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Hotokáneheh, Piegan Blackfoot Man, 1833. Watercolor and graphite on paper, 11 15/16 x 17 1/16 in. 1986.49.288 Joslyn Art Museum, Gift of the Enron Art Foundation, 1986.
NEW YORK, NY.- Karl Bodmer: North American Portraits will present a compelling visual response to Native North America through watercolors created in the 1830s by the Swiss draftsman Karl Bodmer (18091893). Bodmer was one of the most accomplished and prolific European artists to travel the Missouri River, and one of the first to document both the landscapes of the American interior and its Indigenous peoples. The exhibitionon view at The Met from April 5 through July 25, 2021is the first to focus primarily on Bodmers portraiture. It will feature 35 portraits along with 6 landscape and genre scenes and several aquatints, all from Joslyn Art Museums comprehensive Bodmer holdings. The works will be arranged in three gallery spaces corresponding geographically to the 5000-mile round-trip journey from Saint Louis to present-day Montana. The exhibition will feature a multi-vocal approach with interpretive texts authored by ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Wandering Amidst the Colors, Hangama Amiri's first solo show in New York, draws viewers into her search for home. On view from April 1 through May 1, 2021, Wandering Amidst the Colors comprises an immersive, autobiographical body of work developed over the course of the past year, emerging from Amiri's explorations of Afghan immigrant communities throughout New York City.
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| 22 mummies are moved in a glittering display in Cairo | | Should museums sell treasured works? Pandemic revives debate | | Amalia Pica is now represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery |
The carriages carrying 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies depart from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo's Tahrir Square on April 3, 2021. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP.
by Mona El-Naggar
CAIRO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Downtown Cairo came to a near standstill Saturday night as 22 mummies were moved from a museum where they had resided for more than a century to a new home, transported atop custom-made vehicles in a glittering, meticulously planned procession. The fanfare broadcast live on state television and complete with a military band, a 21-gun salute and a host of Egyptian A-list celebrities served as both a grand opening of sorts for the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, where the countrys oldest monarchs were set to land, and an invitation to tourists to return to Cairo after the pandemic. These are the mummies of kings and queens who ruled during Egypts golden age, said Zahi Hawass, a former minister of antiquities who supervised the discovery of tombs that date back thousands of years. Its a thrill, everyone will watch. Everyone, except many Egyptians. Along the 5-mile path to the new ... More | |
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Red Composition signed 'Jackson Pollock' (lower right); signed again and dated 'Pollock 46' (on the reverse) oil on Masonite, 19 ¼ x 23 ¼ in. (48.9 x 59.1 cm.) Painted in 1946. Estimate: $12-18 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
by Thomas Urbain
NEW YORK (AFP).- American museums hit hard by the pandemic are selling paintings to bridge revenue gaps, with some going further and using the funds to diversify collections, but critics say the sales betray the institutions' mission of preserving artwork for the public. US museums were only able to sell works, known as deaccessioning, in order to buy back others until April 2020 when the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) lifted the ban for two years to allow institutions to compensate for coronavirus-era losses. Some museums are seizing the opportunity to renew and diversify their collections but others have been forced to backtrack after opposition from local communities. In September, the Brooklyn Museum, already struggling financially before the pandemic, put 12 works, including ... More | |
Amalia Pica, A ∩ B ∩ C. Installation view at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 2013. Courtesy of the artist, Herald Street, London, König Galerie, Berlin and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Encompassing sculpture, performance, installation, video, and drawing, Amalia Picas work examines systems of communication and what brings people together. Using seemingly simple materials and found objects, she investigates human modes of interaction, especially our desire to be understood and the accompanying pleasures and failures. Pica considers shared visual codes associated with verbal and nonverbal language systems often incorporating playful signifiers of collective expression and cultural celebration such as bunting and confetti ultimately exploring cultural intimacy and the political potential of joy. As a result, her work has a lightness of touch and a feel-good quality, which Pica prioritizes for its power to draw viewers into a conversation. Born during Argentinas Dirty War in which the dictatorship persecuted suspected political dissidents, Picas work also addresses techniques of state control and explores the ... More |
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| Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg opens an exhibition of works by Georg Baselitz | | Who are the pharaohs who moved home in Cairo? | | MASSIMODECARLO opens an exhibition of new works by Aaron Garber-Maikovska |
Georg Baselitz, Freitag war es schön. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg © Georg Baselitz. Installation View: Ulrich Ghezzi.
SALZBURG.- Georg Baselitzs new series of works comprises portraits of his wife Elke, whose image has occupied a prominent position in the development of his practice for over 50 years. Created in his new studio in Austria the works reveal Baselitzs ongoing conceptual exploration of his personal style, as well as subtle art-historical references, such as allusions to German Expressionism, French Art Informel and the freedom of American abstract painting. Baselitz intensifies the intimacy and sensuousness of his motif in the heightened abstraction he achieves through his technique. The works were created through the transfer of colour, thereby evoking associations with Andy Warhols series of Rorschach paintings and Blotted Line Drawings, as well as with Roy Lichtensteins frozen Brushstrokes. He introduces an element of chance into his compositions and offers a reflection on the meaning of painting itself. The new series shows Elke enthroned on a stage- ... More | |
Performers dressed in ancient Egyptian costume wait at the start of the parade of 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies departing from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo's Tahrir Square on April 3, 2021. Mahmoud KHALED / AFP.
CAIRO (AFP).- The mummified remains of 22 pharaohs were moved Saturday from the Egyptian Museum where they resided for over a century to a new resting place. Here is a list of the pharaohs being rehoused at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation and a description of each. 1 - Seqenenre Tao II, known as "the Brave", he reigned over southern Egypt some 1,600 years before Christ and led a war against the Hyksos, a Semitic people who had invaded the country. 2 - Queen Ahmose-Nefertari, his powerful and influential daughter, she was married to her brother Ahmose I who was the first monarch of the 18th Dynasty. 3 - Amenhotep I, second pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty, he was a child when he became king and ruled with the help of his mother, Queen Ahmose-Nefertari. 4 - Ahmose-Meritamun, Ahmose-Nefertari's daughter, she was both the older ... More | |
Aaron Garber-Maikovska, TBC, 2021, Ex. 1/1 + 1AP. Video Stand, steel, casters, aluminum, OLED monitor, battery, USB drive, 128.3 Ã 124.5 Ã 72.4 cm / 50 1/2 Ã 49 Ã 28 1/2 inches. Courtesy MASSIMODECARLO.
MILAN.- MASSIMODECARLO presents Yucaipa, an exhibition of new works by Aaron Garber Maikovska (b. 1978, Washington, D.C.). This is the Los Angeles-based artists second solo exhibition with the gallery and his first one in Milan. Aaron Garber-Maikovskas oeuvre is intrinsically connected to the body, its experiences, its constraints and expressions possibilities and its immanence as a premise to the affirmation of the act of painting. Somatic is the artists preferred descriptor in this instance, with Garber-Maikovskas practice situated in an interstice between motion, performance, language, and painting. Using his homemade oil bars, the artist is able to articulate a specificity of color and light and layer and screen to embody his visual language. Yucaipa comprises of a new series of six large-scale abstract paintings all on fluted polypropylene, along with two video-documents mounted on mobile horizontal ... More |
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| Phillips to offer REPLICATOR by Mad Dog Jones, the first NFT in company history | | Flea circus contraptions to encore at Sworders' Out of the Ordinary auction | | Constance Demby, prominent new age composer, is dead at 81 |
Still image from Generation 1 of REPLICATOR. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced the sale of REPLICATOR by Mad Dog Jones, the first NFT to be offered by the auction house in company history. With an opening bid of $100, the work was created with the ability to generate new unique NFTs from itself every 28 days. REPLICATOR will be offered in an online-only auction, open for bidding to collectors around the globe on phillips.com from 12-23 April. Edward Dolman, Phillips Chief Executive Officer, said, Phillips is pleased to begin our NFT journey with such a hugely celebrated digital artist who has both shaped and transcended the crypto community. REPLICATOR is a first-of-its-kind work to appear at auction, redefining the expectations of a work of art as it draws a compelling relationship between medium and form. We look forward to bringing this exciting project to new audiences at Phillips and seeing its unique iterations and the future of this market unfold. According to artis ... More | |
'The Smallest Show On Earth', a collection of flea circus props and memorabilia from Professor Len Tomlin's Flea Circus at Belle Vue. Estimate £1,500-2,000.
STANSTED MOUNTFICHET.- Numbering close to 600 lots, the Out of the Ordinary auction at Sworders on April 13-14 is the largest to date. In keeping with the name of the popular format, the sale brings together the weird and the wonderful from an original Dalek from the Doctor Who series to a sword presented by Catherine the Great to a cossack who helped put down a popular rebellion and the Smallest Show On Earth - the UKs only surviving flea circus. Flea circuses were a hugely popular form of fairground entertainment in both England and Germany between the 1830s and the 1960s. In its heyday the Professor Len Tomlin Flea Circus attracted the crowds in Belle Vue, Manchester and later formed part of the Ribchester Museum of Childhood. It is believed to be the last example in the UK. Bidding for the two miniature swing trapezes, a chariot, ... More | |
The composer Constance Demby with the Space Bass in 2015, an instrument she created in the 1960s when she was an artist in SoHo making sculptures. Demby, whose ethereal music, some of it played on instruments she designed, was much admired by New Age adherents, spiritual seekers and fans of electronica, died on March 19 in Pasadena, Calif. She was 81. Michael McCool via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Constance Demby, whose ethereal music, some of it played on instruments she designed, was much admired by New Age adherents, spiritual seekers and fans of electronica, died on March 19 in Pasadena, California. She was 81. Her son and only immediate survivor, Joshua Demby, said the cause was complications of a heart attack. Dembys 1986 album, Novus Magnificat: Through the Stargate, was a breakthrough for both her and the New Age genre, selling more than 200,000 copies, a substantial figure for that type of music. Pulse magazine named it one of the top three New Age albums of the decade and called it a landmark, full-length ... More |
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| First NASA flight director's personal collection coming to Heritage Auctions | | Five records set in $2.2 million Heritage movie posters auction | | $1M for Printed & Manuscript African Americana at Swann |
Apollo 11 Lunar Module Flown American Flag and Embroidered (!) Mission Insignia Patch as Presented to and Directly from the Estate of NASA Legend Chris Kraft.
DALLAS, TX.- Chris Kraft never piloted a mission in space. But he did make NASA fly. Kraft was NASA's first Flight Director, he solely directed all of the Mercury missions, was head of missions operations for Project Gemini, was crucial in the success of Apollo and even oversaw the development of the Space Shuttle program. Kraft died in 2019. "A valid argument can be made that Chris Kraft was as important to the growth and success of NASA as anyone in its history," Heritage Auctions Space Exploration Consignment Director Brad Palmer said. "He was the Director of the Johnson Space Center for a decade during a crucial time in NASA's history, and came up with the concept of NASA's Mission Control which now bears his name." Items Kraft collected throughout his legendary career will be offered to the public for the first time, when a trove of well over 100 out-of-this-world ... More | |
Dracula by Basil Gogos (2002) Signed Original Acrylic Artwork on Canvas drew nearly two dozen bids before it reached $78,000.
DALLAS, TX.- A piece of original art featuring the most famous vampire in the history of film and literature soared to nearly four times its high pre-auction estimate to lead Heritage Auctions' Movie Posters Auction to $2,224,433 in total sales April 27-28. Five world records were set in the event, which drew nearly 1,800 bidders and boasted sell-through rates of 96.1% by lots sold and 94.9 by value sold. Dracula by Basil Gogos (2002) Signed Original Acrylic Artwork on Canvas drew nearly two dozen bids before it reached $78,000, against a high pre-auction estimate of $20,000, to claim top-lot honors. The one-of-a-kind image of Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula, offered for the first time at Heritage Auctions, comes from the artist who gained his fame largely by illustrating magazine covers for Famous Monsters of Filmland, including Frankenstein's Monster, the Phantom of the Opera, the Mummy, the Wolf Man, the Gill Man, King Kong ... More | |
Katherine Dunham, large group of letters by the modern dance star to a close friend, 194662. Sold for $35,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleriess March 25 sale of Printed & Manuscript African Americana brought interest from collectors and institutions alike, as well as buyers both new and familiar from across the globe. The strong results crossed all categories with the sale totaling $1,075,786, and 88% of lots finding buyers. This sale reflected an increased recognition of the importance of Black history, driven by the events of the last year. The material is getting into the hands of the passionate collectors and dedicated museums and archives who will help preserve this history for future generations, noted Rick Stattler, the houses vice president and specialist for the sale. Leading the sale was an early draft of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail. The unique pre-publication draft of Dr. Kings most enduring words sold for $185,000 to a bidder on the phone after a round of lively back-and ... More |
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Thursdays at the Museum: Mandabi (Film), 2/25/2021
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Robert Berry Gallery announces its new virtual exhibition 'Tales of Adjusted Desire'
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Berry Gallery, a premier New York City-based art gallery dedicated to innovative contemporary art, announced its new virtual exhibition Tales of Adjusted Desire curated by Robert Curcio of curcioprojects featuring David Carbone, Bobbie Moline-Kramer, Kaoruko, and Terry Rodgers. The exhibit runs until May 9, 2021. All the artists in Tales of Adjusted Desire are influenced by the world at large of mediated images mingling with a social media aesthetic creating a subtle anxiety that crosses boundaries. Each of the 12 works whether painting, prints, or mixed media are insights into a self that goes beyond any moral standards or historical margins for an adjusted desire. The come hither, lets have it all promises of images and social worlds we live in and our complex personal interior life together form a disorienting ... More
This summer, get invigorated with a live cultural performance
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Pandemic willing, live shows will be back across the United States this spring and summer. (A patchwork of them, anyway.) Scores of festivals, benefits and theatrical events are playing it safe with digital editions or postponements, but some impresarios are forging ahead, adhering to safety protocols, capping audience size and keeping it outside, mindful of all the artists and fans left bruised last year by cancellations. Jacobs Pillow, a premier dance festival in Becket, Massachusetts, will be scaled down to 15 or 20 companies from the 50 companies that had to be canceled last summer. In 88 years, it was the first time the show did not go on. We even had one in the middle of World War II, said Pamela Tatge, the executive and artistic director of Jacobs Pillow since 2016. Now were hearing this outpouring of ... More
Review: Dreamy cowboys and a ballet bath
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It takes only two oscillating notes to establish a world. The coyote howl that Ennio Morricone wrote for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly immediately conjures an idea of the American West: desert, tumbleweeds, gunslingers. To hear those notes and see ballet pointe shoes thrown down like gauntlets is a joke. This is how Pacific Northwest Ballets latest digital program begins, with the Morricone theme playing over a montage of dancers rehearsing in masks, warming up, preparing for a show. The sequence is tongue-in-cheek but also establishes something serious: This excellent company is still at work, making and performing new dances. The program, available through Monday on the companys website, includes two premieres. The first, Donald Byrds And the sky is not cloudy all day, is the source ... More
Super Mario Bros. sells for $660,000 at Heritage Auctions, smashing world record
DALLAS, TX.- The finest known copy of the oldest sealed hangtab Super Mario Bros. smashed the previous record for the most ever paid for a video game when it sold Friday for $660,000 in Heritage Auctions' Comics & Comic Art Auction. Super Mario Bros. - Wata 9.6 A+ Sealed [Hangtab, 1 Code, Mid-Production], NES Nintendo 1985 USA is the finest copy known to have been professionally graded for auction. The previous world record for a copy of Super Mario Bros. was $114,000, which was set in July 2020 by Heritage Auctions. "As soon as this copy of Super Mario Bros. arrived at Heritage, we knew the market would find it just as sensational as we did," Heritage Auctions Video Games Director Valarie McLeckie said. "Even so, the degree to which this game was embraced outside the market has been nothing short of exceptional, and that aspect ... More
Trying times for Belgium's scaffold-caged Palace of Justice
BRUSSELS (AFP).- It was once Brussels' proudest landmark -- but after almost four decades encased in scaffolding, the Belgian capital's Palace of Justice has become a monumental joke. And the laughter didn't stop when the federal government revealed that a revived refurbishment plan would begin by reinforcing the ageing scaffolding cage. Belgian architect Joseph Poelaert's building, which houses several of the country's top courts, has awed visitors since the 1860s. It became a Brussels icon in pop art like the graphic novels of Francois Schuiten. But since the endless refurbishment began, the building's damp hallways, collapsing ceilings, graffiti-smeared facade and toxic fungi have become an embarrassment. The nation of Belgium will mark its 200th anniversary in 2030 and by then, promises government minister Mathieu Michel, the Palace ... More
Her book is about belonging. She's struggling with the idea.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- At a sleepover in sixth grade, when she admitted that she hadnt seen the movie Grease, Sanjena Sathian remembers being asked if she was even American. I instinctively said, No, Im not, even though I was born here, Sathian, now 29, said in a video interview from her home in Atlanta. That was typical for much of her life where she, like many South Asian Americans, was made to feel differently. It took her years to overcome that sense of otherness, but by the time she was preparing for the release of her debut novel, Gold Diggers, she felt confident calling herself an American. All that changed in an instant a few weeks ago, after eight people, including six women of East Asian descent, were killed by a gunman not far from the upper middle class Atlanta suburb where she grew up. The shootings felt ... More
She never dreamed of acting. Now she's an Oscar nominee for 'Minari.'
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For her 60th birthday, veteran Korean star Yuh-Jung Youn made herself a promise. She would collaborate only with those she trusts. Even if their ventures fell short, as long as she personally appreciated the people making them, the result wouldnt much concern her. That late-life philosophy, born of decades of limited choices and professional trauma, brought her to Minari, director Lee Isaac Chungs semi-autobiographical story about a Korean family putting down roots in Arkansas. Youns bittersweet performance as the grandmother, Soonja, in the tenderhearted immigrant drama has earned her an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress, the first for a Korean actress. Me, a 73-year-old Asian woman could have never even dreamed about being nominated for an Oscar, Youn said via video call ... More
Can we really picture Auschwitz?
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Buba Weisz Sajovits and her sister Icu arrived in Veracruz in 1946, their eldest sister, Bella, was waiting for them by the dock. Bella, who had been in Mexico with her husband from the 1930s, insisted that they were not to speak of what had happened to them in the war. Life was meant to be lived facing the future, not the past. So Buba her given name is Miriam but she has always gone by her nickname lived life forward. She married a fellow émigré and concentration camp survivor, Luis Stillmann, whose story I wrote about last year. They had two daughters, then four grandchildren, then five great-grandchildren. She started a beauty salon, which thrived. They became pillars of the Jewish community in Mexico City. They prospered as they grew old. Only one reminder of the past could not be erased, ... More
Broadway reopened. For 36 minutes. It's a start.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Three hundred and eighty-seven days after Broadway went dark, a faint light started to glimmer Saturday. There were just two performers one at a time on a bare Broadway stage. But together they conjured up decades of theater lore, invoking the songs and shows and stars that once filled the grand houses in and around Times Square. The 36-minute event, before a masked audience of 150 scattered across an auditorium with 1,700 seats, was the first such experiment since the coronavirus pandemic caused all 41 Broadway houses to close March 12, 2020, and industry leaders are hoping it will be a promising step on what is sure to be a slow and bumpy road to eventual reopening. Dancer Savion Glover and actor Nathan Lane, both of them Tony Award winners, stood in for a universe of ... More
Stephenson's gathers estate treasures for April 9 Spring Decorative Arts Auction
SOTHAMPTON, PA.- This years edition of Stephensons popular Spring Decorative Arts Auction will be held live at the companys Southampton (suburban Philadelphia) gallery on Friday, April 9, with absentee and Internet live bidding available exclusively through LiveAuctioneers. The 451-lot sale features both fine and decorative art, Tiffany and other American silver, an outstanding selection of jewelry, more than 120 lots of furniture, including coveted Midcentury Modern productions; and many other treasures for collectors to discover. Most of the items set to cross the auction block were sourced from Philadelphia and other Mid-Atlantic estates and collections. The Fine Art category is highlighted by paintings from the estate of sci-fi artist and scientific illustrator Davis Meltzer (1930-2017). Mr. Meltzer inherited an archive of family ... More
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Mental Escapology, St. Moritz
TIM VAN LAERE GALLERY
Madelynn Green
Patrick Angus
Flashback On a day like today, French painter and poet Maurice de Vlaminck was born April 04, 1876. Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 - 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense colour. In this image: CaixaForum Barcelona, "la Caixa" Community Projects exhibited in 2009 "Maurice de Vlaminck, a Fauve Instinct: Paintings from 1900 to 1915".
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