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Elisa DArrigos Pink Sheath, left, and Sidestepper, part of the exhibit Shapes From Out of Nowhere: Ceramics From the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, June 7, 2021. An abstract painter found his place as a great collector of American ceramics. His latest gift ushers the Metropolitan Museum of Art into the 21st century. Eric Helgas/The New York Times.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ceramics has come a remarkably long, raucous way since the early 1950s. Thats when Peter Voulkos, inspired by abstract expressionist painting, upended the medium with an increased scale, ambition and an improvisatory energy that mixed wheel-thrown with hand-built forms. Since then, some ceramists Ken Price to Betty Woodman to Kathy Butterly have simply assumed their work was part of the mainstream. They and others have appeared regularly in big exhibitions like the Whitney Biennial, and theyve been taken on by major galleries. But the mainstream art world is always narrower than it thinks; plenty of ceramists continue to work beyond its borders. Lucky for them, theyve had a discerning champion whose devotion can be measured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a robust, riveting exhibition titled Shapes From Out of Nowhere: Ceramics From the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection. It celebrates this eminent collectors third game-changing gift ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day César, César & César & César... Almine Rech, Paris. June 12- July 31, 2021. Courtesy Almine Rech and César Foundation. Photo: Rebecca Fanuele.
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| Jennifer V Roth Auctions presents women artists and artists of color in an exciting sale of Israeli & International Art | | Exhibition at Almine Rech celebrates the centenary of the birth of César | | Nara Roesler now representing Heinz Mack in the Americas |
Lot 23 Nirit Takele, Stretching Leg, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 19 ¾ x 19 ¾ inches
NEW YORK, NY.- Following centuries of underrepresentation, womens voices and black voices are now being heard throughout the contemporary art space. Several artists of color, who also happen to be women, are rising stars of the vibrant Israeli art scene. Jennifer V Roth Auctions is presenting this timed online auction on LiveAuctioneers on Wednesday, June 16, 2021. Lots begin closing at 2:00pm EDT (Lot 21) Fatma Shanans Untitled, 2014, interweaves landscape and heritage. For Shanan, who was born and raised in the Druze village of Jullis, carpets are precious family possessions which signify identity and the connections between nature, geography, and history. In Druze culture, carpets are inextricably woven into a life of hospitality, ritual and community. They are passed from generation to generation; and when they become worn, they are carried up to the flat roofs of houses for ... More | |
César, César & César & César...Almine Rech, Paris. June 12- July 31, 2021. Courtesy Almine Rech and César Foundation. Photo: Rebecca Fanuele.
PARIS.- In honor of the centenary of the birth of César, Almine Rech Paris presents an exhibition celebrating all important periods and styles of the major French sculptors work, organized in collaboration with Fondation César. What does Césars work say to us today? A master of technique and form, the leading sculptor of the Nouveau réalisme movement of the 1960s developed a true dialectic of gesture and material that revitalized sculpture in the 20th century: the first assemblages of soldered iron, compressions of automobile scrap metal and all kinds of collected materials, polyurethane expansions, plaster and resin impressions and molds, sculpted bread dough, bronze sculptures, and more. The performative and participatory dimension of César's public expansions and his participation in the action-spectacles of the Nouveaux réalistes, a possible ... More | |
Heinz Mack, Keramik, 1997, 36.6 x 13.7 x 8.3 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nara Roesler announced the representation of Heinz Mack in collaboration with Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art (Düsseldorf), Galeria Parra & Romero (Madrid, Ibiza), Cortesi Gallery (Milan, Lugano, London), Galerie Geiger (Konstanz) and Ben Brown Fine Arts (London, Hong Kong). Throughout his career, Heinz Mack has continuously carved a pioneering artistic production marked by investigations on light, temporality and movement, which have taken the form of major installations, as well as sculptures, paintings and drawings. Mack began his career in the 1950s, famously founding the Group ZERO (1957-1966) alongside Otto Piene in 1957, later also joining forces with Gunther Uecker in 1961, with the aim of creating a space devoid of pre-existing structures a place of silence for new possibilities and beginnings to emerge. "The goal is to achieve pure, grand, objective clarity, free of romantic, arbitrarily individual ... More |
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| Christie's partners with visionary artist FEWOCiOUS to offer 5 NFT-based works of art | | Cowan's to present American Historical Ephemera & Photography Auction this month | | Hauser & Wirth opens an exhibition of work by Mika Rottenberg |
FEWOCiOUS, Year 1, Age 14 - It Hurts To Hide. Single-channel video 00:00:32 seconds (1710 x 1294 pixels) Executed in 2021. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York announces a partnership with revolutionary digital artist FEWOCiOUS to present his latest collection, Hello, im Victor (FEWOCiOUS) and This Is My Life, a coming-of-age story told through art. Consisting of five new, unique NFT works of art, along with five physical paintings and never-before-seen drawings, FEWOCiOUS series speaks to his personal experiences as a young, transgender artist between the ages of 14 to 18. The works will be offered in an online at Christies from 23-30 June in celebration of Pride month. FEWOCiOUS has exploded onto the art scene in the past year at 18 years old, by defying norms and breaking barriers with his digital art. Building upon Christies strong track record and established expertise in the NFT space, Hello, im Victor (FEWOCiOUS) demonstrates the auction houses commitment ... More | |
Personal headquarters flag of Philip Henry Sheridan used when he led the 2nd Michigan Cavalry. Spring - Summer 1862. Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000.
CINCINNATI, OH.- On June 25, Cowans, a Hindman company, will present its American Historical Ephemera and Photography auction, which will offer an impressive selection of 18th to early 20th century material. Important time periods including the Revolutionary War period, the Civil War, the Indian Wars, World Wars I and II, the Civil Rights Movement, the Womens Suffrage Movement, and late 19th to early 20th century Christian movements, and remarkable figures such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, James A. Garfield, John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy, and George Custer will be reflected throughout the sale. The auction will feature outstanding collections such as the Civil War Collection of Dennis C. Schurr, which contains an array of war and post-war period photographs, manuscripts, uniforms, and accoutrements. Most notable ... More | |
Mika Rottenberg, #22 with salad, 2020. Plywood, aluminum, mechanical parts, plastic, hair 106 x 90 x 38 cm / 41 3/4 x 35 3/8 x 15 in. Photo: Jon Etter. © Mika Rottenberg. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- Considered one of the most significant figures working in the video medium today, Argentina-born and New York-based artist Mika Rottenberg is devoted to a rigorous practice that combines film, installation, and sculpture. Exploring ideas of labour and the production of value in our contemporary hyper-capitalist world, Rottenberg shrewdly blends factual documentation and studio-built fiction to reveal the hidden dynamism of everyday systems and economies. For the artists first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, Rottenbergs most recent and acclaimed video work, Spaghetti Blockchain (2019), which debuted at New Museum in New York, is on view at the Zurich gallery. In addition, Rottenberg shows for the first time three kinetic sculptures and new drawings made in the last year, which are ... More |
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| Officials remove tile viewed as offensive from museum-sponsored mural | | Richard Estes exhibitions bring his iconic work to audiences in New York and London | | Aguttes Auction House announces highlights of the 20th Century Design |
The newly installed mural, To Serve and Protect, on the exterior of a police station in Sterling Heights, Mich., June 7, 2021. Brittany Greeson/The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Officials of a Detroit suburb where a new mural has been called too pro-police have removed an accompanying tile that depicted a skull logo that critics view as a rebuke to the racial justice movement. The tile featured the skull imagery associated with a violent vigilante character in Marvel Comics called the Punisher, and a depiction of the thin blue line flag, a combination that some police officers say is a show of solidarity for law enforcement but has also become associated with far-right extremism. We made the decision to remove it, said Michael C. Taylor, the mayor of Sterling Heights, who added that his city would replace the tile but had no plans to scrap the rest of the mural. We dont want that one piece to distract from the purpose of the mural, which is to honor police service in the community. The tiles were created by local police officers and their families in workshops ... More | |
Richard Estes, Staten Island Ferry Arriving with a Distant View of Manhattan and New Jersey, 2011 (detail). Signed and dated at lower left: RICHARD ESTES 2011. Oil on panel, 12 7/8 x 18 7/8 inches, 32.7 x 47.9 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- The renowned American photorealist painter Richard Estess iconic work will be displayed internationally through a series of exhibitions and events that celebrate his work, his process and his contribution to the canon of American art. The series includes gallery shows in New York at Menconi + Schoelkopf and in London at Damien Hirsts Newport Street Gallery. Menconi + Schoelkopf, who represents Estes, presents Voyages which includes images from the artists travels, as well as his singular vision of New York City. The show, which runs from June 14th to July 30th at the 22 East 80th Street location, is Menconi + Schoelkopfs first Richard Estes exhibition. Voyages delves deeply into the artists canon, offering a riveting and intimate look at some of his most impassioned work with pieces created from his own world voyages, some even capturing transit itself. Emerging from a period where global travel has been ... More | |
Peter Shire, Important armchair model "Bel Air". Estimate: 3 000 - 5 000 euros / Andrée Putman, Rare floor lamp "Alter". First series. Estimate: 2 000 - 2 500 euros / Gaetano Pesce, "Tutti Frutti" xxl pair. Estimate: 600 - 800 euros.
PARIS.- On Thursday 1 July, Aguttes Auction House Design Department will present a sale dedicated to 20th century design. Mixing Art Nouveau with post-war European design or fire art with precious decorative objects, the auction will be under the sign of eclecticism. A unique piece, a bouquet of poppy flowers in talosel by the designer Line Vautrin (1913-1997) will grace the auction. The artist gave it to one of her best friends, the wife of the writer René Alleau. At its side, the Swiss artist and designer Pierre Jeanneret (1896-1967), right-hand man of Le Corbusier (1887-1965), will be honored with three of his creations. A table with x-legs, as well as two pairs of armchairs, called "easy armchairs" and "advocate chair". In Art Nouveau, the glassmaker Emile Gallé (1846-1904) will be illustrated with a speaking vase with iris decoration in marquetry whose delicate inscription "Vers la lumière... " ... More |
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| Strategy board games from the Peter Dean Estate go up for bid at Turner Auctions + Appraisals | | Exhibition of photographs printed from newly discovered negatives by Fritz Macho opens at FOTOHOF | | Galeria Jaqueline Martins Brussels opens an exhibition of works by Daniel de Paula |
Star Wars: Legion [sealed]. Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games. Estimate $30 - $50.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present strategy board games from the Estate of Peter Dean, Part I, on Saturday, June 26, 2021. Offering more than 325 lots from a passionate collector for over 30 years, the sale features strategy board games of fantasy, sci-fi, history, wars, and battles. Most are unopened; many are collectors or special editions. Turner Auctions + Appraisals begins its online auction on Saturday, June 26, 2021, at 10:30 am PST; sale items are available for preview and bidding now. The auction will be featured live on multiple platforms: LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, Bidsquare, iCollector, and Turner Auctions + Appraisals free mobile app, which can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Apps ("Turner Auctions"). All are easily accessed through Upcoming ... More | |
Fritz Macho, from the series "Familien Bilder", Lend, 1940s.
SALZBURG.- Galerie Fotohof opened on 11 June 1981 with an exhibition featuring photographs by Fritz Macho which had only recently been discovered. During the 1930s, Fritz Macho took portraits of 'people in the countryside' (also the title of the illustrated book published by Residenz Verlag, now out-of-print). In its foreword, Peter Weiermair compared it with the work of August Sander. Today, 40 years later, the FOTOHOF archiv has produced high-quality digital prints from newly discovered negatives by the photographer. In the current exhibition, a selection of analogue photographs from 1981 is complemented by the digitally processed prints from 2021. These new discoveries consist of private photographs featuring a very idiosyncratic perspective on his family. By the same token, they underscore ... More | |
Daniel de Paula, power-flow, 2019 (detail).
BRUSSELS.- veridical shadows, or the unfoldings of a deceptive physicality, the first exhibition by Daniel de Paula at the new Brussels space of Galeria Jaqueline Martins, juxtaposes a variety of objects, including sculptures, a museological artifact on loan from the collection of the Centre Céramique in Maastricht, collages, and a video installation, in attempt to give continuation to the artists critical investigations upon the abstract forces within capitalism that produce infrastructural space and reproduce violent social relations. The shows title itself, veridical shadows, or the unfoldings of a deceptive physicality, alludes to two entwined realities the material reality that surrounds us, and an opaque phantasmagorical structure, informed by the omnipresence of labor and the production of value in our society, and which is indissociable from materiality itself. de Paulas ... More |
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Set a place at extraordinary Nakashima table at Heritage Design Auction
DALLAS, TX.- More than three-quarters of a century after George Nakashima opened his studio, the works it produces remain in high demand among collectors who prize the merging of artistic designs with elite craftsmanship. Three works from the studio that still custom-mills sustainably harvested hardwoods will land in new collections when they are sold in Heritage Auctions Design Auction July 15. The Nakashima Woodworkers, founded in 1945, has maintained its well-earned reputation as a master woodworker, designer and furniture maker whose works have been prized for generations, Heritage Auctions Design Director Brent Lewis said. Under the stewardship of his daughter, Mira, the studio continues to create furniture offering a rare blend of aesthetic beauty and functionality that has fostered generations of eager collecting. Featured in the auction are: ... More
Notre-Dame cathedral seeks more money for interior repairs
PARIS (AFP).- The Catholic diocese of Paris said Monday it was seeking up to six million euros to restore and modernise the interior of Notre-Dame cathedral, nearly destroyed by a massive fire two years ago. The diocese launched a fundraising drive looking for five to six million euros ($6.1-$7.3 million) to complete the work. President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to complete the monument's restoration for 2024, and more than 800 million euros has already been received or pledged from private and corporate donors for the painstaking rebuild of the 13th-century gothic masterpiece. While the spire collapsed and much of the roof was destroyed on the evening of April 15, 2019, the efforts of firefighters ensured that the medieval edifice survived the night. But a law passed shortly after the blaze stipulated that funds raised via the public subscription ... More
Paul Pfeiffer's Incarnator on view at Thomas Dane Gallery
LONDON.- Exhibited for the first time in London, Paul Pfeiffers Incarnator is a multimedia installation, part video and part sculpture. In this work Pfeiffer used as his starting point the revered role of the encarnador a sculptor of holy Catholic figures intended as the focus of religious worship. Encarnadores are celebrated for having the power to apparently breathe life into inanimate sculptures with their final brushes of paint, creating life-like effigies that seduce the eye into believing consciousness has been awoken in carved wood and paint. In the Philippines, this power can be most clearly seen through mass devotion to the Santo Niño de Cebú, a polychrome religious icon which was brought as a gift from Spain in 1521 by Magellan, making it one of the oldest Christian relics in the country. The tradition continues to this day with the images ... More
Drop Everything presents Studio Drop: A new creative studio on the island of Inis OÃrr, Ireland
INIS OÃRR.- Studio Drop is an architecture and design project, originally commissioned by the arts organisation Drop Everything for Galway 2020, European Capital of Culture. The studio will launch on the summer solstice, 21 June 2021, offering a summer of creative residencies through until August. Designer Jordan Ralph and a team of Drop Everything collaborators have designed and built an off-grid artist studio space on the remote and beautiful island of Inis OÃrr, the smallest of theAran Islands, located off the west coast of Galway, Republic of Ireland. Taking inspiration from common sights on Irelands coastal landscape, from martello towers to beehive huts, as well as construction methods used by local boat builders inGalway, Studio Drop designer Jordan Ralph has created a unique artisanal space for artists to think and create, located at the ... More
Christie's presents 'Gloria Klein: Beautiful Structures' special exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York will present a special selling exhibition of paintings by New York-based artist Gloria Klein, on view in the galleries at Rockefeller Center from 17-30 June. The first major solo show in New York dedicated to Kleins works from the 1970s, Beautiful Structures recognizes the seminal role Klein played in organizing ground-breaking lesbian artists awareness initiatives in SoHo and the Lower East Side in the 1970s. An artist central to the Pattern & Decoration movement, which has seen a renewal in interest over recent years, Kleins work was featured in the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Arts With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art catalogue in 2019 and the Blanton Museum of Arts Expanding Abstraction exhibition in the fall of 2020. Kleins work was also prominently featured in A Lesbian Showcurated ... More
The GAMeC opens Daiga Grantina's first solo exhibition in an Italian institution
BERGAMO.- The GAMeC opened to the public Atem, Lehm Fiato, Argilla, the first solo exhibition in an Italian museum by Daiga Grantina (Saldus, 1985) curated by Sara Fumagalli and Valentina Gervasoni. For the occasion the artist has conceived a new body of work with a site-specific spatial concept in the museums project room, Spazio Zero. The consistency, composition, adaptability, color, and texture of the materials are offered to the viewer as plastic entities that stimulate our perceptual system. The artist asks If and how can we delineate color? as she puts together the exhibition in Bergamo around both this question and her observations on color and its dynamic relationship with matter and light. In Grantinas work color is fluid and vibrant, neither stable nor static. The experience is not investigated in the symbolic sphere but in its corporeal and ... More
Donald York, musical director of Paul Taylor Company, dies at 73
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Donald York, a prodigious conductor and composer whose inventive scores as the longtime musical director of the Paul Taylor Dance Company matched Taylors eclectic choreography, died June 3 in Temecula, California. He was 73. The cause was a brain aneurysm, said John Tomlinson, executive director of the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Taylor, whose innovative, exuberant and often poetic work made him one of the worlds greatest choreographers, as Alastair Macaulay of The New York Times wrote in his obituary in 2018, worked collaboratively with a team of artists that included Alex Katz, whose unusual sets amplified Taylors sometimes impish sensibilities; Santo Loquasto, who also designed sets as well as costumes; William Ivey Long, costume designer; and Jennifer Tipton, lighting ... More
Review: At Wave Hill, Trisha Brown dances fit right in
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- After more than a year of performing and teaching online, the Trisha Brown Dance Company reemerged before a live audience Thursday evening. And not just in any old performance space, but on the tranquil, spectacular grounds of Wave Hill, the 28-acre oasis in the Bronx whose lush lawns and gardens look out over the Hudson River and Palisades. The anticipation was heightened by this weeks stormy weather, as capricious as one of Browns dances. In place of performances originally scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, both canceled, the company offered two shorter, back-to-back programs in one night. It was worth the wait for the backdrop of nearly cloudless skies, which turned from blazing to pale blue as late afternoon heat gave way to dusk. The selected pieces four of Browns early ... More
Gregory Harris appointed Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art announced today the appointment of Gregory Harris as its Donald and Marilyn Keough Family curator of photography. Harris joined the High in 2016 as assistant curator of photography and was promoted to associate curator in 2018. In his five years with the Museum, he has helped build the photography collection through key acquisitions of work by Dawoud Bey, Evelyn Hofer and Mickalene Thomas, among other notable artists, and commission projects by Alex Harris and Mark Steinmetz; curated more than a dozen exhibitions, such as William Christenberry: Time & Texture (2018) and Amy Elkins: Black is the Day, Black is the Night (2017); and led the department during the major 2018 collection reinstallation. He will assume his new role on Aug. 2, 2021. Throughout his time at the Museum, Greg has ... More
Ned Beatty, actor known for 'Network' and 'Deliverance,' dies at 83
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ned Beatty, who during a prolific acting career that spanned more than four decades earned an Oscar nomination for his role in Network and gave a cringe-inducing performance as a weekend outdoorsman assaulted by backwoods brutes in Deliverance, died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 83. His death was confirmed by Deborah Miller, Beattys manager, who did not immediately provide details on the cause. Complete information on his survivors was not immediately available. Beatty appeared in more than 150 movies and television projects over the course of his career, frequently cast in supporting roles. While the beefy actor was not known as a leading man of the screen, he became associated with some of Hollywoods most enduring films. His credits include All the Presidents ... More
Andy Williams' weavings will be sold at Bonhams Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES.- On June 29, thirteen Navajo weavings once owned by Andy Williams will be sold at Bonhams Native American Art sale in Los Angeles. Leading the group is a Navajo Late Classic Second Phase chief's blanket from a private New Mexico Collection. This wonderful example was included in the exhibition "Navajo Weavings from the Andy Williams Collection," which took place at the Saint Louis Art Museum from October 26, 1997 January 4, 1998. It is estimated at $40,000 60,000. The additional 12 weavings come to Bonhams from the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Fresh to market, Williams donated this collection to the institution in 1977 and they have been a part of the museums permanent collection for over 40 years; a number of them were on exhibition from 1989 to 1990. All 12 are being sold to benefit the Acquisition ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Paul Georges was born June 15, 1923. Paul Georges (Paul G Georges, Paul Gordon Georges) (June 15, 1923 - April 16, 2002) was an American painter. He died at his home at Isigny-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, aged 77. He painted large-scale figurative allegories and numerous self-portraits. In January 1966, the cover of Art News featured "In The Studio" now in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Works were included in Whitney Museum Annuals of 1961, 1963, 1967 & 1969. Paintings by PG are also in the collections of The Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Smart Museum University of Chicago; National Academy Museum, NYC; Rose Art Museum, Mass; Weatherspoon Art Museum; Virginia Art Museum; Parrish Museum Southampton, Guild Hall Museum East Hampton and numerous others across America In this image: Paul Georges, The Extremists, 1991-92, 136 h x 154 w.
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