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David Palumbo, Black Widow, 24 x 18 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- At this years LA Art Show, Rehs Contemporary will present a selection of works featuring some of the most iconic Marvel Comic characters; paintings completed by David Palumbo for Marvel Masterpieces 2020. At the art fair, which takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from July 29- August 1st, 2021, there will be a dozen works from the series on display; the first in-person viewing since they were unveiled. Back in 1992, the non-sport trading card industry was transformed by an ambitious new release Marvel Masterpieces. Every other year, Upper Deck Entertainment and Skybox team up with a single artist to release a new premium set of trading cards. It is the artists job to put their own unique spin on iconic superheroes and villains David Palumbo was selected to complete the most recent set, which was put out last year. As his most extensive project to date, it required the completion of 135 original ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archaeologist Saar Ganor displays a 3,100-year-old pottery fragment bearing an inscription, found at the site of Khirbat er-Rai near the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat on July 12, 2021. The rare inscription is the first dating back to the time of the biblical Judges and relating to the Book of Judges to be unearthed in the excavations conducted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority and Macquarie University, Sydney. It dates from around 1,100 BCE, bearing the name "Jerubbaal" inscribed in Canaanite alphabetic script, written in ink on a pottery vessel and found inside a storage pit that was dug into the ground and lined with stones. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
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| New faces at the Mauritshuis: Fashionable Zeeland Burgher and a rediscovered woman artist | | Asia Week New York presents their summer 2021 exhibition: Shades of Blue | | Charlottesville removes statue at center of 2017 white nationalist rally |
Van de Vennes self-portrait was created shortly after the artist settled in Middelburg.
THE HAGUE.- The Mauritshuis in The Hague has added two exceptional paintings to its permanent collection: one an acquisition and the other on long-term loan. The acquisition is a rare self-portrait by Adriaen van de Venne from c. 1615-1618, in which the artist meticulously depicts himself in the luxurious and fashionable clothing of his day. Van de Venne (1589-1662) was an extremely versatile artist who not only painted, but also wrote poems and designed print and book illustrations. The Education of the Virgin by the Southern Netherlandish painter Michaelina Wautier has been loaned to the Mauritshuis for a period of two years. Wautier is one of the few women artists of the 17th century, who, as well as producing portraits and still lifes, also painted scenes from the Bible and ancient mythology. Van de Vennes self-portrait was created shortly after the artist settled in Middelburg, the capital of the province of Zeeland. ... More | |
Ai Weiwei, Blue and White Porcelain Plate (Crossing of the Sea), 2017. Porcelain, 48 x 48 x 8.5 cm (19 x 19 x 3 1/4 in). Image courtesy Chambers Fine Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Week New York announced that Shades of Blue, a Summer 2021 online exhibition which includes one work of art from each of the 29 galleries and 6 auction housesBonhams, Christies, Doyle, Heritage, iGavel and Sothebys. The online show opens on July 15th and will run through August 15th. We are delighted to present our summer exhibition, Shades of Blue, which explores the many ways blue has transformed Asian art, says Dessa Goddard, Chairman of Asia Week New York. First produced by the Egyptians 6,000 years ago, the discovery of blue pigment, in the form of cobalt blue and indigo dyes, led to the creation of many now classic styles of decoration in Asian art. For example, blue and white porcelain became a major style of decoration from Safavid Persia to the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties of China and later throughout Asia, including Vietnam, Japan and Korea. Much admired ... More | |
A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is removed from Market Street Park in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, July 10, 2021. Eze Amos/The New York Times.
CHARLOTTESVILLE (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Four years after a woman was killed and dozens were injured when white nationalists protested the planned removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, workers removed the statue Saturday, along with a nearby monument to Stonewall Jackson, another Confederate general. The larger-than-life-sized statue of Lee was hoisted off its granite base shortly after 8 a.m. as a crowd of about 200 looked on. As the flatbed truck carrying the bronze statue rumbled down East Jefferson Street, a toot of the trucks horn prompted cheers and applause. Jackson was removed about two hours later, and shortly after noon, the City Council held an emergency meeting and voted unanimously to remove yet another statue, this one of explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. The 1919 sculpture has long provoked ... More |
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| 'We don't need another Michelangelo': In Italy, it's robots' turn to sculpt | | Rare George Washington Indian peace medal acquired by the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg | | Glenstone Museum announces new building conceived for a large-scale work by Richard Serra, opening in 2022 |
Technicians assemble a robot at the Robotor company in Carrara, Italy on June 30, 2021. Alessandro Grassani/The New York Times.
by Emma Bubola
CARRARA (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For centuries, the massive marble quarries above the Tuscan town of Carrara have yielded the raw material for the polished masterpieces of Italian sculptors like Michelangelo, Canova, Bernini and, most recently, ABB2. Carving with pinpoint precision, and at least some of the artistic flair of its more celebrated (and human) predecessors, ABB2, a 13-foot, zinc-alloy robotic arm, extended its spinning wrist and diamond-coated finger toward a gleaming piece of white marble. Slowly and steadily, ABB2 milled the slab of stone, leaving the contours of soft cabbage leaves for a sculpture designed and commissioned by a renowned American artist. ABB2 is hardly a lone robotic genius, toiling away in anthropomorphic solitude. Just a few meters away, in a facility humming with robots, Quantek2 was rubbing away on another marble block, executing a statue envisioned by a British artist who had contracted ... More | |
George Washington Indian Peace Medal (small size), 1792, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, silver and silver solder, Museum Purchase, Lasser Numismatics Fund, 2021-6.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- When George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United Sates 232 years ago in April 1789, the nations leaders were well aware that peace medals given as diplomatic gifts to American Indian leaders had vital impact. Considered to be of paramount historical significance and the highest rarity, most of the authentic engraved Indian peace medals of the Washington presidency are found in institutional collections; of the medals made in 1792, the first year they were issued and awarded primarily to Southern Chiefs, perhaps a dozen are known. Colonial Williamsburg has recently acquired one the finest of only approximately six small-sized medals currently recorded. Crafted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of silver by an unidentified silversmith, this Washington Indian peace medal is 5-1/4 tall by 3-3/16 wide and weighs 76.15 grams. The medal is now on view in the Backcountry se ... More | |
Rendering of the side view of the new building at Glenstone Museum, conceived to house a largescale Richard Serra work and designed in collaboration between the artist and Thomas Phifer of Thomas Phifer and Partners. Located on Glenstones Woodland Trail, with landscape design by Adam Greenspan/PWP. Image: The Boundary. Courtesy: Glenstone Museum.
POTOMAC, MD.- Glenstone Museum today announced plans to construct a building specially conceived to house a major sculpture by American artist Richard Serra, extending the museums outdoor program of art, architecture, and landscape along its Woodland Trail. Designed as a collaboration between Richard Serra and Thomas Phifer of Thomas Phifer and Partners, architect of the Pavilions at Glenstone, the building will open in spring/summer 2022. The 4,000-square-foot concrete structure was commissioned to house a large-scale sculpture that is one of the artists most recent works. Visitors will approach by way of the Woodland Trail on the eastern side of Glenstones property, following a gently curved path extending from the bridge over Greenbriar Stream, ultimately ... More |
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| ARCOmadrid 2021 reactivates the Spanish art market | | max goelitz opens an exhibition of works by Neïl Beloufa, Natacha Donzé, Haroon Mirza, and Keith Sonnier | | François Ghebaly now representing Em Rooney, Ivy Haldeman, & Ludovic Nkoth |
Both national and international institutions and companies joined to support and acknowledge artistic creation at ARCOmadrid.
MADRID.- To reactivate the market, foster art sales and promote the reunion of contemporary art professionals were the goals driving the organisation of this exceptional edition of ARCOmadrid 2021. Goals that were at the heart of IFEMA MADRIDs endeavour to recover this essential event for the stimulation of the art business, to attract great collectors from around the world and to debate the immediate future of art. To do this, three fundamental pillars have formed the backbone of this edition: quality contents, internationality and the presence of collectors. Galleries such as José de la Mano; Thaddaeus Ropac; Albarrán Bourdais; Mayoral; Perrotin; Chantal Crousel; Mor Charpentier; Maisterravalbuena; Vera Cortês; TravesÃa Cuatro; Lelong; Elvira González; among many others, have celebrated the wise decision to hold the event in an extraordinary month like July, clearly reflected in both the high sales ... More | |
Neïl Beloufa, Bottles and Cans on Red, 2019. Photo: Dirk Tacke.
MUNICH.- The international group exhibition chasing another tomorrow is devoted to questions about different visions of the future and the respective effects of technology on humankind and the present day. Back in the 1970s, there was still a positive and shiny image of the future. In the present, a notable loss of confidence in the positive effects of technical progress has begun to inspire alternative, artistic future scenarios. The exhibition reveals this through an extended recourse to nature, the abstraction of pop-cultural references and the thematization of communication, architecture and power structures, resulting in a complex interplay of technical components, geometric shapes and natural elements. The gallery is transformed into a kind of mystical landscape in which natural and technoid elements enter into a dialogue and manifest an alternative future vision of our future. As one of the pioneers of post-minimal art, Keith ... More | |
Ludovic Nkoth, Fallen Angel #2, 2020. Acrylic on Belgian linen, 40 x 30 inches (101.5 x 76 cm).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- François Ghebaly announced the representation of Em Rooney, Ivy Haldeman, & Ludovic Nkoth. Across a multidimensional practice that spans sculpture and photography, Em Rooney creates artworks invested in narrative representation and haptic sensuality. She blends inspiration from the natural world using a touched and generous approach to her materials, which range widely from welded steel and blown glass to tulle and rice paper. In some works, her sculptural constructions act as elaborate artists frames for her photography. In other works, these forms diverge from the photographs, taking their own paths that weave together references to literature, film, fashion, and architecture. Throughout her work, she addresses themes of reciprocity and mutual recognition, the sacred and the profane, and the performance and dismantling of gender. Born in 1983 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Em Rooney currently lives and works in Great Barrington, ... More |
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| Kreshaun McKinney named Director of Learning and Engagement at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art | | Artist Knox Martin pays homage to Goya, a career-long inspiration | | The B.J. Eastwood Collection: Important Sporting and Irish Pictures totals £14,187,750 |
McKinney joins Kemper Museum after 16 years in the education division of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art announced that Kreshaun McKinney has been named Director of Learning and Engagement. McKinney joins Kemper Museum after 16 years in the education division of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, where she started as the Ford Learning Centers full-time studio programs teacher before becoming the manager of audience engagement. During her tenure, McKinney was instrumental in the development of multiple public programs, including award-winning partnerships that have greatly increased the cultural diversity of the institutions visitorship and program participation. Programming with you and not to you has been my professional philosophy spanning the more than 20 years I have been championing the power that art brings to our lives in education, community outreach, exhibitions, arts administration, and programming, said McKinney. I am excited by the opportunity to further and f ... More | |
Knox Martin (b. 1923), Capricho III, 2016 (detail). Pen, ink, graphite, crayon, and acrylic on handmade paper, 58 x 57 inches (147.3 x 144.8 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Over the course of his seven-decade career, acclaimed artist Knox Martin has engaged with a wide range of artistic movements, from Cubism to Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art, establishing his own distinct style. On July 8, Hollis Taggart opened an exhibition that explores Martins particular affinity toward Francisco Goya and the ways in which that artist has served as an important source of inspiration for Martin since childhood. The exhibition, titled Knox Martin: Homage to Goya, features a selection of drawings from Martins series, titled Caprichos, which the artist has been evolving for several decades. The works reflect the vibrant and energetic approach for which Martin is known, while also capturing the artists formal and conceptual relationship to Goya. The exhibition will be on view through August 6, 2021, at the gallerys flagship location in Chelsea. Martin grew up across the street from the ... More | |
The sale achieved a new artist record for (lot 12), Paul Henry, R.H.A. (1876-1958) Mountains and Lake, Connemara, painted in 1934, (estimate £120,000-180,000), realising £622,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- The B.J. Eastwood Collection: Important Sporting and Irish Pictures took place live at Christies London on 9 July, achieving a total of £14,187,750. The B.J. Eastwood Collection comprised 30 lots, representing BJs prized collection of the last 50 years which showcased his great love of equestrian painting and Irish art. Works ranged from 18th century sporting pictures through to defining representations of Munnings oeuvre, to an extraordinary group of Yeats illustrating key periods of his work. Other leading examples of Irish Art were included in the sale, with works by Walter Frederick Osborne, Sir William Orpen, Roderic OConor, Paul Henry, Sir John Lavery, and Gerard Dillon. The Collection achieved more than double its pre-sale low estimate, and the leading lot was Sir Alfred James Munnings, P.R.A., R.W.S. (1878-1959) The ... More |
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Andy Warhol 'Flowers' | London | July 2021
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Salon Art + Design returns to the Park Avenue Armory this November with more than 50 exhibitors
NEW YORK, NY.- Salon Art + Design, produced by Sanford L. Smith + Associates, returns for its landmark ten-year anniversary edition at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City from November 11 - 15, 2021. Spanning vintage, modern and contemporary design, enhanced by blue-chip 20th century and contemporary art, Salon will exhibit more than 50 leading galleries from 9 different countries. Throughout its decade, Salon has evolved into the choice platform for exhibiting, experiencing, collecting, and discussing design and art. A high point of New Yorks Fall arts calendar, the fair will celebrate its 10th year in person with an international exhibitor list, immersive programming and museum quality offerings. Salon has continued to differentiate itself from other fairs by including a highly curated mixture of historic and contemporary collectible design ... More
William Smith, action star known for his onscreen brawls, dies at 88
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- William Smith, an actor known for his portrayals of villains and his onscreen movie brawls, died Monday in Woodland Hills, California. He was 88. Smiths wife, Joanne Cervelli Smith, said he died at the Motion Picture and Television Funds Country House and Hospital. She did not specify the cause. While Smith was best known for his roles in action movies like Any Which Way You Can (1980), and television shows including Laredo, Rich Man, Poor Man and Hawaii Five-O, the real action came from his off-screen life. He was a polyglot, a bodybuilder, a champion discus thrower and an Air Force pilot during the Korean War, according to his website. Smith had more than 300 acting credits listed on IMDb from 1954 to 2020. He did many of his own stunts, and sometimes those scenes got heated. He was throwing ... More
SFA Advisory opens its inaugural summer exhibition, Ridiculous Sublime
NEW YORK, NY.- SFA Advisory, Lisa Schiffs Tribeca outpost, announces its inaugural summer exhibition, Ridiculous Sublime, running through Labor Day. Featuring 50 international artists, Schiff transformed her permanent ground-floor office at 45 White Street into a temporary exhibition space as part of her commitment to exploring nascent tendencies which appear across the globe. In 1757, Edmund Burke published A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful wherein he defined the sublime as an artistic effect productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling. Elsewhere, the sublime has been used to describe a natural event that inspires awe and terror through sheer immensity. Beauty and awe are where the sublime in art usually lands, and often it consists of representations of Mother Nature ... More
Brussels Gallery Weekend returns from 9 -12 September
BRUSSELS.- After this tumultuous year, the Brussels Gallery Weekend will return to the capital of Europe from Thursday, 9 September. This fourteenth edition of the event is set to be a feast for the eyes, packed full of surprises, with no fewer than forty-six art galleries participating in the circuit this year. As a regular fixture on the annual arts scene for almost fifteen years, the Brussels Gallery Weekend aims to highlight the dynamism of the arts sector, showcasing the know-how and talent of artists with reputations stretching far beyond Belgium, thereby affirming our support and engagement with the Belgian art scene. Last year, the event was of course disrupted, but looking to the future, the team have made the best of things, modernising and becoming ever stronger, thanks in particular to the brand new website and exhibitions in shop windows. The team ... More
Tang Teaching Museum reopens to the public with exhibition of works by Sarah Cain
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY.- The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College announces that the next artist in its influential Opener series is Sarah Cain. The exhibition Opener 33: Sarah CainEnter the Center opened July 10 and will be on view through January 2, 2022. Los Angelesbased artist Cain explores and expands upon traditional ideas of painting, often modifying canvases by cutting and braiding, painting on all sides, and installing the canvas with the back facing the viewer. She paints on other surfaces, too, including interior and exterior walls, floors, and dollar bills, and often includes found objects such as crystals, feathers, beads, and other items with a personal connection. Her process involves many layers of altering a compositiona cycle of creation and destruction that, in part, revolves around self- ... More
Olympic memorabilia featuring nearly 200 lots up for auction
BOSTON, MASS.- With the Olympic season finally upon us again, RR Auction will host another auction honoring the worldwide Games. The Olympic Memorabilia Sale features nearly 200 lots; online bidding is scheduled to begin July 15 and conclude July 22. The catalog chronicles Olympics past and present, with a wide selection of relay torches, winner's medals, participation medals, and Olympic ephemera. The sale opens with two extreme raritieswinner's medals from the 1896 Olympic Games at Athens, the first modern Olympiad. Among them is an Athens 1896 Olympics Silver' First Place' Winner's Medal. The exceedingly rare first-place winner's medal issued for the Athens 1896 Olympics. Silver, 50 mm, 67 gm, by Jules Clement Chaplain. And an Athens 1896 Olympics Bronze Winner's Medal. Winner's medal issued for the Athens 1896 ... More
Wes Anderson: The man who made his own film industry
PARIS (AFP).- Self-obsessed guys with daddy issues, maps, models and handwritten letters, probably some 1960s rock and definitely Bill Murray deadpanning -- you know immediately whose universe you're in. "Wes Anderson is here tonight... He arrived on a bicycle made of antique tuba parts," joked Amy Poehler, hosting the Golden Globes a few years back. And everyone knew what she meant, because no one in film history has been so unblinkingly wedded to a specific off-beat vibe -- from early successes like "The Royal Tenenbaums" through hits like "Fantastic Mr Fox" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel" -- as the Texas-born director. Anderson returns Monday with his 10th feature, "The French Dispatch", finally premiering at Cannes after last year's festival, where it was due to open, was cancelled by the pandemic. It is not a rom-com, slasher pic ... More
Barred Iran director's son follows his footsteps to Cannes
CANNES (AFP).- You might think the family business did not seem so inviting to young Iranian filmmaker Panah Panahi, given that his acclaimed father has faced years of persecution at the hands of the authorities. But the 37-year-old made a splash at the Cannes film festival this weekend, presenting his first film "Hit the Road" at an event that his father, Jafar Panahi, has been blocked from attending by Tehran for more than a decade. The elder Panahi has won a slew of awards at international festivals, including the top prize in Berlin for "Taxi" in 2015 and best screenplay at Cannes for his last film "Three Faces" in 2018. But since being convicted of "propaganda against the system" in 2010, following his support for anti-government protests and a string of films that critiqued modern Iran, he has been barred from leaving the country to pick up ... More
Roger A Deakins: BYWAYS to be released in the U.S. this September
NEW YORK, NY.- BYWAYS is the first monograph by the legendary Oscar-winning cinematographer Sir Roger Deakins, best known for his collaborations with directors such as the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes and Denis Villeneuve. It includes previously unpublished black-and-white photographs spanning five decades, from 1971 to the present. After graduating from college, Deakins spent a year photographing life in rural North Devon on a commission for the Beaford Arts Centre; these images attest to a keenly ironic English sensibility, and also serve as a record of a time and place of vanished post-war Britain. Although photography has remained one of Deakins few hobbies, more often it is an excuse for him to spend hours just walking, his camera over his shoulder, with no particular purpose but to observe. These images are gathered here ... More
'Now You See Me Moria' on show in the entrance hall of FOMU
ANTWERP.- Various cultural organizations all over Europe present Now You See Me Moria. In Belgium you can view this project at FOMU (Antwerp), CIVA (Brussels) and Les Chiroux (Liège). Moria, on the Greek island of Lesbos, is the largest refugee camp in Europe. It is overcrowded and living conditions are inhumane. Apart from the fire in September 2020, hardly any images get out. On the Instagram account @now_you_see_me_moria, residents of the camp share their pictures and stories. Now You See Me Moria is a powerful document of lived experience and an unequivocal call to action. Early this year, they made an open call to graphic designers, more than 500 designers worldwide answered to their call. 446 protest posters were created, free to download and popped up on walls and windows across Europe on San Valentine's day. Later ... More
Tel Aviv Museum of Art announces the winners of the 2021-2022 Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art
TEL AVIV.- The Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art Committee has awarded the prize to two artists: Shira Zelwer is the winner of the 2021 Prize and Roni Taharlev of the 2022 prize. The prize carries a US$ 10,000 grant to each artist and an accompanying solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Zelwers exhibition will open in June 2022, and Taharlevs exhibition will take place during 2023. Eighty-three artists submitted applications for the prize this year; the Prize Committee included TAMAs Chief Curator Mira Lapidot, curator Emanuela Calò, Adv. Gil Brandes, TAMA Board of Directors member Doron Sebbag and Dr. Doron J. Lurie. Observers: TAMA Director Tania Coen-Uzzielli and founder of the Prize, Dubi Shiff. The Committee noted that: This year, for the first time, the Committee has awarded the prize to a sculptor. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Piero Manzoni was born July 13, 1933. Meroni Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo, better known as Piero Manzoni (July 13, 1933 - February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art. Often compared to the work of Yves Klein, his own work anticipated, and directly influenced, the work of a generation of younger Italian artists brought together by the critic Germano Celant in the first Arte Povera exhibition held in Genoa, 1967. In this image: Piero Manzoni (1933 - 1963), Milano et-mitologiaa (Milan and mythology), 1956. Oil on board. Private Collection Milan © Fondazione Piero Manzoni, Milano, by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2013, 95 x 130 cm.
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