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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) Fujiwara Yasumasa Plays the Flute by Moonlight, ca. 1883. Woodblock printed triptych, 14 1/8 by 28 1/2 in., 36 by 72.4 cm. Photo: Courtesy Scholten Japanese Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- With its spectacular trove of Asian works of artboth ancient and contemporary spanning the Far East and South Asiathe 12th annual Asia Week New York continues to delight collectors and connoisseurs of all persuasions. Opening on March 11th through March 20th, the 29 international galleries will present their exhibitions virtually on www.asiaweekny.com and by-appointment, with six auction housesBonhams, Christies, Doyle, Heritage, iGavel, and Sothebys mounting their respective sales. Says Asia Week New York chairman Katherine Martin: We are very pleased to have a significant number of participants this year. Up until the pandemic, Asia Week New York focused our energies on the March event, and we also supported our exhibitors who participated in the smaller September Asia Week schedule. However, the new normal prompted us to consider a new direction, so we decided to extend m ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold the auction Art of Asia | Antiquity to Present on Thu, Mar 11, 2021 11:00 AM GMT-6. The sale features antiquities, ancient and works of art ranging from the third millennium BCE to the present from China, Japan, South and Southeast Asia, and Korea. Including jades, bronzes, lacquer, textiles, paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, metalwork, and other art forms in other media. In this image: Three Chinese Neolithic Greenstone Discs w/ Box. Estimate: $2,400-$3,600.
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| Charles Hill, detective who found 'The Scream,' dies at 73 | | The Metropolitan Museum of Art issues report reflecting on historic past year and looking ahead | | Morse Museum announces gift of Stebbins American Art Collection | 
Charles Hill, a Scotland Yard detective whose investigations, often conducted under cover, led to the recovery of Munchs masterpiece as well as stolen paintings by Vermeer and Titian, died on Feb. 20, 2021, in a hospital in London. He was 73. Richard Ansett via The New York Times.
by Richard Sandomir
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Charles Hill, a Scotland Yard detective, stood inside a house in Norway and beheld the artistic treasure he had been searching for: The Scream, Edvard Munchs 1893 masterpiece. I unwrapped it from a blue sheet and saw first where Munch had started painting on whats now on the back, Hill told Garage, a fashion and art magazine, in 2018. The picture is painted on heavy cardboard, which surprised me, but I turned it over and there was the famous image, including the original splatter marks where Munch blew out a candle on it. I said something like Holy mackerel while I admired it. It was May 1994, three months after two thieves had propped a ladder against the National Gallery in Oslo, stolen The Scream, and left behind a taunting note that said, Thanks for the poor security. ... More | | 
A visitor in Gallery 601, one of 21 reinstalled skylit galleries with a range of old masters, including Velázquez, Caravaggio, Guercino, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Dec. 21, 2020. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art published a report, A Year of Mission and Challenges, that reflects on the historic and lasting impact of the past year and describes how the institution is continuing to navigate an unprecedented time for the Museum, the arts community, New York City, and the world. The report comes as The Met approaches the one-year anniversary of the day it closed to the public, on March 13, 2020, amid the rising cases of COVID-19 in New York. (The Museum reopened on August 29 with increased health and safety measures, and has since remained open.) Daniel H. Weiss, President and CEO of The Met, said, In the past year, we have all experienced the devastating toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ensuing global financial crisis, and the movement for long overdue social and racial justice. We have also seen just how much this Museumand the incredible examples of culture and creativity one encounte ... More | | 
Thomas Moran, Barnard Castle, 1862 (detail). Watercolor and gouache on blue-green paper; 12 5/8 x 18 5/8 in. Gift of Theodore E. and Susan Cragg Stebbins (2019-009:14). Image courtesy of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida.
WINTER PARK, FLA.- Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. and Susan Cragg Stebbins have given their outstanding collection of American art to The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, Florida. The couple have made their gift in honor of Mrs. Stebbinss parents, Evelyn and Henry Cragg, longtime residents of Winter Park. Mr. Cragg was a member of the Charles Homer Morse Foundation board of trustees from its founding in 1976 until his death in 1988. It is impossible to think about American art scholarship, museum culture, and collecting without the name Theodore Stebbins coming to mind. Stebbins has had an illustrious career as a professor of art history and as curator at the Yale University Art Gallery (196877), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (19772000), and the Harvard Art Museums (200114). Many of Stebbinss former students occupy positions of importance throughout the art ... More |
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| He owns world famous stamps and a prized coin. Now he's selling. | | New book explores the musical life and the remarkable paintings and sculptures of Bob Crewe | | Robert Swain's scaled color studies for monumental series on view at David Richard Gallery | 
The shoe designer Stuart Weitzman poses at his showroom in New York, June 3, 2015. Weitzman, who made his fortune in shoes, is parting with three of his collecting triumphs, including a block of four Inverted Jennies. Sam Hodgson/The New York Times.
by James Barron
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On the day in 1918 when the Postal Service began selling stamps with an image of a newfangled airplane, a 29-year-old stockbrokers clerk and stamp collector went out on his lunch hour to buy some. He emerged from the nearest post office with a single sheet of 100. Soon federal agents were hunting for him and demanding them back. The airplane on the stamps was uh-oh upside down. The clerk had stumbled across one of the most celebrated stamp mistakes in history, the famously misprinted Inverted Jenny. A block of four stamps from that single sheet a singular quartet because it still bears the plate number will go on display, by appointment, at Sothebys in Manhattan Thursday in preparation ... More | | 
Bob Crewe: Sight and Sound is the first book to explore both the extraordinary musical life and the remarkable paintings and sculptures of one of America's greatest-ever songwriters.
NEW YORK, NY.- Best known for having written and produced some of the seminal records of American pop culture, from Big Girls Dont Cry, Walk Like a Man, Rag Doll, and Cant Take My Eyes Off Of You, for Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, to Lady Marmalade for Patti LaBelle, Bob Crewe was a multifaceted artist for whom a passion for painting and the visual arts provided a lifelong counterbalance to music. Bob Crewe: Sight and Sound is the first book to explore both the extraordinary musical life and the remarkable paintings and sculptures of one of America's greatest-ever songwriters. Collected here are more than 80 of Crewe's original artworks, stretching from his first forays into abstract expressionism in the 1950s and 1960s, his more complex, tactile compositions made in the 1990s, and never-before-seen archival images and ephemera that reflect Crewe's si ... More | | 
Robert Swain, Untitled Study 9 x 12 - Yellow Spectrum, 2020 (detail). Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 © Robert Swain, Courtesy David Richard Gallery, LLC.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery is presenting a selection of smaller scaled studies created by Robert Swain to confirm the colors and their corresponding interactions prior to producing the much larger paintings. These are detailed studies for paintings from several different iconic series created by the artist from 1987 through 2020. They are prepared the same way as the larger paintings, with the same care and precision on the same supports (except for some earlier studies on Masonite panels) and the same paint as the larger counterparts. The earliest larger paintings that correspond to the studies in this presentation ranged in sizes and compositions from slightly horizontal orientations of 6-foot x 7-foot to larger ones measuring 10 foot by 6 foot as vertical compositions painted in 1993 and 1987, respectively (Images below). Both series explored asymmetric compositions in terms of the varying size of the squares ... More |
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| Three 'garage find' projects from the estate of Terry Harrison come to the market | | Robert B. Feldman donates major aerial sculpture installation by Mira Lehr to the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU | | Barbara Ess, 76, dies; Artist blurred lines between life and art | 
The c.1956 Lotus Eleven S1 Le Mans being raced in period by Terry Harrison.
LONDON.- The garage collection of the late Terry Harrison - ex-Works BMC Navigator, keen amateur racer and authority on motorsport history - will be sold by H&H Classics at its March 24th Live Auction Online without Reserve. Damian Jones, Head of Sales for H&H says: The value is not huge but the content of this garage is a motor racing treasure trove an AC Aceca Bristol and two Lotus Eleven racing cars. All three are sold as garage finds in varying states of completion. Given the regard in which Terry was held by those who knew him I have no doubt there are many who will want a part of his automotive legacy. According to information kindly supplied by Richard Unwin, the AC Owners Clubs Aceca-Bristol registrar, this particular example chassis BE786 was initially earmarked for distribution via Ken Rudd of Ruddspeed fame. Completed on June 12th 1960 in Princess Blue with Red leather upho ... More | | 
Aerial view of Sacred Dreams by Mira Lehr (detail), 183 aerial sculptures descending from the ceiling of the museum. Photo by Michael E. Fryd (2020).
MIAMI, FLA.- Dr. Robert B. Feldman, the New York-based art collector, has promised this large-scale installation by Mira Lehr as a gift to the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. The artwork, titled Sacred Dreams, is comprised of 183 aerial sculptures that descend from the ceiling of the museum, and is estimated at a value of $300,000. The installation is currently on view at the museum as a temporary loan from Dr. Feldman, and will become part of the museums permanent collection in September. The museum is centrally located in South Beach, in the heart of Miami Art Week and Art Basel Miami Beach. Dr. Feldman previously lived in Florida, and was known for having one of the most important collections of contemporary art in Florida. The 183 aerial sculptures are made of burned and dyed Japanese paper, acrylic, ink, and resin. I am honored to donate this major work by Mira Lehr to the ... More | | 
Barbara Ess, who was widely known for her large-scale ambient works shot with a pinhole camera, died at home in Elizaville, N.Y. on March 4, 2021. She was 76. Barbara Ess via The New York Times.
by Will Heinrich
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Barbara Ess, an artist and musician best known for plumbing the limits of perception with a pinhole camera, died Thursday at her home in Elizaville, New York. She was 76. The cause was cancer, according to Bard College, where she was an associate professor of photography. In a varied career rooted in the downtown Manhattan art scene of the 1970s and 80s, Ess sang and played guitar and bass in Y Pants, the Static and other No Wave bands hard-charging rejoinders to the perceived commercialism of punk and published an influential mixed-media zine. But it was in 1983 that she found her muse when she happened upon an article about pinhole cameras in The New York Times. ... More |
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| Marisa Merz, Luciano Fabro, Steven Parrino: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein receives important donation | | Vial from first US Covid vaccine dose goes to museum | | Xavier Hufkens opens an exhibition of recent and historical work by Sherrie Levine | 
Luciano Fabro, Felce, 1968, photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zürich © The estate of Luciano Fabro.
VADUZ.- Thanks to a generous donation from the Gerda Techow gemeinnützige Stiftung, Vaduz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein has acquired a number of important works for its collection. The gift was prompted by the twentieth anniversary of the Museum, that opened in November 2000. This is the most generous private donation since the Museums foundation. Thanks to the specific, clear-cut profile of its collection, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein has succeeded in establishing itself internationally in the past two decades. The collection of Italian Arte Povera in particular has received great international recognition. The acquisition of two historically important works of Marisa Merz and Luciano Fabro has further strengthened this section of the collection. Scarpette, 1968, by Marisa Merz (19262019) is among the important early works of the only female artist ... More | | 
Two vials and Nurse Sandra Lindsays vaccine record card. Courtesy of the National Museum of America History.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Items connected to the first known doses of Covid-19 vaccine to be administered in the United States have been acquired by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, the institution has announced. New York-based health care provider Northwell Health -- whose nurse Sandra Lindsay was the first person to be inoculated in the country hardest hit by the coronavirus -- donated the items, the Smithsonian announced. The empty vial containing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine given to Lindsay, other vials, syringes and the nurse's vaccination record card are among the objects donated, the Smithsonian said in a statement Tuesday. "These now historic artifacts document not only this remarkable scientific progress but represent the hope offered to millions living through the cascading ... More | | 
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BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens is presenting an exhibition of recent and historical work by American artist Sherrie Levine (b.1947). By means of a meticulous scenography and a well-considered selection of artworks in various media, the artist investigates her abiding interest in repetition, replication and art historical appropriation. Rows of identical, repeating pregnant Tattooed Body Masks (2020) and feline Bobcat Skulls (2010), both cast from unique found objects a wooden makondo mask from South-Eastern Tanzania and an animal carcass respectively, testify to Levines scrutiny of art historical principles and interpretations. By attributing equal significance to form and concept, the replication and duplication of these objects is not an arbitrary choice but indicates Levines profound engagement with the art historical canon. In this light, the Tattooed Body Masks can be read as an allusion to the influence ... More |
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 Oscars museum to tackle 'problematic history' of racism, sexismLOS ANGELES (AFP).- Los Angeles' long-awaited Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will tackle the Oscars' "problematic history," from racism over "Gone With The Wind" to the recent #OscarsSoWhite campaign and snubbing of female directors, officials said Wednesday. The Oscar-awarding Academy first envisioned a museum dedicated to the magic of movies almost a century ago, and its doors are finally set to open in September after numerous delays, most recently caused by the pandemic. On the day voting for this award season's Oscar nominees closes, last year's best supporting actress winner Laura Dern took journalists on a virtual tour of the museum. "We will not shy away from problematic histories, including #OscarsSoWhite, the lack of female representation, and Hattie McDaniel's mistreatment at the Oscars ... More  Laura Owens collaborates with local teens for first exhibition in her native Northeast OhioCLEVELAND, OH.- Celebrated for a wide-ranging and experimental approach to painting that embraces a breadth of sources, Laura Owens returns to her native Northeast Ohio for her first exhibition in the region, Laura Owens: Rerun. Organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art, Laura Owens: Rerun is a collaboration with high school students participating in the CMAs Arts Mastery program, Currently Under Curation (CUC). The exhibition features new and existing works by the artist that the Currently Under Curation teens have selected to explore the theme of time travel. Laura Owens: Rerun is on view at Transformer Station, the CMAs sister contemporary art museum, from February 27 to May 30, 2021. Currently based in Los Angeles, Owens grew up in Norwalk, Ohio, and spent many hours as a teenager studying the Cleveland Museum of Arts encyclopedic ... More  2021 Smithsonian Visionary Award honors artists who work in woodWASHINGTON, DC.- The 2021 Smithsonian Visionary Award will be presented to two wood artists, David Ellsworth for his turned wood objects, and Michael Hurwitz for his wood furniture. Their selection was announced today, March 10, by Smithsonian Womens Committee President Nancy Newkirk. Ellsworth and Hurwitz will receive their Award during the Smithsonian Craft Show Preview Night Benefit Wednesday, Oct. 27,at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Established in 2014, the Smithsonian Visionary Award is given annually to American artists deemed by experts in the field to have achieved the pinnacle of sculptural arts and design in their individual medium. Wendell Castle, Albert Paley, Toots Zynsky, Dale Chihuly, Faith Ringgold, Joyce J. Scott and Patti Warashina are previous recipients. Ellsworth is recognized for his significant ... More  The original art for the greatest jam session in the history of the DC Universe heads to auctionDALLAS, TX.- Artwork made in 1988 to celebrate the history of the DC Comics universe is one of the most extraordinary illustrations in the medium's history53 iconic heroes rendered by 54 influential artists spanning generations. And for the very first time, the original art for this landmark History of the DC Universe jam session is heading to market as a centerpiece of Heritage Auctions' April 1-4 Comics and Comic Art Signature Auction event, all thanks to the man who made it happen. It's quite possible you've seen this family reunion before, a post-Crisis on Infinite Earths keepsake that brought together DC's legends for a group portrait that became so treasured it was made into a mural that once decorated the publisher's New York City offices. No surprise there: Surrounding DC's TrinitySuperman, Batman and Wonder Womanare the ... More  A new 'Aida' lands in the middle of France's culture warsPARIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Lotte de Beers new production of Verdis Aida recently premiered at the Paris Opera not to a full house, but to an audience online she was just relieved it was happening. This might have been my hardest project ever, de Beer said in a video interview. We had crisis after crisis after crisis. The development of her staging, which is streaming on Arte.tv through Aug. 20, came amid a labor dispute at the Paris Opera that was quickly followed by a full pandemic shutdown and an earlier than expected transfer of power in the companys leadership. She was working with multiple casts at once, including star singers like tenor Jonas Kaufmann, whose busy schedules made them less than ideally available for rehearsals. And the production had to be continually adapted to coronavirus restrictions. And then ... More  Grolier Club shows how fury, plagiarism, hypocrisy, and madness once plagued grammariansNEW YORK, NY.- The exhibition Taming the Tongue in the Heyday of English Grammar (17111851), is on display March 4 through May 15, 2021, at the Grolier Club. It offers a revelatory glimpse into a time when English grammar was taught and studied with a grim fervor unthinkable to us now. Sales of books on grammar were second only to those of the Bible. The subject was so serious that grammar books, when illustrated, often showed pictures of children being caned or whipped, perhaps for sins such as dangling their participles. Some grammarians offered beautiful tributes to the language; others came for battle, armed with claims of invincibility against allegedly incompetent rivals. This exhibition tells the colorful story of these books and the extraordinary characters who wrote them. Highlights from the English-grammar collection of Bryan A. Garner, a grammarian, lexicographer, law professor, and Grolier member, ... More  European Cultural Institutes in New York spearhead a transatlantic, collaborative art initiativeNEW YORK, NY.- Creating a fair and equitable space after COVID shuttered artists from residencies, travel, studio visits, exhibitions, and physical networking, UN/MUTE is an online residency that provides artists an opportunity for a critical exchange and collaboration while simultaneously connecting resources from the global cultural epicenter of New York City. This project is co-organized by Undercurrent and the European Union National Institutes for Cultures New York Cluster. The online world that has emerged in response to the pandemic reshapes our definition of social contact, obscures our private and public environments, and circumscribes the evolution of communication. UN/MUTE- 10002 follows the narratives of ten European artists who have never visited New York City and ten NYC-based artists, paired into teams of two, one ... More  French theatres occupied as protesters demand reopeningPARIS (AFP).- French protesters occupied three national theatres on Wednesday to demand an end to the ban on cultural activities imposed due to the pandemic as frustration grows with the months-long halt to performances. Theatres, cinemas, museums and other cultural spaces have been shut since France's last full lockdown in October, and have remained closed despite most businesses reopening in December. Pressure has been building for weeks and thousands marched in cities across France last Thursday to demand a reopening -- with social distancing -- of the cultural sector. The Paris march ended with around 50 people forcing their way into the shuttered Odeon Theatre and refusing to leave. Similar actions were seen on Tuesday at two other theatres -- the Colline in eastern Paris and the National Theatre of Strasbourg. University students also spent Monday night ... More  Haus der Kunst opens the largest retrospective of Phyllida Barlow's career to dateMUNICH.- With this comprehensive show, Haus der Kunst launches a series of exhibitions dedicated to female voices in the building's prestigious East Wing. The largest retrospective of Phyllida Barlow's career to date, the show includes nearly 100 works, comprising monumental sculptures from exhibitions of the past two decades alongside a rich selection of drawings. For the exhibition at Haus der Kunst, Barlow has created "Shedmesh, 2020", a new version of "Shedmesh" from 1975, which no longer exists. Other large format sculptures, such as "untitled: towerholder; 2020" (700 x 180 x 200 cm) and "untitled: catchers; 2020" (600 x 300 x 300 cm per "catcher"), were also created especially for the exhibition. Some works, including "untitled: parasols" (2007), have been reworked, while others (e.g. "untitled: stockade2015") have been adapted ... More  MAXXI opens a retrospective on Aldo RossiROME.- A multifaceted, unprecedented, visionary genius. A lover of books, travels, movies and the theatre. Highly cultivated and moved by his out-of-the-ordinary poetic sensitivity. A great innovator and a firm believer in the ethical and cultural role played by architecture in the world. Following the monographic exhibition dedicated to Gio Ponti in 2019, MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts is now celebrating another worldwide acclaimed Italian architect, Aldo Rossi, whose rich and diverse archive laid down the basis of the MAXXI Architettura Collection, directed by Margherita Guccione, along with those of Enrico Del Debbio, Sergio Musmeci, Pier Luigi Nervi and Carlo Scarpa. The exhibition Aldo Rossi. The architect and the cities is curated by Alberto Ferlenga, was organised in partnership with the Aldo Rossi Foundation curated by Chiara ... More  In Hawaii, reimagining tourism for a post-pandemic worldNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For a visitor who was on the island of Oahu in 2019 when a record 10.4 million people visited Hawaii, returning to Honolulu nearly a year after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic is breathtaking. At Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, souvenir shops and nearly all food vendors have closed. In neighborhoods around the states capital, restaurants and bars, tour operators and travel agencies have shuttered permanently, and many that remain appear to be shells of the popular jaunts they were before the pandemic. Hotels with skeleton staffs. No tourist-filled buses blocking the entrances to attractions. Plenty of room to move on sidewalks without bumping shoulders. Meanwhile, the state continues to solidify its reopening procedures for travelers from the mainland and international destinations as well ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer David LaChapelle was born March 11, 1963. David LaChapelle (born March 11, 1963) is an American commercial photographer, fine-art photographer, music video director, and film director. American photographer David LaChapelle looks on during the media preview of his exhibition "After the Deluge" at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni on April 29, 2015 in Rome. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS.
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