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Artist Howardina Pindell, Oct. 8, 2020. The artistÂs first new video in 25 years, on view at the Shed in New York, mines the history of violence against African-Americans. Devin Oktar Yalkin/The New York Times.
by Jillian Steinhauer
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In more than half a century as an artist, Howardena Pindell has made many hundreds of paintings and drawings and just three videos, yet one of those videos is arguably her best-known work. ÂFree, White and 21 (1980) depicts the artist recounting a litany of racist experiences, from being tied to a cot by a kindergarten teacher to discrimination in applying for jobs. Interspersed among the personal stories, Pindell appears as a second character in whiteface and a blond wig. The white woman tells the Black narrator that she must be paranoid. ÂYou wonÂt exist until we validate you, she chides. ÂFree, White and 21 is as much a commentary on the pervasiveness of racism in America as it is on the whiteness of the second-wave feminist movement, which Pindell knew intimately because sheÂd been part of it. In 1972, she was the only person of color among 20 co-founding members of A.I.R., the first nonprofit, artist-run womenÂs gallery in the United States. In conversations with her colleagues ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Piotr Uklanski: How They Met Themselves. Massimo De Carlo, Milan/Belgioioso. From October 15 through November, 2020. Installation Views: Roberto Marossi. Courtesy Massimo De Carlo, Milan/London/Hong Kong.
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| | Marian Goodman Gallery to close London venue, transitioning to new exhibition strategy | | US customs seize ancient carved stones from Cameroon | | David Hockney's Portrait of Sir David Webster achieves £12,865,000 at auction |
Marian Goodman, between paintings by Julie Mehretu, in her gallery on West 57th Street in New York, Oct. 20, 2016. James Estrin/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery today announced it will close its London gallery at the end of 2020 and transition to a more flexible exhibition strategy in the city starting January 2021. Through the new initiative Marian Goodman Projects, the gallery will organize exhibitions and artist projects in venues throughout London that respond to the nature of the artists practice and reflect the scale and intent of artworks on view. Spearheaded by Marian Goodman and Philipp Kaiser, Chief Executive Director of Artists and Programs, Marian Goodman Projects will be overseen by Kaiser with support from the gallerys international executive team. The gallery will maintain a small, focused team in London, led by Executive Director Aebhric Coleman, to work on Projects and with the gallerys roster of artists. The first London Project is being slated for fall ... More | |
The Ikom monoliths come from the area round the town of Ikom, in the state of Cross River in southern Nigeria bordering with Cameroon.
MIAMI (AFP).- US customs officials in Miami on Tuesday said they seized ancient carved stones from Cameroon known as Ikom monoliths that had been exported to the United States using fake documents. Experts believe the stone sculptures were made sometime between 200 and 1,000 AD, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement. According to UNESCO the carvings "bear a form of writing and a complex system of codified information .. each stone, like the human finger print, is unique from every other stone in its design and execution." The Ikom monoliths come from the area round the town of Ikom, in the state of Cross River in southern Nigeria bordering with Cameroon. The CBP did not say how many stone carvings they had seized, but did say that they will be "repatriated" to Cameroon. "CBP has a critical role in protecting cultural property ... More | |
David Hockney, Portrait of Sir David Webster, 1971 (detail), sold for £12,865,000 at Christies on 22 October 2020. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
LONDON.- On 22 October 2020, Christies auctioned David Hockneys Portrait of Sir David Webster, a tribute to Sir David Webster, the former General Administrator of the Royal Opera House, for £12,865,000 in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction. The painting was offered by the Royal Opera House with proceeds from the sale contributing towards vital funding they require. This will go some way to alleviating the financial impact of coronavirus on the world-renowned arts venue to, the most serious crisis the organisation has had to face. This will allow the Royal Opera House not just to survive but to thrive in its future programming. Painted in 1971, it depicts Webster in the artists studio, seated upon a Mies van der Rohe MR chair before a glass table. Alex Beard, Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House, said: "As we face the biggest crisis in our history, the sale of David ... More |
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| | Richard Avedon's wall-size ambitions | | Deana Lawson awarded Hugo Boss Prize 2020 | | Discover the art of chairs at the Georgia Museum of Art |
An image provided by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, photographer Richard Avedon talking with visitors at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in 1970. Minneapolis Institute of Art via The New York Times.
by Philip Gefter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the mid-1960s, three of Richard Avedons closest friends reached Olympian heights in their respective fields: Truman Capote published In Cold Blood, an overnight bestseller that would forge a new genre in literature; Mike Nichols received an Academy Award nomination as director of Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; and Leonard Bernstein won a Grammy for his Third Symphony (Kaddish). Their achievements cast Avedons own career in stark relief. He may have been the most glamorous photographer in the world, but in the context of film, literature and classical music, he was still only a fashion photographer. It irked him, too, that his portrait work was considered celebrity photography. The prestige of his name had indeed come from his portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, ... More | |
Deana Lawson, Signs, 2016. Pigment print. © Deana Lawson, courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and Yves Müller, CFO and Spokesperson of the Board of HUGO BOSS AG, announced today that Deana Lawson has been awarded the Hugo Boss Prize 2020. She is the thirteenth artist to receive the biennial prize, which was established in 1996 to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art. Selected by a jury of international critics and curators, Lawson receives an honorarium of $100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, opening in spring 2021. Administered by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the Hugo Boss Prize and the exhibition is made possible by HUGO BOSS. On behalf of our jury, I am delighted to announce Deana Lawson as the recipient of the 2020 Hugo Boss Prize, said Armstrong. Lawson is the first artist working in photography to be recognized ... More | |
Lower South, Childs or Dolls armchair Ca. 1850-1900. Unidentified Wood and grey-white paint, 14 x 10 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches. Collection of Fred and Beth Mercier.
ATHENS, GA.- Chairs are often viewed as simple functional objects, but in their design is thoughtful craftsmanship. An overview of American chair design, The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design, is on view at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia until January 3, 2021. This exhibition, featuring more than 40 chairs dating from the early 19th century to present day, showcases chairs as art, highlighting their sculptural beauty. The exhibition The Seated Child: Early Childrens Chairs from Georgia Collections, organized by the museums curator of decorative arts, Dale L. Couch, occupies an adjoining gallery. Developed by Ben Thompson, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, The Art of Seating provides audiences with a unique opportunity to see chair types that usually reside in private homes, withheld from public display. Thompson chose these ... More |
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| | The little-known women behind some well-known landscapes | | Alison Jacques Gallery announces representation of Nicola L. | | From 2 artists, 2 ways to tell stories of Black America |
Disneyland, Anaheim, CA, 2019. Photo courtesy Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Frederick Law Olmsted, Calvert Vaux and André Le Nôtre are names nearly as well known as their famous landscapes Central Park for Olmsted and Vaux, and Versailles for Le Nôtre, the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. But what about the women? They have played major roles in a diverse array of landscapes in the United States: Marjorie Sewell Cautley, the landscape architect of Radburn in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, a New Deal-era planned suburban community based on safety and access to shared parks and open spaces that became a model for projects around the world; Clermont Lee, whose designs revitalized the public squares and gardens of the Historic District in Savannah, Georgia; and Genevieve Gillette, the force behind the multimillion dollar funding for Michigan state parks, one of the nations most robust public systems. Women have literally shaped the American landscape and continue to today, said Charles Birnbaum, president ... More | |
Nicola L., Ciel, c. 1976. Ink on cotton, wood. 227 x 102 x 17 cm, 89 3/8 x 40 1/8 x 6 3/4 ins. Courtesy Alison Jacques Gallery, London and Nicola L. Collection and Archive. © Nicola L. Collection and Archive.
LONDON.- Alison Jacques Gallery announces representation of Nicola L. (1932 2018), in partnership with the Nicola L. Collection and Archive. As the only gallery working with Nicola L., this partnership provides an invaluable opportunity to further enhance the profile of Nicola L.s pioneering work and foreground underexposed aspects of the artists prolific practice. The first project will be an exhibition of Nicola L.s work from the 1960s and 1970s including many previously unseen series, scheduled to open in 2021. Born in 1932 in Mazagan, Morocco, L. relocated to Paris in 1954 to study abstract painting at the prestigious École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. By the time she rose to prominence in the mid-1960s, she had developed an ambitious interdisciplinary practice that spanned performance, film and collage, as well as the better-known interactive sculptures. But in spite of her ... More | |
The artist Barbara Earl Thomas in her studio in Seattle, Sept. 22, 2020. Works by Bisa Butler and Barbara Earl Thomas are featured in major museum shows in Chicago and Seattle its a star turn that many feel is long overdue. Jovelle Tamayo/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As museums are reopening this fall, the work of Black artists is prominently on display around the country, one result of a broad-based movement to feature diverse creators in a systemic and lasting way. A sense that institutions are making up for lost time has added an element of urgency to the push. As Erica Warren, an associate curator of textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago, put it: We are overdue. Warren organized Bisa Butler: Portraits, opening Nov. 16 at the Art Institute. Butler, based in New Jersey, works in fabric, creating complex quilted textile portraits of what she calls the Black American story. Its the museums first textile solo show for a Black female artist. Butler shares a dealer, Claire Oliver Gallery of Harlem, with artist Barbara Earl Thomas, who is having ... More |
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| | At the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum, all athletes are equal | | Christie's announces 'The Golden Twenties: Berlin through the Eyes of Modern Artists' | | Piotr Uklański presents a new body of figurative paintings at Massimo De Carlo |
A skating costume worn by the Olympic medalist Peggy Fleming on display at The new U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colo., Sept. 26, 2020. Elliot Ross/The New York Times.
by Ray Mark Rinaldi
COLORADO SPRINGS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The new U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, does not distinguish between winners or losers; the athletes who earned medals and enduring public adoration at the Games receive the same recognition as those who went home empty-handed. The museum is more interested in honoring the determination it takes just to make the team, that quality the Olympic ice skater Peggy Fleming sums up simply as having the guts and the mental strength to compete on behalf of your country when the whole world is watching. Its so big, and youre so distracted, and youre there to get the job done, she said. Its a very different nerve level. And thats true for every athlete. So, the rhinestone-studded, chartreuse skating dress Flemings mother made ... More | |
Jeanne Mammen, Kaschemme, 1929. Estimate: £50,000-70,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
LONDON.- The Golden Twenties: Berlin through the Eyes of Modern Artists, an online-only sale, live for bidding from 22 October to 12 November, showcases 27 works on paper and prints created by artists that spans from the early 1900s through to the 1960s. Featured artists include Otto Dix, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Jeanne Mammen, an artist who until recently, was largely unknown outside of Germany, and Heinrich Zille. The sale is highlighted by a group of eight watercolours by Mammen that range from £7,000-50,000 and Die guten Jahre (circa 1920, estimate: £160,000-210,000) by George Grosz. During the early 1920s George Grosz began to step away from the more provocative, politically charged subjects that had dominated his work in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, and instead trained his eye on the lives of ordinary people, capturing the banality, hypocrisies and darkness that often lay behind the facade of polite society. In Die guten Jahre the artist takes aim at the amo ... More | |
Piotr Uklański, Untitled (Annie Miller), 2020. Oil and resin on polyester canvas, 86.4 Ã 71.5 Ã 3.2 cm / 34 Ã 28 1/8 Ã 1 1/4 inches. Photo by Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy Massimo De Carlo, Milan/London/Hong Kong.
MILAN.- Massimo De Carlo is presenting How They Met Themselves, Piotr Uklańskis first solo show in the gallerys Palazzo Belgioioso space in Milan. Expanding a new body of figurative paintings that Uklański began in early 2020, How They Met Themselves, Uklański conjures the women who were the unsung protagonists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhoodan artists society founded in London in 1848. The Pre-Raphaelites opposed academic paintings emphasis on the High Renaissance in favor of resurrecting Italian 15th century art and narratives laden with suggestions of the occult and layered sexuality. In this series, Uklański presents slyly reconsidered portraits of Elizabeth Lizzie Siddall, Jane Morris, Emma Jones, Annie Miller, and others who were wives, muses and models for this artistic brotherhood. More than a collection of beautiful women, Uklański proposes an uncanny sister ... More |
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The MIT List Visual Arts Center opens "No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake"
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The MIT List Visual Arts Center announces No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake. First presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the exhibition marks Blakes first museum survey since 2003 and their most comprehensive presentation to date. It will be installed at the List Center through February 14, 2021. While MIT continues to prioritize the health and safety of its communities, in-person visits to the List Center galleries are suspended at least through the remainder of 2020. For over thirty years, Nayland Blake (b. 1960) has been a critical figure in American art, working between sculpture, drawing, performance, and video. Heavily inspired by feminist and queer liberation movements, and subcultures ranging from punk to kink, their multidisciplinary practice considers the complexities of representation, ... More
'Dalva Brothers: Parisian Taste in New York' totals $5,885,500 at Christie's New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies sale Dalva Brothers: Parisian Taste In New York achieved a total of $5,855,500 and was 81% sold by lot and 85% sold by value. The top lot of the sale was the exquisite late Louis XVI pietra dura and ormolu-mounted ebony secrétaire en cabinet by Adam Weisweiler circa 1785-1790, which sold for $1,134,000, exceeding its estimate of $600,000-1,000,000. Additional top lots include a Charles X birds eye maple, amaranth, coloured strass and silver exhibition panel, made for the Exposition des Produits de L'Industrie of 1827, which totaled $187,500 and a matched pair of Louis XVI ormolu-mounted citronnier, fruitwood and marquetry secretaries by Roger Vandercruse, known as Lacroix, circa 1775, which realized $162,500. Jody Wilkie, Co-Chairman of Decorative Arts, and International Specialist Head for European Ceramics ... More
BRAFA 2021 will go ahead modelled on a new concept: 'BRAFA @ HOME in the galleries'
BRUSSELS.- BRAFA 2021 is happening! In view of the restrictions and uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the BRAFA committee held a consultation with its members earlier this month which led to the decision to postpone the January 2021 fair until 2022. Following this announcement, the organizers received countless messages of support and sympathy from exhibitors, partners, subcontractors and visitors. BRAFA remains a highly anticipated event never once cancelled or postponed in its 65 years of existence! Buoyed by the feedback received, the BRAFA team immediately set to work to devise an alternative solution. Today, organizers announced that BRAFA will go ahead, just differently, modelled on a new concept: BRAFA @ HOME in the galleries. The idea is to invert the concept of the event. As visitors are currently unable ... More
Seven artists records for Travel Posters at Swann
NEW YORK, NY.- "With over an over 80% sell through rate, and with 16 of the top 17 lots selling to collectors, Swann Galleriess Thursday, October 15, Rare & Important Travel Poster auction definitively showed that the market, and specifically private collectors, has remained robust and competitive, noted Nicholas D. Lowry, Swann president and specialist for the annual sale. The auction delivered seven artists records, including the top lots of the sale. John Held, Jr.s 1925 birds-eye view of Nantucket, which earned $21,250 over a $6,000 to $9,000 estimate; and Paul George Lawlers ad for travel to Hawaii via San Francisco created for Pan Am airlines, which also brought $21,250. The midcentury modern design New York / Fly TWA, 1956, earned David Klein a new artist record at $12,500. Rare posters by Michael Rudolf Wening and Seaverns ... More
Rare Posters Auction #82 presents 500 rare and iconic works
NEW YORK, NY.- Poster Auctions Internationals Rare Posters Auction #82 on Sunday, November 15th will feature masterpieces and rarities from over two centuries of poster design. Top artists include Cappiello, Chéret, Haring, Mucha, Steinlen and Toulouse-Lautrec. The auction will be on view to the public October 30-November 14; the auction will be held live in PAIs gallery at 26 West 17th Street in New York City and online at posterauctions.com, beginning promptly at 11am Eastern time. Jack Rennert, president of Poster Auctions International, Inc., said, In a year with so much upheaval, I am pleased to return to some sense of normalcy with our upcoming auctionand the catalogue is back. As always, collectors can expect to find a range of masterful works, including highly sought-after items and beloved images. The auction will begin with two sections ... More
Sèvres Enamel masterpiece joins distinguished decorative arts collection at the Snite Museum
NOTRE DAME, IN.- The Snite Museum added to its distinctive decorative arts holdings thanks to the generosity and foresight of the Virginia A. Marten family, whose longstanding support contributes to the University of Notre Dames teaching mission. "The decorative arts have long played an important role in the Museums collecting and education programs; it is, therefore, a delight to welcome this exquisite Sèvres Limoges-style ewer into the permanent collection," said Snite Museum Director Joseph Antenucci Becherer. "The monumentality of this object and its exceptional condition exceed many expectations for the decorative arts, guaranteeing that it will soon become a Museum favorite," he added. This most recent gift strengthens the holdings of decorative arts dating from the middle of the nineteenth century, a period when trends ... More
Chanel by Warhol brings $225,000; Applause by Banksy sells for seven times the estimate for $57,500
DALLAS, TX.- Bidders appetites for big-name artists exceeded all expectations in Heritage Auctions $2 million Prints & Multiples event Oct. 20 in Dallas. Artworks by Andy Warhol, KAWS, Banksy and Damien Hirst all sold for nearly double or triple pre-auction estimates: Warhols Chanel, from Ads, 1985, sold for a staggering $225,000 against a $120,000 estimate. Applause, 2006, by Banksy, was expected to sell for $8,000 until 23 bids pushed the sale price to $57,500, fully seven times its pre-auction estimate. It doesnt surprise me that the worlds most popular artists would be among the top lots in the sale, said Holly Sherratt, Directory of Prints & Multiples at Heritage Auctions. Warhol has always been an auction powerhouse and what can be more luxurious than a bottle of Chanel No. 5? Now Banksy is the cultural commentator of today ... More
Robert DeMora dies at 85; Helped make Bette Midler look divine
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Robert DeMora, a witty costume designer and art director whose fantastical, mischievous creations embellished Bette Midler on stage and screen, as well as the casts of Risky Business and Marathon Man among other films, died Sept. 21 at his home in Jeffersonville, New York, in upstate Sullivan County. He was 85. The cause was heart failure, said Rick Miller, a technical producer and concert road manager who was a longtime friend and collaborator. For more than four decades, DeMora amplified and often art directed Midlers ever more elaborate stage extravaganzas with rigor, scholarship and a Dadaists sense of the absurd. That included the ruched pink sequin gown of her Divine Miss M days, as well as the sparkly spangled tail and sheathe of Delores DeLago, Midlers bawdy, ... More
Museum of Arts and Design names Interim Director and elects two new Trustees to Board
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Arts and Design announced the appointment of Terry Skoda as Interim Director, effective immediately, and the election of two new members to its Board of Trusteesart collector and entrepreneur Lorin Gu and art enthusiast and philanthropist Alexander Mason Hankin. We are grateful to have the benefit of Terrys leadership during this time of transition. With a demonstrated talent for attracting audiences who are passionate about the Museums mission, Terry is a champion of MAD whose achievements have been critical to the long-term viability of our institution, said Michele Cohen, Chair, Board of Trustees. Also, we are thrilled to welcome Lorin and Alexander as new Trustees. Introduced to MAD by Terry, both are young, dynamic philanthropists who have now stepped forward to be a part of the Museums next chapter. Since ... More
Freeman's announces latest Modern & Contemporary Art auction with fresh-to-market works
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On November 17th, 2020, Freemans will hold its latest Modern & Contemporary Art auction. The auction includes several notable single-owner sections of important works from prominent collections, all of which are fresh to the market, including the market debut of Clyfford Stills PH-491. The biannual Modern & Contemporary Art sale is an opportunity for seasoned and emerging collectors alike to consider works spanning the Modern period up to the present day. The November auction will have significant examples ranging from Modernism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art. Freemans Modern & Contemporary Art department has earned a reputation for presenting exceptional works from a breadth of artists and movements. The departments previous Modern & Contemporary Art auction in May of 2020, for example, ... More
Eric Firestone Gallery announces new space and representation of FUTURA2000
NEW YORK, NY.- Eric Firestone Gallery announced the North American representation of FUTURA2000. Born Leonard Hilton McGurr in New York City, FUTURA2000 is a graffiti pioneer who began painting subway cars in the late 1970s before focusing on art. The gallery is present his first exhibition at its new ground-floor location at 40 Great Jones Street in New York. Futura 2020, a presentation of new work, opened October 22. It marks the artists first solo gallery show in New York City in over 30 years. As one of the most celebrated artists emerging from the world of graffiti and street art, FUTURA2000 was first recognized for bringing abstract painting to the genre. The artists work bears his interest in a futuristic aesthetic. Long fascinated by science fiction and the space age, he was an early adopter to sophisticated computer technology ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Andy Warhol "superstar" Baby Jane Holzer, was born October 23, 1940. Jane Holzer (née Bruckenfeld; born 23 October 1940) is American art collector and film producer who was previously an actress, model, and Warhol superstar. She was often known by the nickname Baby Jane Holzer. Movies she appeared in included Soap Opera, Warhol's Couch (1964), and Ciao! Manhattan (1972). She co-produced the 1985 film Kiss of the Spider Woman. Holzer is the subject of "Girl of the Year" in Tom Wolfe's The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) and is referenced twice in the 1972 Roxy Music song Virginia Plain from the album Roxy Music.
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