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"Welcoming the Newcomers," a 2019 acrylic on canvas by Ken Monkman, is displayed in the Great Hall at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Dec. 17, 2019. (Aaron Wynia/The New York Times.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Coonskin caps for Christmas! I was a kid in mid-20th-century America. The biggest cultural event I can remember from early childhood was Walt Disneys gigantically popular Davy Crockett: Indian Fighter on TV. The first installment of a serial, which debuted on Dec. 15, 1954, it was basically about the exploits of a Tennessee backwoods gun-for-hire, and promoted nostalgia for the days when the Wild West was won from indigenous peoples. A verse of the theme song, which was everywhere on the radio, went: ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A member of the LBGT community takes part in a demonstration to support Mexican artist Fabian Chairez' painting called 'La Revolucion, 2014', part of the exhibition 'Emiliano Zapata after Zapata', outside the Museum of Fine Arts, in Mexico City, on December 13, 2019. A controversial painting of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata has pitted his family and supporters against the work's artist and the LGBT community in a contentious dispute that erupted in heated protests Tuesday. The divisive image shows the iconic figure naked and wearing a pink hat and high heels shaped like guns, while perched suggestively on a horse that has an erection. The exhibition was meant as a tribute to Zapata, a towering figure in Mexican history, on the centenary of his death. PEDRO PARDO / AFP
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| | Chicago's Toomey & Co. Auctioneers ends 2019 with over $2 million in sales on December 8 | | World auction record for sports memorabilia: The Olympic Games Manifesto sells for $8.8 Million at Sotheby's NY | | Dayton Art Institute announces suite of exhibitions for its 2020 season |
Miyoko Ito, Act One in the Desert, 1978, oil on canvas. Estimate $15,000-25,000. Sold for $81,250.
OAK PARK, IL.- One of Chicagos premier auction houses for 20th century art and design, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers grossed in excess of $2 million in its final sale of the year on December 8, 2019. Entitled Art & Design with Tradition & Innovation, the auction featured nearly 600 lots by major painters, sculptors, ceramicists, furniture makers, designers, and architects who have helped define their respective fields. The top fine art result was $81,250 for Miyoko Itos abstract oil on canvas, Act One in the Desert, 1978. More than triple the high estimate, this price attests to the greatly increased interest in this vital Chicago painter. Along with works by notable artists, the auction on December 8 featured two extensive West Coast collections. CEO Lucy Toomey explained: With over 30 years in the auction business, we have not only specialized expertise to offer, but we have established a broad network of consignors ... More | |
The original Olympic Games Manifesto outlining vision for modern revival of ancient Olympics soars to $8.8 Million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Yesterday in Sothebys New York salesroom, three international bidders competed for more than 12 minutes for The Original Olympic Games Manifesto, driving its final price to $8.8 million a new world auction record for any sports memorabilia, and nearly nine times the manuscripts high estimate of $1 million. Written in 1892 by French aristocrat, educator and athletics advocate Pierre de Coubertin, the manifesto outlines his vision for reviving the ancient Olympic Games as a modern, international athletic competition. The Original Olympic Games manifesto led Sothebys December sales of Fine Books and Manuscripts and History of Science and Technology, as part of Sothebys final day of auctions in 2019. Selby Kiffer, International Senior Specialist in Sothebys Books & Manuscripts Department, said: Driven by competition from ... More | |
Jan Matulka (American, born Czech, 18901972), Rodeo Rider, Santa Fe, c. 191720, oil on canvas, Tia Collection.
DAYTON, OH.- As the Dayton Art Institute prepares to welcome in the 2020 season, the museum has announced a suite of exhibitions for the new year. The 2020 season will feature three Special Exhibitions, as well as several Focus Exhibitions that highlight specific artists, works or themes. The special exhibition season begins with Samurai, Ghosts and Lovers: Yoshitoshis Complete 100 Aspects of the Moon, on view February 22May 3, 2020, and continues with New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West, May 30September 12, 2020 and Picasso to Hockney: Modern Art on Stage, October 17, 2020January 17, 2021. We are excited with our lineup of exhibitions for the coming season, states Dr. Jerry N. Smith, DAI Chief Curator. We close our 2019-2020 Centennial celebration with the opening of an exhibition organized by the DAI around our ... More |
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| | A 'great wealth transfer' is coming. What will it mean for art? | | Amy Winehouse two-day Julien's Auctions event announced with all proceeds to benefit singer's foundation | | French boy thrown from London gallery begins to speak: Family |
In an image provided via Sotheby's, LInondation à Port-Marly, route de Saint-Germain (1872) by Alfred Sisley. Between now and 2030, an estimated $15.4 trillion of assets will have been passed down the generations by the worlds richest people, according to a report published this year by the specialist analytics company Wealth-X. Via Sotheby's via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The numbers vary wildly, but all are dizzying: $15 trillion. $30 trillion. $59 trillion. $68 trillion. These are the figures being bandied about as economists and financial experts try to get their heads around a global phenomenon known as the Great Wealth Transfer. Between now and 2030, an estimated $15.4 trillion of assets will have been passed down the generations by the worlds richest people, according to a report published this year by the specialist analytics company Wealth-X. With the global wealthy population at an all-time high, the next 10 years will see the biggest-ever wealth transfer in modern history, said Maeen Shaban, the director of research and data analytics at Wealth-X, whose report concentrates ... More | |
A figure hugging halter mini dress custom made for Amy Winehouse for her 2011 Summer Festival Tour. Estimate: $15,000-20,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Julien's Auctions, the world-record breaking auction house, will pay tribute to the British singer and songwriter who the BBC's Garry Mulholland called "the pre-eminent vocal talent of her generation" with Property from the Life and Career of Amy Winehouse, a two-day auction event taking place live Friday, November 6 and Saturday, November 7, 2021 at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills and online at juliensauctions.com. Hundreds of Amy Winehouse's most iconic stage, photo shoot and performance worn dresses, shoes, jewelry and accessories that were synonymous with the individualistic style and signature artistry of the five-time Grammy Award-winning retro-soul music superstar and pop diva as well as her most personal items will be presented for the first time at auction. All proceeds from the auction will benefit The Amy Winehouse Foundation. Every penny received by the estate will go directly to supporting disadvantaged young ... More | |
People walk past the Tate Modern gallery in central London on August 5, 2019. A six-year-old boy thrown from a tenth-floor viewing platform at London's Tate Modern gallery is no longer in a life-threatening condition, police said. Tolga Akmen / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- A young French boy who was thrown off the 10th floor viewing platform of London's Tate Modern art gallery has uttered his first syllables, his family said. The six-year-old suffered a broken spine, legs and arm in the attack, which happened in front of horrified visitors to the riverside contemporary art gallery on August 4. Jonty Bravery, 18, pleaded guilty to attempted murder at a hearing in London's Central Criminal Court on December 6 and is in custody awaiting sentencing. In a post published Wednesday on a GoFundMe page helping to pay for their son's recovery, the family said the boy has also regained some movement in his limbs. "Our little knight begins to speak!" the family wrote. "He pronounces one syllable after another, not all of them, and most of the time we have to guess what he means but it's better and better. It's a wonderful progress!" But the family stressed ... More |
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| | A museum devoted to geological treasures opens in Maine | | Rina Lazo, muralist who worked with Diego Rivera, dies at 96 | | Sackler family members fight removal of name at Tufts, calling it a 'breach' |
In an undated image provided via Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, the exterior of the Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, the15,000-square-foot museum that will display about 3,000 minerals in interactive exhibits that highlight the stories behind the specimens, in Bethel, Maine. The museum is also home to a world-class meteorite collection that includes the five largest pieces of the moon found on earth, the largest known piece of the Vesta asteroid and an igneous rock that, at over 4.5 billion years old, is the oldest volcanic rock in the solar system to ever be discovered. Via Maine Mineral and Gem Museum via The New York Times.
BETHEL, ME (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- When Jane Perham decided it was time to close Perhams Maine Mineral Store in 2009, the beloved institution her father founded in 1919, she worried about what would become of the collection of minerals and gems that her family had acquired over the decades. I prayed and suffered a long time about what I was going to do with it, Perham said. I knew I wasnt going to break it up. That wasnt going to happen no matter what. Then Lawrence Stifler and Mary McFadden expressed interest in purchasing the entire collection. The Perham legacy would be kept intact, and in Maine. Stifler and McFadden, married philanthropists based in Massachusetts, have dedicated themselves to helping preserve western Maines ... More | |
In an image provided by Antoine Abugaber, Rina Lazos 1995 fresco Venerable Grandfather Corn is on display at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Lazo, a muralist who got her start in the 1940s as one of Diego Riveras assistants, and who went on to become a celebrated artist in both Mexico and her native Guatemala, died on Nov. 1, 2019, at her home in Mexico City. She was 96. Antoine Abugaber via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In 1946, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera invited Rina Lazo, one of his assistants, to have lunch at his home with him and his wife, painter Frida Kahlo. Lazo was 23 and had been in Mexico for only a few months. She accepted. That day, Kahlo served a traditional spicy Mexican meal so spicy, in fact, that Lazo, who was from Guatemala, couldnt enjoy it. Rina, she later recalled Rivera saying, if you do not learn how to eat spicy food, you will not be able to paint well. Lazo didnt understand; what did food have to do with art? Still, she saw Rivera as a mentor and took the comment to heart. It would be years before she would grasp what he meant, which she summed up in an essay in 2012 for the newsletter Crónicas, published by the National Autonomous University of Mexico: If you do not truly appreciate our food, our customs, our traditions, our culture, ... More | |
The Sackler name is removed from a building at the Tufts Medical Center campus in Boston, Dec. 5, 2019. After Tufts took the Sackler name off one of its buildings over the familys role in the opioid crisis, some family members are crying foul. Cody O'Loughlin/The New York Times.
CAMBRIDGE (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Two weeks after Tufts University became the first major university to remove the Sackler name from buildings and programs over the familys role in the opioid epidemic, members of the family are pushing back. A lawyer for some of the Sacklers argued in a letter to the president of Tufts that the move was unjustified and a violation of agreements made when the school wanted the familys financial help years ago. The letter described Tufts decision to remove the name as contrary to basic notions of fairness" and a breach of the many binding commitments made by the University dating back to 1980 in order to secure the familys support, including millions of dollars in donations for facilities and critical medical research. Institutions that have accepted financial support from the Sacklers have in recent months faced growing cries to distance themselves from the family. The forceful response by Sackler family members now may be seen as a signal to ot ... More |
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| | ICA/Boston announces new acquisitions | | Lena Stringari named Deputy Director and Andrew W. Mellon Chief Conservator at the Guggenheim | | Brazilian sculptor Francisco Brennand dies age 92 |
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, "The Beautyful Ones" Series #7, 2018. Acrylic, colored pencil and transfers on paper 59 7/8 x 411/2 inches (152.1 x 105.4 cm) Acquired through the generosity of Fotene and Tom Coté, in honor of Eva Respini.
BOSTON, MASS.- Jill Medvedow, Ellen Matilda Poss Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, announced that 16 significant works of art have entered the museum's permanent collection, all acquired over the past year. Highlights include Njideka Akunyili Crosby's ''The Beautyful Ones" Series #7 (2018), William Kentridge's KABOOM! (2018), and Tschabalala Self's Lite (2018), as well as works by Boston-based artists Josephine Halvorson and Lavaughan Jenkins. A selection of these new acquisitions will go on view in the coming months, including Self's painting in Tschabalala Self: Out of Body on view Jan. 20 - July 5, 2020 and Kentridge's immersive video installation KABOOM! on view July 22, 2020 - Jan. 3, 2021. "The ICA Collection was started in 2006 and as a young collecting institution, we have the unique opportunity to build a collection ... More | |
Lena Stringari, who has served at the Guggenheim since 1992, has been named Deputy Director and Andrew W. Mellon Chief Conservator.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced today a newly endowed leadership position within art conservation. Lena Stringari, who has served at the Guggenheim since 1992, has been named Deputy Director and Andrew W. Mellon Chief Conservator. The position is endowed as part of the fulfillment of a three-year, $3 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, awarded in 2016 and then matched two-to-one to raise a total of $9 million to advance the ongoing work of the museums Conservation Department. As the Deputy Director and Andrew W. Mellon Chief Conservator, Lena Stringari is responsible for the care and treatment of the collection, creation of policy and procedures for collections management, oversight of new conservation construction, participation in strategic planning, and direction of the Guggenheims conservation-focused programs, including the Panza Collection ... More | |
In this file photo taken on March 29, 2008, Brazilian artist Francisco Brennand poses in his "Accademia", the mini-museum where he exhibits his paintings at his "Office" in Recife, Brazil. Brennand, a worldwide recognised sculptor, painter and ceramist, died on December 19, 2019 aged 92. EVARISTO SA / AFP.
SAO PAULO.- Francisco Brennand, a Brazilian sculptor best known for his monumental work in ceramics, died Thursday in his native Recife at age 92, hospital officials said. His death was attributed to respiratory problems. Born in 1927, Brennand was considered one of the greatest Brazilian sculptors and ceramicists of his generation, with works on exhibit in Europe and the United States. He plunged into the world of ceramics on a trip to France, inspired by the works of Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Paul Gauguin and the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi. In 1971, he set up a workshop in the ruins of a ceramics factory that belonged to his father, where he gave free rein to his art. Today, it is a sprawling showcase of his work with more than 2,000 pieces on display. His most emblematic work is the Parque das Esculturas ... More |
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Ruth Anderson, pioneering electronic composer, dies at 91
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Ruth Anderson, a groundbreaking electronic composer who created a relatively small but prescient body of work, including pieces that used bits of recorded speech turned into music, died Nov. 29 at a hospital in the Bronx. She was 91. Composer Annea Lockwood, her spouse and only immediate survivor, said the cause was lung cancer. Anderson, who made her living chiefly as a flutist in her 20s and as a freelance orchestrator in her 30s, is best known for having founded, in 1968, an electronic music studio at Hunter College in New York, where she taught composition and theory from 1966 until 1989. She had been introduced to the possibilities of electronic sound while studying in the 1960s at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, where she was encouraged by Vladimir Ussachevsky, the centers ... More
Auction Record for Ilonka Karasz in Illustration Art at Swann
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleriess sale of Illustration Art on Tuesday, December 10 featured an array of original works, from well-known characters of childrens literature to striking New Yorker covers and theater designs. The auction was a success, with seven of the top 20 lots ultimately acquired by institutions. Childrens illustrations proved to be the centerpiece of the sale with a gouache and ink sketch for Ludwig Bemelmanss Madeline, which featured Miss Clavel and Madeline picking flowers in front of the Eiffel Tower, selling for $22,500. Also by Bemelmans were two 1947 watercolor, ink and wash drawings for the artists A Tale of Two Glimps that sold for $7,500. Additional childhood favorites included H.A. Reys 1939 watercolor and gouache work for Rafi et les 9 singes featuring several of the monkeys skiing ... More
East End bastion Syd's coffee stall to be donated to the Museum of London
LONDON.- The Museum of London is pleased to announce that it will be acquiring Syds coffee stall as part of its London Collection when the store closes for business for the last time on 20 December after over 100 years of service. A bastion for the East End, the stall has sat on Calvert Avenue, just off Shoreditch High Street, since 1919 and has passed down through three generations from Syd Tothill to the current owner, Jane Tothill, Syds granddaughter, who has been running it for over thirty years serving fresh filled rolls, coffee, and loose leaf tea. When it closes for business, Jane will donate the coffee stall to the Museum of London for its story to be shared with Londoners and the stall will go on display as part of the new Museum of London when it opens in the coming years. The stall began in 1919 when First World War veteran Sydney ... More
What is love? It depends on what language you speak
WASHINGTON (AFP).- The English word "love" can be translated as "sevgi" in Turkish and "szerelem" in Hungarian -- but does the concept carry the same meaning for speakers of all three tongues? Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History have used a new tool in comparative linguistics to examine emotional concepts across the world, finding the way we think of things such as anger, fear, and joy depends on our language. Their paper drew on data from nearly 2,500 languages, from large ones with millions of speakers to small ones with thousands, and was published in the journal Science on Thursday. Sometimes, words used to describe emotions are so unique, it seems they are rooted exclusively in a particular culture. The German word "Sehnsucht," referring to a strong ... More
Yale University Art Gallery appoints Keely Orgeman as Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- Dr. Keely Orgeman has been appointed the Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Yale University Art Gallery. She assumed her new position on December 2, 2019. Having served the Gallery for 11 years, she was most recently the Alice and Allan Kaplan Associate Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture. During her tenure at Yale, Orgeman organized the critically acclaimed 2017 exhibition Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light at the Gallery, which traveled to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in Washington, D.C. Orgeman completed her doctorate at Boston University, where she curated the exhibition Atomic Afterimage: Cold War Imagery in Contemporary Art for the BU Art Gallery in 2008. Dr. Orgeman will oversee the Gallerys collection of modern and contemporary ... More
Auger 'Thunderball' Bond girl, dies aged 78
PARIS (AFP).- French actress Claudine Auger, best known to international audiences playing alongside Sean Connery in the 1965 James Bond film "Thunderball", has died aged 78, her agent said Thursday. She died in Paris, the Time Art agency announced. Born in April 1941 in Paris, Auger began her career as a model and represented France at the 1958 Miss World competition. On the side she was taking acting lessons, winning small cinema parts to gradually earn a reputation as an actress in France, including the 1962 Three Musketeers film "The Iron Mask". But it was Thunderball that made her name as the first French "Bond Girl". The film's trailer introduced Auger as: "Young. Beautiful. Trapped. Could be dangerous". She played the character "Domino" in the film, the fourth i ... More
Portikus opens collaborative installation by Filipino film and media artists Shireen Seno and John Torres
FRANKFURT.- Portikus is presenting Cloudy with a Chance of Coconuts, a collaborative installation by Filipino film and media artists Shireen Seno (*1983) and John Torres (*1975). In addition to their own work, Seno and Torres are founders of the Los Otros collective in Manila, a laboratory and platform for the production and support of investigations into the interface between film and art. Seno and Torres are also at the heart of another curatorial initiative, known as The Kalampag Tracking Agency, which is dedicated to support and dissemination of alternative and experimental practices in Philippine film production. Both platforms are characterized by exchange and an openness to other disciplines, artists, and an independence from the popular film industry. Cloudy with a Chance of Coconuts is the first joint presentation of the artists in Germany. ... More
Jerusalem cable car controversy hangs over Old City
JERUSALEM (AFP).- Ramparts of ochre stone stand out against the sky, framed by hilltop buildings and olive trees -- but the view of Jerusalem's Old City could soon include cable cars and pylons. Israel has approved a project to ferry visitors from western Jerusalem to near the Western Wall, the holiest place Jews are allowed to pray but part of one of the world's most contentious sacred sites. Supporters of the 200 million shekel ($57 million) plan say it will ease the congestion and pollution caused by millions of visitors a year. But archeologists, architects and city planners say the scheme, if completed, will be a blight on Jerusalem's ancient heritage. The Western Wall is directly adjacent to the Al-Aqsa mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam, but also located on the Temple Mount, the most sacred place in Judaism. Lying in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, the site i ... More
Sotheby's Old Masters auction with The Strokes' Fabrizio Moretti totals $1.8 Million │ 100% sold
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys final auction of 2019, Fabrizio Moretti x Fabrizio Moretti | In Passing totaled an exceptional $1.8 million last night in Sotheby's New York salesroom. The auction achieved white glove status (100% sold), driven by buyers new to Sothebys as well as record levels of pre-sale bidding on the auction house's app and online auction platform. This special exhibition and auction of Old Master paintings and sculpture from the 14th 18th centuries brought together musician and visual artist Fabrizio (Fab) Moretti, of the critically acclaimed and internationally Platinum-certified band The Strokes, with renowned art dealer and collector Fabrizio Moretti, who specializes in Old Masters and is proprietor of the London-based Galleria Moretti. The 24 works on offer were selected by (dealer) Fabrizio Moretti, and showcased in a series ... More
Holiday nights, merry and bright
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- April may be the cruelest month, but December, the darkest, can feel unkind, too. New York, however, offers its own illumination during these long, blustery nights, and not just Rockefeller Centers seasonal sparkle. Heres a guide to some of the lavish light displays across the city, including twinkling and towering sculptures, Chinese-style lantern shows and giant menorahs. You will usually find food, entertainment and family activities here, as well as glowing LED artifice: fairy palaces, alluring sweets, roaring dinosaurs and lots of pandas. Imagine waking up inside an animé cartoon. LuminoCity, a 16-acre extravaganza, even has its own hero from another universe: Lumi, a magical light bulb. Resembling a benevolent Pokémon, Lumi appears in lantern form throughout the displays, offering amazed commentary ... More
Number of Dutch visitors to Van Gogh Museum continues to rise
AMSTERDAM.- The Van Gogh Museum reflects on a successful 2019 with high visitor ratings for the exhibitions Hockney Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature and Van Gogh and the Sunflowers, reaching 1 million Instagram followers, unique acquisitions, a new main sponsor and once again, more than 2.1 million visitors from 108 different countries. Earlier this year, the major exhibition Hockney Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature attracted nearly 360,000 visitors, of which 137,000 were Dutch. This was therefore the most popular exhibition with Dutch visitors ever at the Van Gogh Museum, which contributed to all tickets to the exhibition selling out more than two weeks before it ended. In addition, the summer exhibition Van Gogh and the Sunflowers received one of the highest visitor ratings ever. More than 8 out of 10 visitors rated the exhibition as excellent or very good. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American sculptor and painter Beverly Pepper was born December 20, 1922. Beverly Pepper (born December 20, 1922) is an American sculptor known for her monumental works, site specific and land art. She remains independent from any particular art movement. She was married to the writer Curtis Bill Pepper. In this image: Beverly Pepper, "Ancient Silence", 2009. Carrara marble, 11 1/2 x 18 x 5 in. 29.2 x 45.7 x 12.7 cm., stone base: 1 x 18 5/8 x 10 in. / 2.5 x 47.3 x 25.4 cm. Courtesy: Marlborough Gallery, New York. ©Beverly Pepper.
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