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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen on his penthouse terrace overlooking Central Park in New York, Oct. 15, 2015. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist and owner of two professional sports teams, the Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Trail Blazers, died on Oct. 15, 2018. He was 65. Joshua Bright/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- In the art worldâs latest eye-popping development, Christieâs auction house announced Thursday that it would sell the impressive art collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who died in 2018. The trove, which includes masterpieces by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Roy Lichtenstein, has an estimated valued of more than $1 billion. The sale of more than 150 artworks spanning 500 years â to take place on an undetermined date in November â would be the largest in auction history. Christieâs said it would dedicate all the proceeds to philanthropy, as Allen directed. âItâs a major event for the art market and for the art world,â Guillaume Cerutti, CEO of Christieâs, said in a telephone interview. âThe fact that it embraces five centuries of great art â from Botticelli to David Hockney, plus, of course, the very inspirational figure of Paul Allen, plus the fact that the sale is dedicated to philanthropy â we are really moved by this extraordinary project we are on. Itâs something thatâs very ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Taubman Museum of Art is presenting Treasures of American Art: The Cynthia & Heywood Fralin Collection, on view now through Sept. 4, 2022. The exhibition features 93 works from 64 American artists spanning the period of 1861 to 1975, collected over a period of 25 years by Cynthia and Heywood Fralin. It marks the first time all of the works are on view together.
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| Parrasch Heijnen Gallery opens an exhibition of sculptures and works on paper by Susan York | | Heritage Auctions' sale of philanthropist Mary Anne Sammons Cree's jewels will benefit Dallas nonprofits | | Winold Reiss, an immigrant modernist way ahead of his time |
Susan York, Double Column no. 1, 2018. Solid graphite. Sculpture in 2 parts: 40 x 3 x 3 inches & 42-1/2 x 3 x 3 inches, 74 x 6 x 3 inches overall.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Parrasch Heijnen is presenting the gallerys first exhibition with New Mexico-based artist Susan York (b. Newport, RI, 1951) featuring a selection of the artists sculptures and works on paper dating from 2007 2022. Through subtly askew geometric shapes, York explores the visceral aspect of intrinsically felt anomalies as she combines precise elements of geometry with unexpected asymmetry and tension. Her graphite sculptures and works on paper reveal complexities of form in relation to the architecture they inhabit. There are no illusions or tricks in Yorks sculptures; the medium is exactly as it appears to besolid throughout. Each graphite block structure requires an intense physical process, through focused labor and repetition. York developed the reductive technique utilizing chisels, saws and Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines with programmed motions ... More | |
Fancy Intense Yellow Diamond, Diamond, Platinum, Gold Ring.
DALLAS, TX.- There was no shortage of grateful words for Dallas philanthropist Mary Anne Sammons Cree upon her death in July 2021 at the age of 91. SMU President R. Gerald Turner said Cree was "dedicated to making Dallas a better place for everyone." Joanna St. Angelo, executive director of the Sammons Center for the Arts, said, "she was so gracious and humble, I don't think Dallas fully understands the powerful impact Mrs. Cree's support has had across the Dallas arts community." And Jennifer Sampson, president and CEO of United Way of Metropolitan Dallas whose headquarters bear Cree's name wrote that "through the decades, the generosity of Mary Anne and her family underlies some of the most significant resources and civic services in Metropolitan Dallas." So generous was Cree that even after her passing, she continues to give back to her beloved hometown: On Sept. 29, Heritage Auctions will offer more than 125 pieces ... More | |
Winold Reiss, 18861953, Langston Hughes, c.1925. Pastel on illustration board. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of W. Tjark Reiss, in memory of his father, Winold Reiss.
by Will Heinrich
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1925, a German immigrant named Winold Reiss was invited to design and illustrate an issue of the journal Survey Graphic devoted to Harlem, the new cultural capital of Black America. So he got together his conte crayons and pastels and went uptown to draw Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson and other eminences of what would come to be called the Harlem Renaissance, along with various of their less famous neighbors. After the magazine was printed, though, his gallery, otherwise doing a brisk business for him, refused to show the work. In The Art of Winold Reiss: An Immigrant Modernist at the New-York Historical Society, his sensitive, humane, occasionally brilliant Harlem portraits get their first museum showing here since ... More |
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| Landmark acquisitions reflect the Hirshhorn's expansive curatorial mission and programming | | New faces, new places, as Boston gets revitalized | | At the U.S. Open, 5 artists get a place in the sun |
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Photo: Smithsonian.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has confirmed the acquisition of artworks proposed by curators and approved by its board that help evolve the understanding of contemporary art history. Since November 2019, the museum has acquired works by more than 60 boundary-breaking contemporary artistssuch seminal artists as John Akomfrah, Deana Lawson, James Luna, Sondra Perry, Christina Quarles, Tschabalala Self and Lee Ufan. The works span a broad mix of art-making media, including painting, sculpture, photography, film, installation and mixed-media assemblage. These curatorially guided recent additions represent continuity with the past by honoring Joseph H. Hirshhorns foundational 1966 gift while addressing the museums mission to acknowledge global and diverse perspectives. Acquiring work for the national museum of modern and contemporary ... More | |
The MGM Music Hall next to Fenway Park in Boston, Aug. 18, 2022. Philip Keith/The New York Times.
by Lauren Prestileo
BOSTON, MASS.- Theres a new face welcoming visitors to Boston. It belongs to a 3-year-old in Velcro sneakers, crouching by a boombox and haloed in gold. Shes artist Rob Gibbs daughter, who stares unflinchingly from a soaring 70-foot mural across from South Station, the citys biggest train terminal. Gibbs who paints under the name ProBlak is the first Black Boston-native artist to be commissioned for the rotating Dewey Square mural. Gibbs grew up in Roxbury and has been painting walls in the city for years. This newest mural, Breathe Life Together, will be up through May 2023. His art pays homage to under-heard people in Boston, and is a reflection of his neighborhood and home. If Im going to welcome people to the city, the best thing I can do is give them a home-cooked meal, he said. This is a home- ... More | |
Jose Dávilas Untitled, 2021, part of a temporary installation at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center during the U.S. Open, in New York, Aug. 25, 2022. Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times.
by Kalia Richardson
NEW YORK, NY.- Sculptures by five artists went on view at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, Queens, on Tuesday during Fan Week, six days of festivities and qualifying tournaments. The five works, which will remain on view until Sept. 11, are in collaboration with the Armory Show and the U.S. Tennis Association and serve as an extension of Armory Off-Site and the tennis associations Be Open social justice campaign, which first presented paintings in 2020 from 18 Black and Indigenous artists at Arthur Ashe Stadium. This year, some of the sculptures have obvious associations with the sport. In Now I Won, by Myles Nurse, a larger-than-life, Wilson-yellow metal tennis player inspired by Billie Jean King is preparing ... More |
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| Friends Seminary announces construction of James Turrell Skyspace | | Miller & Miller announces highlights included in Petroliana & Advertising auction | | The Kitchen will spend some creative time in a Westbeth loft |
Skyspace Aerial View from Southwest - Roof Open.
NEW YORK, NY.- Head of School Robert Bo Lauder today announced that a new Skyspace is being constructed at Friends Seminary, a K-12 Quaker school in Manhattan, with an expected completion in early 2023. Complementing the nearby Fifteenth Street Meetinghouse on campus where artist James Turrell worshiped when he resided in New York City, the Skyspace will provide a spiritual setting conducive to silence and contemplationa Meeting Room in the sky. Friends Seminary is honored to have the work of James Turrell, an internationally acclaimed artist, as the final element of our multi-year project to redevelop our campus to better serve our students for decades to come, Lauder said. Turrell, who often refers to the influence of Quakerism on his life and practice, designs his Skyspaces to invite light from the heavens down through an aperture in the ceiling. In working with light, what is of interest to me is to make the quality of light itself the revelatio ... More | |
1940s Canadian White Rose Gasoline double-sided porcelain sign with Slate Boy graphic, 4 feet diameter, marked The W. F. Vilas Co. Ltd. Cowansville P.Q. (est. CA$15,000-$20,000).
NEW HAMBURG.- Three extremely rare, turn-of-the-century motor vehicles a 1907 REO Model A 5-passenger touring car, an 1899 Stanley Stanhope No. 1 Locomobile and a prototype of the 1911 Model H REO pickup truck are the headliners in Miller & Miller Auctions online-only Petroliana & Advertising auction planned for Saturday, September 10th. The 407-lot auction, beginning at 9 am Eastern time, will feature much more than just motor vehicles. Other categories include petroliana (gas station items), advertising signs, general store, steam, railroad, music machines and bicycles. Im excited about the variety in this sale, said Justin Miller of Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. Its what makes our auctions so entertaining. Miller added, Often we see buyers come to our auctions with the idea that they will purchase a certain type ... More | |
During a renovation of its Chelsea space, the Kitchen will move to Westbeth, which houses artists, the Martha Graham company and much avant-garde history.
NEW YORK, NY.- Two storied New York City arts organizations, both with origins in the early 1970s, will soon share a roof, as the Kitchen temporarily relocates to Westbeth Artist Housing. The Kitchen announced the move Thursday. Founded as an artist collective in 1971, the Kitchen is one of the citys oldest nonprofit art centers dedicated to avant-garde and cross-disciplinary work. Its home in Chelsea will be undergoing a two-year renovation (designed by Rice+Lipka Architects), necessitating the short-term move, starting in late September. Westbeth was founded in 1970, when buildings in the West Village previously used by Bell Laboratories were converted into affordable housing and studios for artists and their families. The landmark buildings ... More |
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| Crescent City announces highlights included in September Select Auction | | Ultra-rare red diamond dazzles in Heritage Auctions' Spectacular Fall Jewelry Event | | New Museum announces all-artist jury for inaugural Hostetler/Wrigley Sculpture Award |
Oil on canvas painting by Mexican artist German Gedovius (1867-1937), titled Woman in Archway, Mexico (circa 1903), artist signed and dated lower right (est. $7,000-$12,000).
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- A set of four atlas portfolio volumes of John James Audubons The Birds of America, a felt on paper artwork by pop art icon Keith Haring and oil on canvas paintings by acclaimed painters E. S. Cooper and Eugène Louis Boudin are just a few of the expected top lots in Crescent City Auction Gallerys September Selects Auction slated for September 9th and 10th. The auction, starting at 11 am Central time on Friday and 10 am on Saturday, will be packed with 842 choice lots in a wide variety of categories. Bidding is available online, as well as in the Crescent City gallery located at 1330 Saint Charles Avenue in New Orleans. In-person gallery previews will begin on Wednesday, August 31st, from 10-5. Phone and absentee bids accepted. The Birds of America four-volume set by John James Audubon (1785-1851), plus other volumes (11 pieces total), is a limited- ... More | |
1.21 ct Fancy Orangy Red Diamond. Estimate: $100,000 - $150,000.
DALLAS, TX.- Diamonds occur naturally in a rainbow of hues, but one color stands out as the fairest and rarest of them all. Because of their exceptional scarcity, diamonds described as predominantly red rank among the world's most elusive and expensive gems. Originating in locations such as Brazil, Australia, Russia and Africa, red diamonds are found only in small sizes and small quantities, making them one of the planet's most captivating and intriguing gemstones. The scarlet beauties are so rare, in fact, from 1957 to 1987, the Gemological Institute of America graded none with pure red color. As a result, very few people are lucky enough to ever see a red diamond in person, especially one over 1.00 carat. So, it is with great pleasure that Heritage Auctions presents a sensational 1.21-carat Fancy Orangy Red Diamond (estimate: $100,000-$150,000) as part of its Sept. 29 Fall Fine Jewelry Signature® Auction. "This gem is one of only a few diamonds to d ... More | |
Teresita Fernández, Joan Jonas, Julie Mehretu, Cindy Sherman, and Kiki Smith to select woman artist for $400K grant.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum today announces artists Teresita Fernández, Joan Jonas, Julie Mehretu, Cindy Sherman, and Kiki Smith as the jury for the inaugural Hostetler/Wrigley Sculpture Award, a biennial award supporting the production of new sculpture by women artists. Made possible by the Hostetler/Wrigley Foundation, the $400,000 grant supports the artist's honorarium, production, installation, administration, and exhibition of new work on the New Museums forthcoming public plaza on the Bowerya new public space created as part of the Museums OMA-designed building expansion. There will be five recipients of the Hostetler/Wrigley Sculpture Award over ten years, with the winner selected by a rotating jury. The inaugural recipient will be announced in spring 2023. While great strides have been made in recent years towards greater gender parity in the arts, this new award aims to address ... More |
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Only connect: Finding a way into kinetic light's 'Wired'
NEW YORK, NY.- Am I missing something here? is a question prompted by many dance performances. In my mind, the thought often has an anxious tone, since I consider it my job as a critic to try to miss as little as possible. When I attended the New York premiere of Kinetic Lights Wired at The Shed on Thursday, the question was especially loud in my head. But even more unusual was the unequivocal clarity of the answer. I was missing something. By design. Thats because Kinetic Light, a disability arts ensemble whose work is made by and for disabled people, has an ethic and aesthetic of access that is exceptionally thoughtful and thorough. It ensures that no one way of experiencing the work is prioritized. No one person can experience it in every aspect. One I knew I was missing was an audio description of the performance. Kinetic Light ... More
Adrian Cheng and Cahiers d'Art celebrate 90 years of Zervos at the inaugural edition of Frieze Seoul
SEOUL.- During the inaugural edition of Frieze Seoul, Adrian Cheng of K11 Group and Cahiers dArt will present Christian Zervos renowned catalogue raisonné Pablo Picasso in partnership with LITO. To mark the 90th anniversary of the original French language volume, known simply as Zervos and published in 1932, an English language edition will make its way to Korea. To celebrate the iconic tome, K11, Cahiers dArt, Sothebys and LITO will co-host a private event during Frieze Seoul. Bringing this modern masterpiece to the continent aligns with the mission of K11 to create cross-cultural exchange and contribute to the art discourse by collaborating and partnering with leading cultural institutions and industry specialists around the globe, says K11 founder Adrian Cheng. By presenting the Zervos in Asia, we aim to inspire ... More
Baryshnikov Arts Center chooses dance veteran as leader
NEW YORK, NY.- The COVID-19 pandemic brought a series of changes to the Baryshnikov Arts Center in Manhattan, forcing it to cancel two years of live performances and find new ways to connect with the public, including starting a streaming platform. Now, as it looks to its next chapter, the center announced Friday it had chosen a new executive director: Sonja Kostich, a veteran arts administrator and dancer. She succeeds Cora Cahan, a dynamic figure in arts administration who has held the job since in 2019. Kostich, who now serves as CEO and artistic officer of Kaatsbaan, a cultural park in Tivoli, New York, said in an interview that she would focus on expanding audiences and attracting a wider variety of artists to the groups residencies and other programs. She is expected to start in October. It should be an art center for everyone, Kostich, ... More
Original Florida Highwayman creates mural in Gainesville
GAINESVILLE, FLA.- Gainesvilles newest 352walls mural has been created by one of the original and most charismatic of all the Florida Highwaymen, Al Black. The Florida Highwaymen, began with 9 original members, Al Black being one. This collective of artists grew to be made up of 25 men and one woman. They were comprised of young African Americans, primarily from the Fort Pierce, Florida area and emerged in the late 1950s. They ultimately became successful landscape artists, using the roadside to sell their work, often from the trunk of their cars. This collective was mostly self-taught or learned from each other. Their vibrant paintings depicted idyllic images of palm trees, the ocean, sunsets, birds and Poinciana trees. These fantasy landscapes were then sold up and down the highways of the Atlantic Coast. By the late 1960s this collective, ... More
The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents Making an Impression: The Art and Craft of Ancient Engraved Gemstones
ATLANTA, GA.- Making an Impression: The Art and Craft of Ancient Engraved Gemstones is the first exhibition of ancient gems in the southeastern United States and will open on August 27, 2022. Organized by the museum's curator of Greek and Roman art, Dr. Ruth Allen, Making an Impression draws from the museums collection of Greek and Roman gems, many of which have never been displayed publicly, and are supplemented and contextualized by key loans that explore the material, iconography, and function of engraved gemstones in classical antiquity. Carved from semiprecious stones with miniature images of various subjects including gods, emperors, animals, and characters from myth, engraved gems in the Greek and Roman worlds were used as signets, amulets, and personal ornaments, typically mounted in rings. They were admired (and problematized) as luxury artworks, treasured as antiques and heirlooms, and worn as statements of status, wealth, sophistication, and learning. Exploring the material, product ... More
The MK&G messe to be back presenting the latest international trends in contemporary craft
HAMBURG.- From 23 to 27 November 2022, the MK&G messe will be back to present the latest international trends in contemporary craft. The fair will feature some 50 exhibitors along with a new program to support Young Talents and the launch of an exhibition series devoted to Contemporary Craft. The participants, 60 per cent of them newcomers since last years makeover, come from France, Italy, Austria, and North Macedonia; from South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, and from every region of Germany between Munich and Kiel, Leipzig and Leverkusen. The new format has brought fresh perspectives and more space for up-and-coming artists throughout the five-day event, which will showcase jewelry and textile design, ceramics, and unique creations of metal and wood, all meeting the highest aesthetic and technical standards. Two ... More
The Fellows of the Pina Bausch Fellowship 2022 have been chosen
WUPPERTAL.- For the seventh time, the Pina Bausch Foundation and the Kunststiftung NRW are awarding the Pina Bausch Fellowship for Dance and Choreography. The newly assembled international jury, consisting of Keng Sen Ong, Lia Rodrigues and Marc Brew, selected four grant holders from 92 applications. The new jury has been appointed for two years. The fellowship supports dancers and choreographers in developing their own artistic expression by enabling them to work with an international cooperation partner of their choice between September 2022 and August 2023. Lilian Maximillian Nabaggala is a female interdisciplinary artist based in Uganda working in the fields of dance, choreography, fashion, and education. Her identity as a choreographer is based on her strong skills in and passion for four distinct ... More
A children's show about everything, especially music
NEW YORK, NY.- Ladies and gentlemen! I will now play for you the Rondo alla Turca. From the first scene of Bluey, the hit Australian canine cartoon that amusingly, frankly and ever-so understandingly takes the hands of children and parents through the escapades of the Heeler family of heelers, classical music is as much a part of playtime as the toys scattered around their suburban Brisbane home. Bandit the stay-at-home, try-to-work father who, with Chilli, his wife, has become the idol and the envy of parents everywhere for his willingness to entertain his children anywhere, anytime, anyhow is on the floor, with his 6-year-old daughter, Bluey, draped over his knees. He cracks his knuckles, takes on airs and tickles her mercilessly to the tune of the Mozart sonata. Blueys adorable 4-year-old sister, Bingo, watches, begging to be the piano herself. ... More
At Salzburg Festival, directing slow and fast
SALZBURG.- German director Thorsten Lensing has astonished and provoked for the past three decades, but he feels like one of theaters best-kept secrets. In the fast-paced world of German theater, where hundreds of playhouses churn out productions by the dozen, Lensing develops his works gradually and in intensive collaboration with his actors and artistic team. His deliberate method makes him a rare practitioner of what might be called slow theater. A new Lensing staging is a big deal and worth waiting for. Crazy for Consolation, which premiered this month at the Salzburg Festival, is only Lensings 16th production in 28 years. The previous one, in 2018, was a towering adaptation of David Foster Wallaces epic novel Infinite Jest. ... More
The Museu de Arte de São Paulo exhibits portraits by Dalton Paula
SAO PAULO.- Dalton Paula (BrasÃlia, 1982) works in painting, drawing, video, performance, and sculpture around Afro-Brazilian histories and experiences. This exhibition focus in a significant part of his production: the portraits. Portraiture has a long tradition in Western painting. As a genre, it became associated with the elites, making invisible protagonists of populations that were not part of the ruling class. Thus, traditional portraits are mostly white and male. In a country like Brazil, with a history of slavery and European colonization, very few Black and Indigenous people were portrayed in paintings, and even fewer were identified with their names in portraits. Hence the importance of Paulas portraits, for art history and Brazilian history. Brazilian Portraits brings together 30 paintings by the artist. The starting point is two portraits commissioned by MASP ... More
Making the rounds on Nashville's singer-songwriter circuit
NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent Sunday night in a Holiday Inn lounge on the fringe of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, Paul Jefferson, a local songwriter with spiky hair and skinny jeans, took the stage to sing a couple of his better-known tunes, popularized in recordings by Keith Urban and Aaron Tippin. Between Youre Not My God and Thats as Close as Ill Get to Loving You, he talked about crafting a song, finding inspiration and the hustle it takes to make it, including playing a gig at the airport on the same day he would appear on the countrys longest running radio show. Thats the Nashville story, from baggage claim to the Grand Ole Opry, he joked. For many songwriters, the road to discovery starts in a Nashville club like this one, hosting free or inexpensive writers nights where authors play their originals. In the past, these ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Titian died August 27, 1576. Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 - 27 August 1576) known in English as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto), in the Republic of Venice. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth. In this image: A woman looks at Titian's painting "Mary Magdalene in Penitence" during a press preview of an exhibition of 16th and 17th century Italian painting at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece, on Monday Sept. 22, 2008. The exhibition "From Titian to Pietro da Cortona: Myth Poetry and the Sacred," ran until Dec. 20. On display were 24 works by Titian and other Italian masters, on loan from a score of Italian galleries and collections.
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