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Exhibition view Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Creativity and Competition. Photo: Städel Museum Norbert Miguletz.
FRANKFURT.- This autumn the Städel Museum is celebrating the work of the greatest of Dutch artists of the 17th century: Rembrandt van Rijn. The exhibition Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Creativity and Competition is the first to trace Rembrandts rise from a young, ambitious artist from Leiden to a famed master in Amsterdam. The story is told through 60 of Rembrandts artworks placed in direct dialogue with paintings by other artists of his time. The exhibition combines the important Frankfurt holdings of Rembrandts work, including The Blinding of Samson (1636), with a string of stellar loans from major museums in Europe and North America. Around 140 paintings, prints, and drawings by Rembrandt and his contemporaries loaned from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Gemäldegalerie Berlin, the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, the National Gallery in London, the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, and the Na ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Archaeologists and workers excavate the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, known as Tello, in Iraq's al-Shatrah district of the southern Dhi Qar province on November 14, 2021. Asaad NIAZI / AFP.
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| LACMA exhibits selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection | | Janet Borden, Inc. opens an exhibition of works by Fred Cray | | World-class collection for Het Noordbrabants Museum in The Netherlands |
Alexandra Croitoru, Untitled, (Bodybuilder I), 2003, dye coupler print, 31 1/2 à 26 3/4 in., promised gift of The Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum, © Alexandra Croitoru, digital image courtesy of the artist.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection, featuring photo-based artwork made after the year 2000 by nearly 40 women artists born or working in Europe. The exhibition explores the ways in which artists and societal forces are challenging traditional descriptive categories of gender, nation, and photography. In the Now highlights a selection of works from the collection of Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl, which were recently donated to LACMA and the Brooklyn Museum. The joint acquisition includes significant works by Yto Barrada, Uta Barth, Natalie Czech, Josephine Pryde, and Shirana Shahbazi ... More | |
Untitled, 2021 [Paris animal parade on globe].
BROOKLYN, NY.- Fred Crays new series of unique prints present a radical new body of work. Although he continues to adhere to his previous process of transforming photographic imagery through manipulation, in this series the resulting images, based in photography, are unique works on paper. With this exhibition of unique and extraordinary works on paper, Fred Cray culminates his Fragments series and his Fingerprint series. The feelings of change, fragility, and temporality prevalent during the pandemic are indicated by fingerprints in ink, which embody Crays singular identity, stamped over the images. Crays multiple layers imply movement, both of time and image. The interweaving of time and image sets a cadence that is both visually rigorous and seductively intimate. Cray continues to make work that suggest that a secret is about to be revealed. Photographs from his camera, made on his circuitous walks throughout this and other cities, pictures ... More | |
Salvador DalÃ, Carry-le-Rouet, 1930. oil on panel, 29 x 35 cm. Photo Peter Cox. JK Art Foundation collective © Salvador DalÃ, Fundación Gala-Salvador DalÃ, c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2021.
DEN BOSCH.- Het Noordbrabants Museum and the JK Art Foundation have reached an agreement on the long-term loan to the museum of the Foundations outstanding collection of over 550 works dating from 1500 to the present day including masterpieces by Brueghel, Rubens, Mondrian, Brancusi, Van Dongen, Picasso, Magritte, Delaunay, Fontana, DalÃ, Modigliani, Lewitt, Dumas, Kapoor, Tuymans and Eliasson. The JK Art Foundations collection is considered one of most important private art collections in the Netherlands and the long-term loan of the collection will enable the museum to further strengthen its position as a leading cultural institution. A dream come true!, says Charles de Mooij, director of Het Noordbrabants Museum, describing the JK Art Foundations pledge to ... More |
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| Clapton guitar, Cobain setlist, Whitney jacket under hammer | | Exhibition marks David Lamelas's first solo show in New York in more than a decade | | Phillips and Poly Auction announce highlights of Hong Kong Fall Sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design |
Eric Clapton's 1968 Martin D-45 acoustic guitar is on display during a press preview November 15, 2021 in New York to promote Julien's Auctions Icons & Idols: Rock N Roll auction that will take place November 19th and 20th. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eric Clapton's guitar, Kurt Cobain's handwritten setlists and Whitney Houston's multi-print Versace jacket are among the star-powered music memorabilia hitting the auction block this weekend. Clapton's 1968 Martin D-45 acoustic instrument is the toast of this year's "Icons & Idols: Rock 'N' Roll" from Julien's Auctions, which anticipates the guitar could fetch $300,000 to $500,000 during bidding this weekend. "And I think that's a conservative estimate," said Martin Nolan, executive director of the house. "The collectible on the art market right now -- it's very, very hot, these prices are going through the roof," he told AFP during a preview of the auction that will include some 1,000 pieces. ... More | |
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NEW YORK, NY.- The Hunter College Art Galleries are presenting Life as Activity: David Lamelas, an exhibition marking the artists first solo show in New York in more than a decade. For over half a century, Lamelas (born 1946, Buenos Aires) has made work that pushes the boundaries of contemporary art by defying conventions of artistic media. Although he is globally recognized as a ground-breaking figure of conceptual art, his explorations with the spatial qualities of film and the signifiers of identity have not been adequately investigated. Life as Activity focuses on Lamelass experimentation with film and his examination of identity and narrative fiction in light of his ongoing insistence that his artistic practice has always, in one way or another, been grounded in his sense of himself as a sculptor. The exhibition brings together sculpture, film, and photography made acros ... More | |
Julie Curtiss, Escargot, 2018. Vinyl paint and oil on canvas, 45.7 x 35.6 cm. Estimate: HK$ 400,000-600,000/ US$ 51,300-76,900.
HONG KONG.- Taking place on 29 30 November, the Hong Kong auctions of 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design presented by Phillips in association with Poly Auction will encompass works by Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary masters, as well as works by the most in-demand artists on the market today. Led by an incandescent masterpiece by Gerhard Richter, the sales will also be highlighted by works from Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, Alexander Calder, Matthew Wong, Julie Curtiss, Salman Toor and Javier Calleja. As demand for Western and African art continue to heat up in Asia, the Evening and Day Sales will also feature Asia auction debuts by Billie Zangewa, Scott Kahn, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Raymond Pettibon, Mickalene Thomas, and more. Isaure ... More |
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| Carbon 12 opens an exhibition of works by Bernhard Buhmann | | Kunstmuseum Den Haag opens an exhibition of Morten Løbner Espersen's ceramic objects | | Thomas Erben Gallery opens a special exhibition of work by Louise Fishman |
Bernhard Buhmann, Blue Chip, 2021. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 210 x 150 cm. 82 3/4 x 59 1/4 inches.
DUBAI.- Titled after Nate Silvers book of the same name, Bernhard Buhmanns exhibition The Signal and The Noise continues his in-depth study of the individual within the Information Age. In todays highly-digitalized society, the ease of access to an overwhelmingly large amount of data, and its rapid distribution proves easier for people to extract what supports their pre-existing views. In a world perpetually flooded by technology, Buhmanns new works scrutinize its affective ability to limit our own perceptions or beliefs. Bernhard Buhmann contemplates the consequences from both a social and individual level in the event of when shared information is misconstrued. Silver explains the signal as representative of what is relevant and crucial, which is however, surrounded by noise; a deluge of distracting data. The book comments upon the brains innate tendency to search for patterns where there are none ... More | |
Morten Løbner Espersen, Moon Drop, 2021, glazed stoneware, height 105 cm.
THE HAGUE.- Comprising layer upon layer of fired glaze, the surfaces of Morten Løbner Espersens (b. 1965, Aalborg) internationally renowned ceramic objects are a riotous array of colours and textures. The Copenhagen-based ceramicist loves clay, and displays total mastery of the medium, but his passion for glazes comes from the impossibility of exercising full control over them. Every firing produces unexpected results, from surprising new insights to sudden disappointments. This autumn, his richly glazed objects will be on show at Kunstmuseum Den Haag, in his first museum presentation outside Denmark. Although Espersen was trained by French glazing expert Pierre Lemaître, who worked for the Sèvres porcelain factory, he actually prefers to defy the laws of glazing. His body of work, currently spanning thirty years, is characterised by a tension between the form of the object and the glaze which ... More | |
Studio portrait of Louise Fishman, photographed 2019 by Nina Subin.
NEW YORK, NY.- Thomas Erben Gallery is presenting Gestures of Affection: In Memory of Louise Fishman, a special exhibition of work by Louise Fishman (1939-2021), who passed away over the summer, alongside that of some of her closest friends and colleagues, Suzan Frecon (b. 1941), Harriet Korman (b. 1947), Carrie Moyer (b. 1960), Ulrike Müller (b. 1971), and Dona Nelson (b. 1947). The exhibition has been organized by independent curator Melissa E. Feldman, who has known Fishman since she began writing about the artists work in the 90s. Thomas Erben knew Fishman through Korman and Nelson, gallery artists, and as a neighbor, with his gallery occupying the same building as Fishmans studio of over 25 years. Fishmans circle consisted mainly of fellow abstract painters. Taking this as a natural point of departure, Gestures of Affection focuses on the genre to which Fishman singularly devoted herself. The New York-based, all-wo ... More |
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| Prince stage-worn custom-made suit among Marvels of Modern Music up for auction | | Ruiz-Healy Art opens an exhibition of César A. Martinez's iconic cast of Batos, Pachucos, and Rucas | | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston appoints Eric Woods as Chief Operating Officer |
First worn by Prince during his Musicology Live 2004ever Tour, then used as a design template for his 2005 Oscar night tuxedo.
BOSTON, MASS.- Filled with over 600 chart-topping items from across the decades, RR Auction's Marvels of Modern Music auction will be a smash hit! Top lots include a stage-worn outfit from Prince's Musicology Tour. Brilliant custom-made two-piece suit worn on stage by Prince during the Musicology Live 2004ever Tour, consisting of a red jacket with peaked lapels, three front buttons, a single vent in the back, and a pair of crisp off-white slacks. This two-piece suit derives from the personal collection of custom tailor Maurice Hood. Hood provided the 4 ply purple silk tuxedo that Prince wore at the 77th Academy Awards when he presented the Best Original Song Oscar on February 27, 2005. A brilliant stage-worn and photo-matched offering that exists as a progenitor of Prince's ever-interesting sartorial choices. A Please Please Me album fully signed by the Beatles. Summer 1963 third pressing of the Beatles album. The consignor indicates that the si ... More | |
César A. MartÃnez, Bato Con Guayabera, 2009. Signed front bottom right. Sign, date, title, and measurements on reverse. Acrylic on canvas, 44 x 44 in. 111.76 x 111.76 cm. © The Artist. Courtesy of Ruiz-Healy Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ruiz-Healy Art is presenting César A. MartÃnez: Mi Gente an exhibition of paintings and drawings of Martinezs iconic cast of Batos, Pachucos, and Rucas. This is the artists second solo exhibition with the gallery. A major figure in the Chicano Art Movement of the late 1970s and 1980s, MartÃnezs portraits are icons of Mexican American art history. MartÃnez was a teenager during the early 1960s in his hometown, Laredo, Texas where Pachucos (zoot suiters), Batos (dudes), and Rucas (girls) were part of his everyday life. MartÃnez is drawn to the way in which Mexican American family photographs served as intimate, personal portraits, during a time when only white individuals or groups were being iconized in paintings. MartÃnez offsets his melancholic subjects against a vibrant palette of clothes in tension against abstract backgrounds. The individuals ... More | |
In his role at the MFA, Woods will provide strategic leadership to advance the mission of the Museum and manage all facets of operationsincluding visitor and security functions, retail and food services, human resources and business development.
BOSTON, MASS.- Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, announced today that Eric Woods has been appointed Chief Operating Officer, effective January 4, 2022. Woods will work closely with the Director and the MFAs Leadership Team to elevate the experience of all visitors, optimize strategy and Museum operations, and drive financial growth and a sustainable future. Most recently, Woods served as Associate Dean for Administration and Finance for Northeastern University's Khoury College of Computer Science. In this role, he managed both Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer responsibilities for the school, which serves more than 5,000 students and 250 faculty and staff members and has a $96 million operating budget. With experience as an investment banker, start-up advisor ... More |
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Holabird Western Americana Collections' sale grosses $500,000
RENO, NV.- Holabird Western Americana Collections five-day Autumn Splendor Western Americana Auction, held October 28th-November 1st, contained over 3,200 lots of Americana, railroadiana, mining collectibles, numismatics, stock certificates, rare books, art and more, online and live in the Reno gallery. By the time it was all over, the auction had grossed about $500,000. The massive sale featured several important collections, beginning with the Stuart Scotty MacKenzie Montana collection. Stuart was a lawyer, inveterate collector and dealer. He scoured the backroads of northern Montana looking for documents, archives, company files, libraries, correspondence and more most anything historical except for bottles and tokens. In another major collection, Shirley Bovis was a mainstay in Tombstone, Arizona an avid collector and part-time dealer. She bought longtime Tombstone ... More
Sondheim's 'Assassins' misses its mark in this revival
NEW YORK, NY.- The one reliably blood-chilling moment in Stephen Sondheim and John Weidmans Assassins comes courtesy of a killer who is, at best, a footnote in American history: Charles J. Guiteau, the lawyer who shot President James Garfield in 1881. Guiteau aims his gun at the audience, panning over us slowly, deliberately, in tension-filled silence. The music is stopped. The menace is visceral. Facing the barrel of a gun, even when its just in a musical, is the kind of shock that can exist only in live theater, Sondheim wrote in his 2011 book Look, I Made a Hat, in which he called this lingering, life-or-death moment in Assassins his favorite in a show rife with gun-waving murderers and murderers manqué. Id wondered how that confrontation would land in John Doyles current revival at Classic Stage Company, not so much because of the state of our armed ... More
Lee Maracle, combative Indigenous author, dies at 71
NEW YORK, NY.- Lee Maracle, a writer who chronicled the effect of Canadian settlement on the lands Indigenous people and the persistence of discrimination, only to find herself in recent years championed by the very cultural and political establishment she had spent her career attacking, died Thursday in Surrey, British Columbia. She was 71. Her son, Sid Bobb, said the cause was complications of heart failure. Maracle was an early figure in the modern literary canon of Canadas First Nations. Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel, an autobiographical novel, was published in 1975, years before the first books of Sherman Alexie, Louise Erdrich and other prominent North American Indigenous writers. Publishers rejected an earlier manuscript by Maracle; she said they told her, Indians cant read. After writing Bobbi Lee, she collected signatures from 3,500 Indigenous people who said they would buy ... More
$275K Apollo 11-flown American flag launches Heritage Auctions space event to nearly $3 million
DALLAS, TX.- An Apollo 11 Flown American Flag Directly from The Armstrong Family Collection, CAG Certified soared to unexpected heights when it climbed to $275,000 to launch Heritage Auctions Space Exploration Auction to $2,919,183 in total sales. This flag exceeded all expectations, and effectively launched the results for the entire auction to new heights Heritage Auctions Space Exploration Director Michael Riley said. With must-have items, ranging from Robbins medallions to the estate of Alan Bean, one of the first men to walk on the moon, to a trove of astronaut-signed items, collectors of all levels came away from this event with prized keepsakes that they will enjoy for years to come. The out-of-this-world result for the events top lot was 10 times higher than its pre-auction estimate. The 6-by-4-inch silk flag with a clear nylon border was carried to the moon ... More
Twyla Tharp: 'Each one of the dances is my hope for a perfect world'
NEW YORK, NY.- During the pandemic, Twyla Tharp did what most choreographers did: She worked on Zoom. A lot. The whole time, I was wondering, well, when are we actually going to put bodies back into real places at real times? she said in a recent interview. And it was not possible until relatively very recently. She wasnt referring to bubbles, she said, but to the flood of performances that have made this fall season feel almost as robust as any other. But even before anyone could have predicted that, she was determined to put on a show. And so at 80, Tharp used what she had: a milestone birthday. We leveraged my age into an evening, she said, laughing. You know, I have no shame. Whatever it takes. Thats what I did. Nothing new there. What is new is the program she has created. Although Tharp has presented evenings of work over the past few years, none ... More
If remote work empties downtowns, can theaters fill their seats?
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- As live performance finally returns after the pandemic shutdown, cultural institutions are confronting a long list of unknowns. Will audiences feel safe returning to crowded theaters? Have people grown so accustomed to watching screens in their living rooms that they will not get back into the habit of attending live events? And how will the advent of work-from-home policies, which have emptied blocks of downtowns and business districts, affect weekday attendance at theaters and concert halls? Nowhere is that last question more urgent than in San Francisco, where tech companies have led the way in embracing work-from-home policies and flexible schedules more than in almost any other city in the nation. Going to a weeknight show is no longer a matter of leaving the office and swinging by the War Memorial Opera House or Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall. As ... More
Marlborough London opens an exhibition of large-scale works by Hughie O'Donoghue
LONDON.- At the core of this new body of work is the artists deep-rooted interest in interrogating the way memory is forged through generations. Drawing on his own memories as a child, the substantial works on tarpaulin exhibited in the show depict the MV Plassy which was wrecked in a storm off the coast of Inisheer in 1960. The shipwreck, which has been a recurring motif in ODonoghues practice for over twenty years, has an imposingly theatrical, almost sculptural presence. Glowing with phosphorescent shades of rusty reds and yellows, the ship seems to witness its own slow demise whilst the sea around it remains a continuously moving yet immutable force. Materiality is a focal aspect of this striking body of work. Primarily using repurposed materials such as sackcloth and sandbags, ODonoghue creates an idiosyncratic tension between the realism of his ... More
Drawing women back into the history of art
LONDON.- HackelBury Fine Art, London is presenting: Palimpsest, a solo exhibition of new work by Coral Woodbury, and her first solo exhibition in the UK and Europe, in which her allegiance to peoples stories and making the invisible visible permeate three bodies of work. In Revised Edition the artist redraws the history of art from a feminist perspective; in Palimpsest she illuminates the transformative power of time and life experience and in the series In Place she employs the language of colour as a record of cross- cultural travel. The title of the exhibition Palimpsest reflects this idea of a journey through time, life and place. Books are a recurring theme in Woodburys work. Their structure becomes a composition with which to work, providing a tension between text and image. Her fascination with palimpsests (ancient parchment manuscripts which were reused over centuries) lies in ... More
Eskenazi Museum of Art hires inaugural Director of Curatorial Affairs
BLOOMINGTON, IN.- The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University has hired Dr. Amanda Hellman as the inaugural Director of Curatorial Affairs. Amanda earned her PhD in Art History and MBA at Emory University, MA in the History of Art at Williams College, and BA in Art History at Georgetown University. She is currently Curator of African Art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. Hellman also serves as adjunct professor of Art History at Agnes Scott College. She will begin her position at the Eskenazi Museum of Art on February 1, 2022. Prior to joining the Carlos Museum, Hellman served in a research position at Williams College Museum of Art, and as an intern at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Contemporary Museum of Art St. Louis, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, and Oakland Museum of California. Hellman has also taught courses ... More
Brandywine River Museum of Art reopening for the holidays, following extended closure due to Hurricane Ida flooding
CHADDS FORD, PA.- The Brandywine River Museum of Art is thrilled to announce it will reopen to the public on November 26, 2021, with the return of the Brandywine Railroad holiday train display and highlights from the permanent collection. The Brandywine has been temporarily closed to the public since September 1, 2021, after the remnants of Hurricane Ida brought historic flooding to Chadds Ford and across the Brandywines 15-acre campus. While all of the art in the galleries at the Brandywine River Museum of Art were safe and unharmed by the storm, the Museums lowest levelcontaining a lecture room, classroom, offices and morehad significant flood damage, in addition to 10 other buildings on the Brandywines campus. Beginning November 26, ... More
Shelburne Museum announces two new major endowments
SHELBURNE, VT.- Shelburne Museum announced today the creation of two major endowments that support vital areas of the institutionؙthe directorship and American paintings. The two endowments provide crucial long-term support for the museum and contribute to the sustainability of Vermonts foremost public resource for visual art and material culture. The $5.25 million John Wilmerding endowment supports the directors position at the museum and provides additional funding for exhibitions and special projects. The endowment is named in honor of John Wilmerding, a renowned American art scholar and Shelburne Museum trustee emeritus. Completion of the fund was substantially enabled by a $1 million challenge grant from the Alice L. Walton Foundation. The Judith and James Pizzagalli American Paintings Endowment is a $2.5 million fund dedicated to acquisition and exhibition ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, The Hoxne Hoard was discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes November 16, 1992. November 16, 1992.- The Hoxne Hoard is the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain, and the largest collection of gold and silver coins of the fourth and fifth century found anywhere within the Roman Empire. Found by a metal detectorist in the village of Hoxne in Suffolk, England, on 16 November 1992, the hoard consists of 14,865 Roman gold, silver and bronze coins from the late fourth and early fifth centuries, and approximately 200 items of silver tableware and gold jewellery.
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