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The Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2021. The exhibition includes a navigation console from the U.S.S. Enterprise, the first script from the first episode and tribbles. Alex Welsh/The New York Times.
by Adam Nagourney
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Adam Nimoy gazed across a museum gallery filled with Star Trek stage sets, starship replicas, space aliens, fading costumes and props (think phaser, set to stun). The sounds of a beam-me-up transporter wafted across the room. Over his shoulder, a wall was filled with an enormous photograph of his father Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock on the show dressed in his Starfleet uniform, his fingers splayed in the familiar Vulcan live long and prosper greeting. But that gesture, Adam Nimoy noted as he led a visitor through this exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center, was more than a symbol of the television series that defined his fathers long career playing the part-Vulcan, part-human Spock. It is derived from part of a Hebrew blessing that Leonard Nimoy first glimpsed at an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Boston as a boy and brought to the role. The prominently displayed photo of that gesture linking Judaism to Star Trek culture helps ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The A arte Invernizzi gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of works by Salvatore Scarpitta. The exhibition - curated by the German artist Günter Umberg with the advisory of Luigi Sansone, editor of the catalogue raisonné of Salvatore Scarpitta's works - investigates the relationship that comes about between the thirty works on display - retracing Scarpitta's artistic career from his debut through to 1992.
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| Two important French and Scottish paintings enter Scotland's national collection | | OpenSea valued at $13.3 billion in new round of venture funding | | The Perspective Gallery to open "Through A New Lens" |
The Faggot Gatherers (about 1850 - 55), Jean-François Millet (1814 1875). Accepted in lieu of Estate Duty by HM Government from the Craigmyle Collection, and allocated to the National Galleries of Scotland, 2020 (NG 2887).
EDINBURGH.- Two important works of French and Scottish art recently acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland have gone on display at the Scottish National Gallery. The first is a powerful painting by the hugely influential French artist Jean-François Millet (1814 75). The Faggot Gatherers is a small work dating from 1850-1855 which depicts two women taking a rest from collecting branches to sell as firewood. The older womans hunched back shows the raw side of rural life and the physical impact of agricultural labour. As an exponent of Realism, Millet favoured truthful views of contemporary reality and the artists empathy with the predicament of the labourers is evident in this unsentimental work. He trained in Paris and rejected academic painting, instead developing his own style focused on countryside scenes rooted ... More | |
OpenSea was created in 2017 as a kind of marketplace for allowing people to buy and sell nonfungible tokens, or NFTs.
by Mike Isaac
NEW YORK, NY.- OpenSea, one of the most talked about blockchain startups in Silicon Valley, said Tuesday that it had raised $300 million in new venture capital, making it the latest company to cash in on a rush to fund cryptocurrency startups. The new round of funding, led by investment firms Paradigm and Coatue Management, brings the startups valuation to a staggering $13.3 billion just four years after it was founded. OpenSea previously raised more than $100 million from a host of investors, including investment firm Andreessen Horowitz and actor Ashton Kutcher, according to data provided by the company. Founded in 2017, OpenSea was created as a marketplace for people to buy and sell so-called NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, which are unique pieces of digital code backed by blockchain technology. NFT ... More | |
Gina Costa, Broken.
EVANSTON, IL.- The Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL will present Through A New Lens, an exhibition of photographs by seven internationally-recognized iPhoneographers on view beginning Thursday, January 6, 2022. The exhibition, curated by museum professional, art historian and photographer, Gina Costa, demonstrates a broad range of styles and approaches used by mobile technology. Works range from traditional, straight photographs, to abstract and highly apped works of art. Visitors to the exhibition will observe the incredible span of possibilities mobile technology permits. The evolution of mobile photography can be understood as the logical next step of developments in the history of photography. Technically, what preceded the mobile photography movement led naturally to its adoption, becoming an important world-wide art movement. The camera on mobile phones has redefined picture-making within this historical arc, and has shifted the discourse and boundaries of w ... More |
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| Guggenheim appoints Francesca Esmay as Alfred Flechtheim Director of Engagement, Conservation and Collections Care | | Hollis Taggart opens a show spanning five decades of artist Knox Martin's career | | For Karla Knight, paranormal is normal |
Esmay also to oversee newly created Mentoring Emerging Professionals in Art Conservation initiative (MEPAC)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced the appointment of Francesca Esmay as the Alfred Flechtheim Director of Engagement, Conservation and Collections Care, a newly endowed position within the museums Conservation Department. This position is funded by a challenge grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and by Dr. Michael R. Hulton and Mrs. Penny R. Hulton, heirs of art collector and dealer Alfred Flechtheim. In this new position, Esmay will collaborate with colleagues across the museum to develop educational initiatives and public programming that explore the intersections of art, technology, and science and address issues related to the preservation of modern and contemporary art. Esmay will also oversee the newly established Mentoring Emerging Professionals in Art Conservation initiative (MEPAC), a ten-week, paid opportunity for students ... More | |
Knox Martin, Star Flowers, 2015. Acrylic on canvas, 56 x 44 inches (142.2 x 111.8 cm). Image Courtesy the artist and Hollis Taggart.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hollis Taggart is presenting Knox Martin: Garden of Time, an exhibition featuring works inspired by nature from across more than five decades of artist Knox Martins career. The presentation includes paintings, works on paper, and two of Martins rarely displayed mixed-media sculptures, highlighting both the diversity of his practice and the range of ways the 98-year-old artist has engaged with and interpreted his experiences of the natural world. Garden of Time will be on view January 6 - February 5, 2022, at Hollis Taggarts Chelsea location at 521 W. 26th Street. Martin has long been a force in the New York art scene. He studied with Harry Sternberg, Will Barnet, and Morris Kantor at the Art Students League (1946-50), where he later became an influential teacher for generations of artists. His colleagues included Wilhelm de Kooning and Franz Klinethe latter of whom helped Martin secure his ... More | |
Karla Knight in her studio in Redding, Conn., in December 2021. Via Karla Knight via The New York Times.
by Karen Rosenberg
RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- Artists attuned to the supernatural, paranormal and occult have sometimes been dismissed as eccentric visionaries, but the art world is increasingly receptive to their channelings. An immensely popular retrospective of Swedish mystic Hilma af Klint, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York three years ago, connected early modernist abstraction to spiritualist séances; last year, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York celebrated the transcendental symbolism of Agnes Pelton, who painted luminous portals and apparitions within desert landscapes. Contemporary artist Karla Knight shares many of these artists interests and some of their practices; she grew up in a family that held regular Ouija board sessions, with a father who published books about UFOs. But her paintings and drawings reveal ... More |
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| Hood Museum of Art revisits "American" art in 2022 | | Marianne Boesky Gallery opens a solo exhibition of paintings by Antone Könst | | Tarantino plans to sell 'Pulp Fiction' NFTs, defying Miramax suit |
Romare Howard Bearden, In the Garden, from the portfolio Prevalence of Ritual, 1974, screenprint on wove paper. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William S. Rubin Fund; PR.975.58.1. Art © Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
HANOVER, NH.- Featuring works both beautiful and challenging, This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World compels viewers to reflect on their own relationship to place and land through historical and contemporary art by Native and non-Native artists. This groundbreaking exhibition, drawn entirely from the Hood Museum of Arts collection, is the museums first major installation of traditional and contemporary Native American art set alongside early-to-contemporary art by African American, Asian American, Euro-American, and Latin American artists. It is also the first thematic, rather than chronological, installation of the museums historic American collection. By incorporating a multitude of artistic responses to the natural world from the early nineteenth century to the present, This Land participates in a long-overdue broadening of what ... More | |
Antone Könst, Olivias Roses, 2021 (detail). Oil on canvas, 78 x 60 inches, 198.1 x 152.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. © Antone Könst. Photo: Lance Brewer.
ASPEN, CO.- Marianne Boesky Gallery will present Cuttings, a solo presentation of paintings by Antone Könst. This focused exhibition will feature a new group of flower paintings by Könsta recurring motif that has appeared throughout the artists diverse painting practice. Cuttings is on view beginning January 6, 2022, at the gallerys space at 509 W 24th Street. This past summer, Könst presented Dear Future, a solo exhibition of new figurative paintings with Marianne Boesky Gallery in Aspen, CO. Known for his critical embrace of archetypal imagery, Könsts work subverts expectations through total engagement with the image and object, invigorating enduring visual tropes with an infusion of wit, love, and formal invention. Cuttings, a new series of large-scale demonstrative flower paintings, is the artists deepest commitment to a single motif yet. Composed from reference photographs taken by the artist over the la ... More | |
Quentin Tarantino speaks at the National Board of Review annual awards gala on Jan. 8, 2020 in New York. Tarantino is pushing ahead with auctions of NFTs associated with his handwritten screenplay of Pulp Fiction, despite a pending lawsuit. Krista Schlueter/The New York Times.
by Ephrat Livni
NEW YORK, NY.- When Quentin Tarantino and the movie studio Miramax agreed on the rights to Pulp Fiction in the early 1990s, cryptocurrency didnt exist. Now, Tarantino is courting controversy with a crypto twist over ownership of the cult movies script that could set a legal precedent for intellectual property rights. On Wednesday, the director announced auctions of nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, associated with his original handwritten screenplay, despite a pending lawsuit by Miramax. Tarantino has been thwarted before. In November, after he announced plans for an auction, Miramax sued, claiming breach of contract and various intellectual property violations. In December, the directors lawyers denied the accusations, but the sales did not proceed. A hearing to schedule ... More |
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| Museum of Russian Icons appoints three new trustees | | Sabine Weiss, last of the 'humanist' street photographers, dies at 97 | | Liz Nielsen now represented by Miles McEnery Gallery |
Wendy Salmond, an art history professor at Chapman University in Orange, California, is a scholar of Russian and early Soviet art, architecture, and design.
CLINTON, MASS.- The Museum of Russian Icons has named three new membersEric Brose, William ONeil, and Dr. Wendy Salmondto its Board of Trustees. We have ambitious goals for the museum, and I am grateful for the opportunity to work with our new trustees to help us expand the appreciation and understanding of Russian culture," said Executive Director Kent dur Russell. We are indebted to our board members, both new and returning, for their commitment and vision to keep the Museum a vibrant, innovative, and leading institution in the study and exhibition of Russian Icons. Eric Brose, a resident of Boylston, Massachusetts, is a Financial Advisor for Infinex Investments located at Fidelity Bank. A financial advisor since 1999, Brose received his BA from George Washington University and his MBA from Tulane University. He is the Chair of the Finance Committee ... More | |
Sabine Weiss, Marchande de frites, Paris, 1952. © Sabine Weiss.
by Clay Risen
NEW YORK, NY.- Sabine Weiss, whose arresting photographs of dirty-faced children, food-stall vendors and Roma dancers captured the struggles, hopes and occasional moments of humor on the streets of postwar France, died on Dec. 28 at her home in Paris. She was 97 and considered the last member of the humanist school of photography, whose ranks included Robert Doisneau, Brassaï and Willy Ronis. Her assistant, Laure Augustins, confirmed the death. When she started out, in the late 1940s, no one called Weiss and her cohort humanists; that term came later, when historians in the 1970s began to elevate their work to canonical status. But they were undoubtedly a school, united by a common interest in capturing the spontaneous events that revealed the universal dignity of everyday life. They also all embraced ... More | |
Liz Nielsen, Deep Sky River.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery announced the representation of the photographic artist Liz Nielsen. Nielsen will have her first solo exhibition with the gallery in the fall of 2022. Liz Nielsen is an experimental photographer, who works without a camera to create abstract photograms in the darkroom. Nielsens light painting technique refers to her process of exposing light-sensitive paper to handmade negatives and various light sources that she then processes using traditional photographic chemicals. Her darkroom innovations take on a performative nature, simply reserved for an audience of one. Each photogram is completely unique and can range in scale from intimate to substantial. Deeply interested in expanding the boundaries of the photographic medium, Nielsens vibrant and luminous abstractions transform preconceived notions of traditional photography. Influenced by her philosophical studies, she uses photography as a way to ... More |
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Delmonico Books publishes "Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection"
NEW YORK, NY.- Delmonico Books announces Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, a book that spans a century of defamiliarized art in celebration of the myriad ways in which artists challenge us to see the everyday world with fresh eyes. This substantial volume brings together nearly 250 art works spanning more than 100 years that ask us to reconsider how we look at the world. Brought together by Chara Schreyer over the course of three decades, these works invite us to rethink our perception of the everyday in the wake of Duchamps radical reimagination of the art object and the Russian literary critic Viktor Shklovskys conception of making strange. Whether looking at the idea of making strange in the work of Marcel Duchamp and Georgia OKeeffe, the legacy of Minimalism and its discontents in the sculptures of Donald Judd and Felix González-Torres, the ... More
Joan Didion, conservative
NEW YORK, NY.- If its really true, as Michael Wolff reported Monday for Richard Rushfields Hollywood newsletter The Ankler, that Random House will not be releasing a planned compilation of Norman Mailers writings on some sort of political-correctness grounds Mailers 1957 essay The White Negro was allegedly invoked as a cassus cancellatus then honestly, Im a little bit disappointed in cancel culture. The Mailer estates representative has disputed the report, and Random House claims it never planned to publish the collection. But the book is reportedly moving to a telling destination: the same specializing-in-the-deplorable publishing house that took on Woody Allens memoir and picked up Blake Baileys Philip Roth biography. If Mailer was really given a politically motivated push, its a sign that our would-be apparatchiks are getting lazy. To take aim at J.K. Rowling, Dave ... More
Norman Mailer book to be released by Skyhorse
NEW YORK, NY.- Last year, in the wake of growing partisan division in America and the Jan. 6 riots, friends and strangers kept asking John Buffalo Mailer what his father, author Norman Mailer, who died in 2007, would make of this moment. He realized there was already an answer in some of the essays and other writing by his father, including stark warnings about the fragility of democracy and the threat of political violence. He spoke to J. Michael Lennon, who wrote a biography of Norman Mailer, and together they began planning a collection of Mailers work on the subject. That collection, which includes previously unpublished writing from Mailers archives and excerpts from letters, manuscripts and interviews, has been acquired by Skyhorse, after Mailers longtime publisher, Random House, declined to make an offer on the submission. He had a fantastic relationship with ... More
In $500 million trading card deal, Fanatics buys Topps
NEW YORK, NY.- Topps, the business that put Bazooka bubble gum together with baseball cards more than half a century ago, now belongs to a fast-growing sports memorabilia empire that nearly knocked Topps out of the baseball-card game. On Tuesday, Topps announced that it had sold its sports card business to Fanatics, a multibillion-dollar, 10-year-old company whose licensing business was built on sports fandom, technology and networking. The deal values Topps sports and entertainment division at slightly more than $500 million, according to people with knowledge of the situation, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the information is confidential. Topps had previously announced a deal to go public. But in August, the company was blindsided when it lost its licensing agreement with Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players ... More
New exhibition features paintings and sculpture that reference other works of art
WATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museum has opened Pictures in Pictures, a new exhibition drawn from the Museums permanent collection that brings together paintings and sculpture that include secondary images of other works. Whether his or her own earlier works, those of their contemporaries, or works sourced from another place and time, these gestures provide insight into the artists creative life, often adding layers of meaning to the narrative. Organized by Alicia G. Longwell, Ph.D., Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and Education, Pictures in Pictures features 21 works dating from 1845 to 2006 and spanning a range of art movements. Pictures in Pictures continues the longstanding tradition of artists who include images of other paintings in their work. In 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeers interiors, the artwork in the space was often prominently ... More
Rio cancels its carnival street parties
RIO DE JANEIRO.- While Rio de Janeiros renowned Carnival parade will go on, the city will cancel its street parties, the mayor said Tuesday, to the dismay of millions of revelers who pour into the citys public spaces every year to celebrate and wash away any sorrows in samba, sweat and beer. The freewheeling public parties wont be possible, Mayor Eduardo Paes said at a news conference Tuesday. Its been decided: There wont be street Carnival in the tradition of the past. Paes said the official parade, in which samba groups put on elaborately choreographed shows in an area flanked by bleachers that seat 56,000 people, would be held, but with some health precautions. But Cariocas, as Rio residents are known, were devastated. I was very excited, very hopeful, for the 2022 Carnival, even more so after a year without Carnival, said João Victor Ramos, 26. Ramos, a ... More
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg opens DRIFT's most extensive presentation in Germany to date
HAMBURG.- On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the internationally well-known artists DRIFT are staging their most extensive presentation in Germany to date at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. From January 7 to May 8, 2022, DRIFT will transform the MK&G into a sensual experience space on 350 square meters with three spectacular kinetic room-filling sculptures. Self-luminous real dandelion seeds, magnificent silk flowers that gracefully unfurl and retract, and a spatial installation that mimics the behaviour of plants and animals allow visitors to experience the deep connection between humans and nature. Parallel to the exhibition, DRIFT was commissioned by the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, in close coordination with MK&G, to develop a performative artwork that will illuminate the exterior of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg in a new light ... More
Solo exhibition of 10 new works by Wes Lang opens at Almine Rech New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech New York is presenting Pink and Blue, a solo exhibition of 10 new works by Wes Lang. This is Lang's third solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from January 6 to February 5, 2022. The skull is always present because Im obsessed with my own death, says Wes Lang of the memento-mori like motif that has permeated his work since the 1970s when, in elementary school, he first developed a habitual tendency to doodle skulls. Im always thinking about death and trying to be accepting of it. I dont want to paint myself , the skull is a stand in for that. Ive got a skull, I just cant see it. And to clarify, this desire to mull on the temporal nature of life is not meant to inspire hopelessness but ratherlike the monks who practice maranasati, or death awareness such contemplation aims to dissolve the egos stranglehold, filling life with abundan ... More
No. 1 card collection makes its auction debut this month
DALLAS, TX.- Stephen Parthum began collecting sports cards in 1990 because a co-worker told him they were good investments enough, if he was lucky, to put a kid through college. Parthum, then a 30-year-old coin collector, believed that as good a reason as any to dive into cardboard. I loved sports, and I loved the hobby, and if I could ever make money it was all well and good, he says. And I was hooked. Except Parthum did not collect like anyone else. He did not run out and buy boxes of new product, nor did he scoop up any old Hall of Famer he could fit into his mitt. Instead, his was a mercurial, methodical approach: Parthum, a collector of coin types, bought the very first and very last card from each set in which he was interested initially, from baseball, football, basketball and hockey (the last, his personal favorite); then, from boxing and soccer and so forth; then, from old TV ... More
Nye & Company announces online Chic and Antique Estate Treasures auction
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers two-day, online Chic and Antique Estate Treasures auction planned for Wednesday and Thursday, January 19th and 20th, at 10 am Eastern time both days, will offer a wide variety of fine and decorative arts, with a concentration on 17th thru 20th century paintings, furniture from the 18th through the 21st century, silver and jewelry. The auction will be headlined by property from a private Southern New Jersey collection, the NAMITS collection, property from descendants of the New York and Philadelphia Clinedinst family, property descended in the Fulton, Ludlow, Livingston and Phillips families, property from the estate of John Strawbridge Lloyd of Philadelphia and, lastly, a small selection of Rev War-era property approved for deaccession by the Fraunces Tavern Museum in New York City. A headliner of the auction is one of the ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Gustave Doré was born January 06, 1832. Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832 - 23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist and sculptor who worked primarily with wood engraving. In this image: Gustave Doré, Souvenir of Loch Lomond, 1875. Oil on canvas, 131 x 196 cm. French & Co. LLC.
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