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The Codex Sassoon, considered the oldest nearly complete Hebrew Bible, in New York, Feb. 10, 2023. The Codex Sassoon, believed to date from the late ninth or early 10th century, is set to be sold by Sothebys for an estimated $30 million to $50 million. (Eric Helgas/The New York Times)
by Jennifer Schuessler
NEW YORK, NY.- One day, about 1,100 years ago, a scribe in present-day Israel or Syria sat down to begin work on a book. Copied out on roughly 400 large parchment sheets, it contained the complete text of the Hebrew Bible, written in square letters similar to those of the Torah scrolls in any synagogue today. After changing hands a few times, it ended up in a synagogue in northeast Syria, which was destroyed around the 13th or 14th century. Then it disappeared for nearly 600 years. Since resurfacing in 1929, the Bible has been in private collections. But one afternoon last week, there it was, sitting in a cradle at Sothebys in Manhattan, New York, where Sharon Liberman Mintz, the auction houses senior Judaica consultant, was turning its rippled pages with a mixture of familiarity and awe. She pointed out the two versions of ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Patois Banton is a new exhibition by artist, writer, and curator Cedar Lewisohn, on show at the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University. 17. Photo Jules Lister.
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| An ice factory from the 1900s is now a spectacular Bronx school | | Who was Pablo Neruda and why is his death a mystery? | | Orchids take their star turn at the New York Botanical Garden |
Outside the former ice factory that now houses Dream Charter School, with an Uber sign up top, in the South Bronx, Jan. 18, 2023. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)
by Michael Kimmelman
NEW YORK, NY.- When you live in the South Bronx, you hear one story being told about your community everywhere that you go, Amanda Septimo, a member of the New York State Assembly, told the Bronx Free Press. This building will change that story. Ill get back to the story she is referring to. The building is the new 191,000-square-foot charter school in the Port Morris section of the South Bronx, designed by David Adjaye, a celebrated Ghanaian British architect. Adjaye, along with Russell Crader, who helps run Adjayes New York office, repurposed a turn-of-the-last-century former ice plant and warehouse, a long-vacant, pigeon-infested ruin that many New Yorkers know unconsciously because of the giant Uber billboard on its roof that faces the Harlem River. The $50 million school is part of the Dream charter network, which serves predominantly poor Black and brown ... More | |
The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda during a visit to New York in 1966. (The New York Times)
by Flávia Milhorance
NEW YORK, NY.- Fifty years on, the true cause of death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, in the wake of the countrys 1973 coup, has remained in doubt across the world. The Nobel laureate was not only one of the worlds most celebrated poets but also one of Chiles most influential political activists. An outspoken communist, he supported Salvador Allende, Chiles leftist president from 1970 to 1973, and worked in his administration. Nerudas death in a private clinic just weeks after the coup was determined to be the result of cancer, but the timing and the circumstances have long raised doubts about whether his death was something more nefarious. On Wednesday, The New York Times reviewed the summary of findings compiled by international forensic experts who had examined Nerudas exhumed remains and identified bacteria that can be deadly. In a summary of their report, shared with the Times, the scientists confirmed that the bacteria was in his body when he died ... More | |
The landscape artist Lily Kwong at the exhibit she designed, The Orchid Show: Natural Heritage, at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, Feb. 14, 2023. (Elias Williams/The New York Times)
by Will Heinrich
NEW YORK, NY.- The orchid, a family embracing nearly 30,000 species on six continents, is an elegant, louche, large, small, showy and demure flower. It provides us with vanilla, beauty products, prom corsages and traditional Chinese longevity medicines, and, according to Marc Hachadourian of the New York Botanical Garden, it has passed the humble poinsettia to become the worlds most cultivated horticultural crop, both in dollar terms and in sheer numbers. It is also the occasion for The Orchid Show: Natural Heritage, the gardens 20th annual Orchid Show, curated this year by landscape artist Lily Kwong. When I opened the door to the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory the other day for the preview, my glasses fogged up immediately: I was stepping into another world. It was a different climate, certainly, hotter and moister than even an unseasonably mild New York ... More |
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| Frick exhibits major gift of decorative arts and pastels | | Somerset House unveils major outdoor installation by Jitish Kallat | | This tool could protect artists from AI-generated art that steals their style |
Rosalba Carriera (Italian, 16731757), Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1730. Pastel on paper, glued on canvas, 23 1/4 x 18 3/4 x 1/2 in. (59.1 x 47.6 x 1.3 cm) The Frick Collection. Gift of Alexis Gregory, 2020. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.
NEW YORK, NY.- The celebrated holdings of decorative arts objects amassed by Henry Clay Frick have been significantly enriched in recent decades by gifts from other collectors. In 1999, Winthrop Kellogg Edeys bequest added to the museums holdings an important group of European clocks and watches, and in the last decade or so, gifts from Dianne Dwyer Modestini (2008), Melinda and Paul Sullivan (2016), Henry Arnhold (2019), and Sidney R. Knafel (2021) have reshaped the Fricks holdings of European ceramics with significant groups of Du Paquier and Meissen porcelain, French faience, and Italian maiolica. A remarkable bequest in 2020 from the collection of Alexis Gregory builds on this tradition by enhancing the museums existing holdings and introducing to the museum new types of objects. Beginning in February 2023 ... More | |
Artist Jitish Kallat beside his work, Whorled (Here After Here After Here)', on display at Somerset House, London © David Parry, PA.
LONDON.- This February, Jitish Kallat presents Whorled (Here After Here After Here), a new courtyard commission by Somerset House and the Mumbai-based artists first major public commission in the UK. This striking outdoor installation, over 30 metres in diameter, comprises two intersecting spirals that echo the signage of UK roads and connect the famed neoclassical courtyard of Somerset House to locations across the planet and distant universe. Whorled (Here After Here After Here) is conceived as a seismic ripple or a galactic whorl, aligned to the Earths cardinal north-south directions and spiralling outwards from the centre of the Somerset House courtyard. The work draws upon sacred geometry and alchemical diagrams; like much of Kallats work, it interlaces the immediate and the cosmic, the past and present. Two vast scrolls, each 168 metres in length, form interlocking spirals and a continuum of text and symbols ... More | |
Greg Rutkowski, a Polish artist who specializes in fantastical scenes. (Dorota Rutkowska via The New York Times)
by Kashmir Hill
NEW YORK, NY.- Robots would come for humans jobs. That was guaranteed. The assumption generally was that they would take over manual labor, lifting heavy pallets in a warehouse and sorting recycling. Now significant advances in generative artificial intelligence mean robots are coming for artists, too. AI-generated images, created with simple text prompts, are winning art contests, adorning book covers, and promoting The Nutcracker, leaving human artists worried about their futures. The threat can feel highly personal. An image generator called Stable Diffusion was trained to recognize patterns, styles and relationships by analyzing billions of images collected from the public internet, alongside text describing their contents. Among the images it trained on were works by Greg Rutkowski, a Polish artist who specializes ... More |
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| Two masterpieces by Georg Baselitz will highlight Christie's 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale | | Yossi Milo: New website, logo & gallery updates | | The Whitney Museum appoints two new curators |
Georg Baselitz, Elke I (1975, estimate: £2,500,000-3,500,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2023.
LONDON.- Two masterpieces by Georg Baselitz will highlight Christies 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale on 28 February 2023. Elke I (1975, estimate: £2,500,000-3,500,000) and Frau Paganismus (1994, estimate: £4,000,000-6,000,000) are being offered at auction for the first time from the prestigious Hess Art Collection, who acquired them shortly after they were created by the artist. Unveiled in New York, they will be exhibited in London from 22 to 28 February. Elke I is also on view in Hong Kong until 10 February. This moment precedes a number of prestigious exhibitions which will take place internationally celebrating the artists career in this milestone year for Georg Baselitz. Tessa Lord, Acting Head of Department, Post-War and Contemporary Art London, and Edmond Francey, International Director, Post-War and Contemporary Art: Coinciding with the artists 85th birthday ... More | |
Updated gallery logo.
NEW YORK, NY.- Yossi Milo announced the launch of their new website, updated gallery logo, online viewing rooms, and the Qube, a new dedicated exhibition space on the website and in-gallery. In 2000, Yossi Milo opened his eponymous gallery on the third floor of West 24th Street, establishing what would become a premier photography gallery devoted to discovering and uplifting the careers of important and cutting-edge photographers. In 2012, the gallery moved into its current space at 245 10th Avenue to match its rigorous and ambitiously evolving program. With the opening of Intimacy, the 2018 group exhibition tracing the multigenerational impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis and articulating a new movement of queer art today, Yossi Milo began its foray into painting, sculpture, and multimedia work. Since, the gallery has embraced the opportunity to show work from all disciplines that provokes, engages, and contributes to the critical dialogues taking ... More | |
Marcela Guerrero.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art has named Marcela Guerrero the DeMartini Family Curator. In her new role, Guerrero will continue her pioneering work on acquiring and exhibiting contemporary and historical Latinx artists in the Whitneys program and collection. She will also play a key strategic role in working cross-departmentally to broaden the Whitneys engagement with Latinx audiences and community partners while supporting overall strategic planning for the collection. She begins her new position on February 18, 2023. Guerrero has worked at the Whitney for nearly six years and was the Museums first curator to specialize in Latinx art. She currently serves as the Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator and has curated landmark exhibitions like no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria. That show, on view at the Museum through April 23, explores the impact of the devastating storm on ... More |
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| Art Basel announces return of ambitious, full-scale program for its Hong Kong show | | Everard's Feb. 28-March 1 auction presents fine art, antiques and jewelry from premier Southern estates | | Lehmann Maupin currently presenting Reflections and Refractions by artists Helen Pashigian and Kim Taek Sang |
Art Basel will take place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) from March 23 to March 25, 2023, with preview days on March 21 and 22. Photo: 'Courtesy Art Basel'.
HONG KONG.- Art Basel announces return of ambitious, full-scale program for its Hong Kong show with 177 galleries from 32 countries and territories its largest in the city since 2019 including the sector Hand Me Your Trust by Pipilotti Rist for monumental works and a new site-specific commission by Pipilotti Rist. Commissioned by M+ and supported by Art Basel and UBS, Hand Me Your Trust is a brand-new site-specific moving image work by Pipilotti Rist for the M+ Facade. The facade is set within the undulating architectures of Hong Kongs world-famous skyline along Victoria Harbour. Presented in the hustle and bustle of a city with millions of inhabitants, the work incorporates Rists typically vivid color palettes and freeform camera work, echoing the dynamic shifts of scale of Hong Kongs urban landscape. Rist approaches the concept of the hand from a variety of scales ... More | |
Tiffany Studios 12-light Favrile glass gilt bronze Lily lamp, circa 1910, Tiffany marks on all shades and base. Estimate $20,000-$30,000.
SAVANNAH, GA.- Everards February 28 and March 1 Winter Southern Estates Auction features a luxe array of fine and decorative arts, with many exceptional pieces coming from long-held, high-quality collections. The variety is endless, spanning the traditional fine and decorative art realm from both a Western and Asian point of view. In addition, there are dozens of specialty categories, such as 19th-century lay-down scent bottles, folk art canes, Venetian glass, holy water fonts, Russian lacquer boxes, Royal Vienna porcelain, Sumidagawa pottery, portrait miniatures, antique maps and scientific instruments. The elegance and enduring influence of the Art Nouveau aesthetic are gracefully present in this sale through the peerless work of Alphonse Mucha, Tiffany Studios artists, and celebrated sculptors of the period. An additional highlight from the first half of the 20th century is a collection of chic, always in-demand ... More | |
Kim Taek Sang, Resonance-23-3, 2023. Water, acrylic on canvas, 69.3 x 72 inches, 176 x 183 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Leeahn Gallery, Seoul/ Daegu.
SEOUL.- Lehmann Maupin presents Reflections and Refractions, an exhibition that unites works by Helen Pashigian and Kim Taek Sang to explore the universalizing possibilities of light, space, and sensory immersion. Though separated by geography, cultural difference, and linguistic barriers, both Pashgian and Kim are deeply invested in the haptic experience of both the art making and art viewing processes. Their work shares an intangible connection: both artists seek to convey the experience of something inarticulablea natural quality, an elemental space, a fleeting moment in time. The works on view, which include painting and sculpture, draw viewers into contact with something at once familiar and mysterious, creating opportunity for interaction outside of cultural boundaries or societal norms. Connecting Pashgian and Kim across time and space, Reflections and Refractions gestures towards a kind of cross-cultural ... More |
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Bruneau & Co Auctineers to hold two-session couture, jewelry and fine & decorative art auction
CRANSTON, RI.- An early 20th century Duffner & Kimberly heraldic armorial table lamp and an 18th century Continental carved wood tavern wall panel are two of the expected highlights in a two-session Couture, Jewelry and Fine & Decorative Art auction slated for Monday, February 27th, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, online and live in the Cranston gallery at 63 Fourth Ave. Session 1, starting promptly at 5 pm Eastern time, will be Part 4 of a single-owner couture and jewelry collection, featuring Chanel, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana handbags and shoes, David Yurman jewelry and additional pieces of fine jewelry. Session 2, beginning at about 7 pm, will include fine and decorative art pulled from estates and collections across the New England area. We are still working on the estate of couture and fine jewelry out of Cranston, said Kevin Bruneau, the president of Bruneau & Co ... More
The Collection of André Leon Talley totals: $1,387,827
NEW YORK, NY.- On February 15th , 2023, at Christies Rockefeller Center, in the heart of Manhattan, the live sale of The Collection of André Leon Talley achieved phenomenal results. The sale attracted lively bidding from around the globe, making $1,387,827 with 100% of the lots sold and realizing 343% hammer above the low estimate. The online portion of the sale will close on February 16th. In the live auction, 30% of bidders were new to Christies, over 40% of new registered bidders were Millennials. This legendary sale generated strong results across a wide variety of collecting categories, including photography, illustrations, accessories, and clothing. Proceeds of the sale will go toward the Abyssinian Baptist Church in the City of New York and the Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Durham. The sale was led by three lots which achieved $94,500 ... More
Tapestry of Life: Bonhams to offer a collection of antique textiles from renowned dealer Peta Smyth
LONDON.- Peta Smyth has been dealing in antique textiles since 1976, and her shop at 42 Moreton Street in Pimlico is renowned for its extensive array of fine textiles attracting a loyal and diverse clientele of interior designers, antiques dealers and collectors. Now, after 45 years in the business, Peta has decided to close her shop and enjoy her retirement, with the remaining contents of the shop as well as items from her personal collection being offered by Bonhams as part of the Collections sale on 21 March in Knightsbridge. Charlie Thomas, Bonhams Group Head of Private Collections, Furniture & Works of Art, UK, commented: Peta Smyth has long been the go-to name when it comes to antique textiles and her popular Pimlico shop has provided inspiration for countless interior designers and collectors. This exclusive sale at Bonhams will be the final chance to acquire ... More
Cooke Latham Gallery presents an installation of new ceramic works by British artist Serena Korda
LONDON.- Kordas recent practice has centred around a process of worldbuilding, creating an ever-evolving environment for the protagonist at the centre of her own fiction a Giantess, based on the Greek siren Parthenope, whos monumental oceanic necklace And She Cried me a River (2021) recently showed in A Matter of Life and Death curated by Jenni Lomax at Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples and the Hayward Gallerys Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art. In this new series Korda expands upon the world of this imagined giantess, building her a spectral female entourage inspired by Penelopes twelve handmaidens in the Odyssey. Peripheral characters, the handmaidens aided Penelope in the daily weaving and unravelling of a funeral shroud - a cunning strategy to put off the suitors that accumulated in Odysseuss absence. Margaret Atwoods The Penelopiad ... More
What is Russia thinking? A 'documentary opera' tries to answer.
NEW YORK, NY.- Many things have been said about Russia since the country launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine a year ago. But getting a sense of what Russian citizens privately feel about their nation is hard. State news outlets are more strident than ever, and independent ones have been closed down. Western reporters still working there are treated with suspicion or fear. Unlikely as it might seem, a new documentary opera is attempting to cut through the noise to find something approaching the truth. Called Russia: Today the title is a wry nod to the propaganda-spouting, Kremlin-funded media company, now known as RT the piece, by the Russian-born, Hong Kong-based composer Eugene Birman, is assembled from hundreds of interviews with Russian citizens, people of Russian heritage and people who live in neighboring countries, conducted over the last few years ... More
Ukrainian orchestra on a mission to promote country's culture
NEW YORK, NY.- Ukrainian violinist Solomia Onyskiv arrived in the United States last month on a mission. With the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of her country approaching, she worried that the world was quickly forgetting the suffering there. She had come with 65 other musicians from the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine to lead a 40-concert tour aimed at promoting Ukrainian culture. We are almost in a state of panic now, Onyskiv said. We worry deeply about the future of our country because this war wont stop. Russia wont stop. And if we dont stand up, if the world doesnt stand up, there will be more suffering. On Wednesday, Onyskiv and her colleagues will get one of their most visible platforms yet: the stage of Carnegie Hall, where they will perform a program that includes Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 and Dvoraks New World Symphony ... More
A miracle of nature: Stunning Elbaite specimen leads Heritage's Fine Minerals Auction
DALLAS.- It is a piece so perfect in arrangement, color and balance that one would think it was a man-made sculpture, rather than a natural specimen hewn from its pocket where it formed. Thats how Nicolas Valenzuela, Fine Minerals Consignment Director at Heritage Auctions, describes the stunning Elbaite on Quartz with Cleavelandite specimen that headlines Heritages March 7 Fine Minerals Signature® Auction. Excavated from one of the most famous tourmaline mines in the world the Pederneira Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil the specimen is from the mines Grandon pocket and features three incredible Elbaite crystals, two of them forming a perfect V-shape, supported by a gemmy matrix of white Cleavelandite dotted with more Elbaite crystals. A lightly smoky Quartz crystal slices horizontally across the matrix, breaking up the field of Cleavelandite and completing a striking ... More
Zawyeh Gallery hosts Timeless Echoes by Afifa Aleiby
DUBAI.- Zawyeh Gallery has announced it will be hosting an exhibition by the renowned Iraqi artist Afifa Aleiby from 26 February until 8 May 2023. The exhibition titled Timeless Echoes will include some of her latest artworks echoing her own life and tackling multiple societal and humane subjects. Aleibys style is poetic, and her paintings have a unique quality of beauty mixed with the intensity of emotions. Her work is a reflection on women's state in society even though she stresses that she does not intend it to convey a feminist statement although it may at times be related to womens issues. She adds: I use the female figure as a medium to help communicate this idea. Women as human figures have something special that you cannot find in men: the way they move and their beauty. Women appear elegantly despite the subject of the work ... More
'MarÃa BerrÃo: The Children's Crusade' opens at ICA/Boston
BOSTON, MASS.- The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston opened MarÃa BerrÃo: The Childrens Crusadethe first time this major new series of paintings have been shown together in a museum exhibition. Based in New York, MarÃa BerrÃo (born 1982 in Bogotá, Colombia) crafts her large-scale paintings through a unique and meticulous process of collaging torn pieces of Japanese paper on canvas. Using these thin layers of colorful paper like a palette of paint, she then applies watercolor to complete her riveting, magical scenes that speak to urgent real-world issues, including migration and the life experiences of women and children. Organized by Ruth Erickson, Mannion Family Senior Curator, MarÃa BerrÃo: The Childrens Crusade will be on view through August 6. Pressed by contemporary social and political realities, MarÃa locates her sources of inspiration in poetry ... More
An eagerly awaited opera, delayed by the pandemic, opens at last
NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent afternoon in Los Angeles, a mezzo-soprano paced during an opera rehearsal before letting her sound loose. When she did, she appeared to shock herself so much that she broke the fourth wall. Whoa, whoa, that wasnt my voice, that vocalist, Tivoli Treloar, declared to her colleagues, and to an imagined audience. I mean, I cant sing like that! A male voice in the cast parried with a hint of old-world courtliness: Yet twas well sung, my friend! Welcome to Kate Sopers The Romance of the Rose. In addition to breaking the fourth wall, Sopers latest work of music theater, which premieres Saturday at Long Beach Opera, also collapses centuries, bringing its source material a medieval French poem of the same name ... More
Amiri Baraka's 'Blues People' comes home to the Apollo
NEW YORK, NY.- When he first read Amiri Barakas epochal study Blues People: Negro Music in White America, originally published in 1963, Russell Gunn felt that he already understood, on some level, the books urgent themes. Thats not just because Blues People which centers the blues as the foundation of American music, and the lives of Black Americans as the foundation of the blues has been widely influential, shaping public and institutional understanding of the history of the blues, jazz and American culture. While growing up in East St. Louis in the 1970s and early 80s, Gunn the trumpeter, composer and bandleader had always felt that truth already, in a way he links to ancestral memory. When the teacher would leave the classroom, all of us would beat rhythms on our desk, Gunn recalled in a late January Zoom interview from his Atlanta home ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter Hans Hofmann died February 17, 1966. Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 - February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. Hofmann's art work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships. He was also heavily influenced in his later years by Henri Matisse's ideas about color and form. In this image: Hans Hofmann, The Lark, um 1960. Öl auf Leinwand, 152,7 x 133 cm. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum und Pacific Film Archive. Schenkung von Hans Hofmann, 1965 © JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., and Patricia A. Gallagher, Trustees of the Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust.
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