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An undated photo via Christies shows Gustav Klimts Birch Forest, from 1903, estimated at more than $90 million, that was in the collection of Paul G. Allen. Its been a closely guarded secret which masterworks in the Microsoft co-founders collection will be auctioned at Christies in November 2022. Via Christies via The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, was strongly attracted to landscapes as a way of looking outward, which may be why he felt moved to spend more than $40 million on Gustav Klimts 1903 autumnal oil, Birch Forest, in 2006. Im always trying to figure out where the futures going, Allen said in an interview for the 2016 exhibition Seeing Nature, which featured works from his blue-chip collection. So maybe thats why I find landscapes interesting. Its as if they are windows onto different realities. In the Klimt, you can feel the stillness and the calmness and the eternal nature of a forest. Or you can have an artist trying to capture a volcanic eruption, which is not still at all. When you look at a painting, Allen continued, youre looking into a different country, into someone elses imagination, how they saw it. The Klimt ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The renowned Colombian artist Olga de Amaral opens her first solo show in London for almost a decade, following her inaugural exhibitions with Lisson Gallery in New York last year. This display of cascading, layered textiles and numinous clouds of hanging strands, among a range of other historic and recent pieces, reveals Amarals mastery of the loom and the woven language, but also the ways in which her practice crosses over into painting, sculpture and installation being as much fine art as fibre art.
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| Artsy to Auction new Stanley Whitney painting to benefit reproductive rights and criminal justice reform | | Broadening our view of abstract art with works from the Arab world and beyond | | Now on view at Friedman Benda: Nendo sees Kyoto |
Stanley Whitney, The Freedom We Fight For, 2022. Oil on linen, 80 x 80 inches (203.2 x 203.2 cm) © Stanley Whitney / Photo: Rob McKeever / Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Artsy and Gagosian, announced today the launch of Artsy Spotlight Auction: Stanley Whitney, in Support of the Art for Justice Fund and Planned Parenthood of Greater New York. This single-lot benefit auction, held exclusively on Artsy from September 27October 7, 2022, is devoted to a new work by acclaimed artist Stanley Whitney, titled The Freedom We Fight For (2022), estimated at $700,000$900,000. All proceeds from the sale will support the urgent fights for decarceration and criminal justice reform, and reproductive rights in the United States, respectively, by the Art for Justice Fund and Planned Parenthood of Greater New York. Artist Stanley Whitney commented, The Freedom We Fight For is a reflection of whats going on politically in our country and is designed to make an impact for Art for Justice and Planned Parenthood. These organizations are fighting for such critical ... More | |
Saloua Raouda Choucair (Lebanon), Interform, 1960. Wood, 23 5/8 x 12 5/8 x 4 1/2 in. Collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE.
EVANSTON, ILL.- The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University presenting Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s 1980s, Sept. 22 to Dec. 4, 2022. The exhibition features mid-20th-century abstract art from North Africa, West Asia and the Arab diaspora work from the renowned Barjeel Art Foundation collection. The Block Museum is the final stop of a five-city U.S. exhibition tour. The 90 paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints in Taking Shape reflect the wide range of nonfigurative art practices that flourished in the Arab world over four decades and prompt an expansion of the abstract art canon and broadening of conversation to encompass a global view of modernism. The exhibition highlights several abstract movements that developed in the region and shows how individual artists and collectives grappled with issues of authenticity, identity and the decolonialization of culture. ... More | |
A major force in contemporary design, nendo has introduced a wholly original language of radical simplicity, poetic metaphor, and lightness of touch.
NEW YORK, NY.- Friedman Benda and nendo are presenting nendo sees Kyoto. Initially presented across historic, World Cultural Heritage sites in Kyoto, Japan [13 Jan. 2022 13 Feb. 2022], nendo sees Kyoto saw the design practice, led by Oki Sato, collaborate for the first time with six local master artisans, each steeped in ancient Japanese craft methodologies. The resultant far-reaching body of work sees traditional Japanese materials, techniques and cultural objects recast through nendos pioneering lens. Marking their US debut, the select pieces displayed in this iteration of the exhibition hybridize temporalities; at once honoring the past while integrating it with forward-looking material technologies and visual choices. In nendo and 16th Generation master craftsman Onishi Seiwemons hands, the vessels for a traditional tea ceremony, traditionally cast in iron, are instead rendered ... More |
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| In Istanbul's private retreats of the sultans, time stands still | | African American art at Swann - Oct 6: Norman Lewis, Winfred Rembert, Elizabeth Catlett & more | | The magnificent poem jars of David Drake, center stage at the Met |
Ihlamur Kasri, near Beşiktaş in downtown Istanbul, Aug. 20, 2022. Ihlamur Kasri was originally part of a royal hunting ground. Bradley Secker/The New York Times.
by Lisa Morrow
ISTANBUL.- Inside one of the elegant pavilions known in Istanbul as a kasir, the clamor and chaos of big city life recedes. The noise of car horns and shouting vendors is replaced by near silence. Listen carefully for the imagined whisper of silk rustling in the breeze or the echo of a once vital conversation abruptly curtailed. In these discreet and sophisticated structures and summer palaces, built only for the sultans, time stands still. Ostensibly intended as private retreats away from the formality of the courts at Topkapi and Dolmabahçe palaces, in reality kasir were places to scheme and plot. Each is a snapshot of a particular moment in history and an intimate and enticing slice of Ottoman life. In these exquisite kasir scattered around Istanbul, sultans could fantasize they were absolute masters of the Ottoman ... More | |
Xenobia Bailey, Think (Study for MTA Hudson Yards), hand-crocheted cotton and acrylic yarn on canvas, 2008. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries Thursday, October 8 sale of African American Art offers a selection of the best in the genre as the house marks its 15th year of dedicated auctions to work by African American and Black artists. The fall 2022 sale will present a survey of American art history with art by Black artists ranging from Henry Ossawa Tanner at the turn of the nineteenth century through the current era with Chakaia Booker. Headlining the auction is a bright and energetic 1967 abstract work in orange by Norman Lewis ($400,000-600,000). The oil on canvas comes from the late sixties period when Lewis created a series of paintings depicting abstracted jazz musiciansan important moment coming between his black and white Civil Rights and Klan images of the early to mid-1960s and the Sea Change series in the 1970s. Additional works by Lewis include an early oil on canvas from 1947 ($120,000-180,000), and Joiners, a 1954 watercolor ... More | |
A jug made by David Drake circa 1858 on exhibit at Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Sept. 19, 2022. Lila Barth/The New York Times.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- At the center of Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, a revelatory exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, stands a majestic artifact: a stoneware storage jar that may qualify as one of 19th-century Americas great sculptures. It measures more than 2 feet high, with a slightly rippling surface layered with drips of glaze in contrasting earth tones, from deep umber to ocher. Elegantly proportioned, it swells out and up from a sturdy foot and then angles inward to form a shoulder with four earlike handles to indicate that lifting it could be a considered, cooperative effort. It is possible to think of the jar as a monument or memorial. Unlike the bronze equestrian variety dedicated to kings, conquerors and colonels since the Renaissance, however, it does ... More |
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| From prison to the art gallery | | Olga de Amaral opens her first solo show in London at Lisson Gallery | | Gió Marconi opens André Butzer's sixth solo show with the gallery |
The studio of Jared Owens, a formerly incarcerated artist, in the Silver Art Project residency space, in New York, Aug. 24, 2022. Christopher Gregory/The New York Times.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2010, in the recreation center of the Fairton Federal Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison for men in south New Jersey, an art collective was born.
Five years into a 13-year sentence on drug-related charges, Jared Owens rediscovered his childhood love of ceramics and taught himself to paint. He was overseeing the art room by the time Gilberto Rivera, a graffiti artist, and Jesse Krimes, with an art degree from Millersville University in Pennsylvania, transferred to Fairton to finish their terms. They shared art magazine subscriptions, supplies, ideas and camaraderie in resistance to their circumstances. With the help of Owens and Rivera, Krimes covertly gathered prison bedsheets that he collaged ... More | |
Olga de Amaral, Strata XV, 2009, Linen, gesso, acrylic and gold leaf, 225 x 201 x 16 cm, 88 5/8 x 79 1/8 x 6 1/4 in © Olga de Amaral, Courtesy Lisson Gallery.
LONDON.- The renowned Colombian artist Olga de Amaral opens her first solo show in London for almost a decade, following her inaugural exhibitions with Lisson Gallery in New York last year. This display of cascading, layered textiles and numinous clouds of hanging strands, among a range of other historic and recent pieces, reveals Amarals mastery of the loom and the woven language, but also the ways in which her practice crosses over into painting, sculpture and installation being as much fine art as fibre art. While a recent touring museum exhibition in the US, entitled To Weave a Rock, introduced her to many new audiences, her work is seldom seen in such great depth in Europe, despite many of her earliest influences emanating from her travels and influences encountered here and elsewhere, between the 1950s ... More | |
André Butzer Untitled, 2021. Watercolour and pencil on paper Ca. 141 x 90.5 cm. 153 x 102.6 x 4 cm (framed).
MILAN.- Gió Marconi is presenting Xylon Acquarelli, pitture, libri e poesie, André Butzers sixth solo show with the gallery. The exhibition highlights a very important part of the artists practice works on paper which Butzer has continued to produce concomitantly with his paintings. On display in the gallery is a group of 11 large-scale, black and white figurative drawings from 2008 which are being exhibited for the first time and which are being shown in dialogue with more recent figurative and abstract works on paper. In conjunction with the show André Butzer Alcune poesie, a selection of André Butzers poems dating from 1999 to 2021, will be published. André Butzer (*1973, Stuttgart), lives in Berlin-Wannsee. Solo exhibitions have been held in international institutions, such as the Friedrichs Foundation, Weidingen (2022); YUZ Museum, Shanghai (2020); Museum of the Light, Hokuto (2020); IKOB Musée ... More |
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| Stephen Friedman Gallery opens a solo exhibition by Anne Rothenstein | | A two-venue survey exhibition featuring artwork by Gladys Triana opens in Connecticut | | Paradigm Gallery opens its second solo show with Sarah Detweiler |
Anne Rothenstein, 'Bruised 1', 2022. Oil on wood. Panel, 121.9 x 91.4cm (48 x 36in). Framed: 125.9 x 95.5cm (49 5/8 x 37 5/8 x in). Copyright Anne Rothenstein. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photo by Todd-White Art Photography.
LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition by Anne Rothenstein. Focusing on portraiture, interiors and landscapes, the show brings together a group of new paintings that Rothenstein has created in the last two years. It is the artists first exhibition with the gallery. Rothensteins enigmatic paintings are characterised by a dreamlike quality. Mysterious figures populate flattened landscapes and interiors. Her protagonists, often androgynous and vulnerable, provide intriguingly subtle suggestions of narratives. Drawing inspiration from found imagery, personal experience and memory, Rothenstein works instinctively to communicate atmosphere and psychological tension. The artists landscapes depict transient or dimly lit scenes ... More | |
Gladys Triana, Meditation, 1995. Mixed media, 60 x 40 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
FAIRFIELD, CONN.- Fairfield University Art Museum and the Art Museum, University of Saint Joseph are presenting Gladys Triana: A Path to Enlightenment 1971-2021, a two-venue exhibition featuring the work of artist Gladys Triana, on view September 23 to December 17, 2022. Gladys Triana is a Cuban-born, New York-based, multi-disciplinary artist whose work rebels against authoritarian rule and the oppression of hegemonies. For decades her immersive installations, sculptures, drawings, and paintings reflected two axes around which her life turned and her art was nourished: her condition of having lived since 1969 in exile from her native island, and her stubborn, continuous exploration of the ontology of women. Her more recent videos and photographs reveal her discovery of an abstract language for transcendence. This exhibition in two venues, running simultaneously at the Fairfield University Art Museum, and at the Art ... More | |
Sarah Detweiler, I Want My MTV, 2022. Oil and embroidery thread on canvas, 46h x 34w.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Paradigm Gallery is presenting Memory Palace: Down the Rabbit Hole, the gallerys second solo exhibition of work by Philadelphia artist Sarah Detweiler. Following the debut of her Hidden Mother series in 2020, Detweiler has since explored new themes of nostalgia and sentimentality by revisiting her own childhood and adolescent memories. The exhibition features the artists first-ever installation works, as well as paintings with hand-stitched embroidered elements. Detweilers depiction of shrouded figures continues throughout this body of work, transforming her subjects into embodiments of the memories, moments in time, and past experiences that inform her practice. Memory Palace: Down the Rabbit Hole will be on view through Sunday, October 23. The exhibition title refers to a mnemonic memorization technique known as the Method of Loci through which information is retained and retrieved b ... More |
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Peter Doroshenko is appointed Director of The Ukrainian Museum in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- The Ukrainian Museum in New York announced the appointment of Peter Doroshenko as its new director. Peter Doroshenko is known for his trailblazing approach to cultural institutions and amplifying them to become topical and dynamic. He has organized over two hundred exhibitions in his thirty-five year career, including solo presentations by Candice Breitz, Eric Fischl, Andreas Gursky, Boris Mikhailov, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Moriko Mori, Liu Xiaodong and Yelena Yemchuk. For eleven years, Doroshenko was director at Dallas Contemporary, Texas, the largest non-collecting contemporary art museum in the United States. Previously, as founding president and artistic director at the PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, he organised global exhibitions and collection programmes which over a short period positioned Kyiv at the heart of the international ... More
Sarah Darro named curator and exhibitions director at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
HOUSTON, TX.- Houston Center for Contemporary Craft announced that, following a national search, it has named Sarah Darro as its new curator and exhibitions director. HCCC is excited to welcome Sarah Darro back to Houston, said HCCC Executive Director Perry Price. After three years producing innovative and exciting exhibitions at the Center as our curatorial fellow, Sarah has continued to develop and deepen her curatorial voice in craft at peer institutions across the country and earn impressive accolades for her work. Her accomplishments, her relationships with artists and communities, and her novel approach to exhibition development and design will find a receptive home at HCCC and within the cultural community of Houston. Over the past decade, as a curator, writer, and visual anthropologist working at the nexus of contemporary art, ... More
Exhibition at David Nolan Gallery pays homage to four women art dealers
NEW YORK, NY.- MAD WOMEN is a homage to four women art dealers who were very influential in New York City in the 1960s and who helped shape the contemporary art world as we know it today. Some of the most renowned and respected artists of the 20th century would have remained unknown to American audiences if not for these highly innovative gallerists who recognized the true value of their art in the 1950s and 1960s. It was an admittedly difficult endeavor to single out Jill Kornblee, Martha Jackson, Eleanor Ward, and Eleanore Saidenberg from among the unusually rich and varied circle of women art dealers active in that period. A primary consideration in doing so was our desire to showcase the gallerists who had an extraordinary history of producing culturally significant exhibitions as well as exposing groundbreaking installations ... More
National Gallery opens Cressida Campbell with announcement of major new acquisition
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA.- The opening of Cressida Campbell at the National Gallery of Australia this Saturday 24 September will be celebrated with the acquisition of Bedroom nocturne, 2022. Featuring more than 140 of her woodcut prints and woodblock paintings that span from her earliest to newest works, the National Gallery invites people on a journey into the imagination and life of artist Cressida Campbell with her largest exhibition to date. A renowned colourist whose work blends printmaking and painting, Campbells four-decade career demonstrates her ability to blur the boundary between art and life as she translates the everyday into the extraordinary. Acquired to mark the Gallerys 40th anniversary, the woodblock painting Bedroom nocturne is considered a breakthrough moment in Campbells practice. Created using a circular composition, ... More
How a sooty old piano helped Beth Orton reach a new creative peak
NEW YORK, NY.- Maybe the soot helped. English songwriter Beth Orton wasnt sure she even wanted to make another album when she started to write the songs for Weather Alive: her eighth studio album, her first since 2016 and, by far, her best. Its an album that sums up and transcends all the crosscurrents of Ortons decidedly unorthodox artistic path. Its been so many phases and changes, and trying to find my place within my own music, within my own voice and in my own sound, she said in a video interview. Who am I in what I do? On her recordings, Orton, 51, is pensive and measured. In conversation, she is nearly the opposite: voluble and forthcoming, with her thoughts tumbling out. Ortons main instrument is the guitar; shes a skillful, sophisticated fingerpicker. But soon after she moved to her current house in London with her husband, musician ... More
Hilary Mantel, prize-winning author of historical fiction, dies at 70
NEW YORK, NY.- Hilary Mantel, the British author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light, her trilogy based on the life of Thomas Cromwell, died Thursday at a hospital in Exeter, England. She was 70. Her death, days after having a stroke Monday, was confirmed by Bill Hamilton, her longtime literary agent. She had so many great novels ahead of her, Hamilton said. Its just an enormous loss to literature, he added. Mantel, the author of 17 books, was one of Britains most decorated novelists. She had twice won the Booker Prize, the countrys prestigious literary award, for Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, both of which went on to sell millions of copies. In 2020, she was also longlisted for the same prize for The Mirror and the Light. Parul Sehgal, a former book critic for The New York Times, wrote in a 2020 review of The Mirror and the Light that Mantel ... More
In 'Joyce's Women,' two great Irish writers square up
DUBLIN.- Toward the end of Joyces Women, Irish writer Edna OBriens ninth work for the stage, handwritten letters rain down from the ceiling and the scene is interrupted by anonymous voices. One calls James Joyces writing beyond human comprehension. Another labels it ejaculatory smut. Finally, a mans voice, unseen, disembodied, asks a question: Who owns James Joyce? Running through Oct. 15 at the Abbey Theater in Dublin, the play addresses the personal life of an author banned in his time but celebrated today, whose works are synonymous with Dublin but who fled the city as a young man. Its the product of OBriens lifelong fascination with Joyce, her ultimate hero and the subject of her 1999 biography, James Joyce. In Joyces Women, we see the author through the eyes of the women who were his inspiration ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Australian painter William Dobell was born September 24, 1899. Sir William (Bill) Dobell OBE (24 September 1899 - 13 May 1970) was a renowned Australian portrait and landscape artist of the 20th century. Dobell won the Archibald Prize, Australia's premier award for portrait artists on three occasions. The Dobell Prize is named in his honour.
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