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Roberto Polo at the Center for Modern and Contemporary Art of Castilla-La Mancha, which showcases pieces from Polos personal collection, in Toledo, Spain, Jan. 18, 2021. Two new art spaces funded by a Spanish regional government showcase Polo's vast holdings of modern and contemporary art, but dont mention his checkered past. Gianfranco Tripodo/The New York Times.
by Raphael Minder
CUENCA (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- He was once described by Vanity Fair as a Gatsby for the Reagan era, but until recently, life has been quieter for Cuban American art collector Roberto Polo. Polo, a financier whose roller-coaster career included a major art fraud scandal that landed him in prison, recently resurfaced in central Spain, where last month he defied the coronavirus pandemic to inaugurate a museum in the medieval hilltop city of Cuenca that is devoted to his collection. His first art space opened in 2019 in Toledo, a city that once hosted the Spanish court of the Holy Roman Empire. For Polo, the two museums, collectively known as the Roberto Polo Collection: Center for Modern and Contemporary Art of Castilla-La Mancha, are a chance to establish a legacy and draw a line under his checkered past. Polos museums are both in the region of Castilla-La Mancha and stem from an agreement between the collector and the regions government. In return for a 15-year loan of 445 items from his colle ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Meticulously researched sketches of the Horti Lamiani, the pleasure garden of the Roman emperor Caligula, for mural depictions of the garden that will go in the Nymphaeum Museum in Rome, Dec. 9, 2020. Nadia Shira Cohen/The New York Times.
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| Exceptional works on paper collection to be offered in dedicated sale | | Art Basel, Swiss centerpiece of the trade's year, is postponed | | Rembrandt finally to be revealed in Allentown |
Vincent van Gogh, La Mousmé, reed pen and brown ink over pencil on paper,
31.3 x 23.9 cm, executed in Arles circa 31 July - 3 August 1888, estimate: $7,000,000-10,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- Christies will offer A Family Collection: Works on Paper, Van Gogh to Freud as a standalone sale dedicated to exceptional works on paper from a single collection, presented in New York preceding the Modern British Art Evening Sale in London on 1 March 2021. The group is highlighted by Vincent van Goghs La Mousmé (executed in Arles circa 31 July - 3 August 1888, estimate: $7,000,000-10,000,000), one of the finest works on paper of the artists career, René Magrittes Journal intime (executed circa 1954, estimate: $2,500,000-3,500,000), a scene depicting two of Magrittes iconic bowler-hatted men turned to stone, and a rare Self-portrait by Lucian Freud (executed in 1974, estimate: $1,800,000-2,500,000), which was recently included in the Royal Academys ... More | |
An attendee during the preview of Art Basel in Miami Beach on Dec. 4, 2019. John Taggart/The New York Times.
by Scott Reyburn
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The international art trades hopes of returning to some kind of in-person normality were set back Thursday when Art Basel announced that its flagship fair in Switzerland, scheduled for June, would be postponed until September. Because of the ongoing impact of the pandemic and travel restrictions worldwide, the fair has now been rescheduled for Sept. 23-26, Art Basel said in a statement. While the first phase of COVID-19 vaccination programs started in many parts of the world last month, 2021 is a year in which planning remains complex, said Marc Spiegler, Art Basels global director. By moving our Basel fair to September, we hope to offer our galleries greater possibility for successfully preparing their year. Following 10 months of vaccination programs ... More | |
Shan working on Rembrandt.
ALLENTOWN, PA.- After a delay of nearly a year due to COVID-19 restrictions, the Allentown Art Museum has targeted Sunday, January 24, 2021, as the date for the public unveiling of its 1632 painting Portrait of a Young Woman. The painting will be on display for the first time following conservation at New York Universitys Conservation Center and its heralded reattribution to the master himself, Rembrandt van Rijn. The painting is the centerpiece of the exhibition Rembrandt Revealed, which tracks the provenance of the masterwork over the centuries and offers a deep dive into the conservation process and the complexities of art attribution. Rembrandt Revealed opens to Museum members on January 23 and to the general public on January 24 and continues through May 2, 2021. Museum hours are Friday through Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Advanced ticketing is encouraged. The announcement of the reattribution of the painting ... More |
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| Virginia Museum of Art acquires work by German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | | Artprice global indices show the strength of contemporary art and drawing in 2020 | | Wood Gaylor, quietly dazzling, helped an art world invent itself |
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Taunus Road (Autostrasse im Taunus), 1916. Collection of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced today that it has acquired a major work by German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The oil painting, completed in 1916, is entitled Taunus Road (German: Autostrasse im Taunus). In September 2020, a private collector in Germany made the fair and just decision to restitute Kirchners painting to the Fischer family descendants who have donated it to VMFA through a gift-purchase arrangement. We are pleased that this painting, Taunus Road, was returned to the Fischer family and that it joins other paintings by Kirchner in the Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, said Alex Nyerges, VMFAs Director and CEO. The donation of this painting is the realization of a long-term commitment on behalf of both the Fischer family and VMFA to reunite restituted works from the Fischer ... More | |
Both segments adapted particularly well to rapid digitization.
PARIS.- As at 1 January 2021, the Artprice Global Indices are stronger actually stronger than twelve months earlier when the health crisis was still (almost) unthinkable. Six months ago no-one would have predicted such an outcome! In reality, the art market reacted quickly to the lockdown measures with auction houses slowing their high-end activities; but the overall intensity of trading remained extremely high and the unsold rate remained perfectly stable. The Contemporary Art price index even shows an extraordinary 48% increase. Thierry Ehrmann, President and Founder of Artmarket.com and its Artprice department: "the works that were resold at auction in 2020 generally fetched better prices. Two segments in particular stood out: works on paper (+55%) and Contemporary Art (+48%). However, you have to take into account the method used to calculate our indices and anticipate the fact that they tend to flatten naturally ... More | |
Wood Gaylor (American, 1883-1957), Arts Ball, 1918, 1918 (detail). Oil on canvas, 27 x 45 in. Private Collection.
by Roberta Smith
HUNTINGTON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the early decades of the 20th-century, things happened in the New York art world when painters like Walt Kuhn, Florine Stettheimer and Wood Gaylor took matters into their own hands. They established clubs and professional organizations and mounted exhibitions including the 1913 Armory Show, which jump-started American modernism with heady exposure to the European kind. They met weekly to draw from the model and founded schools, most notably the National Academy of Design. They collaborated on public art, costume balls and performances. They held banquets to honor visiting artists and auctions to raise money for their organizations, frequently buying one anothers work. They found and collected ... More |
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| Städel Museum and Deutsche Börse launch partnership | | Review: 'Painting With John' teaches the art of living | | Green Art Gallery opens an exhibition of conceptual works by Afra Al Dhaheri |
Städel Museum. Photo: Städel Museum.
FRANKFURT.- Deutsche Börse and Städel Museum are now launching their partnership, initially for a period of four years, according to the agreement. For more than two hundred years, the Städel Germanys oldest and most well-known museum foundation has stood for high-quality museum work and the reliable accompaniment of outstanding partners. The variety of the Städel collection provides a virtually complete survey of seven hundred years of European art from the early fourteenth century, the Renaissance and the Baroque to classic modernism and contemporary art. Besides the preservation and continuous expansion of the collection, the museum focuses mainly on scholarly research into its holdings as well as the development of special exhibitions that attract worldwide attention. The Städel is also known for its modern art communication activities, which combine state-of-the-art digital technologies with high scholarly as ... More | |
Artist and star of HBO's Painting with John, John Lurie, in New York, Jan. 14, 2021. Erik Tanner/The New York Times.
by James Poniewozik
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The title of HBOs Painting With John is a bit of a misnomer. Yes, there is painting. And there is John John Lurie, the multihyphenate creator and performer who moved on to visual art from music and acting years ago after, he says, contracting Lyme disease. But with? In the six-episode series, which begins Friday, you will watch Lurie paint. You will hear him ruminate about painting and his life before it, and whatever else crosses his mind. If you also want to paint, well, thats your call. But dont get your hopes up. Bob Ross was wrong, Lurie says, attending to a watercolor in the first episode. Everybody cant paint. Bob Ross this is not. This is no quarantine-friendly, relaxing tutorial about self-expression as self-care. (None of the trees in my paintings ... More | |
Afra Al Dhaheri, Absent Yet Present, 2020. Wood and metal door handle with key, 277 x 106 x 22 cm.
DUBAI.- Split Ends showcases a body of conceptual works by Afra Al Dhaheri that frame a liminal state of unlearning and readdressing. The cultural dichotomies of hair are framed throughout the exhibition simultaneously in both the understandings of hair through the domains of the public and private. The figure of the split endthat brittle fraying of a hair when it becomes too dryencapsulates the time and space between the start and finish of a transformation, or between an ending and its separation into a new beginning. The juxtaposition of the organic and inorganic, embody both strength and vulnerability. Rope mimics the delicate language of hair but also evokes processes of tying down, taming, and tidying. Concrete summons images of rigid architecture and cityscapes but here develops a softness, as well, adapting to the delicate intricacies of the human body. The Arabic title of the installation Fil Al Shaar, ... More |
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| Glamorous French star Nathalie Delon dies at 79 | | UK's Glastonbury cancelled again because of coronavirus | | Antonio Sabàto, spaghetti western leading man, dies at 77 |
In this file photo taken on May 4, 1972 French actress Nathalie Delon poses in the port of Cannes. Nathalie Delon has died at the age of 79, announced his son on January 21, 2021. STF / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The French actress Nathalie Delon -- once regarded as one of the most beautiful women in the world -- died of cancer on Thursday, her son told AFP. "My mother died this morning at 11 am in Paris, surrounded by her family and friends," actor Anthony Delon said. "She died from a very fast cancer," he told AFP. She was 79. Delon shot to international fame in 1967 in the hitman flick "Le Samourai" -- now hailed as a classic -- opposite her then husband, screen legend Alain Delon. But the actress -- who was born Francine Canovas to a Spanish family in Morocco -- was already a star of the gossip columns as the woman who lured Delon away from his longtime lover, film star Romy Schneider. Nathalie Delon would later have affairs with Hollywood actor Richard Burton and American singer Eddie Fisher -- the father of "Star Wars" actress Carrie Fisher -- both of whom had been married to Elizabeth Taylor. She met Delon in a Paris nightclub when she was 21 and ... More | |
In this file photo taken on June 29, 2019 Revellers watch as US band The Killers perform on the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival of Music and Performing Arts on Worthy Farm near the village of Pilton in Somerset, South West England. The organisers of Britain's Glastonbury Festival announced on January 21, 2021 they had been forced to cancel the music event for the second year in a row because of the coronavirus pandemic. OLI SCARFF / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Britain's Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled for the second year in a row because of the coronavirus pandemic, the organisers of the blockbuster music event said Thursday. "With great regret, we must announce that this year's Glastonbury Festival will not take place, and that this will be another enforced fallow year for us," organisers Michael and Emily Eavis said in a statement on Twitter. "In spite of our efforts to move heaven & earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the festival happen this year," the father and daughter duo added. Glastonbury Festival, held on a dairy farm in southwest England, was forced to cancel in 2020 -- the year of the event's 50th anniversary -- because of ... More | |
By the time that film was finally released, however, he had already caught a bigger break: being cast in John Frankenheimers 1966 car racing classic, Grand Prix. He starred as the Italian Formula One driver Nino Barlini, alongside James Garner and Yves Montand. The film won three Academy Awards, and Sabà to was recognized at the Golden Globes with a nomination for most promising newcomer.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As a boy growing up in Palermo, Sicily, in the 1950s, Antonio Sabà to dreamed of becoming a movie star. Hed sneak into cinemas to watch the latest films of Luchino Visconti. He ran away from home more than once to infiltrate the Cinecittà film studio in Rome and try to talk his way into jobs. He adored American movies and idolized Marlon Brando. Sabà to realized his ambition: He became a popular Italian actor known for his roles in a gamut of spaghetti Westerns and action movies from the 1960s through the 1980s. Among them were Beyond the Law, with Lee Van Cleef, and Twice a Judas, with Klaus Kinski, both from 1968. In 1983, he played resistance leader Dablone in the cult classic Escape From the Bronx. Sabà to died at 77 on Jan. 10 ... More |
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A literary trailblazer's solitary death: Charles Saunders, 73
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- This past Saturday, about a dozen people from across the United States and Canada held a Zoom memorial for a man whose remains have been lying in an unmarked grave in Nova Scotia since last spring. He was Charles Saunders, and his lonely death in May belied his status as a foundational figure in a literary genre known as sword and soul. Some 40 years ago, Saunders reimagined the white worlds of Tarzan and Conan with Black heroes and African mythologies in books that spoke especially to Black fans eager for more fictional champions with whom they could identify. Some of those on the Zoom call knew Saunders as a copy editor and writer for The Daily News of Halifax, a newspaper that went under in 2008. One first met him in the 1970s when he was teaching at Algonquin College in Ontario. Most ... More
Exhibition at the Clark Art Institute highlights the work of contemporary artist Erin Shirreff
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Clark Art Institute is featuring a new year-long exhibition highlighting the work of contemporary artist Erin Shirreff (Canadian, b. 1975). Erin Shirreff: Remainders presents photographs, prints, and video that examine Shirreffs fascination with the mythmaking behind art history through a practice that spans analog and digital media, two and three dimensions, and still and moving images. The free exhibition is on view in public spaces in the Lower Clark Center and the Reading Room of the Manton Research Center through January 2, 2022. The opportunity to present some of Erin Shirreffs recent works is an exciting extension of our ongoing engagement with contemporary artists, said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark Art Institute. Shirreffs work graces our public spaces with modernist forms that ... More
Ahlers & Ogletree's 'A Collector's Dream' auction tops $2 million
ATLANTA, GA.- A Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) carved cinnabar lidded box sold for $81,250, an oil on canvas equestrian painting by John Frederick Herring (British, 1795-1865) realized $62,000, and golf legend Bobby Joness personal 1950s-era shag/range bag finished at $27,900 in Ahlers & Ogletrees three-day A Collectors Dream Auction held January 15th-17th. The online-only auction featured important art and objects from the estate of the noted American art collector and philanthropist Jack Warner (1917-2017), items salvaged from the wreckage of the RMS Carpathia, and more than 1,000 lots of fine art, period antiques, decorative arts, silver, jewelry and Asian arts from prominent estates and collections. It netted a little over $2 million. The rectangular Chinese Ming Dynasty carved cinnabar lidded box was the sales ... More
Rare gold Cromwell coin sells for world record price of £471,200 at Dix Noonan Webb
LONDON.- An extremely fine and rare Oliver Cromwell 50 shilling gold coin, dating from 1656 by Thomas Simon, who was Cromwells chief engraver has sold for a World Record Price of £471,200 today (Thursday, January 21, 2021) by International coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists Dix Noonan Webb. It had been expected to fetch £100,000 150,000 and only 12 specimens are believed to exist, with most being in institutions. This example was bought by an American buyer after much interest on the phones and internet from countries such as the Far East, North America and the UK [lot 1142]. This was the fourth and final part of the North Yorkshire Moors Collection of Coins and Medals that had been amassed by American-born Marvin Lessen, he spent his career in the aerospace/defense industry, working in various ... More
Solo exhibition dedicated to the collage work of Hannelore Baron opens at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is presenting Hannelore Baron: Collages, a solo exhibition dedicated to the collage work of Hannelore Baron (1926-1987). This exhibition features twenty intimate and meticulously-composed collages from the 1980s. In her collage work that masterfully combines experimental printmaking techniques with found materials, Baron condensed a wide range of influences and an expansive concern for the human condition into intimately-scaled expressions of thought and feeling. She wrote of her work: The thoughts and feelings that underlie the collages are those of concern with the social issues and problems of the century, as well as the precariousness of existence at any time. [2] Inspired by ancient art, texts and textiles, religious iconography, and the disciplines of anthropology and archeology, among ... More
'Apter-Fredericks: 75 Years of Important English Furniture' sale totals £3,408,750
LONDON.- Apter-Fredericks: 75 Years of Important English Furniture offered live at Christie's on 19 January realised a total of £3,408,750 across the 138 lots offered, exceeding its pre-sale low estimate by 174%. The sale comprised English furniture and works of art from distinguished provenances such as Spencer House, Langley Park and Cliveden. Apter-Fredericks are internationally renowned for the superlative quality, condition and provenance of their pieces and this reputation, built by three generations of the family over the last 75 years, was a calling card to collectors, connoisseurs, interior designers and the trade internationally. Interest came from almost 300 bidders, with registrants from 37 countries and buyers from 15 countries across 6 continents, resulting in competitive bidding via Christies LIVE and telephone ... More
West London's High Street windows brought to life during lockdown
LONDON.- Eight artists have been commissioned to take over and transform some of West Londons empty high street retail spaces as part of a major public art initiative called high street windows. As Londoners are plunged back into full lockdown and galleries and museums are forced to close, high street windows, presented by kcaw, sees artists come forward with a series of vibrant public art pieces that they hope will inspire and support local communities during these difficult winter months. Taking part in high street windows, the eight artists are creating a series of visual art commissions, displayed on empty shop fronts in High Street Kensington and South Kensington, to engage passers-by but also to pose critical questions about the past and future of our lives. Both areas have been affected by closures of stores in the past year, however, ... More
Phoebe Hui selected to present the fifth Audemars Piguet Art Commission
LE BRASSUS.- Audemars Piguet Contemporary announced that Hong Kong-based multidisciplinary artist Phoebe Hui has been selected to realise the fifth Audemars Piguet Art Commission, in collaboration with Hong Kong-based independent curator Ying Kwok, who notably curated the Hong Kong Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. The large-scale installation titled The Moon is Leaving Us is derived from historical and contemporary observations of the Moon and highlights the critical role that visual representation plays in science and in our understanding of the Universe. It will be unveiled at Tai Kwun, Centre for Heritage and Arts, in Hong Kong on 23 April 2021 and will run for four weeks, remaining on view through Art Basel Hong Kong (scheduled 19-23 May 2021). It marks the first Audemars Piguet Art Commission to be shown ... More
Ali Cherri is the National Gallery's 2021 Artist in Residence
LONDON.- Ali Cherri, a Beirut-born artist whose work is inspired by artefacts and the natural world, is the National Gallerys new Artist in Residence for 2021, it was announced today. Ali Cherri (b. 1976) is the second Artist in Residence to be chosen since the launch of the Gallerys new Modern and Contemporary Programme, following the first appointment of Rosalind Nashashibi in 2019. The award is a collaboration with the Contemporary Art Society, while the UK Partner Museum for this residency will be the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, marking the Coventry UK City of Culture 2021. Born in Lebanon and based in Beirut and Paris, Cherri uses sculpture, film and installation to pursue the meaning of the built environment and its histories. Often using archaeological relics and sites as a starting point, Cherris varied practice explores ... More
'The Hill We Climb': A poet's journey to Inauguration Day
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Amanda Gorman was writing her inaugural poem, The Hill We Climb, she faced a challenge unlike any of her predecessors. Gorman set out to craft a poem that was both hopeful and realistic, one that reflected the political divisions that have fractured the country but also the promise of greater unity. She finished writing the poem just after rioters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. Im not going to in any way gloss over what weve seen over the past few weeks and, dare I say, the past few years. But what I really aspire to do in the poem is to be able to use my words to envision a way in which our country can still come together and can still heal, she said in an interview with The New York Times. Its doing that in a way that is not erasing or neglecting the harsh truths I think America needs to reconcile ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Nicolas Lancret was born January 22, 1690. Nicolas Lancret (22 January 1690 - 14 September 1743), French painter, was born in Paris, and became a brilliant depicter of light comedy which reflected the tastes and manners of French society under the regent Orleans.
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