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An undated photo provided by the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows a rectangular mortar of veined marble was also returned to Yemen, but will be lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for safekeeping. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is transferring the ownership of two ancient sculptures that have been in its collection to Yemen, officials said, nearly 40 years after they were removed from an archaeological site near the ancient city of Marib. (Metropolitan Museum of Art via The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art is transferring the ownership of two ancient sculptures that have been in its collection to Yemen, officials said, nearly 40 years after they were removed from an archaeological site near the ancient city of Marib. But the stone artifacts, which date from the third millennium B.C., will not immediately be returned to their home country because of the ongoing civil war there. Officials at the Yemeni embassy in Washington have instead asked the Met to continue to hold onto them for the time being as part of a custody agreement. We are delighted that Yemen is reclaiming ownership of its precious and priceless cultural heritage, Mohammed Al-Hadhrami, the ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to the United States, said in a statement. Due to the current situation in Yemen, it is not the appropriate time to return these artifacts back to our homeland. The announcement is expected to be made at a ceremony Friday. The Yemeni government arran ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day For his inaugural exhibition in Italy, artist Rolf Sachs presents 'Tenderly', unveiling new large-scale photographs from his Moving Stills series presented by Grieder Contemporary, Zürich. On view from September 16 - October 21, 2023, the exhibition marks the gallery's opening show at Borgovico33, ahistoric 17th century church in Como, Italy as part of its Autumn satellite program.
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| Eli Wilner & Company restores the frame on Salvator Rosa's "Bandits" for the Historic Charleston Foundation | | Roland Auctions NY to offer contemporary art and decorative items | | 'Take the Money and Run' artist must repay Danish museum |
Bandits by Salvator Rosa, ca. 1655, with its period frame restored by Eli Wilner & Company. Image courtesy of Historic Charleston Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Wilner & Company announced the restoration of the elaborate carved and gilded period frame housing Bandits, a circa 17th century oil on canvas by Salvator Rosa in the collection of the Historic Charleston Foundations Aiken-Rhett House. This is the third frame restoration project that Wilners team has undertaken for the Aiken-Rhett House. In 2019, the Historic Charleston Foundation honored Eli Wilner & Company with the Samuel Gaillard Stoney Conservation Craftsmanship Award for its work in historic frame conservation. In the Spring of 2022, on behalf of the Historic Charleston Foundation, Valerie Perry, the Aiken-Rhett House Museum Manager, submitted a proposal to restore the Rosa frame to Wilners ongoing partial funding program for museums. The painting has been paired with this frame since at least 1858 when the Aiken family purchased the artwork abroad. Salvator Rosas work became ... More | |
Attr. to Diederik VAN APPEL Popeye Stay Strong. Est $6,000 - $8,000.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY is presenting its first auction of the Fall season on Saturday September 23rd 2023 at 10am. The auction features over 800 lots of Fine Art, Decorative Arts, 20th Century Modern, Antique & Vintage Furniture, Textiles, Silver, Gold and Silver Jewelry, Rugs, Collectibles, Asian Art and Decorative Arts, and Lighting. Previews will be held on Thursday, September 21st, 10am - 6pm & Friday, September 22nd 10am -6pm. This September 23rd auction follows last months highly-successful two-part estates sale, which enjoyed highlights including an 18K Patek Philippe Fancy Scroll lugs watch that grew from a $2/3,000 estimate to selling for $46,875. In good working condition, the wristwatch came with a gilt stamped black leather strap and an18K gold Patek Philippe tang clasp, along with a Martiros Saryan (Russian-Armenian, 1880-1972), Village Street Scene - oil on board nighttime street scene with figures; signed and ... More | |
Jens Haaning, Take the Money and Run, 2021. Photo: Niels Fabæk, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg.
NEW YORK, NY.- A Danish artist who delivered two framed blank canvases titled Take the Money and Run must repay the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art about $70,000 it had given him to reproduce artworks involving physical currency, a Copenhagen court ruled Monday. The museum had commissioned the artist, Jens Haaning, to re-create two of his earlier works, An Average Austrian Year Income (2007) and An Average Danish Annual Income (2010), which displayed cash in euros and Danish kroner. For the purpose of his new artworks, Haaning was given 532,549 kroner, according to the museum director, plus fees and expenses. But Haaning surprised the museum by sending it Take the Money and Run, which was included in an exhibition from September 2021 to January 2022. When the exhibition closed, Haaning did not return the money, prompting the museum, which is in the northern city of Aalborg, to file a lawsuit. The Copenhagen court pointed to ... More |
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| Protesters attack artwork in London gallery | | 'Why have there been no great women artists?' | | New work by Sui Jianguo at Pace Gallery in Hong Kong |
Following the protest the artists Instagram has been flooded with messages of support.
LONDON.- Today, two people entered a controversial exhibition by Stuart Semple in Londons Soho and attacked a valuable artwork, throwing bright pink paint at it before supergluing themselves to the wall. In CCTV footage, two people are seen to enter the gallery, one removes what appears to be a bottle of pink paint before throwing it at a well-known artwork by the British artist. Meanwhile, another revealed a t-shirt bearing the slogan SAVE ALL ART. Then both proceed to superglue their hands to the walls of the gallery, before raising their middle fingers to the gallery CCTV camera. Semples D.A.B.A. exhibition has sparked controversy from the start. At D.A.B.A., Semples assistants are systematically destroying hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of his paintings, whilst inviting the public to bring in anything they deem to be Bad Art. These objects are then in turn destroyed by a team of assistants using tools including ... More | |
Katherine Read, Scottish, 17231779, Portrait of a Woman, c. 1765, Pastel on paper, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ross, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg.
ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, has announced the reattribution of a key work in the collection. In 1969 the MFA was gifted an exceptional pastel portrait long believed to be by noted British painter Francis Cotes. The sitter, an elegant woman in a fur-trimmed coat, was identified as the artists wife, whom he married in 1765. This attribution remained unchallenged for over fifty years, yet it is now determined to be incorrect. Current scholarship reveals that the work is almost certainly by Katherine Read, another equally important, though historically less well-known, artist. Reads Portrait of a Woman was recently on view as part of the exhibition Explore the Vaults: Images Private and Public, c. 15001800, and its reattribution is the inspiration for an upcoming talk focused on Linda Nochlins* groundbreaking 1971 essay Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? presented by Senior Cura ... More | |
Sui Jianguo, Planting Trace · Stone Dewdrop, 2023. Black marquina, 42-1/8 à 29-1/8 à 41-3/4". © Sui Jianguo. Courtesy Pace Gallery.
HONG KONG.- Pace is opening an exhibition of new work by Sui Jianguo at its Hong Kong Gallery. On view from September 21 to October 26, the show spotlights eight sculptures and 10 works on paper created by the artist this year. A leading figure in Chinese contemporary sculpture, Sui has developed his practice over the course of more than 30 years. Bringing a deep knowledge of materials and an interdisciplinary approach to his work in sculpture, Sui explores new ideas and directions in the medium while also honoring its ancient origins. In recent years, he has made use of tools like 3D scanning and digital engraving to create new phenomenological effects in his sculptures, inviting varied interpretations and readings. For the new series on view, Sui continues to use the 3D scanning data he has been documenting since 2008 - capturing the details ... More |
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| Something for everyone, even cannibals, at the Philadelphia Fringe | | At City Ballet's 75th birthday bash, a mingling of old and new | | Hong Kong Palace Museum unveils 'Gazing at Sanxingdui: New Archaeological Discoveries in Sichuan' |
In a photo provided by Tony Hitchock shows, John Jarboe leads a support group for gender cannibals, in the autobiographical show Rose: You Are Who You Eat, a reckoning with identity and queerness. (Tony Hitchock via The New York Times)
by Alexis Soloski
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- There is a strange kind of hunger that can overtake you at a fringe festival: so much to devour and so little time to devour it. New York has been starved of a fringe since 2019, a loss even though the fringe that we had struggled to define itself. But an hour and a half away, the Philadelphia Fringe has endured. Originally a showier event, with a goal of attracting established, out-of-town stars, it has since refocused on local artists. During a recent weekend at the festival, which runs through Sunday, I swallowed an entirely reasonable number of shows, each of which felt appropriately fringe-y, flowing comfortably beyond the mainstream. Built for small, temporary stages, these shows validate fringe festivals as places of experiment, milieus to test and explore. Of the four that I saw, three were about appetite and the ... More | |
David Michaleks slow-motion footage of New York City Ballet dancers, outside the David H. Koch Theater in New York on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. (Lanna Apisukh/The New York Times)
by Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK, NY.- Ruth Lawrence Doering, a dancer who performed with New York City Ballet on its opening night, in 1948, peered up at a 40-foot projection of a modern-day ballerina, dancing in slow motion in a white tutu. Look at that, the technique hasnt changed, said Doering, mimicking the dancer onscreen, Unity Phelan, as she floated her arms upward. But did we always do it like that? Questionable. Doering was among the oldest of more than 300 current and former City Ballet dancers at the David H. Koch Theater on Monday night who had gathered to celebrate the companys founding 75 years ago by Russian-born choreographer George Balanchine and arts patron and writer Lincoln Kirstein. (Doering demurred when asked to share her age, declaring, When Im 100, Ill tell everyone.) Among the guests inside the theater, on the marbled promenade, were ... More | |
The priceless artefacts from Sichuan for the upcoming special exhibition Gazing at Sanxingdui: New Archaeological Discoveries in Sichuan have arrived at the HKPM.
HONG KONG.- The Hong Kong Palace Museum announced the arrival of priceless artefacts from the Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan and Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu for the upcoming special exhibition Gazing at Sanxingdui: New Archaeological Discoveries in Sichuan (Gazing at Sanxingdui). The exhibition will be on view from 27 September 2023 to 8 January 2024. Curators and conservators from Sichuan and the HKPM worked closely together to perform condition checks and the installation of the newly arrived treasures in Gallery 8 of the Museum. Gazing at Sanxingdui is co-organised by the Hong Kong Palace Museum, the Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan, and the Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu and is supported by the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Chengdu Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. Bank of China (Hong Kong) is the Sole Sponsor of this special ... More |
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| Ancient earthworks trodden by golfers become a World Heritage Site | | Pink diamonds emerged out of one of Earth's most ancient breakups | | In his next magic show, Derren Brown will be invisible |
Golfers at Moundbuilders Country Club, which was build over and around ancient Native American earthworks, in Newark, Ohio, April 4, 2021. (Andrew Spear/The New York Times)
by Sarah Bahr
NEW YORK, NY.- Nine months after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that a country club must sell its lease to the state historical society that owns the land containing Native American earthworks, golfers are still pushing carts over the mounds and whacking at them with 3-irons. But now those Octagon Earthworks, which Native Americans constructed about 2,000 years ago as a means of tracking the movement of the sun and the moon through the heavens, have officially been named a UNESCO World Heritage site. Inscription on the World Heritage List will call international attention to these treasures long known to Ohioans, said Megan Wood, the executive director and CEO of the Ohio History Connection, which worked with the National Park Service and the Interior Department to have a combination of eight earthworks sites in central Ohio recognized. Those sites, collectively known as the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, include the ... More | |
In an undated image from Murray Rayner, pink diamonds found in the Argyle mine in Australia. Researchers said the pink diamonds came to Earths surface from deep underground about 1.3 billion years ago. (Murray Rayner via The New York Times)
by Maya Wei-Haas
NEW YORK, NY.- Pink diamonds take the Barbiecore craze to another level, but the rosy color comes at a cost. These gems are among the most rare and valuable diamonds around. And theyre far from perfect. Theyre actually damaged diamonds, said Hugo Olierook, a geoscientist at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. The color comes from the warping of the gems crystal lattice under intense pressure. While all diamonds form under pressure, even more force turns once clear diamonds colorful. A slight extra squeeze turns a diamond pink, and a hard squash turns it brown. More than 90% of the pink stones ever found came from the Argyle mine in Western Australia, which was one of the worlds most productive diamond deposits until it ceased operations in November 2020. Many of Argyles diamonds have a chocolatey brown or tawny hue. But out of every thousand gems, a couple would pop up in the rarer ... More | |
Derren Brown in Bristol, England on Sept. 18, 2023. Brown is the co-director of Unbelievable, opening in London, but he wont be onstage. Nor will any other professional magicians. (Chris Hoare/The New York Times)
by Claire Moses
LONDON.- After decades of stage shows, TV specials and essentially reinventing mind control, Derren Brown is doing something new: Hes getting off the stage, and into the directors chair. And its been a lot, Brown said in a recent video interview. Unbelievable, directed by Brown and his longtime collaborators Andrew OConnor and Andy Nyman, opens Tuesday in Londons West End, and is a family-friendly magic show the likes of which its makers promise youve never seen. Its also a new kind of Derren Brown show. Previously, Brown, 52, has been at the center of his productions. Brown has long maintained that he is not a psychic, but that his mind tricks are a combination of magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship. He has managed to convince people to commit an armed robbery (with fake weapons, of course); to take a bullet for someone (also staged); and that he has healing powers. ... More |
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New Red Order: Artists with a call to 'Give It Back'
NEW YORK, NY.- As a boy in Ketchikan, Alaska, Jackson Polys would help his father, prominent Tlingit artist Nathan Jackson, carve totem poles behind rope stanchions while boatloads of tourists watched. They would travel together to Worlds Fairs, where he would watch his father display his skill. In 1964, before Polys was born, Jackson worked the Worlds Fair in Queens advertising husky puppies and Indigenous crafts at the Alaskan pavilion. Worlds Fairs have historically presented a theory of progress, technological advancement, imperial advancement, Polys said in a recent interview. In these celebrations of civilization, Indigenous people often played the role of the uncivilized. Polys hopes to turn that model around for all of us to have a future that isnt rooted in domination. Welcome to The Worlds UnFair the most ambitious, ... More
A traitor, burned in effigy, again and again
NEW LONDON, CONN.- Connecticut, 1781. New London is burning after British troops led by Benedict Arnold raided the town. Dozens of people are dead. Hundreds are hurt. The sky is full of smoke. About a month later, soldiers fight in Yorktown, Virginia, in the last major battle of the Revolutionary War. A rallying cry: Remember New London. And 242 years later, New London has not forgotten. On a recent Saturday evening, hundreds of people gathered in the streets to burn Benedict Arnold, Americas most famous traitor, in effigy. To the beat of a fife and drum, residents marched the life-sized, two-faced puppet to its execution. Some, in tricorn hats, carried mock bayonets. Others held torches. Burn the traitor! onlookers screamed. Burn him! The procession is an annual piece of street theater, organized by Flock Theatre, a New London troupe. ... More
Os Tincoãs were almost forgotten. A new generation found their music.
RIO DE JANEIRO.- In May, a crowd of 3,000 filled the Utopia Warehouse at the old port of Rio de Janeiro for the opening night of Back2Black, a festival dedicated to Black culture. A figure dressed in white sat onstage, guitar in hand, and the imposing baritone voice of Mateus Aleluia the only active member of Os Tincoãs, a group from Bahia, Brazil, revered for its heavenly vocal harmonies and songs about the Yoruba mythology reverberated throughout the venue. He sang about birds, waterfalls and mystical beings. And also about oppression, suffering and the pain of racism. When Aleluia suddenly stopped singing and opened his arms, the crowd understood the signal and sang back to him the lyrics of Cordeiro de Nanã, the bands 1977 lament about slavery. You guys know the lyrics better than I do, he said with a smile, ... More
Full range of human experience is depicted in works by Louise Bourgeois at the Lower Belvedere
VIENNA.- Discover Louise Bourgeoiss paintings as part of the Belvederes three-hundred-year jubilee. For the first time in Europe the Belvedere will dedicate a major solo exhibition to the paintings by Louise Bourgeois, one of the most iconic artists of our time. For the first time in Europe, the Belvedere is dedicating a major solo exhibition to the paintings by Louise Bourgeois, one of the most iconic artists of our time. It was in these paintings, made between 1938 and 1949, that the French-American artist developed her unmistakable formal vocabulary and defined the thematic concerns that would run through her entire oeuvre. Despite her proximity to the Surrealists in 1930s Paris and the Abstract Expressionists in 1940s New York, Bourgeoiss work remained predominantly figurative and strongly independent. Existential ... More
Rapturous flower portrait by Irving Penn highlights Bonham's 'NY Photographs Sale'
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams will offer a rare poppy portrait from Irving Penns (1917-2009) floral series at its Photographs sale in New York on October 6. Penn began photographing his enchanting botanical still-lifes in 1967 on assignment for Vogue and continued to publish the portraits in the magazines annual Christmas issue through 1973. Each issue highlighted a different blossom, including the tulip, rose, lily, peony, orchid, begonia and the poppy. Offered in the sale is a dye transfer print of Poppy: Glowing Embers, estimated at $150,000 $250,000, which first debuted in December 1968 in the feature titled Free, Profuse, Strong as a Wolf, the Poppy is Vital, Persistent. Irving Penns perspicacious pursuit of truth and beauty in all of his photographic subjects is the cornerstone of his work, from his 1950s fashion ... More
Yorkshire Sculpture Park to show 'Jonathan Baldock: Touch Wood'
YORKSHIRE.- Jonathan Baldocks new exhibition Touch Wood at The Weston Gallery is a joyous, sensory feast taking inspiration from medieval sculpture, sacred geometry, the seasons and folk motifs. Jonathan Baldocks distinctive sculptural installations are immersive environments where colour, texture, scent, sound and humour combine with storytelling and enigmatic characters. Their sensory appeal is underpinned by an unsettling quality, like entering an unknown ritual. Myth, folklore and paganism, with their shapeshifting and fluid creatures, are central to the artists work, which offers space to reimagine queer and working peoples histories, explore hidden narratives and create alternative realities. For Touch Wood in YSPs Weston Gallery, Baldock will create a completely new body of work, embracing textile sculpture and hangings, ... More
'Unpredictable Drawings' by David Goldes, currently being exhibited at Yossi Milo
NEW YORK, NY.- Yossi Milo is exhibiting Unpredictable Drawings, a solo presentation of recent electrifying drawings by David Goldes. These new works are being presented alongside the artist's new monograph of the same name, published by Radius Books. Unpredictable Drawings opened Friday, September 8 with an artist's reception and book signing. David Goldes' (b. 1947; New York) new body of work addresses the uncertainty of current times, and was largely created during the unpredictable months of the Covid-19 pandemic. These luminous works were created through the artist's unique process that harnesses the power of physics, chemistry, and electricity. Goldes overlays graphite drawings onto paper coated with black gesso, which he then shocks with electric currents. The graphite serves as a conduit, electrifying ... More
Consequences of global economic forces on local culture featured in 'Prologue' at Maureen Paley & Studio M
LONDON.- Maureen Paley is currently hosting a new exhibition by Mexican American artist Eduardo Sarabia that is installed both at the gallery and at Studio M in Shoreditch. His work investigates the consequences of global economic forces on local culture and considers how state violence, drug trafficking, late-stage capitalism, and neo-colonial hierarchies permeate ties between the United States and Mexico. This new exhibition departs slightly from these concerns and reflects on the total eclipse of the sun that will be visible across Mexico on 8 April 2024 and considers how this event defies the politics and geography of national boundaries. Prologue is the first in a series of exhibitions in which Sarabia prepares ... More
'Florian Meisenberg: What does the smoke know of the fire?' at Kate MacGarry open until October 21st
LONDON.- Kate MacGarry welcomed Florian Meisenbergs fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. The show presents a new group of small-scale paintings with ambiguous subjects. Meisenberg uses pulverised marble as a material for the first time in these paintings. He covers semi- wet canvases with layers of the fine grey powder and gently sifts it off. Leftover protrusions adhere to the pigment, recalling fabric craft paint. The marble sparkles slightly, adding an irregular iridescence to Meisenbergs preferred palette of secondary colours such as olive, ochre and dull rose. The subjects of the paintings are often folkloric. Theres a couple living under a buttocks-shaped hill, hoarding goods but unhappy. A king hacks a rival to pieces as birds feed on flying scraps of flesh. A witch burns at the stake. These are not references to known tales but allusion ... More
Conceptual artist Kimsooja presenting 'To Breathe' at Kewenig
BERLIN.- For her exhibition at Kewenig, Kimsooja has covered all the windows of the historic gallery building with a film that lets in the daylight, breaking it into countless colours. This installation is part of her series of works 'To Breathe'. It encompasses the entire building, bathing it in a shimmering light of bright rainbow colours and entering into a dialogue with other works shown here as well as with the people moving through the building. Kimsooja (b. 1957 in Daegu, South Korea) is a conceptual artist who has worked in a variety of different media since studying painting, including sculpture, photography and video, site-specific installations and performance. Using textiles, light and sound, Kimsooja asks questions that concern humanity as a whole and deal with the themes of migration, cosmopolitanism and transculturality. She explores the concept of home, of a constant search and memories. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was born September 21, 1960. Maurizio Cattelan (born 21 September 1960, Padua, Italy) is an Italian artist. He is known for his satirical sculptures, particularly La Nona Ora (1999) (The Ninth Hour, depicting Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite), Him (2001), and Love Lasts Forever (1997). In this image: The sculpture middle finger by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan during the inauguration in front of the Stock Exchange building in Milan, Italy.
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