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Aaron Davis, who brings security to the bank when he visits his LeBron James cards, in San Diego, Calif., Feb. 13, 2021. The two on the table are worth more than $7 million. As prices soar in the high-end collectibles market, cards of stars like LeBron James and Mike Trout are in the same discussion as those of Honus Wagner and Mickey Mantle. John Francis Peters/The New York Times.
by David Waldstein
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Aaron Davis wife thought it was absurd when he spent $312,000 on a one-of-a-kind LeBron James trading card in 2016. That assessment has not been officially retracted, but only five years later the card could fetch well over 10 times that at auction, experts say. In July, another James card this one not nearly as rare sold for $1.8 million. That caught Davis attention because there are only two versions of that particular card that share the same high quality, and Davis, a 42-year-old investment manager in California, owns the other one. Davis keeps those two cards, with a combined worth in excess of $7 million, safely squirreled away in a bank vault with some of his other prized specimens. Every time I buy a card I feel like Im a little bit crazy, too, and the rest of the world might also think that, Davis said during a telephone interview in which he revealed, for the first time publicly, that he owns the two million-dollar cards. But ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day MASSIMODECARLO is presenting West Coast, the exhibition debut of Jessie Homer French with the gallery. For her first solo exhibition with MASSIMODECARLO, London, West Coast brings together a vast range of works that encompasses a thorough investigation of the artistâs long-time practice.
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| Longwood Gardens to expand and transform its renowned conservatory grounds | | Barbara Thumm Gallery and Alexander Gray Associates announce the passing of Teresa Burga | | Egypt autopsy offers new clues 3,600 years after murder |
Aerial View from Southeast, West Conservatory Longwood Reimagined: A New Garden Experience. Courtesy of WEISS/MANFREDI with Reed Hilderbrand for Longwood Gardens.
KENNETT SQUARE, PA.- Longwood Gardens today unveiled plans for a sweeping yet deeply sensitive transformation of its core area of conservatory gardens, in the most ambitious revitalization in a century of Americas greatest center for horticultural display. Adding new plantings and buildings across 17 acres, Longwood Reimagined: A New Garden Experience will expand the public spaces of the renowned central grounds and connect them from east to west, offering a newly unified but continually varied journey from lush formal gardens to views over the open meadows of Pennsylvanias Brandywine Valley. The project originates from a master plan developed in 2010 by West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture with WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism. Longwood has continued working with WEISS/MANFREDI as lead designer, in collaboration with Reed ... More | |
Teresa Burga at Galerie Barbara Thumm, 2012. Photo: Nici Wegener. Courtesy Galerie Barbara Thumm.
BERLIN.- Teresa Burga was an internationally acclaimed artist of feminist "conceptual art", which she always negotiated as a concrete space of action in the context of Peru's colonial heritage and the political reality surrounding it, and whose structures of violence and power, conventions and ethnic attributions she deconstructed in her work. This also means that her work is not to be read in the context of the formal-aesthetic exercises of "Western" conceptual art, but rather as an analysis of the administrative, bureaucratic, political powers inherent in colonialism, which she radically brushes against the grain. Her work gains its topicality by anticipating contemporary discourses on the decolonization of art as well as art institutions, conveying them as historical and translating them into the present. The multimedia oeuvre includes paintings, conceptually conceived, extensive drawing series, large-scale environments, technical media such as slide or video installations, and even cybernet ... More | |
After conducting CT scans and producing 3D images, archaeologist Zahi Hawass and Cairo University radiology professor Sahar Salim concluded that he was killed in an "execution ceremony" after being taken prisoner on the battlefield. Photo: Facebook.
CAIRO (AFP).- A high-tech study has offered new clues into the killing of a pharaoh who ruled Egypt over three millennia ago, the antiquities ministry said Wednesday. Seqenenre Tao II, "the Brave", reigned over southern Egypt some 1,600 years before Christ. He famously led Egyptian troops against the Hyksos, a dynasty of West Asian origin which had taken over the Nile Delta. Seqenenre's body had been examined by X-ray in the 1960s, revealing head wounds adeptly concealed by embalmers and giving rise to theories that he was killed in battle or a palace assassination. But after conducting CT scans and producing 3D images, archaeologist Zahi Hawass and Cairo University radiology professor Sahar Salim concluded that he was killed in an "execution ceremony" after being taken prisoner on the battlefield. The CT scan "revealed details of the head ... More |
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| Hauser & Wirth Menorca to open 17 July 2021 with an inaugural exhibition by Mark Bradford | | Miles McEnery Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by Pia Fries | | MoMA announces transformative gift of photographs by women artists from the Helen Kornblum Collection |
Hauser & Wirth Menorca on Isla del Rey Courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Be Creative, Menorca.
MENORCA.- Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth, and Marc Payot, co-presidents of Hauser & Wirth, today announced the opening date of 17 July 2021 for the gallerys new art centre on Isla del Rey, located in the port of Mahon in Menorca. An exhibition by Mark Bradford will inaugurate Hauser & Wirth Menorca, featuring a dynamic suite of new paintings and sculptures. Through a two-year conservation project, Hauser & Wirth has sensitively repurposed existing historic buildings on the island into a 1,500 sq.m. art centre. A sculpture trail will feature the work of Louise Bourgeois, Eduardo Chillida, Franz West and others. A dedicated education programme has been developed to engage both the local community and visitors in contemporary art through screenings, talks, and workshops. Menorca is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and, in the interest of protecting the unique natural environment of its location, Hauser & Wirth Menorca is partnering with the Menorc ... More | |
Pia Fries, pylon AR, 2020. Oil and silkscreen on wood, 67 x 47 1/4 inches, 170.2 x 120 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Pia Fries. farnese opened on 18 February at 525 West 22nd Street and will remain on view through 27 March 2021. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring an essay by poet, art critic, and curator John Yau. Fries reinterprets abstraction by sensationally combining a variety of textures and pigments to create striking and multidimensional gestural compositions. Working with a sophisticated assortment of mediums, Fries alters the way in which the materials interact on her luminous, white wooden surfaces. Her unique ability to transform pictorial space is conveyed through the textured and intricately layered elements of her paintings. The materiality of the applied paint rises from the surface, similar to a relief By interweaving copious amounts of oil paint with screen printed images ... More | |
Lola Alvarez Bravo. Frida Kahlo. Gelatin silver print, 8 3/8 à 6 1/4″ (21.3 à 15.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Helen Kornblum in honor of Roxana Marcoci. © Center for Creative Photography (CCP), University of Arizona, Tucson.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art has received a major gift of 100 photographs from the Helen Kornblum Collection, adding significant examples of women artists pioneering achievements across the field. The collectionincluding avantgarde experimentation, photojournalism, social documentary, commercial studio photography, and advertising, among other practicesis filled with both rare and important works and lesser-known or under-represented examples spanning the history of the medium. The gift features iconic images from the early modernist period to today by such luminaries as Gertrud Arndt, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Claude Cahun, Laura Gilpin, Kati Horna, Germaine Krull, Dora Maar, and Lucia Moholi, and contemporaries including Flor Garduño, Louise Lawler, Sharon Lockhart, Susan Meiselas, ... More |
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| Bonhams announces New York Asia Week sale highlights for March 2021 | | Bertoia's to auction magnificent Schroeder antique bank & toy collection | | Jonathan Trayte's second solo exhibition at Friedman Benda opens in New York |
A rare Cizhou green-glazed and iron-black-brown-painted and incised 'peony' baluster vase Northern Song-Jin Dynasty, 12th century, Guantai Kiln, Cixian, Hebei Province. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- An incredibly rare and museum-quality 11th century brass figure of Vajravarahi from Northeastern India, dating from the Pala Period; an important 10th century lacquered wood sculpture of Amida Buddha; and a wonderful grouping of Ming and Qing lacquer wares from the Collection of Robert W. Moore are among the highlights of Bonhams New York Asia Week sales announced today. This March, Bonhams New York will present a plethora of fine and rare works from a range of art historical periods throughout Asias past and present, the sales include: Chinese Works of Art and Paintings on Monday, March 15 at 10AM EST, Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art on Tuesday, March 16 at 6PM EST, and Fine Japanese and Korean Art on Wednesday, March 17 at 10AM EST. This sale offers treasured works of art from a series of prestigious private collections from America, led by the Ming and Qing lacquer ... More | |
J. & E. Stevens (American), Girl Skipping Rope cast-iron mechanical bank. Book example depicted in Blair Whitton's 1981 reference Clockwork Toys. Pristine to near-mint condition. Estimate $70,000-$100,000.
VINELAND, NJ.- Another illustrious entry will soon join the list of legendary collections that have passed through the portals of Bertoia Auctions New Jersey gallery. As confirmed by company president Michael Bertoia, the Aaron and Abby Schroeder mechanical bank and antique toy collection considered by many to be in a league of its own will be auctioned by Bertoias on March 5-6, with Part II scheduled for fall of 2021. The vast private collection encompasses the finest of late 19th- to early 20th-century American cast iron, including incomparable mechanical and still banks, horse-drawn and bell toys, and rare cap guns and cap bombs. An extraordinary selection of early American tin and clockwork toys, including museum-worthy classics made by Ives, is beautifully complemented by an array of European tin that includes many boxed Lehmann and Martin character windups, tin autos, aeronautical toys and ... More | |
Jonathan Trayte [British, b. 1980] Orange Foam, Cola Moon (1), 2020. Stainless steel, foam, polymer compound, pigments, nylon flock, crushed glass, reinforced plastics, horse hair, lightfittings, 102.25 x 65.25 x 15.75 inches, 260 x 166 x 40 cm. Courtesy of Friedman Benda and Jonathan Trayte.
NEW YORK, NY.- Friedman Benda is presenting MelonMelonTangerine, British artist Jonathan Traytes second solo exhibition at the gallery. Informed by Traytes recent 2000-mile road trip through the Western United States, MelonMelonTangerine offers an outsiders perspective on the American landscape. As an avid observer, Trayte poignantly examines the ways in which we perceive and utilize natural resources through his signature tongue-in-cheek sensibility. With a keen perception and eye for the obscure, Trayte finds the surreal in our everyday surroundings and within the fabric of daily life. Realized while in isolation amidst the current pandemic, he recalls hazy visions of sedimentary rock formations, Joshua trees, lichens, silver cholla cacti and prickly pear fruits to inform this new body of work. A visual raconteur, Trayte ... More |
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| How car collecting powered through the pandemic | | Galerie Guido W. Baudach announces new exhibition format: BACKSTAGE | | Matthew Wong landscape to lead Phillips' New Now auction on 3 March |
Details on the 1949 MG TC that Phil Linhares bought online in November, in Oakland, Calif., Feb. 2, 2021. Kelsey McClellan/The New York Times.
by Robert C. Yeager
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Joe Boyd, a civil litigation lawyer in Macon, Georgia, had been scouting for a 1970s Toyota Land Cruiser for some time. Last May, in the thick of the pandemic, he pounced. Id just started my own solo practice, but all the courts were closed because of COVID-19, said Boyd, 49, who spotted a fully restored 1975 model in an online ad. So it turned out to be a great time for me to do this. Grabbing a buddy, he flew some 900 miles to Garage Kept Motors in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and drove away with his dream car which came with a refinished matching trailer and its own roof-mounted surfboard for $27,000. Rather than back away from classic automobiles because of the pandemic, buyers flocked to them, sometimes in stunning numbers. Online auto sales and auctions, starting to gain ... More | |
Andy Hope 1930, An Impossible Place, 2018, acrylic, lacquer and fake wound on board, framed, 53,5 Ã 43,5 cm I 21 Ã 17 in.
BERLIN.- BACKSTAGE is a new format within which Galerie Guido W. Baudach will from now on regularly highlight special individual works and series by one or thematically selected works by various artists, independently of the regular exhibition program and both physically in the gallery's showroom and virtually online on the gallerys website. The prelude, entitled Landscape as Vision, gathers a compilation of works that, despite partly differing genres, formulate a similarly surreal-abstract conception of the common subject. This first BACKSTAGE presentation, featuring works by Tamina Amadyar, Andy Hope 1930, Erwin Kneihsl and Thomas Zipp, will be on view from February 18 to March 20, 2021. Tamina Amadyar's quite early painting malibu, 2015, appears as an almost minimalist interpretation of the Pacific horizon northwest of Los Angeles, a seascape in which the sunny yellow prevailing on site meets the rich ... More | |
Matthew Wong, Lotus (detail). Estimate: $400,000-600,000 © 2021 Monita K.Y. Cheng / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips first New York auction of 2021, the livestreamed New Now sale on 3 March will feature over 200 works by some of todays most sought-after artists, including Matthew Wong, Hernan Bas, Joy Labinjo, Lucas Arruda, Eric Parker, and Vaughn Spann. A staple of the auction season known for championing emerging talent, the New Now sale features the auction debut of Jan-Ole Schiemann, Nikki Maloof, Brandon Landers, Raúl de Nieves and Allison Zuckerman. Works of exceptional provenance will be included, with McArthur Binion's Looking for White: One, 2013 hailing from the esteemed Collection of Pamela and William Royall. The sale will also feature Nam June Paiks Gotherbot , 1994, from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, and a selection of cutting-edge works from the Tiroche DeLeon Collection demonstrate the breadth and innovation of some ... More |
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Dix Noonan Webb sells three 'secret' C.I.A. medals for £22,000
LONDON.- An important group of Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A) medals presented to one of Americas greatest intelligence officers sold for £22,000 (hammer price) seven times their pre-sale estimate - at Dix Noonan Webb in auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Wednesday, February 17, 2021. The medals - each framed and hidden behind a lithograph picture of the Middle East were being sold by the family and had been expected to fetch £2,000-3,000. They were bought by a London-based buyer who was new to DNW but was fascinated with spy-related items. Described by espionage expert, John Barron, author of KGB: Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents, as: one of Americas greatest intelligence officers, the medals were awarded to legendary veteran C.I.A. officer Jim Fees (born in Nebraska in 1931) who, from ... More
Soviet star and New Year's icon Andrei Myagkov dies at 82
MOSCOW (AFP).- Andrei Myagkov, a Russian actor whose box office hits including New Year's Eve favourite "The Irony of Fate" became iconic across the Soviet Union, has died in Moscow aged 82. Myagkov starred in some of the biggest classics of Soviet cinema and "The Irony of Fate" -- a 1976 romantic comedy -- continues to be watched across Russia and the countries of the ex-Soviet Union on every New Year's Eve. The press service of the Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT), where Myagkov worked for decades, said that the "great artist who was loved by the people" passed away in the early hours of Thursday morning. The statement did not specify the cause of death. Myagkov was born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in 1938, as a child surviving the prolonged siege of the city during World War II. At the start of his acting career Myagkov ... More
Boston Symphony Orchestra names first woman chief executive
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Boston Symphony Orchestra announced Thursday that Gail Samuel, the chief operating officer of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, would become its next chief executive, making her the first woman to lead the institution in its 140-year history. In picking her, the orchestra looked west, to one of the most successful American orchestras of recent years, for its choice to succeed Mark Volpe, who led the Boston Symphony for 23 years. Samuel will be responsible for steering the organization out of one of its most dire crises: The pandemic has left the Boston Symphony, one of the nations wealthiest orchestras, struggling after months of lost revenues and deep uncertainty around when live audiences will return. Samuel will become Bostons president and chief executive in June. By the time she leaves ... More
Museum welcomes Miranda Aisling as new Education Manager
GLOUCESTER, MASS.- The Cape Ann Museum welcomed Miranda Aisling as the new Education Manager. Her mission is to reconnect art to daily life, a purpose she brings to her new work developing programs for the Museum including a new virtual lecture series this month. As a practicing artist and community organizer, I believe that creativity is an innate human skill, says Aisling. Some people suppress it, others develop it, but everyone has it. In my new role at the Cape Ann Museum, Im excited to create avenues to celebrate and amplify the incredible creativity in this community, both past and present. Among one of her first initiatives, in response to the continued state-wide limit on large gatherings, is to bring the Museums gallery talks online with the CAM Virtual Lecture Series. The first such event was held on January 29. Up ... More
The Paul Guaraglia Collection of Model Trains goes up for bid at Turner Auctions + Appraisals
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present The Paul Guaraglia Collection of Model Trains on Saturday, March 6, 2021, at 10:30 am PST. Featuring over 220 lots, the sale presents a variety of train offerings, including locomotives, various train cars, sets, accessories, buildings and other structures, track sections, switches, transformers, parts, and other items to enhance train layouts. Among the manufacturers are Lionel, Marx, Ives, MTH, Fleischmann, Mantua, Roundhouse, Bachmann, American Flyer, Weaver, Rail King and others, in Standard, O, S, HO, N and Z gauges. Dinky and Matchbox Toys, several wind-up sets, and other train-related items round out the sale. A San Francisco Bay Area resident, Paul Guaraglia is a long-time model train enthusiast who has collected for well over 50 years. Housed in a separate room ... More
Discover what's new in art when The Other Art Fair returns to Sydney next month
SYDNEY.- Drop-in life drawing, surprise urban interventions and live tattooing are just some of whats on offer at The Other Art Fair Sydney 2021 autumn edition, to be held from 18 to 21 March at Barangaroo Reserves The Cutaway. 110 emerging artists have been selected to exhibit, with more than 70 of these artists making their debut at The Other Art Fair Sydney. Presented by Saatchi Art, The Other Art Fair provides visitors with the unique opportunity to discover and buy contemporary art direct from emerging artists in a fun and relaxed environment. This edition of the fair will be followed by The Other Art Fair Sydney: Virtual Edition from 23 to 28 March 2021, which will take place in a virtual environment set within The Cutaway. The Guest Artist for the Virtual Edition is singer-songwriter and artist Brandon Boyd (Incubus), whose ... More
Two new exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery explore the power of storytelling
VANCOUVER.- On February 20, the Vancouver Art Gallery opens Sun Xun: Mythological Time and Stories that animate us, two dynamic and compelling exhibitions that draw from a diverse range of oral histories, narratives, knowledge systems and cosmologies. In his first solo exhibition in Canada, Sun Xun employs printmaking and animation to produce ambitious works that contend with notions of time and history, fantasy and reality, and ideology and myth. In his highly imaginative video installation Mythological Time (2016), Sun takes viewers on a journey through his hometown of Fuxin in northern China, a coalmining centre facing the depletion of its economic lifeblood. Premiering at the Vancouver Art Gallery is Suns most recent work, Mythology or Rebellious Bone (2020), an epic 31-metre scroll comprised of Buddhist deities and fictional ... More
Sharif Bey presents work from four ongoing series at albertz benda
NEW YORK, NY.- I was raised in an anti-imperialist household - that was the culture, Sharif Bey explains, a culture of asking, of questioning, of pushing back on the narratives that media has fed to us. Over the past thirty years, Bey has channeled this impulse into his clay practice. In Revelations in Power, on view at albertz benda from February 18 through March 27, 2021, Bey presents work from four ongoing series Protest Shields, Power Figures, Necklaces, and Babel Staffs. Revelations in Power represents the artists first gallery exhibition in New York, following institutional acquisitions of works from these series by the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX; and preceding Beys major solo exhibition at Carnegie Museum in October 2021. Investigating the symbolic and formal properties of archetypal motifs, ... More
How a scrappy arts group survived the '90s
(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When things are tough all around us, we dream, composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe wrote in a letter to potential donors in 1996. Bang on a Can, the contemporary music organization they had founded a decade before, had recently lost about a fifth of its budget because of massive cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts. But Gordon, Lang and Wolfe were undeterred. Its a Bang on a Can thing, they added in the letter. Just as arts funding is collapsing, were mounting new projects to build a new audience for a new kind of music. Within a year, the group had started one such project: the Peoples Commissioning Fund, an innovative program which pooled small donations in order to commission composers to write works for a house ensemble, the Bang on a Can All-Stars. This venture ... More
Billie Holiday's story depends on who's telling it
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, the story of Billie Holiday, the legendary jazz singer, came to her in dribs and drabs. When Parks was growing up, she said, our parents would tell us, She had a tragic story. And then, as we got a little older, She used drugs. And then as we got a little older, my mom would start saying things like, you know, they got to her. But she didnt really get into it. In the forthcoming drama The United States vs. Billie Holiday, Parks, who wrote the screenplay, really gets into it, placing many of Holidays better-known battles with heroin addiction, Jim Crow-era racism, and a seemingly endless string of swindlers and cads in the context of her lesser-known struggles with Harry J. Anslinger, the unabashedly racist head of the now-defunct Federal Bureau of Narcotics. ... More
One album released by 44 labels. Is this the new global jukebox?
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When coronavirus lockdowns began to grow among Indonesias 900 inhabited islands late last March, Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi, like many artists worldwide, began to fret over their musical future. During the last decade, their duo, Senyawa, has emerged as one of the lone international emissaries of Indonesias rich experimental scene. They have hopscotched among the islands of Southeast Asia and flown abroad for prestigious festivals, earning 90% of their income on tour. Their tumultuous mix of heavy-metal aggression and free-jazz bedlam bellowed in Shabaras athletic baritone, backed with Suryadis elaborate homemade instruments has dispelled notions that all Indonesian music chimes like gamelan or hypnotizes like one of its folk forms. When Senyawa started, if someone knew about Indonesia, ... More
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TIM VAN LAERE GALLERY
Madelynn Green
Patrick Angus
Flashback On a day like today, Romanian-French artist Constantin Brâncuși was born February 19, 1876. Constantin Brâncuși (February 19, 1876 - March 16, 1957) was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered a pioneer of modernism, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century, In this image: The 1911 gilded bronze sculpture "Prometheus" by Constantin Brancusi is displayed during a preview of "Brancusi Serra" at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao October 7, 2011. Curator Oliver Wick described the third element of the interaction between the two sculptors as Frank Gehry, architect of the museum.
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