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Fragrant Bloom, by Mira Lehr (2022). Burned & dyed Japanese paper, acrylic ink, burnt fuses on canvas (64 x 68).
BOCA RATON, FLA.- The new season of art in Palm Beach County kicks off with Mira Lehr: Arc of Nature. The show features bold and colorful new works by Mira Lehr that have never been exhibited before, spanning 2,000 square feet, the entire front gallery space of Rosenbaum Contemporary (on view November 15, 2022 through January 14, 2023). These paintings by Lehr can be seen during the peak months of the season, including the week of Art Basel Miami Beach. Lehrs paintings continue to be acquired by leading museums, institutions, and collectors ‒ including the acquisition this year by The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York of three of Lehrs works. The momentum of Lehrs trajectory continues to soar, and this year during Miami Art Week and Art Basel Miami Beach, Mira Lehr has been selected for three concurrent exhibitions in addition to this solo show at Rose ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery announces "It's A Small World | Diminutive Artifacts" sale on Nov 17, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-6. Featuring Antiquities, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Ethnographic, Fossils, from East to West, North to South, and everywhere in between - with one small thing in common - size! Everything in this auction is approximately 8 inches or less, perfect for that last bit of shelf space in your curio cabinet! Maya Andesite Pendant Squatting Lord. Estimate $2,000 - $3,000.
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| Cheim & Read opens a group exhibition curated by Jay Gorney | | Did five paintings lose their 'oomph'? It's a $410 million question. | | Gerhard Richter's striking Abstraktes Bild leads Phillips' Hong Kong 20th Century & Contemporary Art Sale |
Kimber Smith (1922 - 1981), K's Mandolin, 1970. Acrylic on canvas, 105 x 65 in / 264.2 x 165.1 cm. Photo: Alex Yudzon / Cheim & Read, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read is presenting Regarding Kimber, a group exhibition curated by Jay Gorney. The exhibition, which will include more than 20 works by eight artists, marks the centenary of the forward-looking abstract painter Kimber Smith (19221981) by exploring the impact of his practice on contemporary art. The show will open on November 17, 2022, at the gallerys Chelsea location, 547 West 25th Street, New York, and run through January 7, 2023. Gorney notes that Smiths loose and richly colored paintings, with their expanses of primed canvas and, occasionally, spray-painted passages, not only stood in marked contrast to the weightiness of Abstract Expressionism but also anticipated aspects of both Color Field painting and the provisional painting of the early 2000s. The qualities that characterize his work intense colors and boldly articulated s ... More | |
Ron Perelman, the chairman and chief executive of MacAndrews & Forbes, which is best known for overseeing Revlon, in New York, Nov. 2, 2021. (Mark Sommerfeld/The New York Times)
by Colin Moynihan
NEW YORK, NY.- When Steve Wynn, the casino magnate, put his elbow through a Pablo Picasso he owned, there was little doubt about the damage he had done to a painting he hoped to sell, in 2006, for more than $100 million. The silver-dollar-size hole in the canvas spoke for itself. His insurance company seems to have disputed only how much value the painting might have lost. But things are not so straightforward in another insurance case that also involves blue-chip art and a boldface billionaire. Four years after a fire at Ronald O. Perelmans East Hampton estate, holding companies to which he is connected are suing his insurers, contending that the blaze damaged five of his artworks worth $410 million. The complaint doesnt claim the paintings were charred, heavily ... More | |
Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild (774-1), 1992 oil on canvas, 200 x 180.3 cm. Estimate: HK$ 80,000,000 - 120,000,000/ US$ 10,260,000 - 15,380,000.
HONG KONG.- On 1 December, Phillips Hong Kong Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art in association with Yongle Auction will be led by Gerhard Richters prominent Abstraktes Bild (774-1), 1992, estimated at HK$80-120 million/ US$10.2-15.3 million. Coming to the auction market for the very first time, this visually arresting masterpiece is an exquisite example of Richters technical and conceptual approach in painting. Executed in 1992 following his breakthrough retrospective at Londons Tate Modern the previous year, the present work exemplifies the purest articulation of Richter's finest period of abstraction. Jonathan Crockett, Chairman, Asia, Phillips, said: We are delighted and honoured to present Gerhard Richters Abstraktes Bild (774-1), painted during a climactic moment in the artists career as he achieved unprecedented critical acclaim. The early 1990s is widely ... More |
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| Design Auction to feature The Peter Loughrey Collection | | How Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto empire collapsed | | "Last Minute" immersive installation by Adrien M. and Claire B. opens at Centre PHI |
Highlights from the LA Modern Auction to be held November 17th.
VAN NUYS, CALIF.- LA Modern Auctions (LAMA) announced its inaugural Design auction, which celebrates and expands upon the companys history of elevating the field of modern design. This November 17th auction is led by significant works from The Peter Loughrey Collection. Especially momentous is an important group of unique furnishings designed by Gio Ponti for the Ceccato family of Milan, including collaborations with Piero Fornasetti and Paolo de Poli. Further highlights of the collection include furnishings from Sam Maloof and Warren Platner, early Eames designs and rare ephemera, a large-scale Victor Vasarely tapestry, ceramics from Stan Bitters and Architectural Pottery, and art brooches from Fletcher Benton, Claire Falkenstein, Margaret De Patta, and Art Smith. Complementing the Peter ... More | |
Sam Bankman-Fried, the chief executive of the now-collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, at the Crypto Bahamas conference in Nassau, April 27, 2022. (Erika P. Rodriguez/The New York Times)
by David Yaffe-Bellany
NEW YORK, NY.- In less than a week, cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried went from industry leader to industry villain, lost most of his fortune, saw his $32 billion company plunge into bankruptcy and became the target of investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department. But in a wide-ranging interview Sunday that stretched past midnight, he sounded surprisingly calm. You wouldve thought that Id be getting no sleep right now, and instead Im getting some, he said. It could be worse. The empire built by Bankman-Fried, who was once compared to titans of finance such as John Pierpont Morgan ... More | |
Last Minute, the new immersive installation experience by Adrien M & Claire B.
MONTREAL.- Discover PHIs Fall programming with Last Minute, the new immersive installation experience by Adrien M & Claire B, for its North American premiere is now on view and will continue through March 5, 2023. In the coming months, PHI has a multitude of events on offer. In addition to the presentation of Last Minute, Living Sound, our sound immersion room returns with a brand new concept, and Horizons VR, our virtual reality exhibition, will be extended. Finally, the PHI Centre will welcome the CINEMANIA festival with Luxembourg as the guest of honour. In 2020, it was the first time that an exhibition from this French studio crossed the ocean to be presented in Montreal. Mirages & miracles was exhibited a few weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic and had to be interrupted due to confinement. The PHI team ... More |
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| Jeff Cook, a founder of the country band Alabama, dies at 73 | | Stage Effects: Pauline Caulfield, Li Xia, Ellie MacGarry, and Lisa Milroy exhibit at Kate MacGarry | | Across African continent at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr |
His group had 32 No. 1 country singles, and his guitar and fiddle playing helped extend its reach to a generation raised on rock n roll.
by Bill Friskics-Warren
NEW YORK, NY.- Jeff Cook, a founding member of Alabama, one of the most popular and influential bands in the history of country music, died Monday at his home in Destin, Florida. He was 73. The groups longtime manager, Tony Conway, said the cause was complications of Parkinsons disease. Alabama had 32 chart-topping country singles between 1980 and 1993, including encomiums to rural pride such as Tennessee River and Mountain Music. The groups soul-inflected ballads Take Me Down and Love in the First Degree not only topped the country chart but crossed over to the pop Top 20 as well. Cook and his cousin Teddy Gentry sang harmonies, while another cousin, Randy Owen, sang lead. All three men had a hand in writing the bands material. As the groups lead guitarist and fiddle player, Cook brought ... More | |
Ellie MacGarry, Marigolds, 2022. Oil on canvas, 46 x 35.5 cm.
LONDON.- Stage Effects brings together four artists whose paintings include bodies and the objects we use around them. Some works suggest action beyond the frame, others show action happening within it. Lisa Milroys Trying It On (2022) looks like a series of film stills in which a performer - the artist - tries on a variety of hats and applies lipstick. There is mystery in Ellie MacGarrys painting Three hands (2022) with a single torso but the presence of a third, disembodied hand. Marigolds (2022) places washing-up gloves centre stage, distorted to hang in the foreground, defining the body which is behind them. In Hands (2022), Li Xia shows a cats paws resting on a womans fingers, smooth and cartoon-like. The absence of whole bodies leaves the story open, it is ours to complete. In La Trace dEté (Watch) (2022), we only see a sun-tanned arm, with a white mark around the wrist where the subject has been wearing a watch. Pauline Caufields wall hanging Lace Fan ... More | |
Pieter Hugo, Abdullahi Mohammed with Gumu Ogere-Remo, 2007. Photo: Bonhams.
PARIS.- Following the success of the sale of the Leridon Collection last May, Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr is pleased to present a selection of 60 lots in a sale of Modern and Contemporary African Art to be held in Paris on 30 November. The sale will feature photographs by Malik Sidibé, a drawing by William Kentridge, sculptures by Mozambican artist Bertina Lopez and a historic work by Algerian artist Hellal-Mahmoud Zoubir. Aboudia (born 1983) will be represented in this sale with four paintings from 2011 telling the story of the clashes that shook Abidjan from March 30 to May 4, that year. The artist denounces the violence with spontaneity and anger. Crowds of tense faces, with wide eyes and gaping mouths, are superimposed on the brown and black surfaces characteristic of the tortured chromatic of this series. The characters are indistinguishable, anonymous. They pile up in the cramped frame of the canvas, already too small to represent th ... More |
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| Impressive results of Bonhams' dedicated William Kentridge sale | | Friedrichs Pontone opens an exhibition of works by painter Matteo Massagrande | | Laia Abril awarded Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography |
William Kentridge (born 1955), Scribe, 2011 £3,000 - £5,000. Photo: Bonhams,
LONDON.- Bonhams held a sale dedicated to works by the radical South African artist William Kentridge (born 1955) today (Tuesday 15 November) at Bonhams New Bond Street, London. The 20-lot sale, entitled A Focus on William Kentridge, made a total of £1,233,030, with 80% sold by lot and 100% sold by value. The top lot was Soho in Bed with Rhinoceros, which achieved an impressive £630,330. The drawing, which dates from 1991, came from Mine; the second of Kentridge's animated films. It was used as part of the final sequence when the Rhinoceros tenderly nuzzles at the out-stretched hand of the besuited industrialist Soho Eckstein. Kentridge himself has said of his filmed drawings: A film of the drawing holds each moment. And of course, often, as a drawing proceeds, interest shifts from what was originally central, to something that initially appeared incidental. Filming enables me to follow this process of vision ... More | |
Porto, 2022. Oil and mixed media on board, 19.7 x 23.6 in. 50 x 60 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Open through 4 December 2022, Friedrichs Pontone is presenting Infinite Spaces - a first exhibition of renowned painter Matteo Massagrandes works at the new gallerys location in Tribeca, New York. Born in Padua, Italy, Matteo Massagrande is a painter steeped in the history and tradition of figurative representation, inspired by 19th century Italian Realism. He has been exhibiting his work since 1973, and has shown extensively around the world, his paintings featuring in many public and private collections. He divides his time between Padua and Hajos, Hungary. The influences of both locations are fundamental to the content and spirit of his practice. In their subject matter and method of execution the paintings evoke light, place and time. Most show architectural interiors with vistas through to exterior spaces, whilst some focus on cryptically symbolic trees, navigating the continuity between the past and the ... More | |
Laia Abril, Credit Mahala Nuuk, 2019.
JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (IMJ) has awarded Laia Abril as winner of the 2022 Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography (SIPEP). The Spanish artist will receive an award of $40,000 in recognition of her ambitious, politically engaged work and thought-provoking approach to the medium of photography. Honorable mentions were also granted to Ruth Patir (Israel) and Widline Cadet (Haiti, United States). Abril (b. 1986) is a multidisciplinary artist working with photography, text, video, and sound. Focusing on personal stories and underrepresented communities, her work touches upon the uneasy and hidden realities of sexuality, gender equality, and power structures that continue to impact society today. Her recent project, A History of Misogyny (2022), combines installations, books, web docs, and films to address womens oppression throughout history. Her research- based approach, interweaving theory ... More |
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Mina Loy, Artist: From Rogue to Rags
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An artist's high-tech dream of a world with no nations
LONDON.- Can art change the world? For all the possible answers to this question, the fact of war seems to sweep it away: Has Guernica ever stopped a bomb? As humanity shambles on, artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas takes up the question again, but from a perverse angle: a tech startup spun off a defeated revolution. Kulendran Thomas video New Eelam traversed the art world in 2016, appearing in showroomlike installations at major biennials. The work tells the story of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a militant Marxist group in Sri Lanka that, between 1983 and 2009, attempted to build an autonomous community called Eelam in the islands northern jungles. For Kulendran Thomas purposes, a nascent internet helped Tamil Eelam explore nonhierarchical forms of self-government. A flood of Western arms to the Sri Lankan army sealed ... More
Poetry, power and loss in Theaster Gates' survey
NEW YORK, NY.- At the heart of Theaster Gates survey at the New Museum, Young Lords and Their Traces, sits a curious, mummylike object in a vitrine: a boli sculpture a power figure created by Bamana artists in Mali to harness spiritual energy. It was crumbling when the artist acquired it, so he wrapped it in strips of white cloth. This wasnt simply an act of conservation it is linked to how the figure was made by those Bamana artists, who swathed wood in fabric before covering it in clay and other sacrificial materials. The move exemplifies what Gates calls generative care tending to the past by carrying its lessons into the future. It is a notion that seems to inform his whole practice. He rose to fame by reviving a neighborhood in Chicagos South Side, purchasing vacant and distressed properties and transforming them into artist studios, affordable ... More
Étienne Robial retrospective exhibition at the Musée des arts Décoratifs
PARIS.- e musée des Arts décoratifs is paying homage to the work of Ãtienne Robial with a retrospective exhibition that started on November 10, 2022 and will continue through to June 11, 2023. étienne + robial. graphisme & collection, de futuropolis à canal+ retraces the exceptional career of this prolific and eclectic creator through works ranging from posters and drawings to videos, books and furniture. Graphic artist, publisher, artistic director, professor and collector, Ãtienne Robial has left a strong mark on the French audiovisual landscape over the past 50 years by creating the concept of habillage audiovisual presentations for television stations such as Canal+ and M6. He co-founded the publishing house Futuropolis, thus contributing to the literary recognition of auteur comic books. He redesigned and created the ... More
Punk rock, Chicano art, music and politics congeal in "Victor Estrada: Purple Mexican"
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- ArtCenter Exhibitions is now presenting through to February 25th, 2023 Victor Estrada: Purple Mexican, a survey of works by the Los Angeles-based artist, Victor Estrada. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Victor Estrada has produced paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations that deftly navigate the realms of pop and conceptual art. A consummate Angelino, his work is informed by the unique cultural landscape of the sprawling metropolis and the Southwest1980s Los Angeles and South Bay punk rock; Chicano art, music and politics; the art collectives ASCO and Los Four; and the enduring socio-political ramifications surrounding the US/Mexico border. Estrada congeals this and more in his surreal forms, pushing the boundaries of abstraction while also teasing the viewer with eruptions and viscera of his own ... More
'Shucked' is corny. It's country. And it's coming to Broadway.
NEW YORK, NY.- Shucked, a corn-pone musical with roots in country music and rural humor, will arrive on Broadway early next year after more than a decade of starts and stops. The musical, which finds laughs in a worrisome alliance between a hick and a huckster, features a score by a pair of well-regarded Nashville, Tennessee, songwriters: Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally. The duo, who have not previously worked on Broadway, have teamed up with a writer who has: Robert Horn, who in 2019 won a Tony Award for writing the stage adaptation of Tootsie and who has also written this musicals book. Shucked has a complicated development history. The three writers first collaborated on a musical called Moonshine, which was based on Hee Haw, a long-running country-and-comedy variety show that first aired on television in ... More
Examining the regrettably modern marriage of Leo Tolstoy and Sophia Tolstaya
NEW YORK, NY.- I work without respite, Sophia Tolstaya says in Frederick Wisemans A Couple. I suffer from the impossibility of achieving what I want to do. Living with Leo Tolstoy who wrote his greatest works, including Anna Karenina and War and Peace, during their 1862-1910 marriage is no picnic, and Tolstayas reflections can sound very recognizable to a modern ear. She cant get everything done and feels constantly guilty about that, yet endures a husband who neither shares the family burdens fairly nor recognizes her full self. Married at 18, she helped run a 4,000-acre estate, raised and educated their children (eight of 13 survived to adulthood), and copied and revised hundreds of pages of Tolstoys manuscripts (as well as writing her own). The contemporary resonance appealed to Wiseman, better known for his 43 ... More
Heritage Auctions opens Forrest Fenn's treasure chest to collectors
DALLAS, TX.- his time, at least, the hunt for Forrest Fenn's treasure won't be so challenging. What remains from that famed chest hidden in the Rocky Mountains for a decade, the stuff of dreams and countless news stories is now available with the simple click of a button. On Friday Heritage Auctions opened bidding on Forrest Fenn's Treasure, which closes Dec. 12. The thrill of the chase is prolonged another month as collectors once again vie for 476 gold pieces, coins, jewelry and other items found in the chest that was planted in 2010 by the author, decorated fighter pilot and art dealer. Fenn, a native of Temple, Texas, saw the treasure hunt as a fitting farewell to a life well lived and, he said, as a way to encourage people "to get off their couches." Before and even after the chest's discovery in 2020 by Jack Stuef, Fenn's story became ... More
Prized private collections shine at Heritage HKINF World & Ancient Coins Auction
DALLAS, TX.- Three exceptional collections, encompassing provincial and the Republic of China, stand poised to help Heritage Auctions' Dec. 7-9 World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction continue the growth that has surged throughout the year. The event features the Tony Ma, Glorium and Monrovia collections each of which spotlights each collector's shrewd eye for quality and aesthetics of China's most challenging series. "These collections are among the most significant and important collections of Chinese coins anywhere," says Cris Bierrenbach, Executive Vice President of International Numismatics at Heritage Auctions. "As the market for modern Chinese rarities continues to expand, so does our selection of this material, which extends from the earliest issues in 1979 to the most modern contemporary show pandas." ... More
For Elvis Mitchell, critic turned filmmaker, a chance to show and tell
NEW YORK, NY.- Elvis Mitchell has spent much of his life thinking, writing and talking about movies, but the release of his own debut film is taking some time to sink in. I made this thing, and there are people in that room watching it right now, he said, a little awestruck, during a screening last month of the documentary Is That Black Enough for You?!?, which Mitchell directed, wrote and executive produced. I dont know how to think about that. This still feels so close to me. The movie a personal account of a pivotal era of Black film in the late 60s and 70s is a long time coming. Weaving together more than 100 clips of indelible classics (Night of the Living Dead, Lady Sings the Blues) and unheralded gems (Uptight, Abar), its based on decades of Mitchells observations as a cinephile, scholar and critic, including for The New York Times (he left in 2004) and Los Angeles pu ... More
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Mehmet Sinan Kuran
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Flashback On a day like today, Polish-Swiss art dealer Jan Krugier died November 16, 2008. Janick "Jan" Krugier (12 May 1928 in Radom, Poland - 16 November 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland) was a Polish born Swiss dealer in modern art most known for his relationship to the works of Pablo Picasso and a survivor of the Holocaust. Krugier was the exclusive dealer for the works by Pablo Picasso inherited by his granddaughter Marina Picasso and of the works of Joaquin Torres-Garcia from the collection of his grandchildren. In this image: Wassily Kandinsky, Herbstlandschaft, oil on canvas, 28 1/8 x 39 1/8 in. (71.6 x 99.3 cm.). Painted on 31 January 1911. Estimate: $20,000,000-25,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2013. Formerly in the collection of Jan Krugier.
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