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Crates of art that were en route back to museums in Russia, seized by Finnish customs officials during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Finlands foreign ministry said on April 8 that it had authorized the return of the shipments to Russia after determining that they were not subject to sanctions. Finnish Customs via The New York Times.
by Graham Bowley
NEW YORK, NY.- Finlands Ministry for Foreign Affairs on Friday said it had authorized the return of three shipments of Russian art that had been on loan to museums and galleries but were impounded by Finnish customs officials on their route back to Russia. The paintings and sculptures, valued at 42 million euros ($46 million), had been on loan from Russian museums to institutions in Italy and Japan. They were seized last weekend at Vaalimaa, a Finnish border crossing, on suspicion of contravening European Union sanctions imposed following Russias invasion of Ukraine. Hanni Hyvärinen, a spokesperson for Finlands Ministry for Foreign Affairs, said in a telephone interview that the decision had been made in conjunction with EU authorities. In a statement, the ministry said the union planned to exempt certain cultural objects from sanctions. Legislative changes will take effect on April 9, 2022, and these changes will include the ability for member states to issue permits for the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Sandra Cinto Installation view, Melody to the Stars, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, April 2 - May 7, 2022. Photo by Pierre Le Hors Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
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| Shards of asteroid that killed the dinosaurs may have been found in fossil site | | Notable work by Gauguin acquired for the Glyptotek | | Christie's presents series of antiquities sales |
Fish fossils and Triceratops skin on display during a presentation at the Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Md., on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Kenneth Chang/The New York Times.
by Kenneth Chang
GREENBELT, MD.- Pristine slivers of the impactor that killed the dinosaurs have been discovered, said scientists studying a North Dakota site that is a time capsule of that calamitous day 66 million years ago. The object that slammed off the Yucatán Peninsula of what is today Mexico was about 6 miles wide, scientists estimate, but the identification of the object has remained a subject of debate. Was it an asteroid or a comet? If it was an asteroid, what kind was it a solid metallic one or a rubble pile of rocks and dust held together by gravity? If youre able to actually identify it, and were on the road to doing that, then you can actually say, Amazing, we know what it was, Robert DePalma, a paleontologist spearheading the excavation of the site, said ... More | |
Paul Gauguin, La Neige à Copenhague, 1884, Olie på lærred. © Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
COPENHAGEN.- From 1 May it will be possible to see Paul Gauguins painting, La neige à Copenhague in Copenhagen. The Glyptotek has acquired this work, which originates from the period during which Gauguin lived in Denmark. From 1 May, the Glyptotek will be displaying a newly acquired painting by Paul Gauguin (1848 1903). The painting La neige à Copenhague (Snow in Copenhagen) (1884) will be the focal point of a small thematic exhibition entitled Gauguin and the Danish Connection, related to Gauguins residence in Copenhagen (November 1884 May 1885). Featuring a motif from the residential/park neighbourhoods of Frederiksberg, La neige à Copenhague is probably one of the first landscapes he painted in Copenhagen. We are delighted we could acquire this painting, which represents an outstanding addition to the Glyptoteks already unique collection of Gauguins works. The painting helps underscore ... More | |
A Roman Marble Torso of Silvanus Circa 2nd Century A.D. 23⅞ in. (60.6 cm.) high $100,000-150,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York presents two Antiquities sales, featuring an impressive selection of works from across the ancient world, representing Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Egyptian and Near Eastern cultures from the 4th millennium B.C. to the 10th century A.D. These exciting sales take place as Christies New York celebrates Classic Week through 25 April with a total of four sales including European Art, Antiquities and Books & Manuscripts. The week of Antiquities sales leads off with a live auction of 134 lots, at Rockefeller Plaza. Atop the list of notable offerings is a superb Egyptian Bronze Cat that dates from the Ptolemaic period, circa 332-30 B.C. (estimate: $700,000-900,000). This lively and graceful object is part of an important group of bronze feline sculptures that can be found in a handful of distinguished museum collections. A magnificent example, it achieves ... More |
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| Curator Shawnya Harris wins statewide awards | | Tanya Bonakdar Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Sandra Cinto | | Boijmans collection reveals all |
The Georgia Museum of Arts Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art, Shawnya L. Harris, with awards from the Georgia Association of Museums.
ATHENS, GA.- More than 100 museum professionals recently descended upon Thomasville, Georgia, for the annual meeting of the Georgia Association of Museums (GAM). This year, the Georgia Museum of Arts Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art, Shawnya L. Harris, received the Museum Professional of the Year award, presented by GAM president Ephraim Rotter and award committee co-chairs Melissa Swindell and Karin Dalton. Harris has worked hard to achieve her scholarly prestige. In her dedication to promoting African American art and artists, she rarely puts herself forward, working behind the scenes to ensure every project she works on is comprehensive and detailed in all respects. Among those projects, her exhibition Emma Amos: Color Odyssey was a highlight, selected as one of the best exhibitions of 2021 by the New York Times. That exhibition also ... More | |
Sandra Cinto, Untitled V (from the Library of the Sun), 2022. Acrylic and permanent pen on wood, 9 3/8 x 4 1/2 x 1 1/4 inches; 23.8 x 11.4 x 3.2 cm. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting Melody to the Stars, Sandra Cintos ninth exhibition with the gallery, on view in New York through May 7, 2022. Since the early 1990s, Sandra Cinto has explored the potential of drawing to create intricate images and immersive environments, often using the line as a gesture to deconstruct the physical and conceptual boundaries between painting, sculpture, photography and installation. Delicate and repeated motifs - stars, waves, cliffs, bridges, and swings, among them - comprise a rich vocabulary of symbols and lines that construct lyrical landscapes, hovering gently between fantasy and reality. Armed with little more than a very fine brush, the artist renders mesmerizing seascapes, rainstorms, and celestial skies to create seemingly weightless, immersive environments. In all her work, Cinto conjures great tensions and contradictions: ... More | |
'Highlights from the museum's collection: test stage' in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen. Photo: Lotte Stekelenburg.
ROTTERDAM.- This week, a test presentation was set up in the depot with highlights from the museum's collection. Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen has been designed as a work building and visitors can simply follow how a presentation is put together. The result, 'Highlights from the Museum's collection: test stage' shows the front and backsides of masterpieces and is on view from today. This is a foretaste of a much larger presentation later this year. Visitors can follow the lifespan of favourite collection items and are invited to think about what they would choose as their own top work. The test presentation features fourteen paintings, including works by Bosch, Brueghel, Rembrandt, Kandinksy, Munch, Van Gogh, Van Dongen and Basquiat, and can be seen until 14 August on the third floor of the depot. "These highlights were always on show in the gallery as public favourites - if one of them wasn't on display, we could expect complaints. With this pre ... More |
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| Bonhams appoints two new regional representatives for Florida and Texas | | Christie's Jewels Online and the Flawless Star achieves $9,137,352 | | Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. announces highlights included in April 23rd Petroliana & Advertising Auction |
Kate Stamm, Regional Representative for the Southeast and Florida. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams announces the appointment of two regional representatives in the US, furthering its local reach while offering access to the resources of a global auction house. Kate Stamm brings her expertise to the Southeast and Florida region while Brandon Kennedy will cover the state of Texas. In their roles, Stamm and Kennedy will establish new relationships and source works in their regions while connecting clients with specialists in over sixty categories and providing access to a network of collectors across the globe. As Regional Representative for the Southeast and Florida region with a specific focus on Naples and Palm Beach, where she is based, Kate Stamm will bring her wide range of expertise across jewelry, European furniture, decorative arts, and Fine Art, in addition to years of experience working with Private Collections and Estates, Museums and Institutions. Prior to joining Bonhams, Stamm was a Regional Representative an ... More | |
The sale was led by The Flawless Star, a superb round brilliant-cut D-color, Flawless diamond of 45.46 carats, which sold for $4,620,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies online-only sale Jewels Online and The Flawless Star totaled $ 9,137,352, with 98% sold by lot and 104% hammer above low estimate. The sale attracted global participation from 29 countries with 17% of bids coming from new bidders. The sale was led by The Flawless Star, a superb round brilliant-cut D-color, Flawless diamond of 45.46 carats, which sold for $4,620,000. The sale set a new record for the most expensive jewel to be sold in an online-only sale. The Flawless Star belongs to the rare Type IIa category, which make up less than 2% of all diamonds. Type IIa diamonds are the most chemically pure and are characterized by their exceptional transparency. These stones have no traces of nitrogen, which creates a purity of color that is observed only in the finest diamonds originating from the fabled mines of Golconda, Brazil and South Africa. Rahul ... More | |
World War II-era Canadian Supertest Bennett 541 gasoline pump with a reproduction High Compression globe and original ad glass (est. CA$4,000-$6,000).
NEW HAMBURG.- An exceedingly rare Winchester cartridge board from around 1884 one of the most sought after, iconic examples of American sporting advertising is an expected highlight lot in an online-only Petroliana & Advertising Auction planned for Saturday, April 23rd, by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd., starting promptly at 9 am Eastern time. The monumental and historic Winchester cartridge board, which measures 38 inches tall by 28 inches wide, is a lithographed hardboard with an applied representation of one of Winchesters earliest lines of ammunition. Few survived intact due to their size and the fact that they were often displayed in store windows and areas exposed to light. The one in the auction, in the original frame, is in untouched, original condition and is expected to sell for $35,000-$50,000. All estimates in this report are in Canadian dollars. The rest of the auction is a wonderland of ... More |
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| Mira Calix, iconoclastic composer and artist, is dead at 52 | | The artist as healer | | Fine Photographs at Swann April 14: Edward S. Curtis, Ansel Adams, Horst P. Horst & more |
Her work spanned albums, public art installations, music for Shakespeare plays and touring with Radiohead.
by Jon Pareles
NEW YORK, NY.- Mira Calix, a composer, producer and visual artist whose work encompassed electronic music, orchestral commissions, public art installations, theater scores, music videos and DJ sets, died March 25 at her home and music and art studio in Bedford, England. She was 52. The death was confirmed by her partner, Andy Holden, who declined to specify the cause. She pushed the boundaries between electronic music, classical music and art in a truly unique way, her label, Warp Records, said in a statement. Calixs projects included solo albums, collaborations and numerous singles, EPs, productions and remixes; music for the Royal Shakespeare Theaters 2017 stagings of Julius Caesar and Coriolanus, and a 2003 piece, Nunu, that brought together the London Sinfonietta, Calixs electronics and a cage of live cicadas and crickets, ... More | |
The artist Guadalupe Maravilla on one of his healing sculptures, Disease Thrower #0, at his studio in Brooklyn, March 7th, 2022. Wayne Lawrence/The New York Times.
by Patricia Leigh Brown
NEW YORK, NY.- In his Brooklyn studio, El Salvador-born artist Guadalupe Maravilla got ready to activate Disease Thrower #0, the latest in his acclaimed series of sculptures that deploy the powers of vibrational sound as a form of healing. The writer, who is recovering from a rare cancer, took her place on an elevated woven straw platform, her stockinged feet facing a formidable metal gong. She relaxed into the artists ritual space part sculpture, part shrine. It was draped with a mysterious material blackened with ash from healing ceremonies that Maravilla, who is a cancer survivor himself, performed for hundreds of fellow warriors last summer in Queens. The sounds built slowly, starting with low monk-like tones before morphing into mighty guttural roars that she could feel entering her body from behind ... More | |
Edward S. Curtis, Portfolio I, from The North American Indian, complete with 39 photogravures, 1907. Estimate $60,000 to $90,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Auction Galleries sale of Fine Photographs on Thursday, April 14, will feature a selection of classical twentieth-century prints alongside contemporary works. Headlining the sale is Edward S. Curtiss seminal Portfolio I, 1907 the iconic first portfolio in Curtiss monumental project, The North American Indian ($60,000-90,000). From an unfulfilled edition of 500, the portfolio comes to auction complete with 39 photogravures and features many of Curtiss most important and notable images, including his portrait of Geronimo, Cañon de Chelly, A Chief of the Desert Navaho, Son of the DesertNavaho, The Vanishing Race, and many more. Also by Curtis is Volume I, 1907, of the North American Indian ($15,000-25,000). An exceptional offering of silver prints by Ansel Adams includes the photographers most recognizable images: Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, 1926 ... More |
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Rae Allen, Tony winner and TV mainstay, dies at 95
NEW YORK, NY.- Rae Allen, a Tony Award-winning actress who was seen in both the stage and film versions of the hit musical comedy Damn Yankees, and whose many television roles included a world-weary unemployment counselor to George Costanza on Seinfeld and Tony Sopranos aunt on The Sopranos, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. She was 95. Her death, at the Motion Picture & Television Fund retirement home, was confirmed by her niece Betty Cosgrove. Allen made her Broadway debut in 1948 and her big splash seven years later, when she was cast as sports reporter Gloria Thorpe in Damn Yankees," the story of a middle-aged Washington Senators fan who makes a Faustian bargain to become a slugger named Joe Hardy and help his team keep the hated Yankees from winning the pennant. She led a group ... More
Morphy's Automobilia, Petroliana & Railroadiana Auction rings up $2.4M
DENVER, PA.- Trains, planes and automobiles were on the minds of bidders who brought their A-game to Morphys big March 29-30 Automobilia, Petroliana & Railroadiana auction. The colorful 1,498-lot sale featured rare, fresh-to-the-market examples of signage, gas pumps, globes and other service station equipment from motorings golden era. The two-day grand total came to a hefty $2.4 million. Not surprisingly, the top lot of the sale was a Wesco Model 212 large-bodied gas pump with a clock face, brass nozzle and bevels; and three different Visiglas lenses at the top. With eye appeal to spare, the extremely rare pump had undergone a beautiful restoration, as evidenced in its vivid orange body and image of Hancock Gasolines strutting Cock O The Walk mascot. Possibly the first such pump ever to be offered at auction, it attracted ... More
Tiwani Contemporary opens a solo exhibition with Michaela Yearwood-Dan
LONDON.- Tiwani Contemporary is presenting The Sweetest Taboo, their second solo exhibition with Michaela Yearwood-Dan. Recently the artist has been thinking about the priorities for affirming spaces of self and collective actualisation, specifically Poc and queer space(s), community needs and desires, that include her own. Projected and inscribed upon the large-scale paintings, extracts of Yearwood-Dans experiences, influences, personal thoughts and questions commingle with abstracted and botanical gestures and marks that border, lead towards and give way to speculative clearings; spaces and gaps that have the capacity to be filled with utopic imaginings. The works remain vested in holding and debating the real-life politics and cultural demands of femme, black and queer individuals in the world coming together as communities, ... More
Women dominate shortlist for International Booker Prize
LONDON.- Olga Tokarczuk, the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist, is among five female writers shortlisted for this years International Booker Prize, arguably the worlds most important award for fiction translated into English. Tokarczuk is nominated for The Books of Jacob, along with translator Jennifer Croft, just four years after the pair won the same prize for Flights. Other high-profile nominees on the six-strong shortlist, which was unveiled at the London Book Fair on Thursday, include Mieko Kawakami, the star Japanese author best known for Breasts and Eggs, and Claudia Piñeiro, the Argentine crime writer. Tokarczuks The Books of Jacob tells the story of Jacob Frank, a self-proclaimed messiah who wanders around 18th-century Europe, acolytes in tow. When the Swedish Academy awarded Tokarczuk ... More
Joseph Kalichstein, pianist of subtlety and refinement, dies at 76
NEW YORK, NY.- Joseph Kalichstein, an Israeli American pianist whose subtle, refined approach made him an exemplary chamber musician, especially as a member of the esteemed Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, died March 31 in the New York City borough of Manhattan. He was 76. His son Avi said the cause was pancreatic cancer. Across his career of more than 50 years, critics agreed that Kalichstein had an uncommon naturalness, whether in his earliest solo recitals or his later appearances on the chamber music circuit with his piano trio, in which he was joined by violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson. Kalichstein had a sense of line and timing that set him apart even as a young virtuoso. His Carnegie Hall debut carried enough impact to remind one of Horowitz, and that is not a small thing ... More
A Trisha Brown masterpiece, 'reset' on an inclusive troupe
NEW YORK, NY.- Trisha Browns Set and Reset, one of postmodern dance's most treasured and durable works, thrillingly excavates the tension between freedom and form, spontaneity and detail. Its five central principles, which include a direction to act on instinct, have been interpreted and reinterpreted by different dancers with different instincts, since its premiere, in 1983, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. This weekend, a reconstruction of the dance, Set and Reset/Reset, comes to the Brooklyn Academy when the London-based Candoco Dance Company makes its New York debut. Candoco, founded in 1991, is an inclusive, or integrated, troupe, with a mix of disabled and non-disabled dancers one of the oldest and most acclaimed of such companies. (Axis Dance Company in the Bay Area is perhaps the best ... More
Glass Works Auctions announces highlights included in the Premier Auction #157
EAST GREENVILLE, PA.- Glass Works Auctions Premier Auction #157 will be a two-part, timed closing affair, with Part 1 slated for Monday, April 25th and Part 2 to follow the next day, Tuesday, April 26th. The online-only sale is packed with 263 lots of flasks, bitters, inks, target balls, fire grenades and black glass. Online bidding will be through www.glswrk-auction.com. Expected top lots include an Old Sachem Bitters and Wigwam Tonic bottle, estimated to change hands for $20,000-$30,000; a General Frank Cheatams Bitters bottle (Nashville, Tenn.) (est. $6,000-$8,000); a Travellers Bitters bottle (circa 1834-1870), with motif of a walking man (est. $8,000-$12,000); and an eagle New London Anchor Glassworks bottle (est. $8,000-$12,000). The General Frank Cheathams bitters and the Travellers bitters (with the likeness of General ... More
Nan Melville, whose photography captured dance in many forms, dies at 72
NEW YORK, NY.- Nan Melville, a photographer who was known for elegant, fluid images of prominent dancers and dance companies, died March 18 in Manhattan. She was 72. Her sister, Gill Kenyon, announced the death. The cause was not specified. Melvilles dance photography, which appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, as well as in various books on dance, spanned four decades. She photographed the Bolshoi Ballet, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, the Royal Ballet of Britain, American Ballet Theater and numerous other well-known troupes, capturing dancers like Mikhail Baryshnikov and Alvin Ailey star Dwana Smallwood in gravity-defying leaps or amid swirling costumes. But she was just as much at home photographing traditional Venda ... More
'Not understanding is really satisfying': A director keeps you thinking
NEW YORK, NY.- The first thing that gets you is the laugh. It can pop up like a jack-in-the-box or tumble out in waves in the midst of conversation with director Lileana Blain-Cruz, who is making her Broadway directing debut with an ambitious revival of Thornton Wilders The Skin of Our Teeth at Lincoln Centers Vivian Beaumont Theater. The distinctive Blain-Cruz guffaw doesnt always punctuate obvious jokes. It can also lighten a heavy thought or prune a thorny moment, as when she refers to the existential crisis I go through on each production, or talks about her advocacy for the underappreciated role of the director in the American theater, a cause shes well positioned to advance as a resident director at LCT. Then there are the voices she slips into, as if shes starring in a perpetual one-person show: the pretentious ... More
Kunstmuseum Den Haag presents an exhibition of work by Anton Heyboer
THE HAGUE.- Kunstmuseum Den Haag has owned a sizeable collection of work by Anton Heyboer (1924 2005) since the 1960s. The collection has grown over the years, and recent additions have included a bequest and a donation from a private collection. Following our major retrospective of his work five years ago, Kunstmuseum Den Haag is now showing the newly acquired works that have further enriched our collection in a small presentation in our Berlage Room entitled Anton Heyboer Significant Space. In the mid-1960s Hans Locher, who was then head of the print collection and later became museum director, visited Heyboer regularly to discuss his work, and bought a large number of etchings for the museum. Unlike others in the art world, he managed to maintain a long-lasting connection with Heyboer, allowing ... More
An Afrofuturism festival brings an energy shift to Carnegie Hall
NEW YORK, NY.- The first time Sun Ra and his Arkestra played Carnegie Hall, in April 1968, they were shrouded in darkness for most of the show. The critic John S. Wilson, reviewing for The New York Times, was flummoxed. Wilson considered himself a Sun Ra fan, but he couldnt fathom why, on the countrys most prestigious stage, the cosmic keyboardist, bandleader and philosopher was keeping his ensembles wondrous array of odd instruments and colorful costumes out of view. The messages in Ras music, and his riddle-like public statements, could have helped Wilson understand. On this planet, it seems, it has been very difficult for me to do and be of the possible things, Ra said in an interview for DownBeat magazine in 1970. As I look at the world today and its events and the harvest of possible things, I like the idea ... More
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Miró. His Most Intimate Legacy
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Flashback On a day like today, English photographer Eadweard Muybridge was born April 09, 1830. Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 - 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the first name Eadweard as the original Anglo-Saxon form of Edward, and the surname Muybridge believing it to be similarly archaic. In this image: Eadweard Muybridge, Contemplation Rock, Glacier Point (1385) 1872. Collection of California Historical Society.
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