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Blum & Poe. Courtesy of Art Basel.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the mid-1960s, German art dealer Rudolf Zwirner found that he had a big problem. I had a gallery in Cologne that was showing a lot of young American artists, he said. But no clients. He recalled sitting in his gallery hoping that visitors would show up. Zwirner, now 89 and based in Berlin, has been called the man who invented the art market by German magazine Der Spiegel, and he is the father of David Zwirner, one of the worlds most powerful and influential dealers. To fix his problem, Rudolf Zwirner took action. I wanted to make a meeting of galleries, he said. So a colleague and I decided to start an art fair. In 1967, he joined forces with a fellow dealer, Hein Stünke, and together they showed their wares and attracted 16 other galleries to join them. Thus Art Cologne, considered to be the oldest contemporary art fair, was born. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day At Art Basel, Almine Rech has declared: « This first day went very well. Some institutional and private acquisitions have been made, and others are under consideration. Asian collectors we haven't seen for 3 years are back. » Courtesy of Almine Rech - Photo: Serge Hasenboehle.
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| Art Basel's new chief is all about the brand | | Trailblazer Frank Bowling leads Bonhams Modern British Art sale | | Rare wood figure of a Bodhisattva Jin Dynasty sold for €2,589,400 tripling its estimate |
Noah Horowitz, chief executive of Art Basel, in Basel, Switzerland, June 10, 2023. (Clara Tuma/The New York Times)
by Scott Reyburn
NEW YORK, NY.- The international art trade, like most global luxury businesses, has its dominant brands. One of the largest is the Swiss-based Art Basel, which organizes fairs for modern and contemporary art from hundreds of the worlds top dealers, in Hong Kong, Basel, Paris and Miami Beach, in each years four seasons. The VIP preview of Art Basels mothership event in Switzerland opens on Tuesday. Dealers traditionally keep their most desirable pieces aside for Basel, whether they are priced in the thousands or the tens of millions. With booths for 284 gallerists from 36 countries in a vast exhibition center with a circular courtyard, plus an adjoining hangar for dealers to offer oversize works, the format feels reassuringly familiar. But guided by James Murdoch, whose Lupa ... More | |
Bullfrog by Lynn Chadwick. Estimate: £200,000-300,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The British painter Frank Bowling (b.1934) is the epitome of a trailblazer. In 1987 he was the first artist of Afro-Caribbean descent to have their work enter the Tate Collection and in 2005 he was elected the first black Royal Academician. A knighthood followed in 2020. His Untitled, an intriguing example of his famous poured painting technique, is to be offered at Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art sale in London on Wednesday 21 June 2023. Seen in public for the first time since it was given by the artist to the present owners parents in the late 1970s, Untitled is estimated at £100,000-150,000. Christopher Dawson, Head of Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art, said: This fascinating work sparkles with interest. Bowling demonstrates his mastery of colour with a fusion of orange, yellow, pink and green, brought together with an assured command of flow, density and contrast across the canvas. The artist has a ... More | |
Bodhisattva, Jin dynasty (1115-1234). Sold for 2,589,400. Photo: Bonhams.
PARIS.- Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr held yesterday its first Art de la Chine sale in Paris (13 June) curated by Caroline Schulten, Head of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Department in Paris. The sale, part of the Asian week in Paris, made a total of 5.2million and was led by a magnificent and very rare large wood figure of Bodhisattva Guanyin made under the Jin dynasty (1215-1234), formerly in the collection of Paul Houo-Ming-Tse (1880-1949) which sold for 2,589,400, three times its pre-sale estimate. The figure first sold in Paris in 1932 and has remained in a French family collection since. Its monumental size is reminiscent of the bodhisattva from the Rousset Collection which sold at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr last October in Paris. Other Highlights of the sale included: An important and rare gilt-copper alloy figure of Shakyamuni Buddha, Khasa Malla Kingdom, 13th/14th century sold for 508,400, six times i ... More |
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| Hudson River Museum announces grand opening of new west wing | | 'Paul Mogensen: n+1' now being hosted by Maruani Mercier | | Hindman offers its largest Sports Memorabilia Auction this month |
Rendering. Image: Steve Paneccasio.
YONKERS, NY.- Hudson River Museum announced the opening of its new West Wing, a transformational project that will bring a premier museum experience to all in Westchester and the metropolitan area. The new wing, designed by Archimuse, expands the Museums total footprint by more than 12,000 square feet, including more than 3,000 square feet of exhibition galleries and exhilarating views of the Hudson River and Palisades. Press Preview and Ribbon Cutting: Thursday, June 15, 10am, and inaugural exhibitions: Kengo Kito: Unity on the Hudson and Sylvia Sleigh: Invitation to a Voyage Open on June 16. Recognizing the Museums key role as a cultural anchor, community and education partner, and tourist destination, Westchester County ($6.2M), the City of Yonkers ($5.45M), and New York State, Empire State Development ($630,000) have joined forces in support of this game-changing capital improvement project ... More | |
Installation view of 'no title', 2022, ultramarine in stand oil with oil color scape on canvas.
183 x 183 cm, 72 x 72 in
BRUSSELS.- Maruani Mercier is now presenting the first solo exhibition of Paul Mogensen at their Brussels gallery, with works made between 2016 and 2022 that follow the eponymous mathematical algorithm (n+1) utilized throughout the artists oeuvre. He determines the height, width, and placement of squares through elemental mathematics, particularly those deriving from Renaissance and Ancient Egyptian theorems. Although working spontaneously, Mogensen nevertheless operates within a set of parameters: hard edges, a minimal palette, and predetermined logic. He never plans his works on paper, electing instead to compose directly on the canvas, explaining that once you decide on the arithmetic and then you just make it, [the work] makes itself. From this imperative, he has sustained decades of experimentation. ... More | |
A 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle Rookie Baseball Card No. 311 (PSA 1). Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman is currently presenting its largest Sports Memorabilia auction to date, with nearly 700 lots of trading cards, autographs, and memorabilia in a timed online format from June 9 to June 26. The auction is jam-packed with items from superstars from the earliest days of sports to the present day including Honus Wagner, Jackie Robinson, Mickey Mantle, Roberto Clemente, Mike Ditka, Magic Johnson, Walter Payton, Michael Jordan, and LeBron James. October 26, 1984 is quietly one of the most momentous days in NBA history. While the outcome and specifics of the Bulls-Bullets game that happened in Chicago that evening are largely irrelevant in the grand scheme of sports history, that late October day marked the professional debut of the consensus greatest basketball player of all time, Michael Jordan. Even the most optimistic Bulls fan, if ... More |
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| Asheville Art Museum serves up The Art of Food exhibition | | Design Miami/ Basel announces gallery highlights and additional programming for its 17th edition | | Istanbul Modern reopens in its new, Renzo Piano-designed home |
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Four Lemons: Black Lemon on Yellow, July 24, 2018, edition 15/40, 2018. Silkscreen with enamel ink and tar-like texture, 39 x 39 in. Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer © Donald Sultan.Image: Aaron Wessling Photography.
ASHEVILLE, NC.- The Asheville Art Museum is opening The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation will be on view from June 15October 22, 2023 in the Explore Asheville Exhibition Hall, Level III. We are delighted to bring this extraordinary exhibition to Western North Carolina where we are sure it will inspire residents and visitors alike. Southern Appalachia is renowned for its food, historically and today, we are fortunate to be surrounded by that uniqueness, from farming to brewing, to the creativity and inventiveness demonstrated by our culinary community. I know all will find inspiration in the artists responses to food, this essential element of life and ... More | |
Installation View. Photo Credit: James Harris.
BASEL.- The 17th edition of Design Miami/ Basel is now open, presenting rare and unique displays of collectible design from 26 galleries across the ground floor of the fairs established location, the Basel Messeplatz. Running 13-18 June, this years fair is a celebration of Design Miami/ Basels origins, offering an intimate celebration of the galleries that have shaped the market for collectible design as we know it today, offering a meeting place for gallerists, collectors and design enthusiasts to share and discover the very best of historic and contemporary design, with a particular focus on the iconic 20th century design that has become synonymous with the Basel fair. Grela Orihuela (Senior VP of Fairs), says: This special edition of Design Miami/ Basel presents an exciting opportunity to reflect on the past, present and future of our flagship Swiss edition. Together with our participating galleries, we look ... More | |
The Istanbul Modern under construction on the banks of the Bosporus in Istanbul, Nov. 22, 2022. After five years of construction, the modern and contemporary art museum welcomes visitors in its new space along the banks of the Bosporus. (Maria Mavropoulou/The New York Times)
ISTANBUL.- The new Istanbul Modern museum is a study in contradictions: It provides stunning views across the water of the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque on the European side of this city and to Asia to the east, but at first glance, it looks, simply, like a spiffy stack of waterfront containers. And both of those aspects of its design are the point. The new space, designed by architect Renzo Piano, will officially open June 20, more than a month after welcoming its first visitors and nearly 20 years after the museum, which specializes in modern and contemporary art, opened in a former warehouse in the same location. (It then moved, for a time, to a 120-year-old temporary space in the nearby Beyoglu ... More |
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| University Art Museum appoints Dr. Robert R. Shane as Associate Curator | | The Poetics of Politics: The Bucharest School of Photography at Harlan Levey Projects | | Njideka Akunyili Crosby : Coming Back to See Through, Again on view until the end of July at David Zwirner |
Dr. Robert R. Shane as Associate Curator of the University Art Museum (UAM) at the University at Albany.
ALBANY, NY.- The University Art Museum (UAM) at the University at Albany is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Robert R. Shane as Associate Curator, effective June 1, 2023. With a diverse background in art history, art criticism, and teaching, Shane brings a unique perspective to the UAM, bridging the gap between the museum and the academy. His extensive teaching experience includes a wide range of art history and philosophy courses specializing in themes related to labor, class, ethics, ecology, and the intersections between art and dance. As a scholar, writer, curator, and educator with twenty years of teaching experience in higher education, he has actively integrated these timely subjects into the museum environment. Roberts expertise unites art and artists in dynamic ways, empowering viewers to engage with contemporary art, both ... More | |
Installation view.
BRUSSELS.- The Poetics of Politics The Bucharest School of Photography, curated by the Belgian art critic/curator Sam Steverlynck, is a two-part exhibition that takes place at Harlan Levey Projects in Brussels, Belgium and Art Encounters in Timișoara, Romania within the framework of Timișoara 2023, European Capital of Culture. The exhibition unites the work of three Romanian photographers (Michele Bressan, b 1980; Dani Ghercā, b 1988; and Nicu Ilfoveanu, b 1975) who all graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest, where two of them are currently teachers. Having grown up in the aftermath of the 1989 revolution, their practices are united by a certain cautiousness towards a narrative oriented use of images, and a meta-reflexive way of dealing with the medium of photography. Adhering to a conceptual approach rather than a documentary one, each reflects on a period of economic, social, and technological transition, e ... More | |
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Still You Bloom in This Land of No Gardens, 2021. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen. © Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Courtesy the artist, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Zwirner is hosting Coming Back to See Through, Again, an exhibition of new and recent work by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, which inaugurated the gallerys 616 North Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. This is Akunyili Crosbys first solo exhibition with David Zwirner. The exhibition will travel to David Zwirners New York gallery, opening in September 2023. Born in Nigeria, Akunyili Crosby moved to the United States as a teenager in 1999, and her work reflects her hybrid cultural background and experiences. In her methodically layered compositions, Akunyili Crosby combines painted depictions of people, places, and subjects from her life with photographic transfers derived from her personal image archive as ... More |
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Works on paper by Jordan Wolfson of JFK Jr. now on view at Gagosian, Basel
BASEL.- Gagosian is conducting an exhibition of recent works on paper by Jordan Wolfson at the gallery in Basel. Drawings, the gallerys first exhibition of Wolfsons work since announcing its representation of the artist in 2022, features thirty-five framed works from the series JFK Jr. (2020). Pairing painted-over photographs of the late John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. with decals bearing the graphic image of a red rose and the forbidding slogan Describing how a dog was slaughtered, Wolfson juxtaposes and mischievously negates potent signifiers of optimism, infallibility, and love. Characterizing the late presidential scion as a celebrated but problematic harbinger of American neoliberalism, the artist transforms him, through brutally simple acts of defacement, from a member of the moneyed elite into an outsider figure, scrawling on his face ... More
Brian Lebel's 2023 Cody Old West Show & Auction slated for June 23-25
SANTA FE, NM.- Buyers, sellers, collectors, and enthusiasts of Western and Native American memorabilia, or anyone who is just discovering this red-hot collecting category, should mark their calendars for June 23-25. Those are the dates for Brian Lebels 33rd annual Cody Old West Show & Auction, to be held in the Santa Fe Community Convention Center at 201 West Marcy Street in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Both the weekend dealer show and the Saturday night auction will be packed with authentic Western fine art and antiques, collectibles, apparel, Native American artifacts, home decor, jewelry, cowboy trappings, horse gear, books, Hollywood memorabilia, boots, hats, furniture and more. The extensive array of show and auction merchandise encompasses antique, vintage and modern items, and spans all price points. Because of the wide variety ... More
Hogwarts acceptance letter from first Harry Potter movie to be auctioned in London
LONDON.- A Hogwarts acceptance letter and envelope used in a much-loved scene in the first of the Harry Potter movies is expected to sell for more than £10,000 ($16,620) at a June 22 auction conducted by Chiswick Auctions. The rare movie prop has been consigned by an individual who bought it at a school charity auction in 2002. As all JK Rowling fans know, it was on Harry Potters 11th birthday that he began to receive letters inviting him to enroll at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The letters arrive by owl, fly down the chimney, and shoot through the mailbox. Each is addressed in green ink to Mr H. Potter, the Cupboard under the Stairs, 4, Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey. Multiple examples of the prop were used in the production of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), ... More
Haik Kocharian "Surfing Color" photograph exhibition now on view at The Robin Rice Gallery
HUDSON, NY.- The Robin Rice Gallery is now presenting Surfing Color, a photographic exhibition by Haik Kocharian. The opening reception was June 14, 2023. Surfing Color presents photographs that are abstract creations born from realism. Kocharian emphasizes the ambient color in the tradition of minimalism, observing the beauty and mystery of light, shadows, tone, and moods. The environments within the photographs are transformed into ones of symbolism, challenging the viewer to question the images. As a result, a tension is created, like an energy trapped in a frame attempting to escape. Kocharian, who is also a filmmaker, brings a cinematic eye to his photography, as we experience images that reflect simplicity through his focus on light, color, and the documentation of ordinary life. In Going Home, Los Angeles a pool-like shadow ... More
Pera Museum proudly presents renowned photographer Isabel Muñoz's new exhibition
ISTANBUL.- Pera Museum is gearing up for the exhibition of Spanish photographer Isabel Muñoz, renowned for her captivating monochromatic portraits depicting diverse people and cultures from around the world. Muñoz captures Göbeklitepe, believed to be the oldest place of worship in the world, and its surroundings. In this awe-inspiring region that has left an indelible impression on her, she delves into profound inquiries about mystery, origin, and eternity. Alongside the exhibition's opening on Thursday, June 15, Pera Museum will also host an international archaeology seminar organised by the Spanish Embassy in Türkiye and the Istanbul Cervantes Institute. The Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum is showcasing renowned artist Isabel Muñozs most recent photographs. The extraordinary series freezes in time the essence of Göbeklitepe and ... More
MCASD presents Celia Ãlvarez Muñoz: Breaking the Binding, her first career retrospective
SAN DIEGO, CALIF.- Currently on view through August 13th, 2023 at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego is Celia Ãlvarez Muñoz: Breaking the Binding, the first museum retrospective of Ãlvarez Muñozs work, surveying over forty years of the visionary conceptual artists career. Muñozs distinctive artistic voice is rooted in both the history of art and the language of childhood storytelling. Drawing from her own experience growing up near the United States/Mexico border, Ãlvarez Muñoz crafts clever stories and send-ups of life in a multicultural and multilingual nation through a feminist and Chicana lens. The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color publication by Santa Fe publishing non-profit Radius Books, which will be made available this spring. As the first exhibition publication devoted to the artists forty-year career, this book will feature ... More
In a movement parade inspired by water, dancers find their flow
NEW YORK, NY.- Gliding past sculptures and paintings, coins in display cases and horses in armor are 15 dancers whose legs, in thigh-high blue waders, cut through the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Streaming through hallways and spilling into galleries, their path is direct and driving as their limbs unspool in shapes that send them pivoting from front to back, spinning in place and even, in moments, popping into the air. Now imagine that water is everywhere. And that the dancers are flowing through it. When creating Hydro Parade, performed at the museum on Saturday nights in June there is one show remaining Madeline Hollander made an important discovery: Beneath the Met is the Old Croton Aqueduct, the waterway that supplied water to New York City beginning in the 19th century. Hollander, a choreographer who likes to explore hidden systems ... More
She opened her door and mind to others
VINEYARD HAVEN, MASS.- Rose Styron used to start her daily swim of the season in May, when the waters off the long dock at her house in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, on Marthas Vineyard, still barely reach 50 degrees. Now that Im 95, though, she said one day in April, I may wait until June. The first of Styrons four books of poetry, From Summer to Summer, a collection for children, was published in 1965. Her most recent, Fierce Day, a coming to terms with the death of her husband, author William Styron, in 2006, was published in 2015. In the decades in between, her activism and journalism in the service of human rights, and her dedication as a celebrated host, have otherwise occupied her, as have her four children. Now, Styron has written a memoir, Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart. It includes lots of sightings ... More
Cormac McCarthy, novelist of a darker America, is dead at 89
NEW YORK, NY.- Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer of Appalachia and the American Southwest, whose raggedly ornate early novels about misfits and grotesques gave way to the lush taciturnity of All the Pretty Horses and the apocalyptic minimalism of The Road, died Tuesday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was 89. Knopf, his publisher, said in a statement that his son John had confirmed the death. McCarthys fiction took a dark view of the human condition and was often macabre. He decorated his novels with scalpings, beheadings, arson, rape, incest, necrophilia and cannibalism. Theres no such thing as life without bloodshed, he told The New York Times Magazine in 1992 in a rare interview. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Paul Georges was born June 15, 1923. Paul Georges (Paul G Georges, Paul Gordon Georges) (June 15, 1923 - April 16, 2002) was an American painter. He died at his home at Isigny-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, aged 77. He painted large-scale figurative allegories and numerous self-portraits. In January 1966, the cover of Art News featured "In The Studio" now in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Works were included in Whitney Museum Annuals of 1961, 1963, 1967 & 1969. Paintings by PG are also in the collections of The Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Smart Museum University of Chicago; National Academy Museum, NYC; Rose Art Museum, Mass; Weatherspoon Art Museum; Virginia Art Museum; Parrish Museum Southampton, Guild Hall Museum East Hampton and numerous others across America In this image: Paul Georges, The Extremists, 1991-92, 136 h x 154 w.
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