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Installation view of the Late Constable exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (30 October 2021 - 13 February 2022) showing John Constable RA, The Leaping Horse, 1825. Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photo: © Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry.
LONDON.- The Royal Academy presents the first survey of the late work of John Constable (1776-1837). Late Constable explores the last twelve years of the artists career, from 1825 until his unexpected death in 1837. Characterised by the expressive brushwork that came to define Constables late career, the exhibition brings together over 50 works including paintings and oil sketches as well as watercolours, drawings and prints, taking an in depth look at the development of the artists late style. Constable was born and raised in Dedham Vale, the valley of the River Stour in Suffolk. The son of a wealthy mill owner, he became a student at the Royal Academy Schools in 1800, aged 24 and was elected a Royal Academician in 1829, at the age of 53. Late Constable is arranged in three sections. The first section, 1825-1829, starts with the last of Constables celebrated six-foot Suffolk canal scenes, The Leap ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People skate at an open air ice rink at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre (VDNKh), a public park and exhibition space in Moscow on November 27, 2021. The largest skating rink in Moscow opened at VDNKh. Its total area exceeds 20,000 square metres and it can operate up to 10 degrees above zero Celsius. Alexander NEMENOV / AFP.
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| Still fighting over the Turner Prize | | Contemporary art auction in Paris led by a rare Alberto Giacometti cast made during the artist's lifetime | | Days before dying, Stephen Sondheim reflects: 'I've been lucky' |
Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S) was established in 2018 to bring together a community of queer, trans and non-binary black people and people of colour involved in art, sound and radical activism. Photo: David Levene.
LONDON.- People are always arguing about the Turner Prize. For decades since it was founded in 1984, the annual British visual arts award offered up big characters and outlandish works, whose merits were debated in newspaper editorials, in pubs and at dinner parties. By 2001, when Britains art scene seemed like the coolest in the world, a prime-time audience was tuning in to watch Madonna give out the prize on live television. Now the prize is a much less buzzy affair, perhaps because the public here is less easily shocked by contemporary art. Where once the tabloid press fulminated against the prizes nominees, these days much art world discussion takes place in more specialized publications and on social media. For most of its life, the Turner Prize was a battle between individual artists or occasionally a duo, like Gilbert and George, who won in 1986 from a shortlist of four nominees ... More | |
Alberto Giacometti, tête d'homme, signed and numbered 1/6. Bronze. Height : 26,7 cm; 10½ in. Conceived and cast in bronze by the foundry Rota-Gay in 1961 in an edition of 6. Est: 1,500,000 2,000,000 EUR. Courtesy Sotheby's.
PARIS.- On 2 December, Sothebys Paris Contemporary Art Evening Auction will present a selection of museum-quality paintings and sculptures, with examples by the greatest masters of the second half of the 20th century, such as Zao Wou-Ki, Pierre Soulages and Jean Dubuffet, from prestigious private collections. Anchoring the sale will be Collection Passion Passions, 14 works from an important European private collection, led by Tête dHomme by Alberto Giacometti a cast made during the artists lifetime, which has never been on the market before and a rare work by Pierre Soulages from 1959, painted during the most sought-after period of his career. Among the leading works in the collection is Tête dhomme by Giacometti, depicting his brother Diego, who was one of his favourite models together with his wife Annette. The work dates to a crucial time in the artists career, just one year af ... More | |
Stephen Sondheim, at home in Roxbury, Conn., Nov. 21, 2021. Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times.
by Michael Paulson
ROXBURY, CONN.- Stephen Sondheim stood by the gleaming piano in his study, surrounded by posters of international productions of his many famous musicals, and smiled as he inquired whether a visitor might be interested in hearing songs from a show he had been working on for years, but hadnt finished yet. And now would you like to hear the score? he asked. Of course, the answer was yes. You got some time? he asked, before laughing, loudly, with a sense of mischief: Its from a show called Fat Chance! That was Sunday afternoon, five days ago, when Sondheim, 91, had welcomed me to his longtime country house for a 90-minute interview with him and theater director Marianne Elliott about a revival of Company that is now in previews on Broadway. It would turn out to be his final major interview. There was little indication that Sondheim, one of the greatest songwriters in the history of musical theater ... More |
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| 'Human zoos' were vectors for racism, a Belgian exhibition shows | | Famous friends come together to benefit charity | | The 30th edition of Primavera: Young Australian Artists opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia |
This photograph taken on November 25, 2021 shows an head cast around 1909-1915 at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) during the temporary exhibition "Human Zoo The age of colonial exhibitions" in Tervuren, near Brussels. Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP.
by Matthieu Demeestere
TERVUREN.- In the late 19th to early 20th centuries, recreated African villages were set up across Europe as amusement parks that served to extol the supposed cultural superiority of colonising empires. They were also powerful vectors for racist stereotyping, as a Belgian museum show under way illustrates. "Human Zoo: The age of colonial exhibitions" at the Africa Museum outside Brussels until March next year has resonance, because its buildings are on the site where Belgium's King Leopold II in 1897 reconstructed three "Congolese villages" on royal grounds. At the time, the Belgian Congo ... More | |
Bruce Springsteen guitar.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- U2s The Edge and producer Bob Ezrin, Co-Founders of Music Rising, have announced Guitar Icons: A Musical Instrument Auction to Benefit Music Rising to take place December 11th, 2021, starting at 10:00 a.m. PST. Hosted by Van Eaton Galleries in Los Angeles, the live and online auction will offer a significant collection of guitars and other music memorabilia by some of the worlds most prominent musicians and friends of Music Rising. The auction will take the charity back to its roots and help support the musicians of the NOLA region after a long period being without income. Music Rising was co-founded by U2s the Edge and legendary producer Bob Ezrin, along with a host of music industry partners in 2005 after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Since its inception, Music Rising has provided millions of dollars in aid ... More | |
Installation view. Photo: Anna Kucera.
SYDNEY.- The Primavera 2021: Young Australian Artists exhibition opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Celebrating its 30th edition, Primavera is the MCAs annual exhibition of emerging artists living and working in Australia, aged 35 years and under. The exhibition continues to be a significant platform for early-career Australian artists and curators to present exciting new work. The artists selected for Primavera 2021 come from around Australia and range in age from 29 to 35. They include Elisa Jane Carmichael (QLD), Dean Cross (NSW), Hannah Gartside (VIC), Sam Gold (SA), and Justine Youssef (NSW). This years Primavera exhibition is curated by Melbourne-based Aboriginal curator, Hannah Presley. Her curatorial process is guided by artists, learning about the techniques, history and community that inform ... More |
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| The boundless creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp | | Ricardo Basbaum creates new diagrams, drawings, and site-specific objects for exhibition at Galeria Jaqueline Martins | | Europe's theaters go back to the future With COVID restrictions |
Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Guards (marionette for King Stag). 1918. Metallic paint and oil on wood; metal hardware. Height: 21 7/8″ (55.5 cm), diam.: 7 1/16″ (18 cm). Museum für Gestaltung, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zurich. Decorative Arts Collection. Courtesy Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, ZHdK.
by Jason Farago
NEW YORK, NY.- Theres an object in the Museum of Modern Arts retrospective of Swiss polymath Sophie Taeuber-Arp that is so covetable, I wanted to squeeze it. It dates from 1922 and takes the form of triangles that lock together into an allover pattern of blue and pink, brown and olive. Interrupting these abstract forms are five red birds, flattened and simplified into icons of a new age. Their wings are jazzily misaligned. Their napes are festooned with triangular plumage as consistent as the teeth of a comb. This isnt a painting. Its a pillow: something beautiful and practical, something new for the eyes but fit for the head. Modern art, right on your sofa! Opening after a years pandemic-obliged delay, Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction offers a view of an artist who could not have cared less ... More | |
Installation view. Courtesy by Galeria Jaqueline Martins. Photo: José Pelegrini.
SAO PAULO.- Ricardo Basbaums solo exhibit subhidroinfraentre (subhydroinfrabetween) opened on the ground floor of Galeria Jaqueline Martins, featuring previously unseen works in direct dialog with the gallery facilities. subhidroinfraentre was born of a set of four key concepts composed of small words referencing axes that have oriented the development of the artists work. They are: subhidroinfraentre, floraparadoxanós, anorgânicaintensaperformativa, and bioconceitualismo . Since the 80s, Ricardo Basbaum has investigated art as an intermediate platform tying together communication, sensory experience, sociability, and language. Each medium is used in a bid to connect with exhibitiongoers, so as to distribute the proposed questions through contact. The show has been built around and named after subhidroinfraentre (lago). The first piece created for the exhibit, it comprises a small lake filled with water whose outlines at once portray the images of a flower and a microorganism. It also ... More | |
Leipzig Opera would lose 1 million euros, about $1.1 million, by refunding tickets for canceled performances across all shows, Schirmer added. The company could cope with that, he said, because it receives a significant government subsidy and has sufficient reserves.
by Alex Marshall
NEW YORK, NY.- For months, Europes opera, music and theater fans have been flocking to packed venues as if the coronavirus pandemic was fading from view. Now that feeling of freedom is receding for many. In Vienna, all performances are now banned until at least Dec. 13, after Austria imposed a lockdown to deal with a rise in coronavirus cases. The Dec. 5 premiere of the Vienna State Operas new production of Don Giovanni, directed by Barrie Kosky, will be televised from an empty house. In Munich, performances are still taking place at the citys storied Bavarian State Opera despite a surge in cases in Bavaria. Only vaccinated patrons or those who have recovered from COVID-19 are allowed in, and they must also all show proof of a negative coronavirus test and wear a medical-grade mask ... More |
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| On December 10, Part 2 of the Joel Harris Collection of Oziana & Children's Books goes up for bid | | 'Imants Tillers: As soon as tomorrow' opens at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery | | A record-shattering turnout for Heritage Auctions' $26 million fall sports auction |
Fine First British Edition of The House at Pooh Corner in dust jacket by A.A. Milne, illustrated by E.H. Shepard. Methuen 1928 first UK edition. Pink cloth boards stamped in gold. Original salmon dust jacket. Pink and black illustrated endpapers, and illustrations throughout by Shepard. About fine in fine dust jacket. Small gift inscription and toning to rear free endpaper, a line of toning to rear free endpaper (toning where jacket edge touches the book. Estimate $2,000-$3,000.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present Return to Oz: Part 2 of the Joel Harris Collection of Oziana & Childrens Books on Friday, December 10, 2021. The sale offers over 195 lots of first edition and vintage books, showcasing an enchanting and extensive selection of Oz books. It was curated by Mr. Harris, who is the Director of Special Publications of the International Wizard of Oz Club, as well as an author, long-time collector, and San Francisco Bay Area estate planning and probate attorney. The Oz series was created by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), a prolific American author best known for his children's books. His ... More | |
Imants Tillers, Factum 2, 2021. Synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 32 canvasboards, nos. 111782111813, 202 x 141.5 cm.
SYDNEY.- Imants Tillers is an internationally renowned postmodern artist whose practice includes conceptual paintings, installations, sculptures, prints and drawings. His signature works are comprised of many small painted canvas boards, which create impressive large format works when arranged together. Tillers paintings touch on philosophical, historical, and personal themes, often incorporating images from the work of other artists and reflections on his Latvian ethnicity. His parents Imants and Dzidra left Latvia at the end of World War II, spending several years as refugees in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany. Tillers was born in Sydney in 1950, soon after the arrival of his parents in their new home country. He was the first of four children and spoke only Latvian until he went to school. Tillers has exhibited his work throughout the world since 1975, and a crucial turning point was showing in New York in the 1980s. One of my career highlights was when I held r ... More | |
The slightly soiled, sweat-stayed gray jersey with "NEW YORK" on the front and "7" on the back sold early Sunday morning for $615,000.
DALLAS, TX.- Mantle, Robinson, Koufax, Cobb, Brady, Ruth, DiMaggio immortals each, and all champions once again perched atop the charts in Heritage Auctions' Nov. 18-20 Fall Sports Collectibles Catalog Auction. They were joined, too, by Mr. Tiger himself, Al Kaline, whose Hall of Fame-worthy collection proved a home run, doubling its pre-auction estimate to sell for more than $1.64 million alone. The event closed early Sunday morning just past the $26-million mark, far exceeding pre-auction estimates yet again. Only a year ago it was unheard-of for a sports auction to surpass $20 million; now it's as commonplace as a Tom Brady touchdown. A record was also set during the weekend, as more than 4,300 bidders worldwide vied for coveted cards and cherished memorabilia, the most ever to participate in a single sports sale. "This has been an extraordinary year for our consignors and our clients, and we're thrilled to have ended 2021 the way it ... More |
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'Elemental and irreplaceable': Stars pay tribute to Stephen Sondheim
NEW YORK, NY.- Passionate tributes to Stephen Sondheim came quickly as the news of his death reached the theater world and beyond Friday. Comparisons to Shakespeare were invoked more than once; so was appreciation for his tough-love feedback to those who interpreted his songs. Because the Pulitzer-Prize-winning composer of such beloved shows as Sunday in the Park With George and Sweeney Todd was known for his wit and wordplay, writers who stick to the page, not the stage, weighed in with admiration as well. And, given how often Sondheim songs traded in wistfulness and melancholy, the composers own lyrics were used to celebrate and remember him, too. Here is a sampling of responses. Im weirdly numb and super-emotional all at the same time. I cant quite process what the world (especially the theatrical world) looks like without him. He was a giant, he ... More
The essential musical dramatist who taught us to hear
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the greatest American composers, clearly the greatest lyricist and, by virtue of those two rarely linked greatnesses, the essential musical dramatist of our time wanted to talk about double acrostics. This was not quite what I expected when I met the man in 2004. But Stephen Sondheim, who died Friday at 91, leaving a lifes outpouring of rapturous, hilarious, gorgeous and tortuous song in his wake, was, in my first interview with him, and in every interview since, uninterested in reputation. Thinking about The Frogs, the 1974 musical he wrote to be performed at the Yale University swimming pool, and which he was in the process of revising for Lincoln Center Theater, he preferred to recall the fun hed had with Burt Shevelove, his collaborator on that show as well on A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. But double acrostics? ... More
Revitalizing Black neighborhoods by preserving their history
NEW YORK, NY.- Jevonte Porter grew up hearing family stories about a bustling era of arts and business in the Orange Mound section of Memphis, Tennessee. After World War II, locals flocked to performance spaces like the W.C. Handy Theater; those without tickets often sold hot dogs or other goods on the busy streets outside venues. To Porter, 25, these anecdotes almost sounded like fiction. As a child, he played hide-and-seek around abandoned buildings. Orange Mound often cited as the first community in the United States founded and developed by African Americans had become less the domain of street vendors and more of a food desert. Now, Porter sees signs of revitalization taking root. Leading the effort are developers Victoria Jones, an artist, and James Dukes, a music producer known as IMAKEMADBEATS, who want to transform the United ... More
Pat and Michael York, who spent decades collecting the world, share their treasures at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- For nearly 54 years, Michael and Pat York have lived as a binary star, each in orbit around the other. Throughout those decades, as husband and wife, they have shone brightly in a galaxy filled with the luminaries they called colleagues, subjects and friends. He, of course, is a famous and venerated actor, having appeared in such films as Logan's Run, Cabaret, Romeo and Juliet, The Three Musketeers and the Austin Powers series, not to mention several Simpsons episodes. And she is a celebrated photojournalist and magazine editor whose work has been collected in numerous books and displayed in myriad galleries around the world, including the Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg. In a 1993 article on the couple, The New York Times wrote of Michael that he's a "versatile British actor who has shared the stage with nearly every show business legend ... More
Morphy's Dec. 7-8 Fine & Decorative Auction richly laden with Tiffany, Galle, Amphora & fine jewelry
DENVER, PA.- Morphys 45,000-square-foot gallery never looks more beautiful than just before the companys December Fine & Decorative Arts Auction. Thats the time of year when visitors are greeted by a breathtaking array of Tiffany Studios lamps, fine jewelry, paintings, both European and American pottery and glass, and many other superior-quality art objects carefully curated by Morphys specialists. This years event, which will take place at the gallery on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 7-8, features 1,149 lots, each a prime candidate for gift-giving during the holiday season. All forms of remote bidding will also be available, including live online through Morphy Live. The incomparable artistry of Tiffany Studios is on display in dozens of auction lots, most notably the leaded and stained-glass lamp selection that includes a red Damascene desk lamp, estimate ... More
The Fall by Susan Philipsz now on view in the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- The first Dutch solo exhibition of Scottish sound architect Susan Philipsz (Glasgow, 1965) has opened in the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. Philipsz takes the music of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck as the starting point for her new work. The Netherlands most famous composer was buried in the Oude Kerk 400 years ago. After numerous visits to the church and extensive artistic research, Philipsz now presents her context-specific sound installation The Fall in Amsterdams oldest building. It can be visited until 29 March 2022. If it had been up to Calvinism, all organs would have disappeared from the churches after the Iconoclastic Fury (1566). Thanks to Sweelinck, however, who as city organist played daily in the Oude Kerk, the organs were preserved. Sweelinck laid the foundations for public organ concerts after the Reformation. Young organists from all over Europe came ... More
Class-winning Aston Martin, Rolls-Royce and unique Jensen head to auction
LONDON.- Among the H&H Classics offerings at Buxton on December 8th are a historic rally class-winning 1953 Aston Martin DB2 Vantage and a concours award-winning 1931 Rolls-Royce 20/25 Swept Tail Sports Saloon, while alongside them is a 1970 Jensen FF II project which was the worlds first production car to feature such modern staples as anti-lock brakes and four-wheel drive. The 1953 Aston Martin DB2 Vantage Estimate £150,000 - £180,000 is among the last twenty DB2 cars to be built. It was supplied new by Brooklands of Bond St, London to Ian Scott Duffus Esq. Treated to an extensive, chassis up restoration from 1985-1996 it is finished in its original colour of Black with Red leather upholstery. Subject to circa £100,000 worth of improvement and development work during the current nine year ownership, its engine was reworked by renowned Feltham Aston specialist Four ... More
Dix Noonan Webb to sell Iraq George Medal awarded for preventing a major incident
LONDON.- The important and impressive Iraq G.M. group of six awarded to Colour Sergeant M. P. Caines, Princess of Waless Royal Regiment will be sold by Dix Noonan Webb in their auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Wednesday, December 8, 2021. The George Medal is one of only five awarded during the Iraq conflict and is estimated at £20,000-30,000. He is selling them to pay the deposit for a new home. Martin Paul Caines was born in 1979 in Surrey, England and was raised in Northern Ireland and England. He was a member of the Army Cadets and joined the Princess of Waless Royal Regiment in 1997. Having completed two tours in Kosovo he was embarked for Iraq on operation Telic 4 in July 2004. As Christopher Mellor-Hill, Head of Client Liason at Dix Noonan Webb noted: Colour Sergeant M. P. Caines, who as Platoon Leader, employed both clear ... More
The day Josephine Baker refused to sing in segregated Miami club
MIAMI, FLA.- In December 1950, Josephine Baker received a telegram from Copa City, a posh nightclub in Miami Beach, inviting her to give a series of concerts. But with segregation rife in the United States, the Black French singer refused to perform in a venue where African-Americans were not accepted, a decision that became a turning point in her struggle for racial justice. On November 30, the US-born star, who died in 1975 at age 68, will become the first Black woman to be entombed in the Pantheon in Paris, a mausoleum that houses the remains of the most notable figures of French history. By the late 1940s, the singer, music hall dancer, and member of the French Resistance, Baker was already a world star who triumphed in the cabarets of Paris, where she had lived since 1925. But even Baker's fame did not prevent her from facing discrimination in the country of her birth. ... More
Hong Kong protest film wins Taiwan's Golden Horse award
TAIPEI.- A film on Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement won best documentary at Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards on Saturday, at an event dubbed the Chinese-language "Oscars" that went ahead without the legion of mainland filmmakers and stars who once used to walk its red carpet. Hong Kong director Kiwi Chow's "Revolution of Our Times" takes its name from a pro-democracy protest slogan and has never been shown commercially in Hong Kong. The awards have become a bulwark against Beijing's censorship and bolster films that would be banned in China and Hong Kong. They ran afoul of Beijing when a Taiwanese director called for the island's independence in an acceptance speech at their 2018 ceremony, prompting outrage in China, which claims Taiwan as part of its territory, to be retaken one day by force if necessary. No mainland films featured in the 2019 nomination list ... More
Dominique Morisseau pulls play from L.A. theater, citing 'harm'
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Playwright Dominique Morisseau has ended the run of her play Paradise Blue just a week after it opened at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, saying that Black women who worked on the show had been verbally abused and diminished. Morisseau did not specifically describe what happened. But in an 1,100-word Facebook post Wednesday, she said that members of the creative team had been allowed to behave disrespectfully, that she had demanded an apology from one member of the team and that instead of staunchly backing this, the Geffen continued to enable more abuse. Harm was allowed to fester, Morisseau said in the Facebook post. I gave the theater an ultimatum, she added. Respect the Black womxn artists working on my show, or I will pull my play. In a statement about the cancellation, the Geffen Playhouse said officials had apologized ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French graphic artist Tomi Ungerer was born November 28, 1931. Jean-Thomas "Tomi" Ungerer (28 November 1931 - 9 February 2019) was an Alsatian artist and writer. He published over 140 books ranging from children's books to adult works and from the fantastic to the autobiographical. He was known for sharp social satire and witty aphorisms. Ungerer is also famous as a cartoonist and designer of political posters and film posters. Ungerer received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1998 for his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator.
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