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A visitor in Gallery 601, one of 21 reinstalled skylit galleries with a range of old masters, including Velázquez, Caravaggio, Guercino, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Dec. 21, 2020. Goya, Caravaggio, Rubens, Velázquez and more are in skylit splendor in the European galleries. And the museum is acknowledging the shaping force on art of colonialism, slavery, the disenfranchisement of women. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Facing a potential shortfall of $150 million because of the pandemic, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has begun conversations with auction houses and its curators about selling some artworks to help pay for care of the collection. This is the time when we need to keep our options open, said Max Hollein, the Mets director, in an interview. None of us have a full perspective on how the pandemic will play out. It would be inappropriate for us not to consider it when were still in this foggy situation. Like many institutions, the Met is looking to take advantage of a two-year window in which the Association of Art Museum Directors a professional organization that guides its members best practices has relaxed the guidelines that govern how proceeds from sales of works in a collection (known as deaccessioning) can be directed. In the past, museums were permitted to use such funds only for future art purchases. But last spring, the associ ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day For more than fifty years, acclaimed British artist Phyllida Barlow has created sculptures and large-scale installations using a direct and intuitive process of making. Her first solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Zürich, 'small worlds', features new sculptures, drawings and wall-works made by the artist during and inspired by the 2020 lockdown in London. Installation view, 'Phyllida Barlow. small worlds', Hauser & Wirth Zürich, online from 6 February - 14 May 2021 © Phyllida Barlow. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
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| Photography in the raw | | A natural work of art may be hiding among Indian cave masterpieces | | It's not every day we get a new blue |
Installation view of Photo Brut: Collection Bruno Decharme & Compagnie at the American Folk Art Museum in New York. American Folk Art Museum; Olya Vysotskaya via The New York Times.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Its great that the American Folk Art Museum doesnt charge admission these days. More than one visit may be needed to absorb its landmark exhibition Photo Brut: Collection Bruno Decharme & Compagnie. This jaw-dropping, sometimes heart-rending show a larger version of which was seen at a photography festival in Arles, France, last summer is a cornucopia of established and unfamiliar names, from the celebrated Henry Darger to the all-but-unknown Ichiwo Sugino; improvised mediums and often painful stories of isolated lives. It is also the first large survey to examine what it has named Photo Brut, the various forms of photography practiced by artists referred to as self-taught or outsider in the United States, and as Art Brut, or raw art, in Europe. They didnt and dont always call what they are doing art. Much like their mainstream counterparts, they have come to use the camera and photographs for ... More | |
A photo by Gregory Retallack of the Dickinsonia fossil (center, left of the long vertical fissure) spotted by a tour group of scientists in March of 2020 in the Auditorium Cave at the Bhimbetka Rock Shelters. Gregory Retallack via The New York Times.
by Joshua Sokol
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ten thousand years ago or more, people started painting the walls of caves near Bhopal, India. Over millenniums, they made thousands of images in what are now called the Bhimbetka Rock Shelters: men, women, a couple having sex, dancers, children, hunts, battles, about 29 animal species and mythical beasts like a part-boar part-ox part-elephant. Over time, art styles shifted. Human figures donned clothes. Horses and elephants sprouted riders. Wars danced across sandstone faces. Today, many of the cave walls are now palimpsests, with medieval warriors covering Chalcolithic art on top of even older Mesolithic drawings. Still, an overlooked pattern spotted by a tour group of scientists in March 2020 seemed so, so, so much older. Older than representational art or humans or primates or fish or horseshoe crabs. Eleven feet up on the wall of an area called Auditorium Cave, the visitors identified ... More | |
Mas Subramanian in his lab with his unexpected invention, a blue pigment known as YInMn. Courtesy of Oregon State University via The New York Times.
by Evan Nicole Brown
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Nautical, mystical and the de facto shade of several social networks, blue is a color that has deep cultural cachet, while being nearly impossible to find in nature. The blues that abound in nature a butterfly, a navy beetle, even blue eyes are not natively blue, according to scientists, but instead are reflections of light, the impression of blue. Since antiquity, blue has been associated with rarity and expense; ultramarine a pigment originally made from grinding lapis lazuli, a semiprecious gemstone found in Afghan mines was once worth as much as gold. Today, our blues are created by chemists in labs. But that doesnt mean creating new shades is easy or common. Before 2009, when a team of chemists at Oregon State University developed a color now known as YInMn Blue (quite unexpectedly), it had been 200 years since the last inorganic blue pigment was created. (That one was cobalt, discovered by French chemist Thénard in 1802.) Now, YInMn ... More |
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| Exhibition of four monumental new paintings by Anselm Kiefer opens at Gagosian | | Rarely seen artworks reveal untold stories in new exhibition | | Works from the collection of Allen & Beryl Freer to be offered at auction |
die sieben Schalen des Zorns (The Seven Bowls of Wrath), 2019 - 2020 (detail). Emulsion, oil, acrylic, shellac, straw, gold leaf on canvas, 185 1/16 x 330 11/16 inches, 470 x 840 cm. © Anselm Kiefer. Photo : Georges Poncet. Courtesy Gagosian.
PARIS.- Gagosian is presenting Field of the Cloth of Gold, an exhibition of four monumental new paintings by Anselm Kiefer. The tension between beauty and terror, alongside the inextricable relationship between history and place, has animated Kiefers work since the 1970s. Drawing on the literature of cultural memoryincluding poetry, the Old and New Testaments, and the KabbalahKiefer gives material presence to myths and metaphors. He infuses the medium of paint with startling and unconventional gestures and objects, juxtaposing it with organic and abject materials such as straw, sand, charcoal, ash, and mud. Kiefer asserts himself as an iconoclast; his paintings undergo various processessuch as being cut, burned, buried, exposed to natural elements, splashed with acid, or poured over with leadso as to be made anew. These strategies, along with the use ... More | |
Geometrically Patterned Female Figure, c. 400100 BC. Mexico, Guanajuato or Michoacán, ChupÃcuaro. Ceramic, slip; 15.6 x 8 x 5.7 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener, 1990.155
CLEVELAND, OH.- When the pandemic upended international travel in March 2020, temporarily delaying projects that had been in development for years, the Cleveland Museum of Art reimagined its schedule of exhibitions by drawing on its own resources. Stories from Storage offers a thoughtful and focused examination of multiple important themes through seldom-seen works of art carefully selected by each of the museums nearly two dozen curators. It conveys not a single, linear narrative but multiple stories that complement one another. Stories from Storage features an anthology of 20 short stories told by the museums director, chief curator, curators and assistant director of academic affairs, all of whom communicate surprising new insights about the objects they have chosen from the CMAs vaults. Alternately philosophical, humorous, contemplative, playful ... More | |
The Delighted Eye II, Works from the Collection of Allen & Beryl Freer opens the door to a life full of inspiration, love and culture, it will inevitably bring true joy to any art lover.
LONDON.- Chiswick Auctions in West London announced The Delighted Eye Part II sale on February 25, 2021. It follows a year after Christies part I auction, The Delighted Eye: Works from the Collection of Allen and Beryl Freer, which was a white glove sale, attracting widespread interest for these highly sought-after works. The part II sale is therefore set to draw interest from all corners of the globe on February 25, 2021. The sale celebrates Allen and Beryl Freers love of art, their keen eye for twentieth century British paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, furniture and books and the numerous friendships that sprung from the artists, makers, and publishers that they met, as they continually acquired new works for their extensive collection. The Freers passion for art filled their detached sixties home in a suburb south of Manchester, with treasures. The sale, a celebration of their collecting, comprises more ... More |
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| For this show, the artist went overboard | | Fashion mogul Peter Nygard denied bail by Canadian judge | | HBO's Black Art: In The Absence of Light debuts February 9 |
Nina Katchadourian on a life-size outline of the dinghy Ednamair at her show To Feel Something That Was Not of Our World. Nina Katchadourian and Catharine Clark Gallery; John Janca via The New York Times.
by Jori Finkel
SAN FRANCISCO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When artist Nina Katchadourian was seven, in 1975, her mother read her the true-life shipwreck story of a family that survived 38 days adrift in the Pacific, near the Galapagos. The tale, Dougal Robertsons bestseller Survive the Savage Sea, was full of suspense, starting when a pod of orcas destroys the hull of their sailboat and forces them onto an inflatable boat. It also held lessons in resourcefulness for a would-be artist as the Robertsons learned to survive on a tiny boat with minimal supplies crafting a sail, spearing turtles and hooking fish while inventing ways to stay alert during their ordeal. Katchadourian, who grew up in Stanford, California, and spent summers with her mothers family on a tiny speck ... More | |
A picture of Peter Nygard is displayed in his store in New York on May 8, 2019. Elizabeth D. Herman/The New York Times.
by Catherine Porter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard, whose palatial Bahamian home was once featured on Lifestyles of The Rich and Famous, now faces years in jail after a Manitoba judge denied him bail Friday. He will remain behind bars while awaiting extradition to the United States, where he has been charged with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and other crimes involving dozens of women and teenage girls. The playboy multimillionaire, who traveled between his many homes by private jet with an entourage of young women, is accused of using his companys influence, money and employees to recruit adult and minor-aged female victims over 25 years in the United States, the Bahamas and Canada for his sexual gratification and that of his associates. A nine-count federal indictment was ... More | |
She Had An Inside And An Outside Now And Suddenly She Knew How Not To Mix Them, Amy Sherald, 2018. Photo: Courtesy HBO.
NEW YORK, NY.- Firmly rooted in the history of the Black American experience, Black Art: In The Absence of Light, debuting Tuesday, February 9 (9:00-10:25 p.m. ET/PT), is directed and produced by award-winning documentarian Sam Pollard (HBOs Atlanta Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children). A vital and illuminating introduction to the work of some of the foremost African American visual artists working today, including Theaster Gates, Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Amy Sherald and Carrie Mae Weems, the film is a testament to the indelible contributions of Black American artists in todays contemporary art world. Black Art: In The Absence of Light is executive produced by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Thelma Golden serves as consulting producer. The film will be available on HBO and to stream on HBO Max. At the heart of this feature documentary is the groundbreaking exhibition, entitle ... More |
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| David Nolan Gallery presents a selection of new paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Jonathan Meese | | The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU presents exhibition on the work of Will Eisner | | The Drawing Center opens the first museum exhibition dedicated to David Hammons's pivotal early works on paper |
Jonathan Meese, ORKAN IM AUGE DES BLITZTEUFELS!, 2020. Acrylic on coarse untreated cotton cloth, 39 5/8 x 31 5/8 x 1 1/4 in (100.5 x 80.3 x 3.3 cm). Courtesy the Artist and David Nolan Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Nolan Gallery is presenting ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (DR. SPACE-ANIMALISM ,,E.A.G.L.E.: FLY LIKE AN EAGLE), a selection of new paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Jonathan Meese. The exhibition marks the artists second collaboration with the gallery and his first show in New York in five years. These works were produced in the last 12 months in the midst of the global quarantine, apart from the social interactions of daily life. Greeted with isolation, the artist delves into a vocabulary both real and imaginary, armed with a rich arsenal of cultural references and a penchant for the fantastical. Meese invites the viewer, without prejudice or preconceived notion, ... More | |
Spirit Comic.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU presents a new exhibition Will Eisner: Comic Creator, Illustrator and Innovator, featuring original illustrations, first edition comic books from The Spirit series, army works, graphic novels and self-portraits. This exhibition and Eisners story and work are unique because they tell the story of not only one of the earliest and most prolific comic illustrators, but also the rise of the graphic novel, explained museum curator Jacqueline Goldstein. Will Eisner, born in the Bronx in 1917 to Jewish immigrants, was the creator of the comic book The Spirit and is said to be the father of the graphic novel. While the museum remains closed, we are very pleased to be able to present this exhibition as part of our continual virtual programming at the museum, ... More | |
David Hammons, Untitled, 1975 (Verso). Grease, pigment, and mixed media on paper, on two sides, 41 x 31 inches (104.1 x 78.7 cm). Collection of Eleanor Heyman Propp.
NEW YORK, NY.- The first museum exhibition dedicated to David Hammonss pivotal early works on paper, David Hammons: Body Prints, 19681979 brings together the monoprints and collages in which the artist used the body as both a drawing tool and printing plate to explore performative, unconventional forms of image making. On view from February 5 through May 23, 2021, the exhibition features a significant number of Hammonss large-scale body prints, including Pray for America (1974), as well as two sculptural objects, Black Boys Window (1968) and The Door (Admissions Office) (1969). In addition, the exhibition presents examples of a lesser known, but no less important, ... More |
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'Mastery and transgression' in music that bridges genres
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Julius Hemphill was a vigorous force in American music from his first public performances and recordings in the late 1960s until his death, at 57, in 1995. Whether playing saxophone or flute or even, as on his overdubbed solo Blue Boyé, both at once he blended folk traditions with a joyous avant-garde edge. Growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, he heard R&B-infused jazz and country twang. The booklet included with a new seven-disc set of Hemphills compositions, many previously unreleased and drawn from his archive at New York University, quotes from an interview about those early years: It was musically rich, he said. I could hear Hank Williams coming out of the jukebox at Bunkers, the white bar. And Louis Jordan, Son House and Earl Bostic from the box at Ethels, the Black bar across the street. Hemphill ... More
Pierre Guyotat's visual oeuvre to be donated to the Centre Pompidou
PARIS.- Pierre Guyotat's visual oeuvre will find a new home in the permanent collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. The acquisition commission has accepted the Guyotat familys generous donation of all the artist's remaining drawings. His manuscripts and archives have been held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France since 2004. Now, Guyotat's legacy will be safeguarded by two of France's most influential cultural institutions. May the Museum bring this priceless collection to life and help the public and researchers discover it, and allow them to appreciate the drawings one of the greatest writers of his time. May this donation be placed under the sign of a true ethic of hospitality and shared trust. Bernard Blistène, director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne Pierre Guyotat was born in 1940 ... More
Stevens Auction Company to offer items from three major southeastern estates
ABERDEEN, MISS.- A stunning circa 1890 11-piece mahogany R.J. Horner dining suite with cupids and a rare, museum-quality rococo rosewood fire screen in mint condition are just two of the many important lots set to cross the auction block on Saturday, February 20th by Stevens Auction Company, online and live at the Aberdeen gallery located at 609 North Meridian Street. The auction will kick off at 10 am Central time and features three of the most prominent antique collections in the entire Southeast. Many of these items have been in the same families for over 140 years and are rare items not usually sold at auction, said Dwight Stevens, owner of Stevens Auction Company. The 500 items to be sold were personally hand-picked by me for this event. Period American furniture will be featured prominently in the sale, including marvelous pieces ... More
"Lewis Hine, Child Labor Investigator" opens at The Dorsky Museum
NEW PALTZ, NY.- The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz opened Lewis Hine, Child Labor Investigator,an exhibition featuring Lewis Hines powerful photographs for the National Child Labor Commission, which proved the exploitation of young children working in unsafe conditions and ultimately led to American child labor law reform. Lewis Hine, Child Labor Investigator is on view from Feb. 6 July 11, 2021, in The Dorskys Sara Bedrick Gallery. The exhibition is co-curated by Anna Conlan, curator and exhibitions manager, and Amy Fredrickson, curatorial and collections assistant. In 1908, Lewis Hine (1874-1940) quit his job as a New York City school teacher and embarked on a mission for the National Child Labor Committee to photograph young children working in unsafe conditions, at a moment in U.S. history ... More
Curated kitsch collection to be offered at Benefit Shop Foundation
MOUNT KISCO, NY.- Some collectors collect one type of thing they are passionate about while others have room in their hearts and homes for more than one collection. For decades, a Brooklyn couple collected vintage radios and phonographs, Roseville pottery, Asian porcelain, blue and white china, Gone with the Wind lamps and much more, filling their home. The kitchen was a veritable sea of whimsical and kitschy red items from cherry red bowls to pots and even the toaster oven. Their home was chock-full of the antiques they loved and the living room, for example, looked like a Victorian parlor on steroids with red velvet chairs and a large cathedral radio. The home was tidy and neatly organized however with everything in its place. After their passing, their collection is now going to new homes with the first grouping of highlights from ... More
First solo museum exhibition for Chris Schanck, Detroit-based designer & Dallas native
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art is presenting the first solo museum exhibition and first museum commission for Chris Schanck, a Detroit-based designer and Dallas native. Opening February 7, Curbed Vanity: A Contemporary Foil by Chris Schanck pairs the Gorham Manufacturing Companys Martelé dressing set, an extravagant example of Gilded Age silversmithing from the DMAs collection, with a contemporary interpretation by Schanck. Schancks vanity is constructed from found objects gathered from the streets surrounding his Detroit studio and bound in aluminum foil. The two works are presented together in a conversation across time about craftsmanship, material, and the vanity that drives them. The exhibition was curated by Sarah Schleuning, Interim Chief Curator and The Margot B. Perot Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and ... More
Simon Patterson's exhibition 'Head to Toe' opens at Serlachius Museums in Finland
MÃNTTÃ.- As starting points for his works, British artist Simon Patterson uses maps, diagrams, lists and instruction manuals, which aid us as we try to manage and structure an increasingly complex world. His exhibition Head to Toe opened to the public at Serlachius Museum Gustaf on 6 February 2021. Simon Pattersons (b. 1967) art eludes simple definitions. The curator of the exhibition, Timo Valjakka, classifies Patterson as a conceptual pop artist. In his insightful and often humorous works, he directs us to reflect on what we know about the world we live in and what our knowledge is based on. The basic elements of Pattersons works are often entirely familiar. The surprising combination of them, however, shows the world in a new light. Examples of this are wall drawings of football team systems, in which Jesus is the goalkeeper and the players ... More
'Picasso. Figures' from Musée Picasso-Paris makes sole U.S. appearance in 2021 at Frist Art Museum
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum kicked off its 20th anniversary with Picasso. Figures, an exhibition from the incomparable collection of the Musée national Picasso-Paris. The exhibition offers an in-depth look at Pablo Picassos career-long fascination with the human figure as a means of expressing a range of subjects and emotions. Featuring approximately 75 paintings, works on paper, and sculptures, Picasso. Figures makes its sole U.S. appearance in Nashville in the Frists Ingram Gallery from February 5 through May 2, 2021. Highlights of the exhibition include masterpieces from Picassos various styles and periods, as well as more intimate works that provide fresh insights into his innovative practice. Viewers will see how, as Picasso continuously deconstructed and then remade the body, he was also recasting ... More
Christopher Plummer's robust final act crowned a noble career
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Possibly because he was 74 when he took the role, Christopher Plummer imagined King Lear to be 84. That should have been a clue: For Plummer, who died Friday at 91, the end of the road was always 10 years off. But at the time, I assumed he had deliberately chosen to star in Jonathan Millers production of the great Shakespeare tragedy as a way of capping his career. Meeting him on three occasions while the show rehearsed in January 2004, I noticed his adolescent panache but also his Lear-like dependency. For one interview, he wore his shirt open past his solar plexus. And yet his wife (she told me) checked his pockets before he left for rehearsal; as I saw for myself, she monitored his menu at dinner after. If this was to be the end of his acting life, it had, after all, been a long, successful and mostly noble ... More
World's first million-dollar Michael Jordan card drives Heritage Auctions' Modern Sports Cards event
DALLAS, TX.- An autographed 1997 Michael Jordan card realized more than $1.4 million at Heritage Auctions early Friday morning to become the most expensive Jordan card ever sold at auction. The autographed 1997 Upper Deck Game Jersey Jordan, graded PSA NM 7 and Auto 8, headlined an extraordinary roster of rarities in the first Heritage Auctions sale devoted solely to the modern card. The event realized $7.5 million, with almost every one of the 437 cards offered exponentially exceeding pre-auction estimates thanks to the almost 1,000 bidders around the globe who competed well into the early morning hours. "It would be understatement to say we're ecstatic with the results from our first Modern Sports Card Catalog event," says Chris Ivy, Heritage's Director of Sports Auctions. "Heritage has long been the leading seller of vintage cards and memorabilia. But with these ... More
'Joseph RodrÃguez: LAPD 1994': New book and online exhibition by the Bronx Documentary Center
BRONX, NY.- In a year when millions of Americans poured into the streets demanding changes in police strategy, training and deployment, the Bronx Documentary Center (BDC) believes a crucial part of the conversation should be Joseph Rodríguezs photo series and just-released book, LAPD 1994. The BDCs online exhibition with images and text from Rodríguezs book gives us an up-close and personal look at the cops, victims, and violent perpetrators in working-class communities of Pico Union, Rampart, and South Central Los Angeles. Though the photos were taken more than 25 years ago, they serve as markers illuminating the path to our current society, one beset by debates about policing, violence and incarceration. As Rubén Martínez writes in its introduction, Rodríguezs body of work visually encompasses, another moment that tore ... More
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Mental Escapology, St. Moritz
TIM VAN LAERE GALLERY
Madelynn Green
Patrick Angus
Flashback On a day like today, English painter Margaret Fownes-Luttrell was born February 07, 1726. Margaret Fownes-Luttrell (7 February 1726 - 13 August 1766) was an English artist and wife of Henry Fownes Luttrell. Two of her paintings are part of the Dunster Castle collection, now property of the National Trust. She was the heiress of Dunster Castle, under the stipulation in her father's will that her husband should take the additional surname of Luttrell. Four portraits of her exist in Dunster castle and a fifth at Bathealton Court. In this image: Margaret Luttrell (1726 - 1766), Mrs Henry Fownes Luttrell.
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