard Munch exhibition opens at the Courtauld | | Palace of Versailles announces the acquisition of a portrait of Catherine Duchemin | 
The Maestro by Ernie Barnes (1938-2009), sold for $882,375. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Maestro, a stellar painting, by Ernie Barnes (1938-2009) flew past its estimate and achieved spectacular results when it sold for $882,375 at Bonhams American Art sale on Thursday, May 26. Currently experiencing a surge in recognition and appreciation for his body of work, Barnes was an American painter and former NFL player who was known for his unique style of elongation and movement which is beautifully showcased in this work. Appearing as the cover artwork for The Crusaders 1984 album, The Maestro, painted circa 1971, depicts a solitary figure brimming with anticipation as he prepares himself to passionately conduct the music spilling from the antique radio placed in front of him. Additional sale highlights: A triumph within the artists oeuvre of Spanish subjects with whom he was captivated, La Mora by Robert Henri (1865-1929) sold for $409,875. As is the case ... More | | 
Edvard Munch, (1863-1944), Four Stages of Life, 1902, KODE Art Museums, Bergen, Norway.
LONDON.- A collection of significant paintings by Edvard Munch (1863-1944) have gone on show together for the first time in the UK in a new exhibition at The Courtauld. The Morgan Stanley Exhibition: Edvard Munch. Masterpieces from Bergen showcases 18 seminal works by Munch on loan from KODE Art Museums in Bergen, Norway - home to one of the most important Munch collections in the world. The exhibition follows The Morgan Stanley Exhibition: Van Gogh. Self-Portraits, one of the most highly-attended exhibitions in The Courtaulds history. Seen together for the first time outside of Scandinavia, the collection presents an exceptional overview of Munchs development as an artist, providing a rich and comprehensive account of his journey from the early breakthrough pictures of the 1880s which launched his career, through to the expressive and psychologically ... More | | 
Catherine Duchemin. Anonymous. Palace of Versailles Dist RMN © C. Fouin.
PARIS.- The Palace of Versailles has just acquired an oil on canvas painting of Catherine Duchemin, the first woman to be admitted as a painter to Frances Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture) in 1663. Acquiring this rare painting serves to further enrich Versailles collection of Académie artists portraits, which until now has featured men exclusively. Catherine Duchemin was one of the rare few female painters working in 17th-century France and known to us today. She stands out from her fellow female artists in her achievement in being the first woman admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture on 14 April 1663 upon presenting a painting of flowers that prompted the academy to feel it was a duty and an honour, in accordance with the Kings wishes [
] to spread her grace among all those who excel in the arts of pa ... More |
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| Significant collection of Japanese cloisonné enamels to be donated to Peabody Essex Museum | | Bonhams Skinner announces its third sale of eclectic objects from the Jim Dixon Collection | | Andy Fletcher, a founder of Depeche Mode, dies at 60 | 
Andō Jūbei Company. Vase with Radiating Black-and-White Stripes. Japan. Shōwa period, 1930s. Wireless enamel on metal with silver rims. 29.8 x. 21.6 cm. Peabody Essex Museum, Fredric T. Schneider Collection, Promised Gift of Fredric T. Schneider and Lynn Whisnant Reiser. Photo © 2022 John Bigelow Taylor.
SALEM, MASS.- The Peabody Essex Museum announced that it will receive a generous and inspiring gift of Japanese cloisonné enamels from renowned scholar and collector, Fredric T. Schneider. The collection, which Schneider began assembling in 1993, features approximately 900 works tracing four centuries of cloisonné enamel production. Works include commissions for the Japanese imperial family, pieces for export among them masterworks exhibited at many International fairs as well as a group of important cloisonné enamel pieces by contemporary master practitioners. The Schneider Collection significantly expands PEMs renowned holdings of Japanese art. The announcement of the gift coincides with a public lecture on Japanese art by Midori Oka, which will be held at PEM on June 12, 2022. PEM is honored to become ... More | | 
Pair of Mother-of-pearl Inlaid Armchairs, Syria, early 20th century, with straight backs, arms, and aprons, all inlaid with mother-of-pearl and various woods in geometric patterns, 50 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 21 x 1/2 in. Est $400-600.
MARLBOROUGH, MASS.- Bonhams Skinner presents Art & Antiques | Jim Dixon Collection, the next sale from the Jim Dixon Collection auction series. Featuring more than 300 lots of Japanese, Chinese, Middle Eastern, American, and African art, antiques and vintage collectibles, the auction will run online June 5, 2022 - June 15, 2022. Previews will be available June 10, 13 and 14. Highly regarded for his collection of rugs and textiles (which has come to be known as the Hesperides Collection) Dixon also sought out an eclectic range of objects throughout his lifetime that complimented his primary passion for early carpets. Gathered in a single auction that spans the breadth of this collection, bidders have the unique opportunity to both add to or begin a focused collection of their own, and also discover some statement home décor amongst pieces selected by Dixon for his purpose-built mountain residence in Occidental, California. As ... More | | 
With three others, he created the band in 1980 and rode its synthesizer-driven music to worldwide fame.
NEW YORK, NY.- Andy Fletcher, a Founder of Depeche Mode, Dies at 60 Andy Fletcher, who played synthesizers in Depeche Mode, an electronics-heavy British band that developed a huge fan following and sold millions of records in the 1980s and 90s, has died. He was 60. The band announced his death on Thursday on Twitter. The announcement did not specify where he died or give a cause. An unidentified source close to the band told The Associated Press that he died Thursday at his home in Britain. Fletcher formed Depeche Mode in 1980 in Basildon, east of London, with fellow synthesizer players Vince Clarke and Martin Gore and vocalist Dave Gahan. Clarke left after the groups first album, Speak & Spell, was released in 1981, Alan Wilder filled the spot, and Gore took over from Clarke as the groups main songwriter. The band started to veer away from pop and toward the darker, more serious music that it rode to worldwide fame over the next two decades. Critics at first often didn& ... More |
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| Studio Voltaire presents the first institutional exhibition of Maeve Gilmore | | Colin Forbes, a 'designer's designer,' is dead at 94 | | Through a recession and a pandemic, the book business is thriving in Buenos Aires | 
Maeve Gilmore, Self Portrait © Maeve Gilmore Estate. Photo: Ben Westoby.
LONDON.- Maeve Gilmore was a painter, writer and illustrator, and much of her work was autobiographical. Beginning with assured early selfportraits and stilllife studies, Gilmore developed more explorative narrative works influenced by the modernist and avantgarde movements she studied during her travels through mainland Europe. Often working beyond canvas, Gilmore made use of the styles and techniques of applied arts in large painted screens, furniture and illustrative murals which encompassed entire rooms of the family home. In the later stages of her career, semiabstract works took on spiritually inspired and gestural qualities but figurative painting remained a central concern with family life a constant subject throughout her practice. While Gilmore found early success, exhibiting in the 1930s at Londons Wertheim and Redfern galleries, and she produced work throughout her life, very little of her work has been presented to contemporary audiences. Her story is ... More | | 
The logo used by Nissan for many years was also Mr. Forbess work.
NEW YORK, NY.- Colin Forbes, a graphic designer who had a hand in countless logos, book covers and interior spaces, but whose most enduring work may have been, essentially, designing a design organization, Pentagram, which grew from its founding in the early 1970s to have worldwide influence, died Sunday at his home in Westfield, North Carolina, near the border with Virginia. He was 94. Michael Gericke, a current partner at Pentagram, confirmed the death. Forbes was already a successful designer when he joined with four others to create Pentagram in London. Forbes and his co-founders Alan Fletcher, Theo Crosby, Mervyn Kurlansky and Kenneth Grange wanted something in between a boutique firm and a large Madison Avenue-type concern. Forbes was the principal architect of what they came up with: a partnership structure that balanced independence and collaboration. As co-founder of Pentagram, Gericke said by email, he shaped a unique structure ... More | | 
Nurit Kasztelan at her bookstore, Mi Casa, in the Villa Crespo neighborhood of Buenos Aires, April 1, 2022. Magali Druscovich/The New York Times.
by Daniel Politi
BUENOS AIRES.- Every year when she was growing up, Carime Morales family would take two days from their winter holidays in Buenos Aires and go shopping for books, largely on Corrientes Avenue, where bookstores, theaters and cafes created a vibrant cultural scene. But when it came time for Morales to open her own bookstore last year, she didnt even consider Corrientes. Instead, she opted for Parque Chas, the leafy, residential neighborhood of winding streets where she lives. And her store, Malatesta, became a hit part of a boom in neighborhood bookstores, which are multiplying and thriving even through Argentinas rigorous pandemic lockdown and a yearslong recession that has ravaged publishing and much of the economy. The small shops are sprouting where their readers are, in residential areas, keeping alive the rich literary scene that made Buenos ... More |
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| Speed Art Museum welcomes Tyler Blackwell as new Curator of Contemporary Art | | Christie's announces first handbags & accessories auction in Italy | | Stunning Coronation brooch to be sold at Noonans | 
Blackwell will be leaving his current position as Cynthia Woods Mitchell Associate Curator at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, Texas.
LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museum welcomes Tyler Blackwell (he/him) as the new Curator of Contemporary Art starting August 1, 2022. Blackwell will be leaving his current position as Cynthia Woods Mitchell Associate Curator at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, Texas. Specializing in queer and historically underrepresented artist practices, post-1960s abstract painting and sculpture, and digital media, Blackwell has worked in museums for over 10 years. I am honored and thrilled to join the Speed at this pivotal time in the Museums history, said Blackwell. As the institution considers new ways to explore and center stories that have been historically marginalized or under-looked, I am eager to collaborate and contribute to a program that advances the Speed as a vibrant, welcoming, and multivocal hub for dialogue, gathering, and exploration. I strongly believe artists and museums are uniquely ... More | | 
A Kiwi Lichen Epsom Leather Candy Birkin 35 with Palladium Hardware. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
MILAN.- Christies announces Inside the Orange Box: A Lifetime of Collecting, an online sale of extraordinary handbags, open for bidding from 14 to 23 June 2022. This single owner auction represents a celebration of one collectors passion, showcasing an encyclopedic collection of Hermès handbags, accessories, lifestyle objects, textiles, jewellery, watches and more. Comprising a total of 257 lots, including 145 handbags, the auction will be on public preview at Christies Palazzo Clerici, Milan, from 17 to 19 June 2022. Lucile Andreani, Head of Handbags, Christies EMEA: We are thrilled to present Christies first Handbags & Accessories auction ever held in Italy, which follows the success of our first single-owner Handbags and Accessories sale, held in Paris earlier this year. This truly unparalleled offering exemplifies a lifetime of collecting by a passionate connoisseur of all things Hermès. Never before ... More | | 
Formerly the property of Lavinia Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, the diamond and platinum brooch by Garrard & Co. Ltd. is modelled in the form of the letters ER in the Queens own handwriting.
LONDON.- A stunning Royal presentation diamond brooch given by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to Lavina, Duchess of Norfolk, for assistance prior to her Coronation in 1953, is to be offered for sale by Mayfair Auctioneers Noonans, specialist auctioneers of coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery, on Tuesday, June 14, 2022 in a sale of Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu. It is estimated to fetch £4,000-6,000. Formerly the property of Lavinia Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, the diamond and platinum brooch by Garrard & Co. Ltd. is modelled in the form of the letters ER in the Queens own handwriting, and set throughout with brilliant-cut diamonds, signed to the reverse With grateful thanks and contained in its original Garrard & Co. Ltd. red leather case with the Royal cypher on the cover. As Frances Noble, Head of Jewellery Department and Associate ... More |
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 Tolarno Galleries opens an exhibition of works by Elizabeth WillingMELBOURNE.- Forced Rhubarb is a new body of work from Elizabeth Willing, an installation of hand-printed and embroidered linens, accompanied by a floorwork made from sherbert-filled straws. Food is the catalyst Elizabeth Willing uses to reflect on the performance of eating, and facilitate multi-sensory experiences. Willing made a statement at the 2018 Melbourne Art Fair with the installation Strawberry Thief featuring a William Morris-inspired wallpaper print using native Brisbane ingredients, hand-carved wooden sculptures, the Anxiolytic cocktail performance and collages of fruit cakes accompanied by a bright pink carpet. Since then, Willing has since held solo exhibitions at University of Queensland Art Museum, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Kuiper Artspace Brisbane (all 2019) and Museum of Brisbane (2020). She was included in the group ... More  Renowned international hotel becomes grand dame of the auction worldLONDON.- For those who love exceptional luxury set around the finest lighting, furniture and interiors, 21 22 June 2022 in London offers up a pivotal moment in the buyers calendar. As part of a two-day sale spearheaded by leading luxury hospitality auctioneer Pro Auction, buyers will be able to acquire the trappings of a five-star lifestyle as The Dorchester continues its significant renovation, with more than 2,000 items going under the hammer as part of the project. No place in London makes the case for glamour and tradition quite like The Dorchester. The famous hotel on Park Lane remains unsurpassed in its enduring opulence despite London being home to more five-star hotels than any other city in the world. Despite trends that have come and gone over The Dorchester's 90-year history, its gilded Louis XIV furniture and glittering ... More  Ngununggula presents works by artists Abdul-Rahman Abdullah and Abdul Abdullah alongside Tracey MoffattBOWRAL.- Ngununggula, the Southern Highlands first regional art gallery, will present ambitious new and existing works by leading contemporary artists and brothers Abdul-Rahman Abdullah and Abdul Abdullah in dialogue with four significant video installations by one of their greatest influences, Tracey Moffatt AO. For the exhibition, titled Land Abounds, the Abdullah brothers will each present a new large-scale commissioned artwork responding to the Southern Highlands landscape and the complexity of our shared history, as well as existing works never before exhibited in NSW. Presented free to the public from 28 May - 24 July 2022, the exhibition draws on collective memory and experience, ... More  An Oliver Sacks book becomes an opera, with help from friendsNEW YORK, NY.- These are all cycads, composer Tobias Picker said, gesturing at a low canopy of fanned-out, pinnate leaves near the entrance of the conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden. Aryeh Lev Stollman, a doctor and author and Pickers husband pointed at a large, bright red cone of seeds and added: They look like palm trees, but theyre not. If you really look closely at the leaves, they have these serrated, spiky ends. Cycads nonflowering, unshowy ambassadors of a more mysterious, ancient world are not the most eye-catching specimens at the garden. Yet they were beloved by the characteristically shy Oliver Sacks, a famed neurologist and writer who had an eye for finding the universal in hyperspecific, often strange case studies. Sacks, who died in 2015 at 82, liked to share these plants ... More  MAK Center for Art and Architecture presents 'Schindler House: 100 Years in the Making'WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA.- Ushering in the one-hundred-year anniversary of the landmark Schindler House in West Hollywood, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture presents Schindler House: 100 Years in the Making. The four-month exhibition and programming series celebrate the pivotal first century of the landmark modern house in Los Angeles by Austrian-American architect R.M. Schindler. Schindler House: 100 Years in the Making emphasizes acts of making, unmaking, and remaking carried out by artists, architects, historians, writers, organizers, and cultural practitioners that have constituted the house and its mythos over this century. Designed and built by 1922, the house was in its first instantiation a radical proposition for modern collective dwelling in a minimal existencea campsite enclosed by concrete, ... More  Exhibition by artist Kenneth Tam investigates the intersections of masculinity, race, and laborTUCSON, AZ.- MOCA Tucson presents Silent Spikes, an exhibition by artist Kenneth Tam that investigates the intersections of masculinity, race, and labor. Featuring a two-channel video installation with accompanying photographs, the show examines the performance of gender and considers the power of image production and circulation, asking who has been silenced, erased, or left out of the frame. Tam reflects on the underrepresented relationship between histories of Westward expansion and Chinese immigration in the United States. The central video installation is composed of vignettes of a group of self-identified Asian American men inhabiting the figure of the cowboy an archetype of white American masculinity and engaging in intimate conversations on a hazy, dreamlike set. These scenarios are combined ... More  Christie's William S. Reese sales total $16 millionNEW YORK, NY.- The fabled private library of the most prominent antiquarian book dealer of his generation achieved extraordinary results over two live sales, totaling $16,141,944. The May 25 live evening sale, The Private Collection of William S. Reese: Part One totaled $8,216,292, with 95% sold by lot, and 146% hammer of low estimate. The May 26 live day sale, The Private Collection of William S. Reese: Part Two, totaled $7,925,652, with 97.5% sold by lot, 200% hammer above low estimate. Part One was led by the first Massachusetts broadside printing of The Declaration Of Independence, John Rodgers, c.14-16 July 1776, which brought $2,100,000. Other notable lots included, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles John Smith, 1624, $504,000; The Bloody Massacre, Paul Revere 1770, $352,800; The Federalist, Hamilton, Madison, Jay, 1788, $352,800; ... More  ABBA returns to the stage in London. Sort of.LONDON.- Ecstatic cheers bounced around a specially built 3,000-capacity hexagonal arena Thursday night as the members of ABBA one of pop musics behemoths slowly emerged from beneath the stage, their classic 70s hairstyles leading the way, to play their first concert in more than 40 years. As a synthesizer blared and lights pulsed, singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad twirled her arms skyward, unveiling a huge cape decorated with gold and fire-red feathers, while she sang the slow-burn disco of The Visitors. Benny Andersson, poised at his synth, grinned like he couldnt believe he was onstage again. Bjorn Ulvaeus, the bands guitarist, focused on his instrument. Agnetha Faltskog swirled her arms as if in a hippie trance, adding her voice to the chorus. Soon, Andersson took the mic. Im really Benny, he said. I just look ... More  Dismantling Shakespeare to liberate a gay Black 'Hamlet'NEW YORK, NY.- I could begin with the ghost. Or the famous existential question. But Im not reviewing another run-of-the-mill adaptation of Hamlet; Fat Ham, James Ijames outstanding transformation of Shakespeares tragedy into a play about Black masculinity and queerness, both echoes Hamlet and finds a language beyond it. So Ill start with a scene that especially evokes this productions charms: In the middle of a backyard barbecue, a group of family members and friends sitting around a table covered with plates of ribs, corn on the cob and biscuits are suddenly bathed in a blue spotlight. They break out into an impressionistic dance (choreographed by Darrell Grand Moultrie), curling forward and arching backward in slow motion, arms fanning out, then they slump down into their seats and begin headbanging. All ... More  Center for Maine Contemporary Art opens four summer exhibitionROCKLAND, ME.- The Center for Maine Contemporary Art announces four summer exhibitions that open to the public on Saturday, May 28 and remain on view through September 11. A hawkeye camera watches over a tennis match, providing high speed documentation. For Reggie Burrows Hodges, the gaze of this device is a catalyst for a series of paintings which grapple with the personal and conceptual aspects of memory, linking together paintings which depict referees, tennis matches, and family portraits. Hodges is the recipient of The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation's 2020 Fellowship in the Visual Arts. His work is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art (both, New York); The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Hammer Museum at UCLA ... More  The Future Perfect opens the first American solo exhibition by Dutch design duo FreelingWatersNEW YORK, NY.- The Future Perfect is presenting the first American solo exhibition and third collection by Dutch design duo FreelingWaters. On view from May 19June 17 at the gallerys West Village townhouse, the exhibition unveils a newly commissioned collection of 18th- and 19th-century pine cabinets that have been stripped of their finishing and given highly-decorative, highly-expressive second lives. The sculptural furniture pieces will be presented alongside a site-specific mural, painted by the artists in the days leading up to the exhibitions opening. Consisting of Gijs Frieling an artist known for creating large-scale murals that forge together decorative painting, folk art traditions, and religious iconography and Job Wouters (a.k.a. Letman) a practitioner of the lost art of psychedelic and delirious penmanship, ... More  Cover art, full story from Robin's 1988 'Death in the Family' shine Bat-signal on Heritage's June Comic Art AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Even before bidding opened for Heritage Auctions' June 16-19 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction, one offering made global headlines: Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's original cover art for 1986's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Book One, the iconic cover from one of the most important titles of the past half century. Yet that historic lightning strike is just one centerpiece among many landmark works of original comic art featured in this historic event, which includes some swinging Spider-Man art from Todd McFarlane and the entirety of one of the most influential and infamous Batman stories ever told, "A Death in the Family." Not only does this auction feature Mike Mignola's original ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Jörg Immendorff died May 28, 2007. Jörg Immendorff (June 14, 1945 - May 28, 2007) was a contemporary German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor. He was a member of the art movement Neue Wilde. In this image: Jorg Immendorff, Untitled, 2007.
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