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In a photo provided by Digital River Media, the Cleveland Orchestra shows, Franz Welser-Möst, the Cleveland Orchestras music director, with the manuscript for Mahlers Second Symphony at Severance Hall in Cleveland. The Cleveland Orchestra has been given the autograph score, which was sold at auction to a previously anonymous buyer for $5.6 million. Digital River Media, the Cleveland Orchestra via The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Gustav Mahler took the New York Philharmonic to Cleveland for a concert in December 1910, he drove critic Miriam Russell, of The Plain Dealer, to paroxysms of prose: Little Mahler with the big brain. Little Mahler with the mighty force. Little Mahler with the great musical imagination. That, however, was to be his sole appearance there; by the following spring, he was dead. An important piece of Mahleriana will nevertheless now reside in Ohio for good. The Cleveland Orchestra announced Tuesday that it had received the manuscript of Mahlers Second Symphony as a gift. And in doing so, it revealed the identity of the mystery buyer who paid $5.6 million for that autograph score in 2016: Herbert G. Kloiber, an Austrian media mogul. Hes very much in the family, André Gremillet, the orchestras ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Deborah Borda, the president of the New York Philharmonic, and Henry Timms, the president of Lincoln Center, in New York, Dec. 1, 2019. Borda led the orchestra in the 1990s, and was frustrated by its subpar hall. After a 17-year run in Los Angeles, she âfinally saw a path forward,â she said. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times).
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| The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum exhibits sketches by Rubens at the Bonnat-Helleu Museum in Bayonne | | Roland Auctions NY to offer the Collection of Jeffrey M. Kaplan | | The Cantor Arts Center opens 'East of the Pacific: Making Histories of Asian American Art' |
By wisely alternating zones that are more or less opaque in the layer of brown paint surrounding the figures, Rubens contributes to the sense of spatial Depth.
BILBAO.- The Guest Work programme is on this occasion a very special event featuring one of the most important painters in history through an exclusive selection of preparatory sketches for one of the most formidable painting collections of its time, that of the Torre de la Parada. In addition to this is another large preparatory sketch for one of the 20 tapestries destined for the Descalzas Reales monastery in Madrid. Finally, with regard to the sketches by Rubens on loan from the Bonnat-Helleu Museum in Bayonne, three reproduction etchings by Paulus Pontius (Antwerp, 16031658), belonging to a private collection, can also be seen. Towards the end of his life, Rubens received the most important commission of his career from Philip IV: a series of around 115 large-scale paintings to adorn the Torre de la Parada, a hunting lodge on the outskirts of Madrid that the king ... More | |
Chinese Embroidered Court Robe. Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY in Glen Cove, NY will present items from the Collection of Jeffrey M. Kaplan in their upcoming fall auction on Saturday, October 8th at 10am. This world-renowned collection - spanning 8 collecting categories over the course of 1,000 years - includes American art, as the Oscar Bluemner demonstrates, as well as Japanese, Art Deco, works on paper, decorative arts and more. The son of Rhoda and Melvin Kaplan, Jeffrey Kaplan's father Melvin started the family real estate business in 1951, building more than 2,500 homes on Long Island, as well as nine shopping centers - with Woodberry Commons being the most recognizable. The auction will also feature hundreds of lots of Fine Art, Decorative Arts, 20th Century Modern, Antique and Vintage Furniture, Textiles, Silver, Jewelry, Rugs, Collectibles, Asian Art, Decorative Arts, and Lighting. Previews will be held on Thursday, October, 6th and Friday, October 7th ... More | |
Bernice Bing (19361998), Blue Mountain No. 4, 1966. Oil and acrylic on canvas. Gift of Alexa Young. Funding for the conservation of this artwork was generously provided through a grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project.
STANFORD, CA.- The Cantor Arts Center is presenting East of the Pacific: Making Histories of Asian American Art, a survey showcasing 96 objects created between 1860 and 2021 that provides a rare opportunity to engage with historic Asian American material. As the largest of three inaugural exhibitions of the Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI)a cross-disciplinary, institutional commitment at Stanford University dedicated to the study of artists and makers of Asian descentEast of the Pacific foregrounds Asian American artists that have long been overlooked by mainstream art institutions, and yet have helped shape and advance the course of American art, serving as vanguards, teachers, and activists within their communities and beyond. Curated by Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander, AAAI Co-Founder and Assistant Curator of American ... More |
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| Major modern design sale at Bonhams Skinner includes Nakashima "Conoid" bench and Tiffany lamps | | Art's new perch: Your neck, not your wall | | Part I of the official two-part charity sale 'Sixty Years of James Bond' realizes $6,506,331 |
Tiffany Studios "Geranium" Table Lamp (LOT 30). Estimate: $40,000-60,000.
MARLBOROUGH, MASS.- Bonhams Skinner announced an upcoming sale of Modern Design items, taking place October 2-12, 2022 online at https://skinner.bonhams.com/. Comprising nearly 375 lots, the sale includes over a century of intuitive style and craft, ranging from pottery and lighting to textiles and glass. Primarily arriving from several private households and lifelong collectors, Bonhams Skinners fall sale is sure to have something for budgets of all sizes and collections of all styles. The forthcoming auction arrives on the heels of a well-received August sale by the Modern Design department featuring an impressive array of Murano glass; the second half of this large private collection will be presented here. With 150 lots from the likes of Archimede Seguso, Flavio Poli, Carlo Scarpa, Dino Martens and Ercole Barovier, this is an exciting and eclectic range of glassware that will improve any collection, however ... More | |
Louise Nevelson, Untitled Pendant. Estimate: 15,000 - 20,000 USD.
NEW YORK, NY.- It looks, at a glance, like a monument, a towering edifice of painted wood and brass. But on closer inspection, it is a half-pint a sculptural pendant that stands a mere 4 3/4 inches tall, one of the small but mighty jewelry designs that artist Louise Nevelson crafted for friends or wore like a weighty talisman. It is also among the highlights of Art as Jewelry as Art, a digital-only auction and simultaneous exhibition at Sothebys in Manhattan. The first at the auction house dedicated to artists jewelry, it showcases designs by about 65 20th- and 21st-century artists, works deemed by the house as covetable, wearable and eminently collectible. On view through Oct. 4 (when the bidding closes) are diminutive pieces by Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Salvador DalÃ, Man Ray and Alexander Calder, a selection that demonstrates, Sothebys maintains, that when it comes to artists prowess, it isnt always size that counts. Its easy to make so ... More | |
The Online Sale, Part II, is still open for bidding until 4pm BST on James Bond Day, Wednesday, 5 October. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- On 28 September, the Live Evening Auction, Part I, of Christies and EON Productions official two-part charity sale, Sixty Years of James Bond, presented 25 lots which realised £6,103,500/ $6,506,331 / 6,799,299, already far exceeding the overall pre-sale estimate. 100% sold, bidding from the auction room competed fiercely with international collectors and fans registered from 17 countries bidding online and on the telephone for the vehicles, watches, costumes and props associated with 2021s No Time To Die, as well as six lots celebrating each of the six actors who have played James Bond. The auction vendors, led by EON Productions, are donating 100% of their auction proceeds to their nominated charitable causes. Christies is also donating 100% of the profitable proceeds from the buyers premium. Those who were unable to place a winning bid in the live auction are urged to continue bidding online f ... More |
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| Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli will curate the 2024 Whitney Biennial | | Phillips' Photographs presents a selection of highlighted works from October Live Sale | | Exhibition of intimate, revelatory works by Ron Gorchov opens at Cheim & Read |
Meg Onli and Chrissie Iles. Photograph by Bryan Derballa.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art announces that the next Whitney Biennial will be co-organized by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli. Iles, the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney, and Onli, a writer and curator, based in Los Angeles, who was the director and curator of the Underground Museum, will lead the development of the eighty-first edition of the Museums landmark exhibition series, set to open in spring 2024. The Biennial helps define the Whitney as an institution that champions the creativity, talent, passion, and vision of the art and artists of our time, said Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitneys Alice Pratt Brown Director. Meg and Chrissie will bring to the 2024 Biennial dynamic chemistry, diverse experiences, and a commitment to honoring the rich legacy of the Biennial. We enthusiastically look forward to their conception and the artworks they present at this challenging time in American cultu ... More | |
Bernd and Hilla Becher, Water Towers: (Kugel unten Geschlossen), circa 1960s-1980s. Estimate: $120,000 - 180,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips upcoming Photographs auction on 12 October features over 300 lots spanning the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Led by A Reverence for Beauty: The Peter C. Bunnell Collection, Part 1, the auction additionally features a choice group from the Amon Carter Museum of American Museum, as well as work by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Robert Adams, and Wolfgang Tillmans, all currently subjects of major museum career retrospectives. Alongside the live auction, Phillips will host a companion online-only sale, Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection, which will be open for bidding from 3 to 13 October. Sarah Krueger, Head of Photographs, New York, said, We are thrilled by the truly fine selection of photographs in our October sale which ranges from rare 19th century images to 20th century masterworks, from postwar documents to cutting-edge Contemporary, all of which beautifully complements ... More | |
Untitled, 1972. Watercolor on paper. 23 1/2 x 18 3/4 in. / 59.7 x 47.6 cm. © 2022 Ron Gorchov. Photography: Object Studios / Cheim & Read, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read is presenting Ron Gorchov: Watercolors 1968 - 1980, an exhibition of intimate, revelatory works by one of the most influential painters of the past half-century. The show opened on September 29th at the gallerys Upper East Side location, 23 East 67th Street, and runs through January 14th.This is the artists fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. These works, which have never been exhibited before, correspond to the development of Gorchovs signature shield and saddle canvases, the series of paintings on curved surfaces that he began in 1966. In many ways, they offer a privileged insight into the oil paintings displayed in Ron Gorchov: At the Cusp Of the 80s, the 2019 exhibition at Cheim & Read, which covered roughly the same period. By virtue of their scale and their medium, Gorchovs watercolors underscore the artists inherent lyricism and the depth ... More |
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| Exhibition of new paintings by Mark Grotjahn opens at Gagosian | | Sotheby's & ICA join forces for 75th anniversary auction during Frieze Week | | Exhibition of work by Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya opens at Sargent's Daughters |
Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Backcountry Capri 54.74), 2021, oil on cardboard mounted on linen, 74 3/8 à 94 3/8 inches (188.9 à 239.7 cm) © Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio.
LONDON.- Gagosian is presenting Backcountry, an exhibition of new paintings by Mark Grotjahn. This is his first exhibition at the gallery in London since 2016. In his paintings, Grotjahn interweaves various modes of abstraction, employing an expansive and evolving vocabulary of motifs and techniques. Exploring color, perspective, seriality, and the sublime, he also reflects on the broad history of nonrepresentational painting, from ancient to modern times. In Backcountry, Grotjahn moves still further away from the anthropomorphic underpinnings of earlier series such as Masks (2000) and Face (200317), alluding instead to rural landscape while edging closer to an entirely spontaneous mode of expression. Most of the paintings on view in London are in a horizontal format on black grounds; all of them are executed in Grotjahns favored medium of oil on linen-mounted cardboard, ... More | |
Antony Gormley, LIFT 2 (MEME) IV, Estimate £65,000-85,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sothebys London & ICA, 28 September 2022: Next month will see the ICA and Sothebys join forces to raise funds to benefit the pioneering contemporary art institution in its 75th year. More than 20 internationally renowned artists have generously donated artworks, with Yinka Shonibare, John Currin and Raymond Pettibon each creating entirely new pieces for this sale. All of the artists involved have played an important part in the ICAs history, and conversely, many credit the institute with inspiring their work and supporting their practice from the very beginning of their careers. Encompassing sculpture, paintings, prints and appliqué, highlights of the auction include a vibrant canvas by Richard Prince, who in 1983 staged a solo exhibition at the ICA, a 2019 watercolour by Anish Kapoor and a large-scale fluid Freischwimmer print by ICAs Chair, Wolfgang Tillmans. Enrico David, whose first major public exh ... More | |
Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, As I willed myself out of entropy (detail), 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sargents Daughters presents the second exhibition of work by Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya at the gallery, James Webb and the Thestral Born Without a Vertebrae. Composed of new sculptures and site-specific installations, the conceptual framework of this exhibition is elucidated in a narrative text written by the artist. The text, included below, depicts a vampire forced to reconstitute its body from space debris following the destruction of the last human spaceship leaving a destroyed Earth. But he was in empty space surrounded by blackness, feeding from the impossibly bright light of the sun, falling away from the great blue curve of the earth, aware over all the body of the great number of distant stars. They were gentle touches, and the sun was a great confining hand, gentle but inescapable. -Octavia E. Butler, Adulthood Rites: book two of the Xenogenesis Trilogy (1988) Far away, beyond the gaze o ... More |
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Exhibition of sculptural work by Woody De Othello on view at Karma
NEW YORK, NY.- Karma is presenting Maybe tomorrow, an exhibition of sculptural work by Woody De Othello. Maybe tomorrow takes its name from a catchy, unsettling 1971 tune by jazz musician Grant Green. The return of the songs darkly melodic hook was often stuck in Woody De Othellos head while he worked in his Bay Area studio. In Maybe tomorrow, the gallery becomes the site of an architectural intervention. Passing through the entrance to the gallery, a second doorway greets the viewer, behind which hides the exhibition. Inside, concrete floors and walls are covered up, transformed by wooden floorboards and vibrant green walls. Within them, Othello has created a site of transportation where a multitude of mise-en-scenes are staged, and the passage of time is replaced with a strange current. This immersive installation recalls Othellos earliest ... More
Discover a richer history of London life in the 18th century in new exhibition at the Foundling Museum
LONDON.- The Foundling Museum opens Tiny Traces: African & Asian Children at Londons Foundling Hospital running from 30 September 2022 until 19 February 2023. The exhibition sheds important light on untold stories, including those of more than a dozen children from the African and Asian diasporas who were taken into the care of the Foundling Hospital, from its foundation in 1739 to 1820. During this period, there were an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 African people living in Britain, as well as a growing Asian population including servants brought to Britain by returning East India Company officials. Some of the women amongst them, as well as white women engaged in relationships with the men, sought help from the Foundling Hospital. Until now, researchers have made accidental discoveries of references to African and Asian children in the Hospital. ... More
At 91, Ramblin' Jack Elliott still wants to tell you a story
TOMALES, CALIF.- At a friends rustic home in a tiny village about an hour north of San Francisco, Ramblin Jack Elliott was trying to decide what to eat for breakfast. But he couldnt resist telling a story. Some of the best oatmeal I ever had was in the LA County Jail, the singer said from beneath an old felt cowboy hat, a blue bandanna tied around his neck. In 1955, while living in Topanga Canyon, he was pulled over on the Pacific Coast Highway because the taillight on his Ford Model A was broken. They told me I could pay a $25 fine or spend six days in the clink. He was interested in religion at the time, and thought hed finally have the chance to read the Bible, but his cellmates were too noisy. I was extremely bored, and the police needed the space for more bona fide criminals, so they kicked me out on the second day, he said. They even ... More
A notoriously jinxed concert hall is reborn, again
NEW YORK, NY.- The hall has shrunk and become warmer, more intimate. The audience now surrounds the stage, with some seats close enough to hear wind players breathe between phrases and watch beads of sweat form on the conductors brow. Banished from the lobby, the DMV-style ticket booths have been replaced by a hangout zone with a 50-foot-wide digital screen that will broadcast concerts live and free to anyone who cares to stop by. A garage door opens onto the plaza. A new Afro-Caribbean restaurant plans to put bodega-style chopped cheese sandwiches and braised oxtails on the menu. After years of missteps and false starts, David Geffen Hall is reopening in early October following a $550 million renovation an optimistic sign in a still-pandemic-battered city and the stakes could hardly be higher for the New ... More
Louisiana Art & Science Museum premieres 'Diamonds of History: Mighty Women by Ashley Longshore'
BATON ROUGE, LA.- The Louisiana Art & Science Museum will premiere Diamonds of History: Mighty Women by Ashley Longshore on September 30th, the night of the museums 60th Anniversary Gala, in the museums Main Gallery. Diamonds of History: Mighty Women by Ashley Longshore will showcase vibrant portraits of impactful women from Harriet Tubman to Hedy Lamarr to Malala Yousafzai. The exhibition will be on view through January 2023. Diamonds of History: Mighty Women by Ashley Longshore will feature a selection of portraits from Longshore's Mighty Women that was first exhibited in collaboration with legendary fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg for her flagship store in New York City. The series will highlight the contributions, struggles, and triumphs of 29 influential women from the past and today as depicted ... More
Wendell Pierce fulfills his American Dream: Playing Willy Loman
NEW YORK, NY.- Are my best days behind me? Wendell Pierce said as he put down his steak knife. Was I ever any good? A man cant go out the way he came in. A man has got to add up to something. It was here that he began to cry. This was on a recent weekday evening at the Palm, an upscale steakhouse in the theater district, and Pierce was quoting, at least in part, from Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman, which is in previews now and will open on Broadway on Oct. 9, following a successful London run a few years ago. Pierce, 58, stars as Willy Loman, the decompensating salesman of the title. It is his first Broadway appearance in more than 30 years. And even though Pierce has enjoyed a robust career, which includes long stints on prestige television shows and an Obie award for sustained excellence of performance, the questions ... More
In 'Monochromatic Light,' artists saturate and vacate space
NEW YORK, NY.- If you write a musical composition in homage to Morton Feldmans Rothko Chapel, and if you premiere it in the actual Rothko Chapel in Houston, youd seem to be anchoring its meaning and context in rather firm ground. But the American composer and percussionist Tyshawn Sorey is a more restive and conjectural artist than that; and his Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the chapel earlier this year, has come to New York rewritten, reorganized and reinvigorated. This latest, and now staged, version of Monochromatic Light premiered at the Park Avenue Armory on Tuesday, and it retains the spare and ritualistic tenor of Feldmans Rothko Chapel, with long rests between its inquiring viola phrases and soft rumbles of the timpani. Here in New York, though, Soreys music ... More
Valerie Maynard, artist who celebrated Black identity, dies at 85
NEW YORK, NY.- Valerie Maynard, a Harlem-bred artist whose sculptures and prints explored the complexity, but also the humanity, of Black identity while tackling racism in the civil rights and apartheid eras and beyond, died on Sept. 19 in Baltimore. She was 85. Writer Alexis De Veaux, a longtime friend, said she died of cardiac arrhythmia in a hospital. While Maynard, who was aligned with Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 70s, explored various mediums and materials over a six-decade career, her work was consistently unflinching in its social commentary. It mined the historical legacies of oppression, both at home and abroad, while also celebrating the joy in the African American cultural experience and the beauty of the Black visage and form. This is art that summons, that creates what should be and disassembles what should ... More
Sonia Handelman Meyer, socially conscious photographer, dies at 102
NEW YORK, NY.- Sonia Handelman Meyer, whose memorable black-and-white street photography around New York City in the 1940s and 1950s reflected her training at the Photo League, a left-leaning collective of photographers who believed their work could change poor social conditions, died Sept. 11 at her home in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was 102, having enjoyed a late-life rediscovery of her work in the last 15 years. Her son, Joe Meyer, confirmed the death. Handelman Meyer joined the progressive New York-based Photo League in 1943, learning about socially engaged photography in workshops from one of its founders, Sid Grossman, and other teachers. She soon began making her way around the city with her Rolleicord camera, unobtrusively capturing the humanity of ordinary people doing ordinary things. In Spanish ... More
Walker Art Center appoints Mark Owens to lead its acclaimed Design Studio
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Walker Art Center today announced that it has appointed Mark Owens as its new Director of Design. Owens has extensive experience as a designer, writer, and curator, and most recently led his own design practice, working with non-profit and commercial clients to develop dynamic and engaging exhibition graphics, publications, merchandise, brand identities, and other projects. In his new role, Owens will oversee the Walkers acclaimed design studio, expanding and re-imagining the institutions approach to content creation, publications, and the presentation of innovative design online, in the galleries, and in print. He will formally begin in his new position on October 3, 2022. Owens appointment reflects continued growth in the Walkers design and content development teams. In 2021, the institution hired ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, film star James Dean died in a road accident September 30, 1955. James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 â September 30, 1955) was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were as loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955), and as the surly ranch hand, Jett Rink, in Giant (1956). Dean's enduring fame and popularity rests on his performances in only these three films, all leading roles. His premature death in a car crash cemented his legendary status. In this image: Actor James Dean is seen in a scene from the Warner Bros. 1956 epic, "Giant." Years after the making of the movie, teenagers are still trying for the cool that was James Dean, the poster boy for the tortured netherworld between child and adult.
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