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Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room. Roberto Lugo contributed ceramic portrait cups (Jean-Michel Basquiat, Frederick Douglass) and plates (Alma Thomas, Nina Simone and Stacy Abrams, left). Center, Lugos Digible Underground stoneware. Rear, Andrea Motley Crabtree, the first painting by Henry Taylor (2017). Metropolitan Museum of Art via The New York Times.
by Salamishah Tillet
NEW YORK, NY.- More than a year after the racial reckoning, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has created one of its most thoughtful reparations projects yet. I do not mean its returning of some priceless artifacts back to West Africa, or its addressing of past racial wrongs with a restitution fund to support diversity in the arts, or the acknowledgment by Dan Weiss, its president and CEO, on the anniversary of George Floyds police killing, that the Met is a brilliant institution that has fallen short on these issues of race, equity and justice. I mean something far more speculative, and symbolic. Its newest installation, Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, boldly grapples with one of New York Citys biggest racial traumas: the 1857 destruction of Seneca Village, a vibrant, predominantly free Black community whose members had owned land along West 82nd to West 89th Streets starting in 1825, but were forced out in order to make Central Park. A ra ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of 'Matisse: Life & Spirit Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris' exhibition, on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 20 November 2021 - 13 March 2022. Photo © AGNSW, Mim Stirling.
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| Experience the brilliant colour, dynamic energy, and visual joy of Matisse this summer at the Art Gallery of NSW | | Hindman Civil War Collection & American Historical Ephemera Auctions achieve over $1.6 million | | Art dealer pleads guilty to wire fraud charges in $86 million scam |
Henri Matisse, Face on yellow ground (Visage sur fond jaune) 1952. Gouache and ink on paper, 75.3 x 64.6 cm. Centre Pompidou, Paris, MNAM-CCI, donation Pierre Matisse, 1991, at Musée de Grenoble since 1993 AM 1991-281. © Succession H Matisse / Copyright Agency 2021. Photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Philippe Migeat / Dist RMN-GP.
SYDNEY.- Exclusive to Sydney this summer, discover the major exhibition Matisse: Life & Spirit, Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, featuring more than 100 works of brilliant colour and inventiveness by French artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954). This monumental exhibition has been developed by the Art Gallery of NSW in collaboration with Frances leading modern art museum, Centre Pompidou, Musée national dart moderne. The exhibition is curated by Centre Pompidou curator of modern collections Dr Aurélie Verdier, with Art Gallery of NSW head curator of international art Justin Paton and special exhibitions curator Jackie Dunn. Matisse: Life & Spirit is the single greatest exhibition of Matisse works ... More | |
Civil War painted US regulation eagle drum with sticks. Manufactured by C.M. Zimmerman, Philadelphia, PA. Price Realized: $34,375.
CINCINNATI, OH.- A renowned Civil War collection, singular historical memorabilia, photographs and manuscripts drove strong prices across two days of American Historical Ephemera and Photography at Hindman Auctions. The November 12th Civil War Collection of James C. Frasca auction achieved over $834,000 and saw remarkable interest, with enthusiastic in-person, phone and online bidding. The auction presented property from the nationally renowned collector and dealer of Civil War memorabilia, James C. Frasca. A 98 percent sell-through rate demonstrated bidders intense interest in this one-of-a-kind collection. Hats, drums, regulation bugles, swords, photographs and documents signed by Americas Founding Fathers were among standout lots in the auction. The November 15th American Historical Ephemera & Photography auction totaled to over $823,000 with a 91 percent sell-through rate. ... More | |
Rudolf Stingel (b. 1956), Untitled. Price realised: USD 6,517,500. Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- For years, Inigo Philbrick, a young art dealer with a gallery in the Mayfair district in London, was a brash fixture within the world of postwar and contemporary art. Known for traveling on private jets, renting villas in Ibiza and wearing handmade Italian suits, he also was known to draw people into investing with him in paintings by blue-chip artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rudolf Stingel and Christopher Wool. On Thursday, Philbrick appeared in ankle chains in U.S. District Court in Manhattan and pleaded guilty to wire fraud, acknowledging that he had duped people while conducting business as an art dealer in New York and other places. I knew that my actions were wrong and illegal, he told Judge Sidney H. Stein, adding that he had been motivated by a desire for money. As part of his plea Philbrick, 34, agreed to forfeit $86 million and all interest in a 1998 painting by Wool and a 2018 painting by Wade Guyton. He is scheduled to be sentenced in March and faces a sen ... More |
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| Hauser & Wirth announces representation of Camille Henrot | | Design greats shine, modern & early 20th century sales achieve nearly $1.3 million | | Sotheby's reveals buyer of record-breaking $43.2M Constitution |
Camille Henrot, Bad Dad & Beyond, 2017. Interactive sculpture, mixed media, 24 x 20 x 9 inches (phone) 61 x 50.8 x 22.9 cm 44 x 20 x 9 inches (overall), 111.8 x 50.8 x 22.9 cm © ADAGP Camille Henrot. Courtesy the artist, kamel mennour (Paris/London) and König Galerie (Berlin/London/Seoul) Photo: Genevieve Hanson.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth announced today that the gallery now represents artist Camille Henrot, in collaboration with kamel mennour and König Galerie. Camille Henrot (born 1978, Paris, France) is recognized as one of the most influential voices in contemporary art today. Over the past twenty years, she has developed a critically acclaimed practice, encompassing drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and film, which is informed by a playful research process. Inspired by literature, second-hand marketplaces, poetry, cartoons, social media, self-help, and the banality of everyday life, Henrots work captures the complexity of living as both private individuals and global citizens in an increasingly connected and ... More | |
Fish Lamp, c. 1985. Frank Gehry. Price Realized: $81,250.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman Auctions saw extraordinary engagement with design greats in its November 16th Modern Design sale and November 17th Early 20th Century Design auctions. The two days of design auctions totaled $1,297,344, with both achieving outstanding sell-through rates. The Modern Design auction reached a 96 percent sell-through rate and the Early 20th Century Design auction reached a 95 percent sell-through rate. Works by distinguished names such as Frank Gehry, Dale Chihuly, Sam Maloof, Silas Kopf and Philip and Kelvin LaVerne saw fantastic bidding activity in the Modern Design auction, while French and American glass, and Art Nouveau and Art Deco furniture stood out in Early 20th Century Design. The Modern Design auction realized $713,188. The standout of the auction was Frank Gehrys Fish Lamp (lot 117), which skyrocketed past its estimate of $20,000-40,000 to sell for $81,250. Produced in 1985 by New City Editions, similar ... More | |
Sothebys Chairman Brooke Lampley on the phone for the winning bid of the Constitution at Sothebys New York. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Today in a much-anticipated, live auction at Sothebys New York, an extremely rare copy of the First Printing of the Final Text of the United States Constitution sold for $43.2 million more than double its $20 million high estimate and setting a world auction record for any book, manuscript, historical document, or printed text*. Following an eight-minute bidding battle on the telephones, the hammer fell to Brooke Lampley, Sothebys Chairman & Worldwide Head of Sales for Global Fine Art. Selby Kiffer, Sothebys Senior International Specialist for Books & Manuscripts, remarked: Tonights sale of this exceptionally rare and important printing of the Constitution was a monumental and historic occasion. The Constitution needs little introduction as one of the most influential and significant historical documents ever conceived, and tonights result reflects how relevant it remains 234 years later ... More |
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| 'Classical' Rome hosts first contemporary art fair | | Roosevelt statue to head to presidential library in North Dakota | | Photographer whose images helped define 70s rock dies at 72 |
A visitor attends a press preview of the first edition of "Roma Arte in Nuvola", the international fair of modern and contemporary art in Rome on November 18, 2021 at the Roma Convention Center "La Nuvola". Tiziana FABI / AFP.
by Kelly Velasquez
ROME.- More than 150 galleries presented some 500 artists Friday at the first contemporary art fair in Rome, a city better known for its ruins and works by masters long passed. "We wanted to fill a void," fair director Alessandro Nicosia told AFP, indirectly acknowledging the absence for many years of a more avant-garde artistic and cultural movement in the Eternal City. Veteran artists and young talent were represented at the four-day "Arte in Nuvola" exhibition, offering a snapshot of the state of Italian modern art. Organisers hope the event, which runs until Sunday, will take place annually and become a reference point for gallery owners, collectors and museum directors. Paintings, sculptures, installations and videos filled 7,000 square metres in the futuristic building ... More | |
The Theodore Roosevelt Equestrian Statue at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, June 19, 2020. Caitlin Ochs/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- In June, the New York City Public Design Commission made its decision: After more than 80 years presiding over the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History, the bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt, on horseback and flanked by a Native American man and an African man, was coming down. Now, the statues future home has been identified: It is set to head to Medora, North Dakota, where it will eventually be displayed at the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library located near Roosevelts former Badlands cattle ranches as a long-term loan from the city of New York. Museums are supposed to do hard things, Edward OKeefe, CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation, said in a statement Friday. Our job is to forthrightly examine history to understand the present and make a better future. The library, slated to open in 2026 in Medora (population 129), will offer distance in both years and ... More | |
In this file photo taken on December 1, 2016 British photographer Mick Rock poses for a photograph during his exhibition "Life on Mars". REMY GABALDA / AFP.
LONDON.- British music photographer Mick Rock, whose iconic images of artists including David Bowie and the Sex Pistols earned him the nickname "the man who shot the 70s", has died aged 72, his family said Friday. "It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share our beloved psychedelic renegade Mick Rock has made the Jungian journey to the other side," his family said in a message posted on his Twitter page. "He was a photographic poet -- a true force of nature who spent his days doing exactly what he loved, always in his own delightfully outrageous way. "He was a mythical creature; the likes of which we shall never experience again." Johnny Marr, guitarist with British indie group The Smiths, tweeted "Goodbye for now my friend and comrade Mick Rock. The visionary poet," along with a picture of the pair. Rock was born in west London in 1948 and graduated from the prestigious Cambridge University with a degree ... More |
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| Chrysler Museum of Art presents recent and promised gifts of art in fall exhibition | | The Thornton Dial Estate joins Blum & Poe | | Cuban protest anthem, salsa king Blades reign over Latin Grammys |
Susan Watkins (American, 18751913), View of the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, 1910. Oil on wood panel. Gift of Greg and Kay Garcia 2019.49.
NORFOLK, VA.- This fall, the Chrysler Museum of Art presents Building a Legacy: Chrysler Collects for the Future, an exhibition featuring exceptional recent and promised gifts to the Museums permanent collection. The show, on view Nov. 19, 2021March 6, 2022, is presented in conjunction with the Museums celebration of the 50th anniversary of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.s transformative gift of art to the City of Norfolk. In 1971, more than 7,000 objects from Walter Chryslers collection found their new home at the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, and the institution was renamed in his honor. Until his death in 1988, Chrysler would gift more than 10,000 works to the Museum. Building a Legacy presents the ongoing impact of Chryslers generosity with objects from modern-day art collectors who have committed to broadening the scope of the Museums collection, said Corey Piper, Ph.D, the Chrysler Museum ... More | |
Thornton Dial, History Refused to Die, 2004. 102 x 87 x 23 inches. Okra stalks and roots, clothing, collages drawings, tin, wire, steel, Masonite, steel chain, enamel, and spray paint. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. © Estate of Thornton Dial / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Blum & Poe announced the representation of the Thornton Dial Estate. Thornton Dial (b. 1928, Emelle, AL; d. 2016, McCalla, AL) transcended the circumstances of his birth to become a significant figure in the world of contemporary American art with the creation of drawings, assemblages, sculptures, and installations. His artistic legacy is testament both to the uniqueness of the African-American experience and the universal nature of the human condition. Thornton Dial was born and raised in rural Emelle and began full-time work at the age of five, picking cotton and handling mules in the western flatlands of Alabama. Over the course of his life, he did every kind of work a man can do including carpentry, painting, construction, welding, plumbing, iron and steel work, and a thirty-year ... More | |
Ruben Blades performs onstage during the 22nd Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on November 18, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ethan Miller/Getty Images/AFP.
by Paula Ramon
LAS VEGAS.- The anthem of this summer's protests in Cuba cleaned up at the Latin Grammys Thursday, winning prizes including the coveted best song, as the gala's Person of the Year Ruben Blades won best album. The 22nd edition of the awards show celebrating hits from the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds returned to an in-person ceremony in Las Vegas for the 2021 show, complete with electrifying performances and impressive outfits. The 73-year-old Blades, a Panamanian innovator of salsa and swing, was heralded as 2021's Person of the Year which celebrates musical contributions as well as activism, before snagging the prestigious Album of the Year and Best Salsa Album for "SALSWING!" The most-nominated artist of the ceremony Camilo won four awards ... More |
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An orchestra offers a novel view of music history
NEW YORK, NY.- Pity the 19th-century American composer, toiling away in the shadow of Beethoven in search of a homegrown sound, only to be overshadowed by yet another European: Antonin Dvorak, whose New World Symphony is played far more often than anything from the New World that preceded it. Visiting the United States in the 1890s, Dvorak prophesied a future of American classical music founded on Black and Indigenous melodies. To an extent, that came true in the 20th century, but orchestras tended to overlook composers of color in favor of white, male ones some of whom would come to be seen as national heroes, while their lesser-known compatriots would rely (and continue to rely) on passionate champions. And Europeans still haunted concert programming a product, historian Joseph Horowitz has asserted, of a cultural shift ... More
Japan's hit 'One Piece' anime marks 1,000th episode
PARIS.- Two decades after "One Piece" introduced the world to a swashbuckling pirate in a straw hat, fans of the Japanese cartoon series are giddily awaiting this weekend's release of the 1,000th episode. "One Piece" first appeared in manga (comic book) form in Japan in 1997, with an anime (animated TV series) version following two years later. Since then the franchise has become a global cultural phenomenon, smashing records and winning fans around the globe. Nonetheless, it wasn't an immediate hit. "It's a miracle," Ryuji Kochi of Toei Animation, the Japanese company behind the anime series, said of the 1,000-episode landmark. "From the beginning, it was a tough title. It was not easy to place on the TV," he told AFP, adding that growing a fanbase for the show was not easy either. Kochi said it had taken 13 long years for the anime, ... More
Minerals collection of southern gentleman brings global shimmer to Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- There is something to be said for being in the right place at the right time even in the auction world. Nowhere is that more evident than in Heritage Auctions Dec. 8 Nature & Science auction. The event is stocked with incredibly stunning items see the 52 dazzling lots of Gold that will shimmer throughout and also boasts the Collection of a Southern Gentleman, a trove of 224 lots of minerals offered at no reserve. This is an extraordinary opportunity for collectors of all levels, Heritage Auctions Nature & Science Director Craig Kissick said. The minerals in this Collection of a Southern Gentleman are offered without reserve, so there are selections to collectors of all levels, but make no mistake: there are some extraordinary examples in this collection. Many are high-value, museum-worthy minerals. The collection includes beautiful specimens ... More
New exhibitions open at the Asheville Art Museum
ASHEVILLE, NC.- The Asheville Art Museum announced two new companion exhibitions highlighting artworks from the Collection. Gestures: Mid-Century Abstraction from the Collection explores works in a variety of media that speak to the vibrant abstract experiments in American art making during the middle of the 20th century. Modernist Design at Black Mountain College features the Museum's collection of groundbreaking designs from Black Mountain College (BMC)including architecture, furniture, ceramics, textiles, and moreand situates them in the context for BMC's influences and surroundings. Artists featured in the two exhibitions include Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Ruth Asawa, Jorge Fick, Buckminster Fuller, Mary Molly Gregory, Karen Karnes, A. Lawrence Kocher, Albert Lanier, Jo Sandman, Mim Sihvonen, Robert Turner, Gerald ... More
Dallas Museum of Art names Brad Pritchett Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art today announced the appointment of Brad Pritchett as Chief Marketing and Communications Officer. A high-energy, results-oriented professional, he has 20 years of marketing and communications experience, the last 15 of which he has spent in leadership roles at prominent nonprofit organizations. Pritchett will officially join the DMA on January 3, 2022, but he will begin work this month as a part-time independent contractor. An exceptional strategist with a proven ability to develop and execute multifaceted campaigns, Pritchett has an award-winning record of defining and directing integrated internal and external marketing and communications. A top communicator, he is an acknowledged expert in the development and implementation of compelling initiatives for sustainable growth. ... More
A hot rod before its time: Ford's Model A, with a boost
NEW YORK, NY.- Dominic Palazzolo occasionally shows up at car shows and cruise-ins, but hes far from a typical enthusiast. The hopped-up 1930 Ford Model A he drives is a gow job, a hot rod from before the term hot rod was coined: a car built almost exclusively with 1930s mechanical components, yet capable of besting a lot of modern automobiles at a stoplight. Gow was once a term for opium, which was used to improve the performance of racehorses in the early 20th century. Thus, in 1930 long before hot rodding went mainstream after World War II a hopped-up car was a gow job. Roughly 20 years later, automotive enthusiasts would coin the word hot rod. But the seeds of Americas high-performance hobby were planted on the dry lake beds of California in the late 1920s. What made our grandfathers want to soup up their cars? History ... More
Bidders strike gold in Heritage Auctions' $1.2 million Fine Silver sale
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions continued its sterling record of exceptional silver sales on Tuesday when its Nov. 16 Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu Signature® Auction soared to nearly $1.2 million. Leading the sale was a 12-piece Gorham Mfg. Japonesque fruit knife set that fetched a world-record $45,000. The circa 1880 silver and mixed metal set came from the collection of Dr. Charles Venable, a former museum curator who amassed an enviable assemblage of American-made silver from the late 19th and early 20th century. Several American museums have sets of these knives, and I have always loved them, Venable says, especially the fact that the handles were patterned on imported Japanese examples. Another big seller from Venables venerable collection included a large William Gale & Son tray that sold for $20,000 and was purchased ... More
Jazz at Lincoln Center reopens, with four young players in the spotlight
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra was amused as four trumpet players, all but one under the age of 30, took their position in the rehearsal room late Tuesday morning. Its the Young Lions! called out baritone saxophone player Paul Nedzela, referring to the coterie of sharp-dressed, tradition-minded bop up-and-comers who rose during the Reagan and Clinton administrations while edging jazz toward a concert art with a classical music-style repertoire. That got a laugh. We tried that in the 90s, said bassist Carlos Henriquez. Another laugh. Soon, Wynton Marsalis, once the pride of those young lions, called the band to order from his perch in the trumpet section and the orchestra lit into Windjammers, a Marsalis cooker arranged to showcase the quartet of guest trumpeters, some of them students. The four swapped bars, breaks ... More
Betty Cuningham Gallery opens an exhibition of Philip Pearlstein's recent watercolors
NEW YORK, NY.- Betty Cuningham Gallery opened I Love Mud, an exhibition of Philip Pearlsteins recent watercolors. Philip Pearlstein, whose name is synonymous with figure painting, was forced to turn to other subjects for his art when the pandemic forced him into lockdown. Surrounded by his vast collection of art, antiquities, Americana, souvenirs and toys, all housed in his home studio, Pearlstein looked to these objects with new respect and interest. Pearlsteins regular conversations with his friend, Patterson Sims, were highlights of his months of isolation. Philip would share images of his watercolors from start to finish and the two would discuss each work at length. In the fully illustrated catalogue which accompanies the exhibition, Sims gives an overview of his thoughts on Pearlstein as he enters a new chapter of his career: Undaunted ... More
Cryptocurrency group loses bid for copy of U.S. Constitution
NEW YORK, NY.- A group of cryptocurrency fans lost a much-anticipated bid for a rare first printing of the U.S. Constitution at a Sothebys auction Thursday. The group, ConstitutionDAO, conducted a frenzied, weeklong online crowdfunding campaign to place a bid on the artifact, one of only 13 copies known to exist. It had raised more than $40 million in less than a week for the bid. The final sale price was $43.2 million, according to a Sothebys spokesman. The winners identity was not immediately known. Minutes after the gavel, ConstitutionDAO confirmed the loss on Twitter. While this wasnt the outcome we hoped for, we still made history tonight with ConstitutionDAO, it said, adding that contributors would have their donations refunded, minus fees. ConstitutionDAO is whats known as a decentralized autonomous organization, a new type of group ... More
Franco-Cameroon artist Fred Ebami explores African icons in pop-art
LAGOS.- Inspired by Andy Warhol's pop-art movement, Franco-Cameroonianartist Fred Ebami is exploring African and African-American icons with colourful, digitally drawn portraits. Whether it is singer Nina Simone, boxing legend Muhammad Ali, Nigerian afrobeats star Fela Kuti or Nobel winner Wole Soyinka, his works cut across the worlds of music, sports and literature. Even his hommage to Warhol's famed 1962 "Campbell's Soup Cans" painting brings the taste closer to home with his own "Pepper Soup", a spicy dish popular in Nigeria and Cameroon. "African versions though... a bit more spicy!" he says jokingly, in an interview with AFP. For the first time, the 45-year-old artist is showcasing his work in Lagos, the commercial and cultural capital of Africa's most populous nation. Ebami was influenced by the biggest names in pop art, a movement ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico died November 20, 1978. Giorgio de Chirico (July 10, 1888 - November 20, 1978) was a Greek-born Italian artist. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. After 1919, he became interested in traditional painting techniques, and worked in a neoclassical or neo-Baroque style, while frequently revisiting the metaphysical themes of his earlier work. In this image: Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico stands in front of one of his paintings in his apartment in Rome, Italy on Feb. 12, 1955.
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