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Ekaterina Perekopskaya and Rostyslav Brenych are the artistic team behind Concept2048. The duo specialising in art fashion and conceptual production, create original digital art including 3D animation.
ANDORRA LA VELLA.- You can do a lot of things with NFTs. Initially conceived as digital collectibles, non-fungible tokens have come to be utilized in an array of ingenious ways. From representing liquidity positions on decentralized exchanges to facilitating the sale of virtual and physical real estate, the humble NFT has been elevated into a multi-purpose token whose applications are constrained only by the imagination of its creator. One of the most intriguing use cases for NFTs concerns the marriage of art, technologies and the environment. Artists have long used their creativity to draw attention to causes that align with their values. NFTs can serve as proof of participation badges for charitable donors, while highly desirable NFTs are routinely auctioned off for benevolent reasons.Shaping this trend, an artist duo known as Concept2048 has decided to leverage NFTs to raise awareness of pressing global problems. Its Metamorphoses collection, comp ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its 'Life | The Figure in Art | Ancient to Modern' auction on Jan 19, 2023 9:00 AM CST. In the spirit of celebrating life in art, Artemis Gallery presents an ensemble of works that depict humans and animals in all their glory - from idealized bodies of the Classical World created via Polyclitus? canon of proportions to figures envisioned by artists of Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, as well as mesmerizing creatures of the animal kingdom that made their debut in prehistoric cave paintings and have continued to captivate artists of all eras and traditions. Published Lifesize Roman Bronze Right Arm (of Man). Estimate $20,000 - $30,000.
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| After 220 years, the fate of the Parthenon Marbles rests in secret talks | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of new paintings by Y.Z. Kami | | Eli Wilner & Company is celebrating its 40th anniversary |
A security guard at the Parthenon gallery at the British Museum in London, on Aug. 27, 2020.
by Alex Marshall
NEW YORK, NY.- When Lord Elgin, a British aristocrat, sailed home from Greece in the early 1800s, he also shipped to England some of the greatest treasures of antiquity: a collection that included statues of Greek gods and carved frieze panels depicting battling centaurs that once decorated the Parthenon in Athens. Torn in some cases from the temple walls, ostensibly with the permission of the Ottomans who then ruled Greece, the so-called Elgin Marbles were later sold to the British government and became some of the most storied artifacts in the collection of the British Museum. But they also became, almost from the very day they were removed, the subject of perhaps the worlds most notorious cultural dispute. Since the days of Lord Byron, the romantic poet who was an early critic of their removal, the fate of the marbles has been bitterly contested ... More | |
Y.Z. Kami, Isaac in Purple Shirt, 2022. Oil on linen, 58 1/2 x 36 in. © Y.Z. Kami. Photo: ROb McKeever.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian announces Night and Day, an exhibition of new paintings by Y.Z. Kami. On view at 555 West 24th Street, this is the artists first solo exhibition in New York since 2014. Night and Day juxtaposes two distinct bodies of work by Kami: the portrait paintings that have been at the center of his practice for more than three decades, and Night Paintings, a series that he began in 2017. In conjunction with Endless Prayers, Dome paintings, and other ongoing projects, the Iranian American artists oeuvre represents a deep consideration of representation and abstraction, humanism and spirituality. Each of Kamis large-scale painted portraits depicts a single face in muted colors on an opaque ground. Frontally composed and closely cropped, Kamis self-absorbed subjects are removed from the specificity of context. From Aïsha (202122) and Lu (2022) to The Monk (2022) and Woman in Dark Sweater (2022), these paint ... More | |
Pablo Picasso's "Dora Maar au Chat," framed by Eli Wilner & Company for Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Wilner & Company is celebrating 40 years of framing. To mark the event, they are offering partial funding for frame replication and frame restoration. Museum curators and directors are encouraged to contact Wilner directly to submit their potential re-framing and frame restoration projects for consideration. Reflecting on the highlights of the last 40 years, Eli Wilner said "We are grateful to the numerous curators, directors, collectors, auction specialists and advisors who were instrumental in our success. We look forward to the next 40 years!" One of Eli Wilner & Companys most notable framing accomplishments was when they were commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to recreate a monumental frame for Emanuel Leutzes "Washington Crossing the Delaware," 1851, based on re-discovered documentary photographs by Mathew Brady. The original frame in the Brady photographs ... More |
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| Ketterer Kunst to exhibit the Lenz Schönberg Collection in Berlin | | Why this trilobite had Neptune's trident for a nose | | The Cleveland Museum of Art announces new acquisitions |
Arnulf Rainer, Gelbe Ãbermalung, 1958. Oil on canvas, 70 x 50 cm.
BERLIN.- It represents a unique survey of the most significant post-war avant-garde tendencies: The Lenz Schönberg Collection. After a grand European tour and a recent exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Ahlen, highlights of this important collection will be on display at Ketterer Kunst in Berlin. The Lenz Schönberg Collection the name stands for both the collector family as well as for the town of Schönberg in the Taunus mountains is one of the largest private collections of European post-war art, comprising around 500 works by around 50 artists that Gerhard and Anna Lenz have acquired since 1966. It all began with Jef Verheyens Zonnebogen ¼ dated 1965. The work is part of a series of diamond-shaped Sun Arches the artist uses to convey the meaning of color. Structuring the hue in translucent layers on the image carrier, the artist creates uniquely subtle nuances. Generally, the collection surprises ... More | |
An undated photo provided by Alan D. Gishlick shows W. trifurcatus, a trilobite with a trident, middle, with an actaeon beetle on top and a Japanese rhinoceros beetle at the bottom. (Alan D. Gishlick via The New York Times)
by Asher Elbein
NEW YORK, NY.- Walliserops trifurcatus wasnt like the other trilobites. Sure, it had a body like a cross between a pillbug and a horseshoe crab. But it also wielded an immense, flat-bladed trident, projecting from its front like an oversize hood ornament and conjuring the three-tipped tool of the Greek god Poseidon (known to the Romans as Neptune). In research published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, two scientists argue that the 3-inch-long creatures trident served as a weapon for jousting with rival males about 400 million years ago, in perhaps the earliest known example of specialized sexual combat. When we see something like the fork on Walliserops, it suggests sexual selection ... More | |
James Tissot (French, 18361902), Two Figures at a Door (The Proposal), 1872. Oil on canvas; unframed: 101 x 61.5 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ralph and Terry Kovel and Family and the John L. Severance Fund.
CLEVELAND, OH.- Recent acquisitions by the Cleveland Museum of Art include a Korean abstract expressionist painting by Yun Hyong-keun 윤형근; a ten-panel folding screen by Kim Yoon-bo 김윤보; an early masterpiece by James Tissot from his English period; and a recently discovered full-length pastel portrait by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, the most celebrated Irish portraitist of the Grand Tour. Yun Hyong-keun (19282007) was a pioneer of Korean abstract expressionism, closely associated with Dansaekhwa movement (단색화). Literally translated as monochrome painting, Dansaekhwa artists experimented with readily available materials including mulberry paper, burlap, and charcoal through innovative methods such soaking pigments and paper, ripping the canvas, and dragging the pencil or charcoal. Dated to 1975 ... More |
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| Personnel change at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst | | Pace announces an in-person and online exhibitions dedicated to Robert Whitman | | David Gill Gallery now representing Chris Schanck |
Heike Munder, Leiterin Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst. Photo: Gerry Nitsch.
ZURICH.- After no less than 20 successful years at the helm, Heike Munder, Head of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, has decided to take up new professional challenges. Her management style has shaped the Migros Museum to a large extent and has made the institution more attractive to both the local and national audiences and established the museum among international experts through its high-grade profile. After 20 years as head of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Heike Munder will be taking on new professional challenges from the end of June 2023. Under her management, the Museum für Gegenwartskunst has been able to develop and has generated considerable international interest with such projects as the retrospectives Art & Language, Heidi Bucher, Teresa Burga, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Dorothy Iannone, Yoko Ono, Stephen Willats ... More | |
Robert Whitman, Preparatory Sketch for American Moon Performance (1960), 1959 (detail). Mixed media, 8-1/2" à 11" (21.6 cm à 27.9 cm), paper from a suite of 41 works on paper, various sizes. © Robert Whitman, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace presents a multifaceted programcomprising an in-person exhibition, an accompanying performance series organized by Pace Live, a dedicated online viewing room, and a new generative NFT seriesdedicated to Robert Whitman. The in-person and online exhibitions, along with the live performances, will focus on the artists seminal 1960 performance work American Moon, a production realized as part of the experimental Happenings scene on New Yorks Lower East Side in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The release of Whitmans first-ever web3 projectwhich transports viewers to otherworldly, cosmic landscapes beyond the Earthwill coincide with the exhibitions and live events centering on American Moon ... More | |
Currently, Schanck has his first retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design in New York.
LONDON.- David Gill Gallery announced the representation of Chris Schanck. The Detroit-based artist will debut a solo show in London in 2023. Its no surprise that Chris Schancks work plays in the liminal space between art and design. He first studied fine art at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and then pursued Design at Cranbrook. The fantastical pieces he now produces from a shelving suite (Banglatown) that seems all but blown away by the wind to a resin-topped table (Gold 900) held up by a beleaguered crouching man can be judged on their narrative, or their function. Or indeed, on an intriguing material complexity, since Schanck takes multiple elements of little or no value cheap plywood, scavenged sticks and both disguises and transforms them with luscious coatings of resin or aluminium foil. Every piece contains more than one story. Currently, Schanck ... More |
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| Art Paris: 25 Years, a powerful anniversary edition under the sign of commitment | | Chiswick Auctions announces the first ever auction devoted to Indian silver | | Taymour Grahne Projects presents an online solo show by California based artist Aaron Zulpo |
Installation view. Art Paris is a regional art fair that gives pride of place to proximity, drawing local visitors and favouring local transport solutions.
PARIS.- Art Paris is celebrating its 25th anniversary with an edition that will bring together some 134 galleries from 25 different countries at the Grand Palais Ãphémère from 30 March to 2 April 2023. Art Paris which was founded in 1999 - is organised by France Conventions, a French family-run business. Thanks to the efforts of its owners, Julien and Valentine Lecêtre, together with fair director Guillaume Piens, in the space of 25 years, Art Paris has become a leading spring arts event, an innovative art fair that fosters discovery, setting out to explore in depth the world of modern and contemporary art. A regional, national and cosmopolitan fair, Art Paris has put the spotlight on many countries or continents art scene: Russia (2013), China (2014), Singapore and Southeast Asia ... More | |
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LONDON.- Chiswick Auctions will conduct what they believe is the first ever auction devoted to Indian silver on February 14. The Stewart Collection comprises the Indian and Burmese silver of the Raj period that at the turn of the 20th century was admired across the world. Its reputation for exceptional design and craftsmanship has been revived in recent decades with the publication of key reference works. This collection, inspired by items inherited from grandparents who were based in Indian and Ceylon in the early 1900s, was guided by Wynyard Wilkinsons seminal book Indian Silver 1858-1947 that was published in 1999. The contents (offered across 228 lots) cover all the major silversmithing centres of British India from prolific cites such as Lucknow to the little-known Trichinopoly. Chiswick Auctions specialist John Rogers believes it is the most comprehensive ... More | |
Aaron Zulpo, The Entrance to Maze Loop, 2022.
LONDON.- Aaron Zulpo makes idealized landscapes that are started in plein air to capture the spirit and essence of the environment they depict and then finished in the calmer atmosphere of the studio where final details can be added. In his first solo show with Taymour Grahne Projects, Zulpo focuses on capturing views of grandiose mountains and the diverse and exciting appearance of Joshua Trees, a type of yucca native to the Californian desert. The artist refers to Joshua Trees as the stars of the relatively uniform desert of low-lying foliage. These trees dwarf all their neighbouring plants by growing as tall as forty feet and have an extremely animated appearance. Some are symmetrical with so many arms they could be mistaken as a common oak or maple tree from a distance. Others have one or two chaotically crooked arms jutting in opposi ... More |
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A spinner rack full of records as Heritage's latest Comic Book and Comic Art Auction surpases $13.5 million
DALLAS, TEXAS.- No single comic was left on the spinner rack, nor a single work of art was left hanging on the gallery wall. And by the time Heritage Auctions completely sold-out Jan. 12-15 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction ended late Sunday night, its final total a remarkable $13,508,641 for only 1,015 lots, numerous records were realized involving, among others, Spider-Man, the X-Men, Frank Millers take on Wolverine, Captain Marvel, Conan the Cimmerian and Little Dot and her pal Richie Rich, the poor little rich boy himself. By Heritage standards, this was something of a boutique event, yet prices were fantastic across the board as evidenced by the records set for several artists and such landmark titles as Amazing Fantasy No. 15, Batman No. 1 and Whiz Comics No. 1, says Senior Vice President Ed Jaster ... More
Amna Asghar opens third solo show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery is presenting Amna Asghars third solo show at the gallery, titled A Meadow in the Clouds. This front-gallery exhibition consists of landscapes and skyscapes painted entirely with airbrush. Although realistically rendered, Asghars subjects are imagined, drawn from Bollywood film stills, pediatrician office decor, the artist's iPhone library and some terrain just outside of her studio. The aesthetic of the airbrush technique gives a dream-like feeling to the work, while each paintings imposing scale lends a seriousness to their subjects. When conceiving the show, Asghar looked at late 19th century Orientalist photography made by Western commercial photographers. These antique images of Asian and Middle Eastern subjects were staged in a portrait studio ... More
Letters signed by Washington, Hancock, Thomas Paine will come up for bid in University Archives' next online-only event
WILTON, CONN.- Letters boldly signed by early American historical giants George Washington, John Hancock and Thomas Paine, plus a 1963 Christmas card signed by both JFK and Jackie, and an archive of material signed by Lincoln and Douglas, will all come up for bid in University Archives online auction slated for Wednesday, February 1st at 11 am Eastern time. The Rare Manuscripts, Books & Sports Memorabilia auction features historical material from multiple collecting categories. All 460 lots are up for viewing and bidding now (on the University Archives website: www.UniversityArchives.com), plus LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Telephone and absentee bids will be taken ... More
Nick Cave for the home
NEW YORK, NY.- Artist Nick Cave took a break from overseeing the installation of his latest work at Kansas City International Airport to discuss a side project: a line of fabrics and wall coverings he has created in collaboration with Knoll Textiles. I approached it the way that I would approach a collage, Cave said in a phone interview last week. Taking many, many ideas and sort of putting them together. Cave, 63, spoke over the din of a crane beeping in the background. His creation for the airport terminal, an immersive sculpture called The Air Up There, is the size of a football field. He is perhaps best known for the sculptural pieces known as soundsuits, many of which are part of Nick Cave: Forothermore, the career-spanning exhibition that had a five-month run at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago last year and is now at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan ... More
At 80, saxophonist Billy Harper is still a towering force
NEW YORK, NY.- Billy Harper grew up in front of an audience. Every Sunday, his family buttoned him into a suit and tie with a freshly starched shirt and drove to St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Houston, where his grandfather preached and young Billy sang. They were having me onstage when I was 3, singing solos, he said. The music was getting inside me. Surrounded by great vocalists, he thought he was going to be a singer, too: Until I got the horn. Harper moved to New York in 1966, when he was 23, and began turning heads with the piercing and songful cry of his saxophone. It didnt take long for him to become a prized collaborator for members of the jazz pantheon such as Art Blakey, Max Roach and Lee Morgan. One of the last standing from his generation, Harper, who turns 80 on Tuesday, is still revered in the jazz world as both saxophonist and composer ... More
As 'A Strange Loop' ends, its creator looks back on a 'supernova'
NEW YORK, NY.- The musical A Strange Loop won a Pulitzer Prize even before it got to Broadway, and then it won the Tony Award for best musical shortly after opening. But on Sunday, it closed after only a nine-month run. It has been a tough theater season all around A Strange Loop was one of six shows that closed Sunday as the industry continues to face audiences smaller than they were before the pandemic. But A Strange Loop, a meta-musical in which a gay, Black musical theater composer endeavors to write a show about a gay, Black musical theater composer, exited at a high point: During its final week, it pulled in $955,590 at the box office, which was the highest weekly gross of its run, and which set a new house record for the Lyceum Theater. The final night was a celebration: Playwright Michael R. Jackson, who began developing this show when he was 23 and who is now 41 ... More
An exhibition of new installation, sculpture, and works on paper by Carly Glovinski opens at Morgan Lehman
NEW YORK, NY.- Morgan Lehman is presenting Timekeepers and Field Guides, an exhibition of new installation, sculpture, and works on paper by Carly Glovinski. This marks the artists second solo show with the gallery. Rooted in observation and fueled by a curiosity about the history of objects and handicraft processes, Carly Glovinski makes work that explores the make-do, resourceful attitudes associated with domestic craft and a reverence for nature. The elements of time and place are embedded in the works on display: Glovinski mines her surrounding coastal New Hampshire and Maine environment for inspiration and looks to the repetitive cycles of seasonal blooms and celestial orbits. The artist sees herself as a sort of tender, or keeper with an eye towards preservation and conservation of the environment, bearing witness to the present moment ... More
Lyndsey Ingram presents 'Chance Encounters': Early English Mochaware alongside work by Georgie Hopton
LONDON.- Lyndsey Ingram and James Mackie announced their first collaborative project Chance Encounters. The exhibition brings together an exceptional collection of early English Mochaware pottery, to be shown alongside mixed media work by British contemporary artist Georgie Hopton (b.1967). This exhibition will be an immersive experience, with Mackie, a renowned British interior decorator, transforming the gallery to create an installation that uses Hoptons wallpapers and fabrics, which complement the decorative surfaces and colours found in Mochaware, to create a conversation across time. The synergy of organic form and materiality found in both Hopton's collaged pieces, fabrics and wallpapers finds echo in the swirling decoration of Mochaware ceramics. Mackie comments: Im hugely excited to collaborate with Lyndsey to create an installation that will explore ... More
Virginia Chihota presents her series 'Chibereko Chakaramba Kuudzirwa' at Tiwani Contemporary
LONDON.- Tiwani Contemporary opened their 2023 London exhibition programme with gallery artist Virginia Chihota's series, Chibereko Chakaramba Kuudzirwa (The Womb Refused To Be Told), 2022. Made in the same year as the series Nharo Dzakanyarara (A Quiet Resistance), currently on show in the group exhibition, I See You at Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos, this body of work contemplates the nature of acts of refusal and resistance that come into play in protection of selfhood, family and community. These unique mural-eque serigraphic works are a palimpsest of drawn, printed and densely layered compositions. Weaving together the realms of her sub-consciousness and lived reality, the works express how one might find the spiritual energy to break damaging psychological cycles and instead create hopeful and generative ones to live and thrive by ... More
New city centre home being explored for reimagined National Glass Center
LONDON.- The University of Sunderland is working with its partners Sunderland City Council and Sunderland Culture to explore vibrant new city centre locations for the National Glass Centre (NGC). The NGC has been owned by the University since 2010 and is also home to the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (NGCA) and the Universitys glass and ceramics academic programmes. In recent years, the University has needed to undertake a series of works to address structural-related issues in the NGC, including the closure of public access to the roof. Now, a specialist external review commissioned by the University has concluded that a multi-million-pound investment would be required to address these issues if the NGC were to remain at its current riverside location. As a result, the Universitys Board of Governors have decided that the best way forward is to find an alternative location ... More
'India: The Land of Tradition' at the Art Museum Riga Bourse
RIGA.- Since 14 January and continuing to 8 April 2023, the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE in Riga (Doma laukums 6) presents an exhibition India the Land of Tradition. India is one of the oldest civilizations in the world which cultural heritage is built upon centuries of history. It is diverse, full of traditions, various religions and old crafts preserved from generation to generation. The research of the Indian art collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art (LNMA) with a study of the history of its formation, a review of the terminology related to Indian art and a complete contextualization of the collection in cooperation with the Indian research institution Eka Archiving Services in New Delhi, was the groundwork for making this exhibition. The interest in Indian culture, literature, philosophy, ethics and religious practices started in Latvia during the first third of the 20th century ... More
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The Horror Show!
Lebbeus Woods
Yayoi Kusama
New Images in the Age of Augustus
Flashback On a day like today, stained glass artist Louis Comfort Tiffany was born January 18, 1933. Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 - January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. In this image: Tiffany Studios (New York), Dragonfly Library Lamp, ca. 1905-10 Leaded glass; cast bronze Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
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