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Hermann David Salomon Corrodi, Landscape with Ruins, Roma, circa 1880. Estimate $40,000-60,000.
OAK PARK, IL.- On June 8 and 9, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will offer over 700 lots total by esteemed artists and makers who were largely active in the early 20th century. Fine Art + Furniture & Decorative Arts on Wednesday, June 8 will be followed by Keramics & Rookwood: American & European Art Pottery Curated by Riley Humler on Thursday, June 9. The June 8 sale includes paintings, prints, sculpture, furniture, lighting, glassware, silver, jewelry, and more. The June 9 sale features art pottery, with vases, bowls, plates, jardinieres, wall plaques, and other forms. Preview and bidding details follow the highlights below. Two impressive oil on canvas works stand out within the fine art section on June 8: Italian painter Hermann David Salomon Corrodis Landscape with Ruins, Roma, circa 1880 (estimate $40,000-60,000) and American realist John Sloans Fireguard, 1925 ($15,000-25,000). The sale also has seven paintings by Milwaukee arti ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The immersive exhibition "The Sigui Experience,â part of the Biennale in Dakar, Senegal on May 28, 2022. The art world has descended on the Senegalese capital for its first pandemic-era biennale, the biggest art event in West Africa, where the greatest creations on view are often found just by strolling the streets. Carmen Abd Ali/The New York Time.
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| New report from UBS: The Role of Cities in the US Art Ecosystem | | The Hamburger Kunsthalle opens a solo exhibition to Ernst Wilhelm Nay | | Fondation Beyeler presents 'Mondrian Evolution' |
New York has the highest number of art institutions and exhibitions and remained HNW collectors top choice to attend art exhibitions and art-related events in 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- UBS publish today the report The Role of Cities in the US Art Ecosystem, authored by renowned cultural economist Dr. Clare McAndrew with data from research-based tech company Wondeur AI. The report analyses data on the quantity and content of the exhibition programs of art institutions across the US, including commercial galleries and museums, revealing insights on their risk preferences for new emerging artists and the impact they can have on their subsequent careers. It focuses on the influence of these institutions on the cultural infrastructure of five key cities, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Miami. The research is based on a comprehensive study of the exhibition history of 4,150 art institutions in the US that were active in exhibiting over 38,000 artists born after 1900 from 2017 to 2021, compiled by Wondeur AI. The full report is free to download at http://www.ubs.com/collecting. The US i ... More | |
Ernst Wilhelm Nay (19021968), Frau mit Tieren, 1939. Ãl auf Leinwand, 109 à 87 cm. OL-art, Collection © Ernst Wilhelm Nay Stiftung / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 © Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co. KG, München.
HAMBURG.- The Hamburger Kunsthalle is dedicating a solo exhibition to Ernst Wilhelm Nay (19021968), the first retrospective in many years of the work of one of the leading painters of the twentieth century. Nays vibrant and colourful paintings form a bridge between art before and after the Second World War. His art merges elements of Expressionism, abstraction and gestural painting after 1945 and links German and international modernism. Based on around 120 paintings, watercolours and drawings, the show explores all phases of Nays complex oeuvre. The works span a period of fifty years, from 1919 and 1968, displaying a wide range of different modes of representation and historical references. Works on loan from prominent public and private collections are complemented here be some twenty exhibits from the collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle. The retrospective is arranged chronologically and unfurls the vari ... More | |
Piet Mondrian, Lozenge Composition with Eight Lines and Red / Picture No. III, 1938. Oil on canvas, diagonals 141.5 cm, sides 100 x 100 cm. Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Beyeler Collection © Mondrian/Holtzman Trust. Photo: Robert Bayer, Basel.
BASEL.- Marking the 150th anniversary of the artists birth, the Fondation Beyeler devotes a comprehensive exhibition to the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (18721944), bringing together works from its own collection and major international loans. As one of the most significant and versatile artists of the avant-garde, Mondrian had a decisive influence on the development of painting from figuration to abstraction. With 85 works on display, Mondrian Evolution shows Piet Mondrians striking development from 19th-century landscape painter to one of modern arts leading protagonists, highlighting the diversity of his oeuvre. The exhibition is a rare opportunity to take a fresh look at Mondrian, who not only had a significant influence on 20th century art but also on design, architecture, fashion and pop culture. While the Fondation Beyelers collection mainly features works fro ... More |
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| At Dakar's Biennale, the city itself is the most colorful canvas | | Friedman Benda opens fourth solo show with Misha Kahn | | To house refugees, Lviv wants to make beautiful buildings that last |
Painter Saadio in the Ngor district in Dakar, Senegal on Friday, May 27, 2022. Carmen Abd Ali/The New York Times.
by Ruth Maclean
DAKAR.- Its FOMO season in Senegals capital. Even when youre at an exhibition opening for this years Dakar Biennale oohing and aahing over the artwork and envying outfits as you people spot theres a fear of missing out on an even better scene somewhere else. Whats happening right now! at the five other openings you could be attending, scattered across this seaside capital? This is the (pleasant) conundrum faced by those lucky enough to be in Senegal for this years Biennale, which has become one of the biggest and definitely the coolest contemporary art events on the African continent. The Biennale, which opened last month and runs through June 21, is the zenith of the citys ebullient cultural calendar, drawing in artists, collectors and trendse ... More | |
Misha Kahn, Illegible Memo, 2022, Plastic, paint, 66.5 x 26.75 x 24.5 inches, 169 x 68 x 62 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- In his fourth solo-show at Friedman Benda, Style Without Substance, Misha Kahn sets out to look into the essence of a material and help to style its thingness to be apparent to humans. Rather than using an object to tell a story or express himself, Kahn seeks to tap into the independent spirit of matter, process, and form. Set off by a psychedelic vision and followed by a two-year quest, Kahns exhibition explores making the invisible visible. Aside from semiotics and ascribed meanings, Kahn theorizes that objects and materials have energy, and that if one devises the right circumstances, it can be experienced. Unique cast aluminum and glass tondos which Kahn calls portals set the tone for the show. Clad in multi-color stretch velvet, a sofa and its accompanying oversized chair Bucatini Shortage of 2021 cheekily acknowledge an expanded take on the two-year interim since Kahns las ... More | |
Lvivs opera house, which opened in 1900, when the city was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, in Ukraine, April 24, 2022. Finbarr O'Reilly/The New York Times.
by Jane Arraf
LVIV.- To stand in the cobblestone square that is this citys historic marketplace is to be surrounded by the influences captured in brick, stone and plaster of cultures intersecting and of empires rising and falling. The layout of the streets and squares in Lvivs city center is much as it would have been in medieval times, helping it to earn a designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is through the citys architecture, though, that Eastern Europe rubs shoulders with Italian and German heritage, giving Lviv its distinctive visual identity. Amid war with Russia, the citys challenge is to integrate tens of thousands of residents displaced from fighting in eastern Ukraine without sacrificing Lvivs aesthetics or derailing its efforts to become a sustainable ... More |
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| Martos Gallery opens first exhibition of Bob Smith's emblematic box constructions in more than thirty years | | Ippodo Gallery opens an exhibition of tea bowls by seventeen respected artists | | Ai-Da Robot resents world first portraitof HM Queen Elizabeth II for Platinum Jubilee |
Bob Smith, Home is a Cold Box, 1982, Wood and mixed media construction, 18 1/2 x 14 1/4 x 6 5/8 in
NEW YORK, NY.- Martos Gallery is presenting Art Remains A Witness To A Life, the first exhibition of Bob Smiths emblematic box constructions in more than thirty years. In the 1980s, Smith (1944-1990) created intimate stage sets that may recall the iconic work of Joseph Cornell, though clearly possessing a sensibility, poetics, and humor that is Smiths alone, specific to their time and milieu. Known mostly by a circle of downtown artists, poets, musicians, critics, choreographers and dancers, and a cluster of devoted fans, Smith has remained a well-kept secrethe himself concealed and revealed in his miniature realms. The reason for his absence from the history of a well-documented and revisited era in New York is, in part, a matter of his free-spirited navigation of life and of fates unexpected turn, true as it was for many in this consequential decade. Smith would settle in Madrid in the 1970s, exhibit in Europe and tr ... More | |
Takeshi Imaizumi 青瓷茶盌, Blue Porcelain Tea Bowl H3 1/4 x Φ 4 3/8 in. H8.2 x Φ 11.2 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ippodo Gallery is presenting another series of Magic of the Tea Bowl Volume 2, an exhibition of tea bowls by seventeen respected artists: Yasushi Fujihira, Hideyuki Fujisawa, Noriyuki Furutani, Hiroshi Goseki, Tomoyuki Hoshino, Morimistu Hosokawa, Takeshi Imaizumi, Koichiro Isezaki, Yukiya Izumita, Tsubusa Kato, Kohei Nakamura, Mokichi Otsuka, Kai Tsujimura, Shiro Tsujimura, Yui Tsujimura, Koichi Uchida, and Kodai Ujiie. When you place a tea bowl in the palm of ones hand, all five senses become immediately activated. With your ability to feel the shape of the bowl and see the colors that transform in front of you, time and space disappear so that your soul can find respite from the ordinary day to day and feel the extraordinary power a tea bowl can offer. Last year during the midst of the pandemic, Ippodo Gallery filled the void of its visitors with over one hundred tea bowls, which shined like the stars in the sk ... More | |
Ai-Da Robot creates Algorithm Queen, the worlds first painting of Queen Elizabeth II by a Robot, May 2022.
LONDON.- Today, Ai-Da Robot, the worlds first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, has revealed her new portrait of Her Royale Highness Queen Elizabeth II. Titled Algorithm Queen, the portrait was created to mark the celebrations of the Platinum Jubilee this June Bank Holiday. It is the first time in history a humanoid robot has painted a member of the Royal Family. At the time of the Queens coronation the first circuit board computers had only just been invented, a design which remained mainstream until the 1960s. Over her seventy-year reign, the Queen has witnessed an unprecedented burst of innovation in computer technology in the UK, including the birth of machine learning and artificial intelligence, forces shaping the modern world as we know it today. Ai-Da uses cameras in her eyes and her computer memory to start her portrait of the Queen. She uses a variety of her unique AI algorithms to paint ... More |
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| Chekhov two ways, with a robot and Baryshnikov along for the ride | | Exhibition focuses on the major technological changes since WW II and their influence on our ideas of the body | | Sapar Contemporary opens a group exhibition of women artists |
Director Igor Golyak with the robotic arm that is part of his adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York, May 14, 2022. Amir Hamja/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- When director Igor Golyak began working on a staging of Chekhovs The Cherry Orchard, he had an idea in mind. There was a concept, he said, then interrupted himself. Id rather not talk about what it used to be, if thats OK. The war started, me being from Kyiv and having this affinity for the Russian culture. Golyaks voice trailed off. He was speaking in a coffee shop a block from the Baryshnikov Arts Center in midtown Manhattan, where his show, now titled The Orchard, is set to begin previews Tuesday with a cast headed by the busy stage and screen actress Jessica Hecht as the estate owner Lyubov Ranevskaya. Also onboard is the centers namesake, Mikhail Baryshnikov, as the old servant Firs. Golyak was born in Kyiv and his family landed in the United States ... More | |
Mark Leckey, UniAddDumThs, 2014ongoing.
MUNICH.- The exhibition Future Bodies from a Recent PastSculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s at Museum Brandhorst brings to life a hitherto little-noticed phenomenon in art, and more particularly in sculpture: the reciprocal interpenetration of body and technology. With more than 100 works and several large-scale installations by around 60 artistsprimarily from Europe, the United States, and Japanthe exhibition focuses on the major technological changes since World War II and their influence on our ideas of the body. Contemporary art is characterized by an examination of the relationship between the body and technology. Many artworks from recent years reflect how we experience ourselves and our environments in the highly technological and networked present. Yet this relationship can be traced far back into the 20th century. The post-war period was marked by rapid technological change, ... More | |
Iryna Maksymova, Caring for Each Other, 2022. Image Courtesy of Sapar Contemporary and the Artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sapar Contemporary is presenting Women and Other Wild Creatures: Matrilineal Tales, a group exhibition of women artists who draw strength from the connection with the non-human nature, involving it in their healing practices and increasingly fantastical visions of human unity with nature. The show includes artists from Ukraine (Zinaida, Rita Maikova, and Iryna Maksymova) and Kazakhstan (Aya Shalkar and Yerke Abuova), representing the gallerys DNA, as well as works by French (Nicole Peyrafitte) and American (Susan Coyne) artists working in the U.S. The inspiration for the exhibition came from seeing intergenerational caravans of grandmothers, mothers, daughters, and family pets migrating from the war zones, as well as the images of natures destruction in Ukraine: suffering trees, plants, animals of all kinds, and the whole steppe and wetland ecosys ... More |
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'Belfast' by Krass Clement to be published by RRB PhotoBooks
LONDON.- In 1991, when Danish photographer Krass Clement spent time in Ireland and Northern Ireland, he famously shot his landmark book Drum in just one evening one three and a half rolls of film. Over 30 years later Clement has revisited his archive and the photographs made in the same period. His new book Belfast, features 114 previously unpublished images taken as he moved through the city as an outsider observing its people, landscape and rhythm. Clement photographs quickly, moving unobtrusively through a place. Often photographing at angles, with furtive glances down urban streets, the monochromatic images give the impression of Clement walking through the city at pace whilst the figures he captures in the streets are also in a perpetual state of transit. His photographs taken in Be ... More
How the 'Queen of Slag' is transforming industrial sites
NEW YORK, NY.- For more than 30 years, Julie Bargmann, a landscape architect and founder of DIRT Studio (Dump It Right There) in Charlottesville, Virginia, has focused on contaminated and forgotten urban and postindustrial sites, dedicating her practice to addressing social and environmental justice. Her work to revitalize toxic sites and reconnect them to their communities has earned her the nicknames Toxic Avenger and Queen of Slag. Her projects include an abandoned pump house and reservoirs in Dallas transformed into an art-filled residential garden; the derelict parking lot of a 19th-century fire station in Detroit converted into an urban woodland; historic shipyards that became welcome centers and corporate campuses; and former coal mines, quarries and foundries recast ... More
VOLTA Basel spotlights Middle Eastern artists: Announces collaboration with Saudi Arabian ATHR Foundation
BASEL.- With its first-ever Cultural Spotlight Pavilion, VOLTA Basel sets the focus on Saudi-based artists: ATHR Foundation presents works by ten independent artists in a fair pavilion measuring 70 square meters (approximately 750 square feet). Complementing the fairs international lineup of artists, the chosen artworks highlight the diverse creative output from Saudi Arabia. Curated by Jeddah-based Jumana Ghouth, ATHR Foundation displays a variety of works that are connected in their shared reflection upon the notion of intangibility. The presented works explore the attempt at manifesting these intangible truths into material culture as abstracted physical interpretations of the unknown. After graduating from being an early VOLTA Basel exhibitor in 2013, featuring a solo presentation ... More
Rare natural pearl necklace shines at AstaGuru's auction, sold for a whopping six crores
MUMBAI.- AstaGuru Auction House recently concluded their Heirloom Jewellery, Silver, and Timepieces auction on May 30th and 31st. The auction featured a stellar collection that showcased classic aesthetics with 132 lots and garnered a total revenue of INR 17,92,62,210 (USD 2,390,142). The jewellery section offered traditional Indian jewellery, western-style jewellery, and pieces executed with gemstones including natural pearls, Burmese rubies, Zambian emeralds, and high-quality diamonds. The sale was led by an exquisite three-row natural pearl necklace which was acquired at an amount of INR 6,24,91,000 (USD 833,213). The necklace comprises three rows of graduated natural, salt-water pearls interspaced with faceted crystal discs along with a gold clasp set with old cut diamonds. It also featured on t ... More
Opera's 'Island of Misfit Toys' takes its biggest stage yet
CATSKILL, NY.- At the Lumberyard center here on a recent evening, more than 15 artists gathered outdoors around a long banquet spread over several picnic tables that had been lined up and topped with tea lights, bottles of rosé and accouterments for a feast of roasted pork lettuce wraps. The group mostly members of the American Modern Opera Company, or AMOC, a collective founded five years ago by some of the most restless and enterprising young people in the performing arts locked hands around their place settings. Close the circle, one said, nodding toward a remaining gap. Bobbi Jene Smith, a dancer-choreographer, arrived with her toddler, a multilingual mega-fan of Frozen, to fill it. There was no prayer or any kind of speech. Just a pause, before they all smiled and s ... More
'You are the show': A Hudson Valley outpost of the Avant-Garde
CHATHAM, NY.- There is no outside, Nigerian choreographer Qudus Onikeku said Wednesday. He wasnt referring to his surroundings: the open-air theater of PS21, set in the middle of 100 acres of orchard, meadow and woodlands in this Hudson Valley town. The inside/outside divide he meant was the one between the members of his company, QDance, and the public that had come to see them. You are the show, he said. QDance was set to present the U.S. premiere of Re:INCARNATION at PS21 on Friday and Saturday, kicking off a season that includes other international troupes and big names like the Paul Taylor Dance Company and the Mark Morris Dance Group. The summer programming which also features contemporary chamber opera, postapocalyptic scarecrows, a parade of human-size moles ... More
Gardens of earthly delights
NEW YORK, NY.- In the shadows of skyscrapers and apartment blocks, foragers find a paradise among the slippery rocks of Londons River Thames. Scouring crevices for bits of ceramic, glass, carved stone and metal, they hope for the dopamine hit released by making a find, as historian Malcolm Russell writes in Mudlarkd: Hidden Histories From the River Thames (Princeton University Press, $35, 224 pages). Bone hairpins surfacing in the muck may have been used by beauticians in ancient Roman colonies. Chinese coins could have belonged to stowaways smuggled aboard British merchant ships in 18th-century Canton. A 19th-century glass rod would have served to crush sugar cubes harvested by enslaved Africans on Caribbean plantations. Syringes for mercury injections helped Victorian sex ... More
With cameras on every phone, will Broadway's nude scenes survive?
NEW YORK, NY.- Jesse Williams was nominated for a Tony Award last month for his work in Take Me Out, an acclaimed play about baseball and homophobia. But when his name trended on Twitter the next day, it was not because of the accolade; it was because someone had surreptitiously taken a video of his nude scene and posted it online. In a recent interview, Williams, who became a star through his appearances on Greys Anatomy, said he was undeterred by the incident. I come here to do work. Im going to tell the truth onstage. Im going to be vulnerable, he said. But he also made it clear that he was not all right with what had happened to him, saying that putting nonconsensual naked photos of somebody on the internet is really foul. Mobile phones have long disrupted live performances by ringing ... More
Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU presents 'Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste... and Drive (Far Away)'
RICHMOND, VA.- Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste presents . . . and Drive (Far Away), a mixed media sound installation and durational performance which approaches a cross-country drive along I-10 and I-95, from Tucson, Arizona to Richmond, VA, through the lens of Gulf South sonority, a phenomenon deeply tied to the automobile, where marronage, history, sonic pageantry, and physical sensation may all collapse upon one another. Making use of custom car audio and car tint, the performance and installation/sonorous non-instruments, specifically, looks at decommissioned Ford Police Interceptors/Crown Victorias, simultaneously, as a sociocultural-audiovisual marker which is key to Gulf South sonic ecologies, as well as its existence a space of potential self-abstraction, fraught with risk an ... More
Alexander Berggruen opens an exhibition of works by Marie Hazard
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen is presenting Marie Hazard: Lair Sous Mes Pieds. This exhibition opened Wednesday, June 1 with a reception from 5-7 pm at the gallery (1018 Madison Avenue, Floor 3, New York, NY). This show marks Marie Hazards first solo exhibition with the gallery following her inclusion in the gallerys group show Shapes (April 21-May 27, 2021). Marie Hazard (b. 1994, France) received a BA in Textile Design from Central Saint Martins in London. Her work has been exhibited at: Sunday-s, Copenhagen, DK; OV Project, Brussels, BE; Galerie Mitterrand, Paris, FR; GalerÃa Mascota, Mexico City, MX; Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY; Marc Jancou Contemporary, Rossin ... More
Schiffer Publishing announces 'Coney Island People: 50 Years'
NEW YORK, NY.- Widely celebrated New York street photographer Harvey Stein is known, in part, for his ability to notice the beautiful, mundane, quirky aspects of human nature and caught moments and in doing so, elevate the everyday to a space of wonder. Coney Island People 50 Years (Schiffer, July 26, 2022) traces Steins love affair with Coney Island over time with a collection of 174 evocative black and white photographs spanning 1970 to 2020 that focus on the people who populate this legendary place. Its his third book about Coney. The first was published by W.W. Norton in 1998 and simply called Coney Island. The second, the acclaimed Coney Island 40 Years, was published in 2011, also by Schiffer. Twenty-three of Steins favorite images from the 40 year book are included in the new work ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Yves Klein died June 06, 1962. Yves Klein (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art. In this image: Yves Klein, âUntitled Fire-Color Painting (FC 1),â 1961. Private Collection. © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Image courtesy Yves Klein Archives.
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