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A photo provided by the Maritime Archaeological Society shows a timber from the Santo Cristo de Burgos, a Spanish galleon that vanished in 1693. A lab analysis determined that the wood was tropical hardwood from Asia or South America, and that it could be nearly 300 years old. Maritime Archaeological Society via The New York Times.
by McKenna Oxenden
NEW YORK, NY.- In July 1693, a large Spanish galleon set sail from the Philippines with a full cargo load of Asian luxury goods, including silk, porcelain and beeswax. The ship was destined for Acapulco, Mexico, when it veered off course and vanished. The ships fate has been the subject of a mystery that endured for more than 300 years along the coast of what is now northern Oregon. Pieces of blue-and-white porcelain and beeswax with Spanish markings have long washed ashore there, offering tantalizing clues to beachcombers and researchers that a shipwreck was somewhere nearby. Last month, a team of maritime archaeologists painstakingly recovered more than a dozen timbers from sea caves along the coast that researchers said were almost certainly pieces of the galleon that disappeared, the Santo Cristo de Burgos. The researchers said it was the first time that remnants of a Manila galleon had been recovered in North America. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold an Exceptional Antiquities Ethnographic Fine Art auction on Jul 14, 2022 9:00 AM CDT. The sale includes museum-worthy examples of classical antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Viking, Far East / Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Fossils, Ancient Jewelry, Fine / Visual Arts, so much more! Translated Byzantine Mosaic Geometric w/ Greek Cross. Estimate $40,000 - $60,000.
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| Henry Moore Institute opens an exhibition of works by South African sculptor Lungiswa Gqunta | | Bonhams to present an auction of art and photography from Africa and the diaspora | | A self-taught artist takes his roadside acropolis north |
Henry Moore Institute, Lungiswa Gqunta Ntabamanzi 2022. Photo: Rob Harris.
PERRY GREEN.- Sleep in Witness traces the intangible world of dreams as a space of learning where extraordinary, overlooked and discredited places of knowledge are illuminated. The exhibition includes two new installations, Zinodaka 2022 and Ntabamanzi 2022, along with the video Gathering 2019. Gqunta examines the enclosures imposed upon African knowledge systems and sees this deprival as a symptom of colonial history and conquest. She positions dreams as a response to this curtailment and a space from which new languages, wisdoms and information for living emerge. The exhibition opens with Zinodaka 2022, an installation that considers the faith and belief systems of Black ancestors as spaces of knowledge and information. Its floor of cracked clay and sand is proof of something living, not necessarily human but something ancient. This landscape, along with glass rocks that appear like water, offer an appeal to ... More | |
Isililo XX by Zanele Muholi (b. 1972), estimated at $7,000 - 10,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- On July 27 in New York, Bonhams auction of Modern & Contemporary Art & Photography from Africa and the Diaspora will feature a large selection of exceptional photography including a striking black-and-white image, Isililo XX, by Zanele Muholi (b. 1972), estimated at $7,000 10,000. A 'visual activist' known for their photographic work which documents the lives of LGBTQIA+ people living in South Africa, the offered work is from a series of self-portraits in which Muholi assumes unique personas. In this image, the title of which translates to 'weeping' or 'lamenting', Muholi works with the complex nature of self-representation, concealing much of their face with a knit fabric that has been tightly wrapped around their neck. Further photography highlights include Bamako (two females holding hands) by Seydou Keïta (1921-2001), a self-taught Malian photographer who instinctually created technically skillful and ... More | |
One of Charles Smith's sculptures in progress at his trailer-house studio in Hammond, La., on June 10, 2022. At 81, Smith is getting his first show in New York, his pieces often depict famous figures from African-American history, as well as friends, family members and allegorical representations. Annie Flanagan/The New York Times.
by Randy Kennedy
HAMMOND, LA.- Along Interstate 55 heading to this small town north of New Orleans, you pass several signs telling you whats ahead, literally and maybe also metaphorically: Ponchatoula Antique City, Tickfaw State Park, Dons Seafood, Apocalypse Sports (Guns, Ammo, Tactical). The sign for the African American Heritage Museum might direct you to a local historical institution. Or, depending on whom you ask, it could lead to another, stop-in-your-tracks site at the corner of Walnut Street and East Louisiana Avenue bearing nearly the same name but operating unquestionably on its own terms: Dr. Charles Smiths African-American Heritage Museum and Black Veterans Archive. Over the past several ... More |
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| At the Laundromat Project, artists are ambassadors of joy and activism | | Tschabalala Self's first solo institutional exhibition in Europe, Make Room, is now on view at Le Consortium in Dijon | | World's largest watercolour reglazed and conserved by Birmingham Museums Trust |
Kemi Ilesanmi, executive director at the Laundromat Project, at the organizations new storefront in Brooklyn, June 17, 2022. Under Ilesanmis leadership, the nonprofit has directly invested in more than 80 public art projects and 200-plus multidisciplinary artists. Douglas Segars/The New York Times.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
NEW YORK, NY.- The Laundromat Project was founded two decades ago at a kitchen table on MacDonough Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, when Risë Wilson received her first grant money to make art experiences accessible to her neighbors miles away and a world apart from gatekeeper institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Wilson, having left her corporate job and marrying her degree in African American studies with a love of art, wanted to own and operate a laundromat where she could invite artists to initiate workshops and conversations with people waiting for their laundry to dry. In trying to figure out a way to bring art to where we already were, ... More | |
Installation view, Tschabalala Self, Make Room, Consortium Museum, Dijon, 2022. Photo: Rebecca Fanuele © Consortium Museum.
DIJON.- Make room to install a young artists new paintings. Make yourself at home. Give her the means to do so. Painting is this occupation that unfortunately lets itself be prey to all kinds of consumption yet also allows fortunately for all kinds of deep research on community (and therefore universal) imagery. Against all odds, painting, when stormed blasted with all techniques and knowhow mixed up together, keeps its immense power of attraction. That it should be the achievement of a young Black-American artist who knows how to summon styles, natural iconography and pictorial means is not a novelty or a paradox, or some finally acquired legitimacy, but the full consciousness of an era that at last restores the order of good things. Make room for an already bountiful uvre (the artists youth notwithstanding) that convenes in sometimes domestic settings the grand tale of the Black-American peoples in their finery, their uncompromising ... More | |
Belgrave Conservation working on The Star of Bethlehem Photo © Birmingham Museums Trust 2022.
BIRMINGHAM.- One of Birminghams artistic treasures has been conserved and protected for future generations after a sensitive conservation project was successfully carried out.
Edward Burne-Jones The Star of Bethlehem is the worlds largest watercolour and a project has been completed to replace its fragile Victorian glazing, as well as carefully studying and conserving the artwork. Birmingham Museums Trust (BMT) raised £50,000 to support the conservation of the Burne-Jones masterpiece, which has now been reglazed and placed into safe storage. For 130 years The Star of Bethlehem has been on display at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery home to the worlds largest collection of art and design by the Pre-Raphaelites and their associates. The museum and art gallery is currently partially open while major electrical works are completed across the museum and adjoining Council House. While maintenance work is ... More |
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| Holabird's Wild West Auction, July 21-24, online and in Reno | | Stephenson's announces July 17 Summer Toys & Trains auction preview | | Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces 2022 Ellsworth Kelly Award recipient |
Early carte de visite photograph of Buffalo Bill Cody in his younger years, circa 1870s, made by the Theatrical Photography Company, housed in a 4 inch by 5 inch frame (est. $20,000-$50,000).
RENO, NEV.- Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLCs four-day Wild West Auction slated for July 21-24 will be headlined by two massive and important collections: one from Gary Bracken, who collected in a staggering 60-plus categories, to be spread out over multiple sales; the other from James and Barbara Sherman, whose huge collections were housed in a museum. The auction will be held online as well as live in the Holabird gallery, located at 3555 Airway Drive in Reno, starting at 8 am Pacific time all four days. Hundreds of collectible lots will come up for bid, at price points that should appeal to seasoned collectors and novices alike. Internet bidding will be via iCollector.com, LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Auctionzip.com. The Gary Bracken collection is huge and varied, covering everything from Roman ... More | |
1920s Buddy L #201 ratchet dump truck, 25 inches long, manufactured between 1923-29. Estimate $200-$400.
SOUTHAMPTON, PA.- On Sunday, July 17th, Stephensons Auctioneers of Southampton (suburban Philadelphia), Pa., will conduct the 2022 edition of its popular Summer Trains & Toys Auction, featuring antique and vintage items from collections and estates through the Mid-Atlantic region. The sale will take place at the companys spacious Bucks County gallery, with remote bidding available via phone or live online through LiveAuctioneers. Made for rough, touch play, Buddy L vehicles were favorites in their day and remain high on the list of must-haves with todays collectors of pressed-steel toys. Measuring more than 2 feet in length, a Buddy L #201 open-cab ratchet dump truck made between 1923 and 1929 is hard to beat for size and heft. It comes to auction with a $200-$400 estimate. In the late 1920s, the Moline, Illinois, company also produced a 21-inch-long steam shovel. The example in Stephensons sa ... More | |
Shahpour Pouyan, installation view of We Owe This Considerable Land to the Horizon Line, at Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia.
NEW YORK, NY.- Foundation for Contemporary Arts announced the 2022 recipient of The Ellsworth Kelly Award, a $45,000 annual grant to an institution to support a solo exhibition of a contemporary visual artist. The recipient is the Frist Art Museum (FAM) in Nashville, Tennessee, and the award will assist in funding the first solo museum exhibition of Iranian-born artist Shahpour Pouyan in the United States. Encompassing a wide variety of media, Pouyans work uses the language of armaments and monumental architecture to confront and critique political power. Opening in the summer of 2024, the exhibition was conceived by FAM Senior Curator Trinita Kennedy as a triptych across three galleriesfeaturing a series of mixed media drawings, a large group of ceramic sculptures in architectural forms, and the ... More |
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| Lives well lived: Ritzi Jacobi (1941 - 2022) | | Visiting the Marin County Civic Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright | | The Baltimore Museum of Art appoints new Board Chair, first person of color to lead board in museum history |
Ritzi Jacobi working on Exotica Series, Ritzi and Peter Jacobi, cotton, goat hair and sisal, 114″ x 60″ x 6″, 1975. Photo provided by artist.
Adapted from an obituary by Thomas Hirsch.
NEW YORK, NY.- Along with artists such as Magdalena Abakanowicz and Jagoda Buic, Ritzi Jacobi was one of the European pioneers of textile art, who has established work with textile fibers in expansive, gestural, impulsive installations internationally since the 1960s. Jacobi was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1941, and studied at the arts academy there. The reliefs and objects she created together with her husband Peter Jacobi caused a sensation as early as the 1969 International Tapestry Biennal in Lausanne, Switzerland (the first of 11 in which she participated) and the 1970 Venice Biennial. The works were densely woven from vibrant fibers, and their shaggy mass and monumental size convey a rough physicality, reminiscent of the mountains of their Transylvanian homeland. They represented nature and the archaic and at the same time dealt with conscious and unconscious elementary ... More | |
The Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, Calif., on May 23, 2021. Marlena Sloss/The New York Times.
by Soumya Karlamangla
SAN RAFAEL, CALIF.- Among the rolling hills in this Bay Area city is what appears to be, at least at first glance, a spaceship. A sprawling, multilevel structure sports a curved roof painted robin egg blue. At its center are a saucerlike dome and a gold spire rising into the sky. This otherworldly spectacle is the Marin County Civic Center, the largest building ever designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. As was predicted during its 1962 dedication ceremony, it is not a profile you will forget. Wright began his career in Chicago and is probably most famous for Fallingwater in Pennsylvania or the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. But he spent more than 50 years designing buildings in California. There are 24 Frank Lloyd Wright creations up and down the state, including an oceanfront house in Carmel-by-the-Sea, a set of shops on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and a stunning church in Redding. When eight major Wright works were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List a few ... More | |
Since joining the BMAs Board in 2004, Thornton has led or participated in numerous committees, including Finance, Corporate Giving, Earned Income, Building and Capital Planning, Major Gifts, Compensation, and Governance. Photo: Christopher Myers.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art Board of Trustees recently elected James D. Thornton as the museums 26th Board Chair and the first person of color to lead the BMAs Trustees. He succeeds Clair Zamoiski Segal, who held the position for seven years and remains on the board as Immediate Past Chair and Co-Chair of the Director Search Steering Committee. The Trustees also added Virginia K. Adams, Sam Callard, and Paul L. Oostburg Sanz to the group of 36 active board members. I am extremely honored to follow in the footsteps of so many accomplished board chairs who played pivotal roles in establishing the Baltimore Museum of Art as a cultural anchor over the past 108 years, said Thornton. Since developing our strategic plan in 2018, we have made significant progress in better reflecting and connecting with our community and becoming a leading cultural ... More |
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Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles appoints Amanda Sroka as Senior Curator
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Board of Directors at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Good Works Executive Director Anne Ellegood announced the appointment of Amanda Sroka as the organizations new Senior Curator. Sroka will relocate to Los Angeles from the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) where she has been since 2014, most recently serving as the Associate Curator of Contemporary Art. She will begin her new position at ICA LA on September 6, 2022. We are thrilled to welcome Amanda Sroka to lead ICA LAs curatorial program and to join our growing team as a senior staff member at an important moment when we have set ambitious goals for the museum and are poised for long-term growth, says Anne Ellegood, ICA LA Good Works Executive Director, Amandas discursive approach with abiding support for performance, video, ... More
The Phillips Collection announces John Despres as its new Chair of the Board of Trustees
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Phillips Collection announced that John Despres has been elected to serve as Chair of the Board of Trustees. Despres, who has served as a trustee since 2008 succeeds Dani Levinas who was named Chair in 2016. Levinas assumes the title of Chair Emeritus. John Despress notable service and dedication to the museum is evidenced by his exceptional leadership on the Finance Committee and participation on numerous committees during his tenure as a trustee. Despres and his wife, Gina, are avid arts collectors and museum enthusiasts. Although they currently reside in Santa Monica, California, Despres is a native Washingtonian and the couple lived with their children in DC for several decades. I am thrilled that John will take the reins and lead the Phillips into a new era, especially coming off our successful Centennial ... More
Vardaxoglou Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by Lewis Brander
LONDON.- Vardaxoglou Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Lewis Brander (b. 1995). This is the artists first solo exhibition in London and with Vardaxoglou. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday 13 July, 6-9pm. Completed within the last three years, Lewis Branders paintings reflect the natural landscape in cities, most recently London and Athens. Branders paintings, deep in observation of light and cloud formations, are embodiments of memory and emotion. These observations extend over a number of years as the details of the natural world begin to reveal themselves and are then recorded through a semi-abstract visual language in his studio. Branders depiction of atmospheric conditions are often given context by a horizon line, hinting at subject whilst providing distance. Always intimate in format, the presence of each ... More
Heritage's Rare Books Auction journeys to middle-Earth with J.R.R. Tolkien's letter on 'Lord of the Rings' origins
DALLAS, TX.- "The correct pronunciation is therefore Tolkeen, with the accent on the 'o' (as in doll). Yours sincerely, J. R. R. Tolkien." Fans of the great fantasy novelist may be familiar with his penchant for writing letters to his family and his publishers, but the letters most cherished by his faithful readers are those that explain his inspiration for Middle-Earth. Few had more passion for world-building than Tolkien, except perhaps his fans, who even in the earliest days of the series reached out to the author personally for illumination on the sources of their favorite tales. To a fan who wrote to Tolkien upon the release of his still-new Lord of the Rings trilogy, Tolkien thoughtfully replied on April 12, 1956: "It's not consciously based ... More
Roberto Lugo debut first monumental sculpture and additional new ceramic works at Grounds For Sculpture
HAMILTON, NJ.- A solo exhibition highlighting Roberto Lugo debuts all new works by the artist, social activist, spoken word poet, and educator at Grounds For Sculpture. Reimagining traditional European and Asian porcelain forms and techniques with a 21st-century street sensibility, these multicultural mash-ups were created on site during a residency at Grounds For Sculpture this winter. On view through January 8, 2023, Roberto Lugo: The Village Potter includes a 20-ft high vessel with an interactive viewing platform representing the first time the artist has worked at this scale. "Grounds For Sculpture amplifies the diverse voices and visions of those working in the field today," said Gary Schneider, Executive Director of Grounds For Sculpture and co-curator of the exhibition, along with Faith McClellan, Director of Exhibitions and Collections. "As an artist, Roberto ... More
H&H Classics to offer a 1981 J.Z.R Honda Trike
LONDON.- There is something magical about this machine if the child in you still lives. A beautiful grown up toy that sets the imagination alive and forms a gateway to the Halcyon days of motoring and what it can still be for the successful bidder at the next H&H Classics auction at The Pavilion Gardens in Buxton on July 27th, where an array of classics will be sold. It will carry you back almost a century into a different motoring universe, but, importantly, with reliability factored in. Manufactured in homage to the styling of 1930s Morgans, with increased reliability, this machine is understood to be only the fourth J.Z.R manufactured by their founder John Ziemba. It was acquired by the vendor in kit form in 2003, having passed through a number of owners without being assembled and was finally completed in 2004 utilising a Honda 500 engine. The dream ... More
Lake Como Design Festival fourth edition announced
COMO.- In the words of Lorenzo Butti, the events creator and artistic director, "We are now at our fourth festival and are more than ever convinced of the validity of the path of knowledge and awareness we have embarked upon and that it is making a real contribution to encouraging the public at large to actively explore the wealth of the artistic and architectural heritage of the Lake Como area. It is an increasingly indispensable road of knowledge to travel in an era of globalisation in which we can become aware of and celebrate our diversity through site-specific exhibitions of art and design in a renewed dialogue between different cultures. The journey has to start from what history has handed down to us, accompanied by a fundamental awareness of the importance of preserving what we have, while creating anew what has not been seen before ... More
Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents an exhibition celebrating the Yorkshire landscape by Janine Burrows
WAKEFIELD.- Celebrating the Yorkshire landscape is at the heart of a new exhibition by artist and designer Janine Burrows at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Table to Tide: A Yorkshire Conversation brings together a new body of work by Yorkshire-based designer, painter and illustrator Janine Burrows. In this exhibition Burrows explores many endearing and captivating places found in Yorkshire, including some exclusive site-specific pieces created especially for YSP. Working across a mixture of mediums, and with 2D and 3D works, including new limited edition screen prints and hamlets of houses, Table to Tide: A Yorkshire Conversation transports Burrows back to her grassroots, from her back garden to the North Yorkshire Coast, her neighbourhood allotments, to YSP. Small havens and longed-for spaces, celebrate her birthplace, her homeland, and all things Yorkshire. ... More
David Kordansky Gallery announces representation of Chase Hall
NEW YORK, NY.- David Kordansky Gallery announced their representation of Chase Hall. Hall's first solo exhibition with the gallery will be presented at the New York space in fall 2023. Chase Halls paintings and sculptures respond to generational celebrations and traumas encoded throughout American history. Responding to a variety of social and visual systems, each of which intersects with complex trajectories of race, hybridity, economics, and personal agency, Hall generates images whose materiality is as crucial to their compositional makeup as their indelible approach to representation. A central body of paintings, made with drip-brew techniques derived from coffee beans and acrylic pigments on cotton supports, is notable for both its conceptual scope and its intimacy. The use of brewed coffee carries powerful symbolic weight since it evokes centuries- ... More
Alexander Berggruen now representing Madeline Peckenpaugh
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen announced representation of Madeline Peckenpaugh. Alexander Berggruen will present a solo show with the artist in 2023. Madeline Peckenpaugh (b. 1991, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) renders depth through iterations of adding and subtracting paint, creating a semblance of deep and flat space simultaneously. Peckenpaugh shifts the scale of everyday elements, interlaces components, and depicts forms in both single tones and fluctuating textures. The resulting optical illusions often resemble imagined, otherworldly landscapes. Alexander Berggruen has shown Madeline Peckenpaugh's paintings in the gallery's group shows The Natural World: Part II (March 9-April 13, 2022) and Sholto Blissett, Emma Fineman, Madeline Peckenpaugh (December 10, 2021-January 22, 2022). Peckenpaugh received an MFA in Painting ... More
Apollo Art Auctions' July 24 sale features magnificent selection of antiquities, ancient and Asian art
LONDON.- A museum-quality selection of expertly appraised antiquities, ancient and Asian artworks, jewellery and weaponry will be offered by Apollo Art Auctions on Sunday, July 24, starting at 12 noon BST (7 a.m US Eastern Time). The 500-lot sale will be conducted live at Apollos elegant London gallery, with international participation cordially welcomed via phone, absentee bid, or live online through LiveAuctioneers. The sale is divided into four sections encompassing a broad range of well provenanced artifacts from Europe, Egypt and the Near East, as well as many prized items from India and China. Bidders may choose from a wealth of unique treasures with provenance from such noted collections such as those of Captain Magnus Julius Davidsen, Alison Barker, and John Lee all names of great distinction in the realm of antiquities. Each and every piece ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Piero Manzoni was born July 13, 1933. Meroni Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo, better known as Piero Manzoni (July 13, 1933 â February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art. Often compared to the work of Yves Klein, his own work anticipated, and directly influenced, the work of a generation of younger Italian artists brought together by the critic Germano Celant in the first Arte Povera exhibition held in Genoa, 1967. In this image: Piero Manzoni (1933â1963), Milano et-mitologiaa (Milan and mythology), 1956. Oil on board. Private Collection Milan© Fondazione Piero Manzoni, Milano, by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2013, 95 x 130 cm.
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