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Patti Warashina, Whisper, 2011. Low-fire clay, underglaze, glaze, mixed media, 16.50h x 30w x 13d in.
CONCORD, MASS.- Lucy Lacoste Gallery is presenting Three Sculptors: Warashina, Currier and Lyon, May 7- June 4, 2022 in Concord, MA. The exhibition brings together three women each representing distinct eras of contemporary ceramic sculpture who coincidentally have ties to the University of Washington. Each creates sculpture, primarily ceramic through the lens of their personal experiences. Though separated by several decades of age, these three artists share a commitment to sculpture unequaled by their peers. Patti Warashina (b.1940), considered a defining sculptor in West Coast Funk Art, is known for her ironic and surreal polychromed glazed ceramic sculptures, often autobiographical, which reflect commentary for issues ranging from feminist critiques of the art world to the internment of the Japanese during World War II. For most of her 60-year career the human figure has absorbed an ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Andreas Gursky White Cube Bermondsey 29 April - 26 June 2022 © Andreas Gursky / DACS. Photo © White Cube (Ollie Hammick).
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| Artists of color and women soar at Christie's Contemporary sale | | Phillips' New York Evening Sale poised to become most successful auction in company history | | Guggenheim removes Sackler name over ties to opioid crisis | 
Amoako Boafo (B. 1984), Yellow Dress. Estimate: USD 250,000 â USD 350,000. Price realised USD 819,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- While the usual suspects continue to command the highest prices at auction as evidenced by Monday nights $195 million sale of Warhols Marilyn the art market also continues to seize on the potential next hot thing. On Tuesday, Christies turned its attention to some of those prospects at its 21st century contemporary evening sale which totaled $103 million, just shy of a high estimate of $106 million. The auction of 31 works brought strong prices for works by Black artists like Amoako Boafo, Reggie Burrows Hodges and Ouattara Watts. Also faring well were women including Shara Hughes, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Elizabeth Peyton and Lisa Yuskavage along with relative unknowns like 27-year-old painter Anna Weyant, whom the megadealer Larry Gagosian recently started representing (and dating). And Refik Anadol, a Turkish-American data artist, offered the evenings only NFT. We are defining what will be the next great generation ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, The Star (Greta Garbo as Mata Hari), 1981. Estimate $7,000,000 - 10,000,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced that the full lineup for the New York Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art is now available online. Poised to be the most successful sale in the companys 226-year history, the auction will be led by titans of Modern and Post-War Art, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, and Helen Frankenthaler. Featuring a strong Contemporary selection as well, the Evening sale provides a rare opportunity to acquire works by some of the more in-demand artists of today, including Matthew Wong, Amy Sherald, MarÃa BerrÃo, and Anna Weyant. Comprised of 37 lots, the Evening Sale will take place on 18 May at 7pm ET at 432 Park Avenue, following the exhibition, which opens on 30 April. Jean-Paul Engelen, President, Americas and Worldwide Co-Head of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, said, This season, we are proud to present the most ambitious offering of works in Phillips hi ... More | | 
The museum and the family have agreed to rename an educational center. The National Gallery in London is also removing the Sackler name from its walls. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City quietly distanced itself from the Sacklers last week, erasing the familys name from an education center over the familys ties to the opioid crisis. There had been no public announcement. The Guggenheim and the Mortimer D. Sackler family have agreed to rename the arts education center, Sara Fox, a museum spokesperson, said in a statement Tuesday. We believe this decision is in the best interest of the museum and the vital work it does. This week, the National Gallery in London also ended its relationship with the Sacklers, announcing in a joint statement with a foundation representing part of the family that the naming of Room 34 as the Sackler Gallery should come to an end. The moves come five months after the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York removed ... More |
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| 4.8 million euros for a rediscovered Titian at Dorotheum | | ARKEN opens the first major Else Alfelt exhibition in more than 20 years | | Christie's Magnificent Jewels totals $ 69,668,694 led by two 200 carat diamonds | 
Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian (Pieve di Cadore, circa 1485/901576 Venice) The Penitent Magdalen, oil on canvas, 115 x 96.7 cm, framed, realized price 4,818,000.
VIENNA.- Lost in obscurity for over a hundred years discovered by experts - successfully sold at auction: An important painting by Titian, of the Penitent Magdalen, was sold for 4.8 million euros in the Old Masters Paintings sale at Dorotheum on Wednesday 11th May 2022. After several minutes of tense bidding, the painting was secured by an anonymous telephone bidder. The winning bid represents one of the highest prices ever achieved at auction, anywhere in the world, for a work by Titian. This is a truly magnificent result, says expert, Mark MacDonnell. We are absolutely delighted to have been able to bring such an important painting to the market. This significant work by Titian, with its fascinating royal provenance, has attracted worldwide interest since its discovery, and it has ... More | | 
Else Alfelt at Den Frie 1960. Photo: Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum.
ISHÃJ.- The first major Else Alfelt exhibition in more than 20 years is now on show at ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, south of Copenhagen. The exhibition tells the story of a pioneering woman artist whose luminous mountains and inner landscapes have special relevance in our time. This summer ARKEN unfolds Else Alfelts fascinating lifes work in a major retrospective focusing on the artists strong vision of promoting healing in the world through art. Fuelled by keenly attuned sensibilities, Else Alfelts watercolours, mosaics and oil paintings of inner and outer landscapes show how we are all part of a larger whole. Else Alfelt (19101974) was a central and pioneering avant-garde artist at the time when Danish art redefined itself around World War II. She achieved an international breakthrough, exhibiting in the USA, France and the Netherlands, and was part of several artist groups alongside her ... More | | 
Rahul Kadakia, International Head of Christies Jewellery selling THE ROCK, 228.31 carats, the largest white diamond ever sold at auction. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
GENEVA.- Christies Magnificent Jewels sale on 11 May 2022 achieved a total of CHF68,990,650 / $69,668,694 / 65,939,460, led by The Rock, which sold for CHF21,681,000 / $21,894,082 / 20,722,133. Weighing 228.31 carats, The Rock is the largest white diamond ever to be sold at auction. Another highlight lot of the auction, The Red Cross Diamond realised CHF14,181,250 / $14,320,624 / 13,554,068, with a significant portion of the proceeds benefiting the International Committee of the Red Cross. The auction was 98% sold by value and 92% sold by lot, and witnessed global participation with registrants from 20 countries across 4 continents. The next generation of collectors were active in the sale, with millennial collectors comprising 50% of new registrants to ... More |
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| Can art help save the insect world? | | Janet Borden, Inc. opens a new exhibition of vintage color still lifes by Jan Groover | | Architecture exhibition explores futuristic housing visions | 
Levon Biss, who specializes in macrophotography of insects. Elli Biss via The New York Times.
by Alix Strauss
NEW YORK, NY.- For most people, insects are an annoyance sometimes, a frightening one. They are creatures to be smacked off an arm, stomped with a foot or, in the extreme, obliterated with pesticides. But Levon Biss, a macrophotographer who shoots extreme close-ups of very small subjects, and curators and scientists at the American Museum of Natural History see the insect world in a radically different way: essential to life on Earth, endangered and in too many cases headed for extinction. A show opening in June, based on Biss work, will highlight 40 insects, some of which are already extinct and others that are considered imperiled, including some that are being raised in labs so they can be returned to the wild. Among those making an appearance: the Monarch butterfly, the nine-spotted ladybug, ... More | | 
Jan Groover, Untitled, 1989. NC266.3.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Janet Borden, Inc. is presenting a new exhibition of Vintage Color Still Lifes by Jan Groover. Groover is unequaled in her mastery of the still life genre, both in platinum and color. Bottles, utensils, and fruit are the vocabulary Groover uses for these formalist studies of color and space. They do not look like any still lifes made before or after them. She was and remains sui generis. Each photograph, though a hallucinatory mélange of color and forms, is a single straight photograph. No tricks, no Photoshop. The insane backgrounds are merely paper set up to delineate the space. Using a large format camera, producing either a 5x7 or 8x10 negative, Groover manipulated the planes by using swings and tilts of the camera. The colors are either paint or reflection or just light on objects. Th spaces are surreal, yet totally prosaic. John Szarkowski, former Director of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, considere ... More | | 
Photo from the exhibition «What we share. A model for housing associations »at the Venice Biennale. photo: Chiara Masiero Sgrinzatto and Luca Nicolò Vasco / National Museum.
BERGEN.- KODE launched NABO (NEIGHBOUR), an architecture exhibition exploring futuristic housing visions highlighting collective solutions. Rarely has architecture featured more prominently in the Norwegian public debate than today. Can this spark of public interest help create solutions for new ways of living together? NEIGHBOUR: How Can We Live Together? is a collaboration involving KODE Art Museum, the Bergen City Architect and its BOPILOT research project, the National Museum in Oslo, and the architectural firm of Helen & Hard. The exhibition is an immersive experience a journey from the public urban context, via the museums function as a cultural third space, and on into our homes. Visitors will be able to see futuristic visions from Norwegian architectural firms, architect ... More |
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| £660,000 world record for RAF Victoria Cross | | Phillips announces highlights from New York Day Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art | | Childhood memories persuade collector to donate 1976 Jaguar to aid Ukrainian humanitarian appeal | 
Spink has sold another rare RAF Victoria Cross, setting a new world record for a Royal Air Force Victoria Cross sold at a public auction.
LONDON.- After almost a decade, Spink has sold another rare RAF Victoria Cross, setting a New World Record for a Royal Air Force Victoria Cross sold at public auction. 26 awards of the Victoria Cross to the Royal Air Force have been awarded to date, of which exactly half of them awarded posthumously. This V.C. group is a unique award to the Royal Air Force for this theatre of war. Four awards of the Victoria Cross for the Battle of Malaya, this the first by date of action. Joining the Royal Air Force in 1936, by December 1941 Scarf was in Command of his Squadron who were flying Blenheims close to the Malay-Thai border when the relentless Japanese attacks were unleashed; having hurriedly moved to Butterworth airfield, the requirement to stem the rapid advancement and devastating aerial bombardments coming out of Singora saw Scarf take to the air: he could do nothing as he saw every single Blenheim in his Flight be shot up before they could even ... More | | 
Sam Gilliam, With Blue and..., 1997. Estimate: $200,000 - 300,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- On the heels of Phillips strongest-ever sales last Fall, Phillips announced highlights from the Spring New York Day Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art. From household names like Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Chamberlain, and Louise Bourgeois to contemporary artists such as Shara Hughes, Jonas Wood and Flora Yukhnovich, the Day Sales have become a highlight of the auction calendar. Taking place on 19 May and featuring nearly 250 lots, the sale showcases a wide range of works across a multitude of mediums. From Robert Indianas Picasso painting from 1974 to Jaume Plensas tour-de-force sculpture The Conversation I, II and III, 2006, to a group of masterworks on paper by Gerhard Richter, the Morning and Afternoon sessions highlight the continued growth and popularity of the modern and contemporary market. Annie Dolan and Patrizia Koenig, Co-Heads of the Day Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, said, In recen ... More | | 
The car he is selling to benefit the Ukraine is one of only 2,606 Jaguar XJ-C 4.2s made to right-hand drive specification.
LONDON.- Yorkshireman, Roy Hatfield, 85, from Sheffield, feels so moved by the plight of Ukrainian children hes decided to auction his 1976 Jaguar XJ-C 4.2 to raise funds for the beleaguered countrys youngest citizens. All the money raised will go to the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. Having lived in Sheffield through WW2 as a child himself he well understands the trauma Ukrainian children are experiencing. The Jaguar will be sold at the next H&H Classics sale at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire on June 22nd. Roy created a hugely successful energy and recycling business that bears his name well before the term recycling was a commonly understood concept. The company was awarded the Queens Award to Industry in 2014. He has owned some magnificent cars over the years including Bentleys, Healeys, Lagondas, E-Type Jaguars and the lovely Jaguar XJ-C being one he is very fond of. A keen rally and race driver over the ye ... More |
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 "Images of Atheism: The Soviet Assault on Religion" opens at Museum of Russian IconsCLINTON, MASS.- The Museum of Russian Icons presents Images of Atheism: The Soviet Assault on Religion, May 5 October 2, 2022, an exhibition exploring the role of visual propaganda in the Communist Partys seven-decade war against religion. Karl Marxs dictum that Religion is the opium of the people permeated official culture and everyday life in the former USSR. Beginning in the early 1920s, the Soviet state waged an aggressive media campaign against religion and its institutions, blitzing the population with a steady stream of visually persuasive graphic materials. With their eye-catching design, strident slogans, and stereotyped characters, the posters and publications of Soviet atheism demonized the worlds religions and jeered at those who practiced them. Above all, they appealed to young people by promising ... More  Exhibition of new paintings by Jane Allen Nodine on view in Charlotte, NCCHARLOTTE, NC.- Jane Allen Nodine is exhibiting new paintings at the Carillon Tower Center, Charlotte, NC, beginning the first week of May and continung through the end of August 2022. Curated by art consultant and gallerist, Larry Elder of Charlotte, Carillon Tower is located at 227 West Trade Street and will be on view in the gallery lobby located on the ground floor. Building hours are Monday - Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. and Saturday: 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. The paintings on display represent a new direction for Spartanburg, South Carolina artist Jane Nodine. These colorful and dynamic works offer a sense of optimism as felt by the artist in the advent of a new year. In Nodines latest work you will see paint floating in more paint. Color competing for more space. Form and flection taking hold of the overall composition. Since the pandemic ... More  Gloria Parker, maestra of the musical glasses, dies at 100NEW YORK, NY.- As the title character in his film Broadway Danny Rose (1984), Woody Allen is a hapless talent agent known for his stable of weird, hard-to-book novelty acts: a blind xylophone player, a stuttering ventriloquist, a balloon folder and Gloria Parker, who plays music by rubbing her moistened fingers along the rims of 28 crystal wineglasses. She is the Jascha Heifetz of this instrument, Danny says in one scene, pitching her to the skeptical owner of a summer resort as she plays The Band Played On. Its incredible. Never took a lesson. This is self-taught. Next year, my hand to God, shes going to be at Carnegie Hall. Parker would later say that the film in which she also performs for Dannys clientele at a Thanksgiving dinner led to an uptick in offers for bookings and increased attention for her mastery ... More  Photographic visionary Chuck Kelton opens exhibition at The SPACE Art GalleryPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Using only traditional black and white photographic chemicals and traditional light sensitive photographic paper, Kelton creates vivid landscapes that dance with movement. The result is a version of reality that evokes both chaos and stability and adds the additional comfort of this world having been Dipped In Gold. Keltons chemigrams and photograms are the continuation of a half century of photographic explorations that started with his first camera click at the age of 13. Completing his MFA at Ohio University, in a program that focused not only on the development and creation of visual projects but an intensive study of the photographic materials themselves. Kelton was on a journey, not only to create his own works of art but to become a Master Printer in the commercial and artistic world ... More  Gregory E. Deavens elected to the Barnes Foundation Board of TrusteesPHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Board of Trustees of the Barnes Foundation today announced that Gregory E. Deavens, President and Chief Executive Officer of Independence Health Group, has been elected to the Board of Trustees. The Board has also announced that current trustee Armando I. Bengochea, PhD, has been named a Lincoln University-nominated trustee, having been officially nominated by Lincoln Universitys Board of Trustees and elected by the Barnes Foundations Board. Our Barnes Trustees and staff are thrilled to welcome Gregory Deavens to the Board of Trustees, says Aileen Roberts, Chair of the Barnes Foundation Board of Trustees. Greg is dedicated to improving livesthrough his leadership at Independence Health Group and his philanthropic work supporting health and cultural organizations. This ... More  Brunnier Art Museum extends exhibition showcasing intricate sculptures made from discarded glassAMES, IA.- Mythical Bounty: Glass Sculpture by Amber Cowan has been extended through June 12, 2022 giving visitors an additional month to experience the exhibition at the Brunnier Art Museum on second floor of the Scheman Building, 1805 Center Drive, Ames, Iowa. Cowan has developed a unique artistic process based around the use of recycled, upcycled, and second-life American pressed glass to create intricate glass sculptures. Cowan invites viewers to look closely and discover the stories she tells in her glass sculptures. Her complex dioramas and three-dimensional sculptures often use existing historic pressed glass objects she finds beautiful, then the remaining glass of the same color is melted down and painstakingly flameworked and blown to fill the space with ornament. Each sculpture has a narrative that must be sought ... More  Route 32 Auctions announces Country Store & More Auction May 20-21CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND.- Route 32 Auctions upcoming Country Store & More Auction on Friday and Saturday, May 20th and 21st, will feature approximately 500 lots each day of gas and oil, soda, salesmans sample oddities, advertising items and more an eclectic mix of country store collectibles, online and live in the Crawfordsville gallery located at 3097 East State Rd. 32. Doors will open both days at 9 am Eastern time, with the auction starting at 10 am. Day 1 lots range from a very rare, repainted 1-cent Sunny Boy Gumball vending machine made by Field Mfg. Co, in working condition and with one key, 17 inches tall; to a self-framed, single-sided tin sign for the Music Master Washington Liquor Company in Spokane, Washington, graded 9.25, an amazing example of early West Coast advertising and measuring 24 ¼ inches ... More  A new record for Maurice Sendak's 'Wild Things' raises a rumpus in Heritage's $6 million American Art AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Spanning George Washington to the Wild Things, Heritage Auctions latest American Art Signature® Auction set numerous auction records Tuesday on its way to a $6 million finish. Eight-hundred fifty bidders participated in the near-sellout event, which saw records set for such revered and influential artists as Maurice Sendak, Margaret Keane, Manierre Dawson and James Lesesne Wells. Myriad artists also saw their estimates shattered and profiles elevated, chief among them Joseph Francis Kernan, whose circa-1940 advertisement for DB&M's Royal Bohemian Beer sold for $137,500. It would appear Kernan has finally shed his sobriquet as the poor mans Norman ... More  Nye & Company to hold Two-Day, Three-Session Auction May 25-26BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers will kick off a two-day, three-session online-only auction on Wednesday, May 25th, with a 50-lot sale titled Property from a Private Collection. This highly curated sale features exceptional American, English and Continental furniture and fine and decorative art. Bidding starts promptly at 10 am Eastern time. A Chic and Antique Estate Treasures Auction will begin immediately following, at around 11 am, and continue on into Day 2. Real time Internet bidding and absentee bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com, Bidsquare.com and the Nye & Company website: www.nyeandcompany.com. Telephone bidding is available on a limited basis. The Private Collection sale is a terrific assemblage of early American and English furniture and 19th/20th century French ... More  A sci-fi writer returns to Earth: 'The real story is the one facing us.'NEW YORK, NY.- Last fall, science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson was asked to predict what the world will look like in 2050. He was speaking at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, and the atmosphere at the summit billed as the last, best hope to save the planet was bleak. But Robinson, whose novel, The Ministry for the Future, lays out a path for humanity that narrowly averts a biosphere collapse, sounded a note of cautious optimism. Overcome with emotion at times, he raised the possibility of a near future marked by human accomplishment and solidarity. It should not be a solitary daydream of a writer sitting in his garden, imagining there could be a better world, Robinson told the crowd. Its a hard time to be a utopian writer, or any sort of utopian. Disaster-filled dystopian ... More  'The Vagrant Trilogy' review: Palestinians in exile, yearning for homeNEW YORK, NY.- The matinee audience was filing out of the Public Theaters LuEsther Hall the other afternoon when stagehands started dismantling the set a rickety home in a refugee camp in Lebanon, where Mona Mansours border-crossing, alternate-realities epic The Vagrant Trilogy winds up. The scenery coming down before wed left the room was a jolt: Id wanted to stay in the shows world for just a little longer. Which is saying something when a production stretches to 3 1/2 hours, including two intermissions. And when, courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic, both lead roles are being performed by understudies. But Mansours rich trilogy about a displaced Palestinian family is captivating, and for all the protean theatricality of Mark Wing-Daveys gorgeous production, watching it feels somehow like being ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born May 12, 1828. Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 - 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was a British poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. In this image: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Mnemosyne, 1876. © Private collection c/o Christie's Images Ltd., 2010.
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