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Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist J. Ross Baughman in Belleville, Mich., Dec. 19, 2022. Baughman says that he consigned $40,000 worth of photographs with gallery owner Wendy Halsted Beard the FBI now alleges that she repeatedly obtained fine art photographs from collectors with the intent to defraud them. (Brittany Greeson for The New York Times)
by Ryan Patrick Hooper
NEW YORK, NY.- As J. Ross Baughman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, prepared to downsize into a new apartment in 2020, he realized he would not have the wall space for his entire collection, which included prints by marquee names like Diane Arbus and Richard Avedon. Hoping to sell about one-third of it, he reached out to Thomas Halsted, a Detroit-area gallery owner who in the early 1970s had helped Baughman acquire his first artwork, an Arbus print of a human pincushion. Halsteds daughter, Wendy Halsted Beard, broke the news that he had died. But she had inherited the business, and within a month, Baughman agreed to consign the Arbus and 19 other prints, many of them signed by the photographers. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Sargent & Spain, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 2023. Photo by Gary Sexton. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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| Exhibition explores the influence of Spanish culture on the dynamic visual practice of John Singer Sargent | | Praz-Delavallade Paris opens an exhibition of works by Diogo Pimentão | | marcchagall.com, launch of the official website devoted to the artist Marc Chagall in March 2023 |
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925), "Pomegranates, Majorca", 1908. Oil on canvas. Framed: 39 x 33 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. (99.06 x 84.455 x 8.89 cm). Anonymous. Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are presenting Sargent and Spain, the first exhibition to explore the influence of Spanish culture on the dynamic visual practice of the American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent (18561925). His fascination with Spain, which developed over the course of seven visits taken from 1879 to 1912, resulted in a remarkable body of work. The exhibition will present an array of Sargent's dazzling oils, watercolors, drawings, and never-before-exhibited photographs from his personal collection, which explore Spain's rich culture (both historic and modern), its people, and its magnificent urban and rural landscapes. Sargent and Spain will be on view at the Legion of Honor museum, the exclusive West Coast venue for this exhibition ... More | |
Diogo Pimentão, Convergency, 2022. Paper and graphite, 230 x 6.5 x 6.5 cm. 90 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.
PARIS.- Diogo Pimentãos works, simultaneously intriguing and familiar, constitute a research on volume, the body and space. For approximately twenty years, his work has taken the form of sculptures, installations and videos, through a transversal, performative and multidimensional use of drawing. He took up where minimalist and conceptual practices had left off and elaborated a unique spiritual relation to drawing as both an inner meditative practice and an external exploration of art spaces as vehicles of attention and intention. In his movement, the artist operates with precise gestures, mostly using graphite, paper or cement as mediums, whose malleability is not a given, in order to develop an array of open actions: rubbing, using, compressing, extending, engraving, covering, forming, softening, folding, structuring or spacing. Evoking choreography and imprinting, the repetitive and mindful succession of his gestures ... More | |
Marc Chagall, The Rooster, 1958 - 1959, bronze, 56 x 42 x 18.5 cm, private collection © Fabrice Gousset / ADAGP, Paris, 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marcchagall.com, the official website dedicated to Marc Chagall (1887-1985), and the promotion and understanding of his work, will be available online in March. As the first initiative devoted to the artist on such a large scale, the website will provide a comprehensive overview of Marc Chagalls creation and enables to discover or rediscover the work of this major twentieth-century artist. A selection of works, a look back over Marc Chagalls different studios, archival documents, a presentation of the artists different techniques : this original project, led by the Association des Amis de Marc Chagall, in partnership with the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, the Institut national de laudiovisuel and the Musée national Marc Chagall in Nice, invites visitors to discover the scope, diversity and richness of the artists work, offering new perspectives on his various ... More |
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| Albertina Museum exhibits Ruth Baumgarte's work in Austria for the first time | | Exhibition offers a thrilling trip through Rinus Van de Velde's brain and Voorlinden collection | | New exhibition 'Rebecca Fortnum: Les Praticiennes' now open at the Henry Moore Institute |
Ruth Baumgarte, Early self-portrait, 1947 Oil on cardboard, 47,4 Ã 40 cm. Ruth Baumgarte Art Foundation.
VIENNA.- It is with works by the German painter Ruth Baumgarte (19232013) that the Albertina Museum sets out to present an outstanding artist of the 20th century shown in Austria for the first time. At the center of this presentation in the Columned Hall is Baumgartes wide- ranging body of works born of her travels to African countries such as Egypt, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe. These altogether approximately70 oil paintings, watercolors, and graphic works manifest a near-magical quality when viewed in person. Zimbabwean poet Chirikure Chirikure said of the artist: She viewed the countries of Africa and their peoples not as models to be immortalized on canvas but as an integral part of her journey through life. Beginning in the 1950s and until well into her old age ... More | |
Rinus Van de Velde at Voorlinden.
WASSENAAR.- Fiction and reality, but also words and images merge in the work of Rinus Van de Velde (1983). With drawings, sculptures, installations, photos and films, this Belgian all-round artist rebuilds the absurdist stories that take place in his head. For his solo exhibition at Voorlinden, he borrows works from the museum collection. For example by Kaari Upson, René Magritte and Rodney Graham. The exhibition can be seen from 11 February to 29 May 2023. Rinus Van de Velde is a true explorer, but does not want to leave his studio to do so. And he doesnt need to. He collects photos and clippings, watches documentaries and reads (artists) biographies and books on philosophy and art history. Whilst daydreaming, he transforms these different sources of inspiration into his own surrealistic stories, often putting himself in someone elses shoes. Van de Velde records his daydreamed journeys and encounters with pastel ... More | |
Rebecca Fortnum, Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923).
LEEDS.- This display of paintings and drawings by artist Rebecca Fortnum emerges from her ongoing interest in the women surrounding the sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) in turn-of-the-century Paris. Fortnums paintings depict sculptural works by fifteen women who were associated with Rodins studio, shining a light on these often-overlooked sculptors. Fortnum conducted part of her research during her 2021-22 Henry Moore Institute Research Fellowship, which she spent searching for little-known portrait sculptures produced by women who worked in, or visited, Rodins Paris studio. As they were not able to enter the Ãcole des Beaux-Arts until 1897, women aspiring to become professional artists often studied at a private academy before apprenticing with a master, and, for the most part, encountered prejudice as women working in a male-dominated profession. Rodin devoted significant time to training women ... More |
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| Martos Gallery presents 'Passages' organized by Alex Chaves and Reilly Davidson | | Hosfelt Gallery opens solo show of the work of the 87-year-old Rinzai Zen monk Max Gimblett | | 'Peter Buggenhout: The Ever Changing Repetition' on view at Konrad Fischer Galerie |
Passages, Installation View, 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- The artists in Passages take cultural recycling as a starting point for art making in these doom-stricken times. Cultural detritus, over-accessibility and crowding means the artists in this show exhibit a tenacity in defiance of a world that certainly doesnt need another object. They reflect the pathological world they inherit. Throughout Passages clocks tick, countdowns are set, and tension builds. In Sandy Williams IVs video Endurance VI we witness a strongman in a Budweiser American flag tank top steady a teacup over his head to the point of exhaustion in the American history section of a library. Sweat drips down his body as he holds the cup above his head for over 30 minutes, toward the end of the performance he groans, and the cup begins to rattle. His failure to continue marks the videos conclusion. With the performers strain in the context of institutionalized history, Williams IV suggests the precarity of upholding focal points of American idealism ... More | |
Max Gimblett, The Other Side, 2021. Champagne rose gold leaf, water-based size, epoxy, acrylic and gesso on canvas, 60 x 60 in. 152.4 x 152.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Hosfelt Gallery.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In the spirit of impermanence one of the core precepts of Buddhismartworks in this solo show of the work of the 87-year-old Rinzai Zen monk Max Gimblett will rotate in and out of the galleries throughout the run of the exhibition. Viewers, if they visit the gallery repeatedly, will find a completely different installation of new work each time they return. Gimbletts paintings are a unique and mindful hybrid of the New York school of abstract expressionism with traditions of manuscript illumination and icon painting, Asian calligraphy, kintsugi, and lacquerware. Masterful brushwork, an eccentric and sophisticated color sense, and sensuously glossy surfaces are punctuated with precious metals. Some of the sculptural panels tondos, ovals, and his signature four-lobed quatrefoil are completely ... More | |
King Louie VII, 2022, oil paint, glass, laminated wood, 188.00 x 90.00 x 18.00 cm | © Roman März. Peter Buggenhout, 18. Nov 2022 - 18. Feb 2023. BERLIN konradfischergalerie.de | all rights reserved.
BERLIN.- With the sixth solo exhibition of the Belgian artist Peter Buggenhout, Konrad Fischer Galerie is gathering works that, although originating from different groups of works, were all created in 2022. These include works from the series "The Blind Leading the Blind" (since 2004), "Mont Ventoux" (since 2007) and "On Hold" (since 2013). Also on display are works from the more recent series of works "Mute Witness" (since 2018) and "I am the Tablet" (since 2020), as well as from the newest series just begun, "King Louie" and "L. do D.. Peter Buggenhout confronts his audience with materials that have rarely found their way into contemporary art: household dust meets garbage, tanned cow stomachs and remnants of bouncing castles meet acrylic glass and Ertalon. Even when the artist is using classical materials such as Carrara marble ... More |
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| 'The Harbour' by Jem Southam to be published February 2023 by RRB Photobooks | | Nenad Samuilo Amodaj presents "Hoop and Ball" at The Robin Rice Gallery | | At Hubbard Street Dance, making a place for 'the other folks' |
'The Harbour' by Jem Southam. Hardcover, 104 pages. Special edition includes 50 copies with Signed and Limited Silverprint. RRP £65 | £275. Pre-Order £58 | £225. All Pre-orders will be signed by Jem Southam.
LONDON.- Photographed between 1978 and 1983, The Harbour chronicles a period of significant change for Bristols harbourside. One of Jem Southams first major projects, his photographs systematically document the loss and regeneration, reflective of the wider experience in Britain at this time. The port has been a central hub of Bristol since Roman Times, and the Floating Harbour, impounding water from the tidal Avon was opened in 1809. By the late 1960s -1970s, the end of its working life left behind a sculptural presence surrounded by the disused and decaying dockland fabriccranes, bridges, pump-houses, warehouses, offices, railways, terraced houses and ship-building yards. It is this infrastructure which Southam documents in The Harbour, in a brief period before redevelopment accelerated. Using a large-plate camera ... More | |
Nenad Samuilo Amodaj, Bow 2, 2010.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Robin Rice Gallery, NYC is presenting the "Hoop and Ball" series by Nenad Samuilo Amodaj. He created the series of photographs in June 2010 with dancer and author Shawnrey Notto. The photographs were based on an earlier series of drawings Nenad made of Notto wearing parts of the deconstructed wedding dress during his figure drawing study in Michael Markowitzs 23rd Street studio in San Francisco. The hoop skirt serves as an augmentation device, a skeletal extension meant to alter the visual perception of the human form. To realize the full associative power of the hoop, Amodaj created a counter-shape to the hoop, a white sphere (the Ball) made from plaster strips, to match the cloth texture and placed it in a dynamic relationship with his model. Notto improvised the poses from Nenads drawings in constant slow motion. The whole project was done in two 3-hour sessions with no rehearsals and no replays. The minimalistic setting ... More | |
Elliot Hammans and Jacqueline Burnett at Hubbard Streets rehearsal space in Chicago, Jan. 31, 2023. Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell, the Chicago troupes new leader, wants to expand the voices in the company, coming this week to the Joyce Theater. (Evan Jenkins/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In late 2020, Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell was doing what many other dance instructors were doing: teaching all day on Zoom. This was in Baltimore, her hometown, where she had been teaching dance for the previous 15 years at Towson University and the Baltimore School for the Arts. Before that, she had spent 13 years as a standout member of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, touring the world. Thats a full and impressive career, but as Fisher-Harrell, 52, said in an interview, she was wondering: Is this it for me? Do I plateau? She came across a job posting on Facebook. It was gigantic and very specific, she said. But as I read through it, I thought, I can do this. When she showed the job description to her family, her children said, This is you! ... More |
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Young Fathers' music has always been subversive. Now it's joyful, too.
EDINBURGH.- When Scottish band Young Fathers were partway through writing their new album, Heavy Heavy, Graham Hastings, known as G, played his brother-in-law a song called Rice. The track features cascading drums and bouncy, booming bass as the three-piece chant lyrics including These hands can heal and See the turning tide. What are you doing? Hastings, who sings and plays keys, percussion and synths, recalled his brother-in-law asking. Thats far too happy for Young Fathers. For years, the groups music had been labeled abrasive or forbidding. Being told it was too upbeat, Hastings, 35, said, was another surprise, another sense that we were doing something we hadnt before. Over the past decade, Young Fathers which also includes Alloysious Massaquoi and Kayus Bankole, who both sing, rap and play percussion ... More
The prophet of urban doom says New York still has a chance
NEW YORK, NY.- Columbia Universitys new business school, at the western edge of 130th Street, is a $600 million monument to urban dynamism, with buildings named for billionaire entertainment mogul David Geffen and billionaire private equity mogul Henry R. Kravis. On the seventh floor of Kravis Hall, in an office overlooking the Hudson, works a soft-spoken real estate professor who has emerged as a prophet of urban doom. Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, 46, has wispy brownish-blond hair and a Belgian accent tempered by 20 years in New York. Last fall, he published two papers one with colleagues from New York University and Columbia that gave a name to the eerie feeling you can have passing a half-empty swath of midtown Manhattan these days: an urban doom loop. On a gray January afternoon in his office, Van Nieuwerburgh described the doom loop ... More
AKA, influential South African rapper, is fatally shot
JOHANNESBURG.- AKA, a generation-defining South African rapper whose blend of local sounds with American hip-hop vaulted him into stardom, was fatally shot Friday night outside a restaurant in the coastal city of Durban. Police said that AKA, 35, had been walking to his car on a popular nightlife strip shortly after 10 p.m. when two armed people approached from across the street and fired several shots at close range before running away. AKA, whose legal name was Kiernan Forbes, and another man died at the scene, police said. Although police did not name the second victim, South African news reports identified him as AKAs close friend Tebello Motsoane, a 34-year-old chef and music entrepreneur known as Tibz. Police said Saturday that they were still searching for the suspects. The killing drew an outpouring of grief from around the country, with fans, artists ... More
Frye Art Museum opens 'Marsden Hartley: An American Nature'
SEATTLE, WA.- Marsden Hartleys emotive paintings celebrate the grandeur and nuances of nature as expressions of American culture. Hartley (18771943) spent much of his career restlessly traveling around North America and Europe. In 1937, he finally settled in his home state of Maine and, in response to the Depression-era cultural and commercial desire for all things homegrown, declared himself an American Regionalist, the painter from Maine. Hartley sought to define culture in nature, representingand in the process constructingnew settler colonial myths of the American landscape. Marsden Hartley: An American Nature features two paintings from the Fryes collection alongside works by the artist on loan from museums and galleries around the country. Offering a snapshot of Hartleys vast oeuvre, the exhibition highlights a shift in the artists approach ... More
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022 on show at The David Roche Foundation
ADELAIDE.- The David Roche Foundation is presenting an exhibition of the National Portrait Gallerys National Photographic Portrait Prize for 2022 is on display in the TDRF Gallery until 1 April 2023. The exhibition features the works of 50 (2022) finalists selected from more than 2,400 entries. Now in its 15th year, the annual exhibition draws from entries submitted by amateur and professional photographers from across Australia. Sandra Bruce, Director of Collection and Exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery said the NPPP never fails to deliver a range of emotions. Australia is a country with myriad faces, and as we continue to live in disruptive times, the National Photographic Portrait Prize offers a sweeping view across the nations experience, one that reminds us that our lives continue on regardless of wider circumstances. Robert Reason, Museum Director said ... More
Artists Hannan Abu-Hussein and Maria Saleh Mahameed are the laureates of the Rappaport Art Prize, 2023
TEL AVIV.- Hannan Abu-Hussein is the laureate of the Rappaport Prize for an established artist for 2023. Maria Salah Mahameed is the laureate of the Rappaport Prize for a young promising artist for 2023. Each artist who wins the award will contribute a work to the Ruth and Baruch Rappaport Collection of Israeli Art. The value of the prizes to the winning artists is USD 140,000 The established artist prize includes USD 35,000 awarded to the artist herself and funding a solo exhibition at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, accompanied by a catalogue. The young promising artist prize includes USD 15,000 awarded to the artist herself and funding for a solo exhibition at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, accompanied by a catalogue. Funding of the exhibitions for the laureates will total USD 90,000. ... More
ARCOmadrid 2023: Top quality galleries at an edition with the Mediterranean at its core
MADRID.- A total of 211 galleries from 36 countries will participate in the fair from February 22nd to 26th, 170 in the General Programme, in addition to those taking part in the curated sections: 19 galleries in The Mediterranean: A Round Sea; 17 galleries in Opening by Allianz, and 11 galleries in Never the Same. Latin American Art. From February 22nd to 26th, the International Contemporary Art Fair, ARCOmadrid 2023, once again takes centre stage on the art scene with a high participation level thanks to the sectors confidence and commitment, reflected in the growing interest of the international galleries in a fair that has fulfilled its potential as an active market and an outstanding place to raise the visibility of the artists while driving knowledge and research into contemporary art. Organised by IFEMA MADRID, ARCOmadrid goes a step further in its exploration of past ... More
Towner 100: A year of new exhibitions is announced
EASTBOURNE.- Towner Eastbourne announced a programme celebrating its centenary year; TOWNER 100. A series of major exhibitions take audiences on a journey through the Towner Collection past and present, as well as offer the chance to witness the worlds leading prize for contemporary art in Sussex for the first time, and to experience a large-scale presentation of one of the UKs best loved sculptors. The exhibition programme is as follows, with events, wrap-around engagement projects across the town, and a range of screenings, installations, public commissions, talks and intergenerational cultural moments, to be announced in 2023. The programme will be a moment to celebrate the past 100 years of Towner but also look at the next 100; what a museum and gallery can be, and who it is for. Towners Collection will also launch online in 2023 ... More
US debut solo exhibition from Barcelona-based painter Jose Bonell
PORTLAND, OR.- A painter of subtleties and small moments, Barcelona-based artist Jose Bonell (b. 1989, Barcelona, Catalonia, where he continues to live and work) opened his first exhibition in the United States with Adams and Ollman. The exhibition features nearly 25 new paintings on canvas and is on view at the gallery through February 18, 2023. Bonell's elusive, figurative works are charged with anticipation, a wry wit, and an appreciation of the daily absurdities of the human experience. Bonells cast of characters are engaged a range of zany, mysterious acts, each caught in evocative moments: arms poke out from holes willy-nilly, pointing accusingly at one another; an elegantly gloved hand delicately takes a tidy row of mysterious objects for a walk; forsaken shoes attempt to fill a void with the warmth and light of candles ... More
Price family establishes major endowment at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts
SALT LAKE CITY, UT.- The Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah (the U) has received a $5 million gift from longtime benefactors, the Price Family, establishing an endowment to support the UMFA executive director position. The Marcia and John Price Executive Director Endowment for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts will provide funding in perpetuity to support the salary, benefits, professional development, travel and other needs of the Museums executive director. Marcia and John Price have been major supporters of the UMFA for many decades. The Prices close involvement in the construction of the UMFAs current facilitythe award-winning Marcia and John Price Museum Building, which opened in 2001was instrumental and, at the time, the largest gift to a cultural institution in the history of the state of Utah ... More
The Samdani Art Award - Bangladesh's premier art prize - announces first ever joint winners
DHAKA.- The Samdani Art Foundation has announced Bangladeshi artists Purnima Aktar and Md Fazla Rabbi Fatiq as joint winners of the biannual Samdani Art Award. It is the first time two finalists have been awarded the prize which aims to support, promote and highlight the countrys emerging contemporary artists. The awards were presented on the opening day of the sixth edition of the Dhaka Art Summit (DAS), the 9-day research and exhibition platform connecting the Bangladeshi and South Asian art scene with the rest of the world. Purnima Aktar and Md Fazla Rabbi Fatiq were selected from a shortlist of 12 artists whose work is part of an exhibition curated by Anne Barlow (Director at Tate St Ives) currently on view at DAS. The members of the international jury included Ibrahim Mahama, artist; Tarun Nagesh, Curator of Asian Art at the Queensland Art Gallery ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and academic Grant Wood was born February 13, 1891. Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891 - February 12, 1942) was an American painter best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly American Gothic, an iconic painting of the 20th century. In this image: Grant Wood (1891â1942), American Gothic, 1930. Oil on composition board, 30 3/4 x 25 3/4 in. (78 x 65.3 cm). Art Institute of Chicago; Friends of American Art Collection 1930.934. © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photograph courtesy Art Institute of Chicago/Art Resource, NY.
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