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Melissa Meyer, Bedford Series #1 (Diptych), 2020. 16 x 24 inches. Watercolor on Hot Press Paper.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art is presenting Melissa Meyer: Works On Paper. This is Meyers first exhibition with the gallery. On view are three distinct body of works; a collection of eleven prints, six watercolors, and two sketchbooks, one of which is unique and presented in its original state. The exhibition unfolds by offering the viewer a topographical map of East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, through the variety of street names referenced in the titles of the printsScholes, Meserole, Bogart et cetera. This body of work, titled Survey I & Survey II, was conceived during Meyers collaboration with the Jo Watanabe Studio in 1992. This led to the artist frequenting the vicinity of East Williamsburg and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Jónsi Installation view, Vox, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, November 11, 2023 - February 3, 2024. Photo by Jeff McLane Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
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| In Atlanta, an artful exhibition of ancient and contemporary Torah pointers | | 1962 Ferrari brings $51.7 Million at Sotheby's | | MoMA launches collaborative global digital Postcard Project, powered by the Autonomy App |
Marjorie Simon's "Never Again" torah pointer is a representation of the horrors of the Holocaust.
ATLANTA, GA.- The Breman, a Jewish museum and cultural center located in the busy Midtown district of Georgias capital, is presenting The Guiding Hand: The Barr Foundation Judaica Collection of Torah Pointers, an intriguing and artful exhibition of objects central to Jewish prayer and ritual. For centuries, these ceremonial yet practical instruments took the shape of a tapered shaft ending with a miniature representation of a hand with its index finger pointed. While they continue serve a traditional function -- to keep ones place in the Torah scroll when reading from its densely hand-lettered Hebrew text without touching the fragile parchment surface many contemporary pointers have evolved into stunning works of art. Whether ancient or contemporary, basic or exotic, a pointer such as these is called a yad (literally the Hebrew word for hand) or, for ... More | |
1962 Ferrari 330 LM / 250 GTO by Scaglietti Jeremy Cliff ©2023 Courtesy of RM Sotheby's.
by Julia Halperin
NEW YORK, NY.- A bright red Ferrari with a storied history sold for $51.7 million, with buyers fees, on Monday, becoming the most expensive automobile from that Italian carmaker ever sold at auction. The price nevertheless fell short of the auction houses expectations at a time when the once red-hot market for collectibles has begun to cool amid geopolitical uncertainty and rising interest rates. Sothebys RM, the automobile seller in which Sothebys bought a controlling stake in 2022, offered the 1962 Ferrari 330 LM/250 GTO by Scaglietti with an unpublished estimate of $60 million. Two bidders drove the price to $47 million before auction-house fees. (RM Sothebys declined to give any information about the buyer.) Sothebys promoted the car as a luxury object, offering ... More | |
Cornflower Radiosity Figure postcard.
NEW YORK, NY.- November 15, 2023, marks the full public launch of MoMA Postcard, a global community project built with Bitmark on the Autonomy app. An experiment in collective creativity on blockchain, MoMA Postcard invites anyone to collaborate, learn, and experiment with web3 technologies. Akin to a digital chain letter and echoing Joseph Beuys idea of social sculpture, each Postcard is designed collaboratively. Stamp by stamp, person by person, the aesthetics and ownership of the Postcard develop until all 15 stamps have been designed, signed, and minted to the blockchain. The 15 stampers receive equal ownership rights to the Postcard. Fellow stampers can track their shared Postcard along its journey, chat with their Postcard community in an encrypted chat room, and peruse other Postcard creations. A dynamic interface for social exchange, each Postcard serves as a micro-community within ... More |
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| New arts centre to open in India: Hampi Art Labs announced | | Exhibition spotlights the radical work of Latin American feminist Tecla Tofano | | Picasso, Ben Shahn, Something Else Press and Ibon Aranberri, highlights of Museo Reina Sofía |
Exterior shot of Hampi Art Labs, 2023, courtesy of JSW Foundation.
HAMPI.- Hampi Art Labs is an arts centre located near the UNESCO World Heritage Site Hampi in the South of India, opening in February 2024. Set across 18-acres of landscape, the centre offers artists unique production facilities, an environment to creatively retreat in and galleries for world-class display. The site comprises exhibition spaces, studios and apartments for residencies, gardens, and a café. Evolving from a legacy of supporting art and heritage in India for over 30 years and founded by Sangita Jindal and her daughter Tarini Jindal Handa, Hampi Art Labs is an initiative of the JSW Foundation - the social development arm of the JSW Group, one of Indias leading business houses. Located near the last capital of the last great Hindu Kingdom of Vijayanagar and UNESCO World Heritage Site Hampi, the centre is founded on an ethos of building an interdisciplinary institution inspired by the ancient temple city where art, arch ... More | |
Installation view, Tecla Tofano: This Body of Mine, James Cohan, 291 Grand Street, New York, NY, November 9 - December 22, 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting Tecla Tofano: This Body of Mine, an exhibition spotlighting the radical Latin American feminist Tecla Tofano (b. March 5, 1927, in Naples, Italy, d. October 20, 1995, in Caracas, Venezuela), on view at the gallerys 291 Grand Street location from November 9 through December 22, 2023. This is Tofanos first solo presentation in the United States and is accompanied by a comprehensive artist monograph. Tecla Tofano: This Body of Mine foregrounds Tofano as a critical figure in the history of feminist art and the broader canon of postwar global modernism. Curated by Gabriela Rangel and Audrée Anid, this exhibition features over thirty ceramics from the 1960s and 70s as well as a selection of drawings from Evas al desnudo (Naked Eves), her series from 1972. Tofano channeled her ideas most notably through ceramics, though she was also an adept draftswoman, a ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, Head of a Young Woman, 1906. Oil on canvas, 54 x 42 cm. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa
MADRID.- Museo Reina SofÃa is commemorating the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso's death: 'Picasso 1906. The Turning Point', on view starting today. Call It Something Else. Something Else Press, Inc. (1963-1974) will bring together the most complete archive on the activity of the American avant-garde publishing house and will be on view from September 27. On October 4, a retrospective of the artist Ben Shahn, one of the leading figures of American social realism, will arrive at the Reina Sofia. Finally, the anthological exhibition of Basque artist Ibon Aranberri will be on display from November 29. 'Picasso 1906. The Turning Point': As part of the commemorative events of the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, 1973), Museo Reina SofÃa is dedicating this exhibition to the work that the artist produced in 1906, a year in which he underwent his great ... More |
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| Rare 10th-century Saxon gold ring found in West Sussex to go up for auction | | University Archives announces 472-lot, Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Books & Sports Memorabilia auction | | Exhibition marks the first-ever solo presentation of Yoo Youngkuk's work outside Korea |
Peter Pawel was shocked to discover the "cheap plastic" clump was worth £12,000. Picture: Noonans.
LONDON.- A rare 10th century Saxon gold and enamel ring found in a field on Fathers Day (2021) in West Sussex is expected to fetch up to £12,000 when it is offered at Noonans Mayfair in a sale of Jewellery, Watches, silver, and objects of vertu on Tuesday, November 28, 2023. It was on Fathers Day (June 20, 2021), that Peter told his nine-year-old daughter Maya that he would bring home gold today and he was not wrong! 46-year-old Peter who owns a construction company, was going out for the morning on a group dig with the Sussex Metal Detecting Group. It was on a pasture field near Greatham, near Pulborough in West Sussex at around 9am that Peter, using his Equinox 800 metal detector first found a musket ball and then a shot gun cartridge. He explains: The next signal at a depth of around 10 centimetres, I saw a yellow colour in the clump of clay. Looking closely, it looked like gold but thought it was just a che ... More | |
Lyrics to the song Knockin On Heavens Door, handwritten by Bob Dylan circa 2009 on a leaf of The Carlyle (New York City) hotel stationery, with a COA from manager Jeff Rosen (est. $35,000-$45,000).
WILTON, CONN.- A photograph of Albert Einstein from 1954 with his signature and a hand-written dedication to a fellow nuclear policy activist, and a document signed by Founding Father and renowned Declaration signer John Hancock on July 1, 1775, just two weeks after the Battle of Bunker Hill, are featured lots in University Archives next major online-only auction scheduled for Wednesday, November 29th. The Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Books & Sports Memorabilia auction will start promptly at 10:30 am Eastern time. All 472 lots in the catalog are up for viewing and bidding now on the University Archives website as well as on Invaluable.com, Auctionzip.com and LiveAuctioneers.com. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. Our November sale features items relating to ... More | |
Yoo Youngkuk, Work, 1995, oil on canvas, 39-3/8" à 31-1/2" (100 cm à 80 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace is presenting an exhibition of paintings by Yoo Youngkuk, a hugely influential 20th century Korean abstractionist, at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York. On view from November 10 to December 22, this show, titled Mountain Within, marks the first-ever solo presentation of Yoos work outside Korea. Born in 1916 in Uljin, South Korea, Yoo was a pioneer of geometric abstract painting. His distinctive visual lexicon is characterized by bold color fields and expressive applications of paint. With his unique approach to color, form, and space, Yoo took up a steadfast and passionate investigation of his personal relationship with nature, capturing the majesty of the natural worldparticularly the varied landscape of Uljinthrough acts of painterly distillation that would lean increasingly into abstract territory. Yoo began studying painting under artist Murai Masanari at Bunka Gakuin ... More |
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| 'Unnamed Figures' celebrated as 'must-see' exhibition this fall, now starting | | Katy Moran at Sperone Westwater with exhibition 'How to paint like an athlete' | | Multidisciplinary artist Nari Ward uses a spiritual lens to probe the unseen forces in first solo at Lehmann Maupin |
William Matthew Prior (1806-1873), Nancy Lawson, Boston, Massachusetts c. 1843, Oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 25 in. Shelburne Museum, Vermont, USA ©. Shelburne Museum/Museum purchase, acquired from Maxim Karolik/Bridgeman Images.
NEW YORK, NY.- Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North will be on view starting today until March 24, 2024. As a corrective to histories that define slavery and anti-Black racism as a largely Southern issue, this exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum offers a new window onto Black representation in a region that is often overlooked in narratives of early African American history. Through 125 remarkable works including paintings, needlework, and photographs, this exhibition invites visitors to focus on figures who appear inor are omitted fromearly American images and will challenge conventional narratives that have minimized early Black histories in the North, revealing the complexities and contradictions of the regions history between the late 1600s and early 1800s. A 300-page scholarly book with contributions from ... More | |
Katy Moran, De Nimes, the living room series 3, 2023. Acrylic on found painting, 36 1/4 x 26 inches (92,1 x 66 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater has recently put on view How to paint like an athlete, its second exhibition of new paintings by Katy Moran and her first in New York since 2019. Moran is best known for abstract paintings which explore form, color and surface. Until now, her process has involved pushing, pulling and distorting paint. For this new body of work, Moran has incorporated other techniques, such as pouring paint onto the surface and using her own body in mark making. Introducing accident and chance in this way creates a dynamism that is both liberating and surprising, as the artist oscillates between control and allowing the nature of the paint to inform the work. Adopting a working method Moran describes as flow state, attuned to a state of bodily awareness, allows the work to come into existence seemingly of its own accord, without interference of conscious will. Her use of intuitive impulses ... More | |
Nari Ward, Balance Fountain, 2013-2014. Wheel barrow, window balances, mango seeds, Aluminet shade cloth, broken mirror, 62.99 x 72.83 x 22.44 inches, 160 x 185 x 57 cm. Photo courtesy of Lehmann Maupin. (Detail)
LONDON.- Lehmann Maupin is now opening Balance Fountain, New York-based multidisciplinary artist Nari Wards first solo exhibition in London. The exhibition precedes a major European museum exhibition to be announced in the coming months. Adopting a distinctly spiritual approach, Balance Fountain probes the unseen forces that shape both unique cultures and global society, exposing ritual as a structural artistic device. The presentation features a series of new copper panel works, a selection of sculptures, and a large-scale floor installation, each composed of objects adjacent to ceremonial practice or devotional behavior. Ward is best known for his wall- and installation-based sculptural works created from materials frequently found and collected throughout Harlem, his longtime neighborhood. The artist combines these materials to ... More |
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Impressions Parisiennes: Une Collection de Photographies | November 2023
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When a seat in the theater means a seat in the salon
NEW YORK, NY.- In a scene in Jocelyn Biohs Jajas African Hair Braiding, a man rolls in a cart of items to sell to the clients and stylists at the titular salon. I recognized the character immediately and sat up, anticipating the joke. I wasnt the only one: A small contingency of the audience at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater started snickering and laughing before he had even fully stepped onstage. Those of us who have spent hours in salon chairs, amid the scent of coconut oil and the acrid aroma of bleach, moving in a circuit between stylists chair, sink and sweltering-hot dryer, know this vendor. In Biohs play, he sells socks, and later, another shows up selling jewelry. In the salons I went to as a child, I remember men peddling bootlegged movies and fashions to the clients with their hair wrapped or freshly sheened as they dug for cash in ... More
Hysteria or healing? Examining the power of the shaking body
NEW YORK, NY.- As choreographer and dancer Wendy Osserman, 81, began to contort her body at a recent performance in Queens, her hands shook. Her fingers flapped back and forth. She threw one arm away from the other tossing and releasing, flailing and returning and hopped into one-leg kicks before sticking her tongue out and coiling it into a tunnel. She was trying to shake something off, it seemed. But what? Animals, according to somatic therapists, tremble and quiver to discharge stress. The shudder is a trauma response, a kind of biological palate cleanser that allows a return to a sense of normalcy after duress. Human bodies, on the other hand, tend to store up rage and grief and panic like a pressure cooker. As a dancer, Osserman lets her intuition guide her movements to release some of that pressure. Ossermans ... More
Kevin Wynn, choreographer of complex movement, dies at 67
NEW YORK, NY.- Kevin Wynn, a choreographer of complex maelstroms that moved at lightning speed and an uncommonly dedicated teacher who influenced generations of dancers, died Oct. 12 at his home in the New York City borough of Manhattan. He was 67. His mother and only immediate survivor, Edith, said the cause was a heart attack. Before he was a choreographer and a teacher, Wynn was a dancer. He was a soloist in the early 1980s with the José Limón Dance Company and Dianne McIntyres Sounds in Motion. He was one of the most brilliant, magnificent dance figures I have ever seen, McIntyre said in an interview. He had a lushness, reaching all sides of the space, and, at the same time, the ability to give all the little articulated details. He could give you the delicacy of a feather and the roar of fire. You could hear ... More
'A Living Collection' now on display at The Dorsky Museum
NEW PALTZ, NY.- The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz is pleased to announce the opening of the reimagined "A Living Collection" exhibition, which features the Museum's permanent collection on display in the Corridor Gallery and the Sarah Bedrick Gallery. Curated by Katie Hood Morgan with community members and Museum staff, the newly updated display of the Museums collection tells the story of The Dorsky from various perspectives, making space for traditionally marginalized voices. "A Living Collection" proposes an alternative to the notion of a static permanent collection. Like a living organism, a museums art collection is ever-changing, its meaning shifting along with contemporary viewpoints and visitor interpretations. "Stewarding our shared cultural heritage on behalf of our community and society is a major ... More
Solo exhibition by Richard Prince at Galerie Max Hetzler's Potsdamer Straße, Berlin
BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler is currently showing a solo exhibition by Richard Prince at Potsdamer StraÃe 77-87, in Berlin. This is the artists second solo presentation with the gallery. Cropped, pasted, painted and scanned, the exhibited works testify to Princes longstanding preoccupation with collecting and repurposing images while placing a renewed emphasis on the importance of the corporeal in his oeuvre. In these compositions, Prince splinters and reassembles photographic fragments of the female figure with varying degrees of legibility. The resulting collages assemble a new body, complicating notions of authorship and building on the tradition of figure painting. Since the late 1970s, Prince has chronicled a wealth of images that haunt the American psyche from cowboys and biker chicks to cars, nurses, and gag cartoons. In ... More
'Harmony' review: Barry Manilow writes the (Broadway) songs
NEW YORK, NY.- How strange and, in the end, how ironic that a German singing group, founded in the chaotic last years of the Weimar Republic and forcibly disbanded less than 10 years later, should call itself the Comedian Harmonists. Yet on the evidence of the Barry Manilow musical Harmony for which, yes, he wrote the songs (along with his longtime lyricist, Bruce Sussman) the internationally famous all-male group had the harmonist part of their name just right. As rendered by Manilow in an often skillful, surprisingly theatrical score, the mens tightly spaced six-part singing, sometimes reminiscent of barbershop, sometimes jazz, sometimes operetta on LSD, is so dense as to seem geological, its pitches heaving and twisting toward some new stratum of sound. But comedians? No. Neither the guys nor the grim and eventually ... More
Ukrainian and Japanese women artists unite to honor Vincent Van Gogh on 133rd anniversary of his passing
TOKYO .- As the world eagerly awaits the much-anticipated Van Gogh exhibition at Sampo Museum in Tokyo this October and currently visits the ongoing exhibition "Van Gogh in Auvers" at his museum in Amsterdam (scheduled until mid-September), the enigmatic departure of Vincent Van Gogh from Auvers-sur-Oise continues to intrigue, 133 years after his passing. Amidst the historical ambiguity surrounding his untimely demise, art historians and enthusiasts alike grapple with the mystery of whether it was suicide or something darker that led to his fateful departure. Yet, Van Gogh's legacy persists through his mesmerizing artworks, poignant letters, and the captivating stories that continue to captivate audiences worldwide. It is no secret that Van Gogh drew inspiration from several artists of the past, and one of them was the British woman ... More
Sebastian Lloyd Rees has first solo exhibition in London for six years at Vardaxoglou Gallery
LONDON.- Vardaxoglou Gallery is presenting Eternity and a Day, an exhibition of five new large-scale paintings by Athens-based artist Sebastian Lloyd Rees (b. 1986, Stavanger, Norway). This is Sebastian Lloyd Reess first exhibition with Vardaxoglou Gallery, and the artists first solo exhibition in London for 6 years. The exhibition comprises five paintings made between 2021 to 2023 in the artists Athens studio. Each painting measures eight foot tall by eight foot wide and is composed according to what at first seems to be a consistent formula, but quickly and vividly reveals its particularityand, in that particularity, a poignant lyricism. To capture the essence of intimacy each painting holds, and expanding on the artists interest in time and memory, the viewer will experience five acts throughout the exhibition and on visiting will be confronted with ... More
Exhibition at Scandinavia House presents multi-media artwork by Nordic artists
NEW YORK, NY.- On view now at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America, Narrative Threads: Works by Eight Nordic Artists presents multi-media artwork by Nordic artists, each distinguished by their innovative use of natural, synthetic, and digital materials. Exploring Nordic craft traditions through a contemporary lens, the works in the exhibition engage with material experimentation, and digital technology, with textile design, ceramics, stitching, painting, audio recording, and assemblage offering diverse narrative expressions and perspectives. The exhibition opened October 14 with the work of eight internationally celebrated artists: Margrethe Aanestad (Norway), Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir / Shoplifter (Iceland), Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson (Iceland), Hildur Bjarnadóttir (Iceland), Astrid Krogh (Denmark), Heidi Hankaniemi ... More
Bonhams to present The Helen and David Milling Collection of Arts and Crafts Ceramics and Glass
LONDON.- The best of British and American art pottery and glass from the late 19th and early 20th centuries will be presented in the Helen and David Milling Collection at Bonhams this December. Helen and David Milling amassed an exceptional collection over half a century from some of the most prominent and influential potters, designers, and artists of the period. More than 350 lots will be offered from the Michigan couples collection across three sales this December: 20th Century Decorative Arts and Ceramics on December 5 in London, Modern Decorative Art & Design on December 12 in New York and the dedicated Helen and David Milling Online auction from December 818 at Bonhams Skinner. Helen and David, both with backgrounds in the arts and architecture, were interested in Arts and Crafts ceramics, Art Nouveau tiles and American ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Georgia O'Keeffe was born November 15, 1887. Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986) was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916, several decades before women had gained access to art training in Americaâs colleges and universities. In this image: Jennifer Shapira views three of Georgia O'Keeffe's works, from left, "No. 7 Special, 1915," "Second, Out of My Head, 1915," and "No. 2-Special, 1915" on display at Washington's National Gallery of Art during a press preview of the "O'Keeffe on Paper" exhibit Friday, April 7, 2000.
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