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Ronny Quevedos full-scale wooden gym floor fabricated from scratch on display in Terminal C at the LaGuardia Airport in New York, May 17, 2022. When Delta Air Lines Terminal C at La Guardia Airport opens to the public, New York will get not only a gleaming new transportation hub but also a significant art destination. Justin Kaneps/The New York Times.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
NEW YORK, NY.- When Delta Air Lines Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport opens to the public on Saturday, New York will get not only a gleaming new transportation hub but also a distinctive art destination. Airports are gateways to a region; travelers should know where they are, said Rick Cotton, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates LaGuardia. Public art is at the core of that aspect of building a new civic structure. Large-scale permanent installations by Mariam Ghani, Rashid Johnson, Aliza Nisenbaum, Virginia Overton, Ronny Quevedo and Fred Wilson all artists living and working in New York are poised to become new city landmarks throughout the terminal. Their works, commissioned by Delta Air Lines in partnership with the neighboring Queens Museum and part of a $12 million art program in Terminal C, join a constellation of projects at LaGuardia. In Terminal B, four site-specific pieces by Jeppe Hein, Sabine Hornig, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, Geoffrey Chadsey, plus, 2022 Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 W 20th Street, New York © Geoffrey Chadsey. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
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| Exhibition of new paintings by Tal R opens at Victoria Miro | | Man breaks into Dallas museum and damages ancient greek artifacts | | Theft of a church's tabernacle leaves more than a physical gap |
Tal R, Untitled Flowers, 2022. Oil on canvas, 172 x 147 cm. 67 3/4 x 57 7/8 in. © Tal R. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro.
LONDON.- Victoria Miro is delighted to present Untitled Flowers, an exhibition of new paintings by Tal R. The paintings are complemented by a large-scale installation of drawings. On view in the waterside garden are a number of recent bronze sculptures by the artist. In his work Tal R often employs apparently simple compositional devices and motifs from everyday life to create complex, atmospheric worlds that, beginning with the recognisable and known, expand or collapse into spaces of enchantment or ambiguity, heady with atmosphere and colour. For the past few years he has made paintings and drawings of flowers in vases. Each work depicts a bunch of flowers picked by the artist from around his home in the Danish countryside, presented in a vase on a tabletop within a closely cropped interior space. In this deceptively quotidian world there is a deliberate, non-hierarchical sense of things existing on the same plane. Throughout, perspec ... More | |
File photo of Van Gogh and the Olive Groves Photo by John Smith, courtesy of Dallas Museum of Art.
DALLAS, TX.- A man smashed his way into the Dallas Museum of Art and damaged three ancient Greek artifacts dating to the fifth and sixth centuries B.C., museum officials said Thursday. The man, identified by Dallas police as Brian Hernandez, 21, âseriously damagedâ four pieces of art, said Agustin Arteaga, the museumâs director. He had broken into the museum by repeatedly striking a glass door with a steel chair around 10 p.m. Wednesday, Arteaga said. Arteaga estimated that the items, which were insured, have a value of $1 million or more, but the true cost of the destruction will not be known until officials and insurers conduct a damage assessment. âThere was no intention, from what we can see, of stealing anything, of damaging any work of art in a deliberate way,â Arteaga said. âIt was just someone who was going through a moment of anger and found this as a way to express it.â The Greek objects include a black-figure kylix, a bowl from the sixth century B.C. featuring vignettes of Herakles grapp ... More | |
Father Frank Tumino, the pastor at St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn, led a Mass at nearby St. Francis Xavier Church on May 31, 2022. Dave Sanders/The New York Times.
by Ali Watkins and Sean Piccoli
NEW YORK, NY.- Deflated, Father Frank Tumino stepped into the pulpit at St. Francis Xavier Church in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning. Six blocks away, St. Augustines, the other church where he serves as pastor, was closed and cordoned off with police tape. At its center was a literal and figurative hole. This is just one more blow, Tumino said after presiding over Mass. He was referring to the theft of St. Augustines tabernacle, a $2 million gold treasure that was separated from its 19th-century foundation last week with a power saw before presumably vanishing into the murky underground of stolen artifacts. The ornate tabernacle box that held the eucharist the wine and consecrated wafers that the faithful believe embody Jesus Christ disappeared from the Park Slope churchs sanctuary sometime between last Thursday evening and Saturday afternoon, ... More |
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| Christie's to offer one of the most important groups of Italian Renaissance works still in private hands | | Giraffes may be long-necked for fights, not just food | | Toronto Biennial of Art presents Judy Chicago Smoke Sculpture on June 4 |
Orazio Gentileschi, The Madonna and Child. Oil on panel, 36 x 28 1⁄4 in. (91.4 x 73 cm.). Estimate: $4,000,000-6,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will present a week of extraordinary Old Master Paintings, Sculptures, and Antiquities sales, over two live auctions, 9 and 10 June at Rockefeller Plaza, and an online sale, 2-16 June. On 9 June, Old Masters | New Perspectives: Masterworks from the Alana Collection, offers one of the most important groups of Italian Renaissance works to come to market in a generation. The following day, 10 June, the Old Masters sale features works by Northern Masters, women artists, and two pictures subject to restitution to the heirs of their owners. For the first time, Christies is offering an Old Masters sale entirely without reserve, online 2-16 June. Leading the sale is a superb and intimate example of early Florentine Renaissance painting, Fra Angelicos Saint Dominic and the Stigmatization of Saint Francis (estimate: $4,000,000-6,000,000). This ... More | |
A reconstruction provided by Wang et al., Science, showing the skull and vertebrae of a Discokeryx xiezhi. Wang et al., Science via The New York Times.
by Jack Tamisiea
NEW YORK, NY.- Since the days of Charles Darwin, the long necks of giraffes have been a textbook example of evolution. The theory goes that as giraffe ancestors competed for food, those with longer necks were able to reach higher leaves, getting a leg or neck up over shorter animals. But a bizarre prehistoric giraffe relative reveals that, in addition to foraging, fighting may have driven early neck evolution. In a study published Thursday in Science, a team of paleontologists described Discokeryx xiezhi, a giraffe ancestor, as having helmet-like headgear and bulky neck vertebrae. Discokeryx was adapted to absorb and deliver skull-cracking collisions to woo mates and vanquish rivals. It shows that giraffe evolution is not just elongating the neck ... More | |
Judy Chicago. Photo: Donald Woodman.
TORONTO.- A Tribute to Toronto, 2022, Judy Chicagos latest site-specific pyrotechnic display, will take place on June 4, 2022 at Sugar Beach on Torontos waterfront as the grand finale celebrating the conclusion of the second edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art. The renowned American artist will create her first Smoke Sculpture on Lake Ontario, releasing white, yellow, green, blue, and purple pigments from a structure on a barge. In the air, the pigments mix with the wind and sunset light to create a myriad of changing colourful effects until dissipating. In line with the artists long history of being a passionate advocate for the environment, Chicago and her collaboratorshusband and photographer Donald Woodman, Chris Souza of Pyro Spectaculars and Maude Furtado of GFA PYROonly use non-toxic materials that meet environmental safety standards to create temporary forms that, for several minutes, transf ... More |
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| Boba Fett rocket-firing prototype sells for world-record $236,000 at Hake's June 2 Star Wars specialty auction | | For 2 graffiti artists, New York's subway was irresistible and deadly | | Miller & Miller announces Petroliana, Railroadiana & Advertising auction |
Boba Fett L-slot rocket-firing prototype action figure, predecessor to the Boba Fett figure in Kenners popular 1979 Star Wars toy line, 3.75in tall, AFA-graded 80+ NM (archival case). Encapsulated with notarized CIB COA. Sold for a world-record price of $236,000 against an estimate of $100,000-$200,000.
YORK, PA.- The enduring, multigenerational appeal of Star Wars action figures and related collectibles was never more obvious than last night, as Hakes first-ever Special Event Auction featuring memorabilia from the legendary franchise closed the books at $903,000. The online auction, whose final bid was received at 11:14 p.m., achieved a 100% sell-through rate and set multiple new world records in so doing. In Hakes last two auctions, 500 lots of Star Wars material have sold for a combined $2.1 million. Were very pleased with the results from our Star Wars Special Event Auction, said Hakes president Alex Winter. Star Wars has become an important part of our premier events, accounting for a strong ... More | |
Ellis Gallagher, a graffiti artist, outside 17 Frost, the Brooklyn art gallery that he manages, on May 27, 2022. Benjamin Norman/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- New York City was the playground they had imagined. And so they bounded about with a dizzy energy, two French graffiti artists eager to explore a place they had long idolized. They gaped at the fluorescent billboards, sought out Nike sneakers, sneaked handfuls of candy at the M&MS store, applauded the b-boys and musicians, devoured Shake Shack, trekked down to the Brooklyn Bridge. But the thing that inspired Julien Blanc, 34, and Pierre Audebert, 28, the most was the citys storied history in the graffiti movement. They yearned to somehow be a part of it. Four days into their trip, the two visited a studio in the Bronx where graffiti artists were spray-painting a memorial to hip-hop icon DJ Kay Slay, who had died recently after battling COVID. The mural was made to look like a subway train. In attendance were renowned ... More | |
1930s Service Station Equipment Co., Ltd. (Toronto) double gasoline pump, Clearvision Model No. 700, an older restoration to Sunoco colors (est. CA$17,000-$20,000).
NEW HAMBURG.- A gorgeous, fully restored 1959 Chevrolet Corvette convertible, a Canadian Red Indian Aviation Motor Oil sign from the 1930s, a 1937 Ford Model 78 Deluxe convertible sedan and a 1930s Canadian Eco-Meter 150 Clockface gasoline pump are just a few of the treasures that await bidders in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.s online-only Petroliana, Railroadiana & Advertising auction planned for Saturday, June 18th at 9 am Eastern. The 300-lot auction will be headlined by the Joe Byway collection of petroliana (gas station collectibles), railroadiana and advertising. This is a sale of two collections: Joes petroliana, along with his fathers lifetime collection of railroadiana, said Ethan Miller of Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. Together it represents 90 years of collecting and two generations of ownership. ... More |
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| National Museum of Norway unveils new museum building | | Reyes │ Finn presents Nick Doyle: Farmers and Reapers | | Illustration art at Swann June 9 |
The National Museum. Photo: Iwan baan.
OSLO.- The new National Museum of Norway provides a purpose-built space for the countrys most extensive collection of art, architecture and design becoming the largest museum in the Nordic countries. More than 6,500 works, from the antiquity to the museums most recent contemporary acquisitions, will be on display in a collection that spans two floors and 86 rooms. The building includes a spectacular space for temporary exhibitions - the Light Hall situated on the roof - as well as a large open-air roof terrace, cafés, a shop, and the largest art library in the Nordic region. Situated on Oslos harbour close to the promenade, the museum offers spectacular views of the city. - With this new building, Norway now has a modern museum with classic qualities, a new home for Norways largest collection of art, architecture and design. It enables us to show more of the collection than ever before, with spaces for temporar ... More | |
Nick Doyle, Putting Two and Two Together, 2022. Collaged denim on panel. Fork: 10 x 72 in (25.4 x 182.9 cm). Outlet: 25 x 40 in (63.5 x 101.6 cm).
DETROIT, MICH.- Reyes | Finn is presenting Farmers and Reapers, its third solo exhibition of new work by gallery artist Nick Doyle, on view June 4July 16. With Farmers and Reapers Doyle expands on his examination of the plight of the one-dimensional American identity an identity which hinges on being able to afford capitalist comforts, therefore normalizing the sacrifice of passion and replacing it with labor as currency for consumptive freedom. In Farmers and Reapers the artist takes inspiration from the theorems proposed by Herbert Marcuse in One Dimensional Man, which examines repressive desublimation the concept that capitalism flattens out the distinction between "that which is" and "that which is not. By turning art into commodity, and commentary into capital, this self-absorbing mechanism compresses culture, desire, ... More | |
Tasha Tudor, illustration for Frances Hodgson Burnetts novel, The Secret Garden, watercolor & graphite, 1962. From the collection of Emily & Sam Bush. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- The spring Illustration Art sale at Swann Galleries is set to come across the block on Thursday, June 9. The auction will feature a rich selection of childrens picture book art from the collection of the late Emily and Sam Bush. The sale will also feature theater set and costume design, advertising art, works from notable picture books, literary publications, cartoons, comics and more from esteemed illustrators. The selection from the Emily & Sam Bush Collection includes works by Caldecott winners Trina Schart Hyman with a 1986 illustration for The Water of Life: A Tale from Brothers Grimm. Retold by Barbara Rogansky, featuring the prints and his brothers ($1,000-1,500), Alice and Martin Provensen with The Swan Maiden, created Howard Pyles 1971 story ... More |
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Heritage Auctions to sell 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded to Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov
DALLAS, TX.- Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of the influential Russian news outlet Novaya Gazeta, will auction his 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal on June 20 through Heritage Auctions to benefit children and their families forced to flee Ukraine and those internally displaced since the start of the war in February. All proceeds will support UNICEF's humanitarian response for children in Ukraine and neighboring countries. Bidding on the medal opens on HA.com today, June 1, which is also Children's Day in Ukraine. Bidding will conclude with a live auction at The Times Center in Manhattan on World Refugee Day, June 20, a day to commemorate the strength, courage and perseverance of refugees. "The editors of Novaya Gazeta decided it was necessary to help those in desperate need," says Muratov, who in 1993 co-founded the Moscow- ... More
Nicholas Kontaxis opens an exhibition at UTA Artist Space
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- UTA Artist Space announced a new exhibition from rising young abstract expressionist painter Nicholas Kontaxis. Catch Me will be the most ambitious solo exhibition of Nicholas career to date, featuring an expansive collection of never-before-seen paintings created over the last two years that showcase Nicholas stylistic evolution and artistic maturation. While these last two years were primarily defined by restrictions and confinements, Catch Me captures a spirit of freedom and experimentation. Instinctively drawn to painting, the medium has provided Nicholas a conduit for expressing his notably distinct interior life. The artist was born with a brain tumor that has resulted in thousands of seizures over his lifetime, atypical motor function, and neurodiversity. His speech consists of short utterances, ... More
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts receives $1 million gift to endow new sculpture chair
OLD LYME, CONN.- Lyme Academy of Fine Arts announces that it has received a transformative gift from Charlotte Colby Danly, a former student and Trustee at the Academy, in support of the Academys mission to teach a new generation of artists in the figurative tradition. The gift will allow the creation of an endowed chair in the donors name, the Charlotte Colby Danly Sculpture Chair, and establish a program to teach figurative sculpture to students attending the Academy. The Academy is presently calling for applications for an Artistic Director of Sculpture to lead the effort. "Charlotte came to the Academy to study sculpture as an act of personal transformation when she was at a crossroads in her life. The gift that she has made will ensure that others can follow her path in what promises to be the country's premier sculpture ... More
Trying to contain William Klein in one show isn't easy
NEW YORK, NY.- For 70 years, William Klein, a wildly innovative and influential photographer, has been making pictures up close and personal that flout conventions of technique and taste to pack maximum wallop. In William Klein: YES, a retrospective that opens Friday at the International Center of Photography, the first in his native city since a smaller 1994 ICP exhibition, Klein, who is 94, ruled out glass frames for his prints. He wants nothing to come between the image and the spectator. A man of fabled charm, Klein seeks out vibrant subjects who respond to his own vitality. In one of his best-known images, from 1959, a gleeful young Moscow woman clad in an unstylish Soviet bikini virtually bursts out of the frame. Behind her, sleeping in a beach chair, is an old man, nicely dressed in a summer suit ... More
Exhibition shares love without reason
UTRECHT.- On June 3 the large scale art exhibition Come Alive opened its doors in Het Nieuwe Muntgebouw in Utrecht. Come Alive celebrates eroticism as a life force in these precarious times. Through touch, image, scent, sound, performance and play, more than 45 artists pull out all the stops to give our bodies a voice as the first and most important gatekeeper. Sharing "love without reason" in all its abundance allows new insights and helps us to unlearn inherited behaviours. In the old melting room of the Nieuwe Muntgebouw in Utrecht, Netherlands, where once rock-hard coins were minted, everything becomes fluid this summer. Vitality and precarity may appear to be opposites, but they are in fact two sides of the same coin. Moments of crisis and scarcity are much more bearable when we are close to each other. ... More
Exhibition at Frankfurter Kunstverein presents new investigations and findings on the racially motivated attack in Hanau
FRANKFURT.- The exhibition Three Doors Forensic Architecture/Forensis, Initiative 19. Februar Hanau, Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh arises as a collaboration between various parties: the artist collective Forensic Architecture, its affiliated agency Forensis Berlin, Initiative 19. Februar Hanau, Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh, journalists and the cultural institution Frankfurter Kunstverein. They work as a coalition of civil society forces and experts in various fields, to make systemic racism and authority failures visible. In the exhibition Three Doors three new works by Forensic Architecture/Forensis that investigate racially motivated incidents in Germany will be shown. In each case, ... More
Jack Shainman Gallery opens Plus, a solo exhibition of new works by Geoffrey Chadsey
NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting Plus, a solo exhibition of new works by Geoffrey Chadsey, at the 513 West 20th Street space. In this new series of often larger than life-size watercolor pencil drawings on mylar, Geoffrey Chadseys subjects present themselves to the viewer nude, like an artists model, or naked, in a state to be desired. Each body is ruptured with a kind of gender melancholy that is performed through incoherent, mutating selves. Rendered on mylar, Chadsey plays with this surface that allows his liquified marks to move around like paint while emitting the plastic sheen of a photograph. Lines wrap the subjects bodies, challenging physical dimensionality and mimicking anatomical etchings. These works are created from looking at vast and varied collections of photographs, and in turn, reproduce the dynamic ... More
Exhibition at the Cleve Carney Museum of Art features classic & contemporary art works
GLEN ELLYN, ILL.- The Cleve Carney Museum of Art, located at 425 Fawell Blvd. on the College of DuPage campus, presents Hooking Up: Meet the Collection, June 4 August 7, 2022. This exhibition celebrates the recent conversion of the Cleve Carney Art Gallery to the Cleve Carney Museum of Art. In this dynamic presentation, masters such as Toulouse-Lautrec and Rembrandt Van Rijn to 21st century artists Maya Lin and Kehinde Wiley from the College of DuPage Permanent Art collection will be in conversation with works by notable contemporary Chicago artists including Theaster Gates, Sam Jaffe, Christopher James, Troy Lehman, Riva Lehrer, José Lerma, Britni Mara, Audrey Niffenegger, Julia Phillips, Jeffrey Swider-Peltz, Taylor Smith and Amanda Williams. The College of DuPage has an amazing ... More
Two centuries of Japanese design on view in Japanese Design: Rinpa at the Honolulu Museum of Art
HONOLULU.- Japanese Design: Rinpa, an exhibition of works by Japanese artists of the Rinpa traditiona style known for its bright colors, innovative use of materials and emphasis on pattern and designwill be on view at the Honolulu Museum of Art through Oct. 9, 2022. The exhibition includes nearly a dozen works from HoMAs permanent collection and spans more than two centuries of Japanese design history. Rinpa has attracted worldwide recognition and become synonymous with innovative aesthetics, said Shawn Eichman, HoMAs curator of Asian art. At the same time, it resonates with tradition. For those reasons, it continues to influence Japanese art and design today. Rinpas compositional techniques of asymmetry, innovative color combinations, contrasting patterns and semi-abstraction have had a profound ... More
Detroit Institute of Arts acquires four significant works by Surrealist artists
DETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts announced today the recent acquisition of four major works by surrealist artists: Alice Rahons Androgyne, 1946, brass wire and sheet; and Painting for a Little Ghost Who Couldnt Learn to Read, 1947, oil and sand on canvas; and Remedios Varos Caja de Jean Nicolle (Jean Nicolles Box),1948, oil, wood, glass, metal leaf, ferrous metal, and masonite. The fourth work, Rita Kernn-Larsens And Life Anew 1940, currently on view at the DIA, was previously announced by the museum. These works demonstrate the important contributions of women artists to the surrealist movement, many of whom are only now beginning to receive the recognition that their male counterparts have enjoyed for decades. They also illustrate the experimental nature of mid-20th century surrealist practice ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Danish artist Nicolai Abildgaard died June 04, 1809. Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard (September 11, 1743 - June 4, 1809) was a Danish neoclassical and royal history painter, sculptor, architect, and professor of painting, mythology, and anatomy at the New Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. Many of his works were in the royal Christiansborg Palace (some destroyed by fire 1794), Fredensborg Palace, and Levetzau Palace at Amalienborg. In this image: Nicolai Abildgaard (1743 - 1809), The Archangel Michael and Satan Disputing about the Body of Moses. ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum. C. 1782. Oil on canvas, 49.7 x 61.7 cm.
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