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File photo of the auction of the collection of S.I. Newhouse at Christieâs in New York, on Thursday, May 11, 2023. (Hiriko Masuike/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A judge in New York has opened a crevice in the traditional secrecy of the art market with a ruling that directed Sothebys to reveal who consigned and who bought a painting by Tiepolo, the Italian old master, that was sold at auction in 2019 for $100,000. The ruling came in a case brought by three heirs of a Jewish art dealer named Otto Fröhlich, who say he lost the artwork during the Holocaust. The heirs sued Sothebys, saying they needed the names of the buyer and seller to pursue a claim for the return of the painting. Auction houses have long kept the identities of buyers and sellers confidential to guard their privacy, but the lack of transparency in the art market has increasingly drawn attention. Though the U.S. government has decided against further regulation, critics have questioned whether the market, where millions of dollars routinely change hands, has become an unwitting haven for money laundering. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Literati and Rocks Amidst Verdant Bloom at Fu Qiumeng Fine Art will feature Auspicious Scholar Rocks, an ink on color hand scroll by Sun Kehong (1532-1610). He gained acclaim for his depictions of flowers, birds, and rocks and his ability to capture the essence of these subjects also reflected his deep connection to the natural world. Ink and color on paper, 11 1/4 x 108 3/4 inches or 28.6 x 276.2 cm. Asia Week New York.
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| The White House has that sinking feeling (thanks to an artist) | | With 'Tommy' revival, Pete Townshend is talking to a new generation | | Laurent de Brunhoff, artist who made Babar famous, dies at 98 |
The work of earth on a steel frame by Artist Kiyan Williams, Ruins of Empire II or The Earth Swallows the Masters House, sits on a terrace at the Whitney Museum of American Art for its Biennial exhibition, in New York, March 10, 2024. (Charlie Rubin/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- This is my big girl. Artist Kiyan Williams was referring to federal architecture specifically, the northern facade of the White House, which reappears, redesigned in dirt and ... More | |
Pete Townshend of The Who in New York, March 6, 2024. (Erik Tanner/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- As he entered a suite at the Carlyle hotel in Manhattan, Pete Townshend mentioned that an afternoon meeting had been canceled. So, he added, we have lots of time to talk. Townshend is one of rocks great singers, songwriters and guitarists, and hes also among musics preeminent talkers. Since the Who first took the stage 60 years ago, ... More | |
Laurent de Brunhoff, who produced more than 50 books in the Childrens series about Babar the elephant. (via de Brunhoff family via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Laurent de Brunhoff, a French artist who nurtured his fathers creation, a beloved, very Gallic and very civilized elephant named Babar, for nearly seven decades sending him, among other places, into a haunted castle, to New York City and into outer space died Friday ... More |
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| Gunmen kill 60 at concert hall outside Moscow, state media reports | | From Africa to Hong Kong, a gallery's influence grows | | A queer Chinese artist finds liberation through folk art |
People lay flowers near the Crocus City Hall, where at least 115 people were killed and more than 140 injured Friday night in an attack at the popular concert venue outside Moscow, on Saturday, March 23, 2024. (Nanna Heitmann/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Several camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire at a popular concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow on Friday night, killing about 60 people and wounding more than 100, said the FSB, Russias top security agency. That death toll would make it the deadliest attack in the ... More | |
Responsible woman by Kwesi Botchway. (Kwesi Botchway and Gallery 1957 via The New York Times)
LONDON.- The dusting of charcoal still on her hands hinted that Kenyan British artist Phoebe Boswell had just finished putting the final touches on the trees she had created in the entry hallway of the London outpost of Ghanas Gallery 1957. With the show Constellations, Part 1: Figures on Earth & Beyond set to open in a few days, Boswell, who is extremely afraid of heights, had spent a week climbing up a ladder to draw the tall, ... More | |
Xiyadies Train (1985-86), in which he depicted himself and a uniformed train attendant locked in an embrace on a rail car. (Xiyadie and Blindspot Gallery via The New York Times)
HONG KONG.- In the years he hid his sexuality from his children and village neighbors, Xiyadie would take short-bladed scissors to rice paper and give shape to unfulfilled dreams. At first glance, his creations conform to traditional cutout designs of animals and auspicious symbols adorning doorways and windows in China. But ... More |
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| The Met Museum hires its first head of provenance research | | Ahlers & Ogletree announces 2 Spring Auctions in Atlanta, April 3-4 | | A fair alternative brings some relaxed ambience to Hong Kong |
In an image provided by the institution, Lucian Simmons, who will be leading the Metropolitan Museum of Arts expanded effort to study the provenance of its collection. (Wilson Santiago/The Metropolitan Museum of Art via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- As part of its more aggressive restitution investigation efforts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday announced that it had appointed a Sothebys executive to the newly created position of head of provenance research. Lucian Simmons will leave Sothebys, where ... More | |
Pair of circa 1900 figural gilt bronze statues on marble bases by Emmanuel Villanis (French, 1858-1914), titled Soleil, 41 ¾ inches tall, titled to the front and signed E. Villanis (est. $8,000-$16,000).
ATLANTA, GA.- A pair of circa 1900 gilt bronze statues on marble bases by Emmanuel Villanis (French, 1858-1914), a 19th century oil on canvas Biblical figural scene after Bartolome Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617-1682) and an untitled oil on canvas landscape painting by E. Ambrose Webster (American, 1869-1935) will come up for bid in ... More | |
An undated photo provided by Fringe Club, Hong Kong, the nonprofit arts space in a stucco-and-brick building in Hong Kongs Central district.
NEW YORK, NY.- This is the age of the art fair, critic Dave Hickey declared in a 2007 lecture, not entirely sanguinely. As fair giants like Art Basel and Frieze have continued to add events across the globe, they have found art dealers game to take part, eager to transact. But not everyone is sold on the fair model. These sprawling trade shows are often a huge drain on resources time, ... More |
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| Castlefield Gallery celebrates 40th anniversary with exhibition | | The original art that announced the death of The Man of Steel makes its auction debut at Heritage in April | | Annet Gelink Gallery now representing Rinella Alfonso |
Jamie Kirk, Mutation, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist.
MANCHESTER.- Forty years ago, on 20 March 1984, Castlefield Gallery opened its doors. On that day, the gallery opened with a remarkable exhibition John Hoyland: Recent Paintings. This March 2024, the gallery launched their 40 year anniversary programme with 40 Years of the Future: Painting. This show welcomes to the gallery ... More | |
Jon Bogdanove and Dennis Janke Advance Comics #47 Cover First Doomsday Original Art (Capital City Distributions, 1992).
DALLAS, TX.- For the first time, Jon Bogdanove is auctioning his drawing that told the world Superman would die. Among the numerous centerpieces in Heritages April 4-7 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction, this original artwork which ... More | |
Marjolein van Damme, De Uitkrant, February 2022.
AMSTERDAM.- Annet Gelink Gallery announced the representation of Rinella Alfonso. Alfonso studied at Instituto Buena Bista in Curaçao and Fine Arts at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (NL), before becoming a resident at De Ateliers in Amsterdam in 2019. In 2021 she received the Royal Prize for Painting, ... More |
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The Lowry presents 'Memory Stone' by artist and filmmaker Nikta Mohammadi
SALFORD.- Originally from Tehran and now based in West Yorkshire, Memory Stone is Nikta Mohammadis first institutional solo exhibition. This brand-new work has been commissioned by The Lowry through its Artist Development Programme: Developed With The Lowry. Memory Stone is an immersive film installation exploring dreams and displacement within the context of the British countryside. Transforming the gallery space through highly composed and performative video work and an accompanying visceral soundscape by composer Babak Mirsalari, audiences will experience an alternate version of Northern landscape. Combining elements of Sci-fi and Iranian mythology, Mohammadi reflects on her own and other migrants psychological and physical relationship with land and place. Rather than presenting the landscape ... More
BMA opens retrospective of boundary-breaking artist Joyce J. Scott
BALTIMORE, MD.- On March 24, the Baltimore Museum of Art will open the 50-year career retrospective of artist Joyce J. Scott (b. 1948, Baltimore, MD), encompassing the full range and depth of her prolific and genre-defying practice. Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams features nearly 140 works from the 1970s to the presentincluding sculpture, jewelry, textiles, artwear garments, performance compilations, prints, mixed-media installations, and a new large-scale commission. The astonishing virtuosity and ingenuity of Scotts work in every medium seamlessly coalesces with her lifelong vision to confront racism, sexism, classism, and all the isms society offers through impish and audacious humor, expressions of beauty, and a humanistic engagement with global events. Her innate ability to move across medium and genre, ... More
Exhibition of recent installations, sculptures, and films by Wong Ping opens at Kiang Malingue
HONG KONG.- Kiang Malingue presents "anus whisper", an exhibition of recent installations, sculptures, and films by Wong Ping. Inspired by the experience of paracusia, Crumbling Earwax, Georges Bataille's The Solar Anus, and a tête-à -tête with a stranger in bed in the afternoon, the sizeable artworks thematically and formally correspond to one another, exploring the aesthetic meaning(-lessness) of bullshit, expanding Wong's curious body of art that revolves around circular narratives and motifs. The titular anus whisper (2024) departs from the erotic-topological story of Crumbling Earwax (2022), incorporating an unprecedented portion of newly filmed footage in the animated story: while fart sounds are generally commonly assumed to be natural, they are in fact the product of the protagonist's laborious efforts to improvise sounds ... More
Insooni breaks racial barrier to become beloved singer in South Korea
HONGCHEON.- When she took the stage to perform at Carnegie Hall in front of 107 Korean War veterans, the singer Kim Insoon was thinking of her father, an American soldier stationed in South Korea during the postwar decades whom she had never met or even seen. You are my fathers, she told the soldiers in the audience before singing Father, one of her Korean-language hits. To me, the United States has always been my fathers country, Kim said in a recent interview, recalling that 2010 performance. It was also the first place where I wanted to show how successful I had become without him and in spite of him. Kim, born in 1957, is better known as Insooni in South Korea, where she is a household name. For over four decades, she has won fans across generations with her passionate and powerful singing style and genre- ... More
Valentino's creative director is departing
NEW YORK, NY.- The fashion house Valentino announced Friday that Pierpaolo Piccioli, its creative director, would be leaving after more than two decades at the brand and just weeks after unveiling a much heralded womenswear collection during Paris Fashion Week. Piccioli was instrumental in redefining Valentino for the era after the retirement of the brands founder, Valentino Garavani. Worn by celebrities such as Frances McDormand and Florence Pugh, his work combined ease and elegance in an ineffably modern way. Ive been in this company for 25 years, and for 25 years Ive existed and Ive lived with the people who have woven the weaves of this beautiful story that is mine and ours, Piccioli, 56, said in a statement. The news of his departure sent reverberations around the fashion industry. Im between ... More
A documentary that gets how tricky it is to understand art
NEW YORK, NY.- Have you ever stood in an art gallery, contemplating a vacuum, wondering if its art or if the maintenance staff just forgot to put it away? I love this feeling. To me, art is supposed to leave us reevaluating everything we think we know about the world. But it does underline how knotty and capricious judging art can be a matter also taken up by Art Talent Show. Directed by Tomas Bojar and Adela Komrzy, Art Talent Show (opening this week in theaters) follows hopeful applicants to Pragues Academy of Fine Arts, the oldest art college in the Czech Republic. When the film was on the festival circuit, it garnered comparisons to the movies of Frederick Wiseman: patient, witty observational portraits of institutions that coax audiences to draw conclusions about their ultimate theses. In this case, the subjects are the young artists ... More
Andrea Riseborough has a hidden agenda
NEW YORK, NY.- I really do wish sometimes that I could do all of this a different way, Andrea Riseborough said. But I suppose I just do it the way that I do it. And there are consequences. She paused then, pressing her lips into a thin smile. That all sounds a bit dramatic, she added. This was on an afternoon in early March, and Riseborough, 42, a metamorphic actress with a worrying sense of commitment, was seated at a West Village cafe, a basket of vinegar-doused french fries in front of her. She is often unrecognizable from one project to the next, a combination of makeup, hairstyle (what Meryl Streep is to accents, Riseborough is to coiffure) and marrow-deep transformation. Here, offscreen, she wore a Mickey Mouse sweatshirt under a busy leather jacket. Her hair, still growing out from the dismal pixie cut she got for the HBO ... More
Lyn Hejinian, 82, dies; Leading light of the Language poetry movement
NEW YORK, NY.- Lyn Hejinian, a central figure in the Language poetry movement of the 1970s and 80s who channeled the seismic social changes and avant-garde artistic climate of the 1960s into work that was both richly lyrical and groundbreaking in its experimentalism, died on Feb. 24 at her home in Berkeley, California. She was 82. The cause was cancer of the bile duct, her husband, jazz saxophonist Larry Ochs, said. As a poet, essayist, publisher and professor, Hejinian was a central figure in a subversive literary movement that aimed to explode the first-person confessional strain of mainstream poetry as epitomized by the likes of Robert Lowell and John Berryman through artful deconstructions of language and form. Language poetry, also known as Language writing, was largely centered in the San Francisco Bay ... More
Rarest Altamont Speedway Festival poster leads Heritage's Music Memorabilia & Concert Posters event
DALLAS, TX.- In his 1971 book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson writes about California and the end of the 1960s: ...look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark that place where the wave finally broke, and rolled back. In this country, the year 1969 brought us culturally seismic events that not only ended one of the nations most hopeful and tumultuous decades, but that to this day represent the polemical split within the American psyche. The four national events people most associate with 1969, in chronological order: the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the Manson murders, the Woodstock Festival. And Altamont. Look at this poster thats in Heritages April 11 - 13 Music Memorabilia & Concert Posters Signature ® Auction: The words Altamont Speedway jump out, especially ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Edward Weston was born March 24, 1886. Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 - January 1, 1958) was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographersâ¦" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." In this image: Tina on the Azotea, with kimono, 1924. Edward Weston (American, 1886â1958). Photograph, platinum or palladium print. The Lane Collection. Photograph courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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