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LOT 513: Charles Wilbert White, Bessie, 1954. Estimate $8,000-12,000.
OAK PARK, IL.- Starting a busy spring schedule, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will conduct sales on consecutive days: Interiors on Wednesday, April 6 and Prints & Multiples on Thursday, April 7. Each auction consists of well over 300 lots. Interiors features a range of art and design by influential figures at relatively lower price points, expanding access to collectors and decorators alike. Prints & Multiples showcases an array of works on paper and other mediums by significant artists from the last century and earlier. Logistical details for the auctions follow the highlights below. Interiors on April 6 has sculptures from Midwesterners Abbott Pattison, Joseph A. Burlini, and Morris Brose (highest estimate $1,000-2,000). Two Black artists from Chicago with paintings in the sale are Clifford Lee and Joyce Owens; Chicago Outsider artists Wesley Willis and Lee Godie are likewise represented (highest $600-800). The auction also has some attractive Impres ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Steve McQueen Sunshine State, 2022 Installation view at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2022 A Commission for International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2022 © Steve McQueen. Courtesy the artist, Thomas Dane Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan Photo Agostino Osio.
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| Pace London opens a solo exhibition of pioneering artist Wang Guangle | | David Nolan Gallery now representing: Paulo Pasta | | Exhibition of Barbara T. Smith's seminal 1971 work Holy Squash on view at Andrew Kreps Gallery |
Wang Guangle, 220225,2022. Acrylic on canvas, 90 9/16 x 63 in. © Wang Guangle. courtesy Pace Gallery. Photo: Yang Hao.
LONDON.- Pace Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of pioneering artist, Wang Guangle. On view 1 April 4 May, Wang Guangle: Faded Colours showcases a suite of new paintings by one of Chinas preeminent contemporary abstract painters. For nearly two decades Wang Guangle has devoted his artistic practice to exploring the abstract nature of the language of art, and how the artist, as the protagonist of this ancient practice, uses it to deal with the internal and external world. Though trained in classical oil painting, Wangs distinctive process-based paintings are driven by his intention to translate an abstract sense of time and death into a tangible experience. The artists process is rooted in repetition; his systematic layering of acrylic paint over canvas creates enigmatic colour gradations and textured surfaces. For Wang, the act ... More | |
Paulo Pasta, photo by Ana Pigosso.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Nolan Gallery announced Brazilian artist Paulo Pasta (b. 1959) has joined the gallery. Representation will be a collaboration between David Nolan Gallery and Galeria Millan in São Paulo, where the artist lives and works, with special thanks to Simon Watson. The gallery will mount its first exhibition of work by Pasta in November of this year, which marks the artists first presentation in all North America. Paulo Pasta has established himself as one of the prolific and revered painters of abstraction in his native Brazil. Pastas practice is dedicated to collapsing the passage of time into fields of color and geometries of lines and crosses. The elegant and poetic works are representations of imagined space, where parallel, perpendicular diagonal lines suggest a metaphysical architecture. Rendered in pastel hues of oil paint that the artist hand mixes to perfect tonality, the work recalls that of Mexican arc ... More | |
Installation view. Photo: Dan Bradica. All images courtesy of the Artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Andrew Kreps Gallery is presenting an exhibition of Barbara T. Smiths seminal 1971 work Holy Squash at 394 Broadway. Belonging to Smiths extensive experiments with resin from the 1970s, the Holy Squash is an installation comprised of objects utilized in a durational performance titled Holy Squash Ceremony, which was centered around a large Hubbard Squash that Smith adopted as an object of worship. Reported to local newspapers at the time as an authentic religious ceremony, the performances participants, referred to as disciples or converts, held a mass and baptism as they built a mold to cast the decaying squash over the course of eight days. The resulting resin cast is positioned as a holy relic and displayed alongside its mold, now a reliquary, surround by ephemera, clothing, and objects also utilized ... More |
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| Cecilia Vicuña to be next Hyundai Commission artist for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall | | Turner Prize winning artist and Oscar winning filmmaker Steve McQueen opens an exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca | | Budi Tek, 65, dies; His fortune built a vast trove of Asian art |
Portrait of Cecilia Vicuña in front of Quipu Womb 2017 at Tate Modern, 2022 © Cecilia Vicuña. Photo: Lucy Dawkins.
LONDON.- Tate Modern and Hyundai Motor today announce that Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña will create the next annual Hyundai Commission. Vicuña (b.1948) is perhaps best known for her radical textile sculptures, combining natural materials and traditional crafts. A prolific multi-disciplinary artist, Vicuña explores the pressing concerns of ecology, community, and social justice. Her new site-specific work for the Turbine Hall will be open to the public from 13 October 2022 to 16 April 2023. Born and raised in Santiago, Vicuña went into exile during the early 1970s after the violent military coup against former Chilean President Salvador Allende. This sense of impermanence, and a desire to preserve and pay tribute to the countrys indigenous history and culture have characterised her career, spanning half a century. Vicuñas ephemeral and environmentally conscious work combines the tactile ritual of weaving with ... More | |
Steve McQueen, Caribs Leap, 2002. Installation view at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2022. Commissioned by documenta and Artangel, with the support of Heinz & Simone Ackermans © Steve McQueen. Courtesy the artist, Thomas Dane Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. Photo Agostino Osio.
MILAN.- Featuring works from across McQueens career, presented across the Navate space and the exterior of Pirelli HangarBicocca, the exhibition will also include the world premiere of the new video installation Sunshine State a work that has been in the artists mind for more than twenty years, and commissioned by the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2022. Sunshine State is curated by Vicente TodolÃ, organized in collaboration with Tate Modern London. The exhibition was first presented at Tate Modern in 2020 where it was curated by Clara Kim, The Daskalopoulous Senior Curator, International Art and Fiontan Moran, Assistant Curator, International Art. Lauded as one of the most important contemporary artists and filmmakers, Steve McQueen (London, 1969; lives and works in London and ... More | |
Budi Tek © DR.
NEW YORK, NY.- Budi Tek, a Chinese-Indonesian billionaire who in the 2000s emerged almost overnight as one of the worlds leading art collectors, and who later founded one of Chinas largest private museums, died March 18 in Hong Kong. He was 65. His family said in a statement that the cause was pancreatic cancer. Teks enthusiasm, matched with his deeply held commitment to sharing his portfolio with the public, helped create an institutional infrastructure for East Asian contemporary art, a field that had almost no visibility outside the region when he began collecting but that today ranks as one of the worlds most exciting. His collection includes work by globally renowned Chinese artists such as Ai Weiwei, Zhang Xiaogang and the team of Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, as well as that of European artists such as Anselm Kiefer of Germany, Alberto Giacometti of Switzerland and Maurizio Cattelan of Italy. Both Art & Auction magazine and ARTNews regularly included him on their lists ... More |
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| Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art and Artsy host a benefit auction | | The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum presents 'The Arrue Brothers in Paris' | | Russia and Ukraine have long been this filmmaker's subject |
Stephen Powers (American, b. 1968), VOLNYA, 2022. Enamel on aluminum, 24 Ã 24 in. 61 Ã 61 cm. Artsy Impact Auction. Estimated value: $5,500$7,500. Starting bid $5,000. This work has a reserve.
NEW YORK, NY.- Impact: Artists in Support of Refugees from Ukraine is an arts fundraiser to be hosted by Artsy online marketplace withthe institutional partnership of the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago. The art world unites for this benefit to support refugees from Ukraine in the largest arts fundraiser of its kind. It uniquely raises cultural awareness of contemporary Ukrainian artists. The art sale features over 120 lots valuing at nearly $1 million. In a show of solidarity, many prestigious artists joined the cause, such as Samira Abbassy, Leilah Babirye, Sarah Faux, Zaria Forman, Jeffrey Gibson, Tom LaDuke, Steve ESPO Powers, Walid Raad, James Rosenquist, and Annegret Soltau. The benefit includes work from notable galleries Winston Wachter, Monya Rowe, Hesse Flatow, Victoria Miro, and Miles ... More | |
Ramiro Arrue, Fandango, 1925 (detail). Oil on canvas. 155 x 300 cm. Collection Ville de Saint-Jean-de-Luz.
BILBAO.- The 65th edition of The Guest Work is offering a special artistic encounter with two large paintings by the brothers José (Bilbao, 1885Llodio, Ãlava, 1977) and Ramiro Arrue (Bilbao, 1892Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France, 1971), specifically, Baserritarrak, by José, and Fandango, by Ramiro, They were presented together in Paris in 1925 and since then had been separated until now, when they are being exhibited in the museums gallery 33 as part of this programme supported by the Banco Santander Foundation. This occasion also celebrates the recent donation of Baserritarrak by José Arrues family and commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the death of his brother Ramiro, whose painting Fandango is being exhibited thanks to a temporary loan from the Saint-Jean-de-Luz (France) Town Hall. The joint exhibition of both paintings provided the chance to conduct research that reconstructs these ... More | |
The Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa in Vilnius, Lithuania on Monday, March 28, 2022. He was in Lithuania when he found out about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Andrej Vasilenko/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- The scenes of German and Soviet soldiers overtaking Ukraine in Sergei Loznitsas Babi Yar: Context inevitably bring to mind the current Russian invasion of the country. For more than two decades, Loznitsa, a Ukrainian filmmaker who was raised in the Soviet Union, has chronicled the past and the present in Ukraine and Russia by revisiting historic events and depicting daily life in the grips of war and empire. Babi Yar: Context, a documentary that opened on Friday at Film Forum, recreates Ukraine during World War II through vivid archival footage of Kyiv, where Nazis murdered thousands of Jews at a single site, the ravine of the films title. In the fictional satire Donbass, which opens on April 8, Loznitsa reenacts bizarre ... More |
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| Margaret M. McGowan, who expanded the field of dance history, dies at 90 | | Ireland's last 'Magdalene Laundry' will be preserved as a memorial | | She took the White House photos. Trump moved to take the profit. |
She took a unique interdisciplinary approach and created a new field of study by exploring the collision of politics, ballet, design and music.
NEW YORK, NY.- Margaret M. McGowan, a British cultural historian who created a new international area of academic study, now known as early dance, and received national honors in both Britain and France, died March 16 in Brighton, England. She was 90. Her death, in a hospital, was confirmed by her husband, Sydney Anglo, a fellow Renaissance historian. He said the cause was bladder cancer. McGowan, who was bilingual, exposed the collision of politics, ballet, design and music at the French court of the late Renaissance and early Baroque era in her first book, published in French in 1963, LArt du Ballet de Cour en France, 1581-1643. In that book, she analyzed the spectacular mixed-media genre in which kings and members of royal and aristocratic families performed in public. Her interdisciplinary approach, hailed by her fellow dance historian Richard Ralph as precociously modern, enlarged the field of dance history. Her devotion to research was lifelong and diverse. Her sch ... More | |
Early morning commuters in Dublin near the Gloucester Street Laundry on Jan. 15, 2018. The city had planned to turn the site of the last of Irelands infamous Magdalene laundries into a budget hotel. Paulo Nunes dos Santos/The New York Times.
DUBLIN.- Irelands last surviving Magdalene laundry, where thousands of unmarried mothers and other unwanted women were forced to work without pay in abject conditions, often until they died, is to be preserved as a state-funded memorial to all victims of incarceration and abuse in church- and state-run institutions, the Irish government has announced. The governments move Tuesday overturned a previous decision by the Dublin City Council, owner of the former convent and laundry, which closed in 1996, to sell the site for redevelopment as a budget hotel. Operated most recently by the Sisters of Charity and Refuge, an order of Roman Catholic nuns, the high-walled compound in Dublins deprived north inner city was the last Magdalene laundry to close down and is the only one that has not been demolished. The decision to preserve it as a public memorial and education center followed ... More | |
Shealah Craighead, then the official White House photographer, looks on as then-President Donald Trump takes the stage to speak at an event in Williamsburg, Va., on July 30, 2019. Craighead made plans to publish a book of Trump photos, but the former president had other plans. Doug Mills/The New York Times.
WASHINGTON, DC.- As President Donald Trumps tenure came to an end, the chief White House photographer, who had traveled the world with him and spent countless hours inside the White House snapping pictures, notified Trumps aides that she intended to publish a book collecting some of her most memorable images. This was hardly a radical idea: Official photographers from every White House since President Ronald Reagans have published their own books. Barack Obama and George W. Bush were so supportive that they wrote forewords for them. But like so much else involving Trump, the plan by his chief photographer, Shealah Craighead, did not follow this bipartisan norm. First, aides to Trump asked her for a cut of her book advance payment, in exchange for his writing a foreword and helping promote the book, according to former associates ... More |
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Jeff Koons Unveils "Moon Phases" NFT Project
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Joasia Krysa to curate second edition of Helsinki Biennial opening June 2023
HELSINKI.- Helsinki Biennial announces the appointment of Joasia Krysa as curator of its second edition, taking place 12 June 18 September 2023. Celebrating the synthesis of art and the environment, the biennial will return to the unique surroundings of Vallisaari Island in the Helsinki archipelago, whilst building upon its inaugural edition through a greater presence on the mainland in locations across the city. Free and open to all, Helsinki Biennial continues to make connections between artists from Finland and around the world, and is committed to responsible exhibition-making and inclusive principles. Joasia Krysa is a UK-based, Polish-born curator, researcher and scholar working at the intersection of contemporary art and technology. She served as artistic director of Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, and was ... More
Richard Saltoun Gallery opens a special solo exhibition of works from the estate of Bertina Lopes
ROME.- Richard Saltoun Gallery inaugurates its programming in Rome with a special solo exhibition of works from the estate of Mozambican-Italian painter Bertina Lopes (19242012). Considered the mother of contemporary African painting, Lopes was one of the earliest pioneers to bridge the gap between African and European art. Her work has become a symbol of political activism and social criticism, and her story is unique in contemporary art and politics. Born under colonialism in Mozambique, Lopes completed her art studies in Lisbon and returned to Maputo as a teacher in 1953. Her contact with her countrys poets, writers, and political activists was fundamental in forming her anti-fascist and anti-colonial beliefs. This forced Lopes to leave Mozambique in 1961, returning to Lisbon to continue her artistic work. Prosecuted ... More
Tate announces new Director of Learning
LONDON.- Tate has appointed Mark Miller as Director of Learning. Taking up the role on 4 April 2022, Mark will be responsible for shaping Tates learning strategy across its four galleries and online. The strategy will be tailored to the unique character of each site, whilst holding to Tate-wide principles of creative learning and inclusive engagement. Mark began at Tate in 2006 as Curator of Young Peoples Programmes. Over the intervening years, Mark has been instrumental in creating and implementing high profile and transformational programmes, partnerships and events for young people, both nationally and internationally. These projects have included Circuit, Tate Collective, Late at Tate Britain, the British Council European programme Youth Art Interchange, and LDN WMN with the Mayor of London. More recently he has overseen ... More
Gene Sherman sells 100 deeply personal works from Sherman Collection this May
SYDNEY.- Bonhams Australia will present a substantial number of significant and deeply personal works from Gene and Brian Shermans contemporary art collection in the forthcoming auction SHERMAN | 100. Taking place on Wednesday 11 May 2022, the auction is a veritable roll call of national and international contemporary artists from the last thirty years. Gene Sherman is one of Australias most respected philanthropists and art collectors, who, together with her beloved husband Brian, has passionately and astutely collected some 900 pieces from significant Australian, Asian and international artists. The Shermans have generously gifted numerous large scale works of art to many cultural institutions including MOMA in New York, TATE Modern in London, Art Gallery of NSW, National Gallery of Australia, Sydney Universitys ... More
We know the Pledge. Its author, maybe not.
NEW YORK, NY.- For well over a century, the Pledge of Allegiance has been a pillar of Americas national identity. New evidence has emerged, though, to indicate that perhaps the man who pledged that he originated it did not. Francis Bellamy, a Baptist minister and Christian socialist from upstate New York, went so far as to swear in at least two affidavits that he had formulated the oath one blistering August night in 1892 in the Boston headquarters of a magazine for young people that he was promoting. Bellamys authorship was reaffirmed during the 20th century by, among others, the American Flag Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, the Legislative Research Service (now the Congressional Research Service) and the Library of Congress. He was credited again as recently as last year in a resolution by the U.S. Senate ... More
More than 50 cultural sites in Ukraine have been damaged in the war, UNESCO says
NEW YORK, NY.- Alongside the scenes of human suffering caused by five weeks of war, another scar has emerged: the leveling of Ukraines cultural heritage. Churches, historic buildings and public squares across the country are being reduced to rubble by Russian rockets, missiles, bombs and gunfire, according to UNESCOs World Heritage Committee. It has identified at least 53 Ukrainian historical sites, religious buildings and museums that have suffered damage during Russias invasion and said the damage is probably far more extensive given the continued assault. We are holding damage control meetings every day, and the list of damaged sites keeps growing, said the agencys director, Ernesto Ottone RamÃrez. We are very concerned about the situation, from a humanitarian point of view and for the protection of heritage. It is the heritage ... More
NILS ST&Aelig;RK opens an exhibition of works by DarÃo Escobar
COPENHAGEN.- DarÃo Escobar's 3rd solo exhibition is currently on view at NILS STÃRK. Encrypted Messages investigates the counterbalance between signs of consumerism and religion in modern history. The exhibition features two series of works based on found objects. Juxtaposing societal polar opposites, the artist will fill the gallery space with signs collected from roads in eastern Guatemala and southern Mexico, alongside clusters of various paraphernalia from the world of sport. By altering each object, using the historical Baroque technique of applying gold leaf to the surface of an object, the artist reveals the many similarities between sport and religion, both in Latin America and throughout the world. Athletes have become role models for young people, representing as they do a dream of upward mobility. In their eyes, ... More
Jennifer Trainer Thompson to leave Hancock Shaker Village
PITTSFIELD, MASS.- The Board of Trustees of Hancock Shaker Village announced today that director Jennifer Trainer Thompson will step down in July. Thompson has been widely credited for her transformational leadership of the museum and is recognized as an innovator in the museum community. Since her appointment in September 2016, Hancock Shaker Village has grown in size and stature and has been infused, as The Boston Globe noted last summer, with great gusts of contemporary vitality. Thompson is stepping down to work on creative projects, and will serve as a special counsel to the board of trustees following her departure. I have had the time of my life feeling the spirit of this place, responding to it, being nourished by it and all those who support the Village, said Thompson. Its been thrilling to lead the organization to grow and thrive, even during challenging times. Today Hancock Shaker Village is ... More
The MIT List Visual Arts Center opens an exhibition of works by Sharona Franklin
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The MIT List Visual Arts Center announced List Projects 24: Sharona Franklin, the Vancouver-based artists first institutional solo presentation. Working with a wide range of media and materials, the artist and disability-justice advocate reinterprets vernacular and domestic craft techniques to make psychedelic, hallucinatory works in textile and ceramic, as well as molded and cast gelatin sculptures that reference biomedicine and pharmacology. With a distinct material sensibility that reveals tensions between the handmade and biotechs industrial-scale production, Franklins works raise complex questions about access, care, and disability in relation to biomedical research and ethics. At the List Center, Franklin debuts an installation of newly commissioned sculptures looking at medical waste, ... More
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Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo
Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Melchior d'Hondecoeter died April 03, 1695. Melchior d'Hondecoeter (c. 1636 - 3 April 1695), Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. After the start of his career, he painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscapes. In this image: Still Life with Cock, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.
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