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Will Roseman, the executive director of the Explorers Club, holds Flag No. 98, at the club in New York, Jan. 4, 2024. Adm. Richard E. Byrd, a prominent fixture at the Explorers Club, a New York City institution dating to the early 1900s, and one of the worlds greatest explorers, carried Flag No. 98 during his expedition to Antarctica in 1939, but the flag became lost until resurfacing in November 2023 at an auction in Plymouth, Mass. (Sasha Maslov/The New York Times)
by Michael Wilson
NEW YORK, NY.- It arrived without fanfare or explanation, marked Lot No. 313 at the J. James Auction House in Plymouth, Massachusetts. A simple flag, bearing an E and a C alongside a compass star, against a red, white and blue background. Few would see it and care. But in New York City, alerts sounded on phones and computer screens. Could it be? Some flags mark a place and a moment: I was here. See me. This flag had served that purpose once, more than 70 years ago at the bottom of the world, where it had been carried by one of the most famous men alive. To anyone in America in the 1930s and the decades that followed, Adm. Richard E. Byrds name was attached to the extreme limits of human exploration in the uncharted Antarctic. His exploits to the so-called White Continent pl ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Lutfi Yondri, an archaeologist with the Bandung provincial government, at the National Research and Innovation Agency in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, Dec. 21, 2023. Excavation work at the Gunung Padang pyramid began in the early 1980s, he said. (Ulet Ifansasti/The New York Times).
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| Gagosian to exhibit new paintings by Stanley Whitney in Paris | | Rediscovered Carpeaux included in Stuart Lochhead's return to TEFAF | | SFMOMA opens most comprehensive exhibition of Wolfgang Tillmans's work to date |
Stanley Whitney, Untitled, 2019. Gouache on paper, 22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
© Stanley Whitney. Photo: Rob McKeever, Courtesy Gagosian.
PARIS.- Gagosian is now opening Stanley Whitneys painting Dear Paris (2023) at 9 rue de Castiglione, Paris, from January 10 to February 28, 2024. Inspired by the artists extended stay in the French capital, Dear Paris is the latest of Whitneys lyrical abstractions. Balancing systematic structure and expressive spontaneity, he composed the painting in his characteristic manner, one roughly rectilinear block at a time, starting at the top left and progressing in rows across and down the canvas. Whitney forms each shape with energetic brushwork, choosing its vivid hues and shaping its boundaries in relation to its predecessors. The paintings subtly shifting freehand geometry is further demarcated by linear bands between its rows that both divide and unify the composition. Pursuing abstraction since the 1970s, Whitney established his mature style in the 1990s ... More | |
Prosper dEpinay (1836-1914), Françoise de la Rochefocauld, Polychrome terracotta, Height 60.
LONDON.- Stuart Lochhead Sculpture has been a stand out exhibitor at recent editions of TEFAF Maastricht with incredible objects selling to world-class museums. Now the London-based sculpture dealer has once again announced its participation in the fairs 2024 edition with a special, one-room exhibition dedicated to nineteenth-century polychrome sculpture. A Room Full of Colour will celebrate the mingling of techniques, styles and expertise, as well as the inventiveness of artists who worked at the intersection between fine and decorative arts in the nineteenth century. The display will include sculptures in terracotta, plaster and glazed ceramic by the likes of Prosper dEpinay (1836-1914), Albert Carriés (1855-1894) and Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929). The gallery will also present a rediscovered masterpiece by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827- 1875): an original plaster petit modéle of the famed composition Why Born Enslaved!, ... More | |
Wolfgang Tillmans, San Francisco, 1995; courtesy the artist, David Zwirner, New York / Hong Kong, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin / Cologne, Maureen Paley, London.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear, the most comprehensive exhibition of the artists work to date. Organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the survey includes iconic works by Tillmans in photography, video and multimedia installation, a diverse practice united by the artists profoundly inventive philosophical approach, sensitivity and desire for human connection. To look without fear at SFMOMA marks the artists first solo exhibition in San Francisco. Wolfgang Tillmans has for decades explored what it means to engage with our contemporary world through photography, said Helen and Charles Schwab Director Christopher Bedford. This exhibition offers visitors a full accounting of Tillmanss boundary-defying artmaking practice, which we anticipate will find relevance in a broad range of audiences. His work ... More |
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| Indonesian artist Roby Dwi Antono 'TUK' subject of upcoming show at Almine Rech | | 'River-Rising' Ellen Kozak and Scott D. Miller debut new video and music installation at David Richard Gallery | | Alexis Smith, artist with eclectic eye on American culture, dies at 74 |
Portrait of Roby Dwi Antono. © Roby Dwi Antono / Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Photo: Wisnu Aji Sasaka.
LONDON.- Almine Rech London is commencing tomorrow an exhibition of recent works by Roby Dwi Antono, on view from January 11 to February 17, 2024. On the brink of a new decade, the 2010s in Yogyakarta/Jogja, the cultural capital city of Indonesia, a generation of young Indonesian artists spearheaded a new genre of art making, a localized hybrid of Pop Surrealism/low-brow art that heavily influenced the style of young painters around that time. Many of these artists carried a mix of Pop Surrealism blended with grass root sensibilities, with themes mainly explored everyday life, pop culture, local and global in each of their works. This community grew from an independent and underground spirit influenced by various subcultures like pop culture, indie movements, graphic novels, "lowbrow art", pop surrealism, street- style fashion, and more. These influences also reflected the development of Indonesian post-Reformation youth culture. Roby Dwi ... More | |
Barges, Tugs and Tankers No. 48 , 2023. Oil on panel, 13 x 22 in, 33 x 56 cm. Artworks Copyright © Ellen Kozak. Courtesy David Richard Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery is opening River-Rising an exhibition of Ellen Kozak and Scott D. Millers collaborative 4-channel video and music installation, as well as a series of Kozaks night paintings created in 2022-2023. This exhibition is the second time Kozaks paintings and work in video have been shown together. The first was her solo show at the Katonah Museum of Art, which commissioned a single channel video in 2009. River-Rising is filmed from the shorelines of three river estuaries, the Garonne River in France, the Bilbao Estuary, and the Hudson River. Also, interspersed throughout the channels are recurring rhythmic passages of nighttime illumination filmed along the Venice Lagoon. River-Rising is comprised of intimately observed and gradually changing images that inspire an identification with the river as a living organism. Abstract in their appearance, the images convey the movement and luminosit ... More | |
Alexis Smith in her California studio in 2017. (Pauline Stella Sanchez, via Garth Greenan Gallery via The New York Times)
by Travis Diehl
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexis Smith, an artist who expressed a searing though affectionate vision of American culture in assemblages, installations and public art projects, died on Jan. 2 at her home in Venice, California. She was 74. Garth Greenan Gallery in New York, which represents her estate, confirmed her death. Smith was diagnosed with Alzheimers disease in 2015. In her art, Smith critiqued the American dream, but bittersweetly, with sympathy for those who chase it. The installation Isadora, from 1980, demonstrates the tender way Smith could convey the flimsy immortality of fame. The work tells the story of the modern dancer Isadora Duncans tragic final days in Nice, in the south of France. Two framed groups of pages one shaped like a Greek temple, the other like the car in which Duncan died in 1927 when her long scarf wrapped around a spinning ... More |
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| Radical Clay celebrates 36 contemporary women ceramic artists through 40 stunning, virtuosic pieces | | Fine items pulled from prominent estates and collections across New England to be auctioned January 22nd | | Opening January 11th, 'Michael Gregory, Time Present, Time Past' at Berggruen Gallery |
Tanaka Yu, Bag Work, 2018.
CHICAGO, IL.- This presentation focuses on the explosion of innovative and technically ambitious compositions by Japanese women artists since 1970a body of work which they developed in parallel with, but often separately from, traditional, male-dominated Japanese practice and its countermovements. Since World War II, women have made influential contributions to the ceramics field in Japan that have not been adequately recognized. This exhibition focuses on the explosion of innovative and technically ambitious compositions by such artists since 1970a body of work which they developed in parallel with, but often separately from, traditional, male-dominated Japanese practice and its countermovements. Both established and emerging artists with a range of styles are presented together to showcase their collective achievements and impact. Mishima Kimiyo (born 1932), Tsuboi Asuka (born 1932), and Ogawa Machiko (born 1946) began their careers decades ago and ... More | |
Bruce Crane: Landscape painting by Bruce Crane (Conn./N.Y., 1857-1937), a fresh find and the perfect study, a misty fall morning according to Kevin Bruneau (est. $2,000-$3,000).
CRANSTON, RI.- Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers will greet the New Year with a 438-lot Winter Fine & Decorative Art online-only auction featuring fine items from prominent area estates and collections. The event will be held on Monday, January 22nd, starting at 10 am Eastern time. Previews will be held by appointment only, at the Bruneau & Co. gallery in Cranston, R.I. Expected top lots include a landscape painting by Bruce Crane (Conn./N.Y., 1857-1937); a rare circa 1880 Bark John & Winthrop carved whales tooth; a circa 1830 Chinese oil on canvas painting of the 13 Hongs of Canton; an early 20th century Pairpoint Puffy Papillion table lamp; a 1977 Philippines 5,000-Peso gold proof coin; and a Tavannes Hermes silver golfing belt watch. We have an interesting array of items in this auction, from a fresh gold and silver coin collection to a group of ... More | |
Michael Gregory, East of the River, 2023. Oil on canvas on panel, 72 x 60 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Berggruen Gallery is soon to launch Michael Gregory: Time Present, Time Past, an exhibition of new paintings. This show marks his fifteenth solo exhibition with the gallery. Michael Gregory: Time Present, Time Past will be on view from January 11th through February 29th, 2024. The gallery will host a reception for the artist on Thursday, January 11th from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. For over two decades, Michael Gregory has been interested in rural landscapes and architecture informed by road trips across the country. This fascination is dually formal and social: the artist is interested in the geometric structures of these rural buildings punctuating the soft, natural world, as well as these buildings centrality to a national myth constructed by farmers, ranchers, and builders in rural America. Gregorys paintings descend from archaeological impulses rather than commemorative oneshis paintings documen ... More |
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| New exhibition at Rosenfeld Gallery: 'On Hold' | | World War II-era munitions found dumped off Los Angeles coast | | Comprehensive solo exhibition of self-portraits marks Wawi Navarroza's US debut at Silverlens |
Zoya Cherkassky, Crying Female Soldiers, 7.10.23, mixed media on paper, 28x25.5 cm.
TEL AVIV.- Time is an abstract, elusive, hard to define or understand entity. The assumption that the passing of time already marks events in the future that become present and then exist in the past - is arbitrary and does not reflect time as an infinite constant. According to Ãtienne Klein, a philosopher of science, there are some categories of time that are classified more palpable than others. A common distinction would be between physical time, thought of as objective, and between psychological time, considered more subjective and illusory. A vast amount of research about the concept of time demonstrated that some situations or events, such as frustration, boredom, danger or awaiting, actually prolong the sense of time, often to an extreme. On October 7th, our sense of time changed and the infinite constant of time stopped. It seems as if life as we knew it paused; The Old World got lost somewhere in the past, while the future seemed obscure, as we were ... More | |
Researchers found hundreds of World War II-era munitions, including anti-submarine explosives and smoke devices, dotted along the ocean floor in rough lines stretching over a mile. (Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UC San Diego via The New York Times)
by Yan Zhuang
NEW YORK, NY.- When marine scientists sent an underwater camera down to the seafloor off the Southern California coast, they expected to find the remnants of barrels used to dump chemical waste decades ago. Instead, they found hundreds of World War II-era munitions, including anti-submarine explosives and smoke devices, dotted along the ocean floor in rough lines stretching over 1 mile. Eric Terrill and Sophia Merrifield, scientists from the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography, announced Friday the findings of their underwater surveying project, which was conducted in April last year. The seafloor south of Los Angeles was an industrial dumpsite from the ... More | |
Wawi Navarroza, Rosas Pandan (Volviendo, Self-Portrait), 135 x 101 cm, 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- Silverlens New York is kicking off 2024 with a solo exhibition by Filipina artist Wawi Navarroza, a leading figure in contemporary Southeast Asian art. The show marks Navarrozas first-ever solo exhibition in the United States after more than a quarter-century of photography practice. The Other Shore will be on view from January 11, 2024 to March 2, 2024. Born in Manila and moving between Manila, Madrid, and Istanbul, Navarroza is known for her large-format photographic tableaus and self-portraits. Her exhibition at Silverlens New York chronicles her work from 2019 to 2023, and invites new audiences into her expansive worldbuilding, where language is replaced by a vivid and opulent lexicon consisting of objects, place and cross-cultural exchange. Examining the duality of worlds in the East and West, the individual and the collective, and personal identity and experience, Navarroza ... More |
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The Noguchi Museum Shop presents Installation by artist Charmaine Bee
NEW YORK, NY.- The Noguchi Museum Shop will soon be exhibiting Charmaine Bee: Marsh Ocean Portal (January 24February 4, 2024) an installation of new works by the multidisciplinary artist Charmaine Bee. The works will be available for purchase exclusively from the Shop beginning January 24. Charmaine, raised in the Sea Islands of South Carolina and based in Bahia, Brazil and Brooklyn, works in both visual arts and herbalism, using textiles, sound, video, movement, and writing. Their work connects geography and spirituality, finding the fibers between inner and outer landscapes. Collectively taken, their practice is a giving practice: they explore their own imagination and history, personal and ancestral, Black Diaspora and Gullah, transmuting their findings into skilled craft to provide space for others to do the same. ... More
'Points of Origin: Works by Tammie Rubin' opens Thursday, January 11th at C24 Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- C24 Gallery will be holding the opening reception of Points of Origin, a solo exhibition of new and recent works by Tammie Rubin, on Thursday, January 11th, 6:00-8:00pm, and an artist talk on Saturday, January 13th, at 4:00pm. In this latest collection, Rubin employs ceramic sculptures, prayer fans, and plotter ink drawings as an entryway into a complex historical narrative. Contemplating the faith of Black Americans in their ongoing striving for autonomy and full citizenship, she has created objects of power inspired by the women in her family and the care they have personally imprinted into everything they have done, both in the home and in the workplace. In this way the collection serves as a testament to struggle, as well as an homage to the creative power of engaging in the complexities of everyday ... More
Dazzling new digital artwork by Carter Hodgkin on view at Fulton Transit Center
NEW YORK, NY.- MTA Arts & Design is pleased to announce Infinite Orbits, a new digital artwork by New York-based artist Carter Hodgkin, is now on view at the Fulton Transit Center in Lower Manhattan. Infinite Orbits is an abstract visualization of energy. The coding-derived animations transform the complex into a fleeting, immersive environment. Colorful swirls dance across the 52 screens throughout Fulton Center and the Dey Street pedestrian tunnel, connecting multiple New York City Transit lines and the World Trade Center PATH station. The digital artwork is displayed for two minutes at the top of every hour. Hodgkins practice fuses art, science, and technology to explore a new language of abstraction. Approaching the modification of code as a drawing tool, she generates atomic particle collisions to create animated forms which ... More
'Gin spilt by John Betjeman' - poet's humour comes to light after 50 years as cameraman's inscribed gifts go to auction
LONDON.- When the noted cinematographer John McGlashan, died aged 86 in 2021, he left behind him a body of work spanning 60 years and encompassing major dramas, TV shows and documentaries. As resident cameraman on the long-running arts programme Monitor, he worked with directors such as Ken Russell, John Schlesinger and Ken Loach, and shot classics as varied as the landmark documentary The Ascent of Man (1973) and TV shows such as Porridge and Doctor Who. Now his family have consigned personal gifts from one of his favourite TV personalities, the late Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman, for auction. They will appear in the January 23 book sale at John Nicholsons of Fernhurst. What ... More
Mumbai Gallery Weekend presents a dynamic showcase of contemporary Indian art for young collectors
MUMBAI .- MGW all set to take place in the city of Mumbai from January 11-14th presents "Evolution of Now," a Young Collectors Pop Up Exhibition curated by Teesta Bhandare and Art Garde a ground-breaking group exhibition featuring 8 emerging artists from across India, is set to redefine the landscape of contemporary art. This pop-up serves as a testament to the diversity of artistic expression prevalent in the country today, offering a vibrant starting point for emerging collectors venturing into the art scene. From 11th to 14th January, 2024, the inaugural edition will coincide with the Mumbai Gallery Weekend 2024, providing a unique platform for art enthusiasts and collectors to immerse themselves in the evolving narratives of these visionary artists such as Purvai Rai, Ritu Aggarwal,Kaushik Saha, Akshata Mokshi, Dheeraj Yadav, Pavan ... More
Paul Giamatti has done the reading
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.- Paul Giamatti would just like to put it out there that maybe he doesnt always have to play such a motormouth. It might be nice, just to shake things up a bit, if he could portray someone more likely to express themselves nonverbally a taciturn horse breeder with an anguished past, say, or a world-class safecracker with shrapnel-related vocal cord injuries. Please, dont make me talk so much, he said recently, in a low register, his hangdog eyes pleading with the universe. Giamatti watchers may have a hard time imagining the actor tongue-tied. He is one of cinemas great talkers, often cited for dazzling flights of oratory. Think of Miles profane rebuke of merlot in Sideways (2004) or the Founding Father flogging the virtues of independence in John Adams (2008) or brash boxing manager Joe ... More
Adelaide Contemporary Experimental announces a new Artistic Director: Danielle Zuvela
ADELAIDE.- Contemporary visual arts organisation, ACE, announced the appointment of Artistic Director, experienced curator and arts leader, Dr Danielle Zuvela. ACE Chair, Amanda Pepe, says, This role attracted a large field of highly qualified candidates, both local and interstate, but we felt that Dannis experience and ambitions were a perfect fit with the plans we have for ACE. She will bring a unique perspective and plenty of energy to the role, building on the achievements of ACE in the past few years with a firm eye on what is possible into the future. It is an exciting time for ACE and contemporary and experimental artists. Zuvela says of her appointment, "As a researcher with a specialty in Australian art, Ive been interested in ACEs unique role in the Australian arts ecology, as a hotbed for experimentation ... More
In 'Beautyland,' an awkward alien reports from Earth by fax machine
NEW YORK, NY.- He was too good for this earth, Abraham Lincoln said of a son who died young. So it seems was Adina Talve-Goodman, an aspiring writer who survived a heart transplant only to perish of cancer at 31 in 2018 (her essays were published posthumously), and is acknowledged by Marie-Helene Bertino at the conclusion of her astonishing third novel, Beautyland. Bertinos protagonist is also named Adina, which means nobleor delicate depending on the source. Before we went down internet rabbit holes to scrabble up such information, Beautyland reminds us, we were fascinated by black holes. Never mind the fault in our stars (though one character gets cancer as well), this is a book that exults in them. The fictional Adina may be too good for this earth, but more significant: She is not exactly of it, having ... More
Chef Adam Handling MBE opens boutique art gallery in the heart of Covent Garden
LONDON.- Award-winning Chef Adam Handling MBE announced the opening of The Frog Gallery located in the heart of Covent Garden, just moments away from his flagship Michelin-starred restaurant, The Frog. This exciting venture marks the first step beyond hospitality for the Adam Handling Group, accentuating the four pillars that define all of Adams endeavours: food, drink, art and music. Open now on Maiden Lane, The Frog Gallery showcases a carefully curated collection of pieces from a select artist, chosen by Adam himself in collaboration with Wishbone Publishing. Each month, the work of one artist will be shown, rotating every 4 weeks to highlight a wide variety of exquisite pieces and providing a unique platform for hand-picked and selected fine art and artists from throughout the UK. Each artist will also provide a small ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English sculptor Barbara Hepworth was born January 10, 1903. Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 - 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. She was one of the few female artists of her generation to achieve international prominence. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War. In this image: Dame Barbara Hepworth, Parent I, conceived in 1970, number 2 of the 4 individual casts that were made of each of the nine figures (est. £2,000,000-3,000,000). Photo: Sotheby's.
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