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Exhibition view: Amerika! Disney, Rockwell, Pollock, Warhol Photo: Ulrich Perrey.
HAMBURG.- The exhibition America! Disney, Rockwell, Pollock, Warhol presents works by these four American icons side by side for the first time. With their portrayals of the American way of life, all four artists were instrumental in shaping the image of America worldwide in both high and popular culture. The show features a total of some 170 paintings, drawings and graphic works from internationally renowned collections such as the Tate, the Stedelijk Museum, Museum Ludwig and Museum Brandhorst. Walt Disney, Norman Rockwell, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol were all pioneers in their respective artistic fields. Together, they created an image of the USA that is still indelibly etched in our collective visual memory. Disney breathed life into pictures and coloured the dreams of entire generations of children and adults with animated films such as Fantasia, Bambi and Sleeping Beauty. Norman Rockwell, still relatively unknown in Germany, was a pictorial chronicler of American life in the fir ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Hauser & Wirth is presenting an exhibition by Jenny Holzer, titled 'A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE', at Tarmak 22 in Gstaad-Saanen Airport, on view from 27 December 2019 - 22 January 2020. The presentation showcases works spanning the artist's practice, including stone benches, LEDs, and paintings. Concurrently, Holzer is projecting large, scrolling texts in light on the stately Gstaad Palace. Jenny Holzer. A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE. Tarmak 22, Gstaad. © Jenny Holzer. ARS, NY and DACS, London 2019.
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| | Artforum lawsuit can go forward, but not the claims against Landesman | | Italian Vogue won't publish photos this month | | Dwarf T-rex dinosaurs probably did not exist: study |
Amanda Schmitt, the former Artforum employee who filed a complaint in late 2017 against the magazine and Knight Landesman, in New York, on Oct. 25, 2017. Celeste Sloman/The New York Times.
by Nancy Coleman
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In a ruling on one of the art worlds notable #MeToo lawsuits, a court found that Artforum magazine can be held responsible for retaliation against a former employee but that Knight Landesman, the influential former publisher whom the employee accused of sexual harassment, legally remains in the clear. Amanda Schmitt, who started at Artforum in 2009 when she was 21, filed a complaint in late 2017. Landesman accused in the lawsuit of groping, attempting to kiss and sending lewd messages to at least nine women in incidents stretching back a decade resigned hours later. Early last year, the lawsuit was dismissed. But a New York appeals court reversed parts of that decision last week, in a ruling ... More | |
In an undated image provided by Vogue Italia, a Vogue Italia cover by Milo Manara, with the model Olivia Vinten. Via Vogue Italia via The New York Times.
by Jessica Testa
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- What is a fashion magazine without photo shoots? Without those glossy images of models, photographed in glamorous locales and produced by a small army of hairstylists, makeup artists, editors and assistants? Its a more environmentally friendly magazine, for one. Or so says Italian Vogue, which aims to make a statement about sustainability this month by omitting photo shoots. In his January 2020 note to readers, Emanuele Farneti, the editor-in-chief, described what it takes to fill one issue of his magazine (in this example, the traditionally thick September issue) with original photographs: One hundred and fifty people involved. About twenty flights and a dozen or so train journeys. Forty cars on standby. Sixty international deliveries. Lights ... More | |
Holly Woodward showing Jane bone tissue.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- For three decades, paleontologists the world over have been split over a provocative finding: did a dwarf species of Tyrannosaurus rex really once exist? In 1988, paleontologist Robert Bakker and his colleagues at the Cleveland (Ohio) Museum of Natural History reclassified a specimen first discovered in 1942 and displayed at the museum. It was, they said, the first known member of a small new species they baptized as the Nanotyrannus. Then, in 2001, another team discovered the nearly complete skeleton of a small Tyrannosaurus near the town of Ekalaka in Montana, in the rich and intensively studied fossil formation known as Hell Creek. They named the creature -- barely bigger than a draft horse -- Jane and soon classified it as a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex. But a minority of specialists continued to insist that it was part of the newly classified Nanotyrannus species. They pointed to the morphology of its skull and bones, which they said differed ... More |
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| | Gallery NAGA opens exhibitions of works by Peter Brooke & Peri Schwartz and Julia von Metzsch Ramos | | Martin Scorsese is letting go | | Andrew Jones Auctions to offer fine art from the collection of Gerard Leon Cafesjian |
Peri Schwartz, Studio #20c, 2019. Monotype collage, 31 x 22.5 in (78.7 x 57.2 cm). Image courtesy of the artist and Gallery NAGA.
BOSTON, MASS.- To ring in the New Year, Gallery NAGA presents symbolic, sea-inspired paintings by Julia von Metzsch Ramos and abstracted works on paper by Peter Brooke and Peri Schwartz. Peter Brooke & Peri Schwartz: Works on Paper and Julia von Metzsch Ramos: Surrounding Kettle Island both run from January 3 to 25. Peter Brooke and Peri Schwartz are widely known for their large-scale paintings on canvas and wood panel. But for most of Brookes and Schwartzs painting careers, they have made a quiet habit of working on paper. Brookes paintings are fabrications solidly based on memories of his surroundings. Neither specific as to place or time, all the paintings share a metaphysical quality. His new body of work reduces his landscapes to forms co-existing in space. Brooke, as always, manages to draw viewers into a world of imaginary scenery capturing not only the physical beauty but also the evanescence of feeling. The ab ... More | |
The filmmaker Martin Scorsese in New York on Dec. 11, 2019. Philip Montgomery/The New York Times.
by Dave Itzkoff
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Martin Scorsese is the most alive hes been in his work in a long time, brimming with renewed passion for filmmaking and invigorated by the reception that has greeted his latest gangland magnum opus, The Irishman. And what he wants to talk about is death. Just to be clear, hes not talking about the deaths in his movies or anyone elses. You just have to let go, especially at this vantage point of age, he said one Saturday afternoon last month. The 77-year-old director was stretched out in a comfortable chair in a living room of his Manhattan townhouse, a seat he would rise from several times when a whimsical mood struck him during a spirited conversation about mortality and its inevitability. As he explained, Scorsese was talking about setting aside his expectations for The Irishman. But he also meant relinquishing physical possessions: The point is to get rid of everything ... More | |
Oil on canvas by Slava Groshev (Russian, b. 1968), titled Chamomile and Clover, 2004, 39 ¾ inches by 27 ¾ inches, signed and dated twice, titled in English and Cyrillic (est. $3,000-$5,000).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Andrew Jones Auctions will kick off the new year and the new decade on Saturday, January 11th, 2020 with a very special sale dedicated to fine art from the collection of Gerard Leon Cafesjian (N.Y., 1925-2013), the legal publishing legend, art connoisseur and philanthropist who collected with a discerning eye and an adventurous spirit. The auction will be held online and in the Andrew Jones Auctions gallery located at 2221 South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, starting promptly at 10:30 am Pacific time. Internet bidding will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. In all, 140 lots will come up for bid, to include contemporary paintings, sculptures, prints and mixed media works. In six decades of collecting, Gerard Cafesjian broadened his vision and honed his eye to bring together international avant-garde works that make statements, reveal beauty, display ... More |
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| | The Frick Collection shines a long-overdue light on the ingenuity and prominence of Bertoldo di Giovanni | | Exhibition explores the sculptural possibilities of black, or the absence of color | | Mustang from famed 'Bullitt' car chase heads to auction |
Exhibition gallery view of Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence; photo: Michael Bodycomb.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection is presenting the first exhibition devoted to the Renaissance sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni (ca. 14401491). It shines a long-overdue light on the ingenuity and prominence of the Florentine artist, who was a student of Donatello, a teacher of Michelangelo, a favorite of Lorenzo de Medici, and an active collaborator with many other artists. By uniting nearly his entire extant oeuvremore than twenty statuettes, reliefs, medals, a life-sized statue, and a monumental frieze never before shown outside of Italythe show demonstrates the artists creative process and ingenious design across media, his engaging lyrical style, and especially, the essential role he played in the development of Italian Renaissance sculpture. Indeed, Bertoldo was one of the earliest sculptors since antiquity to create statuettes in bronze, an art form that became ubiquitous in prestigious collections during the fifte ... More | |
Jami Porter Lara, LDS-MHB-WVBR-0519CE-10 2019 Pit-foraged clay, 12.25 x 7.25 x 5.25 inches.
SANTA FE, NM.- Bringing together five artists who explore the sculptural possibilities of black, or the absence of color, SHADOW examines the shape of darkness in the field of contemporary ceramics. Cary Esser is Chair of Ceramics at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her work focuses on the parfleche, a dried-hide Native American form she reinterprets with powerful and intense black ceramic surfaces. New work by Del Harrow, Associate Professor at Colorado State University, is a confluence of form, material and process using volumetric shapes with both manual and mechanized production methods. Los Angeles based artist Ben Jackel, a graduate of the University of Colorado, uses the force of darkness to exaggerated effect with his oversize sculptures of protective armor. Jami Porter Lara maintains her studio in Albuquerque and uses a millennia-old ceramics technique indigenous to the Chihuahuan desert, creating contemporary sculptures inspired by the most ... More | |
The interior of the dark-green 1968 Ford Mustang fastback made famous by Steve McQueen in the movie "Bullitt." Mecum Auctions via The New York Times.
by Jerry Garrett
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Steve McQueen piloted it in the movie Bullitt, and for the next 50 years it was mostly a ghost. Now its heading to auction, and the speedy dark-green 1968 Ford Mustang fastback is expected to break records when it crosses the block next week at a Mecum event in Florida. Bravely, its owner is offering the rusty, dented, largely unrestored car without reserve, which means it will sell to the highest bidder however low that bid is. The seller, Sean Kiernan, a Tennessee horse farm owner, says he is not worried that the bid will be too low. He figures the price could approach $5 million. Certainly, he adds, the car will sell for more than the $3,500 his father, Bob, paid for it in 1974. It took only 10 minutes of screen time the length of Hollywoods most acclaimed movie car chase for the Mustang ... More |
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| | Heritage Auctions' weekly online Comics, Animation & Art Auctions expand into two-day format | | Victoria Sancho Lobis named Director of new Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College | | Haute Photographie returns to Art Rotterdam Week |
Samuel Armstrong Goofy and the Tiger Hunt Cover Original Art (Whitman, 1954).
DALLAS, TX.- Steady growth and the opportunity to reach a wider audience have prompted Heritage Auctions to change the format of its Weekly Comics, Animation and Comic Art online auctions into two-day events. Under the new format, comic books will be offered on Sundays in each weeks sale. Original art, animation art and video games, will be offered on Mondays. The new format will allow auction sessions to finish earlier, a benefit that will be particularly appealing to collectors in later time zones. We made this change to address the one downside of having so much quality material, namely that the live sessions had been ending a bit too late in the evening, Heritage Auctions Vice President Barry Sandoval said. Of course, as always, bidders can place their secret maximum bids anytime during the preceding week. The weekly online comics auctions have enjoyed ... More | |
Since 2013, Lobis has served in a range of curatorial and administrative roles at The Art Institute of Chicago.
CLAREMONT, CA.- Victoria Sancho Lobis, a talented art historian, curator and administrator whose most recent curatorial appointment was at The Art Institute of Chicago, will become the director of the new Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, starting Jan. 6. Since 2013, Lobis has served in a range of curatorial and administrative roles at The Art Institute of Chicago, and she was interim chair of the Department of Prints and Drawings in 2016-17. She recently completed a multi-year project related to the Art Institutes holdings of Dutch and Flemish drawings, culminating in a scholarly catalogue and exhibition, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age. Lobis was instrumental in developing the Art Institutes permanent collection in the field of Dutch and Flemish prints and drawings, and she also contributed to an institution-wide effort to enhance the representation ... More | |
Rabia Omanette, 2019. © Bastiaan Woudt. Courtesy Kahmann Gallery.
ROTTERDAM.- Haute Photographie returns to Rotterdam for the fifth time with a focus on the diversity of the photographic landscape. To keep the concept of the boutique fair alive, the list of participating galleries is once again select and varied. The selection includes some of the best galleries in the Netherlands as well as international institutions ranging from New York to Madrid and from Paris to Zürich. Like in previous years, vintage photography has its own sections as well. Rotterdams boutique photography fair returns during Art Rotterdam Week, the biggest art event of the Netherlands, to create new experiences for art collectors and photography enthusiasts alike. Haute Photographie will take place from 6 to 9 February 2020 at LP2 in Rotterdam. Haute is delighted to announce the 50 participating artists, as well as this years six Haute Talents and the high-quality book market. ... More |
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NGV invites entries for The Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing
MELBOURNE.- As part of Melbourne Art Book Fair, March 1315 2020, the NGV invites entries for The Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing from publishers, artists, designers, writers, curators and organisations around the world whose publishing practice explores art, design, architecture and contemporary culture. Now in its fourth year, this NGV initiative will award AUD 15,000 for the winning book, with additional AUD 1,000 prizes for up to four finalists. The winner will be announced at Melbourne Art Book Fair 2020, which runs as part of Melbourne Design Week March 1122. The annual prize presented as part of Melbourne Art Book Fair 2020 is generously supported by philanthropists Caroline and Philip Cornish and recognises publishing as a critical creative practice, supporting innovation in the field. Tony Ellwood, Director, NGV, said, "The NGV ... More
Poland's Chopin contest ever popular in Asia
WARSAW (AFP).- A record 500-plus young pianists, nearly half from Asia, applied to take part in the 2020 edition of Poland's prestigious Chopin competition, its organisers said Thursday. Winning the event, which began in 1927 and is held every five years in the Polish capital, is seen as a ticket to playing the greatest venues in the world. It is reserved for pianists between the ages of 16 and 30. The 19th-century French-Polish romantic composer's music has long drawn pianists from Asian countries like China and Japan and this year's competition is no exception. More than 100 of the applicants for the 18th edition come from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the Warsaw-based Fryderyk Chopin Institute told AFP. There were also strong representations from Japan, with more than 90 applicants, and Poland, with more than 60. Thirty-five of the individuals are South ... More
Nye & Company Auctioneers announces Collectors' Passion Auction slated for January 15th
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- A major auction focusing primarily on Americana and the traditional collecting aesthetics, and timed to kick off just ahead of Americana Week in New York, is planned for Wednesday, January 15th by Nye & Company Auctioneers, online and in the firms gallery at 20 Beach Street in Bloomfield, starting at 10 am Eastern time. Internet bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. The catalog will also be posted to the Nye & Company website around the turn of the year. The sale is officially titled a Collectors Passion Auction. We invite collectors, institutions and the trade in New York that week to come over to New Jersey by way of train, bus or car, said Andrew Holter of Nye & Company Auctioneers. Were located 15 miles outside of the Lincoln Tunnel and are easily accessible, and close to, mass transit centers. ... More
Exhibition presents concrete art from the Nordic countries in a collection never before seen in the U.S
NEW YORK, NY.- On view through February 15, 2020 at Scandinavia House, Cutting Edges: Nordic Concrete Art from the Erling Neby Collection presents concrete art from the Nordic countries in a collection never before seen in the U.S. Curated by Karin Hellandsjø, Director Emeritus of the Henie Onstad Art Centre, this exhibition presents over 30 key works from major artists in painting, drawing, and sculpture. Recently featured in the New York Times Holiday Art Guide, the exhibition has been on view from October 12, 2019 and has had related programming including a opening night discussion with Norwegian collector Erling Neby and curator Karin Hellandsjø, and childrens art workshops with Studio Finna, Sari Nordman, and Marte Ekhougen; a panel with various guest speakers will also take place on Saturday, February 1, 2020. A practice ... More
A séance relies on illusion. So does theater
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Listen. Just listen. Not with your ears, but with the part behind and a little above your eyes. These are the instructions that Hilda (Emily Cass McDonnell) issues in the opening moments of Lucas Hnaths The Thin Place, a drama and occasional skin-crawler about a young woman trained by her grandmother in extrasensory perception. When Hilda was a girl, she tells us, she and her grandmother would play a game. They would sit across from each other, and her grandmother would send her a word. Hilda would open her third eye, just behind and a little above the other two, and somehow she would hear it. The game continued even after her grandmother died. Late in the show, which I saw on a weeknight, just before Christmas, Hilda played it with us. Im sure everyone in that audience recognized Hnaths ... More
Review: The searing beauty of Kentridge's 'Wozzeck' at the Met
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Alban Bergs bleak opera Wozzeck might not seem suited to the holiday season. One of the least cheerful pieces in the repertory, it tells the story of an impoverished and increasingly delusional soldier driven to murder and suicide. Yet this time of year is also a moment to take stock. And few works look at life with more searing honesty than Wozzeck. The issues that drive this wrenching, profound opera are especially timely: the impact of economic inequality on struggling families; the looming threats of war and environmental destruction; the rigid stratification almost militarization of every element of society. Those themes resonate through the artist William Kentridges extraordinary production of Wozzeck, which opened at the Metropolitan Opera on Friday evening. That it arrives as 2020 beckons ... More
Review: Arthur Miller's dying 'Salesman' is reborn in London
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The tired old man has had an unexpected transfusion. And he has seldom seemed more alive or more doomed. Whats most surprising about Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwells beautiful revival of Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman, which I mercifully caught near the end of its West End run here at the Piccadilly Theater, is how vital it is. As Willy Loman, the title character of this epochal 1949 drama, lives out his last, despondent days, what has often felt like a plodding walk to the grave in previous incarnations becomes a propulsive and compulsively watchable dance of death. Portrayed by a splendid Wendell Pierce (The Wire and Treme on television), Willy lacks the stooped shoulders and slumped back with which he is traditionally associated. (Its the posture immortalized in the book cover for the original ... More
Study: More women than ever are directing major films
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- From the earliest days of Hollywood, women directors have been staggeringly outnumbered by men. While that still holds true, in 2019 there was a notable shift. According to new research, more than 10% of the directors on last years top films were women, more than twice as many as in 2018 and the highest number in over a decade. The top-grossing films featuring female directors in 2019 included Captain Marvel, Frozen II, Hustlers, Abominable, Little, Little Women, and Queen & Slim. The study, by the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative at the University of Southern California, found that of 113 directors attached to the years top 100 films, 12 were women, compared with just five in 2018. Examining the 1,300 top films from 2007 through to 2019, the Annenberg researchers found that on average just ... More
Record year for the Finnish National Gallery museums
HELSINKI.- More than 808,000 art lovers visited the three museums of the Finnish National Gallery; Ateneum Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma and Sinebrychoff Art Museum. This is the largest combined number of visitors the museums have ever had, and a record-breaking number for both Kiasma and Sinebrychoff Art Museum separately. Over of 378,500 visitors visited the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. The previous record was reached during Kiasma's opening year in 1998, when the museum had 350,000 visitors. Sinebrychoff Art Museum received nearly 69,000 visitors in 2019. The previous record was set in 2003 when 66,600 visitors were recorded. Ateneum Art Museum was visited by over 361,000 visitors in 2019. A warm thank you to all the art lovers who have discovered the wide range of exhibitions, performances ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German-French painter August Macke was born January 03, 1887. August Macke (3 January 1887 - 26 September 1914) was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art: he saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe. In this image: August Macke, Landschaft mit hellem Baum, 1914. Aquarell uber Bleistift, 22.2 x 30.9 cm. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett. Photo: bpk, Jorg P. Anders.
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