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Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, 2021. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Photo: Dario Lasagni.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum is proud to present Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, an exhibition originally conceived by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) for the New Museum, and presented with curatorial support from advisors Naomi Beckwith Massimiliano Gioni, Glenn Ligon, and Mark Nash. On view from February 17 to June 6, 2021, Grief and Grievance is an intergenerational exhibition bringing together thirty seven artists working in a variety of mediums who have addressed the concept of mourning, commemoration, and loss as a direct response to the national emergency of racist violence experienced by Black communities across America. The exhibition further considers the intertwined phenomena of Black grief and a politically orchestrated white grievance, as each structures and defines contemporary American social and political life. Included in Grief and Grievance are works encompassing video, painting, sculpture, installation, photography, sound, and perfor ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold an auction of Exceptional Antiquities, Asian, Ethnographic Art on Thu, Feb 18, 2021 9:00 AM GMT-6. The sale includes museum-worthy examples of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Far East / Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fossils, Ancient Jewelry, Fine Art, so much more! In this image: Superb Chavin Gold Royalty Maskette Appliques (3). Estimate: $40,000-$60,000
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| Christie's to offer the Collection of Mrs. Henry Ford II in New York & London | | The haunted house of Soviets gets a new life | | Christie's to offer the first purely digital NFT-based work of art ever offered by a major auction house |
Mrs. Henry Ford IIs residence, Palm Beach, Florida, USA. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced the principal Collection of Mrs. Henry Ford II, to be offered across two live sales in New York and London this spring. Part I of The Collection of Mrs. Henry Ford II, from her Palm Beach home, will be offered in a live sale at Christies New York on 30 March followed by Part II, from her English residences in Londons prestigious Eaton Square and her country home, Turville Grange in Buckinghamshire, to be offered at Christies London on 15 April. The New York and London collection sales build on the strong momentum established by the highly successful sales of Mrs. Henry Ford IIs important Impressionist paintings and jewelry at Christies New York last December, with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrecs Pierreuse, achieving the top price of the 20th Century Sale: Hong Kong to New York. The collection of Mrs. Henry Ford II to be offered this spring, comprises approximately 650 lots an ... More | |
The House of Soviets in the center of Kaliningrad, Russia, Jan. 27, 2021. Emile Ducke/The New York Times.
by Andrew E. Kramer
KALININGRAD (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Yevgenia Kvasova was still young when she watched something resembling, by design, a gigantic head rise in the center of her city, on the westernmost edge of Russia. It gives me the evil eye every time I leave home, said Kvasova, now 62, referring to the offending structure, the House of Soviets, which indeed sports an array of eye-like balconies that gaze from its facades. Even architects who admire the original, bold design in a mixture of the modernist and brutalist styles concede that the House of Soviets fell short of its promise as a symbol of the Soviet Unions control over formerly German land captured during World War II. Instead, the building became emblematic of flaws in the Soviet system, as shoddy construction and structural ... More | |
Detail of Beeple, Everydays The First 5000 Days, NFT, 21,069 pixels x 21,069 pixels (316,939,910 bytes). Estimate Unknown. Starting Bid: $100 | Open for bidding from February 25 - March 11. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will present Everydays The First 5000 Days by leading digital artist, Beeple, in a stand alone online-only sale open for bidding from February 25 - March 11, coinciding with First Open | Online. This sale marks the first time that a purely digital NFT (Non-Fungible Token) based work of art has ever been offered by a major auction house, signifying an important milestone in the development of the market for digital art. Given that this is a new medium for Christies, the estimate for The First 5000 Days will be listed as unknown. Bidding will open at $100. Noah Davis, Specialist, Post-War and Contemporary Art, remarked: Christies is thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Beeple, a brash pioneer among digital artists, to present the first purely digital NFT-based ... More |
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| Accusations of sexual harassment rock Greek arts world | | Galerie Nathalie Obadia opens an exhibition of works by Sarkis | | The world grieves for millions. An artist grieves for one. |
A man makes his way near the Roman Agora in central Athens during a rare heavy snowfall in the city on February 16, 2021. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP.
by Niki Kitsantonis
ATHENS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Less than a month after allegations of sexual assault by a Greek Olympic sailing champion spurred a national reckoning on a topic long considered taboo, the Greek arts world has been swept up in a torrent of accusations and denials. A number of famous actors and directors have been accused of harassment or assault and removed from high-profile productions. The artistic director of the countrys prestigious National Theater resigned amid a barrage of reports accusing him of sexual abuse and harassment, which he has furiously denied. The bulk of the accusations from men as well as women have surfaced in media reports. Prosecutors in Athens are handling the most serious cases and have vowed to investigate all credible allegations. A judicial official, who would speak only on the condition of anonymity, said he expected there to be more cases, although it was unclear ... More | |
Sarkis, 2018.05.17 Main/Feu en 7 couleurs darc-enciel, sur 3 feuilles superposées, 2018 Oil on papers. Framed: 32 15/32 x 24 13/16 x 1 31/32 in. (82,5 x 63 x 5 cm) © Sarkis. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris/Brussels.
PARIS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting Au commencement la chaleur, Sarkiss sixth exhibition, after Les vitraux mobiles de Sarkis in 2019 and Intérieurs in 2018. Born in 1938, in Istanbul, the artist moved to Paris in 1964, where he spent the last 60 years developing a prodigious body of work that defies any attempt at classification. Starting with Kriegsschatz (War Treasure) and Leidschatz (Pain Treasure), concepts that would inform his prolific career from 1976 onwards, Sarkis became a pioneering figure in the way he reflected on the history and aesthetics of pillaged or subtracted objects. At a time when international institutions have started to address this hot topic an area of particular concern for museums , Sarkis scrupulously continues to carry out the critical analysis he had begun almost 45 years earlier. Au commencement la chaleur comprises a group of Scènes en cuivre (Copper Scenes), Plans Brûlés ... More | |
Artist Divya Mehra in an undated photo. The Canadian artists inflatable sculpture takes an acerbic look at mourning, expressing a tsunami of grief with urn and wave emojis. Divya Mehra and Night Gallery; Nik Massey via The New York Times.
by Brian Boucher
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- We are facing a special challenge in the pandemic era: How do we mourn death at the scale we are witnessing it? In a new exhibition, Canadian artist Divya Mehra offers a surprising and timely suggestion: big fat emojis. The funny things You do at Night Gallery in Los Angeles (through March 13), includes just one work, but its a whopper: Nearly 20-foot-tall inflatable versions of the wave and urn emojis, expressive of a tsunami of grief; when the exhibition opened in mid-January, 2 million had died from the coronavirus. The mind balks at that number but the shows evocation of devastation deals partly with Mehras mourning of one: her father, Kamal, who died in 2015. He founded Winnipeg, Manitobas first North Indian restaurant in the 1970s; it remains a fixture there. The artist, 39, was reticent ... More |
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| The National Gallery announces NG200 plans | | UK wants to target deals with EU members on creative work permits | | Jessie Homer French opens her first solo exhibition with MASSIMODECARLO |
Dr Gabriele Finaldi, Director of the National Gallery, London ALT. © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- The National Gallery has today announced it is seeking a multi-disciplinary design team to work with it on a suite of capital projects to mark its Bicentenary, with an initial phase to be opened in 2024. To celebrate 200 years since its foundation in 1824, the National Gallery is planning a programme of inspirational exhibitions and outreach around the country and around the world, under the banner NG200. This will also include the completion of an initial phase of works to its Trafalgar Square buildings in order to improve the welcome it provides to the millions of visitors it receives each year. The brief for the project includes sensitive interventions to the Grade I listed Sainsbury Wing to reconfigure the ground floor entrance and upgrade the visitor amenities, creating new spaces that will provide a welcome experience befitting a world-class institution and that meets the expectations of 21st-century visi ... More | |
In this file photo Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson attends a virtual press conference inside 10 Downing Street in central London on February 15, 2021, to give an update on the coronavirus covid-19 pandemic. Stefan Rousseau / POOL / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Britain's government said Tuesday it intends to seek individual deals with each of the 27 EU member states on work permits for the creative industries, as anger grows among performers shut out of the bloc since Brexit. Following Britain's definitive departure from the EU at the end of 2020, the government has faced mounting criticism over its failure to secure visa-free travel for artists and crew in a December free trade deal. Speaking to a parliamentary committee, culture minister Caroline Dinenage said while the "door remained open" to more talks with the EU, reaching a solution covering the entire bloc would be "very complicated". She said that success was more likely "through negotiations with individual states". "The biggest issue here is the work permit issue and that ... More | |
Jessie Homer French, Valley Oak, 2020, Ex. Unique. Oil on canvas, 121.92 Ã 91.4 cm / 48 Ã 36 inches.
LONDON.- MASSIMODECARLO is presenting West Coast, the exhibition debut of Jessie Homer French with the gallery. For her first solo exhibition with MASSIMODECARLO, London, West Coast brings together a vast range of works that encompasses a thorough investigation of the artists long-time practice. Jessie Homer French is a self-taught artist whose paintings emerge from a continuous analysis of places surrounding her and reveal the artist's personal and profound attitude to a local and transient type of composition. Homer French treats with delicate care existential issues related to death and personal loss, nature and climate changing, rural life and the beauty of wide-open outdoor spaces. In her work, humankind and nature are linked by an indissoluble bond, caught in a sardonic interplay in which humanity appears as a toxic intruder in a melancholic environment. The exhibition features nineteen ... More |
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| Lighthouse ArtSpace Chicago announces extension for Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit | | Opera singers help COVID-19 patients learn to breathe again | | Theaster Gates & Michelle Grabner to curate Sculpture Milwaukee's 2021 exhibition |
Immersive Van Gogh Chicago Photo: Michael Brosilow.
CHICAGO, IL.- Lighthouse ArtSpace Chicago, a new venue within Chicagos recently renovated landmark Germania Club Building, today announced that due to popular demand the U.S. premiere of the blockbuster art experience Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit will extend its dates through Labor Day after having sold out the initial block of tickets. The Exhibit will open one hour earlier at 9 a.m. and will offer Saturday afternoon VIP and Premium tickets in February and March. Lighthouse ArtSpace Chicago, a three-story facility located at 108 W. Germania Place, is dedicated to immersive art presentations, merging the boundaries between entertainment and culture to give visitors the sense that they are encountering art as never before. Utilizing the buildings Victorian Era architectural details, 35-foot-tall walls and multiple levels (including balconies), the venue will present vibrant immersive art exhibitions that ... More | |
Jenny Mollica, who runs the the English National Operas outreach programs. Mollica contacted a respiratory specialist to suggest that the company could help out. Karla Gowlett, via English National Opera via The New York Times.
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On a recent afternoon, the singing coach Suzi Zumpe was running through a warmup with a student. First, she straightened her spine and broadened her chest, and embarked on a series of breath exercises, expelling short, sharp bursts of air. Then she brought her voice into action, producing a resonant hum that started high in a near-squeal, before sinking low and cycling up again. Finally, she stuck her tongue out, as if in disgust: a workout for the facial muscles. The student, Wayne Cameron, repeated everything point by point. Good, Wayne, good, Zumpe said approvingly. But I think you can give me even more tongue in that last bit. Although the class was being conducted via Zoom, it resembled ... More | |
Theaster Gates creates works that engage with space theory and land development, sculpture and performance.
MILWAUKEE, WI.- Sculpture Milwaukee announced today that its 2021 exhibition will be co-curated by artists Theaster Gates and Michelle Grabner. The show will launch in June 2021 and run through autumn of 2022. Now in its fifth year, Sculpture Milwaukee is one of the largest annual outdoor exhibitions to focus on contemporary sculpture and public art practices. The announcement of Gates and Grabner as co-curators continues the Guest Curator Program which began last year with Mary Jane Jacob, Professor and Director of the Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Lisa Sutcliffe, the Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Their contributions expanded the structure of the exhibition by introducing a technoscape film by Leslie Hewitt and a video ... More |
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Museum of Anthropology at UBC presents a moving exploration of post-disaster recovery and regeneration
VANCOUVER.- The Museum of Anthropology at UBC announces the powerful group exhibition A Future for Memory: Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake, on display from February 11 to September 5, 2021. Curated by Fuyubi Nakamura, MOAs Curator for Asia, the exhibition opened in time to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2011 triple disaster that saw a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown hit the eastern region of Japan. The exhibition highlights natures destructive impact on humans and its regenerative potential, and explores how humans live in harmony with nature, as well as how new connections and relationships have developed in the aftermath of this tragic event. A Future for Memory is an important opportunity for those of us living in Canada to consider the effects of natural ... More
Pioneering designer, toy distributor, and collector Dov Kelemer opens the vault for Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- The DKE Toys Archive Auction is set to make history as master collector Dov Kelemer presents the world's first stand-alone sale of collectible toys from dozens of creators. With bidding now open, and the live auction set for 1 p.m. Central time March 4, this event is already considered a watershed sale by the toy collecting community. The DKE Toys Archive event is filled with prized works created from 2000 to today, alongside toys in other mediums. Its breadth only reflects Kelemer's wish to give fellow collectors access to the hobby's most sought-after works among them 2002's Invasion Kit #1: Albinos by Invader, which is considered a seminal piece by street-art collectors. "Each of the 160 lots offered in this online event is a coveted highlight among collectors, Kelemer says, "and includes some of the most renowned artists ... More
Johnny Pacheco, who helped bring salsa to the world, dies at 85
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Johnny Pacheco, the Dominican-born bandleader who co-founded the record label that turned salsa music into a worldwide sensation, died on Monday in Teaneck, New Jersey. He was 85. His wife, Maria Elena Pacheco, who is known as Cuqui, confirmed the death, at Holy Name Medical Center. Pacheco lived in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Fania Records, which he founded with Jerry Masucci in 1964, signed Latin musics hottest talents of the 1960s and 70s, including Celia Cruz, Willie Colón, Hector Lavoe and Rubén Blades. Pacheco, a gifted flutist, led the way on and off the stage, working as a songwriter, arranger and leader of the Fania All Stars, salsas first supergroup. From the beginning, he partnered with young musicians who were stirring jazz, rhythm and blues, funk and other styles into traditional Afro-Cuban ... More
Sparkling jewels and watches offered in Dix Noonan Webb's spring auction
LONDON.- A beautiful amethyst rivière necklace, formerly the property of Marie-Louise, Countess Manvers (1889-1984), will be offered by Dix Noonan Webb in their live/online auction of Jewellery, Watches, Antiquities and Objects of Vertu on Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at 1pm. Marie-Louise Countess Manvers was an acclaimed artist, (painting under the name Marie-Louise Pierrepont). Born Marie-Louise Roosevelt Butterfield in 1889, she was the only child of Lord Frederick and Lady Butterfield of Cliffe Castle Keighley, Yorkshire. In 1917, Marie-Louise married Captain Gervas Evelyn Pierrepont (1881-1955), the sixth Earl Manvers JP MC & Duke of Kingston on Hull. The necklace, composed of large graduating oval mixed-cut amethysts, is estimated at £1,500-£2,000. On her death, the necklace passed to her only surviving child, Lady Frederica ... More
The Lumiere Gallery will open a new venue in March 2021
MOSCOW.- The Lumiere Gallery in Moscow will be opening a new venue in its building on Bolshaya Polyanka. The Gallerys new space will house 2 exhibition halls, the educational Lumiere Club and a bookstore with the worlds best photography books on the ground floor. The new venue for the Gallery, which is in a three-storey 19th century mansion, was designed by the architect Evgeny Asse and his architectural firm. The Gallery will concentrate on working with collectible photography of the Soviet and Western photographic heritage, and will also launch new offline and online projects. The Gallery will provide access to the foundations of the classics of Soviet photography by launching its own websites for the foundations of Naum Granovsky, Andrey Knyazev, Erwin Volkov and other photographers. The Gallery will continue its active exhibition programme ... More
Hello again! A solo exhibition by Crystal Fischetti opens at Grove Square Galleries
LONDON.- Grove Square Galleries opened, Hello again!, the forthcoming solo exhibition by contemporary artist Crystal Fischetti. Hello again! (11 February 9 April 2021) is a welcoming of the New Year and a celebration of new self. The exhibition features 36 new works, a visual diary symbolic of Fischettis 36 years of age. Reflecting her deep search for life, magic and truth, the works mixing painting and fabrics - radiate energy, light, and movement. Created through a process of staining, soaking and dripping through and onto fabrics, Fischettis work is gestural and multi-layered, combining an Abstract Expressionist style with her spiritual influences as a Shaman. Her practices include kundalini, tarot reading and yoga, and these are woven into the self-enlightening qualities of her work and methods. Embedded in Fischettis creative process is also her mixed British, Italian, ... More
M 2 3 opens an exhibition of works by Bat-Ami Rivlin
NEW YORK, NY.- M 2 3 is presenting No Can Do - an exhibition of recent work by Bat-Ami Rivlin. No Can Do is on view 12 February through 21 March 2021. Re-mesh sheets, foam, zip ties, felt, wood plank. Metal gate, yellow foam, duct tape. Wire, spring. Bat-Ami Rivlins sculptures are titled with industrial incantations, lists of materials that conjure larger systems if only to be released from their terms. While these materials are all described as found, some could plausibly have been found together, like the gate of a chain link fence jutting out from the wall that has been softened by the addition of foam padding at hip-height, as if by a worker who had bumped into its lock or latch one too many times. All of these objects were, in fact, previously used or cast off. Yet here, moved off the construction site or out of the factory or beyond the institution, ... More
S.M.A.K. opens the first museum presentation of the artistic duo Denicolai & Provoost
GHENT.- Simona Denicolai (b. 1972, Milan) and Ivo Provoost (b. 1974, Diksmuide) have been working as the artistic duo Denicolai & Provoost since the mid-1990s. This exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of the artistic strategies they have developed as a way of questioning reality. With this solo exhibition, S.M.A.K. is hosting the first museum presentation of the animated film HELLO, ARE WE IN THE SHOW?. As a contemporary sequel to the 16th-century tapestry series Les Chasses de Maximilien (The Hunts of Maximilian), the film takes us past a number of scenes in the Sonian forest. Nature is not idealised, but placed in a critical perspective that reveals the interaction and interdependence between all life forms. This recent work is a co-production with S.M.A.K. and, on the occasion of the exhibition, has been reworked into an impressive ... More
In Iraq, generous Mideast tradition of 'istiftah' lives on
ARBIL (AFP).- As the sun rises over Arbil's historic bazaar, shopkeepers sweep their stoops and eagerly await the "istiftah" -- the first customer of the day, believed to be a good omen. For a country as famously hospitable as Iraq, where lunch tables are often overflowing with platters of meat as big as truck tyres, the custom of "istiftah", which means "opener", is subtle but sweet. The first customer of the day gets to name his or her price for the goods or service being purchased, without the usual process of haggling and compromise that is quintessential to street markets. "The first customer is exceptional," said Hidayet Sheikhani, 39. "He's carrying wealth and well-being straight from God to the businessperson in the early morning." Sheikhani sells traditional black-and-white embroidered scarves and hats in the bazaar in the bustling centre of Arbil, the Kurdistan region's capital. ... More
Canadian singer Raymond Levesque dies at 92 after contracting Covid-19
MONTREAL (AFP).- Canadian singer-songwriter Raymond Levesque, whose 1956 classic "Quand les hommes vivront d'amour" was an international hit, has died at the age of 92 after contracting Covid-19, Canadian media reported Monday. Poet, novelist, playwright and actor, Levesque composed hundreds of songs that became part of the fabric of Quebec's cultural life. His best-known work remains the pacifist hymn "Quand les hommes vivront d'amour" ("When Men Live by Love"), which was written partly in reaction to the Algerian war that France was waging at the time, and which has been covered by a variety of Canadian and French singers including Celine Dion and Eddie Constantine. "All my condolences to the family and loved ones of the great Quebecer Raymond Levesque, author of one of the most beautiful songs of all time," Quebec ... More
KGB Espionage Museum collection auction results exceed all estimates at Julien's Auctions
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions held its headline-making The Cold War Relics Auction Featuring the KGB Espionage Museum Collection, the worlds first and most comprehensive auction event offering nearly 500 of the rarest and most important artifacts from the U.S, Soviet Union and Cuba during the Cold War era ever to be assembled and offered at auction, live in Beverly Hills and online at juliensauctions.com. At the centerpiece of this historic event was the sale of the entire collection from the KGB Espionage Museum in New York City featuring artifacts such as clandestine operative cameras, counter-intelligence detectors, morse code machines, airplane radars, voice recorders and official government documents. The collection was procured by world-renowned historian, collector and museum curator, Julius Urbaitis, who worked ... More
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Mental Escapology, St. Moritz
TIM VAN LAERE GALLERY
Madelynn Green
Patrick Angus
Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter Hans Hofmann died February 17, 1966. Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 - February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. Hofmann's art work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships. He was also heavily influenced in his later years by Henri Matisse's ideas about color and form. In this image: Hans Hofmann, The Lark, um 1960. Öl auf Leinwand, 152,7 x 133 cm. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum und Pacific Film Archive. Schenkung von Hans Hofmann, 1965 © JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., and Patricia A. Gallagher, Trustees of the Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust.
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