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Stitch in Time The Fabric of Contemporary Life exhibition, Glucksman Gallery, Cork. Photo by Tomas Tyner, UCC.
COLLEGEVILLE, PA.- Two new exhibitions at the Berman Museum explore relationships between humans and the natural world. Mapping Climate Change: The Knitting Map and The Tempestry Project unites, for the first time, two innovative textile art projects that give visual and tangible presence to a changing climate at a crucial moment of environmental precariousness. By translating temperature, precipitation, humidity, or wind speed data into stitch and color, these vibrant works potently and poignantly reveal the centrality of weather to notions of identity and experiences of place, and thus map the flow of temperature over time. In Alison Safford: Anthro(Site), multimedia artist Safford meditates on the motion of bodieshuman, celestial, and terrestrialas they converge, collide, depart, or reunite through random or cyclical events, instances of migration and mortality, and orientations to place and space. ... More |
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| 50 years after his death, Paris remembers Jim Morrison | | Unveiling of Diana statue reunites William and Harry, briefly | | Kasmin opens an exhibition of ten evocative early watercolors by Stuart Davis |
This file photo taken on December 8, 2003 shows the grave of US rock legend Jim Morrison at the Perfe-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Joel ROBINE / AFP.
by Philippe Grelard
PARIS (AFP).- He occupies a small, tucked-away corner of a Paris cemetery, but many thousands still seek it out: half a century since his death, Jim Morrison remains a fabled presence in the City of Light. The death of The Doors' frontman on July 3, 1971 was one of the key signs that the optimism of the 1960s was coming to a grim end. Today, the Lizard King lies in the Pere-Lachaise cemetery at the eastern end of the city. Even with Google Maps, it can be tricky to find -- a deliberate decision of the family who rightly feared a deluge of fans. "It's a cemetery that he particularly loved. He often came walking here," says rock critic and Doors aficionado Sophie Rosemont. "He would have wanted to be buried next to Oscar Wilde," she said, referring to the other famous tenant of the cemetery, but the spot would have been too prominent. The grave's seclusion has not pr ... More | |
Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (L) and Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex unveil a statue of their mother, Princess Diana at The Sunken Garden in Kensington Palace. Dominic Lipinski / POOL / AFP.
by Mark Landler
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Bonded by childhood grief, sundered by adult quarrels, Prince William and Prince Harry came together briefly Thursday to dedicate a statue of their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, on what would have been her 60th birthday. For a few fleeting minutes in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace, the two brothers set aside a season of acrimony the anguished charges, and angry denials, of racism and callous treatment to pay tribute to a woman whose sudden death 24 years ago ended her own turbulent history in the royal family. Gently pulling two green cords, they unveiled a bronze statue that depicted Diana with children gathered in her outstretched arms. The memorial, they said, was meant to honor her love, strength and character. Every day, we wish ... More | |
Stuart Davis, (Dancers on Havana Street), 1920. Watercolor on paper, 22 7/8 x 15 5/8 inches (sight) 58.1 x 39.7 cm © 2021 Estate of Stuart Davis / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of Kasmin, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin opened Stuart Davis in Havana, an exhibition of ten evocative early watercolors painted in 1920 following Stuart Davis brief yet formative trip to Havana, Cuba, where the artist convalesced after contracting Spanish flu. Curated by Priscilla Vail Caldwell in collaboration with Earl Davis and the Estate of Stuart Davis, the exhibition is on view at 297 Tenth Avenue from June 30August 13, 2021. This is the second solo exhibition of work by the artist at Kasmin since the gallery began representing the Estate in 2018, and the first to focus on Davis time in Cuba. In addition to the suite of paintings, this exhibition presents a trove of archival material documenting the artists trip including postcards, lottery tickets, and the painters passport. On December 31st, 1919, Davis joined his close friend and fellow painter Glenn O. Coleman in Havana. Due south ... More |
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| MASSIMODECARLO opens first exhibition connecting Milan, London and Paris with one show | | Cowan's American Historical Ephemera & Photography auction surpasses $705,000 | | Latifa Echakhch joins Pace Gallery |
Claire Tabouret, Makeup (purple shirt), 2021. Photo: Marten Elder.
LONDON.- MASSIMODECARLO announced Portraiture One Century Apart, the gallerys first exhibition connecting Milan, London and Paris with one show in three spaces at once. Starting in July 2021, MASSIMODECARLO London, Milan and Pièce Unique in Paris each present a selection of works by 1920s' masters of twentieth-century art, face to face with twenty-first-century figurative artists. The exhibition creates a constellation of dialogues: 27 artists of different generations, from seven different countries - from the 1970s to the mid-1990s grace the walls of MASSIMODECARLOs three European outposts. At MASSIMODECARLO Milan, Jean Marie Appriou, Lenz Geerk, Andrew LaMar Hopkins, Pietro Roccasalva, Claire Tabouret, Vojtěch Kovařík, and Joanne Woś are presented in dialogue with Pompeo Borra, Paola Consolo, Raffaele de Grada, Achille Funi, Pietro Marussig and Raoul Dal Molin Ferenzona. Jean-Marie Appriou ... More | |
Personal headquarters flag of Philip Henry Sheridan used when he led the 2nd Michigan Cavalry. Spring - Summer 1862. Estimate - $20,000 - $30,000. Price realized: $40,625.
CINCINNATI, OH.- On June 25, Cowans, a Hindman company, American Historical Ephemera and Photography auction realized more than $705,000 and saw active and competitive bidding throughout. The sale presented an outstanding selection of 18th to early 20th century material and reflected important historical periods including the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Indian Wars, World Wars I and II, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Womens Suffrage Movement. The Civil War Collection of Dennis C. Schurr and the Richard B. Cohen Civil War Collection, which included the third installment of Brown Water Navy photographs and a carefully curated selection of autographs and manuscripts from Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Gideon Welles, D.G. Farragut, David Dixon Porter, U.S. Grant, and W.T. Sherman saw fantastic results. Offerings ... More | |
Latifa Echakhch, Dérives 47, 2015. Acrylic paint on canvas, 78 3/4 x 59 1/16 inches, 200 x 150 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Glimcher, CEO and President of Pace Gallery, announced today that the gallery will begin representing Latifa Echakhch in collaboration with her existing galleries, Kamel Mennour, Kaufmann Repetto, and Dvir Gallery. Echakhch, whose internationally celebrated practice spans painting, sculpture, and installation, explores the political valences of a diverse range of materials in her work. Echakhchs abstractions and lyrical forms meditate on personal and societal conflicts, memory, and migration, among other subjects. Describing her practice as a synthesis of politics and poetry, Echakhch employs methods of erasure and destruction to transform everyday objects into culturally loaded signifiers of identity, history, and mythology. In the field of political and historical links, I always take care not to be too frontal, too simplisticthe political context is more complex than that, and my ... More |
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| Yale Drama goes tuition-free with $150 million gift from David Geffen | | 20 limited edition Al Hirschfeld prints signed by legendary Broadway stars, now up for bids | | In Maya Lin's 'Ghost Forest,' the trees are talking back |
David Geffen. Photo: Bruce Weber
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Billionaire David Geffen is giving $150 million to Yale School of Drama, allowing one of the nations most prestigious programs to stop charging tuition. The graduate school, which enrolls about 200 students in programs that include acting, design, directing and playwriting, announced the gift Wednesday, and said it would rename itself the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. Yale said it believes the gift is the largest in the history of American theater. The school said that, starting in August, it would eliminate tuition for all returning and future students in its masters, doctoral and certificate programs. Tuition at the school had been $32,800 per year. The move should remove a barrier to entry for low-income students and those worried about incurring high student debt before entering an often low-paying field. We know, because people have told us, that there are potential applicants ... More | |
Steve Martin.
NEW YORK, NY.- Twenty limited-edition prints of acclaimed caricature artist Al Hirschfeld signed by the iconic stage and screen stars featured in the image are being auctioned online to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Al Hirschfeld Foundation, in partnership with leading auction houses Christies and Charitybuzz. The acclaimed actors who hand-signed the collectible prints this spring are Kevin Bacon, Betty Buckley, Cher, Richard Gere, Joel Grey, Mark Hamill, Nathan Lane, Jessica Lange, John Malkovich, Steve Martin, Reba McEntire, Donna McKechnie, Sir Ian McKellen, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Stephen Sondheim, Sir Patrick Stewart, Leslie Uggams and Sam Waterston. The auction launches Thursday, July 1, 2021, at broadwaycares.org/hirschfeld, and runs through Thursday, July 15. Among the signed and numbered lots featured in the Charitybuzz Hirschfeld auction ... More | |
Maya Lin: Ghost Forest, in New Yorks Madison Square Park, June 23, 2021. Madeline Cass/The New York Times.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On a sultry summer day the trees across the street from my Bronx apartment are deep in conversation. Trees are, science tells us, social beings and do some of the same things we humans do, at least when were acting our best. They trade tips about health, news about weather. They nourish, and protect, and support each other. They support fellow beings too: birds, insects, us. They live sane lives. They generate excellent karma. Unlike us. In a goes-around-comes-around universe, the karma were producing through competitive greed, unthinking waste and targeted malice is killing the world around us. Were at war with the planet and everything on it, trees included. Artist and architect Maya Lin began her career with a response to a war. ... More |
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| Yale Art Gallery appoints Freyda Spira as the Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings | | PAFA announces Anne E. McCollum as Chairperson of the Board of Trustees | | New-York Historical Society to expand its home on Central Park West |
Spira is currently Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- The Yale University Art Gallery announced the appointment of Freyda Spira as the Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings. Spira is currently Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where she specializes in Northern Renaissance and Baroque prints, drawings, and illustrated books. She will assume her new position at the Gallery on July 1. Freyda Spira is an accomplished scholar and curator. The catalogue she wrote for The Renaissance of Etching quickly has become a standard reference in the fieldoffering a fascinating window into the evolution of etching from decorative technique to a fine art, says Laurence Kanter, the Gallerys Chief Curator and Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art. Throughout the search process the committee was impressed by ... More | |
McCollum is the first female to lead the Board of Americas first art museum and school.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announced the election of Anne E. McCollum as the organization's new chairperson of the Board of Trustees. McCollum will succeed Kevin Donohoe as the first female leader of America's oldest art museum and school. Donohoe will remain on the board as a trustee and chair emeritus, and McCollum will assume the role on July 1, 2021. Anne has my full support. She has a reputation for working successfully with the Board and staff and supporting initiatives important to the college and museum, students and visitors, commented Donohoe. I remain totally committed to PAFA, the best art school and museum of American art in the country. With her professional expertise in finance and a relationship with PAFA that spans more than three decades, McCollum's knowledge of the institution runs deep. She was drawn to PAFA as a Docent because of her love of the collection and desire to make i ... More | |
Rendering of the New-York Historical Societys expansion project, as seen from Central Park West. Image: Alden Studios for Robert A.M. Stern Architects.
NEW YORK, NY.- Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of the New-York Historical Society, announced today that the institution will expand its building on Central Park West, adding more than 70,000 square feet of program space for itself and for The American LGBTQ+ Museum, New Yorks first museum dedicated to LGBTQ+ history and culture, which will make its permanent home at New-York Historical. The design by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, which was unanimously approved and highly praised by the Landmarks Preservation Commission for its respect for the past and solicitation of community input, will provide New-York Historical with additional classrooms, galleries, collections study areas, and a state-of-the-art compact storage facility for the institutions renowned Patricia D. Klingenstein Library. With great foresight, our Trustees acted in 1937 to purchase the lot adjacent to New-York Historicals building, knowing that ... More |
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Personal collection of film special effects pioneer Willis O'Brien grabs spotlight at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- King Kong ain't got nothing on Willis O'Brien. In fact, without O'Brien there would be no King Kong; nor Mighty Joe Young; nor, in fact, the modern blockbuster. In a sense, he is the force behind Jurassic Park long before Arnold and Leah Spielberg had a baby named Steven. O'Brien is universally recognized as the father of stop motion animation, credited with developing the technology that brought inanimate figures and puppets to life through a series of photos taken in succession, with slight movement in between; when run together, characters came to life in a way that impacted the movie-making industry forever. His credits started with The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy. Later projects included Morpheus Mike, The Lost Mountain, The Black Scorpion and Mighty Joe Young, but the film for which he is known best always will be the timeless King Kong. ... More
With 'Summer of Soul,' Questlove wants to fill a cultural void
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The year 1969 was pivotal, says the Rev. Al Sharpton in Summer of Soul, a documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival, a music extravaganza that took place over six weeks at the dawn of the Black Power Movement. Where the Negro died and Black was born, he said. Now in theaters and premiering on Hulu on Friday, Summer of Soul ( Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is the directorial debut of Ahmir Questlove Thompson, drummer and co-leader of the Roots, a hip-hop group and the in-house band for The Tonight Show. The acclaimed film was compiled from 40 hours of live footage from the festival, as well as news accounts and recent interviews with concertgoers and performers, including Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, Mavis Staples and Ray Barretto. They were all deeply impacted by ... More
Frieda Fritzshall, 91, dies; Survived to create a Holocaust museum
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Frieda Fritzshall, who not only survived the Holocaust but established a museum outside Chicago to keep the memory of it alive for future generations so history would not repeat itself, died June 19 in Deerfield, Illinois. She was 91. Her death was confirmed by her son, Steven Fritzshall. Fritzshall was a 13-year-old Jew in Czechoslovakia when she, her mother and two brothers were herded into a ghetto on the last day of Passover in the spring of 1944 by Nazi occupiers. They were transported in cattle cars to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, where her mother and siblings were killed. Fritzshall, who was known as Fritzie, survived by conniving to be accepted into a factory slave labor detail by claiming to be 15. In 1945, with Soviet troops advancing from the east, she escaped while on a death march from Auschwitz. She ... More
New Museum appoints Salome Asega as Director of NEW INC
NEW YORK, NY.- Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, and Karen Wong, Deputy Director of the New Museum, announced today that Salome Asega will become director of NEW INC, the New Museums cultural incubator they co-founded in 2013. In September 2021, NEW INC will welcome members to its eighth yearlong cycle. Asega will oversee one hundred creative entrepreneurs, a community of six hundred alumni, and a distinguished group of mentors, steering plans for future growth. Asega joins from the Ford Foundation, where she has served as the inaugural New Media Art Research Fellow for Creativity and Free Expression (CFE) for the past four years. The CFE program supports arts and culture, journalism and media, and documentary film through grants, convenings, networking, and advising. In her role at Ford, she supported research to define hybrid ... More
Art to augment 12 botanical gardens around the world
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- An exhibition of augmented reality artwork by 13 artists, including Ai Weiwei and Isaac Julien, will open simultaneously at 12 gardens in six countries in September, the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens and Outset Contemporary Art Fund, an international nonprofit, announced Wednesday. Coming out of the pandemic when outdoor experiences and nature have taken on a new meaning and gravity in our lives, this exhibition represents a fresh way for people to engage with art and nature simultaneously, curator Tal Michael Haring, who worked on the show with Hadas Maor, said in a statement. El Anatsui, Pamela Rosenkranz, Timur Si-Qin, Sigalit Landau and Sarah Meyohas are among the other artists who will contribute to the coming show at locations in the United States, Britain, South Africa, Australia, Israel and Canada. Visitors ... More
Driehaus Museum acquires historic Murphy Auditorium
CHICAGO, IL.- The board of directors of the Richard H. Driehaus Museum today announced the acquisition of the adjacent John B. Murphy Memorial Auditorium from the American College of Surgeons (ACS). Located at 50 E. Erie Street, the six-story, 32,193-square-foot French Renaissance-style building was built between 1923 and 1926 by the American College of Surgeons, which occupied it until 1997. In 1987, it was extensively renovated to add more offices, and in 2006 ACS completed a three-year restoration and began renting the ornate, three-story auditorium for public and private events. For the Driehaus Museum located in the adjoining Samuel M. Nickerson Mansion, originally built in 1883 and restored by Driehaus in 2003 the acquisition of the Murphy will make it possible for the Museum to expand its programmatic activities and capacity while carrying forward the ... More
The gold medalist: Highest-graded 'Nintendo World Championships' game ever offered vaults to Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Who says Tom Brady could never be traded for fair value? Heritage Auctions' first standalone Video Games Auction July 9-10 may prove that the opening statement, a long-standing theory in the world of professional football, might not be as true as many assume. Among the prized lots featured in the event will be Nintendo World Championships 1990 Grey - Wata 8.0 Cart [#0273], NES Nintendo 1990 USA, by far the highest-graded copy of the game ever offered by the world's largest video games auctioneer. It wasn't too long ago that this copy of this extraordinary game was traded for a PSA Gem Mint 10 Tom Brady 2000 Contenders Rookie Autograph #144 a card that sold earlier this year for nearly $556,000. "That trade, and the eventual sale of the Tom Brady card, speaks volumes about the demand for this extraordinary cartridge," Heritage Auctions Video Games ... More
World's largest auction of anime animation art breaks $2.1 million record at Heritage
DALLAS, TX.- The world's first auction dedicated to the art of anime set multiple world records at Heritage Auctions, June 25-27, as bidders drove sale prices of animation cels from the genre's most iconic and award-winning films to more than $2.1 million. The Art of Anime and Everything Cool Auction attracted a record 2,853 bidders from around the globe and they were impressed with what they found: The sale boasted sell-through rates of 100 percent by value and 99.8 percent by lots sold. Record-breaking prices were set for collectible cels from films such as My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service and AKIRA. "The hits and big moments in this sale came from all over," Heritage Auctions Animation Art Director Jim Lentz said. "Record breaking prices were seen for lots from Astro Boy, Dragon Ball, Ghost in the Shell, Pokémon, Vampire Hunter D, Neon Genesis Evangelion ... More
Christina Quarles joins MOCA Board of Trustees
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art announced that Los Angeles-based artist Christina Quarles joins MOCAs Board of Trustees. Artists play a critical role at MOCA and have served as full voting members of MOCAs Board of Trustees since the museums inception over 40 years ago. Internationally-recognized artist Quarles joins the MOCA Board at an important moment of expansion, joining MOCAs Board of 39 other voting members, including fellow artist Trustees Mark Bradford, Mark Grotjahn, and Barbara Kruger. I look forward to working with Christina in furtherance of the Museums mission as we expand our institutions reach into the artistic and broader community, MOCA Director Klaus Biesenbach said. Artist representation on our board is an essential part of MOCAs history and DNA since its founding over 40 years ago. We are thrilled to warmly ... More
CryptOGs reign supreme at Bonhams first NFT sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams first NFT sale, CryptOGs: The Pioneers of NFT Art, in partnership with SuperRare, the authentic Digital Art Market, achieved a total of $451,688. The sale, which was the worlds first curated collaboration between a digital art platform and an auction house, took place on bonhams.com between 21-30 June. The top lot was The Death of Cash by XCOPY, which sold for $200,313, whilst works by Coldie and Sarah Zucker achieved new record USD prices for the artists at auction. Bonhams Head of Digital Art, Nima Sagharchi, commented: As the first-ever auction exploring the originators of the crypto art movement those who were minting NFTs before they were in the global spotlight we are thrilled with the results of this sale, and to have shone a light on the pioneers of this movement. It has been a pleasure to work with SuperRare on this, one of the ... More
50 reasons to love Joni Mitchell's 'Blue'
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Just before embarking on the pivotal intercontinental voyage that would inspire much of her peerless 1971 album, Blue released 50 years ago last month Joni Mitchell considered her grandmothers. One was a frustrated poet and musician, she kicked the kitchen door off of the hinges on the farm, Mitchell recalled in a 2003 documentary. The other wept for the last time in her life at 14 behind some barn because she wanted a piano and said, Dry your eyes, you silly girl, youll never have a piano. And I thought, Mitchell continued, maybe I am the one that got the gene that has to make it happen for these two women. If she stayed put, she might end up kicking the door off the hinges, too. Id better not, she concluded. And so she left the loving comfort of her domestic life with fellow musician Graham Nash in the Laurel Canyon ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian sculptor and architect Jacopo Sansovino was born July 02, 1486. Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino (2 July 1486 - 27 November 1570) was an Italian sculptor and architect, known best for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his Quattro Libri was of the opinion that Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana was the best building erected since Antiquity. Giorgio Vasari uniquely printed his Vita of Sansovino separately.
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