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The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Wednesday, January 8, 2025 The last staircase: Architectural salvage does not come any rarer than this... Rescued from Crakemarsh Hall, Staffordshire, England, the stair was listed in the 1968 sales particulars for the Hall and Estate ‘as almost certainly the work of Grinling Gibbons’, although it is suggested that this stair is a copy of the Great Stair at Sudbury Hall by Edward Pearce. TADDINGTON.- This will probably be the last ever opportunity to acquire a 17th century, circa 1660, carved oak staircase. The only other examples are either in situ in country houses – never to be removed – or in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; being the Cassiobury Park Staircase. Available for sale from renowned period architectural antiques specialists, Architectural Heritage Ltd of Taddington Manor, Gloucestershire. The stair consists of three extravagantly carved oak rising rails and a single return gallery, carved in the manner of Edward Pearce (circa 1630–1698). With lavish open panels set between large square newels decorated with fruit, the elaborate carving in the balustrades takes the form of scrolls ... More The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of ‘Fait à Paris: Furniture Creations by Jean-Pierre Latz at the Dresden Court’ in one of the state rooms at the Royal Palace of Dresden. Photo: BLEND3/Frank Grätz; © Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Almine Rech Shanghai announces Jean Miotte's second solo exhibition with the gallery, Toledo Museum of Art acquires over 250 artworks in 2024 Ancient faces of Tartessos revealed in groundbreaking new exhibition at National Archaeological Museum Jean Miotte, Ecart, 2005. Acrylic on canvas, 130 x 97 cm. 51 x 38 in. SHANGHAI.- Almine Rech Shanghai will present twelve paintings by French artist Jean Miotte (1926-2016), one of the masters of Art Informel. Miotte always refused to be associated with any particular school—conveniently forgetting that his work was shown in the “Informel” section at the first Paris Biennial in 1959. He expressed a personal lyricism that found its source in the energy of unresolved gestures something that differentiates him from other abstract painters of his time. His artistic impulse contained an inherent anxiety from the acknowledged risk of avoiding the pitfalls of triviality and indulgence. He had to face the possible failure of achieving a painting whose difficulties he strove to resolve through pictorial developments. Jean Miotte’s art is demanding. He made art from a need to paint and his lack of training (except for his occasional time spent in the open art academies of Montparnasse) did not deter him. Miotte wanted to create images ... More Helina Metaferia, Crown (Taytu), 2023. Brass, 11 × 7 1/2 × 9 in. Purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott. 2024.27. TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) announces the acquisition of 264 artworks through purchase and gift in 2024. Encompassing works from the 12th through 21st centuries and spanning six continents, these acquisitions are integral to the museum’s ambitious reinstallation project (scheduled for completion in 2027), reflecting its commitment to presenting a more nuanced and interconnected narrative of global art history. “Our team’s acquisitions from this past year highlight the museum’s dedication to showcasing the full spectrum of human creativity,” said Adam Levine, the Edward Drummond and Florence Scott Libbey President, Director, and CEO of the Toledo Museum of Art. “These works reflect our belief that a rigorous pursuit of quality across chronology, geography, and culture results in a truly global and inclusive art ... More These 2,500-year-old stone reliefs, dating back to the 5th century BC, are truly exceptional. Photo: Archaeological and Paleontological Museum of the Community of Madrid / Mario Torquemada. MADRID.- A remarkable discovery is now on display at the National Archaeological Museum (MAN) in Madrid: the first-ever sculpted human faces of the ancient Tartessian civilization. The exhibition, “Faces of Turuñuelo,” showcases five stunning stone reliefs, offering a rare glimpse into a culture previously believed to be aniconic—that is, one that did not create representational images of people or deities. The exhibition marks the opening of the MAN’s new Archaeological News Room, a dedicated space for showcasing the latest archaeological finds from across Spain. This new initiative, launched during the tenth anniversary of the museum's major renovation (2014-2024), underscores the museum’s commitment to remaining a dynamic hub for archaeological discovery. The new room is conveniently located on the ground floor, near the educational activity room ... More Exhibition of new work by Lesley Vance to open at David Kordansky Gallery Hirschl & Adler Galleries unveil exclusive Winold Reiss portrait exhibition President Sheinbaum celebrates reopening of National Museum of Anthropology's second floor Lesley Vance, Untitled, 2024, oil on linen, 54 x 45 x 1 1/2 inches (137.2 x 114.3 x 3.8 cm). Photo: Flying Studio LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery announces Paintings, Watercolors, an exhibition of new work by Lesley Vance. The exhibition will be on view in Los Angeles, where it will occupy two of the gallery’s spaces at 5130 W. Edgewood Pl., from January 11 through February 23, 2025. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, January 11 from 6 to 8 PM. Vance’s newest works find her entering into an ever more profound engagement with multiple legacies of painting. The exhibition features large- and medium-scale canvases, including several in formats that are new for the artist, along with a group of new watercolors. In addition to her perennial interests in color and visual movement, Vance experiments here with greater contrast between areas defined by expressive brushwork and those defined by uniform fields of color. The brushwork exudes a particularly active life of its own, providing clues to the unruly, emotionally fertile place from which the paintings begin. ... More Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Katherine [Kathryn] Hamill, 1930. NEW YORK, NY.- Hirschl & Adler Galleries announced a highly anticipated exhibition showcasing the portraits of renowned German American artist Winold Reiss. Opening on January 9, 2025, this exclusive presentation will highlight Reiss’s exceptional talent and distinctive vision, offering a rare glimpse into his celebrated portraiture. Winold Reiss (1886–1953), a pivotal figure in early 20th-century American art, is renowned for his evocative portraits that capture the spirit and character of his subjects with unparalleled intensity. The exhibition will cover the full panoply of subjects explored by the artist, including portraits of influential figures from the Harlem Renaissance, Mexican revolutionaries, American indigenous cultures, as well as artists, fashion models, and other cultural icons in New York in the 1920s and '30s. All will reveal Reiss’s unique combination of innovative artistic design and uncanny psychological depth. The exhibition’s accompanying catalogue will feat ... More The collection of items on display reflects the cultural wealth of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in Mexico. Photo: Gerardo Peña, INAH. MEXICO CITY.- In a vibrant ceremony that underscored Mexico’s rich cultural tapestry, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo officially reopened the second floor of the National Museum of Anthropology. The newly inaugurated section, titled “Grandeur and Cultural Diversity of Mexico,” pays tribute to the girls, young women, and women of the country’s indigenous communities, highlighting their pivotal role in preserving and enriching Mexico’s heritage. President Sheinbaum dedicated the reopening to indigenous women, emphasizing their historical and contemporary significance. “This year, 2025, we have decided to dedicate it to indigenous women, ‘indigenous women’ as a generic term for indigenous women, because if anyone has not been recognized in history it has been women, but if anyone has not been recognized in the history of Mexico it is indigenous women,” she stated during her speech. “So we are inaugurating this second floor dedicating ... More Bringing the past to life: Paleoartist Mauricio Antón's work on display in Castilla-La Mancha Christie's announces two sales Karma and Gordon Robichaux present a multisite exhibition by Tabboo! Kubanochoerus. CUENCA.- Dinosaurs, ancient mammals, and the dawn of humanity spring to life in the new exhibition “Mauricio Antón: Art and Paleontology,” now open at the Paleontological Museum of Castilla-La Mancha (MUPA). This captivating exhibition, which opened on December 20, 2024, and runs until May 18, 2025, showcases the remarkable career of renowned paleoartist Mauricio Antón, whose work has helped shape our understanding of prehistoric life. This traveling exhibition, originally created by the Archaeological and Paleontological Museum of the Community of Madrid (MARPA) in October 2022, has already captivated audiences across Spain, from Bilbao to Altamira. Its arrival at MUPA marks another stop on its journey, with future showings planned at Paleomágina (Bédmar), the San Telmo Museum in San Sebastián, and the Parque de las Ciencias in Granada. Antón’s work goes beyond simple illustrations; it’s a meticulous blend of scientific accuracy and artistic vision. As Antón himself explain ... More William Hawkins (1895-1990), Neil House with Chimney #2. Estimate: USD 50,000 – USD 100,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024. NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s will present Outsider Art, the first sale of New York Americana Week, taking place at 10AM on Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at Rockefeller Center. The sale offers an array of more than 140 exceptional works with important examples by the category’s most iconic artists including Martín Ramírez, Bill Traylor, Adolf Wolfli, William Hawkins, Thornton Dial, Winfred Rembert and more. With estimates ranging from $800 to $200,000, the sale offers an opportunity for buyers just embarking on their collecting journey and seasoned collectors alike. Cara Zimmerman, Head of Outsider Art, Christie’s, comments, “It is a pleasure to present the Outsider Art sale to our clients this January in New York. The auction is replete with outstanding artwork by the category’s most notable artists. We are particularly delighted to once again offer works from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation.” The sale ... More Tabboo!, Untitled (Self-Portrait), 1982. Crayon and acrylic on paper, 11 × 8½ in. NEW YORK, NY.- Karma and Gordon Robichaux present Early Works, a multisite exhibition by Tabboo! on view in New York at 172 and 188 East 2nd Street, and 41 Union Square West, respectively. On view at both galleries through February 28, 2025, Early Works opens on Wednesday, January 8 at Karma and Sunday, January 12 at Gordon Robichaux. In the summer of 1982, Tabboo! arrived in New York City. Against a backdrop of Neo-Expressionism, Pictures postmodernism, graffiti, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Tabboo! developed an aesthetic universe of painting, performance, and text that would become foundational to the city’s new avant garde and its rearticulation in popular culture at large. His early work emerged from a collision of his longstanding interests—1960s psychedelia, pop divas, the black-and-white drawings of Aubrey Beardsley—and the downtown queer art scene he became an integral part of, alongside fellow Boston School ... More Paul Wallach opens Jan. 9th at Fergus McCaffrey New York A look at some of the items collected by Museum of Liverpool in 2024 Threads of history: Admiral Othón P. Blanco's uniform undergoing restoration in Quintana Roo Paul Wallach, Non Lieu, 2024. Wood, mirror, paint. 27 1/8 x 84 5/8 x 12 inches (69 x 215 x 30.5 cm.) Photograph by Georges Poncet. NEW YORK, NY.- Fergus McCaffrey will present the first United States exhibition of the American sculptor Paul Wallach (b. 1960) in over three decades: Lieu Non Lieu (Place No Place). The artist has lived and worked in Europe since 1992, and we hope that this exhibition begins the overdue recognition of Wallach’s innovative work in his homeland. The artist will be present at the exhibition opening. Wallach was born in New York and grew up in Philadelphia, where his interest in furniture making and encounters with the works of Constantin Brancusi and Marcel Duchamp at the Philadelphia Museum of Art proved decisive in his future direction as a sculptor. These formative influences established the exacting standards of hand-wrought facture and the conceptual and art historical veracity that are the hallmark of Wallach’s work. ... More Mesolithic footprint taken from Formby Beach © National Museums Liverpool. LIVERPOOL.- Throughout the year, museum curators identify and acquire items relating to Liverpool’s rich cultural heritage. All unique and representative of stories from the city, the items range from traditional museum collection items to the more unusual. The Museum of Liverpool celebrates and showcases Liverpool’s culture, character and heritage. Where some more traditional museum items may not be chosen, other more obscure, even unassuming items will take up a permanent place in the collections. Items can be identified by the museum curators or are kindly offered to the museum by societies, organisations and members of the public. While not every item is accepted, curators carefully consider all items and decide which items would benefit the museum’s collection to represent the multitude of stories throughout the city’s long history. Kay Jones, curator at Museum of ... More These are a shirt and trousers (or pants), belonging to Admiral Othón P. Blanco's uniform. Photo: Mauricio Marat / INAH. CHETUMAL.- A vital piece of Quintana Roo’s history is being carefully brought back to life. Specialists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) are undertaking the delicate restoration of Admiral Tomás Othón Pompeyo Blanco Núñez de Cáceres’s military uniform, a tangible link to a pivotal figure in the region’s past. Admiral Blanco (1866-1959) played a crucial role in securing Mexico's southern border during the Caste War (1847-1901), a conflict that deeply shaped the Yucatán Peninsula. Preserving his uniform is seen as essential to safeguarding his legacy and Quintana Roo’s cultural heritage. The restoration project is led by Abril Rebeca Buendía Sánchez, INAH’s representative in the state, in collaboration with Rosa Lorena Román Torres, head restorer from the Textile Restoration Workshop ... More Naudline Pierre on William Blake and the importance of the imagination More News Lyman Allyn Art Museum presents a dynamic series of paintings by Thuan Vu NEW LONDON, CONN.- Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces the opening of Thuan Vu: Kintsugi in the New World, an exhibition featuring a dynamic series of paintings from New Haven artist Thuan Vu. Drawn from both his Kintsugi flower series and The New World series, these paintings reflect the Japanese philosophy of placing value on that which has been broken and repaired, whether it be an object, community, or person. His paintings offer a revised sense of wholeness and beauty even in the face of fracture and confusion. This exhibition is on view Jan. 18 through Mar. 30, 2025. As a Vietnamese refugee, Vu’s work is about finding a sense of wholeness and beauty in our divided selves, our fractured country, and our complicated world. “For the past 10 years, I’ve made a series of paintings called The New World, which abstractly ... More Hammer Museum to honor Jane Fonda and Lauren Halsey at annual gala in the Garden LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum announced today that actor and activist Jane Fonda and artist Lauren Halsey will be honored at the 20th annual Gala in the Garden on Saturday, May 17, 2025. The Hammer’s annual event honors artists and innovators who have made profound contributions to society through their work. Hammer Director Zoë Ryan said, “Jane Fonda has been a force for change for 50 years, as much for her contributions to cinema as for her outspoken activism. She has been especially vocal as an advocate for protecting the environment, founding the Jane Fonda Climate PAC, and speaking regularly to raise awareness about the unprecedented threats we all face. Lauren Halsey is one of the most dynamic artists working today, with an upcoming sculpture park scheduled to open in South Central Los ... More Morgan Lehman Gallery opens group exhibition NEW YORK, NY.- Pattern runs deep in the cultural fabric of the human race. The oldest depictions of patterns are crisscrossed lines and the outlines of human hands on Ancient cave walls. At a site like Cuevas de las Manos, Río Pinturas in Argentina, a layered alternation of earth pigments and repeated hand shapes produce a visual rhythm that echoes all the way from Prehistory to the Present; stimulating vibrations in the back of our eyes that lay a nonlinear and nonliteral order over Ancient rock. Today an amazing variety of patterns, with all sorts of cultural connotations, crackle across our metal, drywall, and polyester, singing with the same old-time music of repetition and alternation. Everywhere, pattern gives meaning and mystery to undefined space, and continues to light up the human mind. Pattern must provide an intangible that no ... More Heard Museum raises restored "Friendship Totem" by Nisga'a artist Norman Tait PHOENIX, AZ.- The Heard Museum announced the reinstallation of the newly renovated Friendship Totem, a 48-year-old monumental carving created by Nisga’a artist Norman Tait. The project, funded through Bank of America’s Art Conservation Project, was recently unveiled to the public in the museum’s Hearst Foundation’s Children’s Courtyard. “When a totem pole is raised, it is like the birth of an important person,” said Tait in Carving a Totem Pole by Vickie Jensen. “The pole is given a name and treated with the same kind of respect you would give a chief. Like the elders, each pole is a teacher, a storyteller.” The 21-foot totem pole, carved in 1976 by Tait, who is credited with reviving the art of Nisga’a totem pole carving, was commissioned by the provincial government of British Columbia as a gift to the city of Phoenix, which, shortly ... More A palace rises from the ashes: Exhibition unveils the story of Alcalá's Archbishop's Palace MADRID.- A new exhibition at the Archaeological and Paleontological Museum of the Community of Madrid sheds light on a dramatic chapter in Spanish history: the devastating fire that engulfed the Archbishop’s Palace of Alcalá de Henares in 1939, and its subsequent partial reconstruction. “The architect Rodolfo García-Pablos at the Archbishop’s Palace of Alcalá. 1943-1948” offers a poignant look at the palace’s past, the destruction it endured, and the dedicated efforts to preserve what remained. The fire, which raged for three days starting on August 11, 1939, reduced the former alcazar of the Archbishops of Toledo to ruins. This tragic event marked the culmination of wartime destruction in Alcalá de Henares and represented a significant loss for the nation, not only destroying the physical structure but also the valuable documentary ... More Fellowship to support five UK-based artists and collectives working at the intersection of art LONDON.- Serpentine announced the awardees of the Support Structures for Support Structures programme: Ashley Holmes, Janie Doherty, Roo Dhissou, Taey Iohe and Noisy Women Present co-founders: Faradena Afifi, Maggie Nicols, Gwendolyn Kassenaar and Marion Treby. In its second iteration, the fellowship consists of an unrestricted grant given to each artist and collectives across the UK, a development from the first programme (2021) focused on London. Recipients will be provided with a network of support, and mentoring sessions at a timely moment in their careers. The programme supports artists who have demonstrated a commitment to experimenting with and producing projects that have an impact on their communities and address social urgencies. Support Structures for Support Structures was conceived ... More PhotoGalleries KUSAMA Gabriele Münter TARWUK Awol Erizku Flashback On a day like today, Dutch-English painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema was born January 08, 1836. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (born Lourens Alma Tadema Dutch; 8 January 1836 - 25 June 1912) was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. In this image: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s The Finding of Moses. © 1996 - 2024 Founder: Ignacio Villarreal (1941 - 2019) Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal (52 8110667640) Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

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