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In an undated image provided via Sothebys, the 17th century painting The Adoration of the Kings. The meteoric escalation in value of The Adoration of the Kings after being listed as by Rembrandt himself is striking evidence of just how much authenticity (who is said to have made a work) matters more than aesthetics (what it looks like) when it comes to predicting what a painting might be worth. (via Sotheby's via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2021, Christies put The Adoration of the Kings, a 17th-century painting, up for sale. It identified that dark-hued Nativity scene as by an artist associated with Rembrandt. Its estimated value at the time was $17,000. But some bidders thought the painting, no bigger than a sheet of paper, was an undiscovered treasure that might actually be by Rembrandt. The sale price was $992,000. Two months ago just two years after the last sale the painting was auctioned again, this time at Sothebys. It was listed as by Rembrandt himself, and the price soared. The sale price this time was $13.8 million. The meteoric escalation in value is striking evidence of just how much authenticity (who is said to have made a work) matters more than aesthetics (what it looks like) when it comes to predicting what a painting might be worth. It is also a reminder of the power of connoisseurs. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Stroll Garden is showing Elegies, a two-part solo exhibition of Korean-American artist Se Oh. Featuring over seventy new porcelain sculptures punctuated with multi-sensory and ritualistic performances, this compelling narrative exhibition explores the intimate relationships and histories that can be drawn between senses, mediums, ceremonies, and spiritual lineages. Elegies (Little Deaths / The Witnesses) will mark Stroll Gardens first collaboration with Se Oh and will showcase the most ambitious and experiential showings of the artist's practice to date.
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| Scientists find genetic signature of Down Syndrome in ancient bones | | Centennial of births of Gutai artists Akira Kanayama and Kazuo Shiraga celebrated at Fergus McCaffrey | | Bonniers Konsthall presenting first major solo exhibition by artist Conny Karlsson Lundgren |
In an undated photo provided by Government of Navarre and J.L. Larrion, the remains of individual CRU001. Scientists have diagnosed Down syndrome from DNA in the ancient bones of seven infants, one as old as 5,500 years. (Government of Navarre and J.L. Larrion via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Scientists have diagnosed Down syndrome from DNA in the ancient bones of seven infants, one as old as 5,500 years. Their method, published in the journal Nature Communications, may help researchers learn more about how prehistoric societies treated people with Down syndrome and other rare conditions. Down syndrome, which occurs in 1 in 700 babies today, is caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21. The extra chromosome makes extra proteins, which can cause a host of changes, including heart defects and learning disabilities. Scientists have struggled to work out the history of the condition. Today, older mothers are most likely to have a child with the condition. In the past, however, women would have been more likely to die ... More | |
Akira Kanayama, Work, 1958. Vinyl paint on vinyl sheet mounted on board.
NEW YORK, NY.- Featuring revolutionary robot paintings by Akira Kanayama (1924-2006) and foot paintings by Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008), Fergus McCaffrey has opened an exhibition that celebrates the centennial of the birth of both Gutai artists. Plus-Minus focuses on both artists highly individualistic and innovative methods of painting that fulfilled the Gutai mantra of Making art that has never been seen before. Kanayama and Shiraga were born in Amagasaki, Japan and were friends from childhood. Both aspired to be artists and studied art theory together in the late 1940s before forming the avant-garde collective Zero Society in 1952 (along with Saburo Murakami and later Atsuko Tanaka). They exhibited their works together in 1954, featuring Kanayamas reductive Mondrian-like geometric lines and Shiragas early finger and foot paintings, which prompted Shiragas Plus-Minus philosophy of art. The avant-garde natu ... More | |
There were two sitting, cheek to cheek, with arms tenderly entwined around the tiny waist from Prologue (The Gothenburg Affair). Conny Karlsson Lundgren, 2021.
STOCKHOLM.- The exhibition highlights the artists practice mid-career. Performance, scenographic installations, video works and photography fill the galleries, together with an ambitious new work. Desire, lust, intimacy and resistance are reoccurring themes in Karlsson Lundgrens practice. For more than 20 years, often with a starting point in the hidden micro-histories of the archive, he has gently let surface perspectives on queer experiences and Swedish gay history. Shared and temporary spaces such as the park, the night club, the bedroom or the work of activism often set the stage for his investigations. Within the parameters set up by the works, political and juridical structures are made visible, while often intertwined with moments of ecstasy, community or liberation. In continuous dialogue, with materials and people, Karlsson Lundgren explores the boundaries betw ... More |
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| Growing into early adult-hood amidst New York City's tumultuous terrain, viewed by Alexander Brewington | | The union of paint and science in twentieth-century color field painting epitomized by Dan Christensen | | High Museum of Art presents landmark exhibition of work by 19th century Black potters from the American south |
Alexander Brewington, Flambé, 2024. Oil on Wooden Panel, 48x60 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg Gallery is hosting What Burns Beneath, the first solo exhibition of Alexander Brewington. The exhibition opened on February 15th, with a reception and will run through March 16, 2024. What Burns Beneath sympathetically captures the intricate contours of growing into early adult-hood amidst New York Citys tumultuous terrain. As Alexander Brewington astutely recognizes, newcomers must grapple with urban isolation and anonymity, survivable only through the cultivation of a resilient and self-assured identity. Each painting becomes a testament to the challenges inherent in forging one's patha turbulent quest that seeks answers, solutions, and stability. These works echo a nuanced dance between self-expression and societal expectations, arranging explosive strokes, vivid colors, and mesmerizing compositions that seamlessly mirror the pulsating rhythm of the city. Brewington deploys color ... More | |
Dan Christensen, Tuscarora, 1980. Acrylic on canvas, 82 x 66 1/2 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell is presenting its third solo exhibition of works by Dan Christensen (1942-2007). This exhibition focuses on works created between 1977 and 1984, the eight-year period in which the artist created his Calligraphic Stain and Calligraphic Scrape paintings. Christensen, an artist with an intense passion for the possibilities of new paint materials and techniques, epitomized the union of paint and science in twentieth-century Color Field painting. In the late 1960s, Christensens art was championed by curators, critics, and art dealers with many of his paintings being placed in important public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2009, Karen Wilkin curated a major retrospective of Christensens work, Dan Christensen: Forty Years of Painting, for the Kemper Museum of Contem ... More | |
Simone Leigh (American, born 1967), 108 (Face Jug Series), 2019, salt-fired porcelain, courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. © Simone Leigh. Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Eileen Travell.
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art is the exclusive Southeast venue for Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina (Feb. 16-May 12, 2024), a critically acclaimed exhibition featuring nearly 60 ceramic objects created by enslaved African Americans in Edgefield, South Carolina, in the decades before the Civil War. Considered through the lens of current scholarship in the fields of history, literature, anthropology, material culture, diaspora and African American studies, these 19th-century vessels testify to the lived experiences, artistic agency and material knowledge of those who created them. The works include monumental storage jars by the literate potter and poet Dave (later recorded as David Drake, ca. 1800-1870) and rare examples of utilitarian wares and face ... More |
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| 'Roberto Juarez: Crossing Five Decades' featuring works by NY artist Roberto Juarez from between 1983 and 2023 | | Surprising, true art-history tale from deep in archives of world–renowned Metropolitan Museum of Art | | Giving big, a California couple gets gratitude and scrutiny |
Pater Painting, by Roberto Juarez (2017), mixed media on canvas. This work was also exhibited at the Boulder Museum, in the exhibition curated by Edward J. Sullivan, the NYU Professor of Art History who influenced many artists and curators.
GREENWICH, CT.- The C. Parker Gallery in Greenwich, Connecticut presents the new exhibition Roberto Juarez: Crossing Five Decades, on view starting today. The gallery show features works created by the New York artist between 1983 and 2023. This is the first time an exhibition chronicles five distinct eras of artmaking by Roberto Juarez, says Tiffany Benincasa, the owner and curator of C. Parker Gallery. We are honored to present this group of exquisite paintings, illuminating his position in the canon of art history in the New York art world, for our tenth anniversary season. The gallery is located at 409 Greenwich Avenue, near Manhattan (just a 40-minute train ride from Grand Central Station, where one of Juarezs public commission murals majestically holds court in the Station Managers Office). Juarezs artistic trajectory is the stuff of New York legends. In 1981, the East Village underground arts i ... More | |
As Deaths of Artists shows in mesmerizing fashion, [artists] often leave the scene with a flourish. William Grimes, obituary writer, The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Deep in the archives of The Metropolitan Museum of Art are two strange old scrapbooks packed with newspaper obituaries of painters, illustrators, sculptors, and photographers, famous and forgotten alike. Somber death notices of luminaries like Claude Monet and Auguste Rodin are preserved on their crumbling pages, side by side with tragic, often grisly stories of obscure artists. Compiled from 1906 to 1929, the scrapbooks not only memorialize the subjects of the obits; they also exhibit the sensationalized reporting typical of the heyday of yellow journalism. Who collected these nearly three thousand obituaries of artists? Some had celebrated careers, some became celebrated only posthumously, and some met their demise poverty-stricken, victims of accident, murder, or disease. In Deaths of Artists Moske unravels the improbable story of how an ex-convict and aspiring artist hired in 1884 as a Met Museum guardArthur DHervillycame to assemble this massive chronicle. Moske& ... More | |
The philanthropist Lynda Resnick in a garden at the Wonderful College Prep Academy in Lost Hills., Calif., Feb. 8, 2024. She and her husband, Stewart, support the charter school as part of the $580 million they have given to programs in the Central Valley, where many of their employees live. (Adam Amengual/The New York Times)
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Standing on the grand staircase of Lynda and Stewart Resnick's opulent Beverly Hills mansion at a party last fall where Diane Keaton, Bob Iger and Brian Grazer were among the luminaries making small talk over crudites and Sazerac cocktails author Walter Isaacson took a moment to thank his hosts. Not only were the Resnicks giving the party to celebrate his new biography of Elon Musk, they had also been major supporters of his former professional home, the Aspen Institute, donating $36 million to the think tank over the years. Isaacson was not the only one in the room with reason to be grateful to them. Milling about the house, where works by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Honoré Fragonard and François Boucher line the walls, were museum directors Michael Govan of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (which has received $90 million from the Resnicks) ... More |
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| Nxt Museum to present Marco Brambilla's first show in the Netherlands | | Where to learn more about Black history in California | | 'The Seven Year Disappear' review: Looking for mom in all the wrong places |
Heaven's Gate by Marco Brambilla.
AMSTERDAM.- Nxt Museum to present Marco Brambillas first show in the Netherlands with two video collages from his Megaplex series: Heavens Gate (2021) and Creation (2012). These grand-scale digital masterpieces follow on from his presentation of King Size (2023) a visual meditation on the intertwined legacies of Elvis Presley and Las Vegas, showcased at The Sphere in Las Vegas. Brambillas Heavens Gate and Creation will illuminate the Nxt Stage of Amsterdam's Nxt Museum, from today to May 28, 2024. « Brambilla, who is Italian but based between London and Paris, has been a long time pioneer of video, digital imaging, V.R. and other emerging technologies. These projects have often been characterized by their wry satirization of capitalism, our image-saturated world, and the frenzied obsession with celebrity. » Artnet News, 28 September, 2023.By appropriating the language of the Hollywood epic, I wanted to confront the vie ... More | |
The Mormon Island Cemetery in El Dorado Hills, Calif., which contains graves relocated from a historic Black community that was flooded by the creation of the Folsom Lake reservoir in 1954, June 2, 2011. (Max Whittaker/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In a cemetery on a back country road near Sacramento, California, three rows of granite gravestones bear the same inscription: Unknown, moved from Negro Hill Cemetery by the U.S. Government 1954. The graves hold the remains of 36 settlers from Negro Hill, one of the largest communities of Black miners that sprang up during the Gold Rush. In 1853, the settlement, along the American River about 25 miles northeast of downtown Sacramento, was home to 1,200 people and had a boardinghouse and several shops, according to El Dorado County, which oversees the cemetery. But much else about the communitys history has been forgotten. Thats because the spot where Negro Hill once stood is now deep under Folsom Lake ... More | |
Cynthia Nixon, left, and Taylor Trensch in the New Group production of Jordan Seaveys The Seven Year Disappear, at the Pershing Square Signature Center in New York, Feb. 4, 2024. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The problem with writing a play about absence: How to fill the void? When a performance artist known as Miriam (Cynthia Nixon) vanishes in The Seven Year Disappear, a two-hander by Jordan Seavey that opened Monday at the Signature Center, we know only that she is a narcissist who steals the air from any room she enters. The Whitney is mine, she exclaims in the opening scene, after her adult son and manager, Naphtali (Taylor Trensch), informs her that the museum has made some sort of offer to Marina Abramovic. After seven years off the map, when Miriam returns, she has the gall to ask Naphtali whether he will help turn his abandonment into her next piece. Scenes following Miriams reappearance, which occurs on the heels of the ... More |
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Confronting what it means to be Black in America through faith and art
NEW YORK, NY.- When Mark Doox entered an Eastern Orthodox monastery in Texas in 1987, he thought he might have a calling as a monk. A year later, he realized he didnt. But he found something else in the monasterys chapel: images of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary painted in the Byzantine style, their serene faces set against great golden halos. It was almost like a physical vision, he said. Doox decided then and there to become an iconographer. But as a Black man who came up in the 1960s, Doox wrestled with the racism he experienced in society and the church and with the prospect of creating icons of a white Jesus. I thought, wouldnt it be wonderful to be able to express this spirituality, but dealing with the existential quandaries of what it means to be Black in America? he said. After leaving the monastery, Doox went on to do just that, creating icons for two singular ... More
Mannequin Pussy's music is built on big emotions (and inside jokes)
JAMISON, PA.- So, whos the pig lover here? Wandering the grounds of Ross Mill Farm, a foster home and boarding spot for porcine pets about an hour outside Philadelphia, the four members of the band Mannequin Pussy answered the facilitys owner nearly in unison: We all are! Pigs are pack animals not so different from being in a touring rock band, singer and guitarist Marisa Dabice, 36, noted playfully. Maxine Steen, 34, who plays synths and guitar, felt an instant kinship with a hesitant hog named Max, proclaiming them both so aloof. The band, which also includes drummer Kaleen Reading, 31, and bassist Colins Regisford, 37, known as Bear, has been spotted with livestock a lot lately. In two of its recent music videos, the quartet cavorts with cows and sheep, and a pig features prominently on the cover of its fierce new album, I Got Heaven. Mannequin Pussys earliest release ... More
'Lisa Fonssagrives: Penn Fashion Icon' showing in Paris and online at Michael Hoppen Gallery
PARIS.- The Maison Européenne de la Photographie has shared that 'Lisa Fonssagrives - Penn Fashion Icon' will be exhibited in their gallery, opening today, in Paris. The exhibition will include many works by Fernand Fonssagrives, Lisa's first husband and acclaimed fashion photographer. Lisa met Fernand Fonssagrives through their mutual love of dance and worked with him as a private dance teacher. They married in 1935 and this opened the door to both of their very successful careers, Lisa's in modelling and Fernand's in photography. Fernand Fonssagrives began his career photographing Lisa's elegant, sculptural form. She was a constant inspiration and together they produced many incredible images. The exhibition at the MEP explores the personal collection of model, dancer, photographer, stylist and sculptor, Lisa Fonssagrives - Penn. The presentation will feature around 150 pr ... More
'Chapter II: The Witnesses', the second and penultimate installment of 'Elegies', at Stroll Garden
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Stroll Garden is showing Elegies, a two-part solo exhibition of Korean-American artist Se Oh. Featuring over seventy new porcelain sculptures punctuated with multi-sensory and ritualistic performances, this compelling narrative exhibition explores the intimate relationships and histories that can be drawn between senses, mediums, ceremonies, and spiritual lineages. Elegies (Little Deaths / The Witnesses) will mark Stroll Gardens first collaboration with Se Oh and will showcase the most ambitious and experiential showings of the artist's practice to date. Adopted from South Korea in 1984 and raised in West Tennessee, Oh focuses on the liminality of their identity as an adopted Korean-American who assimilated into American culture at a very young age. I grew up in a conservative Christian home, where there are definitive lines drawn between what is right and wha ... More
Works docimenting domestic feminine politics by Jayeeta Chatterjee at Chemould Prescott Road
MUMBAI.- Chemould Prescott Road is currently present its first collaboration with Chemould CoLab - whose extension programme discovers and supports artist at the beginning of their careers. Works by Jayeeta Chatterjee at Chemould Prescott Road have been on view since 22 February, where they will remain until March 30th, 2024. An Eye Inside presents Jayeeta Chatterjees journey from an interest in interiors and architecture to her documentation of the domestic feminine politics. This evolution has been swift and serendipitous and reflected in this exhibition that combines earlier works of coloured woodcut prints and a new body of work where she takes a step further in bringing woodcut print making and embroidery together to expand on newer narratives. Through cloth scrolls, quilts and prints she documents nuances of working life from homes and communities in Bengal through woo ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English illustrator John Tenniel was born February 28, 1820. Sir John Tenniel (28 February 1820 - 25 February 1914) was an English illustrator, graphic humorist, and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century. He was knighted for his artistic achievements in 1893. Tenniel is remembered especially as the principal political cartoonist for Punch magazine for over 50 years, and for his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). In this image: John Tenniel, A Conspiracy, oil on panel, August 1850. Private collection, UK.
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