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Orsay exhibition co-curators, Sylvie Patry, left, and Anne Robbins, who have put the works in the context of 1870s, at the Musée dOrsay in Paris on March 22, 2024. The Musée dOrsay is remembering the moment with Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism. Organized with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, where it travels in the fall, the show is a blockbuster featuring many of the most-beloved paintings associated with the Impressionist movement. (James Hill/The New York Times)
PARIS.- It was springtime in Paris, 150 years ago, and something new was afoot: something fresh, something radical. An ad hoc band of 31 artists had issued a riposte to the citys annual state-sponsored Salon, with its elitist jury system and decorous traditional canvases, by holding an independent exhibition of thoroughly modern art. Or so the story goes. Now, the Musée dOrsay is remembering the moment with Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism. Organized with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, where it travels in the fall, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Close up of 16 animals, 1957, Danese Milano. Enzo Mari Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Francesca Giacomelli © Eva Herzog for the Design Museum.
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| The Broad Museum, a Los Angeles favorite, is expanding | | Ty Cobb's rare 1909-11 'Smoking Tobacco' T206 sells for $432,000 at Heritage Auctions | | For Richard Serra, art was not something. It was everything. |
The Broads striking white honeycomb building on Grand Avenue in Los Angeles on July 7, 2023. (Beth Coller/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Broad, the free contemporary art collection that has become one of the most popular museums in Los Angeles since it opened in 2015, is expanding, officials said Wednesday. Building on its success, the Broad housed in a striking white honeycomb structure ... More | |
1909-11 T206 Ty Cobb Smoking Tobacco Ty Cobb (Portrait-Red) SGC Good+ 2.5 - Fresh to the Hobby!
DALLAS, TX.- The star of Heritages March 22-23 Spring Sports Card Catalog Auction was a real Georgia Peach: the 1909-11 Ty Cobb T206 graded Good+ 2.5 by SGC that made its auction debut over the weekend and realized $432,000. That bested pre-auction expectations for the ... More | |
Richard Serras Tilted Arc in lower Manhattan on March 6, 1985. (Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Neal Boenzi/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When Richard Serra died Tuesday, I flashed back nearly 30 years to a morning at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, looking with him and with his wife, German-born art historian Clara Weyergraf, at Jackson Pollocks splash and drip ... More |
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| Kim Kardashian is sued for saying her tables are authentic Donald Judds | | 1969 Chappellet brings $64,575 at Heritage, leads wine auction past $2.4 million | | Important painting by George Frederic Watts acquired for the nation and allocated to Watts Gallery |
Kim Kardashian wearing the Swarovski x Skims body jewelry over two Jelly Sheer pieces from the collaboration in Calabasas, Calif., in October 2023. (Shaniqwa Jarvis/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In a video where Kim Kardashian tours the offices of her Skkn by Kim company, she points out the glam rooms, theater and kitchen of her sprawling 40,000-square-foot space, all drenched in several rosy hues of beige. It is sparsely ... More | |
Chappellet Cabernet Sauvignon 1969.
DALLAS, TX.- A 5-liter bottle of 1969 Chappellet Cabernet Sauvignon sold Friday at Heritage Auctions for $64,575. That bottle was the top lot in Heritages March 22 Fine & Rare Wine Signature® Auction, which realized a total of $2,489,183. The 1969 Chappellet widely considered one of the greatest wines ever made in Napa Valley comes from the collection of Napa Valley ... More | |
G F Watts OM RA (1817 1904), Self-portrait, 1867 © Christies.
COMPTON.- A significant painting by George Frederic Watts OM RA (1817-1904) has been allocated to Watts Gallery Artists Village via HM Governments Acceptance in Lieu scheme, run by Arts Council England. Painted in 1867, the self-portrait is amongst the most important in the career of G F Watts who, in his own lifetime, was recognised ... More |
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| Nara Roesler announces the representation of Alberto Pitta | | Craig Starr Gallery presents paintings and collages from 1950-66 by Ray Johnson | | The Frick Collection reveals plans for new collection galleries on second floor of original residence |
Alberto Pitta's portrait by Samuel Esteves for CJP.
SAO PAULO.- Nara Roesler announced the representation of Alberto Pitta (b. 1961, Salvador, Brazil). Pitta's work is mostly centered on textiles and silkscreen, though he has also explored painting and sculpture in recent years. With a more than four decades-long career, Alberto Pitta's production is closely linked to popular festivities and dialogues with other spheres such as that ... More | |
Ray Johnson (1927-1995), Fire on Ice, 1965. Collage of cut painted paper and sandpaper, on board, 23 1/2 x 17 7/8 inches. Richard L. Feigen collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- Craig Starr Gallery is presenting Ray Johnson: Paintings and Collages 1950-66, on view from March 28 through June 8, 2024. This exhibition brings together a selection of Ray Johnsons rarely seen abstract paintings, along with his intricate, pasted-paper collages, ... More | |
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (17801867), Comtesse dHaussonville, 1845, oil on canvas, 51 7/8 x 36 1/4 inches, The Frick Collection, New York, photo: Michael Bodycomb.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection announced details about the transformation of the second floor of the original Frick residence, which will become accessible to the public for the first time when the institution reopens in its renovated and expanded ... More |
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| Inaugural Sam Gilliam Award winner announced by DIA and the Sam Gilliam Foundatiom | | New exhibition examines traditional and innovative designs by Amish women quilters | | Exhibition of new paintings by Martha Tuttle opens at Peter Blum Gallery |
Portrait of Ibrahim Mahama: Hadas.
NEW YORK, NY.- Congratulations to Ibrahim Mahama, who has been selected to receive the inaugural Sam Gilliam Award, which includes a $75,000 gift and the presentation of a public program at a Dia location in fall 2024. Established in 2023 by ... More | |
Unidentified Maker, Crazy Star; ca. 1920, Arthur, Illinois, cotton and wool; 74 x 63 ½ in. (detail), Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown, Promised gift to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
WASHINGTON, DC.- A new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum explores the creative practice of Amish ... More | |
Martha Tuttle, Metronome Painting (4), 2024. Silk and dye, 12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.4 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Martha Tuttle entitled Touch / Stone. This is the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery. Martha Tuttles practice ... More |
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Holabird announces Wild West Relics Auction, April 6-7 and 13-14
RENO, NEV.- Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC plans to hold a massive, four-day Wild West Relics Auction split between two weekends April 6th-7th and April 13th-14th in which 2,300 lots will be up for grabs in a wide range of collecting categories. The auction will be held online as well as live in Holabirds gallery located at 3555 Airway Drive (Ste. 308) in Reno. This sale closely follows a timed auction two weeks ago that saw a lot of action, with some good rarities as well as some great buys, said Fred Holabird of Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC. We find ourselves moving the rare collectibles into our live sales, and the rare lesser expensive items to the timed sales, which are getting more popular by the month. He added, April is no exception, with hundreds of lots up for grabs, featuring many one ... More
After 25 years, a singer is the 'Heart and Soul' of the Met
NEW YORK, NY.- Many boxes of pizza had been delivered to the Metropolitan Opera on Sunday afternoon, and were stacked on a table in the hallway between some dressing rooms and the stage. They were a gift from one of the singers appearing in the matinee performance that day: bass-baritone Patrick Carfizzi, who is having attention-grabbing success in the modest but meaty role of Fra Melitone in a new production of Giuseppe Verdis La Forza del Destino, which concludes its run Friday. That performance, remarkably, will be Carfizzis 459th with the Met. Its a huge gift to be here as often as Ive been here, he said Sunday as he put on his makeup and costume and warmed up. You just keep working. Its step by step by step. Melitone doesnt appear until the second act. So, as the opera began, Carfizzi was getting ready in a dressing room next t ... More
Memories of a friendship with Prunella Clough come to auction
STANSTED MOUNTFICHET.- A cache of original works by the artist Prunella Clough (1919-99) comes for sale at Sworders Modern and Contemporary Art sale in the spring. The 18 lots in a range of different media form part of the estate collection of antique dealer Christopher Bangs (1951-2022). Clough, a celebrated painter of Modern British art and Bangs, a specialist in medieval and later metalware, had first met when in 1972 when he was young gallery manager at the New Art Centre in Sloane Street and she was the subject of a forthcoming solo exhibition. They formed not just a good working relationship, but also a deep friendship. For more than two decades, Bangs was a frequent visitor to Cloughs homes in Fulham, first in Moore Park Road and then at Salisbury House in Sherbrooke Road. Together they purchased ... More
Pace opens Josef Koudelka's first solo show in New York in nearly a decade
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace presents an exhibition of work by Josef Koudelka at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York. On view from March 29 to April 27, this is the artists first solo show in New York in nearly a decade, bringing together six large-scale panoramas he created between 1987 and 2010 as part of a project titled Industries. The exhibition also includes a display of small-scale, accordion-style maquettes of Mission Photographique Transmanche, Beyrouth Centre Ville, The Black Triangle, Reconnaissance-Wales, Lime Stone, Teatro del Tempo, Camargue, Piemonte, WALL, Ruins, and Solac. This presentation at Pace coincides with the release of Josef Koudelka: Next, the definitive and only authorized biography of the artist, copublished by Aperture and Magnum Foundation. The book will be available ... More
Rebecca Hall redefines stardom
NEW YORK, NY.- Rebecca Hall stood in front of an easel, her face contemplative. She moved a paintbrush gently on a palette, then applied the paint to the canvas. This was in her studio, a converted barn next door to where Hall lives in upstate New York with her husband, actor Morgan Spector, and their 5-year-old daughter, Ida. When shes not acting, Hall paints as a way of channeling her creativity. Her father, Sir Peter Hall who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company once warned her about dividing her talents. He said that its very hard to do more than one thing, which really haunted me for a really long time, Hall said. Increasingly, though, I refuse to stay in one lane. This, in many ways, is Hall in a nutshell: unwilling to be boxed in, an artist at heart. At 41, Hall is considered by some to be one of her generations ... More
Kate Banks, children's author who wrote about grief, dies at 64
NEW YORK, NY.- Kate Banks, who, despite personal tragedy and debilitating illness, became an award-winning author of childrens books and young-adult novels that captured the wonder of youth while also confronting fear and grief, died Feb. 24 in Basel, Switzerland. She was 64. The cause was medically assisted death, following a Stage 4 neuroendocrine cancer diagnosis in 2022, her sister Amy Banks said. Kate Banks had mast cell activation syndrome, a disorder of the immune system, and had been unable to undergo standard cancer treatments or take most medications, including those for pain. Despite the ailment, which she had suffered for decades, and the lingering trauma from the murder of her father when she was in college, Banks was prolific, having published more than 50 books since the late 1980s. A ... More
Overlooked no more: Henrietta Leavitt, who unraveled mysteries of the stars
NEW YORK, NY.- In the early 20th century, when Henrietta Leavitt began studying photographs of distant stars at the Harvard College Observatory, astronomers had no idea how big the universe was. Debate raged over whether all of the objects visible through the telescopes of the day were within our own Milky Way galaxy, or whether other galaxies or island universes, as they were then called might exist somewhere out in space. Leavitt, working as a poorly paid member of a team of mostly women who cataloged data for the scientists at the observatory, found a way to peer out into the great unknown and measure it. Whats now commonly called Leavitts Law is still taught in college astronomy courses. It underpinned the research of other pioneering astronomers, including Edwin Hubble and Harlow Shapley, whose ... More
Treasures from Planet Hollywood bring more than $15.6 million in historic event at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Blockbuster season started early at Heritage Auctions. The $15.68 million Treasures From Planet Hollywood auction began Wednesday morning and wrapped Sunday night, and the list of highlight results from the almost 1,600-lot event is seemingly endless. From start to finish, most of the lots shattered expectations thanks to the more than 5,500 bidders who participated worldwide, from as far away as Tokyo to the auction room in Heritages world headquarters. In the end, Treasures From Planet Hollywood will go down as one of the most successful auctions of props and costumes from some of cinemas most beloved and influential films, toppling Heritages previous record of $13.6 million set by the auction of model-making legend Greg Jeins collection in October. Treasures of Planet Hollywood is now second ... More
Review: A new dance at Trisha Brown examines the act of a fall
NEW YORK, NY.- As the Trisha Brown Dance Company continues on without Trisha Brown the great postmodern choreographer who died in 2017 the group has staged works on and off the proscenium stage, and even relocated her works to a beach. But a company can only get so far with its founding choreographers dances. It has entered the inevitable phase of needing to commission new works, and for its latest season at the Joyce Theater, which began Tuesday, the group tapped French choreographer Noé Soulier to create a premiere, its second by someone other than Brown. Souliers In the Fall is part of a season dedicated to Steve Paxton, who died last month. In the new work, Soulier presents a finely wrought response to Browns vocabulary, deconstructed painstakingly as he places it under a microscope. ... More
It's a statue of Prince Philip. Really. But now it has to go.
NEW YORK, NY.- The bronze statue in Cambridge, England, is 13 feet tall. The figure wears academic robes and a mortarboard. It doesnt exactly have a face, since its head appears to be wrapped in a twisted cloth. Who does this statue, titled The Don, allegedly depict? Its, uh, Prince Philip. Sure enough, a plaque under the sculpture reads: H.R.H. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, Chancellor, University of Cambridge, 1977-2011. But the artwork has not conjured up thoughts of Philip, who died in 2021, for many who have seen it. And the statue has also not met with the international acclaim accorded to Michelangelos David or Chinas Terracotta Army. To say the least. In 2014, the year the statue was erected, Nadine Black, the Cambridge City Councils public art manager, called it possibly the poorest quality work that has ever been ... More
Rare early Maud Lewis paintings sell for $87,400 -far above estimate range
SAINT JOHN, NB.- Two rare 1940s period paintings by Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis (Canadian, 1903-1970) were sold at a New Brunswick auction house on March 24, 2024. Jones Auction House, Saint John, NB, held its 2024 Winter Collection auction on March 10-24, 2024. This auction included six paintings by Nova Scotia artist Maud Lewis, two created in the artists early career (1940s) and four from the 1960s. The 1940s paintings, Winter Sleigh Scene and Skiing at Sandy Cove, were held in a New York estate likely since the late 1940s or early 1950s, and had been in storage until recently. These were part of the same collection of early works sold by the auction house in December 2023. The 1940s Lewis paintings were estimated to fetch $25,000-$35,000 each. The final sale prices were $90,850 (Winter Sleigh Scene) and $87,400 (Skiing at Sandy Cove). The other 1960s L ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Georges Seurat died March 29, 1891. Georges-Pierre Seurat (December 1859 - 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism. In this image: Georges Seurat (French, Paris 1859-1891 Paris), Pierrot and Colombine Ca. 1886-88. Conté crayon on paper, 9 3/4 x 12 3/8 in. (24.8 x 31.2 cm). Kasama Nichido Museum of Art.
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