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Artist Tacita Dean at her studio in Berlin, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. Dean, a leading British artist now based in Berlin, has always been a market contrarian: The slow-burn films that made her famous are only sold as reels of actual, archaic film. So, over the last nine months, her idea of productive time spent in lockdown included forging the signature of Christian Dotremont, a long-dead Belgian surrealist, on 100 facsimiles of a postcard he once sent. Mustafah Abdulaziz/The New York Times.
by Blake Gopnik
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Somewhere around the fall of 1967, a couple of new-minted Ph.D.s, feeding six kids on an income of something like $9,000, set out to decorate their modest house. They brought home a wall-filling banner by pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, which had a dotty seascape cut into its cloth. And a tabletop set of soft drums made of canvas by his colleague-in-pop Claes Oldenburg. Also, a colorful set of abstractions: squares within squares by Josef Albers of the Bauhaus. Those Ph.D.s were my parents, and Im pretty sure my career as a critic has its roots in that art art that wed never have lived with but for an outfit called Multiples Inc. During its decadelong heyday, in a space on Madison Avenue in New York, the company made and sold new kinds of art that invited something close to mass production, allowing prices that even some young academics could manage. Multiples Inc. first opened its doors 55 years ago this winter. On Jan. 12, that birth is being celebrated in ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day More than 80 of these remarkable textiles in striking colors of orange, red, gold, blue and green are on view from December 19, 2020 through March 14, 2021 at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg.
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| A peek into Robert Caro's yellowed files | | Almine Rech announces new gallery in Paris | | First inventory of damage to U.S. Capitol building released |
Robert Caro leafs through transcripts of interviews with RM, Robert Moses, whose public works projects transformed much of New York, in his office on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Nov. 11, 2020. Jonah Markowitz/The New York Times.
by Dan Barry
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A seasoned curator entered the spare Upper West Side office of her subject the way a student of art might approach the Louvre. Eyes wide, notebook in hand. Along the wall was pinned the 27-page outline for a section of a long-anticipated book: the fifth and last volume of a magisterial biography of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. In a corner sat the idiosyncratic desk designed decades ago for her subject by the personal physician of another back pain sufferer, John F. Kennedy. And on that desk, a Smith Corona Electra 210, a model of typewriter last manufactured in the 1970s. Plugged in. Wow, said the curator, Debra Schmidt Bach, which is pretty much all one can say upon entering ... More | |
Almine Rech Matignon, Paris - 18 avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris. Courtesy of Almine Rech. Photo: Aurélien Mole.
PARIS.- Almine Rech announced the opening of its second gallery in Paris, to be located on the prestigious Avenue Matignon in the 8th arrondissement, an area that has long been home to a prominent community of art galleries, auction houses, cultural attractions. The inaugural show at Almine Rech Paris | Matignon will be a solo exhibition of new paintings by iconic American artist Kenny Scharf, titled Vaxi Nation opening January 21, 2021. The gallery is located in an elegant Haussmann building and is situated on the ground and first floors, both of which will be dedicated to exhibition spaces in which to present the gallerys roster of international artists and secondary market works in a new context within the city. Almine Rech | Matignon marks the sixth location internationally and the second in Parisfor Almine Rech, whose flagship gallery is located at 64 Rue de Turenne in the Marais. The gallery on Avenue Matignon will ... More | |
Capitol police and contractors survey damage to an entrance at the Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. Jason Andrew/The New York Times.
by Sarah Bahr
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The office of the Architect of the Capitol in Washington, the office that preserves and maintains the buildings art and architecture, released Friday the first inventory of the damage sustained during Wednesdays riot. Damage to the interior of the building was largely limited to broken glass, broken doors and graffiti, the report said, although it noted that statues, murals and historic benches displayed the residue of various pepper sprays, tear gas and fire extinguishers deployed by both rioters and law enforcement personnel. They will need to be carefully cleaned and conserved, the report said. Outside the building, two bronze light fixtures that were designed in the late 19th century by Frederick Law Olmsted, the American landscape architect, and that illuminate ... More |
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| Exhibition at Kayne Griffin features a series of small bronze sculptures by Huguette Caland | | The Smithsonian is collecting objectsfrom the Capitol siege | | Pop stars offer fans comfort for a price |
The exhibition, titled Bronzes, features a series of small bronze sculptures that the artist made in the 1980s.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kayne Griffin is presenting a solo exhibition with the artist, Huguette Caland, in the South Gallery exhibition space. Huguette Calands work spans different eras and locales yet finds itself intertwined with the Los Angeles art scene. Caland was experimental in her life and her art. Calands body of work features many series that reflect an exploratory practice that moves fluidly among styles, mediums, materials, and subject matter. The exhibition, titled Bronzes, features a series of small bronze sculptures that the artist made in the 1980s. These bronze works show the materiality of the medium and place at the fore the artists handseach dip and groove highlighted with her bodily presence. The works, abstract in nature, still depict the human form but clumped together and twisted in ways that detach the work from being immediately recognizable and at a scale thats far more intimate. The ... More | |
A plastic bag covers the bust of President Zachary Taylor after it was defaced with a red substance in the Capitol the day after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 7, 2021. Jason Andrew/The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A sign that reads, Off with their heads stop the steal and a small handwritten poster with the words Trump won, swamp stole are among dozens of objects and ephemera from pro-Trump rallies and the Capitol takeover Wednesday that are heading to the National Museum of American History, collected by curators from the division of political and military history. The museum, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, announced Friday that it has begun archiving protest signs, posters and banners from protests on the National Mall and from the violent mob that stormed through the Capitol on Wednesday. Only a day after supporters of President Donald Trump invaded the halls of Congress, Frank ... More | |
From T-shirts to toilet paper: After the pandemic hit, Garbage started selling items more conducive to a stay-at-home lifestyle.
by Brennan Carley
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Shirley Manson, of the band Garbage, visited Graceland on her first U.S. tour, she had a special souvenir in mind. I wanted Elvis Presley toilet paper, she said over the phone with a deep laugh. I went to the gift shop and scoured the whole place and I couldnt find any. I was gutted. Though she left empty-handed, visions of novelty toilet paper never stopped dancing in her head. During the holidays in 2019, Manson placed a roll of President Donald Trump-patterned toilet paper in her guest bathroom, and every time anybody went in, you could hear hoots of laughter, she said. In March, she wanted to re-create that feeling of unexpected humor for her fans. With her 2020 plans scrapped (Garbage had been set to join Alanis Morissettes Jagged Little Pill anniversary tour), she met with ... More |
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| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts acquires enameled choker by Belgian jeweler Philippe Wolfers | | Everson Museum of Art announces new acquisitions | | Hindman Auctions in 2020: Unprecedented online engagement & exceeding expectations |
Philippe Wolfers (Belgium), Wisteria Glycines Choker, 19001902.
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced their recent acquisition of the Wisteria Glycines Choker designed by Philippe Wolfers (18581929). The choker is one of only 131 unique pieces designed by the renowned Belgian jeweler. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has the finest collection of European Art Nouveau decorative arts in the United States, said Alex Nyerges, VMFAs Director and CEO. This is one of the most exquisite examples of Art Nouveau jewelry in the museums collection a rare find amongst Wolfers existing creations. Carved, iridescent tourmaline, which display green and pink hues in singular stones, as well as pastel colored, translucent carved opals are used to create delicate, floral swags. The green and purple enamel leaf clusters complement the pale colors of the wisteria. The Wisteria Glycines Choker is a rare marvel of the jeweler ... More | |
Sharif Bey, Protest Shield #2, 2020. Earthenware, nails, and mixed media, 20 x 20 x 12 inches. Everson Museum of Art; Museum purchase, Deaccession Fund, 2020.14.
SYRACUSE, NY.- The Everson Museum of Art announced today that it has purchased seven new works by contemporary artists for its growing collection of 21st century art. Spanning a variety of media, the new acquisitions reflect the Eversons commitment to refining and diversifying its collection by adding works by artists of color, women artists, and other under-represented emerging and mid-career artists. The works are by artists who hail from across the country, but also include two artists who have lived and worked in Syracuse for decades: Ellen Blalock and Sharif Bey. Blalock previously exhibited her work at the Everson during 2012s The Other New York and Bey will have a major solo exhibition at the Everson in 2022. Its truly an honor to have my work represented in the permanent ... More | |
Alexander Calder, Triple Cross, 1947. Sheet metal, wire and paint 31 1/2 x 37 x 11 3/4 inches. Property from the Estate of Joan Conway Crancer, St. Louis, Missouri. Estimate: $600,000 - $800,000. Price Realized: $1,872,500.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman reflects on an exciting 2020 despite the unmatched environment and challenges presented. The year included over 100 auctions and $64.9 million in sales, and the auction house saw exceptional participation from online bidders throughout the world. More than 55 percent of successful bids were a result of online bidding activity, and the firm saw an increase in online engagement by over 10 percent. The company consistently exceeded expectations throughout the year with the majority of sales surpassing presale estimates. After Hindmans record setting year in 2019, the firm continued that trend in 2020, breaking more records than the previous year. The Fine Art Department set 15 global auction records and ... More |
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| Miles McEnery Gallery opens the first posthumous New York gallery exhibition of works by Emily Mason | | Miyako Yoshinaga presents an exhibition of color abstract paintings by Manika Nagare | | Exhibition at CHART features a new body of paintings and works on paper by Corydon Cowansage |
Emily Mason, The Bullock Farm, 1987, Oil on canvas, 52 x 42 inches, 132.1 x 106.7 cm. Gallery, New York, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery is presenting Chelsea Paintings, a new show of 22 works from the painter Emily Mason (1932 2019; BFA Cooper Union, 1955). Chelsea Paintings, which coincides with a retrospective at the Bruce Museum in Connecticut on view through March 2021, is the late artists first posthumous gallery exhibition in New York following her December 2019 death. The exhibition comprises twenty works made between 1978 and 1989, and two works completed in the 1990s. Emily Mason was just a few years old when she began to experiment with professional-grade art materials in her mothers studio. Mason, born in New York City in 1932 to on-the-scene painter Alice Trumbull Mason, came of age in the 1940s-1950s New York art world, attending her mothers regular social engagements at the Eighth Street Club with Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Helen ... More | |
To the Otherside, 2020. Oil on canvas, 35 1/4 x 31 7/8 in. 89.4 x 81 cm. © Manika Nagare (photo by Ken Kato): Courtesy: Miyako Yoshinaga, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miyako Yoshinaga is presenting a new solo exhibition, In Between by Manika Nagare (b.1975), a Japanese artist based in Tokyo. This is the artists third solo exhibition in New York and her first presentation at the gallerys Upper East Side location. The exhibition runs from December 10, 2020, to February 20, 2021. The gallery hours are from Wednesday through Saturday, 11am 6pm. Manika Nagares color abstract paintings derive from ephemeral phenomena in the real world. In her previous work, she emphasized the superb beauty and fearsome force of natural landscapes to express her feelings about Japans catastrophic earthquakes and tsunamis. In this new body of work In Between, Nagare also retraces her feelings about a real event, but this time it is very personal the death of her father, a sculptor who passed away two years ago at the age of 95. The title of the show In Between ... More | |
Corydon Cowansage, Waves 2, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 in (152.4 x 121.9 cm). Courtesy the artist and CHART, New York. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein.
NEW YORK, NY.- CHART is presenting their third Projection exhibition with a presentation by artist Corydon Cowansage (b. 1985), featuring a new body of paintings and works on paper. Cowansages work explores the psychology of space and the relationship between abstraction, architecture, biomorphic forms, and the body itself. Utilizing geometry and vibrant color, the artist manipulates light and shadow to distort our perceptions of physical space, reconstructing the viewers point of access to the painting. The invented forms vacillate between representation and pure abstraction, rendered recognizable but also slightly removed from reality. In contrast, Cowansage began working on paper as a means of accessibility, resulting in a genesis of new ideas and methods for creating subsequent paintings. These meditative works allow for a process of slowing ... More |
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Asya Geisberg Gallery opens an exhibition of Todd Kelly's newest body of work
NEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is presenting "Settings", the fifth solo presentation of Todd Kelly. Kelly's paintings have consistently spiraled between their surface and conceptual depth. In recent series, a sort of painted quilt unifies and flattens via layers of stenciled shapes or pulsating hand-painted grids or tiny lines. Frequently jumping within a series, show, or even painting between abstraction and outlined or flattened figuration, Kelly enjoys the interplay between objects, arrangements, and patterns. His work has made successively intricate arguments for the continual pleasures to be found in the arena of still life painting for contemporary painters. With his newest body of work, Kelly has added Op-Art pastel gradients, and now the still-life is "alive" - as actual objects are embedded, dangling, or subsumed in paint. The painted grids ... More
Photographer Noritaka Minami's SGN series on view at FLXST Contemporary
CHICAGO, IL.- Born in Japan, Noritaka Minami is a Chicago-based photographer currently exhibiting his unique and thoughtful SGN photo series, an investigation of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and the current state of the steel lattice towers first erected there by the French as utility poles during the early twentieth century to facilitate the development of the Indochinese Union. Despite the passage of time and the tumultuous history experienced in this region since their construction, these lattice towers have endured and remained a consistent presence in the built environment of the city. SGN opened on January 9 and runs through February 14 at FLXST Contemporary. The major social, political, and economic developments within Vietnamese society in recent decades have also led to these structures becoming a truly extraordinary visual sight. The ... More
Artichoke launches nationwide competition to design artworks for the UK's leading light art festival
LONDON.- Artichoke, the producers of extraordinary large-scale events, have launched BRILLIANT, a £50,000 nationwide commissioning scheme for new works for the UK's leading light art event. Six awards will be made, with the works to be shown alongside those of internationally-renowned artists at Lumiere, which is commissioned by Durham County Council and takes place in Durham from Thursday 18 Sunday 21 November 2021. The BRILLIANT commissioning scheme is open to creative individuals currently living in the UK who are aged 18 or older, and have a bright idea that will transform Durhams urban landscape using the medium of light. Successful applicants will be supported by Artichoke with the production costs and technical expertise to create and install their artwork, and receive a fee. For the first time the scheme will be open ... More
Times Square Arts presents Daniel Crooks' 'The Subtle Knife" for January Midnight Moment
NEW YORK, NY.- Times Square Arts, the largest public platform for contemporary performance and visual arts, is presenting The Subtle Knife by Daniel Crooks for the month of January as part of the organizations signature Midnight Moment series. Midnight Moment is the worlds largest, longest-running digital art exhibition, synchronized on electronic billboards throughout Times Square nightly from 11:57pm to midnight. On view January 131, 2021, The Subtle Knife is presented in partnership with Asia Society on the occasion of the inaugural Asia Society Triennial, on view at select locations in New York City from October 27, 2020 through June 27, 2021. In The Subtle Knife, Daniel Crooks explores the relationship between transportation and the moving ... More
The Rappaport Collection increases its support for Israeli artists
TEL AVIV.- The Baruch and Ruth Rappaport Foundation is increasing its support for the Israeli artist community this year and changes the layout of the prize according to the needs of the hour, due to the corona pandemic. This year, the fund will purchase artworks worth $150,000 from artists of all ages living in Israel, for the Rappaport Collection at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. In addition, the Rappaport Foundation will fund a contemporary Israeli art exhibition in the public space. In 2006, the Rappaport Foundation established an annual award given to two Israeli artists - a senior artist and a promising artist. Every year, solo exhibitions of the award winners open at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. In light of the Corona pandemic, based on the vision of Baruch and Ruth Rappaport and out of a commitment to advancing the world of culture, ... More
Claude Bolling, jazzman with crossover appeal, dies at 90
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Claude Bolling, a jazz pianist and composer with remarkable crossover appeal whose 1975 album, Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano, spent more than 10 years on the Billboard classical album chart, died Dec. 29 in Garches, a suburb of Paris. He was 90. His death was announced on his website, which gave no further details. Bolling played and composed in a variety of styles the Claude Bolling Big Band played regularly for years at the Méridien Etoile hotel in Paris and wrote the scores for dozens of movies and television shows in both France and Hollywood. But Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano, written for and recorded with famed classical flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal, elevated him to a new level of fame. Although the record drew criticism from both classical and jazz purists as, in the words of one article, ... More
Rare Irish Proof to be sold at Dix Noonan Webb
LONDON.- An extremely rare Irish Proof or Pattern Halfpenny that was bought for the equivalent of $2 many years ago will be offered in a live/online auction of Coins and Historical Medals on Tuesday February 2, 2021 by International coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists Dix Noonan Webb via their website www.dnw.co.uk From the collection of the late Eric Newman an important numatist from the USA - the extremely fine copper coin dates from 1774 and portrays George III with long hair, with a harp on the reverse. It is estimated at £2,400-3,000. The sale will also include the second and final part of Indian Historical Medals formed by Californian collector Michael Shaw. Comprising 42 lots, the subject matter relates to exhibitions; colleges; individuals through to visits to India by the Prince of Wales in 1875, 1889 and 1921 and ... More
Memorial to massacre victims in Norway divides traumatized community
OSLO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- July 22, 2011, is seared into the national consciousness of Norway. On that day, the country experienced its deadliest attack since World War II when a right-wing extremist detonated a bomb in Oslo and then went on a shooting rampage at a political summer camp for young people on the small island of Utoya. In the years since the massacre, Norway has struggled to reckon with the trauma of that day. That effort has been particularly acute in mainland communities around Utoya, which have been deeply conflicted about how to memorialize the 69 people killed there. The latest disagreement dividing the community is over the construction of a permanent public memorial at a harbor across from the island. That issue is at the center of a lawsuit filed in a district court in the nearby town of Honefoss by a handful of local ... More
The Force (and a lenient Disney) is with 'Star Wars' fan filmmakers
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For the first time in half a decade, a year has gone by without a new Star Wars film, a planned pause that happened to coincide with the pandemic. But across YouTube, there are plenty of movies set in a galaxy far, far away: those made by fans. Instead of the sci-fi sagas familiar title crawl and brassy score, though, their work usually begins with notices affirming that rights to the story belong to Lucasfilm. Such films have existed almost as long as the franchise itself. Early examples were spoofs, like the 1978 short Hardware Wars and a 1997 Stormtrooper-centric sendup of Cops called Troops. Lucasfilm held annual fan-movie contests in the decade before Disney acquired the company in 2012. But Disneys stewardship, coupled with the wide availability of higher-quality moviemaking tools, has ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English sculptor Barbara Hepworth was born January 10, 1903. Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 - 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. She was one of the few female artists of her generation to achieve international prominence. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War. In this image: Dame Barbara Hepworth, Parent I, conceived in 1970, number 2 of the 4 individual casts that were made of each of the nine figures (est. £2,000,000-3,000,000). Photo: Sotheby's.
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