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Dan people, Liberia and Ivory Coast, Face Mask (tanka gle), 20th century, wood, 8 5/8 x 5 3/8 x 3 1/8 inches. Collection of Allen and Barbara Davis.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State opened its first major exhibition for the 2020 season, African Brilliance: A Diplomats Sixty Years of Collecting. The exhibition showcases more than eighty works from East, Central, and West Africa collected over six decades by retired U.S. Ambassador Allen C. Davis. The show is accompanied by a rich array of free programming, including a lecture series, noontime gallery talks, and family-friendly art activities that will take place throughout the semester. African Brilliance: A Diplomats Sixty Years of Collecting features eighty-three objects by twentieth-century African artists from a variety of cultures across the continent, including the Dan people of Liberia, the Mossi and Lobi peoples of Burkina Faso, the Dogon and Bamana peoples of Mali, the Akan peoples of Ghana, and the Kuba peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, among others. The objects presented includ ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A woman admires a 17th century drawing by Rembrandt entitled 'An Actor, Willem Ruyters, in his dressing room' which features in the exhibition which features in the exhibition 'Lines of Beauty: Master Drawings from Chatsworth' at the Millennium Gallery in Sheffield, northern England, on February 12, 2020. 'Lines of Beauty' brings together 59 Old Master Drawings, including works by: Rembrandt, Rubens and Van Dyck, from ChatsworthÂs collection in the largest display for more than 20 years. OLI SCARFF / AFP
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| | Largest retrospective exhibition ever staged about Anna Ancher on view in Copenhagen | | The Rolling Stones Bill Wyman's bass guitars, amps, wardrobe & memorabilia head to Julien's Auctions | | Schirn Kunsthalle opens a major survey devoted to the women artists of Surrealism |
Anna Ancher, Little girl with flower, 1885, Skagens Kunstmuseer.
COPENHAGEN.- Anna Ancher was one of the central Danish artists active around 1900. She brought inspiration from international art movements home from her travels, incorporating it into her paintings from Skagen. From 8 February 2020 SMK presents the largest retrospective exhibition ever staged about Anna Ancher. In 1929, the Swedish painter Oscar Björck described his friend, Anna Ancher (18591935) in the following terms in a letter to museum director Karl Madsen: Anna Ancher has my sincere admiration, both as a person and as an artist. She is like a burst of sunshine, and her paintings have something that no-one else among us possess to any similar degree: a quiet devotion to the task and a palette so succulent and luscious that you savour it like ripe fruit. Today, Anna Ancher is still celebrated for her boundary-breaking use of colour and her astounding ability to capture a ray of sunlight. But her reach extends far beyond tha ... More | |
1981 Steinberger Custom Short-Scale XL-Series Bass in a black finish. Estimate: $100,00-200,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions will present property from Bill Wyman and His Rolling Stones Archive Courtesy of Ripple Productions Limited taking place May 29th, 30th and 31st, live in Beverly Hills and online. This spectacular auction of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted English musician, record producer, songwriter and singer, will feature at the centerpiece over 1,000 lots selected from Wymans renowned and vast archive. The archive contains not only an unprecedented collection of his instruments, stage worn ensembles, awards, personal items and artifacts collected during his illustrious three-decade career as a founding member and bassist of the Worlds Greatest Rock Band, the Rolling Stones, but also important instruments and artifacts from his ongoing solo career. As depicted in the 2019 documentary film about the life and career of Wyman, The Quiet One, this archive also includes a wide range of property includ ... More | |
Frida Kahlo, Self-portrait with thorn necklace, 1940, Oil on canvas mounted to board, Collection of Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Nickolas Muray Collection of Modern Mexican Art © Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020.
FRANKFURT.- The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents Fantastic Women: Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo, a major survey devoted to the women artists of Surrealism. Goddess, she-devil, doll, fetish, child-woman or wonderful dream creature in various guises, women were the central subject of male Surrealist fantasies. Women artists initially found their way into the circle surrounding André Breton, the founder of the Surrealist group, as companions or models. Yet they quickly broke out of those traditional roles and confidently created independent work. For the first time, the exhibition at the Schirn examines the female contribution to Surrealism and reveals that the participation of women artists in the movement was considerably larger than generally known or previously ... More |
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| | Jordan Casteel won't let you look away | | Valuable, rare early American coin found in French flea market junk box | | Rarely-seen stain and collaged paintings from 1958-1962 by Romare Bearden on view at DC Moore Gallery |
The artist Jordan Casteel in New York. Josefina Santos/The New York Times.
by Zoë Lescaze
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- When artist Jordan Casteel arrived on campus as a college freshman, her mother marched her into the dining hall not for a meal but to greet the kitchen staff. They had met the president and dean, but these were the people, her mother explained, who would truly be taking care of her. Casteel recalls being shy, but her mother was right: The first person she approached, a baker named Betty, became a surrogate parent. She cooked me Sunday meals, would bring me birthday cakes, said Casteel. Nearly a decade later, they still talk on the phone. Theres really something magical that can happen when you take that risk, she said. This particular alchemy, the kind that begins with a nervous hello and transforms strangers into family, lies at the core of Casteels practice. Nearly 31, she has attracted widespread acclaim for colossal portraits of friends and neighbors, works celebrated for their tenderness, keen social ... More | |
Rare coin experts at California-based Professional Coin Grading Service say this 1776-dated early American coin, valued today at US$97,500 (about 89,850), was purchased for only 50 cents Euro (US 56 cents) at a flea market in northern France and submitted to the company's Paris office for authentication. Photo courtesy of Professional Coin Grading Service.
SANTA ANA, CA.- United States rare coin experts have confirmed that a previously unknown example of a rare 1776-dated early American coin was found in a flea market junk box in France and purchased for only 50 cents Euro, about 56 U.S. cents. The coin is valued today at US$97,500, about 89,850. It is a 1776 Continental Currency dollar made of pewter, a rare and historic early American coin. It was purchased at a flea market in Northern France and months later after researching the coin online the owner submitted it to our Paris office for authentication, explained Brett Charville, President of Santa Ana, California-based Professional Coin Grading Service. The coins owner, who wants to remain anonymous, said it was on top of a pile of otherwise common coins and medals contained ... More | |
Romare Bearden, Firefly, 1962. Oil, casein, and colored pencil on canvas, cut and mounted on painted board, 46 x 39 11/16 inches. Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery is presenting Abstract Romare Bearden, featuring rarely-seen stain and collaged paintings from 1958-1962 by one of the most renowned visual artists of the 20th century. Also on view, will be selected works from earlier and later periods. The abstract paintings shed light on Beardens continual interest in experimental techniques. They also provide new context to the influence his earlier work had on this period, and how these seminal paintings contributed to the development of his later well-known collages. After painting and drawing for nearly two decades, the noted African American artist Romare Bearden (1911-1988) turned to songwriting for a few years in the early 1950s. When he began painting again in earnest around 1955, his work was more abstract than previously, as he explored new modes of expression. At first, he layered paint thickly, in abstracted figural works that were increasingly less repres ... More |
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| | The wild, anti-authoritarian art of Peter Saul | | "Measure Your Existence", a group exhibition about impermanence opens at the Rubin Museum | | Russian artist, partner held over sex tape that sank Macron ally |
Peter Saul, Stuck, 2007. Acrylic on canvas, 67 x 59 in (170.2 x 149.9 cm). Courtesy the artist.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Politically, 2020 has been, so far, a gonzo variety show of executive howlers and hissy fits; prayer breakfasts and Iowa pratfalls; split victories and revenge firings. The weirdness overload has almost seemed staged to distract from other American realities: migrant detention centers, corporate land grabs, climate catastrophe and the cruelties of poverty and racism. All of which makes the arrival at the New Museum of Peter Saul: Crime and Punishment, a critically acidic dirty bomb of a show, well-timed. The 61 works in this exhibition, installed on the museums third and fourth floors, span the career of an American painter whose art has, for more than half a century, both diagnosed national maladies and been shaped by them. The result is work thats virtuosically bizarre in style (Tiepolo meets Mad magazine) and ecumenically ... More | |
Lee Mingwei, The Letter Writing Project, 1998. Wood and glass. Courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Measure Your Existence, a new group show organized by guest curator of contemporary art, Christine Starkman is on view at the Rubin Museum. The exhibition features six contemporary artists who address the fleeting nature of existence through performance, installation, film, sculpture, and photography. The artists interrogate the transitory nature of fate, relationships, borders, and more, and in doing so call attention to the importance and inherent power of the present moment. The exhibition is part of the Rubin Museums yearlong thematic exploration of impermanence and accepting change, a fundamental principle in Buddhist philosophy. Measure Your Existence is on view from February 7 to August 10, 2020, and feature works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Shilpa Gupta, Tehching Hsieh, Meiro Koizumi, Lee Mingwei, and Taryn Simon. The artists in Measure Your Existence come from a broad ... More | |
French lawyer Juan Branco answers the press after he met with his client, Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky, as he leaves the judiciary police's regional headquarters, northwestern Paris. Alain JOCARD / AFP.
by Mehdi Cherifia and Clare Byrne
(AFP).- French police held a Russian activist and his girlfriend for questioning on Sunday over sex videos released online that brought down President Emmanuel Macron's favoured candidate for Paris mayor. Pyotr Pavlensky has said he leaked the video that forced the centrist ruling party's Benjamin Griveaux to bow out of the running for mayor in next month's election. The artist, who received asylum in France in 2017 after several radical protests in Russia, was arrested on Saturday in connection with a fight at a New Year's party. On Sunday, however, police turned their attention to the footage posted online this week showing a man masturbating, coupled with racy text messages sent to a woman. The videos prompted Griveaux, a married father of three, to abruptly call off his mayoral ... More |
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| | Alexander Berggruen opens an exhibition of works by Paul Kremer | | Fashion designer Alexander McQueen archive of rare early work to go under the hammer | | SFMOMA opens major career retrospective of influential photographer Dawoud Bey |
Paul Kremer, Fold 02, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen is presenting Paul Kremer: Layer Hooks. Paul Kremer has stated: When tossing around layered art files, sometimes things land perfectly. I imagine its like finding a good guitar hook. Layer hooks. In considering Layer Hooks as the visual equivalent of guitar hooks in music, where the right chord progressions sometimes mesh, Kremer seeks to achieve a balance both in each individual composition and in his body of work as a whole. Kremers practice is comprised of three core functions: inspiration and conception, exploration via digital experimentation, and execution through manual articulation. The resulting geometries can conflict or harmonize with one another using dimension and weight to override flatness, resisting categorization between abstraction and representation. What first could appear as an entirely flat space within Cutout 01 might transform in a ... More | |
An exquisite and documented wool and cashmere military matador-style asymmetrical tailcoat with extensive gold braid work detailing. Courtesy: RR Auction.
BOSTON, MASS.- An archive of British fashion designer Alexander McQueen's will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. Lee Alexander McQueen, the famed designer and creator whose boundless vision propelled fashion-forward from the mid-nineties with a game-changing dropped waistline, historically referenced clothing, and a cinematic sense of showmanship. Spanning from 1994 to 1996 and beyond, the archive includes some of the McQueens most impactful and critically acclaimed early collections in a self-contained complete diary of his creations. An impeccable collection of rare early work including garments hand-sewn by Lee, original patterns, and sketchescarefully conserved by former head of McQueen studio and friend, Ruti Danan. "I obtained these items during my time as studio director working for ... More | |
Dawoud Bey, A Boy in Front of the Loews 125th Street Movie Theater Harlem NY (1976). © Dawoud Bey.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Photographer Dawoud Bey has dedicated more than four decades to portraying underrepresented communities and histories. From portraits in Harlem to nocturnal landscapes, classic street photography to large-scale studio portraits, his works combine an ethical imperative with an unparalleled mastery of his medium. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presents the artists first full career retrospective in 25 years, on view in the museums Pritzker Center for Photography from February 15 to May 25, 2020. Featuring approximately 80 works, the exhibition, co-organized with the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, spans the breadth of Beys career, from the 1970s to the present. Organized both thematically and chronologically, it ranges from his earliest street portraits in Harlem (197578) to his most recent exploration of the Underground Railroad (2017). The power of Beys work ... More |
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Yotam Ottolenghi, Asim Rehman, and Lowery Stokes Sims
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Exhibition features portrait paintings by Spanish artist Luis Burgos
NEW YORK, NY.- Instituto Cervantes New York is presenting The words you keep featuring a selection of nearly a dozen of portrait paintings by Spanish artist Luis Burgos (Varea, La Rioja, 1957). On view from February 13th through March 21st, The words you keep explores through these portraits using unique strong characters, mostly women, the meaning of words never told, those hidden behind closed lips and lingering gazes. In this exhibition, Luis Burgos invites viewers to imaginatively guess these intriguing characters, whom become stronger as time passes. They grow older, wiser. Sometimes they look defiantly. These characters started to show themselves while they were being painted as they established a dialogue with the artist. I had to come here to have an almost mystical revelation and to see hundreds of thousands of magicians, ... More
The IMMA Collection: Freud Project presents a new research programme exploring The Artist's Studio
DUBLIN.- Very few artists spent as much time in the studio as Lucian Freud (19222011). The studio was his world. Now in its fourth year, the IMMA Collection: Freud Project is dedicating a six-month period to the investigation of the theme of the artists studio, exploring its role and function in the production of art. The Artists Studio presents the work of Lucian Freud with a new research and activation space in the Freud Centre. The studio, in all its forms, exerts a fascination as the physical and conceptual site of an artists work. The IMMA Collection: Freud Project provides the framework for an investigation of the timeless subject of the relationship between the artist and their studio. The basement of the Freud Centre is a new site for research, functioning as a reading, screening and ... More
Archive of studio photographs from Apartheid-era South Africa offered at Bonhams
LONDON.- An archive of images taken from the photographers studio of Z.J.S Ndimande and Sons in Greytown during Apartheid will be offered at Bonhams Modern and Contemporary African Art sale on Wednesday 18 March. The studio, which opened in 1940, was later forbidden from operating under the owners name as Greytown (now the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa) was considered a white district during the regime. The 1,126 loose images and four albums of men, women and children posing for Ndimande in his studio have an estimate of £6,000-9,000. Z.J.S Ndimande began his family-run photography studio in the 1940s with his son, Richard Ndimande, who later took over the business from his father in 1968. The studio was located on the corner of Bell Street and York Street, attached to the familys hairdressing business in Greytown. ... More
Barbara Remington, illustrator of Tolkien book covers, dies at 90
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Barbara Remington, the illustrator who created the most widely recognized covers for J.R.R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit which she quickly executed before she even had the chance to read the books died Jan. 23 in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. She was 90. Her longtime friend John Bromberg said the cause was breast cancer. Though the covers of the first editions of The Lord of the Rings had illustrations by various artists, including Tolkien himself, the ones that Remington created for the paperback versions published by Ballantine Books were the ones that achieved mass-cult status in the 1960s, particularly on college campuses. Remington, who designed other book covers for Ballantine as well, was asked to illustrate the 1965 editions of The Lord of the Rings and The ... More
A.E. Hotchner, writer and friend of the famous, dies at 102
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- A.E. Hotchner, a novelist, playwright, biographer, literary bon vivant and philanthropist whose life was shaped and colored by close friendships with two extraordinarily gifted and well-known men, Ernest Hemingway and Paul Newman, died Saturday at his home in Westport, Connecticut. He was 102. His death was announced by his wife, Virginia Kiser. Hotchner was not to the manner born; nor was he a celebrity. But he was nonetheless at home among the glitterati, one of those not-so-famous people whom famous people, for whatever reason, take to. He was aware of this quality in himself and made use of it professionally. One of his books, Choice People (1984), consists of anecdotal profiles of Clark Gable, Barbara Hutton, Marlene Dietrich and others of his acquaintance; another, Everyone Comes to Elaines ... More
2020 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture awarded to Grafton Architects
LONDON.- Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founders of Dublin-based Grafton Architects, were awarded the 2020 Royal Gold Medal for architecture, at a special ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects on 13 February 2020. Presented in recognition of a lifetimes work, the Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by Her Majesty The Queen and is given to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence 'either directly or indirectly on the advancement of architecture'. Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara co-founded Grafton Architects. With an impressive portfolio of projects, the practice has achieved global recognition most notably for its exemplary education buildings; in 2016 they won the inaugural RIBA International Prize for the bold new vertical campus building for Limas specialist engineering university (UTEC) ... More
Solo exhibition by New York based artist Kayode Ojo opens at Praz-Delavallade
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Praz-Delavallade is presenting Never Been Kissed, a solo exhibition by New York based artist Kayode Ojo. This exhibition presents a series of sculptures, photographs and two new films by the artist that explore the relationship between fashion-exploitation and contemporary culture. Mass produced ready-made objects, staged garments and elements of glamour are configured into sculptures that mimic human proportions and poses. Ojo illustrates the absurdity of the contemporary condition by joining these elements together to demonstrate the complexities of todays fashion industry and image obsessed culture. Inspired by Hollywood and following the logic of the stage to screen adaptation, Ojo extends this transference one step further, into an exhibition format. For this exhibition, Ojo considers two Hollywood films incidentally starring ... More
A revolutionary approach to Beethoven: Period instruments
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- John Eliot Gardiner will lead his period-instrument Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in Beethovens nine symphonies in five concerts at Carnegie Hall, from Feb. 19-24, before performances in Chicago and London. He recently spoke with Zachary Woolfe, the classical music editor of The New York Times. These are edited excerpts. My earliest memories of Beethovens symphonies are as a teenager, listening to old LPs. My parents had Furtwängler and Karajan recordings. And I remember finding the Karajan recordings brilliant and electric, but somehow a bit too slick and slightly distasteful, whereas I found the Furtwängler recordings more enlightening and a lot more profound. I also remember feeling that this surely couldnt be the only way of performing or interpreting this music. It felt a little gargantuan, ... More
The Nancy Glenn Collection of Hermès scarves & shawls goes up for bid at Turner Auctions + Appraisals
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals is very pleased to present the Nancy Glenn Collection of Hermès Scarves & Shawls on Saturday, February 29, 2020. This online auction, exclusively devoted to items from the world-renowned Parisian fashion house, features over 200 lots of scarves and shawls for women; plus some pocket squares, cummerbunds and bow ties for men. Established in 1837, Hermès is a French high fashion luxury goods manufacturer that specializes in lifestyle accessories, leather, home furnishings, perfumery, jewelry, watches and ready-to-wear. Nancy Glenn was founder and owner of the well-known, high-end interior design firm, Glenn Design Company, in Sausalito, California, for over 35 years. Turner Auctions + Appraisals begins its online auction on Saturday, February 29, 2020, at 10:30 am PST; sale items ... More
Museum of Fine Arts Boston appoints new Contemporary Curatorial Assistants
BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has announced that Debra Lennard and Marina Tyquiengco have been appointed as Curatorial Assistants in the Department of Contemporary Art. I could not be more excited about Debra and Marina joining our team at this important moment, said Reto Thüring, Beal Family Chair, Department of Contemporary Art. As we celebrate the MFAs 150th anniversary, we look forward to the crucial role that contemporary art will play in the Museums programming, collection building and community outreach efforts. Lennard is a Ph.D. candidate at The Graduate Center, City University of New York with a focus on modern art in a global perspective. In fall 2019, she organized the exhibition Notes on Solidarity: Tricontinentalism in Print at The Graduate Centers James Gallery, as the Gallerys ... More
Michener Art Museum launches revamped Bucks County artists database
DOYLESTOWN, PA.- The Michener Art Museum presents the newly refreshed Bucks County Artists Database, a free online resource celebrating the rich artistic traditions, past and present, of Bucks County. With over 400 artists represented in the database, BCAD is an ever-growing project that strives to represent the regional art scene. It currently contains thousands of pages of information and images, continuing the Micheners initiative to provide research and educational tools for the community. The re-imagined database is now more accessible and user-friendly, with the most up-to-date information pertaining to the artistic landscape of Bucks County. Local artists are encouraged to submit their work to the database to be considered for representation on BCAD. The idea of BCAD was first conceived under the leadership of former ... More
Fine art from the estate of Eunis and Douglas Goodan heads to auction
LOS ANGELES, CA.- An impressive array of California plein air paintings from the estate of Eunice and Douglas Goodan, grandson of renowned Los Angeles Times publisher and American investor Harry Chandler, will be auctioned on March 1 by Abell Auction Company in Los Angeles. Live bids will be accepted online and at the gallery (2613 Yates Ave.) starting at 10 a.m. PST. The Goodan collection comes from residences in Cambria, Pasadena and Montecito, Calif., and features artists such Benjamin C. Brown, Maurice Braun, Jessie Arms Botke and Raoul de Longpre, among others. Abell is also proud to present a collection of 18th and 19th century English portrait paintings from the estate of Mary Carlise, an American actress, singer and dancer best known for her roles in 1930s musical-comedy films. A stunning array of fine art, antique and ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter Hans Hofmann died February 17, 1966. Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 - February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. Hofmann's art work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships. He was also heavily influenced in his later years by Henri Matisse's ideas about color and form. In this image: Hans Hofmann, The Lark, um 1960. Ãl auf Leinwand, 152,7 x 133 cm. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum und Pacific Film Archive. Schenkung von Hans Hofmann, 1965 © JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., and Patricia A. Gallagher, Trustees of the Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust.
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