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Kenneth Green (British, 1913-1976). Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten, 1943. Oil on canvas, 21 1/8 x 38 1/8 in. National Portrait Gallery, London. Given by Mrs. Mary Behrend, 1973. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
NAPLES, FL.- ArtisNaples, The Baker Museum is the final U.S. stop on the tour for Love Stories from the National Portrait Gallery, Londona special exhibition of portraits focused on love and desire. On the road due to renovations at its permanent home, this collection of top tier artwork is rarely seen outside of the National Portrait Gallery, which houses the largest collection of portraits in the world. Spotlighting relationships between noted pairs and couples in Western art from the Renaissance to the present day, this exhibition (February 4May 7) features artists ranging from Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds to Man Ray and David Hockney, as well as other living artists and photographers. The storytelling through these works of art offers every type of love story, from the tragic love affair to forbidden love to celebrating the triumph of love against the odds. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Explore true stories and destinies of everyday people during World War II in the Netherlands. What did life look like? What choices did you have to make? Step back in time at the Resistance Museum.
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| Nelson-Atkins Museum faces Philadelphia Museum in Super Bowl run-up | | Art critics: Next endangered species? | | Orlando Museum of Art receives 90 artwork donations |
Philadelphia Museum of Art faces Kansas Citys Nelson-Atkins Museum on social media.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Its the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection versus the BBQ Capital of the World. As the Philadelphia Eagles prepare to face the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl on February 12, a battle for the masterpieces will also be at play, accompanied by a pigskin scramble on social media as two major art museums stake a precious work of art on the likelihood of their citys Super Bowl victory. Sasha Suda, the George D. Widener Director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, has wagered a master painting on the Birds success. Julián Zugazagoitia, Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell CEO & Director of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, has eagerly taken up the challenge on behalf of the Kansas City Chiefs. In the wager, the winning citys museum will receive the others painting on loan. A Chiefs victory would bring a future delegation from ... More | |
David Velasco, editor in chief of Artforum, at home in New York, March 5, 2021. (Brian Finke/The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- Questions about the future of art criticism and how it might survive another season of layoffs and corporate mergers have dogged the International Association of Art Critics, a nonprofit organization based in Paris that represents more than 6,000 art writers worldwide including some 500 critics, art historians and scholars in the United States. Six board members nearly half its leadership team have resigned in recent months from the organizations American chapter, with most citing its failure to enact a diversity plan that members had supported since the George Floyd protests in 2020. The plan included award and fellowship opportunities for writers of color, as well as a revised mission statement reflecting the organizations commitment to social justice. No aspect of that plan ... More | |
Seated Female Figure with baby, CE 1200-1400, Middle Cauca Region, Late Quimbaya Culture, Ceramic, 10 ½ x 8 ½ x 6 in., Gift of Dr. Luis Alfonso Cabal and Carolyn Cabal.
ORLANDO, FLA.- The Orlando Museum of Art has received donations of 90 works from 8 donors over the past year. The pieces include ancient American artwork, abstract works, and black-and-white photography. The artists featured in this collection of donations represent the museum's diverse audience, offering a cultural connection for people with varied backgrounds and experiences. Carolyn Cabal gifted 30 pieces of Ancient American artwork from the collection of her late husband, Dr. Luis Alfonso Cabal, to OMA in July of 2022. Some of these works are currently on display as part of the museums exhibition A Trek from North to South: Exploring the Art of the Ancient Americas. The Orlando Museum of Arts Art of the Ancient Americas Collection has over 900 works, including objects created for ceremony, adornment, and use ... More |
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| The Frick Collection co-publishes 'Regarding Ingres: Fourteen Short Stories' | | 'I am one of three people in a triangle' - intimate Diana letter comes to auction | | Currier acquires important 17th century painting |
Both Ingress painting and the stories take their inspiration from Louise, Princesse de Broglie, Comtesse dHaussonville, who came of age in an aristocratic and highly educated family and had the unique distinction of being the daughter, sister, spouse, and mother of four members of the French Academy.
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the most celebrated paintings in The Frick Collection, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingress Comtesse dHaussonville, has inspired a new book of short stories to be published next month by Rizzoli Electa in association with the Frick. The stories in Regarding Ingres: Fourteen Short Stories were written by talented graduate students in New York Universitys Creative Writing Program. Best-selling author and NYU professor Darin Strauss served as their faculty advisor and contributed the books introduction. Comments Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of the Frick, We are so proud to welcome fresh perspectives on works in our collection ... More | |
Letters written by Princess Diana are not too uncommon at auction.
LONDON.- A letter penned by Diana, Princess of Wales in which she discusses her marital strife comes for sale in London this month. The letter, in a handwritten envelope addressed to a Mrs Cotton, comes for sale at Chiswick Auctions on Valentines Day, February 14. Letters written by Princess Diana are not too uncommon at auction, but head of sale Valentina Borghi says this one is of particular interest as such a personal and intimate content is quite remarkable as it references directly that famous quote there were three people in this marriage. The letter reads simply "If only life were so simple. It is my dearest wish. Sadly the reality is I am one of three people in a triangle. It is written on a single sheet of Kensington Palace headed note paper and dated 11 May 1995 over six months before the famous BBC Panorama interview in which Diana publicly discussed her relationship wit ... More | |
Circle of David Teniers the Younger, Black Men and Women in a Tavern, mid-17th century oil on wood. Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire. Gift of Salomon Lilian.
MANCHESTER, NH.- The Currier Museum of Art recently acquired one of the earliest depictions of free Black people in Europe. Painted in Antwerp around 1650, Black Men and Women in a Tavern shows figures drinking and smoking in a relaxed setting. Produced in the circle of the Flemish artist David Teniers the Younger, the work closely resembles paintings of the period showing White people carousing in taverns. Blacks from Africa appear in European art beginning in the 16th century, but they were normally presented as exotic figures in the roles of servants, slaves, or Biblical figures. They almost always wear elaborate foreign attire. In this painting, Blacks are the main focus of the scene and wear ordinary clothes of the time. There were Black communities in the port cities of the Netherlands ... More |
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| AstaGuru's 'Present Future' auction to highlight India's dynamic contemporary art space | | Baber and LaVernare among the highlights of Moran's Art + Design sale | | Buchmann Galerie opens an exhibition of works by Lawrence Carroll |
The auction is scheduled on February 15-16, 2023.
MUMBAI.- AstaGuru will present the next edition of its Present Future Contemporary Art Auction with 125 works by leading and famous contemporary artists. The finely curated catalogue features creations by Anish Kapoor, Subodh Gupta, Bharti Kher, Atul Dodiya, Jitish Kallat, Ravinder Reddy, Nataraj Sharma, Thukral & Tagra, Valay Shende, Sudhir Patwardhan, Sudarshan Shetty, Suryakant Lokhande, Ranbir Singh Kaleka, Surendran Nair, Bose Krishnamachari, N.S. Harsha, Jagannath Panda, Mithu Sen, Baiju Parthan, Chittrovanu Mazumdar, L. N Tallur, T.V. Santhosh, among others. The auction is scheduled on February 15-16, 2023. Talking about the upcoming auction, Ankita Talreja, AVP, AstaGuru Auction House, says, We are thrilled to present this stunning selection of works by artists who are redefining the narrative of Indian art in present times. Drawn from their private histories and cultural traditions, these experiential works ... More | |
Bruno Munari's Environnement, estimated $3,000-5,000, is designed with aluminum, plastic filament, and painted wood kinetic sculpture.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- February 2023 is filled with many noteworthy daysValentines Day, Presidents Day, Ash Wednesday, and Morans Art + Design sale! On Tuesday, February 28 at noon PST, the auction house will present modern and contemporary fine art, decorative art, and furniture that collectors will not want to miss. The 300+ lots will include works by Alice Baber, Hans Burkhardt, Roy Lichtenstein, Rosangela Renno, Margaret Keane, Bruno Munari, Alex Weinstein, Wucius Wong, and Pablo Picasso. The variety of furniture is also impressive, featuring designers such as George Nakashima, Philip and Kelvin LaVerne, Frank Gehry, Charles and Ray Eames, Yves Klein, Eero Saarinen, Toyoda Hiroyuki, George Nelson, and Rudolph Schelling Webermann. For decorative pieces, a couple of Venini glass vases are sure to get attention, coming from designers Tina Aufiero and Gio Ponti ... More | |
Exhibition view. Left: Untitled (Calendar Painting Brown), 2009. Right: Untitled (Slip Painting), 2006-2017.
BERLIN.- Lawrence Carrolls nuanced oeuvre is situated between painting and sculpture. Over the course of more than 35 years, the artist created a remarkably diverse and rigorous body of work distinguished by a unique poetic presence. Time plays an important role in the artists extensive artistic output. Many paintings and sculptures were created over long time periods and in various studios between Malibu, Marquette, Venice, Bolsena and New York. Carrolls works are defined by a respect for the moment in time of their creation. The object-like character and material presence of Carrolls works endeavour to take account of their significance in space. Thus not only the front, but all visible sides are of equal importance, reflecting the artists concerns in constellations of dimensions and space, light and shadow, colour and object, volume and scale. These poles can be seen particularly well in the large Slip Painting, 200617 ... More |
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| 'Atlantic Cowboy' by Andrea Gjestvang to be published March 2023 | | Casey Kaplan presents a selection of 20 photographs by Mateo López | | Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University opens 'Cedar Lewisohn: Patois Banton' |
Atlantic Cowboy by Andrea Gjestvang. Text by Firouz Gaini, March 2023. 300 x 220mm. 144pp, 82 images. Hardback. ISBN 978-1-910401-88-0
NEW YORK, NY.- Photographer Andrea Gjestvang journeyed to the Faroe Islands to document the impact of a shortage of women on the territory. Her project, created over 6-years, depicts the traditional manthe Atlantic Cowboyand the geographical and social periphery he inhabits. The Faroe Islands, a territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, are located 320 kilometers north-northwest of Scotland, and about halfway between Norway and Iceland. The landscape is as breath-taking as it is harsh. Fishing is the main industry of the territory and although it has modernised in many ways, it is still an industry bound by tradition and mainly run by men. Whilst the men go to sea, the young women are drawn abroad for study or training in Copenhagen or other European cities. More than half of those who leave never return and as a result the population of 54,000 has a gender deficit of around 2000 womenthe deficit is 10% among ... More | |
Mateo López, Ana, 2022, Giclée on cotton, 11.75 x 9.13" / 29.85 x 23.2cm, Framed: 12.5 x 9.88" / 30.48 x 25.1cm, Edition 1 of 1 + 2 AP. Photo: Jason Wyche.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mateo López (b. 1978, Bogota) presents PEOPLE, a selection of 20 photographs of sculptures rendered from daily debris and creative ephemera in the artists Brooklyn neighborhood and studio between 2014 and 2022. Keys, lightbulbs, rulers, spoons, and wires collide, transforming into quizzical figures captured in portrait-style photographs and individually named after the artists close circle of peers. This body of work reveals the landscapes of the artists adoptive home through the documentation and animation of found objects and collaged elements. Nine years ago, López relocated from his hometown of Bogota to New York City where daily walks from his apartment to his studio became a ritual that directly informed the artists practice. Every commute was a chance to further a fastidious analysis of spatial and societal constructs. During each transient interval, López ceaselessly studied ... More | |
Cedar Lewisohn, Untitled (Yellow and Red with blue figures), 2013. Hand Pressed Woodcut on paper with spray paint and ink, appox 8ft x 8ft.
NOTTINGHAM.- Patois Banton is a new exhibition by artist, writer, and curator Cedar Lewisohn, on show at the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University. The exhibition is Lewisohns first UK solo exhibition outside of London and follows his critically acclaimed exhibition The Thousand Year Kingdom at the Saatchi Gallery and group exhibition Untitled at Kettles Yard, Cambridge, both in 2021. As a curator, Lewisohn produced the landmark Street Art exhibition at Tate Modern in 2008, and more recently the Dub London project at the Museum of London. He is currently the Curator of Site Design at Southbank Centre, London. Lewisohns work uses drawing as the starting point for a practice that encompasses woodblock and lino prints, publications, performances, moving images, sound, VR experience, and the written word. Over the past decade he has been researching and drawing objects relating to ancient African ... More |
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Margarita Cabrera: Blurring Borders - Curator Interview
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Beyoncé makes history at a star-powered Grammy Awards ceremony
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Beyoncé made Grammy history Sunday night, setting a record at the awards 65th annual ceremony for the most career wins by any artist, after picking up a string of trophies for Renaissance, her hit album that mined decades of dance music. But she was once again shut out of the major categories, winning all four of her prizes for the night in down-ballot genre categories. Harry Styles took album of the year for Harrys House, Lizzo won record of the year for her retro dance anthem About Damn Time, and song of the year went to Bonnie Raitt for Just Like That. It was Beyoncés fourth career loss for album of the year. Styles seemed at a loss for words as he accepted his Grammy, opening his remarks with a stunned profanity. Still, Beyoncés accomplishment resonated throughout the evening. Accepting her 32nd career award ... More
Yannick Nézet-Séguin extends his contract with the Philadelphia Orchestra
NEW YORK, NY.- Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who has led the Philadelphia Orchestra to accolades and worked to broaden its repertory, including by promoting the music of overlooked composers, has renewed his contract, the orchestra announced Sunday. The four-year extension will keep Nézet-Séguin, 47, at the podium through at least the end of the 2029-30 season. As part of the deal, he has been given an expanded title, serving as both music and artistic director of the 123-year-old ensemble. In an interview, Nézet-Séguin likened his relationship with the orchestra to a great and healthy marriage. Making music when we know each other, when we love each other, makes a world of difference, he said. To see this relationship flourish and expand Im very grateful for it. Nézet-Séguin, who began his tenure as the orchestras eighth music director in 2012 ... More
These extinct elephants were Neanderthals' 'biggest calorie bombs'
NEW YORK, NY.- In his 1931 book, How to Tell Your Friends From the Apes, American satirist Will Cuppy noted that Neanderthals had fires, caves, marrow bones, mosquitoes, love and arthritis. What more can you ask? he mused. If you answered bush meat block parties, you might be on to something. That is essentially the conclusion of a study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances. The paper focuses on 3,122 bones, tusks and teeth thought to derive from more than 70 straight-tusked elephants some skeletons of which were virtually intact that died 125,000 years ago in a heavily forested lake basin of what would come to be east-central Germany. The researchers argue that, for at least two millenniums, Neanderthals hunted there for the giant, now-extinct herbivores as part of what the papers lead author, Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser ... More
Literary fathers, literary daughters and the books that bind them
NEW YORK, NY.- When Priscilla Gilman and her younger sister Claire were growing up as the only daughters of Lynn Nesbit, a high-powered literary agent, and Richard Gilman, an exacting drama critic and Yale University professor, their bedtime stories were often read by publishing world superstars: Uncle Bern (Bernard Malamud), Aunt Ann (Ann Beattie) and Aunt Toni (Toni Morrison). They introduced their stuffed animals to Jerzy Kosinski. At cocktail parties at the familys rambling New York City apartment in Manhattans Upper West Side, they passed the deviled eggs to Anatole Broyard, a charismatic critic and editor at The New York Times Book Review. Nesbit was the driven breadwinner, not one for engaging in make-believe or rolling around on the floor with her children. Richard Gilman, who died in 2006, was a champion of avant-garde theater ... More
La Brea Tar Pits design news: NHMLAC selects exhibition designer Kossmanndejong for master plan
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga, President and Director of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC), today announced the Museums selection of Kossmanndejong (KDJ) as the firm that will lead the design of exhibition spaces and develop visitor experiences for the reimagining of the La Brea Tar Pits the worlds only active paleontological research site in an urban setting. KDJ, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is well known for creating three-dimensional narratives for institutions around the world. Selected through an international search and competitive process, KDJ will provide creative and interpretive strategies for the site-wide redesign in Hancock Park, working in tandem with the architectural and landscape design team led by WEISS/MANFREDI, along with Los Angeles-based Gruen Associates ... More
Public Art Archive launches new website to make public art available for all
DENVER, CO.- The Public Art Archive announces the launch of an expansive new website designed by Bilberrry, a full service digital agency and product studio. A project of the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF), a US Regional Arts Organization, the PAA is a singular platform for connecting with public art in any community across the country and beyond. Available at publicartarchive.org, the new site is composed of a public art documentation database and mapping data, bringing thousands of public artworks to visitors anywhere. The newly redesigned PAA website increases accessibility and user-friendliness within the resource built to discover the history, context, and meaning behind each work. As general interest in public art has expanded over the years, the experience of using the Public Art Archive needed to evolve ... More
Charles Kimbrough, actor best known for 'Murphy Brown,' dies at 86
NEW YORK, NY.- Charles Kimbrough, an actor known for his patrician looks and stately bearing who was nominated for an Emmy Award for portraying a comically rigid news anchor on the hit sitcom Murphy Brown, died Jan. 11 in Culver City, California. He was 86. His son, John Kimbrough, confirmed the death. After decades of stage work in New York, including a Tony Award-nominated performance in the original 1970 Broadway production of the Steven Sondheim musical Company, Kimbrough finally got his first taste of mainstream fame alongside Candice Bergen on Murphy Brown, the popular series set in a television newsroom that ran for 10 seasons on CBS starting in 1988. (He reprised his character for three episodes of the 2018 reboot.) As Jim Dial, Kimbrough artfully toyed with the wooden archetype of a 1980s newsman, with his lacquered helmet of hair ... More
Lauren Cross appointed Gail-Oxford Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts at The Huntington
SAN MARINO, CA.- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today the appointment of Lauren Cross as the new Gail-Oxford Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts. Cross is a curator, interdisciplinary artist, and critical scholar whose research has focused on American decorative arts and material culture with a special emphasis on African American traditions. She comes to The Huntington from the University of North Texas, where she held the position of assistant professor and program coordinator of interdisciplinary art and design studies. Cross has curated or co-curated several important museum exhibitions, including, most recently, Black Every Day: Photographs from the Carter Collection (2022) at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and The Right to Herself (2020) at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins ... More
Fine Art Auction realizes $2.5-million at Fontaine's
PITTSFIELD, MASS.- Fontaines important Fine and Decorative Arts auction on January 28 surpassed its high estimate to total $2.5 million. The 550-lot auction saw strong performers in nearly every category with a sell-through rate of 91 percent. The auction was very busy and well received with over 7,000 approved bidders. I think in general the market is good for quality items in every category, said auctioneer and owner John Fontaine. By quality items, Fontaine is perhaps being a bit modest about the auctions top lot a well-executed Tiffany Studios window, Jesus in a Field of Lilies that went for $237,500, nearly doubling its high estimate. The circa 1898 window, featuring plated, leaded and confetti glass, measured an impressive 9 feet 11 inches by 7 feet 5 inches. The window is not sized for the average home, so it makes sense that the winning bidder was a church ... More
Jason Moran pays tribute to an early jazz ancestor
NEW YORK, NY.- In the 1910s alone, composer, pianist and bandleader James Reese Europe seemed to do enough living for multiple lifetimes. He started that decade at the Clef Club in Harlem, an organization that fielded its own group and worked to improve labor conditions for Black musicians throughout New York City. Not long after, Europe brought his 125-member Clef Club Orchestra and the syncopated styles of Black American composers to Carnegie Hall. In 1914, Europe provided new music for star dancing couple Vernon and Irene Castle while also taking his group into the studio to record for the Victor Recording Company. During World War I, he was Lieutenant Europe: Along with other members of the all-Black 369th Infantry, he pushed to be allowed to fight while also leading a regimental band known as the Harlem Hellfighters that amazed audiences abroad ... More
The 14th Gwangju Biennale announces the 79 participating artists
GWANGJU.- The 14th Gwangju Biennale, soft and weak like water, announces the final list of participating artists and additional details on its overall program. Curated by Artistic Director Sook-Kyung Lee, Associate Curator Kerryn Greenberg, and Assistant Curators Sooyoung Leam and Harry C. H. Choi, the Biennale will unfold over five venues throughout the city of Gwangju, including the Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju National Museum, Horanggasy Artpolygon, Mugaksa, and Artspace House. The Biennale will present works by 79 artists, more than 40 of which are new works and commissioned projects that have not been exhibited previously. The final list of artists is: Larry Achiampong, Abbas Akhavan, Farah Al Qasimi, Mamma Andersson, Tarek Atoui, melanie bonajo, Bakhyt Bubikanova, Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, Edgar Calel, MarÃa Magdalena Campos-Pons ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Margaret Fownes-Luttrell was born February 07, 1726. Margaret Fownes-Luttrell[a] (7 February 1726 - 13 August 1766) was an English artist and wife of Henry Fownes Luttrell. Two of her paintings are part of the Dunster Castle collection, now property of the National Trust. She was the heiress of Dunster Castle, under the stipulation in her father's will that her husband should take the additional surname of Luttrell. Four portraits of her exist in Dunster castle and a fifth at Bathealton Court. In this image: Margaret Luttrell (1726-1766), Mrs Henry Fownes Luttrell.
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