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The grand hall at Hermitage Amsterdam, with the Amsterdam Museums permanent exhibition Portrait Gallery of the 17th Century (formerly called Dutchmen of the Golden Age). Photo: Joel Frijhoff.
by Nina Siegal
AMSTERDAM (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Elisabeth Samson, an 18th-century freeborn black woman, made millions as a coffee planter and exporter using slave labor in the Dutch colony of Suriname. She was one of the wealthiest women of the era, but few people have ever heard her story. Thats why her image is one of 13 diverse portraits recently added to a collection of paintings of the citys wealthiest trade groups. Before the additions, the Portrait Gallery of the Golden Age, as it was known, was a sea of all white and mostly male faces. It resides in a wing of the Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam that houses part of the Amsterdam Museums collection. Among the other new portraits in the display are of Elieser, a young black Jewish man who served in the household of a Spanish poet-merchant; and Sychnecta, a Native American man who was once displayed in an Amsterdam human zoo. These photographic portraits, created using contemporary models in period clothes and settings, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The New Museum is presenting the first major US survey of Hans Haacke in over thirty years, on view throughout the Museum's main galleries from October 24, 2019, to January 26, 2020. "Hans Haacke: All Connected" brings together more than thirty works from across the artist's career, from the 1960s to the present.
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| | Signac, Caillebotte, Monet & more lead Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | | Marilyn Monroe's costume from 'There's No Business Like Show Business' sells for $280,000 | | Is it Machiavelli? By Leonardo? Mystery artwork causes buzz |
Paul Signac, La Corne d'Or (Constantinople), 1907 (detail). Estimate $14/18 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys unveiled highlights from their Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art on 12 November in New York. Distinguished by a diverse range of works on offer from private collections and with exceptional provenance exhibited throughout, the 53 lots on offer are on public view in Sothebys York Avenue galleries. Likely the greatest post-1900 work by Paul Signac ever to come on the market, La Corne d'Or (Constantinople) from 1907 is the largest and most striking canvas that the artist painted during his first visit to Istanbul in the spring of that year (estimate $14/18 million). Depicting a lush, textural surface comprised of rectangular brushstrokes, the present work captures the grandeur, history and unique quality of light and color that filled the ancient city. This historic meeting place of East and West had captivated Signacs imagination for some time before he finally discovered ... More | |
Marilyn Monroe Gown and Headdress from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", 20th Century Fox, 1953. Estimate: $60,000.00-80,000.00.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Julien's Auctions held its Legendary Women of Hollywood auction featuring Property from the Life and Career of Marilyn Monroe on Friday, November 1 in Beverly Hills, CA in front of a spirited audience of collectors and bidders live on the floor, online and on the phone. The top moments of the event were the sale of three items worn by the Hollywood screen legend, Marilyn Monroe, in her biggest films - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, There's No Business Like Show Business and River of No Return - as well as her signature style black cocktail dress likely worn to the 1958 press conference for her blockbuster film, Some Like It Hot. The siren's show stopping ensemble worn in Irving Berlin's There's No Business Like Show Business made heads turn once again when the gavel came down at the hammer price of $280,000. Worn by the star as "Vicky Parker" ... More | |
Several months of tests lie ahead to establish the painting's subject and provenance.
RENNES (AFP).- An unsigned painting of an unidentified bald man with a beard has aroused excitement among historians and art buffs after lying largely unnoticed in the collection of a historic chateau in central France for decades. A letter written 145 years ago and discovered last year suggests the work could be the likeness of 15th-16th century Italian philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli, painted by none other than Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci. Several months of tests lie ahead to establish the painting's subject and provenance, but Sylvie Giroux, director of the Chateau de Valencay in central France, says it is "not impossible" that it will prove to be a link between two of history's most famous men. The castle housing the artwork once belonged to Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, a pre-eminent diplomat known simply as Talleyrand who died in 1838. Last year, a document dated 1874 and signed by Talleyrand's ... More |
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| | Nigerian contemporary art booms and prices soar | | Exhibition of new works by Moshekwa Langa, Viviane Sassen, and Portia Zvavahera on view at Andrew Kreps Gallery | | 244-year-old rifle stolen decades ago is recovered |
In this file photo taken on November 04, 2017 Nigerian artist Queen Nwaneri paints during the Nigeria annual Art X event in Lagos. In the vibrant megalopolis of Lagos, with its 20 million inhabitants, the cultural season culminates this weekend with the international fair "ART X", which has established itself for three years as an essential event, a high mass of modern and contemporary art with an assumed business objective. EMMANUEL AREWA / AFP.
LAGOS (AFP).- First there was Tutu, the "African Mona Lisa" sold last year for 1.5 million dollars. Then a second portrait by revered Nigerian painter Ben Enwonwu, called Christine, sold in mid-October, for 1.4 million dollars. Both record sales of famous works by the late "father of African modernism", captured the emergence of Nigeria's art market. A decade ago, major African artists were largely absent from international auctions. But the continent is now a major attraction in contemporary and modern art. Since his death in 1994, Enwonwu's star has only risen, epitomising the growing industry and value for art. His two masterpieces, were sold by two of London's most prestigious auction houses, Bonhams and Sotheby's. "Africa ... More | |
Portia Zvavahera, Arising from the Unknown, 2019. Oil-based printing ink and oil bar on canvas, 77 15/16 x 58 11/16 in (198 x 149 cm). Image courtesy of the Artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York and Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg. Photo: Dawn Blackman.
NEW YORK, NY.- Andrew Kreps Gallery and Stevenson are presenting an exhibition of new works by Moshekwa Langa, Viviane Sassen, and Portia Zvavahera at 55 Walker Street. Organized in partnership by the two galleries, the exhibition seeks to explore new collaborative models between galleries and investigate the ways in which regional practices can function beyond geographic borders, and resonate beyond their primary context. For the exhibition, the galleries have selected three artists from Stevensons program, Langa, Sassen, and Zvavahera, whose distinct practices are united by explorations of memory, the subconscious, and spirituality. Moshekwa Langa (b. 1975) presents recent large-scale works on paper, which represent an ongoing psycho-geographic mapping project. The works intensively layered surfaces are named for significant places, events, and figures in the artist's life. Belonging to his series ... More | |
The Johann Christian Oerter rifle at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, on Nov. 1, 2019. Rachel Wisniewski/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- A rare Revolutionary War-era rifle stolen from a display case at Valley Forge State Park nearly 50 years ago has been returned to its rightful owners. The 5-foot-long rifle was made in 1775 by Johann Christian Oerter, a master gunsmith at the Moravian settlement of Christians Spring, near Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Only a few signed and dated rifles from that era survived, and Oerters work is considered among the finest. A similar Oerter rifle belongs to the British Royal Collection Trust. The FBIs art crime team and other law enforcement officials returned the antique on Friday to the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution during a ceremony at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. It will go on display there Wednesday. The Christian Oerter rifle exhibits exemplary early American artistry, and is a reminder that courage and sacrifice were necessary to secure American independence, R. Scott Stephenson, the museums president, said ... More |
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| | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, acquires Joel Wayne Collection of hand-drawn postcards | | Sperone Westwater opens an exhibition of new work by artist and filmmaker David Lynch | | Sheldon Breiner, 82, dies; Used magnetism for explorations |
Halloween Witch, about 1905 (detail).
BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, announced today the acquisition of the Joel Wayne Collection of hand-drawn postcards, the largest and most significant collection of its kind. This group of nearly 1,600 hand-drawn cards, assembled over many years by Los Angeles-based collector Joel Wayne, brings to the MFA the leading collection of this branch of popular art. Ranging in date from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th, the cards marry the energy and often offbeat creativity of outsider and folk art to a medium that was popular in the early decades of the century, but is more commonly associated with commercial printing and design. The inventiveness and artistic range apparent in the Wayne Collection will come as a surprise even to those who are familiar with the history of postcards and 20th-century art. The Wayne Collection is particularly strong in American cards from the first four decades of the 20th century. Extensive ... More | |
Installation view. Photo: Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater is presenting an exhibition of new work by artist and filmmaker David Lynch, his first with the gallery. The show features paintings, works on paper, watercolors, lamp sculptures and furniture. Lynchs five-decade career includes an extensive range of art-making painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, music and film. While studying at the Boston Museum School and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in the late 1960s, Lynch envisioned his first moving painting; a multidimensional painting beneath a moving projection titled Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times) (1967). This multimedia work marked Lynchs first foray into video and filmmaking. Since that time, his prolific career has touched on subjects of the organic body and industrial sites in various states of decay, describing a deeper human experience both beyond and within the everyday. ... More | |
Geophysicist Sheldon Breiner with one of the Olmec heads he helped discover on display in the Mexican anthropological museum in Jalapa, Mexico in 1998. Breiner, a geophysicist, inventor and serial entrepreneur, who also founded companies that developed early applications for artificial intelligence and cross-platform software, died on Oct. 9, 2019 at his home in Portola Valley, Calif., near Palo Alto. He was 82. John Markoff/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Ever since the compass was invented, perhaps around 2,000 years ago, humans have used Earths magnetic field to guide them. Many ages later, Sheldon Breiner devised ways to use magnetism to guide him to things that might otherwise never have been found like sunken ships, a lost city and colossal basalt heads buried underground. Breiner, a geophysicist, inventor and serial entrepreneur, started a company called Geometrics in 1969 that built sophisticated magnetometers, which measure magnetic fields (a compass is probably the most simple example ... More |
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| | Iran unveils new anti-US murals at former embassy | | The Jewish Museum opens first survey of Rachel Feinstein's three-decade career | | 'Driving Forces: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Ann and Ron Pizzuti' spans two Columbus locations |
An Iranian woman walks past a new mural painted on the walls of the former US embassy in the capital Tehran on November 2, 2019. ATTA KENARE / AFP.
TEHRAN (AFP).- Iran on Saturday unveiled new anti-American murals on the walls of the former US embassy as Tehran prepares to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the storming of what it labels the "den of spies". The accusatory message of the paintings was one of a violent US that is thirsty for war and bent on tightening its grip on the world, yet weakening despite its military might. The new murals -- mainly painted in white, red and blue, the colours of the US flag -- were unveiled by Major General Hossein Salami, the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, at the former mission turned museum. One of them showed a crumbling Statue of Liberty, its right torch-bearing arm having broken off. Another depicted the triangle of the Eye of Providence, the symbol used on the back of the US dollar bill, in a sea of blood in which skulls are floating. A third showed the American Global Hawk drone that was shot down by Iran in June over the Strait of Hormuz, with ... More | |
Rachel Feinstein, Good Times, 2005. Enamel paint on wood and polymer resin. Collection of Robert and Anne-Cecilie Speyer, New York. Artwork © Rachel Feinstein; photograph courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum is presenting Rachel Feinstein: Maiden, Mother, Crone, the first survey of the New York-based artist in the United States, from November 1, 2019 through March 22, 2020. The exhibition includes three decades of Feinsteins work in sculpture, painting, and video, as well as a panoramic wallpaper, a major new commission, and the artists maquettes for sculpture. Taken together, the works emphasize the artists fascination with dualities: her investigations of masculinity and femininity or good and evil echo her formal explorations of balance and precariousness or positive and negative space. Feinsteins art follows myriad lines of inquiry, but the idea of the feminine is central. She has made a sustained examination of the many ways this concept is manifested culturally. Female protagonists and figures proliferate in her work and bind it together ... More | |
Jeff Sonhouse, Meeting at the Crossroads, 2003. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 75 x 65 x 3 ¼ inches (190.5 x 165.1 x 8.3 cm). Pizzuti Collection © Jeff Sonhouse.. Courtesy of the artist and Tilton Gallery, New York. Photo: Alan Geho.
COLUMBUS, OH.- The largest exhibition of work from the private collection of Ann and Ron Pizzuti (ArtNews Top 200 Collectors 2018) is on view in Columbus, Ohio, this autumn. The first exhibition to span the Museums downtown and Short North locations, Driving Forces: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Ann and Ron Pizzuti is on view at the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art (Pizzuti Collection of CMA) Oct. 26, 2019, through March 8, 2020, and at and the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) Nov. 1, 2019, through Feb. 2, 2020. Driving Forces is a celebration of the Pizzuti Collection building and programming joining the Columbus Museum of Art family, said Nannette V. Maciejunes, executive director of CMA. It is the first exhibition to span both our locations, and with more than 100 works, it is the largest exhibition of work ever shown ... More |
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New Executive Director of Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency
CHICAGO, IL.- The Board of Directors of Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists Residency today announced the appointment of Shannon R. Stratton as the 110-year-old organizations next Executive Director. Stratton is currently Interim Senior Curator-at Large for the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and Core Faculty for the MA in Critical Craft Studies at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina, as well as an independent curator, working closely with the Poor Farm in Little Wolf, Wisconsin. She will join Ox-Bow full-time on February 3, 2020. We are thrilled to have Shannon Stratton as our new Executive Director, said Board Chair Steven Meier. Her broad experience, national reputation in the arts community, and forward-thinking orientation to partnerships will be essential in moving Ox-Bow into our next century, ... More
After exchanging vows, they're in it for life
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The Halloween wedding of Teresa-Catherine Antoinette Deleski and Gabriel Peguero, of Magnolia, New Jersey, was attended by a dozen guests. Or maybe more. One of the things that makes this fun is you never know how many uninvited guests are going to show up, said Joanne Schwartz, who married five couples Oct. 31 at the Burlington County Prison Museum in Mount Holly, New Jersey. Schwartz, the Burlington County clerk, says the building, where murderers, bigamists and horse thieves once languished, is haunted. A number of people have heard strange noises, she said. Many have had the feeling theyre being followed. In previous years, the county has offered free Halloween wedding services at the prison museum, which was built in 1811 and closed in 1965, but Schwartz said this was the first year anyone ... More
Fighting social injustice through graffiti, and making a business of it
BOGOTA (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Camilo Fidel López eats, drinks, thinks, sleeps and breathes graffiti. Where the average eye sees empty and drab building walls, López, founder of the graffiti artists crew Vértigo Graffiti, sees blank canvases, opportunities to colorfully further the cause of social justice, whether in his home city the Colombian capital, Bogotá or the rest of the world. Looking younger than his 38 years, sporting a scruffy beard, wearing jeans and an untucked casual shirt, he was constantly on the move recently crisscrossing Bogotá, which has become one of the worlds top graffiti destinations. A few days later he was wandering the cobblestoned back alleys of Cartagena, a historic coastal Colombian city that is also famous for its graffiti art. And several months later he was still on the go this time in Turkey with his crew. Not ... More
CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art of Bordeaux opens an exhibition curated by Laura Herma
BORDEAUX.- Each year, the Satellite Programme is entrusted to an independent curator, charged with designing and organizing three exhibitions at the Jeu de Paume. For this edition, the Jeu de Paume continues its partnership with the CAPC musée dart contemporain de Bordeaux and the Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico. Laura Herman, an independent curator, has been invited to curate this programme, entitled The New Sanctuary. The three exhibitions will be presented at the Jeu de Paume, the CAPC and the Museo Amparo. The exhibitions of the Satellite Programme are accompanied by three publications. Each year independent graphic designers are invited to create the graphic or visual identity of the three catalogues associated with the programme of exhibitions. The graphic design for Satellite 2019 was done by Groupe CCC (Alice Gavin and Valentin ... More
René Wirths presents a new collection of paintings from the Liquids series at Galerie Templon
BRUSSELS.- For his first show in Brussels, Berliner artist René Wirths is bringing the walls of Galerie Templon alive with the rhythm of his beatbox exhibition. The artist is presenting a new collection of paintings from the Liquids series as he continues his exploration of perception. Each piece features a glass three-quarters filled with various liquids such as milk, water, oil, ink and various juices against a neutral, monochrome background. Each liquid brings colour to the pared-back, transparent architecture of its container, enlarged and multiplied. The space is inhabited by repetition of form and variation of colours. A counterpoint is provided by the monumental painting of a vintage ghetto blaster radio and tape deck which fills the room with sound vibrations, as if by synaesthesia. True to the tradition of abstract painting, the subject takes a back seat, ... More
Petzel Gallery opens a solo show of works by Walead Beshty
NEW YORK, NY.- Petzel Gallery is presenting Abstract of A Partial Disassembling of an Invention Without a Future: Helter-Skelter and Random Notes in Which the Pulleys and Cogwheels Are Lying Around at Random All Over the Workbench a solo show of works by Walead Beshty. The exhibition is on view from October 24 to December 14 and marks the artists third exhibition at the gallerys Chelsea location. The work A Partial Disassembling of an Invention Without a Future: Helter-Skelter and Random Notes in Which the Pulleys and Cogwheels Are Lying Around at Random All Over the Workbench, was originally commissioned by the Barbican Centre, London. The London-born, Los Angeles-based artist first exhibited the work there in 2014, covering the 273 ft long Curve gallery from floor to ceiling in cyanotype prints. The prints were produced over the duration ... More
Dancing past 60: 'I actually forget that I am aging'
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- At the Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York center in Flushing, Queens, men comb through newspapers and sip coffee at long cafeteria tables under fluorescent lights. Normally Swedish pop wouldnt fit in such a scene, but there it is the sound of Abba in the distance. Follow it. Behind a partition are women, bedecked in sequins, gliding across a checkered floor to Dancing Queen. This is the KCS Senior Dance Team, a group made up of spry and glamorous women in their 60s, 70s and 80s. They can dance, they can jive and, yes, they are having the time of their lives. We use famous music because then everyone knows and its easy to feel it, Kyung Ok Lee, who bashfully referred to herself as the groups leader, said. We have some Korean traditional music, American music and K-pop. ... More
She's putting her mark on the Kennedy Center
WASHINGTON (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The Kennedy Centers first expansion in its nearly half-century history had just opened, and its new spaces were being put through their paces for the first time. A mid-September breeze swept over the lawn, where a free outdoor screening of The Black Panther on a giant new video wall had drawn an audience of hundreds the previous night. In the nearby Moonshot Studio, middle schoolers were making zoetropes inspired by the childrens book author and pigeon portraitist Mo Willems. Olmeca, a hip-hop artist, was getting a small crowd to clap to his beat in Studio K, just past studios J and F, while, in a nearby lecture hall, Rosdely Ciprian, a 14-year-old actress in the play What the Constitution Means to Me, spoke with an interviewer who had some thoughts on that subject: Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The ... More
Elizabeth V. Warren elected Board President at American Folk Art Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- The American Folk Art Museum announced the election of art historian Elizabeth V. Warren, a Trustee of the institution since 2007, as its next President of the Board. Mrs. Warren, who most recently served as Vice President, was voted President at the museums fall board meeting. Edward V. (Monty) Blanchard, Jr., who served as President from 2011 - 2019, was elected Chairman. At this important moment for the museum, Im excited for my good friend, Liz Warren, said Mr. Blanchard. Liz has been an active and trusted member of the board for over a decade and brings a thoughtful and pragmatic point-of-view to all museum matters. I am looking forward to continuing our work together in my new role as Chairman. Noted President Warren: It is a pleasure and honor to continue my work in this new leadership capacity. Together ... More
Zabludowicz Collection opens an exhibition by Fay Zmija Nicolson
LONDON.- Zabludowicz Collection is presenting Tone Poem, an exhibition by Fay Zmija Nicolson that brings together new and existing work in a performative configuration. Nicolson works across painting, printmaking and performance to explore aesthetic experience and embodied approaches to education. Her multi-disciplinary practice explores inherent formal connections between sound, colour and gesture using an exploratory approach that she terms transaesthetic. Ideas of the exercise or workshop are important to her practice, which privileges processes of play, training and improvisation over the production of singular objects. For this exhibition, Nicolson has reimagined an ongoing series of large scale digital prints on silk called, We Exist! We have the Will! We Are Producing! These works begin as watercolour paintings on graph paper that Nicolson ... More
Exhibition of new and selected works by Mary Sibande opens at Somerset House
LONDON.- Somerset House and 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair are presenting Mary Sibande: I Came Apart at the Seams, a free exhibition of new and selected works from one of South Africas most prominent contemporary artists, Mary Sibande. In her first solo exhibition in the UK, Sibande presents a series of striking photographic and sculptural works exploring the power of imagined narratives in challenging stereotypical depictions of women and shaping identities in South Africa today. The exhibition continues beyond 1-54 as a standalone show throughout Somerset Houses winter season. I Came Apart at the Seams follows the transformative journey of Sibandes avatar, Sophie. Featuring life-sized sculptural figures and photographs modelled on the artist herself, the exhibition brings together three defining series of works for the first ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Annibale Carracci was born November 03, 1560. Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560 - July 15, 1609) was an Italian Baroque painter. In this image: Eugenio Riccomini, curator of the exhibition of Italian painter Annibale Carracci, stands next to the painting "I macellai" (The butchers) during the exhibit opening in Bologna, Italy, Thursday Sept. 21, 2006. Carracci, who lived from 1560 to 1609 was underpaid in his lifetime and undervalued for centuries after his death and at last is having a renaissance in his native Bologna. Carracci's mastery ranged from sympathetic and realistic portraits of common folk like butchers, to magnificent frescoes adorning palatial residences in Rome.
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