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Gloucester Caliman Coxe ( American 1907-1999), Ebony Plays, 1972. Oil on canvas, 72 x 52 in. Signed lower right. Provenance: Private collection, Michigan. Please click here to view the catalogue of Recent Acquisitions.
NEW YORK, NY.- In todays video we focus on American Black artists that weve been dealing in for the past two decades. Their work has always fascinated us as their undertone evokes a voice unheard in an uninhibited style free from class. African American art in the 20th century encompasses diverse subjects in a variety of genres, from representational to modern abstraction constantly reflecting the American experience through their eyes. This monumental 1972 work by Gloucester Caliman Coxe titled Ebony Plays not only evokes the Hard-Edge movement of the 1960s & 1970s but takes it further into a cubist form using color and geometry as his vision. Coxe was the dean of Black painters in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1950s & 1960s mentoring such future luminaries as Bob Thompson and Sam Gilliam. This example is a true statement and portrayal of the athletic adeptness of African Americans. Our selection includes a 1966 Ernie Barnes evoking a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In the exhibition Speculative Objects on view at rodolphe janssen, the paintings of Emily Mae Smith evoke a transfiguration of art historical allusions that harmoniously, while humorously, coexist by maintaining each referent's specific legibility.
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| Report: New York City's arts and recreation employment down by 66% | | Digital authentication opens new doors for art, sports collectors | | Dan Guz Man: "What will happen with the honey and all the other things that will be missing?" |
File photo of Thomas DiNapoli, New York state comptroller, at his office in New York, Sept. 23, 2010. Michael Appleton/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Employment in New York Citys arts, entertainment and recreation sector plummeted by 66% from December 2019 to December 2020, according to a report released Wednesday by the New York State Comptrollers office that detailed the economys devastation from the coronavirus and the serious obstacles to recovery. The report from Thomas DiNapolis office said that the sector had seen the largest drop of all the parts of the citys economy. A full comeback, it said, would depend upon significant government assistance. The sector is a cornerstone of the citys ability to attract businesses, residents and visitors alike, the report said. Yet the sector relies on audiences who gather to take part in shared experiences, and this way of life has been significantly disrupted by the pandemic. Although nearly all business has been affected by the pandemic, its impact on arts, entertainment and recreation entities has been particularly striking. Fr ... More | |
Detail of Beeple, Everydays The First 5000 Days, NFT, 21,069 pixels x 21,069 pixels (316,939,910 bytes). Estimate Unknown. Starting Bid: $100 | Open for bidding from February 25 - March 11. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Fans have been flocking by the thousands to the Top Shot online platform to buy short videos of dramatic sequences from professional basketball games, as a new virtual market enjoys astonishing success among collectors, sports fans and art lovers. To the untrained observer, one video clip showed NBA superstar LeBron James in one of his more spectacular moves; but it lasted no more than a few dozen seconds. On Top Shot, however, it instantly became a collector's item that sold on Monday for an eye-popping $208,000. The video sequence is an "NFT" -- a Non-Fungible Token -- a virtual object whose identity, authenticity and traceability are theoretically indisputable and tamper-proof, thanks to the same "blockchain" technology used to ensure the security of cryptocurrencies like the hugely popular bitcoin. Launched in early October by Canadian firm Dapper Labs in ... More | |
Dan Guz Man is a Mexican artist, Musician and Architect. His work transmits emotions and thoughts in his own unique graphic language. He enables the viewer to observe in detail and figure out a message that will serve as a connection with the artist.
MONTERREY.- First, if you could please describe to me what you responded to? I love the game, and I really wanted to play. I didn't know what to expect at first. I got this poster from a magazine, that showed that the bees had been abducted by aliens, and I loved the idea. It was very elaborate, and the idea was already traced. I just added a couple of buildings, and a couple of little heads below with amused faces. I didn't want to add any colors, because I wanted to see what future artists would do. It's really interesting- nobody has actually done this the way you did it. Have you looked at the rest of the site? To be honest with you, no I haven't. I just saw this on Instagram and loved the idea. So the way this works generally- but there's a first time for everything, and things can morph and change- is artists will receive the prompt and then they will make something completely different, that is based on how they felt about ... More |
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| Smithsonian partners with Iraqi authorities and international heritage consortium to rehabilitate Mosul Museum | | Hollywood, history combine in Churchill art auction | | Freeman's best Fine Art sale ever realizes $6.4 million |
Mosul Cultural Museum Director Zaid Ghazi Saadullah (left) and Brian Michael Lione, the Smithsonians Iraq program manager, survey a destroyed mihrab display in the Mosul Cultural Museums Islamic Hall in February 2019.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The building and collection of Iraqs Mosul Cultural Museum suffered tremendous damage at the hands of the Islamic State group. Now, the museum is gradually being brought back to life through a unique international partnership between the Smithsonian Institution, the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH), the Musée du Louvre, the World Monuments Fund (WMF) and the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (ALIPH). Since 2018, the founding members of this consortium have been stabilizing the building and collection in preparation for the full-scale rehabilitation. The goal is to return this museum to the citizens of Mosul as quickly as possible and to allow this important cultural landmark to showcase Iraqs rich culture once again. Restoring the Mosul ... More | |
This combination of pictures created on February 25, 2021 shows (top) a general view of the Moroccan city of Marrakesh on February 24 , 2021, and (bottom) gallery workers pose with an artwork titled Tower of Koutoubia Mosque by Winston Churchill during a photocall at Christies auction house in central London on February 17, 2021. FADEL SENNA, Tolga Akmen / AFP
RABAT (AFP).- Hollywood's Angelina Jolie and Britain's iconic wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, a keen artist who took inspiration from the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, are combining for a March 1 date at Christie's auction house in London. "The Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque", an oil painting Churchill produced during a World War II visit, is tipped to fetch between £1.5 million and £2.5 million ($2 million and $3.5 million), according to a Christie's estimate. Put up for auction by Angelina Jolie, it is vaunted in Christie's catalogue as "Churchill's most important work. Aside from its distinguished provenance, it is the only landscape he made" during the war. A career army officer ... More | |
The undoubted highlight of the sale was the stellar result achieved for Carl Molls White Interior (Lot 56).
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans announced the results of its February 23 European Art & Old Masters auction, which realized over $6.4Mthe best Fine Art sale total that Freemans has ever recorded. With spirited bidding throughout the sale from bidders both online and on the telephone, the 67-lot auction achieved an impressive 90% sell-through rate and nearly quadrupled its pre-sale high estimate. The undoubted highlight of the sale was the stellar result achieved for Carl Molls White Interior (Lot 56). After extensive, competitive bidding both online and from a dozen telephone bidders located around the world, the work shattered the previous world auction record of $385,653 and ultimately sold to a private American collector for $4,756,000more than 8 times its pre-sale high estimate. It is believed the buyer has the intention to exhibit the painting at The Neue Galerie in New York in the future. The significant painting ... More |
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| Galerie Max Hetzler opens a solo exhibition of sculptures by Karel Appel | | JR puts his focus on climate change and its consequences in new commission by National Gallery of Victoria | | Smoky artwork by Judy Chicago at Desert Zoo is canceled |
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BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler opened a solo exhibition of sculptures by Karel Appel at GoethestraÃe 2/3, in Berlin. In important literature on the artist, Karel Appel (1921-2006), who would have celebrated his centennial this year, is consistently referred to as a painter and founding member of CoBrA. The fact that the avant-garde group lasted only three years, and that this period thus actually grasps a relatively brief episode at the beginning of Appel's long career, is usually overlooked. Likewise, few are aware that Appel expressed himself not only in a painterly manner, but also in three dimensions. It is true that he was frst and foremost a painter, and his forays into objecthood are mostly based on a painterly rather than sculptural approach, but this is precisely where their particular appeal lies: they apply painterly thinking onto the object, and for this reason Appel's sculptures are known as 'Object Paintings'. ... More | |
Aerial view of JRs work Homily to Country 2020 during a live procession in Menindee Lakes, New South Wales, Australia on Saturday 27 February 2021. Photo: NGV
MELBOURNE.- A procession event featuring four 30m-long portrait photographs taken by internationally-renowned French contemporary artist JR - and carried by the portrait subjects themselves, including local farmers, orchardists and local Baakandji community members - made its way through the dry Menindee Lakes district in regional New South Wales yesterday to highlight the ecological decline of the Darling / Baaka River. The procession was conceived by JR as part of his multifaceted, world-exclusive project for the NGV Triennial, Homily to Country, which draws into focus the complex issues of the river system as a consequence of intensive irrigation, climate change and drought. Commencing at Lake Cawndilla, the procession honored the personal stories and experiences of the four portrait ... More | |
Judy Chicago on Fire at 80 © Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY; Photo ©Donald Woodman/ARS, NY.
by Jori Finkel
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Two years ago, arts organization Desert X in Palm Springs, California, canceled a Jenny Holzer light projection to be shown on a local mountainside during its biennial exhibition for fear of endangering bighorn sheep that roamed there. Now, Judy Chicagos plans for creating an ephemeral, atmospheric artwork at the 1,200-acre Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert, California, for the upcoming edition of the biennial have been scrapped after an environmental activist began a letter-writing campaign against the project, raising questions about its effects on sheep and other animals in the region. Jenny Gil Schmitz, executive director of Desert X, said she had first learned of the Living Deserts ... More |
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| Artis-Naples announces major gift to the Baker Museum permanent collection | | Exhibition of large-scale works on paper by Derrick Adams on view at Rhona Hoffman Gallery | | Exhibition at Bernhard Knaus Fine Art brings together new work groups by artist and photographer Flo Maak |
Dale Chihuly Red Reeds, 2010. 10 x 43 x 2'. ArtisâNaples, The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida, installed 2020 © Chihuly Studio.
NAPLES, FLA.- ArtisNaples announced today a significant gift from Patty and Jay Baker and Jeanette Montgomery Evert and Herbert P. Evert to The Baker Museum permanent collection: Red Reeds, by Dale Chihuly, an outdoor installation in the Norris Garden that is part of the exhibition Dreaming Forms: Chihuly Then and Now, which closes today. The work, which consists of elongated red blown glass reed forms, will now become a part of The Baker Museums collection and will remain in the Norris Garden. Kathleen van Bergen, CEO and President, said As we celebrate the 20th anniversary and the completion of the repair and expansion of The Baker Museum, we are grateful to add this iconic work by Dale Chihuly to our permanent collection. We are indebted to Patty and Jay Baker and Jeanette and Herb Evert for their remarkable generosity, gifting this stunning addition to our ... More | |
Derrick Adams, Floater 97, 2020 (detail). Acrylic Paint and Fabric on paper, 50 x 50 inches.
CHICAGO, IL.- Rhona Hoffman Gallery is presenting The Last Resort, the gallerys fourth solo exhibition with Brooklyn-based artist Derrick Adams (b. 1970, Baltimore, MD). Culminating the artists series Floaters, which began in 2015, the collection of large-scale works on paper present the final chapter in Adams feeling investigation into depictions of Black leisure. Each completed in 2020, six of the paintings on view renew Adams signature use of exuberant color blocking figuration to introduce the idle time of Black bodies in compositions that are joyous, abundant, and radical in their refusal of tragedy. Alongside these works, a number of intimate watercolorswhose treatment is loose, delicate, and softfeature bathers resting upon fantastical inflatables of swans, unicorns, and rainbows. Floating is an American pastime; in this sense, Adams Floaters are American landscapes. Joining the tradition o ... More | |
Flo Maak, Yellow (Red Green), 2020. Pigment print in artist frame with museum glass, 70 x 50 cm Edition 4 + 1 AP.
BERLIN.- The exhibition collected stories brings together new work groups by artist and photographer Flo Maak (born 1980 in Fulda, lives and works in Berlin). The photographs and installations on display address questions of coexistence on our damaged planet. If at all, humans feature in the background of Maaks works, while the decisive agents of this exhibition are plants, animals and volcanos. The central installation The Red Green revolves around the global pervasion of the plant Chromolaena odorata, also known as Siam weed. In many countries it is regarded to be an invasive species as is reflected by another of the names it is given, devils weed. In the Southern Indian state of Kerala, on the other, it is known as Communist pacha and associated with the Communist movement. Maak staged his shots of the plant during a stay in Kochi, India. His photographs, ... More |
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Emma Talbot's c.20:21 commission celebrates International Women's Day on Piccadilly Lights
LONDON.- Emma Talbot, the London-based artist of sensuous visual poems becomes the next CIRCA artist, presenting a new body of four animated films in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery, Collezione Maramotti and the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Following a woman at the gateway between the old world and a new world to be made, Talbots Four Visions for a Hopeful Future tells the story of a protagonist in search of answers to guide both her own journey and the development of society to a spiritual and political rebirth, on the iconic Piccadilly Lights screen. Coinciding with International Womens Day (8 March), Talbots animations represent our current moment as a universal space of fluid nature, punctuated with direct appeals to the viewers emotional reasoning, where past sadness can be transcended. Quoting Indian novelist Arundhati ... More
PinchukArtCentre opens an exhibition of works by Daniil Revkovskiy and Andriy Rachinskiy
KYIV.- The PinchukArtCentre presents Tailings Dam, a solo exhibition by Daniil Revkovskiy and Andriy Rachinskiy as a part of PAC UA. It is PinchukArtCentres programme aimed at commissioning new works by Ukrainian artists by investing in creation and providing curatorial and institutional support. The new work by Daniil Revkovskiy and Andriy Rachinskiy takes the shape of a Museum of Human Civilisation which is established in the future after humans go extinct. The Museum is dedicated to the future archaeology of a tailings dam in Kryvy Rih. A tailings dam is a system of special facilities for storing radioactive, toxic and other non-recyclable waste from mineral processing. The work touches upon the issue of man's responsibility for natural resources and chimeric forms that the imprint of human activity on Earth may acquire. This ... More
A director returns to the home he longed to leave
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In 2018, about a decade after his first feature, the Rwandan drama Munyurangabo, opened to rave reviews at Cannes, Lee Isaac Chung was this close to ditching the capricious life of an indie filmmaker for the presumably more comfortable life of a film professor. I was hitting 40, and I realized I needed to just move on in life and do something practical, he said. Chung had already taken a position teaching screenwriting at the University of Utahs South Korean campus in Incheon, but he felt he had one last screenplay in him. I tried to put everything I could into that script, he said. That supposedly final hurrah became Minari, a coming-of-age story inspired by Chungs experiences growing up the son of Korean American immigrants in rural Arkansas in the 1980s. In the film, Steven Yeun (The ... More
Exhibition surveys approximately 30 years of Shirin Neshat's video works and photography
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again, a survey of the internationally acclaimed artists work. Organized by and originating at The Broad, Los Angeles, this unprecedented exhibition is on view in Fort Worth through May 16, 2021. Curated by Ed Schad, curator at The Broad, this exhibition surveys approximately 30 years of the multidisciplinary artists video works and photography, investigating Neshats passionate engagement with ancient and recent Iranian history, the experience of living in exile, and the human impact of political revolution. Taking its title from a poem by the Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad (19341967), I Will Greet the Sun Again begins with Neshats most famous body of work, Women of Allah, 199397. The exhibition then features her early iconic video works ... More
rodolphe janssen opens an exhibition of works by Emily Mae Smith
BRUSSELS.- Painting is often seen as an act of thaumaturgyan act of working form into wonders. This process is similarly performed through the material manipulation of paint on a canvas. As space akin to a site of piety often reserved for the veneration of the holy, or as a container for associated artifacts of praxis, the artists studio is considered a sacred space for studied acts of speculation and imagination. A place for giving form to ideas, equal parts conceptual maneuvering, visual expression and ardent periods of isolation. Similar to the lone sorceress breathing life into a broom as assistant to her bidding, the artist employs equal tactics of imbuing objects with speculative tools for critical, and at times individual, reflection. In the exhibition Speculative Objects, the paintings of Emily Mae Smith evoke a transfiguration of art historical allusions ... More
Woodmere unveils exhibition telling story of Tom Judd's new subway mural
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On Saturday, February 27, 2021 Woodmere Art Museum unveiled its latest exhibition, History in Motion: Tom Judds Subway Mural. Judds mural is an important addition to the citys rich landscape of public art. Woodmeres exhibition includes preparatory studies for the mural as well as in-process photographs of the installation. In connection with the reconstruction of the 5th Street-Independence Hall Station on the Market-Frankford Line, artist Tom Judd was selected to create a permanent installation for the station. Portal to Discovery, Judds mural on the eastbound and westbound platforms, presents figures who contributed to the founding of the United States as well as those who fought for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all. Transit consultant David Seltzer explains, Whats so amazing ... More
How Negro History Week became Black History Month and why it matters now
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Black History Month has been celebrated in the United States for nearly 100 years. But what is it exactly, and how did it begin? In the years after Reconstruction, campaigning for the importance of Black history and doing the scholarly work of creating the canon was a cornerstone of civil rights work for leaders such as Carter G. Woodson. Martha Jones, a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, explained, These are men [like Woodson] who were trained formally and credentialed in the ways that all intellectuals and thought leaders of the early 20th century were trained, at Harvard and places like that. But in order to make the argument in order to make the claim about Black genius, about Black excellence you have to build the space in which to do that. ... More
He was a 'bad boy' harpsichordist, and the best of his age
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Nicolas Bomsel was a radio producer in Paris when he had lunch with Scott Ross early in 1984. Ross, then in his early 30s, was already one of the most eminent harpsichord players in Europe. He had burst onto the scene in 1971 with a rarely awarded first prize at the prestigious Bruges competition, then released a series of sprawling, sparkling recordings of French Baroque music: a four-LP Rameau set in 1975, 11 hours of Couperin a few years later. A moody, troubled, brilliant American who had moved to France as a boy, Ross dressed for classes and even concerts sometimes in leather jacket and jeans, sometimes in lumberjack-plaid flannel. His clothes jarred with the buttoned-up reputation of his instrument, a courtly ancestor of the modern piano that sounded tinny and harsh under many hands, but silky, lush and ... More
Loretta Whitfield, creator of a doll with a difference, dies at 79
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the early 1980s, Melvin Whitfield was working for a health nonprofit in West Africa when he came to a realization: Few of the children he encountered had dolls, and the dolls he did see were modeled after white European faces and bodies. Whitfield, who is Black, returned to Washington in 1983, around the time his girlfriend, Loretta Thomas, was coming to her own doll-inspired despair after trying to find a toy for her niece. It was the height of the Cabbage Patch Kids craze, and toy stores were filled with their cherubic white faces; the few Black dolls scattered among them were made with the same shape and features but used brown fabric. The Whitfields, who married in 1984, decided to design an alternative to the Cabbage Patch Kids. After three years of development and experimentation, they released Baby ... More
Kosovo drama captures the rebellious work of war widows
KRUSHE E MADHE (AFP).- After being driven out of her village in the midst of Kosovo's war two decades ago, Fahrije Hoti returned several months later to find her home destroyed and her husband gone. The mother of two was suddenly one of 140 new widows in the farming village of Krushe e Madhe, whose soil was the site of a massacre by Serb forces in 1999 that left 500 children without fathers, including Hoti's own. What happened next is now the subject of an award-winning film, titled Hive, that traces Hoti's struggle to rebuild a life amid the double injury of her personal loss and social prejudices about how widows should behave. "The movie took me back 20 years," Hoti, now 51, told AFP from the southern village where she still lives. "The movie was not only about me, it was about all Kosovo Albanian women," she added warmly. "It showed the situation ... More
As third wave rages, show goes on at Sofia opera
SOFIA (AFP).- With an orchestra spread out across the entire parterre, audiences limited to the balconies, and no breaks but plenty of disinfectant, the Sofia Opera is one of the few music venues still hosting live performances in Europe. Across the continent, a third wave of Covid-19 infections is keeping opera houses and other cultural venues closed -- loud singing poses a particular risk as the virus spreads through droplets -- but in Bulgaria, classical music plays on, from "Tosca" to "La Traviata". "I am hungry for music. And the risk, why think about it? It's not riskier here than in the supermarket or the subway," says 81-year-old Petya Petkova, who attended Verdi's "La Traviata" with her daughter last week. Despite the disinfectant, social-distancing and staff taking people's temperature, a festive spirit reigns at the historic opera ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Austrian-Swiss painter Oskar Kokoschka was born February 01, 1886. Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 - 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. In this image: Installation view "Oskar Kokoschka. Humanist and Rebel" © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2014. Photo: Marek Kruszewski.
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