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A 17th century Chinese gilt bronze silver wire inlaid censer by Hu Wenming.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX.- Though auction houses, art fairs and gallery exhibitions are postponing their schedules until this fall, the online auctions carry on despite the worldwide disruption. Case in point: Lark Mason, whose eponymous Lark Mason Associates has two Asian art salestotaling more than 1,000 lotsrunning concurrently on igavelauctions.com, the online auction platform he founded in 2003. Considered one of the leading Asian art experts, Lark Mason explains, Im putting on a sale now in a time when most of my competitors are taking a wait and see approach. I dont blame them. Im taking big risk that could jeopardize my company. But, if our economy falters, I believe that waiting might actually be riskier. Its my job to look after my staff and our consignors, so were offering a large group of Chinese works of art on the iGav ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken on April 20, 2020, shows a view of the cieling in the Hall of Names, bearing names and pictures of Jewish Holocaust victims, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem. Movement and travel restrictions in place to contain the pandemic have forced this week's Holocaust Remembrance Day -- Yom HaShoah in Hebrew -- to be exclusively digital for the first time. In a normal year, symbolic events are organised at various locations, notably with survivors at the sites in Europe where the Nazis built concentration and extermination camps. This year, testimonials from survivors will be streamed online and featured in a pre-recorded ceremony to be broadcast in Israel by Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial centre, when Yom HaShoah begins on this evening. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP
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 | | Paul Kasmin, gallerist who ruled a mini-empire of art, dies at 60 | | Clarke Auction Gallery features art, jewelry, silver April 26 | | Christie's announces nline-only auction 'Handpicked: 100 Artists Selected by the Saatchi Gallery' | 
Paul Kasmin at one of his galleries in Chelsea in 2014. Via Kasmin family via The New York Times.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Paul Kasmin, a British-born art dealer who established a small gallery empire in New York that was both loyal to an eclectic cohort of living artists and dedicated to presenting a distinctive range of historical material, died on March 23 at his home in Millbrook, New York. He was 60. Kasmin Gallery said the cause was cancer. Kasmin was known for his independent eye, his genial optimism and his penchant for a spare, subtly British precision of speech. In a 2018 video interview, when asked why he was participating in an Armory Show art fair in Manhattan when his own galleries in Chelsea were only about a mile away, he replied, As long as people go to art fairs and buy things or look at things, I, too, will go to art fairs. Over 30 years, Kasmin built his own version of a mega-gallery, comprising a cluster ... More | | 
Leading the fine art category is a Daniel Hermann Anton Melbye seascape oil on canvas ($8/12,000), signed lower right, 33¼ by 60 inches.
LARCHMONT, NY.- Evolving as countless other businesses have in recent weeks, Clarke Auction Gallery has shifted to an online-only bidding model for its upcoming auction on Sunday, April 26, at 10 am. Some things remain the same though as the auction is jam-packed with quality merchandise ranging from fine paintings to Asian art, jewelry, silver and more. Online bidding is available through ClarkeNY.com, LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, and Bidsquare. Because we already had a strong online footprint, we can continue to service our buyers and consignors and communicate with our audiences, said owner and auctioneer Ronan Clarke. People are already comfortable with online bidding and they enjoy being able to continue to participate in auctions. The auction house is delivering and picking up items as normal and is also offering curbside pickups. Video chat appraisal services ... More | | 
Sigrid Holmwood, Mother and Child, 2007. Estimate: £3,000-5,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
LONDON.- Handpicked: 100 Artists Selected by the Saatchi Gallery is Christies fourth in a series of collaborative auctions with the Saatchi Gallery. For the latest edition, the auction will move to an online-only platform, affording collectors globally with an opportunity to acquire works of art from their home. Each piece has been selected to reflect the Saatchi Gallerys role in cultivating artists at the beginning of their career, providing insight into one of the most prestigious international collections. Estimates range from £1,000-15,000, attractive price points for seasoned and entry-level collectors alike. Handpicked: 100 Artists Selected by the Saatchi Gallery will be open for bidding from 12 to 28 May 2020. Peter Davies paints transient pop-cultural information systems lists, charts, bylines in the slick, clean, high-art tradition of minimalist painting. The Redundancy of Ideology (2008, estimate: £6,000- ... More |
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| | Italy's tourist towns shrivel in face of virus | | Sue Davies OBE, founding Director of The Photographers' Gallery, has died aged 87 | | Hollis Taggart now represents artist Hollis Heichemer | 
Andrea Bruciati, director of the famous terraced hillside Italian Renaissance garden and fountains Villa D'Este, poses in Tivoli on April 17, 2020. Filippo MONTEFORTE / S fornasier / AFP.
by Arman Soldin
TIVOLI (AFP).- The gardens and fountains are looking more lavish than ever, the Italian director of the UNESCO heritage site notes grimly, flourishing in the absence of an endless trudge of tourists. The Villa d'Este, about an hour's drive from Rome, is a 16th century marvel, a villa and park filled with ponds and manicured gardens first commissioned by a cardinal. Every day, nearly 2,000 people used to stroll along its paths, marvel at its Renaissance sculptures and take in the views from the terraced hillside. But it has been closed, along with almost everything else across the tourist-friendly Mediterranean country, since the first half of March because of the coronavirus pandemic. The estate's director sounds a philosophical ... More | | 
Sue was Director of the Gallery from 1971 1991. Photo by Paul Carter, 1971. Courtesy of The Photographers' Gallery.
LONDON.- Sue founded The Photographers Gallery in Londons Covent Garden in 1971 as the first public space dedicated to photography and photographers. Her passion, determination and belief in photography not just as an art form, but as one of the most powerful means of reflecting and changing the world around us, laid the foundations for the Gallerys raison dêtre. Sue was Director of the Gallery from 1971 1991 and worked tirelessly to garner financial and creative support for its exceptional programme of informed, imaginative, often provocative, exhibitions. From the outset they encompassed a broad range of topics and forms and introduced [often unknown, always interesting] international photographers to a UK audience. Her commitment to emergent talent and the development of the form remain one of her greatest legacies for both the ... More | | 
Hollis Heichemer, portrait. Courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hollis Taggart announces its representation of artist Hollis Heichemer, whose practice embraces lyrical and vividly colored paintings and works on paper. Heichemer was the subject of a solo exhibition at the gallerys temporary space at the High Line Nine in April 2019, which included the first public presentation of her drawings. While the gallery remains closed in accordance with current health and safety guidelines, it is planning for upcoming exhibitions of Heichemers work, in both its digital and physical spaces, with dates to be announced in the coming months. Heichemer joins the gallerys rapidly expanding contemporary program, which in recent months has also added artists Dana James, John Knuth, and William Buchina. In her abstract compositions, Heichemer explores the ways in which light, color, and form can coalesce to evoke a range of emotional, physical, and psychological sensations. Often these sen ... More |
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| | Rubem Fonseca, giant of Brazilian literature, dies at 94 | | Damien Hirst creates Rainbow for the NHS | | A string quartet is crushed by the coronavirus | 
Brazilian writer Rubem Fonseca. HECTOR GUERRERO / AFP.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Rubem Fonseca, whose flinty, obscenity-laden crime stories were seen as dark metaphors for the rot in Brazilian society, died on April 15 in Rio de Janeiro. He was 94. His death was confirmed by Samaritano Hospital, where he died after a heart attack. Over more than half a century, Fonseca wrote short stories, novels and screenplays that titillated and shocked Brazilians with their terse style and seamy content. They also made him a bestselling author and sealed his reputation as one of the countrys literary giants. His first collection of short stories Os Prisoneiros (The Prisoners) was published in 1963 and described as brutalist. But its major achievement was to shift the focus from the rural settings that Brazilian fiction tended to favor, to an urban area as the country was ... More | | 
Damien Hirst, Butterfly Rainbow, 2020. © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2020.
LONDON.- Leading British artist Damien Hirst has created a new rainbow work to show support for the National Health Service in the current Coronavirus crisis. The work, called Butterfly Rainbow, is made up of bands of coloured butterfly wings, one of the artists best-known motifs. It can be downloaded from Damien Hirsts website and displayed in peoples windows to show their appreciation for NHS staff. Damien Hirst said: I wanted to do something to pay tribute to the wonderful work NHS staff are doing in hospitals around the country. The rainbow is a sign of hope and I think it is brilliant that parents and children are creating their own version and putting them up in the windows of their homes. A limited edition of the work is also being produced which will be sold with all profits donated to the NHS. Further details will be announced on ... More | | 
Serafim Smigelskiy, the cellist in the Tesla Quartet, performs in Prospect Park in New York, April 16, 2020. Benjamin Norman/The New York Times.
by James B. Stewart
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Since its formation in 2008, the Tesla Quartet has been showered with critical accolades, released two recordings, hired a manager and lined up a full schedule at major concert halls around the world. Even so, life as a professional string quartet has been a hand-to-mouth existence. The four players, 34 to 38, have long relied on relatives, friends and concert presenters for temporary housing while stashing their few possessions in a storage locker. Only during the past year did their advance bookings give them the confidence and means to rent their own apartments in New York. And then, in early March, their delicate world fell apart. Tesla was ... More |
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| | Showtime, suspended | | Keep calm and draw together | | Wildlife photographer Peter Beard dead at 82 | 
A dated marquee in Manhattan's theater district during the coronavirus pandemic, April 16, 2020. David S. Allee/The New York Times.
by Michael Paulson
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- One month after Broadway shut down, I decided to take a walk. Theater is my beat. Times Square is my territory. And now its transformed. The first thing I noticed, after weeks away, was absence. Gone are the buskers promoting shows, the panhandling costumed characters, the Naked Cowboy and the fake monks and the school groups and the selfie sticks. Gone are the actors and the stagehands and the ushers and the fans. Then I saw presence. The shows are still there or at least their shells are. The district is a sort of theatrical petrified forest, fossilized on March 12. Now in Performances, declares a sign at the Longacre Theater, promoting Diana, a musical about the British princess, which is decidedly not in performances. Previews Begin ... More | | 
Stay Strong New York (2020) by graphic designer Ola Baldych, at a LinkNYC kiosk in Manhattan, April 19, 2020. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Ted Loos
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As the coronavirus pandemic reshapes huge swaths of society, the design world is responding by doing what it does best: grabbing our attention with striking images. Illustrators, artists, graphic designers and poster specialists are banding together in improvised coalitions to create public service messages some inspired by World War I and World War II posters with new artwork promoting health, fighting bigotry and thanking emergency medical workers. An alliance comprising the nonprofit organization Times Square Arts, the Poster House museum, Print magazine and the artist-run platform For Freedoms is plastering digital images on some 1,800 Link NYC kiosks as well as on electronic billboards in Times Square and one on the New Jersey side of the Lincoln Tunnel. ... More | | 
In this file photo Peter Beard attends 2013 Gordon Parks Foundation Awards at The Plaza Hotel on June 4, 2013 in New York City. Ben Gabbe / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Peter Beard, the influential photographer renowned for his wildlife shots, was found dead after going missing several weeks ago. He was 82 years old. "We are all heartbroken by the confirmation of our beloved Peter's death," his family said in a statement. Beard, who was suffering from dementia, went missing on March 31. A hunter found his remains over the weekend in a remote wooded area of a state park in Long Island, east of New York City, local police said. Police were called to the site in Camp Hero State Park in Montauk, on the tip of Long Island, and the deceased's clothing was found to match those Beard had worn. Known for his death-defying images of African fauna, Beard's text and photo book "The End of the Game," first published in 1965, captured the destruction of a continent long seen by colonialists as a treasure chest. ... More |
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 Beryl Bernay, children's tv host with a varied career, dies at 94NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Many Americans seek professional reinvention as a way to animate their lives. For Beryl Bernay, her life was defined by it. Bernay an actor, fashion designer, photographer, journalist, painter and amateur anthropologist died March 29 in Manhattan. She was 94. The cause was complications of the coronavirus, her niece, Carol Gonzalez, said. Beryl Bernstein was born March 2, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian émigré parents. Her father, Barney, who changed the family name to Berney when she was a child, was a garment worker, and her mother, Sade Berney, sold stockings and taught kindergarten. (Their daughter began spelling her name Bernay in adulthood.) She graduated from George Washington High School in Manhattan at 15. Too young to attend college, she worked at Franklin Simon ... More Robert Loomis, who edited Angelou, Styron and Morris, dies at 93NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Robert Loomis, an editor who bloodlessly transformed embryonic manuscripts by a pantheon of 20th-century American authors into award-winning and best-selling books, died Sunday in Stony Brook, New York. He was 93. His wife, Hilary Mills Loomis, said he died at Stony Brook University Hospital after being airlifted from his home in Sag Harbor, where had fallen earlier in the day. If Loomis was known to the reading public only from the acknowledgments pages of his authors books, he was revered in literary circles and respected in the publishing industry for his keen judgment about which writers and books held the greatest promise, and how to fulfill their potential. He was also known for his forbearance in forgiving delays that few publishers would tolerate from an author. His career began when he joined Random ... More The Art Gallery of New South Wales launches #TogetherInArtSYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales announces Together In Art, a recently launched online social project providing meaningful encounters with art through an open platform of imagination, inspiration and creativity during the temporary closure of the Gallery due to COVID-19. Established in 1871, The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney is one of Australias leading cultural institutions. It holds significant collections of Australian, European and Asian art, and has long been at the forefront of collecting, displaying and interpreting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. Featuring new commissions, pocket exhibitions, artist projects, innovative performances, talks, interviews, virtual visits to artists studios, behind-the-scenes tours, inspiring artmaking workshops and activities for children and adults, and more, Together In Art showcases ... More www.antiques.co.uk offers lifeline to antique shops and dealersLONDON.- As antiques fairs and shops and galleries temporarily close their doors as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, www.antiques.co.uk the worlds leading online antiques platform has launched a pay-as-you-go option where trade and private clients can list the widest array of items to buy and sell, whilst the site is now open to art galleries from around the world. Traditionally a pay-for-membership site, www.antiques.co.uk founder Iain Brunt has now opened-up the platform enabling antique dealers, galleries, collectors and private buyers to list individual items for £3.75 (USD $5) with no other hidden fees or charges and the item remains live until sold. There is no time restriction or limit to the number of items you can list. According to the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report of 2020, global sales of art and antiques ... More The museum confederation L'Internationale invites artists to join a conversation EINDHOVEN.- The museum confederation L'Internationale has invited artists Babi Badalov, Osman Bozkurt, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Ola Hassanain, Sanja Iveković, Sinia Labrović, Rogelio López Cuenca & Elo Vega, Kate Newby, Daniela Ortiz, Zeyno Pekünlü, Maja Smrekar, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Guy Woueté, Akram Zaatari, and Paweł Żukowski to join a conversation from their present working and living spaces, conditions and places. Their reflections suggest new perspectives on public/private space, solidarity and critique that are intrinsically connected with the present time. In 1979, on the day of President Titos visit to Zagreb, the artist Sanja Iveković carried out an 18-minute performance titled Trokut [Triangle] (1979) on her balcony. She went out and started to read a book, drink a whisky, and made ... More Artist donates profits as lockdown prompts steep rise in calls to LGBTQ+ helpline / Maxwell FineLONDON.- Amidst stark warnings that the LGBTQ+ community is at increased risk of suicide and depression if observing lockdown in unsupportive or abusive homes, Maxwell Fine is donating a percentage of the sales of his dynamic typographical prints and sculptures to the helpline, Switchboard. A long-time supporter of the LGBTQ+ charity, the artist and designer turned to the helpline himself while in a shattering, self-destructive relationship to try to help his partner who was paralysed by the fear of coming out to his family. Crippled by stigma around homosexuality, the enforced double life Fines partner was leading decimated his mental health. Ultimately, this pushed the couple to split when shame and anxiety placed unbearable pressure on their relationship. Fine was later able to channel this heartbreak into artwork: lifting the words from ... More CAP Prize 2020: 25 shortlisted projects announcedBASEL.- The Contemporary African Photography Prize CAP Prize announces the 25 shortlisted projects for the 9th edition of the prize. The prize is directed at photographers whose work engages with the African continent or its diaspora. It consists of a series of exhibitions produced in collaboration with major photography festivals in Africa and the rest of the world. The five winners will be announced at Photo Basel International Art Fair in September 2020. The CAP Prize aims to raise the profile of African photography within the arts and to encourage a rethinking of the image of Africa. Each year five winners are selected by an internationally sourced panel of judges, enabling the promotion of African photography worldwide. The CAP Prize is open to artists of any age and descent. Submitted photographic series must consist of 10 to 25 images. There ... More Visit museums from home with Art Fund's podcast Meet Me at the MuseumLONDON.- With cultural institutions currently closed, Meet Me at the Museum takes listeners into the heart of museums and galleries across the UK. Each episode follows a famous face on a visit with friends or family as they uncover what makes museums tick. Established by Art Fund, the national charity for art and the home of the National Art Pass, in 2018 and nominated for a British Podcast Award in 2019, there are a host of previous episodes to catch up on for those currently missing their museum fix. The fourth series, hosted by Acast, launches on Monday 20 April 2020. New episodes landing each week feature: TV presenter Mel Giedroyc at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, London Broadcaster Edith Bowman at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow Arts influencer Katy Hessel at Barbara Hepworth Museum & Sculpture Garden, St ... More Glasgow International announces a digital programme with new online commissions GLASGOW .- Glasgow International has announced details of a new, digital programme in place of the 2020 festival, which has been postponed until 2021. The programme will be available on the homepage of the Glasgow International website from 23 April-10 May, the dates when the original festival was due to take place. Artists including Jenkin van Zyl, Yuko Mohri, Alberta Whittle and Liv Fontaine have made new work for the digital programme, which also showcases works by artists Georgina Starr, Urara Tsuchiya and Sarah Forrest. These artists, who were all part of the planned Glasgow International 2020, have been selected to create or contribute work for our digital programme to give audiences a taste of what the Festival aimed to bring them this year. In some cases, this is now with the added lens of our current context. Additional programming ... More Master photographer Derry Moore turns his lens on American architecture and landscapeLONDON.- For years, Britains much-loved gardener Monty Don has been leading us down all kinds of garden paths to show us why green spaces are vital to our well-being and culture. Now, he travels across America with celebrated photographer Derry Moore to trace the fascinating histories of outdoor spaces which epitomize or redefine the American garden. In the book, which complements the BBC television series, they look at a variety of gardens and outdoor spaces at the centre of American history including the slave garden at Thomas Jeffersons Monticello estate, Longwood Gardens in Delaware, and Middleton Place in South Carolina. Together Monty & Derry visit verdant oases designed by modernist architects such as Richard Neutra. They delve into urban outdoor spaces, looking at New York Citys Central Park, Lurie Garden at the ... More Dannielle Bowman wins the 2020 Aperture Portfolio PrizeNEW YORK, NY.- Aperture announces that the winner of this years Portfolio Prize is Dannielle Bowman, for her ongoing series What Had Happened. Bowmans varying tones wash the viewer in light, allowing us to consider what these photos of the mundane may add to a larger narrative. Bowmans work will be published in Aperture magazine, and she will receive a $3,000 cash prize. This year, Aperture announces that the Portfolio Prize exhibition will take place at Baxter St at The Camera Club New York. The four 2020 Portfolio Prize runners up are Lindley Warren Mickunas, Jessica Chou, Gloria Oyarzabal, and Daniel Jack Lyons. The winner and runners up will be featured in an online gallery on Apertures website. Lesley A. Martin, Apertures creative director and publisher of The PhotoBook Review writes: There are multiple entry points ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian-French illustrator Erté died April 21, 1990. Romain de Tirtoff (23 November 1892 - 21 April 1990) was a Russian-born French artist and designer known by the pseudonym Erté, from the French pronunciation of his initials. He was a diversely talented 20th-century artist and designer who flourished in an array of fields, including fashion, jewellery, graphic arts, costume and set design for film, theatre, and opera, and interior decor.
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