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A photo provided by The Manhattan District Attorney's Office shows a rare silver coin that American investigators returned to Israel. Experts say that this coin, dated to roughly A.D. 69, is among the rarest remaining from the Jewish uprising against imperial Rome; it is estimated to be worth $500,000 to $1 million. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office via The New York Times.
by Tom Mashberg and Graham Bowley
NEW YORK, NY.- American investigators returned a rare silver coin to Israel on Monday that they say was minted as a marker of independence during the Great Revolt against Roman oppression of the years 66-73 and centuries later was looted from an archaeological site in the Valley of Elah. The coin was seized in 2017 when collectors tried to sell it at an auction in Denver, where it was listed as having an estimated value between $500,000 and $1 million. But it did not clear the legal hurdles to be returned to Israel until this summer. Experts say the coin, a quarter shekel featuring palm branches and a wreath and dated to the year 69, is among the rarest coins remaining from the bloody Jewish uprising against imperial Rome. The Roman response included the sacking and burning of the Temple Mount in the year 70 and the demise of the last Jewish holdouts at Masada in the year 73. The minting of such coins by Jews during the rebellion was considered a major statement of sovereignty by people whom the Roma ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear, on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York from September 12, 2022 - January 1, 2023. Photo: Emile Askey.
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| Tyler Mitchell: From glossy magazines to a mega gallery | | Senga Nengudi wins the 2023 Nasher Prize for Sculpture | | Robert Fripp lightens up |
Photographer Tyler Mitchell in his Brooklyn studio, Aug. 2, 2022. Mitchell explores themes of Black history and Southern identity in Chrysalis, his first solo exhibition at Gagosian, London. Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- The chromatic, crystalline elements in Tyler Mitchells new photographs a tire swing, a white picket fence, a bouquet of balloons conjure images of innocence, safety and repose. Look again. On a recent day at his studio in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, New York, where he makes the work that now graces museum walls as well as the pages of glossy magazines, Mitchell talked about the complexity of his recent compositions and how in them, he aims to explore the history of Black Americans, their relationship to landscape and his own identity as someone from the Deep South. Coming off making a lot of my fashion work, which had this signature of optimism I can make you feel good I want to continue that but also think through ways the land hasnt held up its promise, said Mitchell. Im thinking about 40 acres and a mule. Im thinking about even the past two years, in which systems have not worked ... More | |
An undated photo provided by Ron Pollard. via the Nasher Sculpture Center shows Senga Nengudi, the recipient of the Nasher Prize for sculpture. The artists five-decade-long career has put ordinary materials to use in works exploring ritual and the fragility of the body. Ron Pollard. via the Nasher Sculpture Center via The New York Times.
by Aruna DSouza
NEW YORK, NY.- The sculptor and performance artist Senga Nengudi, whose five-decade-long career has mined everyday materials to explore concepts of ritual, femininity, Blackness and the fragility of the body, is the winner of the 2023 Nasher Prize. The international award, in its sixth year, includes a $100,000 cash prize, an exhibition and a series of public events in Dallas in March and April. It is less a lifetime achievement award, said Jeremy Strick, director of the Nasher Sculpture Center, than a recognition of an artist with a significant body of work who is continuing to speak with great force to the contemporary moment. In a phone conversation, Nengudi, 78, said, I think about so many artists who are now gone, and Im just grateful that Im here in body to receive all this. Nengudis best-known series, ... More | |
Robert Fripp, the leader and guitarist of King Crimson, the rock band he founded in 1969, at the Mansion at Glen Cove hotel, in Glen Cove, N.Y., Aug. 25, 2022. Timothy O'Connell/The New York Times.
by Jon Pareles
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Fripp became a rock star without acting like a showman. As the guitarist and leader of King Crimson the band he founded in 1969 Fripp, 76, has written music thats barbed, visceral, complex and ambitious, seizing the vanguard of progressive rock yet reaching a broad audience. King Crimsons catalog has found multiple generations of admirers among musicians, including the Rolling Stones, the Clash, the Mars Volta, Black Midi and even Kanye West, who sampled 21st Century Schizoid Man in the song Power, which has been streamed more than 135 million times. (The deal involved is still under litigation.) Fripps guitar riffs are saw-toothed and dissonant; his solo lines slice and sear. But onstage, he has always been the picture of an introvert: seated, taciturn, entirely concentrating on his guitar. Some players can put on a really great show playing guitar. I cant, Fripp said in a rare ... More |
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| Sydney museum sends visitors into an oil tank (and an artist's imagination) | | Presentation at Xavier Hufkens showcases all five decades of Giorgio Griffa's career | | Almine Rech announces opening of new U.S. flagship: Tribeca, New York City |
Artist Adrián Villar Rojas during a visit to the Tank space in the new building at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Mim Stirling.
by Jori Finkel
SYDNEY.- When the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney began planning a campus expansion almost a decade ago, to add a building for contemporary art, it wasnt clear what would become of the two giant, abandoned World War II-era oil tanks located underneath the new site. The museums answer: Let artists have at them. It has transformed one of the tanks into a vast, unnerving sort of gallery space and turned it over to darkly imaginative Argentine installation artist Adrián Villar Rojas for a sweeping exhibition. Called The End of Imagination, it will open Dec. 3, along with the $245 million expansion, known as the Sydney Modern Project. Visitors will enter an ... More | |
Giorgio Griffa, Ozcrotus, 2019.
BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens announce Luce buio, the gallerys inaugural exhibition dedicated to the work of Italian abstract artist Giorgio Griffa (b. 1936, Turin). From his early linear paintings of the mid-1960s to recent works from 2022, this presentation showcases all five decades of the artists career and highlights both the evolutions and constancies within an oeuvre that is as eclectic as it is poetic. Giorgio Griffa is primarily known for his painted canvases that are nailed directly to the wall unprimed, unframed and unstretched the majority of which are executed in a luminous palette of desaturated colours. The canvases are folded when not exhibited, which creates visible creases that become a vital part of the work. At first glance, it is hard to differentiate the paintings of fifty years ago with those made recently. A closer study of the oeuvre, however, reveals the existence of eleven major cycles, ra ... More | |
Almine Rech maintains additional locations in Paris, Brussels, London and Shanghai.
NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech announced plans for a permanent expansion in New Yorks downtown Tribeca neighborhood opening in 2023, marking the gallerys new flagship location in the U.S. Housed within a 134-year-old landmarked building recently renovated by Pritzker prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban, the 10,000 square foot space is situated at 361 Broadway (Franklin St./Broadway). The original Almine Rech location in New York will remain active on the Upper East Side. Since we opened in New York in 2016, over 20 US-based artists have joined the gallery. We needed to increase the range of opportunities we could offer them locally. Tribeca was already on our radar since we started considering an expansion but, ultimately, it was feedback from our artists that solidified our location choice." - Paul de Froment, Managing Partner, New York. "We were looking for a beautiful, ... More |
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| The Cleveland Museum of Art announces new acquisitions | | Hauser & Wirth New York opens an exhibition of Jenny Holzer's most recent works | | Aperture Foundation lands a new headquarters |
Beauford Delaney Untitled, about 1958. Beauford Delaney (American, 19011979). Oil on canvas; 146.1 x 114.3 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund.
CLEVELAND, OH.- Recent acquisitions by the Cleveland Museum of Art include a masterpiece by Beauford Delaney, strengthening the museums collection of works by Black artists; a triptych by the Master of the Krainburg Altar, an outstanding example of panel painting around 1500; and an ink painting of bamboo by Korean artist Jin-woo Kim. One of Beauford Delaneys finest and most exuberant achievements, Untitled is a visually engaging, generously scaled composition featuring highly gestural and textured applications of paint. Its striking palette radiates with buoyant yellow interlaced throughout with prismatic blue and red, with intermittent complementary accents in green and orange. The predominant yellow brushwork is deployed in lively undulating arcs across the surface of the canvas, creating a cohesive allover arrangement. In style, ... More | |
keyhole of history, 2022. 24k gold and moon gold leaf and oil on linen, 147.3 x 111.8 cm / 58 x 44 in. © (2022) Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- Renowned American artist Jenny Holzer has used language as her primary medium since the 1970s, mobilizing poetic, political and personal texts to reflect on our experiences of power, violence, joy, idealism, nonsense, despair, fun and corruption. This September, Hauser & Wirth New York presents Holzers most recent works including paintings, curse tablets and a monumental kinetic display packing presidential tweets in the artists long-anticipated solo exhibition for New York City. Holzers Hauser & Wirth New York debut sees the artist engaging directly with the present moment, drawing from new and ancient cultural-political materials to illuminate contemporary life. A centerpiece of the presentation, WTF (2022), is a swinging electronic sign with tweets posted by Donald Trump during his presidency and posts by Q, leader of the QAnon conspiracy ... More | |
380 Columbus Avenue exterior, Courtesy of Aperture.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Aperture Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1952 by a group of prominent photographers, has announced that it purchased a new headquarters for $8.95 million. The group will occupy the lower two floors of a Romanesque Revival building at 380 Columbus Ave. on the Upper West Side, across the street from the American Museum of Natural History. Now occupying fourth-floor rented quarters in Chelsea, Aperture said Thursday that it would relocate in summer 2024, after a renovation of the spaces 10,000 square feet by the Levenbetts architecture firm. A ground-floor entrance and windows will offer greater visibility to its exhibitions, bookstore and public programming, while another level will provide additional offices for administrative and publication workers. We looked at hundreds of properties, said Sarah Meister, Apertures executive director. This had so many of the elements we had been hoping for great accessibility and visibility, flo ... More |
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| Belgian artist Sophie Kuijken opens an exhibition at Galerie Nathalie Obadia | | Success for "Provenance Revealed: Galerie Steinitz" - doubles the pre-sale estimate | | 'Beetlejuice' to close on Broadway |
Sophie Kuijken, A.B.H., 2022. Acrylic and oil on chipboard panel, 61 x 41 x 1,8 cm (24 1/32 x 16 1/8 x 0 23/32 in).
BRUSSELS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting the sixth solo exhibition of the Belgian artist Sophie Kuijken in its Brussels gallery. Sophie Kuijken's work, which remained undiscovered for almost 20 years, was brought out of the shadows for the first time in 2011 at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle (Ghent- BE). As a whole, it constitutes a highly singular contribution to the art of portraiture. If the artist had not met Joost Declercq (the former director of the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens), we would probably never have seen her works with their captivatingly strange figures that appear surprisingly familiar. This retreat to the inner world of her studio, painting out of sight, has enabled her ... More | |
Each lot included a secure, encrypted certificate of the sale for the successful bidder, providing a permanent digital record of the information about the artwork. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- The innovative sale Provenance Revealed: Galerie Steinitz more than doubled its pre-sale estimate, realising a total of £6,299,640 / $7,131,192 / 7,187,889, on 21 September at Christies headquarters in London. Selling 89% by value, each lot was registered and secured on the Blockchain through Artory a notable first for Classic Art. For this celebration of great provenances and craftsmanship, Christies partnered with Benjamin Steinitz, the internationally renowned dealer of 18th and 19th century furniture and sculpture, to advance the trade of decorative arts to a sophisticated new realm. The sale was led by two pairs of timeless ... More | |
Alex Brightman in the musical "Beetlejuice" at the Winter Garden Theater, in New York, March 21, 2019. Beetlejuice, an exuberantly ghoulish musical that was so on brand it came back from the dead, will end its Broadway run on Jan. 8, the shows producers announced Tuesday, Sept. 21. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Beetlejuice, an exuberantly ghoulish musical that was so on brand it came back from the dead, will end its Broadway run on Jan. 8, the shows producers announced Tuesday. This is the latest in a string of closings as Broadway grapples with diminished tourism, fewer Manhattan office workers and an inflation-driven rise in production costs following the lengthy pandemic shutdown of theaters. Last week, The Phantom of the Opera, which is Broadways longest-running ... More |
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Fort Gansevoort features twelve new large-scale works by Dawn Williams Boyd
NEW YORK, NY.- Fort Gansevoort is presenting The Tip of the Iceberg, its first solo exhibition with Dawn Williams Boyd at the gallerys space in New York City. Featuring twelve new large-scale works, this presentation coincides with the last leg of the artists traveling museum exhibition Dawn Williams Boyd: Woe, on view at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. Based in Atlanta, Boyd is widely celebrated for her cloth paintings that establish a powerful, unblinking sociopolitical narrative with textiles. Using fabric as her pigment, she layers and stitches together personal recollections, history, and contemporary political references into striking compositions that challenge and provoke. Sometimes allegorical, often focusing on racial and social justice, Boyds scenes are populated by life-sized figures and rendered with elaborate textures ... More
Olivia Plender opens her second exhibition at Maureen Paley
LONDON.- Maureen Paley is presenting Our Bodies are Not the Problem by Olivia Plender. This is her second solo exhibition at the gallery. Olivia Plenders work is based on historical research that analyses pedagogical methods and revolutionary, social, political, and educational movements mainly of the 19th and 20th centuries. She finds her sources in archives, as well as through collaborations with community groups, to make installations, videos, and comics that address the present to unmask and understand contemporary social structures and power relations. The exhibition brings together work from Olivias most recent projects, related to feminist history. They seek to make visible the sophisticated techniques of care, collaborative methods and forms of mutual education that have been developed and practised by feminist ... More
Opening today: James Fuentes presents Keegan Monaghan: Indicator
NEW YORK, NY.- James Fuentes is presenting Keegan Monaghan, Indicator, the artists third solo exhibition at the gallery. Sidewalk, grate, outlet, floor. Consider in each of these new paintings by Keegan Monaghan a subject so tightly cropped it becomes a quiet enigma as seen from outside, a world built upon the foundations of either what we cant see, or of only what we can. Theres an air vent beyond which is uncomprehended, or the inverse operation:a street lamp right in our face, plain yet foreboding. The larger process binding these stages of surface and depth could be called world-building. World-building creates a paradigmatic regularity: the paradigm as system iterated through time. World-building means developing an internal consistency, integrating the whole into the sum of its parts. Ultimately, a worlds clarity of vision is measured through ... More
DIA to collect works focused on automotive, industrial, and decorative design
DETROIT, MICH.- Funded by a gift of $5 million from the Mort and Brigitte Harris Foundation, the Detroit Institute of Arts will hire a new curator and acquire works across media that illuminate the interrelated creative and technological, design and functional endeavors that defined and continue to characterize the ingenuity and development of the American automotive industry, with an emphasis on Detroits distinctive place in this narrative. The new collection will be launched with a generous gift of 91 automotive drawings from Julie Hyde-Edwards, which represents decades of study, collecting, and advocacy by Julie and her late husband Robert Edwards on behalf of Detroit car designers and the art they produced. I am grateful to Morts son Stuart Harris and Brigittes daughter Michele Becker, and trustee Doreen Vitti, with support from Morts ... More
A welcome gust of weird, and adventures in shadow puppetry
NEW YORK, NY.- Some theaters dim the lights momentarily to signal that the performance is about to begin. Others sound a delicate three-note chime. At the New Ohio Theater, in Greenwich Village, audience members crowded into the lobby waiting to see the madcap new play My Onliness are alerted to curtain time by the sudden blast of a conch shell and the arrival of a human with a unicorn head, who leads a procession into the house. Dont mind the man in swim goggles showering onstage under a thin stream of water, wearing a sign that says WRITER and a tall foil hat that looks like the progeny of a Hersheys Kiss and a bishops miter. Just take in the voluptuous strangeness of it all. For theater lovers ravenous for the downtown-peculiar, My Onliness is savory sustenance. The cast of characters includes a ginormous lobster, who is warm ... More
The 'alien goldfish' finds a home
NEW YORK, NY.- The early fossil record is littered with bizarre creatures that do not resemble anything living today. And few of those evolutionary enigmas are as perplexing as Typhloesus, an ancient sea animal so strange that paleontologists have referred to it as an alien goldfish. The bloblike animal has defied taxonomic placement for nearly 50 years. Scientists werent sure whether the animal, which had a substantial tail fin and a gut often packed with the remains of early fish species, was more closely related to a worm, a jawless fish or something else entirely. However, the discovery of a tooth-covered tongue in several Typhloesus fossils may bring these seemingly extraterrestrial animals down to earth. It helps us find the branch of the tree of life that Typhloesus belongs to, said Jean-Bernard Caron, a paleontologist at the Royal Ontario ... More
New exhibition celebrates mumok's 60th anniversary
VIENNA.- The mumok collection contains nearly five hundred works that in one way or the other involve animals. Mr. Bear stomps through a painting, a Cat, Aroused exposes himself in a drawing, Le Griffu menacingly extends its claws in sculpture, and photographs depict scenes from slaughterhouses and zoological gardens. There is a giant blue spider and renderings of the Batmobile and Bambi, as well as a stele clad in snakeskin, the cast of a prehistoric skeleton, and a container filled with pigeon droppings. In Vienna Actionism, slaughtered lambs are wielded, while Gina Pane lets maggots crawl across her face as children sing Happy Birthday. These and many other works with animals make up a good five percent of the collection, a considerable proportion that raises the question of what kind of zoo the museum actually ... More
Significant works by Thomas Struth and Hilla & Bernd Becher headline Heritage's October Photography Auction
DALLAS, TX.- Artists are often generous in acknowledging those who have influenced them. Photographers are no exception, whether a direct visual lineage is evident in their work or not. In interviews, Thomas Struth, one of the most acclaimed photographers of our time, who's most known for his massive pictures of people taking in spectacular interiors and artworks, points graciously to his mentors, the photographers Bernd and Hilla Becherwhose work is currently the subject of a massive posthumous retrospective organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Whether one can spot the influential Bechers' rigorous sensibility in Struth's work may be up to the eye of the beholder, but what's not in doubt ... More
Alchemy Gallery opens a solo show featuring the vibrant, fantastical works of Christina Allan
NEW YORK, NY.- After her sold out debut in Alchemy Gallerys June group exhibition, Fem, the gallery is presenting DEAD SEA, a solo show featuring the vibrant, fantastical works of Christina Allan. This show builds on a recurring character in Allans work - the skeleton motif - for a series of paintings that unveil a world of spiritual creatures lurking in the depths of the deep sea which exude a bioluminescent-quality, created by Allans energetic painting technique that blends bold and hazy spray-painted and airbrushed forms. The glowing, vivid lifeforms and surrealistic elements captured by Allan, illuminate a dark dream-like ocean atmosphere and underworld in DEAD SEA, which will be on view from September 7th through October 8th. DEAD SEA was born from a personal and collective curiosity about the mysterious nature of the ocean, much of which remains ... More
SculptureCenter presents the first U.S. exhibition of artist Henrike Naumann
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- SculptureCenter announces Henrike Naumann: Re-Education, the first exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist Henrike Naumann, on view September 22, 2022 February 27, 2023. Naumanns installations of furniture and design objects are composed as scenes that ask pressing and enduring questions: What is the relationship between design and ideology? How should one read the politics of design? Inflected by her own formative years growing up in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) and then a unified Germany, Naumanns work often considers the social transformations initiated by Western consumer capitalism as it reached former socialist states and ideas of the good life that have arisen globally (if unevenly). Naumann contends with the many side effects visible today: ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Alessandro Allori died September 22, 1607. Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (31 May 1535 - 22 September 1607) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school. In this image: Portrait of Grand Duchess Bianca Capello de Medici, by Allori, Dallas Museum of Art.
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