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Installation view of Judd, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 1July 11, 2020. Photo by Jonathan Muzikar © 2020 The Museum of Modern Art.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- I wonder if it even occurs to young artists in the globalist, pluralist present to try to stake out a spot in art history by changing the way history goes. Donald Judd, pioneer of the 1960s movement called Minimalism (the label wasnt his; he hated it), thought about this constantly. He wanted, right from the start, to be a big art deal, a super influencer. Long before his death in 1994, at 65, he was. Major American and European museums owned his work. His signature sculptural image a no-frills, no-content wood or metal box had not only been adapted by other artists, but also riffs on it became a fixture of international architecture and design. To some degree, we all lived in Judd-world, and still do. Yet over time, Judd himself seems to have retreated from view. The survey of 70 works that opens at the Museum of Modern Art on March 1 is the first in New York in more than 30 years. Its a fine show: carefully winnowed, persuasively installed, just the right si ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An outer-kimono for a woman (uchikake), probably from Kyoto, 1860-80, is displayed during the press preview of the 'Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in central London on February 26, 2020. DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP
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| | National Gallery of Art celebrates Degas's love of the Paris Opéra in exhibition | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of photographs by Roe Ethridge spanning the past twenty years | | Cooper Hewitt donor pulls $5 million gift to protest Director's ouster |
The Orchestra of the Opéra, 1870. Oil on canvas. Overall: 56.6 x 46 cm (22 5/16 x 18 1/8 in.) framed: 78 x 69 cm (30 11/16 x 27 3/16 in.) Musée d'Orsay, Paris, RF 2417 Copyright RMN-Grand Palais / photo: Hervé Lewandowski / Art Resource, NY.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Edgar Degas (18341917) is celebrated as the premier painter of dancers, a subject that dominated his art for nearly four decades. Degas's renowned images of the Paris Opéra are among the most sophisticated and visually compelling works he created. Celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Paris Opéra's founding, Degas at the Opéra will present approximately 100 of the artist's best-known and beloved paintings, pastels, drawings, prints, and sculpture. The exhibition will be on view from March 1 through July 5, 2020, accompanied by a fully illustrated exhibition catalog. A music lover and regular visitor to performances, Degas explored both the public spaces of the Paris Opéraauditorium, stage, and boxesas well as more private ones, including dance studios and ... More | |
Roe Ethridge, Refrigerator, 1999. C-print, 30 x 24 in. 76.2 x 61 cm © Roe Ethridge. Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting Old Fruit, an exhibition of photographs by Roe Ethridge spanning the past twenty years. This is his first solo exhibition with the gallery in New York, following exhibitions in Beverly Hills, Hong Kong, and San Francisco. Since the turn of the century, Ethridge has exercised a significant influence over young artists in particular, yet opportunities to see groupings of his early work have been rare. Old Fruit, which focuses primarily on his output from the early 2000s, offers a valuable chance to revisit many highly regarded and widely reproduced images that embody new ways of understanding the medium of photography in the context of emergent technological and social currents. Expanding on the visual and critical syntaxes of photographers from Paul Outerbridge to Andreas Gursky, Ethridge strategically crisscrosses the zones of artistic, commercial, and vernacular imagery, encouraging the staged and the spontan ... More | |
Caroline Baumann, then director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, at a gala in New York on Oct. 18, 2018, wearing the dress she had bought for her wedding. The Smithsonians inspector general faulted the way she obtained the dress. Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A philanthropist who quit the board of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum to protest the termination of its director said on Thursday that she was also rescinding her $5 million bequest to the Upper East Side institution. Judy Francis Zankel, who resigned as secretary of the board after Caroline Baumann was forced out by the Smithsonian, sent an email to Lonnie Bunch, the top official, notifying him that she was cutting the Cooper Hewitt out of her will. I find your treatment of Caroline Baumann to be unconscionable and disgraceful, Zankel said in her email to Bunch, in which she copied the rest of the Cooper Hewitt board. She called the investigation that led to Baumanns ... More |
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| | Rare Georgia Gold Rush coin brings record $480,000 in Atlanta & is "coming home" | | Shotgun used by Wyatt Earp boosts Heritage Americana & Political Auction beyond $2.3 million | | Kobe Bryant NBA memorabilia items to go on the auction block |
A rare Georgia gold rush-era $2.50 denomination gold coin made in 1830 was sold at auction in Atlanta for a record price of $480,000 by Kagins, Inc. of Tiburon, California on February 27, 2020. The buyer is a Georgia-based collector who wants to remain anonymous, according to the auction house. Photo courtesy of Professional Coin Grading Service www.PCGS.com.
ATLANTA, GA.- A small gold coin with a face value of $2.50 when it was struck in northern Georgia in 1830 sold for a record price of $480,000 to an anonymous Georgia collector in an auction in Atlanta Thursday night, February 27, 2020. It is one of the finest known of less than two dozen surviving examples privately struck by Milledgeville, Georgia cotton gin mill manufacturer Templeton Reid during the states historic 19th-century gold rush. The Georgia and North Carolina gold rush period started in 1828, about two decades before the California Gold Rush, and this important gold piece was made in 1830 to help ... More | |
Old West American lawman borrowed the weapon to avenge his brothers killing.
DALLAS, TX.- The gun Wyatt Earp used to kill Curly Bill Brocius soared to $375,000 to claim top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions Americana & Political Auction Feb. 22-23 in Dallas, Texas. The prized relic helped boost the total return for the sale to $2,355,133. Used by Wyatt Earp to avenge his brothers death, the Amazingly Documented 10-Gauge Shotgun Used by Him to Kill Curly Bill Brocius drew bids from more than two dozen collectors and nearly quadrupled its pre-auction estimate of $100,000. Upon learning that his brother had been killed, Earp formed a posse to exact a measure of justice. "When they went out to hunt for Brocius, Earp borrowed a 10-gauge shotgun this shotgun from his friend, Fred Dodge, Heritage Auctions Americana Director Tom Slater said. They found Curly Bill at Iron Springs on March 24, 1882, and in the ensuing shootout, Earp used this shotgun ... More | |
Kobe Bryant 2006-2007 game worn and signed Los Angeles Lakers jersey. Estimate: $4,000-6,000. Photo: Julien's Auctions.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Kobe Bryant's uniform worn in the 2000 NBA Finals and his handprints from Hollywood's famous Chinese Theatre are among the personal memorabilia set to be put up for sale in April. Julien's Auctions said Thursday that the items from Bryant, who was killed last month in a helicopter crash at age 41 along with his daughter Gianna and seven others, would be included in a sale of more than 300 sports items on April 30. Bryant was a five-time NBA champion and 18-time NBA All-Star with the Los Angeles Lakers. He retired in 2016 and his jersey numbers, 8 and 24, were retired by the Lakers in 2017. The Lakers number 8 home uniform worn by Bryant in the 2000 NBA Finals, when he captured his first NBA crown by leading the Lakers over the Indiana Pacers, carries an estimated price tag between ... More |
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| | Eric Crosby named Director of Carnegie Museum of Art | | MoMA opens monographic exhibition of architect, designer, and inventor Neri Oxman | | Nelson-Atkins names William Keyse Rudolph as Deputy Director, Curatorial Affairs |
Prior to joining Carnegie Museum of Art in 2015, Crosby was associate curator of visual arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh announced today that Eric Crosby has been appointed The Henry J. Heinz II Director of Carnegie Museum of Art. Previously the Richard Armstrong Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Crosby became the museums acting director in January 2019. He will assume his role as director starting March 1. Eric has a deep commitment to the mission of Carnegie Museums and a clear understanding of what it will take to build on the distinctive strengths of Carnegie Museum of Art, said Steven Knapp, president and CEO of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. He was widely recognized as a creative and insightful curator before becoming acting director, and over the past year he has proven his ability to lead the museums talented staff as they lay the groundwork for the museums future. I look forward to supporting his efforts and benefiting from his advice in the months ... More | |
Installation view of Neri Oxman: Material Ecology, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 22, 2020 May 25, 2020. © 2020 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Denis Doorly.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Neri Oxman: Material Ecology, an exhibition featuring the work of architect, designer, and inventor Neri Oxman, on view from February 22 through May 25, 2020. The exhibition includes seven major projects that Oxman has created in the course of her 20-year career. Through her work, Oxman has pioneered not only new ideas for materials, objects, buildings, and construction processes, but also frameworks for interdisciplinaryand interspeciescollaborations. Neri Oxman is organized by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, and Director, Research & Development; and Anna Burckhardt, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art. Oxman is a professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where she founded and directs The Mediated ... More | |
Rudolph comes to Kansas City from the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA), where he is currently the co-interim director. Photo: Emilie Dujour.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City has named Dr. William Keyse Rudolph as its new Deputy Director, Curatorial Affairs, a key leadership role that will help shape the museums dynamic exhibition program and curatorial team. Rudolph comes to Kansas City from the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA), where he is currently the co-interim director. In his seven years at SAMA, Rudolph served as Chief Curator and the Marie and Hugh Halff Curator of American and European Art and led the curatorial staff, collections, and exhibits department. Rudolph will begin work at the Nelson-Atkins in June 2020. I am excited to welcome William to the Nelson-Atkins leadership team. His exemplary scholarship, expertise, and management skills will be a tremendous asset moving forward, said Julián Zugazagoitia, Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell CEO & Director of the ... More |
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| | An artist who aspires to be 'a bone in everyone's throat' | | The Art Show at the Armory: Blue-chip brands show their best | | KW Institute for Contemporary Art opens the first retrospective of Hassan Sharif in Europe |
Russian artist and activist Pyotr Pavlensky poses during a press interview in Paris on February 22, 2020. Martin BUREAU / AFP.
by Andrew Higgins
PARIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- He has infuriated just about everyone. Russian authorities threw him in jail for setting fire to the door of the secret police headquarters in Moscow. France, which gave him asylum three years ago, also jailed him, also over a fire, and is now investigating his connection with two new criminal cases, one relating to a New Years Eve brawl in a chic Paris apartment, the other over his release of a sex tape of a French politician. He is on such bad terms with his longtime partner, the mother of his two daughters, that they have not spoken in months, despite their having come to France together to start a new life. By his own lights, however, Pyotr A. Pavlensky has never achieved quite so much. The job of the artist is to be a bone in everyones throat, the Russian performance artist said in an interview Monday in Paris. On that score, he has ... More | |
Installation view. Photo: Scott Rudd.
by Martha Schwendener
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Trust me, even if youve been looking at art for a long, long time (or even longer than that), you will see work at the Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory you have not seen before, by artists you may never have heard of. This is not because the Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America, is dedicated to showing the young and hip. Quite the opposite, ADAA represents blue-chip galleries that show high-quality work. But it has a terrific roundup of art by lesser-known artists, many dead or left out of art history for all the ordinary reasons (gender, geographical location or the idiosyncrasies of their work at a given moment). And despite the density, the fair is very manageable compared with other mega-fairs in New York. Other strains running through the 72 exhibitors at ADAA this year, the fairs 32nd edition, are a focus on geometric abstraction and craft and a high percentage of female artists 19 exhibitions are dedicated ... More | |
Hassan Sharif, 555, 2016. Aluminium plates and copper wire; 320 x 320 x 240 cm. Installation view: Hassan Sharif: I Am The Single Work Artist, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2017/2018. Photo: Sharjah Art Foundation.
BERLIN.- In collaboration with Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE) and Malmö Konsthall (SE), KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents the first retrospective of Emirati artist Hassan Sharif in Europe. Hailed as one of the most important Middle Eastern artists of the twentieth century, Sharif became a groundbreaking pioneer in conceptual art by reconsidering the conventional understanding of time, space, form, and social interaction. Sharif, who lived and worked in Dubai, was one of the first artists to break with the classical conventions of art production in the Arab world and reinvented them with an innovative, experimental approach that continues to resonate among subsequent generations. Detached from local art production, he articulated an artistic language that was non-elitist, pared-down, process-based, and inspired by Fluxus. Within the tradition-conscious Arab world, however, his art was dismissed as unrepresentative, ... More |
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New exhibitions by Anna Bunting-Branch and Dryden Goodwin part of Co-Lab Season in QUAD, Derby
DERBY.- QUAD in Derby has a new season of exhibition and events as part of its Co-Lab Season. Co-Lab is a five week-long showcase of newly co-commissioned work by two artists who usually employ traditional techniques such as painting, drawing or sculpture, but have taken their way of working into Virtual Reality digital realm or film works. The artists featured are Anna Bunting-Branch and Dryden Goodwin. In QUAD Gallery One Anna Bunting-Branch presents Warm Worlds And Otherwise, a newly commissioned exhibition, that relates to the artists interest in the encounters between feminist practice and science fiction, using painting, digital animation and Virtual Reality to explore ideas of world-building, embodied perception and technologies of representation. Central to the project is META (2019), an experimental 360-degree ... More
Fragmented Bodies: albertz benda opens a group exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- albertz benda is presenting Fragmented Bodies, a group exhibition examining the ways in which the accelerated visual culture of the past five decades has influenced depictions of the human form. On view from February 27 through April 18, 2020 the show comprises works by international artists working across painting, photography, and drawing. The immediacy of information afforded by new technologies and the proliferation of social media simultaneously promote connectivity and fragmentation; it is possible to peer into the lives of others for a brief moment or in continuous streams. Images presented as self-narrativization are consumed, analyzed, and reinterpreted, blurring boundaries between private and public. Living and working within this context, the artists in this exhibition have created pieces that reflect both ... More
579 lots will be offered in Converse Auctions' East Meets West auction
PAOLI, PA.- A striking oil portrait painting of a young girl by Russian artist Alexei Harlamoff, a handsome William Gilbert Jewelers wall regulator clock, a pair of fine elaborate zitan folding chairs with dragon arms, and a gorgeous bronze enamel censer in a presentation box are a taste of whats in Converse Auctions East Meets West Auction on Friday, March 13th at 10 am EST. The auction will be online-only, but previews will be held in Converse Auctions new gallery located at 1 Spring Street in Paoli, not far off Interstate 76 and just outside of Philadelphia, north and west of the city. Previews will be held Tuesday through Thursday, March 10-12, from 10-4 Eastern time. Internet bidding will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. People can also register and bid online at www.ConverseAuctions.com (and enjoy a lower buyers premium ... More
Lisel Mueller, Pulitzer-winning poet, dies at 96
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Lisel Mueller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose elegant work drew on nature, her experiences as a parent, folklore and history, including her own flight from Nazi Germany as a teenager, died on Feb. 21 in Chicago, where she lived in a retirement community. She was 96. Her daughter Jenny Mueller, who confirmed the death, said Mueller had been dealing with the aftereffects of pneumonia. Mueller won the 1997 Pulitzer for Alive Together: New and Selected Poems, which appeared some three decades after her first collection, Dependencies, in 1965. Her book is a testament to the miraculous power of language to interpret and transform our world, the Pulitzer citation read. It is a testament that invites readers to share her vision of experiences we all have in common: sorrow, tenderness, desire, the revelations ... More
Large-scale sculptures by Ghanaian artist Paa Joe on view at High Museum of Art
ATLANTA, GA.- This spring, the High Museum of Art presents Paa Joe: Gates of No Return (Feb. 29May 31, 2020), an exhibition organized by the American Folk Art Museum featuring a series of seven large-scale, painted wood architectural sculptures representing Gold Coast fortresses, which served as way stations for millions of Africans sold into slavery and sent to the Americas and the Caribbean between the 16th and 19th centuries. The sculptures were created by Ghanaian artist and master craftsman Joseph Tetteh Ashong (b. 1947), also known as Paa Joe, who is the most celebrated fantasy coffin maker of his generation. Recalling his figurative coffinsor abeduu adekai (proverb boxes)these architectural models allude to the lives of the dead in their forms and motifs. Though not actual coffins, the sculptures in the exhibition ... More
Patrick Masson appointed Bonhams Managing Director, UK & Europe
LONDON.- Bonhams has appointed Patrick Masson to be its Managing Director in the UK and Europe. Masson, who will be based at Bonhams headquarters in New Bond Street, London, takes up his new post on 2 March, reporting to Bonhams Executive Chairman, Bruno Vinciguerra. Patrick Masson joins Bonhams after successful careers at senior level at both Christies and Sothebys. As business manager for Christies France from 1996-2006, he played a central role in establishing the auction house as a leading player in France. At Sothebys he worked in senior roles in London and Paris. As General Manager, Sothebys Europe, Masson developed new sales and markets, and established Europe as the highest contributor to Sothebys global revenues. Additionally, he drove restructuring and expansion programmes in the Middle ... More
An opera about colonialism shows how history warps
LOS ANGELES (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- This city likes to pretend it has no history, Yuval Sharon said on a recent afternoon while standing across the street from a place called, yes, Los Angeles State Historic Park. But history is here. For a long time the land on which this park now sits, not far from the forest of skyscrapers downtown, was a railyard known as the Cornfield. Nearby, a mob of white people lynched nearly three dozen Chinese men and boys in 1871. Before colonialism and westward expansion, it was a floodplain and the site of an important Tongva village. Theres a kind of amnesia here thats celebrated, said Sharon, a MacArthur genius grant-winning opera director. I think that more than ever now, we need a sense of reckoning with our history. And how can art play a role in that? He doesnt necessarily have the answer. But the ... More
Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Historical Society announce plans to combine
BROOKLYN, NY.- Brooklyn Public Librarys (BPL) President and CEO, Linda E. Johnson, and Brooklyn Historical Societys (BHS) President Deborah Schwartz, announced today a plan to combine the institutions, with BHS becoming part of BPL, fostering an institutional expansion for both by unifying resources, expertise and skillsets and broadening reach and impact in Brooklyn and beyond. Brooklyn Public Library will serve as the parent institution, taking on responsibility for stewarding the Historical Societys landmark home, holdings, and programming, providing access and awareness to a broad public through its 59 library branches in every neighborhood in the borough, 650,000 cardholders, and nearly 8 million annual visitors. BPLs significant Brooklyn Collection will be combined with the archives of the Brooklyn Historical Society in its Pierrepont ... More
3000 years of stunning art featured in Asia Society's new exhibition
HOUSTON, TX.- Asia Society Texas Center opened a new exhibition on February 29, featuring almost 100 pieces spanning over three millennia of ancient Chinese bronze artwork and later eras inspired by the Bronze Age. Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes showcases the artistry of hundreds of artisans and craftsmen whose creations were used in ancestral traditions and burial rites. The exhibition explores humanitys universal desire to honor ones ancestors and highlights some of the earliest examples of the artwork and methods developed for that purpose. Though todays technology has devised many ways to honor loved ones, this exhibition demonstrates that the concept of honoring those who came before is inherent to the human experience. The bronzes originate from 1600 BE to 220 CE ... More
Isaac Newton's reflections on God and creation offered at Bonhams Fine Books & Manuscripts sale
NEW YORK, NY.- An important handwritten Isaac Newton manuscript exploring the nature of God and creation is one of the highlights of Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts Sale on 6 March in New York. It has an estimate of US$100,000-150,000. Extensively reworked, underlined and amended, this manuscript advances our understanding of the theophysical underpinnings of Newtons Principia one of the most important works in the history of science in which he expressed his theory of universal gravitation. Darren Sutherland, Senior Specialist of Books and Manuscripts in New York commented: This is the most significant Newton manuscript on theology to be offered at auction during the past 50 years a spectacular example of Newton's penetrating genius at work. Illuminating Newton's personal view of God and His Word, this manuscript ... More
Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp announces its new artistic team
ANTWERP.- M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp announced its new artistic team. After Nav Haq recently became Associate Director, now Anne-Claire Schmitz and Joanna Zielińska are appointed as Senior Curators. M HKA heads into a new phase of its existence, with the Flemish government having engaged for a new building that will finally give M HKA a fully developed museum infrastructure, therewith enabling it to sustain and further develop the level of international excellence expected of it. M HKAs General Director Bart De Baere will focus the core of his attention towards this ambitious new civic and institutional project, scheduled to open in 2027. Nav Haq has been appointed as Associate Director at the end of last year, with responsibility for the further development and orientation of the artistic programme at M HKA. Now the new team ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Austrian-Swiss painter Oskar Kokoschka was born March 01, 1886. Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 - 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. In this image: Installation view "Oskar Kokoschka. Humanist and Rebel"© Fondation Oskar Kokoschka / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2014. Photo: Marek Kruszewski
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