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BOCA RATON, FLA.- This fall, South Floridians and tourists from across the globe will discover a culture that thrived in a mythical world thousands of years ago. World Heritage Exhibitions announced today the world premiere of Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru, opening on October 16, 2021. The first stop of a worldwide tour will take place at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Cityneon presents the exhibition with support from the Government of Peru, the Peruvian Ministry of Culture, and in partnership with Inkaterra Asociacion. The artifacts in the exhibition are on loan from Museo Larco in Lima, Peru, and Museo de Sitio Manuel Chávez Ballón in Aguas Calientes, Peru. Todays world-premiere announcement provided authentic Andean entertainment throughout the Boca Raton Museum of Art featuring Miami-based Peruvian artists, including Peruvian music by Kuyayky, artwork by Roberto Carlos Olivia Hernandez, and ceramics by Polo Ramirez. Boca Rato ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold an auction of Ancient & Ethnographic From Around The World on Thu, May 20, 2021 9:00 AM GMT-5. The sale features ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Fine art, and much more! All categories, all price ranges. In this image: WWI Era Western European Splatter Mask. Estimate $3,000 - $4,500.
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| Sotheby's reveals the artists of Natively Digital, featuring the world's first intelligent NFT | | A rare Black-owned art gallery lands in Chelsea | | New dinosaur found in Mexico was 'very communicative' |
Fvckrender, Shift. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys revealed the 27 digital artists included in Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale, whose work is now available to preview. The online auction represents the first time a major auction house will bring a collection of the leading NFT artists to auction and will provide an opportunity for collectors, curators, and enthusiasts to experience the unique aesthetics contained within these works, and provide a deeper understanding of the complex, groundbreaking technology from which NFTs are derived and its vast influence. In a Sothebys first, Natively Digital will feature the work of one artist nominated by the crypto and digital art community in recognition of its strong support in building the NFT space to where it is today. Sothebys will accept nominations and personal submissions for NFT artists whose work the community believes should be featured on the global stage in this historic collection. Starting today ... More | |
Nicola Vassell in her new gallery with an exhibition by the photographer Ming Smith in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York, May 17, 2021. Donavon Smallwood/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- At a moment when equity and diversity have become paramount in the art world, Nicola Vassell, a former director of both Pace and Deitch Projects galleries in the New York City borough of Manhattan, on Thursday will open her own exhibition space on 10th Avenue, planting her flag as a rare contemporary-art gallery owned by a Black woman in the heart of Chelsea. Its time for a Black-owned gallery to inhabit the art world in New York in a really strong, dynamic way, said Vassell, 42, standing in the space the other day, before the furniture had arrived. Its great to have landed in Chelsea. Vassell said the social fervor of the past year which fueled a ... More | |
Tlatolophus galorum. Photo: Luis V. Rey.
MEXICO CITY (AFP).- A new species of dinosaur identified by Mexican paleontologists is believed to have been "very communicative" and used low-frequency sounds like elephants to talk to each other, a researcher said Friday. The specimen, which has been named Tlatolophus galorum, is thought to have died around 72 million years ago in what is now Mexico's northern state of Coahuila. After initially discovering the tail, paleontologists said they later found most of its skull, a 1.32-meter (4.3-foot) bony hollow crest through which it communicated, as well as bones such as its femur and shoulder. "We are calculating the size, which could be between eight meters and 12 meters long because just the tail is around six meters," said paleobiologist Angel Alejandro Ramirez. "We believe that these dinosaurs were very communicative. They even produced and perceived low-frequency sounds like those made by elephants, which travel ... More |
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| Maureen Paley opens a solo exhibition of photographs by Peter Hujar | | Old songs in the public domain get makeovers with a purpose | | German police nab fugitive twin in museum heist probe |
Peter Hujar, Larry Ree Backstage, 1973 © 1987 The Peter Hujar Archive LLC, courtesy The Peter Hujar Archive and Maureen Paley, London.
LONDON.- Maureen Paley is presenting the fourth solo exhibition of photographs by Peter Hujar at the gallery. The exhibition presents a series of images that capture performers backstage in New York theatres and nightclubs during the 1970s and early 1980s. By presenting this exhibition at a time when many performance spaces have been shuttered worldwide, the gallery aims to provide a glimpse into the heyday of New Yorks bohemia and the much-celebrated underground drag culture that flourished during Peter Hujars lifetime. Hujar was immersed in the evolving East Village scene after renting a loft above the Eden Theatre in the early 1970s that eventually became the portrait studio where he photographed many of his peers. After inviting The Cockettes into his studio in 1971, who were in town playing at the Anderson Theatre, Hujar began to capture the drag and avant-garde performance at Baykal's Palm Casino Revue and the productio ... More | |
The producer Ray Angry and the visual artist Katherine McMahon at Sear Sound recording studio in New York, April 17, 2021. Nathan Bajar/The New York Times.
by Olivia Horn
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- One Saturday in April, at a Manhattan recording studio strewn with antique lamps and masked technicians, singer Liv Warfields face was clouded in concentration as she layered harmonies into the outro of a rousing soul number. She noodled for a while, trying to work out which notes to add next. We might have to go to the rafters, she concluded. The session engineer played back the track, and Warfield got to work, reaching into the upper parts of her range. On the other side of the glass separating the recording booth from the console, producer Ray Angry stood and yelped in approval: No Auto-Tune in this session! The song, called #NewBornAgain, feels of the moment, with lyrics that reference COVID-19 and its historical antecedent, the influenza pandemic that swept the globe a century ago (Its like weve been here before ... More | |
A policewoman carries box with evidence out of a building in Berlin's Kreuzberg district during raids of properties on November 17, 2020 in connection with a spectacular heist on Green Vault museum in Dresden's Royal Palace on November 25, 2019. Odd ANDERSEN / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- German police have arrested a twin brother from a notorious organised crime family who had been on the run over the pilfering of priceless jewels from a top museum, prosecutors said Tuesday. Abdul Majed Remmo, 22, was detained on Monday evening in Berlin, prosecutors in the city of Dresden said. The suspect's twin brother was arrested in Berlin in December over the spectacular heist on the Green Vault museum in Dresden's Royal Palace on November 25, 2019. The twins had eluded German authorities when they carried out raids in November and arrested three members of the Remmo clan, an extended family of Arab origin notorious for its ties to organised crime. Police then named them as 21-year-old Abdul Majed Remmo and Mohammed Remmo. All five suspects are accused of "serious gang ... More |
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| Sale at Dorotheum features works by Artemisia Gentileschi and her contemporaries | | Alex Branczik to assume role of Chairman of Modern & Contemporary Art, Sotheby's Asia | | Workers at the Whitney Museum move to form a union |
Artemisia Gentileschi (15931653) Judith and her maidservant with the head of Holofernes, oil on canvas, 115 x 116.4 cm, estimate 300,000 400,000.
VIENNA.- The Old Master Paintings sale on 8 June, which takes place within the framework of Dorotheums Classic Week, includes a selection of significant 17th century paintings by so-called Caravaggisti, artists drawn together as friends and colleagues by the influence of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Among them are Artemisia Gentileschi, Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri, Domenico Fiasella and the Rome-based Frenchmen Simon Vouet and Nicolas Régnier. The painters grouped together in the wake of Caravaggio (1571-1610) until about 1620 were characterised by a new and radical naturalistic style marked by dramatic contrasts of light and dark which has shaped the history of painting and fascinates us to this day. Their works were not least a product of the strict guidelines imposed on them by the newly strengthened church. Henceforth, works ... More | |
Alex Branczik, Chairman of Modern & Contemporary Art, Sothebys Asia. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys today announces changes to its Fine Arts leadership team in Asia, reflecting the companys strategies of investing in its market-leading Asian business and promoting ever greater global integration. Alex Branczik and Max Moore will move to Hong Kong from London and New York respectively to assume key roles within the companys activities there. Alex Branczik will take on the newly created role of Chairman, Modern & Contemporary Art, Asia; while Max Moore will become Head of Contemporary Art Sales, Asia. They assume their new positions as Yuki Terase, the current Head of Contemporary Art, Asia, confirms her plans to leave the company in July to pursue her independent interests. In his new role, Alex Branczik will act as the strategic lead for Modern and Contemporary Art in Asia, driving Sothebys expansion of this critical field in a key growth region for the company. Modern and ... More | |
View from Gansevoort Street. Photographed by Ed Lederman, 2015.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Employees of the Whitney Museum of American Art are the latest group of museum workers in the city to take steps toward forming a union. They are also the most recent example of museum employees who have chosen to organize under the wing of a union not everyone would associate with the art world: the United Automobile Workers. A petition asking for a union vote was filed Monday with the National Labor Relations Board by the Technical, Office, and Professional Union, Local 2110 UAW. Maida Rosenstein, the president of Local 2110, said Monday that the proposed bargaining unit at the Whitney included about 180 employees, among them curators, conservators, editors and porters. Karissa Francis, a visitor services assistant at the Whitney who helped organize the union effort there, said that the museum is generally a good place to work but that many ... More |
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| Phillips in collaboration with Bloom Galerie presents Solus by Hebru Brantley virtual selling exhibition | | COVID-19 victim leaves family $5 million Babe Ruth baseball card | | New exhibition presents a major new direction in Matthew Barney's practice |
Hebru Brantley, That Flower 'N' Word Pt. 2. Image courtesy of Phillips.
HONG KONG.- Phillips is presenting Solus by Hebru Brantley, a virtual selling exhibition dedicated to works by contemporary American artist Hebru Brantley, who is best known for his unique approach to Afro-Futurism. The exhibition, which has been put together in conjunction with Bloom Galerie, will be live from 17 May 4 June on www.phillips.com/solus, features 30 works in different mediums created specifically by the artist for the show. Visitors around the world will be able to browse exceptional pieces by Brantley with an exciting 360-degree immersive experience via a custom-built 3D virtual gallery. Jonathan Crockett, Chairman, Asia, Phillips, said: To coincide with Art Basel Hong Kong, and to continue Phillips significant recent developments in the digital space, we are proud to bring this one-of-a-kind virtual selling exhibition by Hebru Brantley to art enthusiasts in Asia and all over the world. Recognised interna ... More | |
This finest known 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth baseball card is expected to break the record of $5.2 million for any sports card. Photo courtesy of Memory Lane, Inc.
TAMPA, FLA.- The extensive collection of old baseball cards passionately assembled over four decades by Tampa, Florida neurologist Thomas Newman, who died at age 73 this past January from COVID-19 complications, has now been estimated to be worth over $20 million. Some of the one-of-a-kind cards and sports memorabilia date back to the 1880s. One of the 1933 Babe Ruth cards (Goudey #53, PSA 9) in this collection is the finest known of its kind and we expect it to break the record of $5.2 million for any sports card. Prices for rare, historic items have exploded in the collectibles market, said JP Cohen, President of Memory Lane Auctions in Tustin, California. The firm will be offering more than 1,000 vintage and modern baseball, football, and hockey trading cards and other sports memorabilia from Dr. Newmans estate in an online public auction that begins June 21 and ends on July 10. No one enjoyed collecting more than ... More | |
Installation view of Matthew Barney: Redoubt at Hayward Gallery, 2021 © Matthew Barney, 2021. Photo: Mark Blower.
LONDON.- From 19 May 2021 through 25 July 2021 the Hayward Gallery presents Matthew Barney: Redoubt, an exhibition of the renowned artist and filmmakers latest body of work. The exhibition, the artists first major museum show in the UK in over a decade, presents a group of monumental sculptures and more than forty engravings and electroplated copper plates. The exhibition also features the artists first outdoor sculpture, Sawtooth Battery, 2019, which stands over ten metres tall on one of the gallerys terraces. Also included is the UK premiere of Barneys new eponymous film, a breathtakingly beautiful chronicle that explores the complex relationships between humans, and the natural world. Set in the sublime wintry landscape of Idahos Sawtooth Mountain range, the feature-length film intertwines themes of cosmology, ecology and artistic creation in a contemporary reworking of the classical myth of ... More |
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Notre-Dame's square closed over lead pollution risks
PARIS (AFP).- The square in front of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris has been closed to the public after tests again revealed high concentrations of toxic lead particles, the Paris police department said Tuesday. The fire that ravaged the 13th-century monument two years ago melted some 300 tonnes of lead panelling in the roof, spewing the metal across large swathes of the city. Exposure risks prompted authorities to forbid access to several areas and even some schools during extensive clean-up operations, with blood tests urged for children and pregnant women. The square was reopened a few weeks after the fire, with officials promising regular testing of the site. "Results from the most recent tests showed lead dust concentrations higher than the normal levels for Paris at certain points in the square," the police department said in a statement. ... More
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts recipient of major decorative arts endowment
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced today the establishment of a significant endowment, the Elizabeth Locke Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts Fund, created by jewelry designer Elizabeth Locke and husband, John Staelin. This endowment marks the couples single largest gift to VMFA to date. "Elizabeth and John are longtime supporters of VMFA, having previously contributed to the Change Capital Campaign, which supported the implementation of the museum's strategic plan, and several exhibitions, said Alex Nyerges, VMFAs Director and CEO. Their generous gift is a major investment in the museums decorative arts department and will fund an important new position title at the museum the Elizabeth Locke Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts. We have always been fascinated ... More
Exhibition at Galerie Gmurzynska presents an immersive homage to Zaha Hadid
ZURICH.- Dame Zaha Hadid passed away in Miami on March 31, 2016 at the age of 65. On the 5th Anniversary of her death, Galerie Gmurzynska presents an immersive homage to the visionary Architect. The shared interests between the gallery and Zaha Hadid for the Russian avant-garde fortuitously crossed paths in 1992 at the monumental exhibition The Great Utopia, at the Guggenheim Museum for which Zaha Hadid designed the rotunda the first architect tasked with reimagining the Frank Lloyd Wright architectural icon. From early in her career, her peerless aesthetic was deeply inspired by Kazimir Malevich and the Suprematists, on whom she prepared her graduation thesis in 1976. The gallerys active collaboration with Zaha Hadid from 2010 until her death began with the idea to again combine her knowledge of the Russian ... More
Exhibition brings together 30 contemporary Belgian artists around a single medium: Textile
MONS.- A large exhibition bringing together exclusively Belgian artists opened its doors at the Old Slaughterhouses of Mons, Textilités. Initiated by BeCraft, in collaboration with the City of Mons and Les Drapiers, and curated by Denise Biernaux, the exhibition brings together 30 contemporary Belgian artists around a single medium, textile. With more than 60 works, ranging from specific productions to recent and old works, Textilités offers a wide panorama of contemporary Belgian creation. The exhibition aims to foster the exploration of the concept, the meaning and the pertinence of textiles, the relationship between materials and forces, thereby upholding a form of textility. To illustrate the subject, the works have been selected among artists living in Belgium for whom textiles is one of their driving forces, and where vital creative energy ... More
Exhibition at Hauser & Wirth brings together 20 significant works by Tetsumi Kudo
NEW YORK, NY.- In a wide-ranging practice spanning four decades, postwar Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo (1935 1990) explored the effects of mass consumerism, the rise of technology, and ecological degradation on post-war society through satirical, critical, elaborately detailed and meticulously constructed environments that continue to exert a powerful influence on artists today. Tetsumi Kudo. Metamorphosis, the artists first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth New York, focuses upon the late artists idea of metamorphosis which emphasizes the need for personal and collective spiritual evolution beyond the values of Western Humanism, which he believed caused war, racism, and colonialism, and alienated people from the natural environment. Tetsumi Kudo: Metamorphosis, brings together 20 significant works created in the decade following ... More
Jeffery C. Becton will be featured guest in "Talking Art in Maine: Intimate Conversations"
DAMARISCOTTA, ME.- Jeffery C. Becton, renowned pioneer in the field of digital montage photography, will join a host of prominent Maine artists, curators, and scholars who have been past guests of the ongoing series, Talking Art in Maine: Intimate Conversations, when he joins moderator Jane Dahmen onstage at the Lincoln Theatre. Event is scheduled to commence on Thursday, May 20th, at 7:00pm for a live, hourlong program at the historic Lincoln Theatre. Becton, who has made his year round home and studio in Deer Isle, Maine since 1984, has been on the forefront of the digital revolution since the 1970s when he was a graduate student in the Graphics Design program at Yale University. Described by one art critic as perhaps the best colorist in the history of Maine art in any medium, Bectons work has been shown extensively ... More
One hundred books famous in typography on view at The Grolier Club
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1902 the Grolier Club mounted an exhibition entitled One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature. The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue were a major success. To this day people refer to books distinguished by inclusion in that show as milestones in the history of writing in English. The show spawned a series of Grolier Hundred surveys, including books famous in early American literature, science, medicine, twentieth century fine printing, and childrens literature. Each of these compilations has become a key reference in their respective fields. In May of this year the Grolier Club is hosting One Hundred Books Famous in Typography, a most fitting addition to the venerable list of Grolier Hundreds. The Groliers mission is to foster the study, collecting, and appreciation of books their art, history, production, ... More
What is an everyday ballerina? A luminous new memoir tells all.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Gavin Larsen said she first felt like a writer in 2015 at an artists residency in New Mexico. She was there not as a dancer, but to work on a book about her dancing career. And she was surrounded by musicians, writers and visual artists who didnt know a thing about ballet. They were full of questions, she said. And thats when I really was like, Oh, my gosh: People are interested in ballet who are not ballet dancers. In Being a Ballerina: The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life (University Press of Florida), Larsen puts that theory to the test. Her poignant book, told in first and third person, is both a personal account and a universal take on the life of a professional ballet dancer. Its not what you might have gleaned from the horror film Black Swan or the recent sex-and-drug fueled series Tiny Pretty ... More
Third time lucky? The West End reopens, hoping it's for good.
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- At 8:30 p.m. Monday, two friends were huddling outside St. Martins Theater, in the city's West End, doing something no one has for 14 months: arguing during the intermission over who was the murderer in The Mousetrap, Agatha Christies long-running whodunit. Im convinced its the posh woman who runs the hotel, said Lockie Chapman, a 40-year-old singer, before immediately changing his mind. Actually, its the major! he said. Or how about that shifty Italian dude? The shifty Italian dude? replied Rah Petherbridge, 37. But he could be a red herring! Such debates have rung out outside the The Mousetrap ever since its debut in 1952, but those accompanying the shows 28,200th performance Monday were significant. They marked the reopening of the West End. Since March 2020, when ... More
Nye & Company announces highlights included in the Estate Treasures Auction
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers two-day, online Estate Treasures auction, slated for Wednesday and Thursday, June 2nd and 3rd at 10 am Eastern time both days, is sure to delight collectors, designers, dealers and institutions alike. The catalog includes an exceptionally strong selection of blue-chip artists names and a large selection of both traditional and modern furniture, rugs and lighting from private New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Long Island households. The fine art is quite diverse in its scope and breadth and ranges from the 17th century through the 21st century. There is an extraordinary group of paintings from a private East Coast collection. Highlights include a terrific watercolor and ink drawing of a Venetian canal scene signed by Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (Italian, 1712-1793). ... More
Civil War revolver coming to Heritage Arms & Armor Auction
DALLAS, TX.- A rare Confederate revolver, one of only about 1,000 of its kind, will find a new home when it is sold in Heritage Auctions Arms & Armor, Civil War & Militaria Signature Auction June 6. The Scarce Confederate Rigdon, Ansley & Co. C.S.A. Single Action Revolver (estimate: $20,000-30,000) is a rare Confederate revolver made by Charles H. Rigdon after the Leech & Rigdon firm was disbanded, according to research. The .36 caliber firearm features a 7-1/2-inch octagonal/round barrel with fixed front sight and a blued finish; the 12-stop cylinder was copied from Manhattan Arms. Co. Its a Confederate revolver, which are always scarce and highly collectible, Heritage Auctions Historical Consignment Director David Carde said. This comes from the mid-1860s, toward the end of the Civil War, which also was the time when Rigdon separated from Leech & ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Flemish painter and illustrator Jacob Jordaens was born May 19, 1593. Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens (19 May 1593 - 18 October 1678) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits. After Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he was the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his day. In this image: Jacob Jordaens, The Tribute Money - Peter finding the silver coin in the mouth of the fish, 1630-1645, Collection Rijksmuseum.
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