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A leaf from one of the finest illustrated manuscripts in existence, the lot sparked more than ten minutes of determined bidding. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- In a rare appearance at auction, a magnificent folio from the Shah Tahmasp Shahnameh today sold for £8,061,700 / $9,091,179. The manuscript set a new record in GBP for any Islamic object or work on paper at auction, surpassing the previous record set by another leaf from the same manuscript at Sotheby's in 2011*. The scene depicts the great hero Rustam recovering his horse Rakhsh named the Persian word for lightning two of the main figures over the course of the tale. The manuscript boasts a glittering provenance from the moment it was commissioned, to the present day. It was commissioned by one emperor, Shah Ismail (the first of the Safavids), completed by another, his son and successor Shah Tahmasp, gifted to a third, Sultan Selim II of the Ottoman Empire, and was later owned by one of the great bibliophilic families of the modern era, the Barons de Rothschild, whose collections included such masterpieces as the Bel ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A detail of âSaint Paul Directing the Burning of the Heathen Books,â a tapestry designed by the Flemish artist Pieter Coecke van Aelst in the 1530s at the Metropolitan Museum in New York on Oct. 3, 2022. âThe Tudorsâ shows how the English Renaissance was the work of wily leaders and enterprising foreigners. No dynasty has better captured the modern imagination. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times).
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| The Ateneum Art Museum receives a significant legacy donation of over one million euros | | Artist's portraits of her neighbour's lockdown chores win the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2022 | | How rollerblading propelled Maxwell Alexandre's art career |
The Ateneum Art Museum has been closed to the public since March 2022 due to a ventilation upgrade. The museum will reopen in early 2023 with the launch of a new collection exhibition. Photo: The Finnish National Gallery_Hannu Pakarinen.
HELSINKI.- The Finnish National Gallery has received a significant legacy donation, which will be used to support the Ateneum Art Museum's exhibition and museum activities in accordance with the donor's wishes. The donation, made by a private Finnish citizen, is worth over one million euros. "This gift is unique in the Ateneum's history," says Museum Director Marja Sakari. "It is more common for works of art to be donated to the Ateneum Art Museum with the hope that they will be added to the museum's collections. Donating money, especially such a large amount, is extraordinary. The legacy donation will be used to fund the development of a more accessible, international and engaging Ateneum over the next three years. One of the plans is to increase the number of free-admission days. Until now, the museum has had about three free-admission days per year, one for each new exhibition. ... More | |
Laundry Day #2 from the series Laundry Day by Clémentine Schneidermann © Clémentine Schneidermann.
LONDON.- Clémentine Schneidermann has won first prize in the prestigious Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2022 for portraits from the series Laundry Day, which document the daily chores of her neighbour in South Wales, navigating life in lockdown. The winner of the £15,000 first prize was announced today, Tuesday 25 October, at the award ceremony held at Cromwell Place in South Kensington. Second prize was awarded to Haneem Christian for Mother and Daughter and Rooted, which explore queerness, transness and the importance of chosen family. Alexander Komenda was awarded third prize for Zahids Son, a portrait that examines themes of identity and the post-Soviet landscape in Kyrgyzstan. The winning portraits are now on display as part of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2022 exhibition at Cromwell Place, in South Kensington, London from the 27 October until 18 December 2022, while the Gallerys building in St Martins Place is closed for major redevelo ... More | |
In a photo provided by Gui Gomes shows, Maxwell Alexandre at the Shed in New York. An Afro-Brazilian artist from a Rio favela is having his U.S. debut at the Shed this week. Gui Gome via The New York Times.
by Arthur Lubow
NEW YORK, NY.- With the agility and velocity of the professional in-line skater he once was, Brazilian painter Maxwell Alexandre, 32, has soared rapidly in the art world. Growing up in the Rocinha favela of Rio de Janeiro, where he still resides, he displayed his work to the public for the first time in a group exhibition in the Rio branch of the Fortes dAloia & Gabriel gallery in August 2017. Barely five years later, after solo exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and David Zwirner Gallery in London, he is having his first North American one-man show at the Shed in New York City, on view Oct. 26 through Jan. 8, 2023. Pardo é Papel: The Glorious Victory and New Power displays boldly drawn, large-scale Black figures, usually garbed in urban streetwear and often with bleached blond hair. Alexandre includes references to the local culture, such as the patterns on the inflatable ... More |
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| Boijmans explores history of colonialism in relation to collection | | Exhibition sheds new light on Paul Thek's complex and enduring relationship to Italy | | Sonja Lunde becomes Director of UVM's Fleming Museum of Art |
La ùltima ascensiòn, Kevin Osepa, 2022, NL.
ROTTERDAM.- Contemporary artists respond to collections research. Kevin Osepas award-winning short film La Ãltima Ascensión can be seen in the Depot in Rotterdam as part of the research presentation Unpacking Boijmans The Colonial Past and the Collection in which the public plays an active role. In the Depot, we are conducting ongoing research into the relationship between colonialism and slavery and the museums collection. This research project called Unpacking Boijmans is being presented in a gallery space in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen and will deal with three themes in the coming six months: trade, iconography, and provenance and exhibition history. For each new theme, contemporary artists are invited to make subtle interventions. The first invited artist is Kevin Osepa. The Depots film space is showing his film La Ãltima Ascensión (2022, Smarthouse Films), ... More | |
Peter Hujar, Hand Sculpture from The Tomb, 1967, 2010, Courtesy Pace Gallery New York.
ROME.- The Nicola Del Roscio Foundation presents, from Friday 28th October 2022 a Saturday 28th January 2023, a new exhibition project dedicated to one a key figure of contemporary art history: Paul Thek (New York, US 1933-1988). Paul Thek. Italian Hours, curated by Peter Benson Miller, is a collaboration with the Watermill Center, Alexander and Bonin, New York, and the Estate of George Paul Thek. A host of recent scholarship has shed new light on Paul Theks complex and enduring relationship to Italy and its fundamental impact on his innovative, genre-defying work in a variety of media. Indebted to these accounts, Paul Thek. Italian Hours, the first of its kind in Italy since 1995, reunites a selection of paintings, drawings, and sculptures including vestiges of his seminal, now lost work The Tomb marked ... More | |
Fleming Museum of Art Director Sonja Lunde.
BURLINGTON, VT.- Sonja Lunde has begun her role as director of the University of Vermonts Fleming Museum of Art. I am deeply honored and excited for this opportunity to return to my roots and become part of the institution Ive admired since learning the story of my grandfathers photograph. I believe the privilege of working and teaching in museums is a joyful and serious endeavor teeming with opportunities for learning, discovery, and positive change. Art and artists have the unique ability to challenge us to examine ourselves, the world in which we live, and I believe that museums do not occupy neutral space within those conversations, Lunde said. As the Flemings new director, I am committed to building on the important work already in progress to explore what our museum can do in service to its students, faculty, and other communities to promote justice ... More |
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| Abrons Arts Center is presenting Calling Out: Visual Artist AIRspace Residency 2021–22 | | Nikita Kadan: Victory over the Sun now open at the François Ghebaly gallery in NY | | Alyson Shotz creates new sculpture for Skidmore College |
Installation view of Calling Out: Visual Artist AIRspace Residency Exhibition, October 15, 2022 December 11, 2022. Photograph by Olympia Shannon. Images: Courtesy of Abrons Arts Center.
NEW YORK, NY.- Calling Out: Visual Artist AIRspace Residency Exhibition 2021-22, which started this October 15th and will end on December 11th at the Abrons Arts Center, features the work of from artists in the current cohort: Amina Ross, Jordan Strafer and Dhaynne Torres, and the grassroots collective of Asian and migrant sex workers, Red Canary Song. With practices spanning installation, video, drawing, and painting, this exhibition explores the tension between labor and rest as tied to understandings of self, community and our built environment. Since the residencys founding in 1978, nearly 200 artists have made and exhibited their work in the Centers studios and galleries. Amina Ross (b. 1993, New York, NY) is an artist, educator, and life-long learner. Amina makes videos, sculptures, ... More | |
Nikita Kadan, Untitled, Charcoal on paper, 24 x 33.5 inches (60.96 x 85.09 cm).
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- François Ghebaly New York opened Victory over the Sun by Nikita Kadan this past October 27th, the Ukrainian artists first solo exhibition in the United States. Nikita Kadan has developed over the last twenty years a singular oeuvre in the form of drawings, photographs, posters, and monumental installations. Emerging from an activist tradition, Kadans individual practice reflects on the politics of memory, and the relationship between the idealist ethos of modernity and the reality of capitalism. Kadan draws his inspiration from history, revealing episodes that have been distorted, forgotten, or deliberately erased from the official narrative of his country. After a post-Soviet period characterized by historical amnesia, explains the artist, the last decade of Ukrainian history has been marked by a war of memory where contradictory historical symbols and judgements occupy public ... More | |
"Entanglement", by Alyson Shotz, soars above the atrium of the new Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY.- Skidmore College has announced the installation of the first permanent work of art for a College building, Entanglement, a monumental, site-specific sculpture by acclaimed artist Alyson Shotz in the new Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences. To mark the occasion, Shotz will speak about her work with two Skidmore College faculty members on Thursday, Nov. 17, at 6 p.m. Mary Crone Odekon, chair and professor of the Physics Department and Kenan Chair of Liberal Arts, and Rachel Roe-Dale, director of the First-Year Experience program and professor of mathematics, were both members of the committee that commissioned Shotz. The three will speak beneath Shotzs new sculpture. Entanglement soars above the Glotzbach Atrium in the new Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences (BTCIS). ... More |
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| DESIGN Canberra festival announces exhibition program and inaugural partnership with Forage Festival | | MOCA Tucson names new executive director and deputy director | | Maruani Mercier gallery to present Tony Matelli: Timelines in January 2023 |
Emanuele Magini, Anish, 2018. Image: Courtesy of Campeggi. Exhibitions will span an eclectic range of disciplines including architecture, interior design, metalwork and digital media from both local and international creatives.
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA.- DESIGN Canberra festival has announced five new exhibitions and a collaboration with acclaimed food and entertainment organisation, The Forage, to launch as part of its ninth edition. The event will run from Wednesday 2 - Sunday 20 November, with an ambitious line-up of over 250 events responding to the theme of Transformation. Positioning the city not only as Australia's capital, but also the country's creative epicentre, the extensive program comprises talks, tours, exhibitions, art installations, workshops and symposiums covering topics from architecture and interior design to public art and 'Nurture' workshops, promoting the benefits of art for mental well-being. Jodie Cunningham, CEO + Artistic Director, Craft ACT: Craft + ... More | |
Julio César Morales. Photo: Rembrandt Quinallo.
TUCSON, ARIZ.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson announced a new leadership team. Following a rigorous, year-long search process, Julio César Morales will join the museum as Executive Director and Co-Chief Curator, beginning December 1, 2022, with Laura Copelin assuming a new role within the organization as Deputy Director and Co-Chief Curator. Morales and Copelin will collaborate closely with long-time MOCA Finance Director Carrie Hess, staff, and trustees to advance MOCAs mission: to inspire new ways of thinking through the cultivation, interpretation, and exhibition of contemporary art. Morales most recently served as Senior Curator at the Arizona State University (ASU) Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona, and brings more than two decades of experience as an arts professional and practicing artist to MOCA Tucson. Previous museum and gallery experience includes work as Adjunct Curator for Visual Arts at Yerba Buena Cent ... More | |
Bust (Eggplant), 2022, marble and painted bronze, 95.5 x 66 x 40.6 cm, 38 x 26 x 16 in. Image Credit Line: Courtesy of the artist and Maruani Mercier Gallery.
BRUSSELS.- American sculptor Tony Matelli makes his triumphant debut at Maruani Merciers Brussels gallery for his first solo exhibition, featuring a fresh and humorous take on classical sculpture on a monumental scale, and grungy, life-mimetic, mirrored works. Entitled Timelines, Matelli questions the notions of past and present while further exemplifying his finesse and mastery of the bronze medium. [Timelines] presents the results of Tony Matellis ongoing search for the magic in trompe-loeil realism. It features garden store and cemetery sculptures bedecked with lifelike fruits, vegetables, and other foodstuffs as well as exacting recreations of grimy, graffitied mirrors. Full of technical feats and imaginative leaps, the works showcase an evolving, open-ended quest to, as he says, reweird ordinary lifeto discover the uncanny life of familiar objects and scenarios, writes ... More |
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Afriart Gallery kicks off a new Children's Programme for schools and children's groups
KAMPALA, UGANDA.- When Katwe Primary school from Kampala came through on September 27th, the kids thrived in experimenting and finding words out of Afriart Gallery - AAGs current exhibition title Kaddugalamukatale! Ttale a place where animals are taken to graze, Addugala someone is dirty and Lamuka to wake up and become aware. It is amazing to get introduced to new meanings of Xensons exhibition through the childrens eyes. Since August this year, AAG is organizing regular school visits to the gallery exposing as many young people as possible to art for a richer understanding of life. The gallery is a creative joint to help them grow in their critical imagination, to experience a space of inspiration, interaction, and self-awareness encouraging them to come back to these places in the future. AAG school visits ... More
Bonhams Hong Kong presents "Ganbei: A Toast to the Chinese Wine Culture"
HONG KONG.- On 30 November, Bonhams Hong Kong will present GANBEI: A Toast to the Chinese Wine Culture, a themed auction showcasing more than 40 pieces of Chinese works of art connected to drinking and wine culture over the past 3,000 years. They span dynasties from Shang, Spring and Autumn, Warring States, Western Han, Tang, to Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing. All items will be exhibited to the public from 21 to 29 November, an opportunity for everyone to trace the development of the wine culture as a form of art throughout Chinese history. How wine, now considered one of the earliest forms of material civilisation, came about seems to be a bit of a coincidence: food was soaked with water by accident and with time, alcohol was naturally produced. Consuming the alcoholic food sent our earliest predecessors to a state ... More
Review: This time, 'A Raisin in the Sun' really does explode
NEW YORK, NY.- Leaving his recent Long Days Journey Into Night aside, Robert OHara doesnt typically direct revivals; nor, leaving Shakespeare aside, does the Public Theater typically produce them. Yet on Tuesday the Public opened OHaras take on Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun: not merely a revival but a further exploration of an earlier production of a 1959 classic that is arguably as well known today as it was epochal when it debuted. How, then, to make it new? Apparently, on the evidence of this staging, by furiously underlining its subtleties and downplaying its conventional strengths, a reversal of standard procedure that produces a sometimes stunning, sometimes stunted result. Its not as if the play needed help to feel relevant; like all great works, it has proved itself incessantly timely. In telling the story of the Youngers, a Black ... More
Allow Natalia Lafourcade to reintroduce herself
NEW YORK, NY.- Over a balky wireless connection that seemed to symbolize how fleeting human contact has become, Natalia Lafourcade smiled as she showed off her garden in Xalapa, the capital of the Mexican state of Veracruz. She had emerged from the recording studio she built there, rattling off the trees that surround her home guayabo, higuera, mulato as she explained the genesis of her new album, De Todas las Flores (Of All the Flowers), which bloomed in the aftermath of a romantic split. Breakups can be so deep, at the cellular level, that you have to reconstruct your life and reconnect with yourself, Lafourcade said as she strolled the grounds in a simple black turtleneck. Its difficult work, forgiving yourself, forgiving the other person, she added. So I went to walk in the mountains, and returned to my garden, a metaphor for a field ... More
Post-sale results: Holabird's Western Frontiers Auction
RENO, NEV.- An Ansel Adams signed and framed Yosemite photo from around 1959 sold for $38,750 at a four-day Western Frontiers auction held October 13th-16th by Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC, online and live in the Reno gallery. The 2,100-lot sale featured Native and general Americana, mining, Express, numismatics, art, bottles, stocks and more. There were five lots of Ansel Adams framed prints (and several for images taken in the manner of Adams a testament to his enduring popularity), but it was lot #3022 the large print of a snow-covered tree at Yosemite, thought to be part of Adamss late 1950s winter shots that led to his signed and numbered edition series that brought $38,750, making it the auctions top lot. Headlining the auction was Part 3 of the Gary Bracken collection. Parts 1 and 2 (also held by Holabird) ... More
Phillips presents highlights by outstanding female artists at the upcoming Hong Kong fall auctions
HONG KONG.- On 30 November and 1 December, Phillips will present its Fall Auctions of 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design in Hong Kong in association with Yongle auction. The Day Sale on 30 November and the Evening Sale on 1 December bring together a diverse curation of works by post-war masters, highly sought-after contemporary names, as well as ultra-contemporary artists. Among them are a number of extraordinary works by female artists from different cultures, backgrounds and eras, including Yayoi Kusama, Lucy Bull, Caroline Walker, Christina Quarles, Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Ewa Juskiewicz, Hulda Guzmán, Kristy Chan, Ana Benaroya, and more. Isaure de Viel Castel, Head of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, Phillips Hong Kong, said, As the leading house for introducing some of the worlds most talented contemporary ... More
How a pro-Nazi camp on Long Island inspired a new play
YAPHANK, NY.- On a Sunday afternoon this month, playwright Bess Wohl stood on the shores of a lake in the Long Island hamlet of Yaphank, about 60 miles from Manhattan. She admired the surface pleasures of the scene the water, the leaves, a sky the blue of a faded Tiffanys box, an obliging swan. But I also see history, she said. I see what happened here. What happened here was a summer camp, operated in the 1930s by the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization. Its teenage participants swam, hiked, competed in archery and went to dances, all the while absorbing Nazi ideology. On the surface, said Arnie Bernstein, the author of a book on the German American Bund, it was like any other camp, except it was filled with swastikas. The flower beds and rose bushes, he noted, were planted in swastika patterns. And there are photos ... More
Southern Utah Museum of Art welcomes Joseph DeLappe with Resistance, Memory, and Play
CEDAR CITY, UT.- Southern Utah Museum of Art, on the campus of Southern Utah University (SUU), presents the work of artist Joseph DeLappe in his show Resistance, Memory, and Play. DeLappes work is on display now through December 23, 2022. As a Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland, DeLappe engages his knowledge and interest in computers and gaming to critically examine our complicated relationship with technologyas instruments of entertainment, propaganda and warfarein an array of installation, sculptural and video game works. Since 1983, DeLappes artistic practice has largely focused on electronics and new media. Resistance, Memory, and Play introduces viewers to the various ways that video games, computers, the internet and other electronic devices that help us function ... More
Curator of History and Material Culture hired for Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS, NEV.- The Nevada State Museum in Las Vegas has hired Josef Diaz as Curator of History and Material Culture for the organization. This position is the most senior curator role and is part of the Division of Museums and History within the Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs. This work includes preservation, research, and programming of states collection of artifacts focusing on Southern Nevada and the surrounding regions. Mr. Diazs background includes over fifteen years experience in curation, fundraising, exhibition development, and museum administration. A scholar in the art and history of the Spanish Colonial Southwest and Mexico, DÃaz has excelled as a curator, author, and editor at the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors. His most recent exhibitions, each of which included companion ... More
Jeremy Jaspers' debut solo exhibition in New York City opens at Yossi Milo Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Yossi Milo Gallery presents Other Voices, Other Rooms, Jeremy Jaspers debut solo exhibition in New York City and his first with Yossi Milo Gallery. The show will open with an artists reception this Thursday, October 27 from 68 PM and will be on view through Saturday, December 3, 2022. Through his evocative, sensual tableaux, Jeremy Jaspers (b. 1977; Berlin, Germany) investigates psychological conflict, economies of desire, and the dynamics of queer love. His intimate portraits and carefully arranged figurative compositions present men in the throes of love affairs, privately lazing in the safety of secluded rooms, or meandering covertly through the dim corridors of old cities. Through thinly veiled windows, doors left ajar, alleyways, and computer screens, viewers of Jaspers work are made voyeurs into the private lives ... More
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The Global Life of Design
Flashback On a day like today, American painter Lee Krasner was born October 27, 1908. Lee Krasner (October 27, 1908 - June 19, 1984) was an influential American abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. On October 25, 1945, she married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the abstract expressionism movement. In this 1949 photo provided by the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, artists Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock are shown in their garden at their East Hampton, N.Y., home.
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