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Gustav Klimts final masterpiece, Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan), came to auction at Sothebys in London. It was expected to realise in the region of £65 Million / $80 Million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Post-Brexit London regained some credibility as the capital of Europes high-value art market on Tuesday when a radiant portrait by Gustav Klimt, Lady With a Fan, sold at Sothebys for 85.3 million pounds with fees, or about $108.4 million. The price was an auction high for the renowned Austrian artist and was the highest for a public sale in Europe, beating Alberto Giacomettis Walking Man I, which sold for $104.3 million in 2010, also at Sothebys in London. Certain to achieve at least $80 million, courtesy of a prearranged minimum price pledged by a third-party guarantor, the painting inspired 10 minutes of competition from three Asian bidders before selling to Hong Kong-based art adviser Patti Wong, who was seated in the middle of the salesroom. The audience erupted into the sort of thunderous applause that hasnt been heard at a London auction for some years. The price was within our expectations, said Wong, the former c ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are presenting The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England, the first major exhibition in the United States featuring portraiture and decorative arts of the Tudor courts. Photograph by Gary Sexton. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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| Book out now: 'The Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Collection of European Women Photographers' | | Whitney Museum reimagines collection in new exhibition exploring inheritance | | A proto-pizza emerges from a fresco on a Pompeii wall |
The Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Collection of European Women Photographers 20002020. Edited by Manfred Heiting. Text and drawings by Rebecca Mark. US$ 65.00 / 58.00. ISBN 978-3-96999-142-8. Release Date USA: June 27, 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- This is the first publication to comprehensively explore art collector and philanthropist Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohls collection of work by European women photographers. One of the largest of its kind, the collection comprises 220 works by nearly 90 emerging and established women photographers from 17 countries in Western and Eastern Europe. Covering photo-based art made between 2000 and 2020, Haukohls eclectic selection questions traditional notions of nation, identity and gender, with an emphasis on representations of the body and associated themes of beauty, femininity and objectification. Artists including Yto Barrada, Uta Barth, Carolle Bénitah, Melanie Bonajo, Vanessa Beecroft, Valerie Berlin, Natalie Czech, Eva KoťÃ¡tková, Vera Lutter, Josephine Pryde and Shirana Shahbazi employ wide- ... More | |
Sophie Rivera, I am U, 1995. Gelatin silver print, 38 5/8 à 38 9/16 in. (98.1 à 97.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist 2019.390. © Estate of Dr. Martin Hurwitz.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Wednesday, June 28, the Whitney Museum of American Art began the presentation of Inheritance, an exhibition of nearly sixty artworks by forty-three leading artists that traces the profound impact of legacy across familial, historical, and aesthetic lines. Featuring primarily new acquisitions and rarely-seen works from the collection, this diverse array of paintings, sculptures, videos, photographs, drawings, and major time-based media installations from the last five decades asks us to consider what has been passed on and how it may shift, change, or live again. Inheritance is organized by Rujeko Hockley, Arnhold Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and will be on view in the Museums sixth-floor galleries through February 2024. Drawing inspiration from Ephraim Asilis 2020 film of the same title, Inheritance takes a ... More | |
The researchers were excavating the site earlier this year when they ran across a fresco depicting a silver platter laden with wine, fruit and a flat, round piece of dough with toppings that looked remarkably like a pizza. Photo: Courtesy Archaeological Park of Pompeii.
ROME.- It may have been no pepperoni with extra cheese, but it still caught the eye of archaeologists working on the ruins of Pompeii, and not because they were hungry. The researchers were excavating the site earlier this year when they ran across a fresco depicting a silver platter laden with wine, fruit and a flat, round piece of dough with toppings that looked remarkably like a pizza. Proto-pizza might be more like it, given that the city of Pompeii was buried by a volcano in A.D. 79, nearly 2,000 years before anything modern civilization might recognize as a pie came into existence. In a statement published Tuesday, the archaeologists were insistent that the dish portrayed in the fresco did not mean that the History of Pizza is about to be rewritten. Most of the characteristic ingredients are missing, namely tomatoes and mozzarella, ... More |
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| The Morgan Library & Museum presents 'Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist's Studio' | | Hauser & Wirth announces representation of artist Daniel Turner | | How do I love thee? Let me etch it into the Colosseum. |
Bridget Riley (b. 1931), October 24 revision B, 1986. Collection of the artist. © Bridget Riley 2023. All rights reserved.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum is presenting Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artists Studio on view from June 23 to October 8, 2023. British artist Bridget Riley (b. 1931) is one of the most celebrated abstract painters of her generation. This exhibitionthe first dedicated exclusively to her drawings in over fifty yearsprovides an intimate view of Riley's studio practice, in which the making of works on paper plays a central role. The exhibition features more than 75 studies created between the 1940s and the 2000s from the artist's collection that have been meticulously kept and cared for as part of a personal and artistic archive. They include early figurative and landscape drawings made during her student years; black-and-white studies for Riley's best-known paintings from the 1960s, when she became closely associated with the Op art movement; and a diverse array of color compositions, which have ... More | |
Portrait of Daniel Turner. Photo: Aurélien Arbet. All Images © Daniel Turner. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth announced today that the gallery now represents artist Daniel Turner, in collaboration with Galerie Allen in Paris. Based in New York, Turner works with sculpture, painting and installation to transfigure everyday materials, objects and environments into provocative new manifestations. On the surface, the artists work suggests the stark lines, industrial fabrication and simple geometric forms associated with minimalism. However, Turner merely employs this aesthetic to challenge the notion that raw materials are fundamentally meaningless, conditional and interchangeable. His practice is driven by the conviction that physical matter inherently carries meaningthat objects are imbued with the emotional, psychological and historical context for which they were made and in which they were used. Turner has removed and recontextualized objects from such diverse spaces as pharmaceutical ... More | |
In this file photo the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is projected in Italian on the Colosseum monument.
by Elisabetta Povoledo
ROME.- A tourist decided to immortalize a visit to the Colosseum in Rome with his girlfriend recently by scratching their names into one of the walls of the nearly 2,000-year-old monument. Ivan + Hayley 23/6/23, he etched into the brick on Friday with a set of keys. The act, apparently captured by another tourist and posted online, has left Ivan facing the prospect of up to five years in prison and a fine of up to 15,000 euros if he is apprehended. In the video, whose authenticity has not been verified but which has been shared widely online, the person filming Ivan asks: Are you serious, man? using an expletive. Colosseum officials confirmed the vandalism and noted that a clearly marked sign nearby reads: No climbing and writing on the walls. The Italian culture minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano, condemned the act. ... More |
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| Groundbreaking survey examines performance and objecthood in Native North American Contemporary Art | | Heat Wave: Summer Group Show now opening at Friedman Benda | | Gert & Uwe Tobias join Semiose |
James Luna (Payómkawichum, Ipai, and Mexican) War Dance Technology (Left), 1990. Acrylic on sneaker with found objects, 14 x 12 x 4 in. Photo: Courtesy the Estate of James Luna. Gochman Family Collection.
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY .- The Center for Curatorial Studies Hessel Museum of Art presents the first major exhibition to center performance as an origin point for the development of contemporary art by Native American, First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Alaska Native artists. Curated by leading scholar and curator Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation), Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969 traces the history of experimentation that emerged in the late 1960s and continues to inform the practice of Native artists today. The exhibition brings together over 100 works by over 40 artists and collectives, including new commissions and performances by Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabe), Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Unangax̂), Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Band of Choctaw and Cherokee), Maria Hupfield (Anishnaabe, Wasauksing First Nation/Canada), and Eric- ... More | |
Darren Romanelli [American, b. 1976] DRx Quilted Pillow Chair #2, 2023 Upholstered vintage quilts, 30 x 39 x 42 inches, 76 x 99 x 107 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Friedman Benda presents Heat Wave, a group exhibition opening on Thursday, June 29th. A celebration of the intoxicating energy during summertime in New York, Heat Wave embraces the joy and spontaneity of design. Relaxing the standard conventions for white cube exhibitions, the installation unexpectedly juxtaposes the diverse voices of the thinkers and makers in the gallery program. Offering more freedom to explore, Heat Wave aims to create new pathways for the viewer to discover works that have never been shown in New York. Participating artists include: Ini Archibong, Andrea Branzi, Paul S. Briggs, Carmen DApollonio, Misha Kahn, Enrico Marone Cinzano, Hamed Ouattara, Darren Romanelli, Chris Schanck, Faye Toogood, Jonathan Trayte, and Thaddeus Wolfe. Friedman Benda identifies and advances key narratives that intersect contemporary design, craft, architecture, fine art, ... More | |
Born in Romania in 1973, the twin brothers Gert and Uwe Tobias have been developing a collaborative practice since 2001.
PARIS.- Semiose announced the representation of Gert & Uwe Tobias. Their first solo exhibition at Semiose gallery will open in October 2023, during Paris+ par Art Basel art fair. Within their practice, Gert and Uwe Tobias have revived a wide range of traditional image-making techniqueswoodcut printing, low-relief sculpture, drawing using typewriters, watercolor, gouache, ceramics and lacemakinginto which they breathe new life using contemporary means. Their oeuvre is mainly influenced by the myths, costumes, crafts and commonplace motifs of their native Transylvania, subverted and fused with elements of popular culture, abstract art and contemporary graphic design. From this rich pictorial repertoire, they create a varied body of work in which legends and folk tales, carnivalesque figures and archaic elements are subject to constant metamorphoses. Born in Romania in 1973, the twin brothers Gert and Uwe Tobias have been developing ... More |
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| Pepón Osorio's most comprehensive survey to date now opening | | Discover the voice that accompanies artist Shirin Neshat's work, The Fury | | Gail Mabo, Lisa Waup, Dominic White present 'Current' at McClelland |
Pepón Osorio, My Beating Heart (Mi corazón latiente), 2000. Mixed mediums, including speakers with sound, archival paper, acrylic, and fiberglass, 75 x 65 in (190.5 x 165 cm)
Courtesy the artist and PPOW Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente, now opening at the New Museum, will be the most comprehensive exhibition to date by Pepón Osorio (b. 1955, San Juan, Puerto Rico; lives and works in Philadelphia, PA), featuring selected works from the 1990s to today. Known for his provocative, sweeping, multimedia installations, Osorio creates fantastical scenes inspired by everyday environmentsfrom home interiors to barbershops to classroomsthat advance critical discussions on topics such as identity, race, gender, and social justice. Informed by his background in theater and performance as well as his experiences as a child services case worker and professor, Osorios richly textured sculptures and installations are deeply invested in political, social, and cultural issues affecting Latinx and working class ... More | |
Shirin Neshat. Photo: Ryan Murad
MONTREAL.- We invite you to slip into the unctuous sounds of artist Emel Mathlouthi, whose voice accompanies the exhibition The Fury, as part of Habitat Sonores new programming. that began on June 28 at the PHI Centre. In a highly fictionalized and stylized approach, The Fury explores the sexual exploitation of female political prisoners, referencing the Islamic Republic of Iran's brutal treatment of political prisoners. During this double-channel video, we follow the psychological and emotional state of a woman who, while now on free, remains haunted by memories of sexual assault, torture and rape from her detention. Throughout this narrative, the artist, Shirin Neshat, poignantly addresses the issue of the female body as both an object of desire and of violence. The Fury is a combination of cinematic flashbacks and dream visions, where Neshat uses music and movement to process and convey the protagonist's trauma. The Fury is also complemented by ... More | |
Looking Through Time 2017 emu feathers, parrot feathers, lyrebird feathers, pandanus (dyed), hemp, 100% cottons, shells, kelp, kangaroo ribs and possum fur, 20.5 x 14 x 19 cm. Collection Ararat Gallery TAMA and Ararat Rural City Council Photograph: Fred Kroh.
MELBOURNE.- The pathbreaking exhibition, Current: Gail Mabo, Lisa Waup, Dominic White, at McClelland 29 July - 19 November 2023, will showcase new and recent work by three First Nations artists, developed with a mentorship program for three emerging First Nations curators, and a major catalogue featuring First Nations writers. The three artists, Gail Mabo (Meriam), Lisa Waup (Gunditjmara / Torres Strait Islands), and Dominic White (Palawa / Trawlwoolway), are known for practices which affirm their powerful connection to their lands, waters and ancestors. The exhibition title, Current, refers at once to the vital contemporary practices of these three multidisciplinary artists, and also to the movement in the passages of water along the eastern coast of Australia which connect the land and people of Zenadh Kes/Torres Strait of the far ... More |
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Artist Tiffany Chung debuts new multisensory installation at Dallas Museum of Art
DALLAS, TX.- This August, the Dallas Museum of Art unveils a new multimedia installation by artist Tiffany Chung, created for the Museums first-floor Concourse mural space. Combining visual and sonic elements, Tiffany Chung: Rise Into the Atmosphere engages with the history and cultural memory of places often defined today by war, upheaval and displacement, inviting 28 contributors from around the world to share their experiences with these forces and their recollections of home. The installation is on view at the DMA from August 4, 2023, through August 3, 2025, and is included in free general admission. Tiffanys powerful installation speaks to a diverse group of audiences, including those from our local communities who have their own experiences with migration, said Dr. AgustÃn Arteaga, the DMAs Eugene ... More
Garage Stills by Jacquie Maria Wessels on show at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- From 29 June to 3 September 2023, works from Jacquie Maria Wessels' analogue photo series Garage Stills will be on show at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (NL) in the group exhibition New Horizons. Modern photography at the Rijksmuseum. The analogue photographs were recently acquired by the Rijksmuseum for the museum's photography collection. This summers New Horizons exhibition at the Rijksmuseum showcases highlights of modern colour photography. For her Garage Stills project, Wessels is looking for traditional car repair garages all over the world. She is fascinated and intrigued by the shapes and colours of the mysterious, to her completely unknown objects she discovers in this wonderful universe. With the found attributes she creates painterly still lifes on the spot, which she captures with an analogue 6x6 camera. The poetic Garage ... More
Final exhibition in The Architect's Studio series at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
HUMLEBÃK.- The sixth and final exhibition in The Architects Studio series at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presents work by the Kenyan architectural studio Cave_bureau opens today. The work of Cave_bureaus two architects, Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi is all about reversed futurism. Only by delving into, and learning about the past they can create sustainable solutions for the future. The previous presentations featured in Louisianas Architects Studio series gave visitors the opportunity to enjoy a behind-the-scenes glimpse of architecture firms and architects in the pre-construction process. This time, we are there from the outset starting with the definition of the values on which Cave_bureau base their work as architects. We are brought back a million years in time to the landscapes that formed the setting for the origins of humankind, before proceeding ... More
Arnold Lehman curates his final Phillips exhibition ahead of retirement
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips is proud to announce Innovation in American Art / 1970-1975 / A Fifty Year Perspective, a selling exhibition organized by Phillips Senior Advisor and former Brooklyn Museum director Arnold Lehman together with his longtime executive assistant, Elizabeth Wallace, opening 29 June at 432 Park Avenue, New York, NY. The exhibition marks the last of Lehmans many celebrated projects at Phillips ahead of his retirement at the end of the summer, with the show focusing on a brief yet immensely significant period of artistic creativity. Innovation in American Art will present approximately thirty-five artists who were prominently featured in one or more of the five esteemed invitational exhibitions of the early 1970s: Documenta in Kassel, the Venice Biennale, the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, the São Paulo Bienal, ... More
Robert Black, bass virtuoso of the Avant-Garde, is dead at 67
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Black, a virtuoso bassist who collaborated with prominent composers including Philip Glass and John Cage and was a founding member of the influential Bang on a Can All-Stars ensemble, died on Thursday at his home in Hartford, Connecticut. He was 67. His partner, Gary Knoble, said the cause was colon cancer. Black was already a prominent interpreter of modern music for bass when he was invited, in 1987, to perform at the first Bang on a Can festival, a freewheeling marathon of contemporary music in downtown Manhattan. He had a beautiful sound, composer Michael Gordon, one of the founders of Bang on a Can, said in an interview. He did everything with the bass: He danced with it, he drummed on it, he scraped it, he coached all kinds of amazing sounds out of it. At that festival, Black performed Iannis ... More
James Crown, Chicago businessman and avid philanthropist, dies at 70
NEW YORK, NY.- James Crown, a scion of a wealthy Chicago family who held important positions in businesses as diverse as General Dynamics, Sara Lee and JPMorgan Chase, and who became a crucial early supporter of an up-and-coming politician named Barack Obama, died in Woody Creek, Colorado, on Sunday, his 70th birthday. Crowns family said in a statement that he died in a single-car accident at the Aspen Motorsports Park racetrack. The statement provided no further details about how he died. Crown was the CEO of Henry Crown & Co., the familys privately owned investment firm. The company is named for his grandfather, the son of a Lithuanian sweatshop worker, who built a family concern that sold sand, gravel, lime and coal into a Chicago business empire worth billions. James Crown was also the lead director and a major shareholder ... More
Frederic Forrest, 86, dies; Actor known for 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Rose'
NEW YORK, NY.- Frederic Forrest, who appeared in more than 80 movies and television shows in a career that began in the 1960s, and who turned in perhaps his two most memorable performances in the same year, 1979, in two very different films the romantic drama The Rose and the Vietnam War odyssey Apocalypse Now died on Friday at his home in Santa Monica, California. He was 86. His sister and only immediate survivor, Ginger Jackson, confirmed his death. She said he had been dealing with congestive heart failure. Forrest began turning up on the stages of La MaMa and other off- and off-off-Broadway theaters in New York in the 1960s. In 1966, he was in Viet Rock, an anti-war rock musical by Megan Terry that was staged in Manhattan and in New Haven, Connecticut, and is often cited as a precursor to Hair. ... More
Bobby Osborne, mandolinist who flouted bluegrass convention, dies at 91
NEW YORK, NY.- Bobby Osborne, the singer and mandolin player who with his younger brother, Sonny, led one of the most groundbreaking bands in the history of bluegrass, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Gallatin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. He was 91. His death was confirmed by Dan Rogers, the vice president and executive producer of the Grand Ole Opry. Formed in 1953, the Osborne Brothers band habitually flouted bluegrass convention during its first two decades. They were the first bluegrass group of national renown to incorporate drums, electric bass, pedal steel guitar and even, on records, string sections. They were also the first to record with twin banjos, as well as the first to amplify their instruments with electric pickups. Employing a wider repertoire than the Appalachian wellspring from which most of their peers drew, the Osbornes ... More
Review: An all-female 'Richard III' makes for an evening of discontent
NEW YORK, NY.- The idea of an all-female, gender-fluid, disability forward staging of Richard III as New York Classical Theater describes its new production of Shakespeares tragedy about the monstrously degenerate Plantagenet king tantalizes. Will the protagonist, who loves to descant on mine own deformity, make us see anew the premium that society places on womens appearances? Will the Duke of Gloucester be reenvisioned as a bloody-minded assassin like the bloody-minded Villanelle of Killing Eve? Will it force us to reckon with discrimination against the disabled in the royal court? As realized in this risk-shy adaptation directed by Stephen Burdman, the answer is none of the above. This Richard III, which plays in New York parks through July 9, feints toward novelty while offering little in the way of originality the ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss painter Paul Klee died June 29, 1940. Paul Klee (18 December 1879 - 29 June 1940) was a Swiss German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. In this image: Paul Klee, Young Moe, 1938. Colored paste on newspaper on burlap, 20 7/8 x 27 5/8 in. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Acquired 1948.
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