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| | | Discover the World in a Fragment at the First Virtual Cotsen Textile Traces Global Roundtable, October 21-22 | |
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Marie-Eve Celio-Scheurer, academic coordinator, Cotsen Textile Traces Study Center, Washington, DC, analyzing fragments.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Register now to reserve your space for the first virtual Cotsen Textile Traces Global Roundtable on October 21, 10-1 ET and October 22, 1-4 ET, when experts from around the world will share insights about exceptional textile fragments representing Asia, Europe-Central Asia, Africa, Americas, and Oceania from the Cotsen Textile Traces Study Collection at the George Washington Museum and The Textile Museum in Washington, DC. A robe made from more than one-hundred block-printed Indian textile fragments for export to Indonesia, a Sasanian silk fragment carbon dated to 338-596, an embroidered raffia Kuba hat from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a fragment from a Wari-style Peruvian tunic, a contemporary construction from Lloyd Cotsens Box Project inspired by scaffold weaves from Peru, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold an auction of ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the Americas - Pre-Columbian, Native American, Northwest Coast, Spanish Colonial, more on Thu, Oct 15, 2020 11:00 AM CDT. In this image: Fine Veracruz Stone Ballgame Yoke. Estimate $11,000 - $16,500.
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| | French museum halts Genghis Khan show after Chinese pressure | | Häusler Contemporary presents an exhibition of works by James Turrell | | Mexico urges Austria to return Moctezuma's headdress |
Genghis Khan as portrayed in a 14th-century Yuan era album; now located in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. The original version was in black and white.
NANTES (AFP).- A French museum won backing from scholars on Tuesday for its decision to halt an exhibition about Mongol leader Genghis Khan because of a censorship attempt by the Chinese government. The history museum in the western French city of Nantes announced Monday that it was delaying the opening of the exhibition about the legendary founder of the 13th-Century Mongol Empire by more than three years. Preparations for the show, planned in collaboration with the Inner Mongolia Museum in Hohhot, China, ran into trouble after the Chinese Bureau of Cultural Heritage pushed for changes to the original project plan, "including notably elements of biased rewriting of Mongol culture in favour of a new national narrative", the Nantes museum said. The Chinese authorities demanded that certain words, including "Genghis Khan," "Empire" and "Mongol" be removed from the exhibition, and later asked for control over exhibition texts, maps, brochures and communication, ... More | |
James Turrell, Circular Glass Series: Ahku, 2020. Glass, computerized LED, Aluminum, Corian. Diameter 120 cm (47 1/4 inches). Frame 232.5 x 185 x 42 cm (91 1/2 x 72 7/8 x 16 1/2 inches). Installation view Häusler Contemporary, 2020 | Courtesy the artist and Häusler Contemporary | Photo: Florian Holzherr.
ZURICH.- Häusler Contemporary opened the new season with the eight solo exhibition of James Turrell. Selected works by Turrell document his long-time and groundbreaking artistic research on the subject of light allow us to experience it impressively in the exclusive presentation of the new work type «The Circular Glass». Following a series of dialogical exhibitions on the subject of light, Häusler Contemporary dedicates the second half of the year to the artist who is a pioneer, luminary and benchmark in this field: James Turrell (*1943, Los Angeles, US, lives in Flagstaff, US). Since the beginning of his career, he has been exploring the various manifestations of light and its relation to our perception of the world. With his impressive walk-in installations and projects of art in architecture he inspires people from all over the world and various cultural backgrounds. The exhibition exclusively presents an installation by Jam ... More | |
Feather head-dress, Mexico, Aztec, early 16th century. Quetzal, Cotinga, roseate spoonbill, Piaya feathers; wood, fibres, Amate paper, cotton, gold, gilded brass © KHM mit MVK und ÃTM.
MEXICO CITY (AFP).- Mexico's president said Monday that he had given his wife the "almost impossible mission" of persuading Austria to return a feather headdress said to have been worn by Aztec emperor Moctezuma. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced on Twitter that he had asked Beatriz Gutierrez, a journalist and writer, to appeal to Austria to give back the pre-Hispanic relic during her cultural tour of Europe. "I recommended that she insist on the Moctezuma plume, although it is an almost impossible mission, since they have completely appropriated it," he wrote after posting a photograph of Gutierrez with Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen. It is unclear exactly how the headdress, made of hundreds of long quetzal feathers and more than 1,000 gold plaques, ended up in Austria, where it is on display at a museum in Vienna. Historians believe that Emperor Moctezuma, who ruled from 1502 to 1520, probably gave the plume to Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes who took it to Europe. ... More |
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| | J. Paul Getty Museum announces major acquisition of a group of 39 Dutch drawings | | IU Eskenazi Museum of Art acquires painting by French/Mexican Surrealist artist Alice Rahon | | Man's best friend once made nice wool blankets, too |
Piet Mondrian, Landscape near Arnhem, 1900-01 (detail). Translucent and opaque watercolor over graphite on wove paper. 20 ½ x 29 7/16 in. (52 x 71.5 cm). The J. Paul Getty Museum.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today a landmark acquisition of 39 Dutch drawings, providing a stunning survey of the outstanding artists, styles, genres, and subjects in seventeenth-century art from the Netherlands. The group includes drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob Ruisdael, Gerrit van Honthorst, and many other artists of the Golden Age of Dutch art. In addition, the acquisition includes a monumental early watercolor by Piet Mondrian, a panoramic landscape view made in 1901. Set in motion nearly two years ago and finalized in January 2020, this major acquisition dramatically enhances our Dutch drawings collection, increasing it by a third, and placing it among the most important museum holdings in the United States, says Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Several drawings represent artists who are almost never available on the market, including Cornelis Vroom, Hendrick Dubbels, ... More | |
Alice Rahon, Boîte á musique III, 1945 (detail). Oil and sand on canvas 10 x 12 in. Museum purchase with funds from Paula Sunderman, Ann Sanderson, and the estate of Herman B Wells via the Joseph Granville and Anna Bernice Wells Memorial Fund. Eskenazi Museum of Art, 2020.2
BLOOMINGTON, IN.- The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University announced the acquisition of Boîte à musique III (Music Box III) (1945) by the French/Mexican Surrealist artist Alice Rahon (19161987). The purchase of the painting was made possible thanks to the generosity of Paula Sunderman, a docent at the Eskenazi Museum of Art, along with Ann Sanderson, a former member of the museums National Advisory Board, and the estate of Herman B Wells via the Joseph Granville and Anna Bernice Wells Memorial Fund. Alice Rahon was drawn into the circle of Surrealist artists and writers in Paris in the early 1930s, and initially expressed her creativity as a poet. With her husband, the Austrian artist Wolfgang Paalen, she traveled to Mexico in 1939. The couple decided to remain there following the outbreak of World War II, and Rahon became a ... More | |
An unadted photo provided by the Smithsonian Institution shows the pelt of a Coast Salish woolly-dog, collected in 1859. Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest once bred dogs in large numbers and sheared them for wool. Brittany M. Hance/Smithsonian Institution via The New York Times.
by Lesley Evans Ogden
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Eight years ago, Tessa Campbell heard a genuine shaggy dog story. In 2012, Wayne W. Williams, an elder of the Tulalip Tribes, was donating material to the Hibulb Cultural Center on the tribal reservation in Washington state. He told Campbell, the museums senior curator, that his donation included a dog wool blanket. Weavers examining it were unconvinced, suspecting it was mountain goat wool. But examination under an electron microscope at the University of Victoria in British Columbia in 2019 confirmed what Williams, who died in 2017, had said: The blanket, dated to about 1850, contained dog wool, lending credence to stories from the oral tradition of the Coast Salish Indigenous peoples of a special dog that was long kept and bred for its ... More |
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| | After a 7-month wait, this tourist got Machu Picchu all to himself | | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts acquires 19th-century work by Cheyenne artist Howling Wolf | | New York Philharmonic cancels 2020-21 season over Covid-19 |
The Incan fortress of Machu Picchu, in the southeastern Andes Mountains of Peru, May 25, 2011. Piotr Redlinski/The New York Times.
by Tiffany May and Hisako Ueno
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Jesse Katayama had planned to end a journey around the world 8,000 feet above sea level at Machu Picchu, the sprawling 15th-century Inca citadel high in the Andes Mountains. Then the coronavirus happened, stranding Katayama, a 26-year-old Japanese citizen, in Peru and shutting down tourism sites as a lockdown was imposed across the country. On Sunday, after a wait of seven months, Katayama finally got to visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site. And aside from a few guides, he got it all to himself. After the lockdown, the first man to visit Machu Picchu is meeeeeee, he wrote in a post on Instagram that included photos of him with a park representative. Alejandro Neyra, Perus culture minister, said in a virtual news conference Monday that Katayama had been granted special access to the site in recognition of his patience. ... More | |
Howling Wolf, A Southern Cheyenne Ledger Drawing, circa 1875 (detail). Collection of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced today that it acquired a major work by a 19th-century Native American artist Honanistto or Howling Wolf. The acquisition entitled A Southern Cheyenne Ledger Drawing is a watercolor and ink drawing dating to circa 1875. Howling Wolfs long life, circa 1849 to 1927, spanned the most tumultuous periods in the history of the Southern Cheyenne (Chian) people. He was an exceptionally talented artist who depicted the Plains people and documented significant events and changes in Cheyenne society, while also portraying an individuals place within this volatile period of American history. The work is the first Native American ledger drawing to enter VMFA's collection. An original and rare stereograph portrait of the artist was also acquired by the museum. VMFAs growing Native American art collection includes two- and three-dimensional works dating from prehistoric times to the presen ... More | |
Outside of David Geffen Hal in New York, March 12, 2020. Vincent Tullo/The New York Times.
by Zachary Woolfe
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Metropolitan Opera will remain closed because of the coronavirus pandemic at least until September. The Broadway Leagues president has likewise said peoples bets are the fall of next year for a reopening of theaters. Adding to this growing sense that the resumption of large-scale performing arts in New York, and throughout much of the nation, is still almost a year away, the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday announced the cancellation of its concerts through June. It is really fair to say that in the 178-year history of the Philharmonic, this is the single biggest crisis, Deborah Borda, the orchestras president and chief executive, said in an interview. The halt in performances since mid-March has exposed the Philharmonic, like other arts organizations dependent on ticket sales, to a devastating drop in revenue. Borda said the orchestra would have a deficit of ... More |
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| | Abell Auction Co. hosts important Fine Art, Antiques, Furniture and Jewelry Sale on Oct. 18 | | Christie's to offer Finch & Co's Cabinet of Curiosities | | Art museum professional Weintraub to lead Allentown Art Museum |
Roy Lichtenstein, Musical Notes (Composition I).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Abell Auction Co. will offer an important collection of fine art, antiques, furniture, decorative arts and jewelry on Sunday, October 18 at 10 a.m. PDT. The online-only auction will feature furniture by Sam Maloof, one of the most celebrated American furniture designer-craftsmen of our time. The Maloof furniture collection is being sold in honor of the late art collector and patron Lynn Altman and in support of the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, a collections-based research and educational institution serving scholars and the general public for more than a century. Items include a set of twelve walnut dining chairs, walnut dining table, club chair and ottoman, walnut pedestal table, pair of walnut end tables, walnut game table and a walnut three-piece buffet. Fine art in the upcoming auction includes paintings, drawings and sculptures signed by artists such as Charles Arthur Arnold, Enrique ... More | |
Estimates range from £300 to £50,000 and the sale is expected to realise in the region of £300,000-460,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
LONDON.- Christies London announced the sale of Finch & Cos Cabinet of Curiosities. This eclectic collection sale spans thousands of years of history, comprising Antiquities, European Sculpture and Objects, alongside Tribal and Ethnographic Art, Natural History and Topographical pictures. In 96 lots, the sale unites historically and geographically important objects and curiosities from around the globe, including a Chinese scholars wrist rest, a Spanish Colonial (South American) parquetry cabinet, Mughal Indian flasks and a North Indian Bezoar stone case, a Japanese hand cannon, Victorian Halleys Comet brooches, Tibetan objects and Victorian portraits. This sale celebrates the achievements of the London-based dealers, Jan and Craig Finch of Finch & Co, who for the past 30 years, have been advising and engaging with ... More | |
Since January 2019 Max Weintraub has been senior curator at the Aspen Art Museum in Aspen, Colo., where he was responsible for the museums exhibition program.
ALLENTOWN, PA.- Max Weintraub, an art museum professional with more than 20 years of experience in both curatorial and educational aspects of museum operation, has been named as the Allentown Art Museums next President and CEO by the institutions Board of Trustees. Weintraubs appointment concludes a five-month national search that engaged more than 60 regional community leaders in articulating the qualifications for the position and evaluating candidates for the leadership post at the AAM, long a cornerstone of the Lehigh Valleys cultural scene. As President and CEO he will be responsible for the successful operation of the AAM, including implementing the organizations strategic plan; overseeing exhibitions, education, and programming; building ... More |
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Orange Barrel Media unveils Art for Action
NEW YORK, NY.- Orange Barrel Media announces Art for Action, an artist-driven, non-partisan voter call to action and awareness campaign appearing nationwide across its network of digital billboards and IKE Smart City kiosks in advance of the 2020 United States November election. In partnership with artists and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Art for Action features original works by Jenny Holzer, Carrie Mae Weems, Jeffrey Gibson, and Tomashi Jackson, among others. The campaign includes voter resources, links, and individual state-specific registration and voting deadlines in sixteen cities across the US, on view through election day on November 3, 2020. OBM is the only outdoor media company initiating, developing, and executing such a large and expansive campaign to help register voters and disseminate information about ... More
The Photographers' Gallery opens an exhibition of photographs by Evgenia Arbugaeva
LONDON.- Hyperborea - Stories from the Russian Arctic marks the first major UK exhibition of the award-winning Russian photographer, Evgenia Arbugaeva. Featuring brand new work, this exhibition is the culmination of a long-term project (begun in 2013) focused on the remote land and people of the Russian Arctic. Arbugaeva (b.1985) grew up in the secluded port city Tiksi on the shore of the Laptev Sea, Russia and although now based in London, remains deeply connected to her birthplace. Her work is often located within the tradition of magical realism, and her approach combines documentary and narrative styles to create a distinctive visual iconography rooted in real experience but resonant with fable, myth and romanticism. Hyperborea brings together four chapters presenting visual stories of life in the Russian Arctic and continues ... More
Antique arms and armour offered in the 83rd Auction of Hermann Historica GmbH
MUNICH.- Once again, in this year's Autumn Auction on 3 November 2020, a selection of extremely rare, outstanding lots are to come under the hammer in the "Antique arms and armour from all over the world" catalogue. Interested buyers are cordially invited to examine the pieces on offer, including 416 lots in this section alone, during the pre-sale viewing from 18 to 21 October and from 28 to 31 October 2020 at the auction house's headquarters in Grasbrunn, near Munich. The diverse lineup of edged weapons on offer in the Autumn Auction resembles a journey through the craftsmanship of the world's medieval and early modern blacksmiths. The catalogue includes lots that will appeal to all collecting interests and themes, beginning with early swords, such as an awe-inspiring, two-hand battle sword with a heavy single-edged blade, made in Germany ... More
Cuomo unveils statue of Mother Cabrini
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio announced last year that a new project, She Built NYC, would commission monuments and memorials for undersung female leaders, the Roman Catholic nun who is considered the patron saint of immigrants was not on the shortlist, upsetting her many Italian American and Catholic fans, especially because in a public poll, she received the most votes. But after a bureaucratic tussle between the city and state about the issue, on Monday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo unveiled a monument to Francesca Xavier Cabrini in Battery Park City during the states Columbus Day celebrations on Monday. While the pandemic prevented the traditional parade, there was plenty of fanfare in Battery Park City, where a red cloak was removed to reveal the bronze statue after the governor spoke. May ... More
Christie's offers the fantastic collection of Baroness Marion Lambert
PARIS.- Christie's France will present the Black Sheep sale on November 17th and 18th. This exceptional ensemble, consisting of approximately 450 lots for an overall estimate of approximately 4 to 6 million euros - which will partly be donated to War Child charity - is an accurate representation of this great art enthusiast's keen eye. She was a prolific collector who always carefully selected the pieces that she would then stage in her interior, alongside the renowned decorator Jacques Grange. Always one step ahead of her time, Marion Lambert celebrates the art of collecting as a discipline in itself. Her fruitful collaboration with Jacques Grange, master of colors and textures, gave birth to this eclectic collection's scenography, translating Marion Lambert's sensibility into subtle compositions. The sheer diversity in this collection of high quality creations reflects ... More
First edition Christopher Marlowe expected to bring $60k in Early Printed Books at Swann
NEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday, October 27, Swann Galleries brings back its standalone offering of Early Printed Books, returning with Senior Specialist Devon Eastland at the helm. The sale is led by the earliest extant edition of Christopher Marlowes antiauthoritarian Elizabethan play The Jew of Malta, 1633. The work is set to come across the block estimated at $40,000 to $60,000. Early imprints also include a first edition of Pascal Xavier Costes Monuments Modernes de la Perse, 1867 ($8,000-10,000); Francis Meress Palladis Tamia, 1598, which contains contemporary references to Shakespeare, including the first mention of the Sonnets, as well as the first list of plays ($8,000-10,000); and The History of Don-Quichote [Quixote]. The First [and Second] Part, London, 1620, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ($6,000-8,000). Incunabula ... More
BAMPFA establishes new curatorial position dedicated to African American quilt collection
BERKELEY, CA.- The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive has appointed Dr. Elaine Yau to a new curatorial position focused on the Eli Leon Collection, a bequest of nearly three thousand African American quilts that entered the museums holdings in 2018. Yaus appointment establishes the first professional curatorship dedicated to this collection, which is believed to be the largest of its kind ever assembled. As the inaugural Associate Curator for the Eli Leon Living Trust Collection of African American Quilts, Yau will focus on research and an exhibition of these extensive holdings, which now comprise fifteen percent of BAMPFAs art collection. Though it is widely known among scholars of African American art, Eli Leons collection has never been formally cataloged, and it was exhibited only sporadically during his lifetime. After Leon ... More
Novelist James Ellroy's handwritten White Jazz heads to auction for the first time
DALLAS, TX.- It looks, at first glance, like a colossal ransom note or madmans manifesto all-caps ballpoint-scribble filling 562 pages of hole-punched loose-leaf. Whole sentences crossed out; notations in red bleeding across the scrawl. A mess, yes. But also a masterpiece. Contained in this heap of seemingly harried handwriting is novelist James Ellroys fourth and final installment in the so-called L.A. Quartet: 1992s White Jazz. The book, about a lunatic, hateful Los Angeles police lieutenant murdering for the mob until the gun is aimed at him, is almost 30 years old and set in 1958. But its description of L.A. as Shakedown City at sunset where the cops are criminals, made-up characters commit dirty deeds for real-life figures, and everything sacred is rendered profane remains as piercing and prescient as anything set to be published tomorrow. There ... More
Istanbul authorities ban Kurdish-language play
ISTANBUL (AFP).- Turkish authorities have banned a Kurdish-language play that was due to open Tuesday in Istanbul's municipal theatre for the first time in its 106-year history, organisers told AFP. "Beru", a Kurdish adaptation of Dario Fo's "Trumpets and Raspberries," was included in the October programme of the Istanbul Municipality City Theatre, to much fanfare. The city theatre is under the authority of the secular opposition CHP party city government. Fo's work as a playwright and satirist was honoured in 1997 with the Nobel Literature Prize. But authorities said the play had been banned because of "public order" concerns and disseminating propaganda for the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), designated as a terror group. The satire involves a politician rescued from kidnapping whose face is mistakenly reconstructed in hospital ... More
Margaret Nolan, 'Goldfinger' actress, dies at 76
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Margaret Nolan, a stage and screen actress whose gold-painted body was used as a canvas to project the opening credits of the James Bond film Goldfinger and who played the character Dink in the movie, has died. She was 76. She died Oct. 5 at her home in Belfast Park, London. The cause of death was cancer, said her son Oscar Deeks, who confirmed her death. In a career that was predominantly in the 1960s and 1970s, Nolan appeared in numerous BBC television productions and in films, including No Sex Please, Were British (1973) and Carry On Girls (1973). She also appeared in A Hard Days Night (1964), the musical comedy featuring the Beatles. She appeared in an uncredited role as Grandfathers Girl at Casino, according to the IMDb.com. But it was the opening title sequence ... More
A flutist steps into the solo spotlight
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As a teenager attending a public arts high school in Dayton, Ohio, Brandon Patrick George kept two newspaper clippings pinned to his bedroom wall. The first was a profile of flutist Demarre McGill, who had performed a concerto with the local symphony orchestra. Georges grandmother had saved the article for him, with its accompanying photograph of a classical musician who was Black just like him. The other was an obituary for Jean-Pierre Rampal, whose trailblazing career reaffirmed the flute as a solo instrument. To George, now 34, the two clippings were like flares, lighting the way to his goal of becoming a flutist. Since then, he has toured some of the worlds most important concert halls as a member of Imani Winds, an ensemble dedicated to championing a new and diverse repertory ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Ralph Lauren was born October 14, 1939. Ralph Lauren (born Ralph Lifschitz, October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer and business executive, best known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand. In this image: Designer Ralph Lauren walks the runway to audience applause after his fall 2010 collection was presented in New York, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010.
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