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Mark Bradford, Q1, 2020. Mixed media on canvas, 182.9 x 243.8 cm / 72 x 96 in. Installation view, Mark Bradford. Quarantine Paintings, Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, 2020 © Mark Bradford. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Joshua White / JWPictures.
by Jonathan Griffin
LOS ANGELES (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Im adjusting to life on Mars, says the artist Mark Bradford, as he folds his frame into a chair positioned a prudent 9 feet from my own, and unpeels his mask from behind his ears. Yes, he says, his glasses fog up, too. Since mid-March, when Californias governor, Gavin Newsom, issued a statewide stay at home order, Bradford has kept a low profile. Throughout the nationwide unrest that flared after the killing of George Floyd, he remained silent. While Bradford, 58, is one of the more visible figures in the arts community in Los Angeles, he is not on social media. But with three new paintings on the wall in front of us, hes finally ready to talk. We are sitting beside a giant, rusting grain hopper in a room walled with layers of flaking paint, exposed brickwork and pockmarked concrete, up metal stairs three stories above the main courtyard at Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles. On a wood, steel and rubber contraption ascending through a chute in the cei ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day On Thursday, Sep 10, 2020 9:00 AM CDT Artemis Gallery will hold an auction of Antiquities | Asian | Ethnographic Art. The sale features classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fossils, Fine Art, more! In this image: Superb Moche Royal Court Copper Trumpet. Estimate $8,000 - $9,000.
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 | | You can always get what you want: Stones open new store | | T.S. Eliot's estate donates 'Cats' royalties to Brontë Museum | | Comic books flourish on crowdfunding sites, drawing big names | 
An employee poses wearing a branded facemask walking past the exterior of of The Rolling Stones new flagship store in London on September 8, 2020 during the media preview. ISABEL INFANTES / AFP.
by James Pheby
LONDON (AFP).- The Rolling Stones on Tuesday defied the gloom of the coronavirus outbreak to launch the band's first flagship store in the heart of Swinging Sixties London. "Why would you open a shop during a pandemic?" joked singer Mick Jagger in a video message released before the shop opened its doors to the public on Wednesday. "It's our eternal optimism," he said. In the current climate, face masks emblazoned with the band's famous lips and tongue logo promise to be a best-seller. The band's branding features throughout the store on t-shirts, jackets, water bottles, notebooks, umbrellas and plectrum packs for those hoping to emulate guitarist Keith Richards. But the team behind the project hope that it will become more than just a shop. "The product is dear to our hearts, but it is the experience that is just as important," said David Boyne, managing director of ... More | | 
A scene from Cats on Broadway in New York, June 19, 1997. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Sarah Bahr
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Thanks in part to a donation from the estate of one of Englands most esteemed poets and some dancing cats the Brontë Parsonage Museums doors will remain open, for now. The estate of T.S. Eliot has gifted the struggling museum, which reopened in late August after being closed since March, 20,000 pounds (or approximately $26,000) last week. The donation was first reported by the BBC. The parsonage, located in Haworth, said it was facing a loss of expected income of more than 500,000 pounds because of the coronavirus pandemic. There is a connection between Eliot and the Brontës: The Bradford millionaire who appears in the Eliot poem The Waste Land is thought to be Sir James Roberts, a Yorkshire philanthropist who was also a customer at the bank where Eliot worked. Roberts donated Haworth Parsonage once the home of the Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne to the Brontë Society, which operates ... More | | 
In a photo provided by Boom Studios, BRZRKR is a comic book about a demigod written by Matt Kindt and the actor Keanu Reeves. Boom Studios via The New York Times.
by George Gene Gustines
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Crowdfunding has long been a tool for aspiring comic book creators trying to break through, but lately some established names have taken to it. Recent arrivals include publisher Boom Studios, which is working with Keanu Reeves on a Kickstarter project, and Todd McFarlane, the creator of the Spawn comic books. Part of the appeal of crowdfunding, they say, is that it allows them to connect directly with their audience, bypassing the industrys traditional distribution model. Some critics argue, however, that heavyweights with deep pockets are muscling into a marketplace intended to help beginners introduce their creations. But Kickstarter has evolved since it was established in 2009 to become more inclusive, said Greg Pak, a comic book writer and author of Kickstarter Secrets, a book of crowdfunding tips. There was a sense early on ... More |
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| | Super-rare Machine Man robot with original box leads Morphy's Sept. 23-24 Toy Auction | | Hindman announces highlights included in the Atlanta Collections auction | | Grad student's research leads to discovery of Biddy Mason in SF mural | 
Very rare Masudaya (Japan) Machine Man Robot, lithographed tin, battery operated. VG-NM condition with very seldom-seen original pictorial box. Comes from original owner who received it as a child. Estimate $60,000-$90,000
DENVER, PA.- One of the most enjoyable aspects of collecting antique toys is attending an auction, discovering that elusive piece youve been chasing for years, then bidding on it and experiencing the thrill of taking it home. Morphys is a place where many great toy discoveries have been made, and more are on the horizon Sept. 23-24 when the company presents an outstanding lineup of rare and coveted toys and banks from long-held collections. The auction will be held at Morphys 45,000-square-foot gallery, with all remote-bidding options available, including Internet live bidding through Morphy Live. One of the sales top lots is an extremely rare battery-operated Machine Man robot with its original pictorial box. Machine Man is the most sought after of Masudaya's revered postwar robot quintet known collectively as the Gang of Five. Its bright red body features ... More | | 
A Pedro Friedeberg Giltwood Chair. Height 36 x width 17 1/2 x depth 20 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Sally Gatling Tomlinson, Atlanta, Georgia. Estimate: $2,500.00 - $3,500.00.
ATLANTA, GA.- Hindman Auctions announced the Atlanta Collections auction to take place on October 5 & 6, 2020 which will offer collections from the historic Sword Gate House of Charleston, South Carolina and The Estate of Sally Gatling Tomlinson of Atlanta and Sea Island, Georgia. Federal Period furniture and decorative objects that once filled the colorful rooms of Historic Sword Gate House, located at 32 Legare Street in Historic Downtown Charleston, will kick off Hindmans two-day Atlanta Collections online auction on October 5th. Much of the material offered is representative of the homes Federal-style architecture, but is not original to the home, said Corbin Horn, Hindmans Senior Specialist and Director of the Furniture and Decorative Arts Department. The other portions of the collection are decorative items that, like many of Sword Gates residents, lived for a time in an exceptional home on o ... More | | 
Laura Voisin George.
by Jim Logan
SANTA BARBARA, CA.- Laura Voisin George wasnt looking for Biddy Mason, but there she was, it seemed, in the center of a Depression-era fresco in a lecture hall on the campus of UC San Francisco. A graduate student in history at UC Santa Barbara, Voisin George knew Mason worked as a midwife and assistant to Dr. John S. Griffin, whom she was researching for her Ph.D. dissertation. The fresco is one of 10 panels depicting the history of medicine in California. They were completed in 1938 by Bernard Zakheim, a Polish émigré who was commissioned by UCSF, and they were paid for by the WPA. It shows a Black woman working alongside a white physician as they tend to malaria patients. But is it Mason? From everything I read about Griffin, Voisin George said, he only had one Black female assistant, and that was Biddy. The recognition in the mural of a woman born a slave and who died a wealthy community icon would send ripples of awe and ... More |
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| | Sikkema Jenkins & Co. reopens with a solo exhibition of works on paper by Kara Walker | | I'm Not the Only One: Fraenkel Gallery opens a group exhibition | | The National Gallery of Denmark delves into the story of how epidemics have affected the world | 
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. announced the re-opening of the gallery on Tuesday, September 8. Kara Walkers solo exhibition, Drawings, which first opened in early March will be on view through September 30. The gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of works on paper by Kara Walker, featuring selections from the artists personal archive alongside more recent drawings. The show previews a selection of works that will be included in Walkers first major exhibition in Switzerland at the Kunstmuseum Basel opening in June 2021. The museum exhibition will travel to Schirn Kusthalle Frankfurt, Germany and the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art in Tillburg, The Netherlands. Among the most acclaimed artists working in the United States, Walker utilizes a diverse range of artistic practices to explore issues of race, gender, sexuality, and violence. Although shes best known for her cut paper silhouette wall installatio ... More | | 
Diane Arbus, Lady in a rooming house parlor, Albion, N.Y. 1963. Gelatin silver print © The Estate of Diane Arbus.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Fraenkel Gallery is presenting Im Not the Only One, a group exhibition that explores solitude alongside our relentless yearning to connect, in photographs and videos from 20 artists that echo and reflect our current socially distant world. The show is on view from September 8 to October 24, 2020. The title of the exhibition is inspired by Mishka Henner's 2015 video Im Not the Only One, in which Henner digitally combines 18 videos sourced from YouTube. In it Henner has combined individual videos of people, alone in their bedrooms and makeshift studios, performing Sam Smiths hit song of the same title. Stitched together, these solo performances transform the songs lonely angst into a powerful yet immaterial chorus of solidarity and connection. Ironically, the current Covid-19 climate has treated us to a myriad of similar choirs ... More | | 
Bertha Wegmann, Anna Seekamp. The Artists Sister, 1882 (detail).
COPENHAGEN.- Plague, cholera, tuberculosis, AIDS and corona. The National Gallery of Denmark invites visitors to follow a themed trail through the museum collections, telling the story of how epidemics have wrought great changes through the ages of the world and of art alike. On 12 March 2020, much of Danish society shut down, and since then Denmark and the world has not been the same. The corona pandemic has changed our everyday lives, our ways of being together, our habits, our thoughts, and perhaps even our dreams for the future. Responding to the current state of the world, the National Gallery of Denmark now presents an all-new initiative under the heading A Changed World. The museum invites visitors to go on a themed trail through its vast collections, unfolding stories of how past epidemics have changed societies and forced humanity to imagine the world anew. Epidemics ... More |
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| | Simon Lee Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Toby Ziegler | | Tiny mouse-size art proves a hit in Sweden | | Colombian curator José Roca appointed as Artistic Director of the 23rd Biennale of Sydney | 
Toby Ziegler, Nuclear family, 2020. Oil on aluminium, 180.2 x 150 x 3 cm (71 x 59 1/8 x 1 1/8 in.). Image courtesy the artist and Simon Lee Gallery. Copyright of the artist.
LONDON.- Simon Lee Gallery is presenting The sudden longing to collapse 30 years of distance, Toby Zieglers sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, in which the artist explores the complex relationships between experience and memory, image and data, through the twin lens of figuration and abstraction. The exhibition can be experienced in two dramatically different states. The gallery is lined with a group of large geometric, non-figurative works on paper, reminiscent of Zieglers early works, juxtaposed with a group of smaller more figurative oil paintings on aluminium. Periodically though, the tranquil space of the gallery is transformed into a multi-projector video installation, in which a barrage of projected images covers the walls and overlays the 2D works, to a soundtrack that oscillates between melody and ... More | | 
This file photo taken on August 5, 2020 shows an art installation made by the artist collective Anonymouse in the Nygatan street in Lund, Sweden. Andreas HILLERGREN / TT News Agency / AFP.
LUND (AFP).- They're drawing crowds in Sweden: cute and quirky shopfronts, delis and restaurants created by a mystery art collective called "Anonymouse" that have popped up out of nowhere in some cities. The catch? You have to get down on all fours to see them, tucked away as they are at the bottom of buildings, just big enough for mice. "It's like a treasure hunt," 29-year-old Madeleine tells AFP in Lund, a picturesque university town in the south of the Nordic country where the collective's latest works are on display. Hidden away in knee-high crevices around the city, the works often take the form of mundane locations, such as student dorms or a restaurant, but always at a scale more welcoming to small rodents than humans. Most often they include cheesy puns, like ... More | | 
José Roca. Photo: Alejandra Quintero Sinisterra.
SYDNEY.- After an extensive international search, the Biennale of Sydney announced Colombian curator José Roca as the Artistic Director of the 23rd Biennale of Sydney, which will take place 12 March 13 June 2022. José Roca is the Artistic Director of the non-for-profit contemporary art space FLORA ars+natura in his home city of Bogotá. He was the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art for the Tate, London (2012-2015) and for a decade managed the arts program at the Museo del Banco de la República (MAMU) in Bogotá, establishing it as one of the most respected institutions in Latin America. He was the chief curator of the 8th Bienal do Mercosul (2011) in Porto Alegre, Brazil and co-curator of the I Poly/graphic Triennial in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2004), the 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2006) and the Encuentro de MedellÃn MDE07 (2007). He was the Artistic Director of Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia ... More |
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 Robert Berry Gallery opens new show, PerFlection and (im)Perfection: One Vision in Parallel LivesNEW YORK, NY.- Robert Berry Gallery, a premier New York City-based art gallery dedicated to ground-breaking art, announced its new virtual exhibition, PerFlection and (im)Perfection: One Vision in Parallel Lives. The exhibition features new works by New York City-based photographers Paul Mondesire and David Mathison, emphasizing themes of reflection, contemplation and the meaning of perfection. The show is open and available to view at www.robertberrygallery.com. The term perflection refers to perfection and reflectiona theme throughout our new series, stated Paul Mondesire, photographer. I have a fascination with reflectionsparticularly against a water or mirror backdropit is at once beautiful and disorienting; you arent quite sure which is the proper orientation or if it is upside down. My goal for these images was to give the viewer a new perspective ... More Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson opens Gregory Halpern's exhibition "Soleil cou coupé"PARIS.- Gregory Halpern (b. 1977 in Buffalo, NY, USA) is the fourth laureate of Immersion, a French-American Photography Commission. Launched in 2014 by the Fondation dentreprise Hermès, Immersion celebrates the work of contemporary photographers through residencies, exhibitions and publications. As part of a three-year partnership with the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Immersion invites each laureate to present a solo exhibition at the outcome of his or her residency, at both of these institutions. The exhibitions are accompanied by a bilingual photobook in English and French. From September 8 to October 18, 2020 at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, and in 2022 at SFMOMA, Gregory Halperns exhibition Soleil cou coupé (Let the Sun Beheaded Be) presents an ensemble ... More Personal effects of major US political figure up for auction at Ewbank'sWOKING.- Luke Edward Wright was Governor-General of the Philippines, Secretary of War under President Theodore Roosevelt and the United States first full Ambassador to Japan. Now a selection of his personal effects echoing these connections will appear for auction at Ewbanks in Surrey on September 17. Consigned by a descendant, the Japanese silver coffee pot, American silver card tray, Japanese silver sake glass holder and silver spectacles case all belonged to a man who started life in Tennessee in 1846, enlisting in the Confederate States Army at the age of 15 in time to fight in the American Civil War. He later trained as a lawyer and served as Tennessee Attorney General for eight years before entering politics and being appointed vice-governor of the Philippines in 1901, after Spain ceded the Philippines along with Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States when they lost ... More CENTRALE for contemporary art opens an exhibition of works by Xavier Noiret-Thomé & Henk VischBRUSSELS.- CENTRALE presents an original dialogue between two artists: Xavier Noiret-Thomé and Henk Visch. Brussels-based French artist Xavier Noiret-Thomé creates paintings and assemblages that feed on knowledge, experience and stated influences. He has chosen to invite Dutch sculptor, draughtsman and painter Henk Visch. To him, the sculptures he creates, both monumental and miniature, are akin to human thought. The two artists converge in their approaches, which combine a fascination for the history of painting and sculpture and a constant search for the mysteries of the creative process. Xavier Noiret-Thomés greatly-diversified work mixes art and life. His creations combine moments lived and images of his environment with formal, stylistic, or conceptual quotations. References to the history of art and to the tutelary figures of painting simultaneously unfold in figurative ... More Paradigm Gallery announces representation of photographer Shawn TheodorePHILADELPHIA, PA.- Paradigm Gallery announced the addition of photographer Shawn Theodore to their impressive artist roster. Theodore is an award-winning photographer whose work explores and impacts the trajectory of the collective black consciousness. Theodore has participated in exhibitions at various institutions, galleries and fairs, including the African American Museum in Philadelphia (2017, 2018), Mennello Museum of American Art (2018), and The Barnes Foundation (2017, 2018, 2019), among others. Paradigm Gallery will be premiering his work at a solo booth at SCOPE Immersive 2020, virtually accessible on September 17-20. The booth will be a preview of Theodores first solo exhibition with Paradigm, opening in February 2021. Exhibition details are forthcoming. Shawn Theodore (b. 1970, Germany) is an award-winning photographer whose ... More miart presents its first digital editionMILAN.- miart presents its first digital edition. The international modern and contemporary art fair organised by Fiera Milano and directed by Alessandro Rabottini will be held from 11 to 13 September 2020 in Milan with a VIP preview on Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10, as a prelude to the 2021 edition that will take place both physically and online. The innovative format conceived for the 2020 edition of the fair aims at reasserting the commitment of Fiera Milano to supporting the restarting of the art system and of the entire manufacturing and economic fabric of Milan, the Lombardy Region and Italy as a whole. Galleries, artists, museums, exhibitions and art spaces worldwide are experimenting with new ways to reach their audiences, exploring the digital world as a proximity space. We are witnessing a global effort to transform distance into sharing. miart has always fostered exchanges ... More 'Israel jazz dares' - Jerusalem festival plays despite pandemicJERUSALEM (AFP).- The Jerusalem Jazz Festival opened Tuesday but, as the pandemic has stopped most flights and barred large indoor gatherings, its organisers had to do what jazz musicians do best -- improvise. "A lot of things are different this year," said Avishai Cohen, the co-founder and artistic director of the event now in its sixth year. "First of all, there are no players coming from abroad," the tattooed and bearded trumpeter told AFP. So Cohen put together a programme of 20 performances showcasing local jazz talent but also other styles, including the 2018 Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai. With large indoor gatherings banned because of Covid-19, he moved the event out of the halls of the Israel Museum and into its sculpture garden, where seats were spaced to adhere to social distancing rules. He also pushed forward the date to take advantage of Jerusalem's lush ... More Jazz lives in clubs. The pandemic is threatening its future.NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah led his septet at the Blue Note in mid-March, the headlines about the coronavirus were growing more urgent by the day. But Adjuah, a New Orleans-born trumpeter with a cutting-edge style, had no idea that those performances would be his last shows or the Blue Notes for the foreseeable future. You know, wash your damn hands, he told the crowd, as can be heard on Axiom, a new live album culled from that weeklong residency. But were not running. The concert world as a whole is in crisis, but perhaps no genre is as vulnerable as jazz, which depends on a fragile ecosystem of performance venues. In pre-pandemic New York, the genres creative and commercial center, young players still converged to hone their craft and veterans held court in prestigious rooms like the Village Vanguard ... More Bortolami opens an exhibition with New York-based performance artist Aki SasamotoNEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami announced the opening of Schematics, the gallerys second exhibition with New York-based performance artist Aki Sasamoto. Schematics presents an accumulation of works included in Sasamotos solo exhibitions, which included multiple performances, at New York venues: Yield Point, The Kitchen, (2017), Delicate Cycle, SculptureCenter, (2016), and Wrong Happy Hour, JTT, (2014). Sasamoto draws diagrams as she performs, using them as visual aids to her storytelling. After each performance, the resulting diagram is dated and hung in the venue. Schematics showcases these diagrams-turned-art objects, created with materials ranging from wooden planks adorned with cooking utensils, copper pipes, magnets, ink and toothpaste; charcoal on wood; and ink on large contractor bags. While the cumulation of diagrams from each performance ... More Autry President announces retirement; Successor namedLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Autry Museum of the American West announced today that current President and CEO, W. Richard West, Jr. (Southern Cheyenne), will retire in June 2021, with UCLA professor Stephen Aron becoming President and CEO at that time. At the request of the Autrys Board of Trustees, West will stay with the Autry until next summer to ensure a smooth transition through what is expected to be the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, the Autry has been able to adapt successfully to the hard realities of the current crisis while creating a robust and imaginative programming presence for the public virtually. Highlights have included the Collecting Community History Initiative: The West During COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter Protests, a project by Associate Curator Tyree Boyd-Pates that collects and preserves posters and other ephemera from the current moment. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Sol LeWitt was born September 09, 1928. Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he preferred instead of "sculptures") but was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, photography, and painting. He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world since 1965. In this image: A visitor looks at the piece of art "Wall Drawings" by American artist Sol LeWitt at the Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004.
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