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A provided image shows the 1858 storage jar by David Drake, an enslaved Black man, made at Stone Bluff Manufactory in Edgefield district of South Carolina, inscribed with the poem when you fill this jar with pork or beef / Scot will be there; to get a piece., now in New Yorks Metropolitan Museum of Art. Poetic jars by David Drake are setting records at auction and starring in art museums, showcasing the artistry of enslaved African Americans. Metropolitan Museum of Art via The New York Times.
by Jori Finkel
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The speckled brown storage jar looks humble, even homely, from a distance something you might find on a back porch in the South. Come closer and you see the wild runs of alkaline glaze up and down the surface and some revealing marks by the artist known as Dave the Potter or David Drake, who made powerful stoneware pottery in the Edgefield District of South Carolina while enslaved by different owners. At the bottom of the pot are three marks that look like fingerprints, where someone possibly Drake dipped the pot into glaze. Across the shoulder runs one word that Drake inscribed, with a sharpened stick or similar tool: catination, a variant of catenation, the state of being yoked or chained. Just as notable, experts say, is that the jar is dated 12 April 1836, two years after South Carolina passed an especially punitive anti-literacy law designed to prevent slaves from writing, making this single word an extraordinary act of resistance or de ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A technician paints a replica of an Ancient Egyptian statue being fabricated at the Egyptian government's Konouz (Treasures) factory reproducing replicas of Ancient Egyptian items, at el-Obour city, east of the capital Cairo on May 17, 2021. Pyramids, Tutankhamun masks, Nefertiti busts -- Egypt's souvenir craftspeople are pinning their hopes on a new lease of life, after tourism was battered by the coronavirus pandemic. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP.
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| New museum gingerly explores German wartime suffering | | Immersive exhibition at the Frist Art Museum showcases Charles Rennie Mackintosh | | Sales at Christie's Paris achieve a combined total of €10 million |
View of the building housing the "Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion and Reconciliation", in Berlin taken on June 18, 2021. John MACDOUGALL / AFP.
by Deborah Cole
BERLIN (AFP).- A new museum dedicated to the long-silenced trauma of German civilians forced to flee eastern Europe at the end of World War II opens next week after decades of wrenching debate. Perhaps reflecting what its founders call their delicate "balancing act", the new institution in Berlin carries the unwieldy name of Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion and Reconciliation. Some 14 million Germans fled or were ejected from what is today's Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Baltic states, Romania, Slovakia and the former Yugoslavia between 1944 and 1950. Escaping the Russian army and later forced out by occupying powers and local authorities, an estimated 600,000 Germans lost their lives on the trek. Those who fled included people who had settled in Nazi-occupied territories as well as ethnic ... More | |
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (designer). Light fitting for the Ingram Street Tea Rooms, 1900. Copper, aluminum, and leaded glass, 9 1/2 x 14 5/8 x 14 5/8 in. Glasgow Museums, Acquired by Glasgow Corporation, as part of the Ingram Street Tearooms, 1950. © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection. Courtesy American Federation of Arts.
NASHVILLE, TN.- The Frist Art Museum presents Designing the New: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style, an immersive exhibition that showcases Charles Rennie Mackintoshthe greatest exponent of the Glasgow Styleas an architect, designer, and artist, and contextualizes his production within a larger circle of designers and craftspeople in Scotlands largest city. Co-organized by Glasgow Museums and the American Federation of Arts, the exhibition is on view from June 11 through September 12, 2021. At the end of the 19th century, the Glasgow Style emerged as the major manifestation of Art Nouveau in Britain. Combining influences from the Arts and Crafts movement, Celtic Revival, and Japonism, Glasgow artists created their own ... More | |
Early 17th Century Italian School, Follower of Leonardo da Vinci, Hekkings Mona Lisa. Oil on canvas. Estimate : 200,000-300,000. Sold for 2,9 million © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
PARIS.- Christies France have hosted three successful sales this week which achieved a combined total of 9,717,375 including its first edition of the Women in Art sale dedicated to women artists which totaled more than 3 million and attracted 20% of new clients. The Mona Lisa Hekking sold for 2,9 million setting a new world auction record for a replica of Leonardo da Vincis Mona Lisa. The Old masters sale held on 16 June achieved a total of 3,726,625. The top lot of the sale was a rediscovery of an impressive painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Orpheus in the underworld, which was sold for 1,556,000 more than doubling it high estimate. Astrid Centner, Director of the Old Master paintings department: We are happy with the results achieved for our sale, some of which illustrate the success of the preview held in our Belgium office highlighting Flemish paintings, among which a very sensitive wor ... More |
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| 'Women build the city': Vienna's space for female architects | | Christie's 20th/21st Century London Day and Online Sales now online for browsing | | Ketterer Kunst announces online-only auction of photographs from the Victor Martin-Malburet Collection |
A general view of an apartment building at the Vienna's suburb Seestadt, Austria, on June 8, 2021. JOE KLAMAR / AFP.
by Blaise Gauquelin
VIENNA (AFP).- Women may hold up half the sky, but when it comes to designing the public spaces and buildings in which they live, their voices have too often been silenced. A visionary project in Vienna aims to turn that notion on its head, with a suburb in the Austrian capital designed by and for women. It exemplifies how the city is trying to make urban space more inclusive, from brighter lights to broader pavements that make room for pushchairs, and how female architects and designers are driving the change. The new Seestadt district has been in the throes of development since 2012, a sprawling building site on the city's eastern edge that is projected to expand from its 8,300 population now to 20,000 by 2030. Giant letters on hoardings around some of the construction sites proclaim "Women build the city". By turning the focus on the role of women in urban design, ... More | |
Mohammed Melehi, Untitled, 2020. Estimate: £40,000-60,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- The Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale on 1 July brings together a wide range of works by 20th century masters, including Hannah Höch, who opens the sale with three works including Der Jahresablauf (1939, estimate: £100,000-150,000). Der Jahresablauf examines the universal and timeless theme of the cycle of life, a subject which greatly intrigued the artist at this time. Leading the sale is an ethereal work on paper by Marc Chagall, Coucher de soleil et coq au double-profil ou Le souvenir de la ville (1971, estimate: £400,000-600,000). The colouring of this artwork evokes the South of France and the composition employs some of Chagall's favourite artistic subjects. Further highlights include Joan Mirós Nocturne (1942, estimate: £120,000-180,000) and Leonard Tsuguharu Foujitas, Maternité (1954, estimate: £120,000-180,000). Foujita developed a type of doll-like portraiture in the early 1950s, which is exemplified in Maternité. Further ... More | |
Buzz Aldrin [Apollo 11], 16-24 July 1969 The footprint on the Moon. Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, printed 1969, 20.3 x 25.4 cm. Starting price: 100. Estimate: 5,000-7,000.
MUNICH.- These photographs not only allowed for spectacular insight into unknown worlds, they also changed the way we see our planet. A total of 277 lots, comprising 377 iconic, original photographs, will be called up in the Ketterer Kunst Online Only Auction on July 15th. Each lot has a starting price of 100. Bids can be submitted from June 20th on www.ketterer-internet-auctions.com. All shots were made between 1958 and 1972 and come from the acclaimed Victor Martin-Malburet Collection. Comprising more than 3000 NASA vintage photographs from the early days of space travel to the triumphant Apollo missions, the collection is nothing less than the most beautiful and most fascinating visual legacy of the 20th century. The earliest man-made pictures in the collection were shot by John Glenn, Americas first astronaut in orbit, while the last ones were shot by Eugene Cernan, the captain of Apollo 17 and the last m ... More |
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| Boijmans Surrealists at New Zealand's most popular museum: Icons that always astonish | | "Emma Amos: Color Odyssey" exhibition showcases works by trailblazing African American artist at MWPAI | | The Morgan presents the artistic journey of internationally celebrated Shahzia Sikander |
Surrealist Art: Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Te Papa Tongarewa. Photo: Mark Tantrum.
WELLINGTON.- Legendary Surrealist highlights from the Rotterdam museums collection are being shown on the other side of the world for the first time. Visitors to the distinguished Te Papa museum in Wellington have the opportunity to encounter Boijmans masterpieces like DalÃs Mae West Lips Sofa. This exhibition presents the largest collection of Surrealist work that has ever been seen in New Zealand. More than 180 works by no fewer than 50 artists from the Surrealism collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen can now be seen at the Te Papa Tongarewa museum in Wellington, New Zealand. The exhibition opened on 12 June: Surrealist Art: Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (in Maori: He Toi Pohewa: He Toi Marupō o Muhiama o Boijmans Van Beuningen), the largest ever exhibition of Surrealist art in New Zealand is also the first time that the Boijmans collection ... More | |
Emma Amos, (American, 1937 - 2020), Godzilla, 1966, oil on canvas, 50 Ã 46 in., Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum Purchase, 2016.5
UTICA, NY.- Bold mixed-media paintings by a trailblazing artist who challenged society regarding race, gender, and privilege are being showcased in Emma Amos: Color Odyssey, on view June 19 through September 12 in the Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. Emma Amos: Color Odyssey is a major retrospective of the artists distinguished six-decade career. The exhibition features more than 60 artworks Amos created from 1958 to 2015. Though Amos is best known for her large-scale paintings incorporating African fabrics, she also embraced multiple types of materials, innovative printmaking techniques and photo-transfer, weaving, and collage. Her compositions reveal personal narratives about art, historical figures, and the representation of people of color, particularly women. Amos combined her interests in painting, printmaking, weaving, and collage into vibrant stories that present a layered understandin ... More | |
Shahzia Sikander, Pleasure Pillars, 2001. Vegetable color, dry pigment, watercolor, and tea on wasli paper; 43.2 x 30.5 cm. Collection of Amita and Purnendu Chatterjee, © Shahzia Sikander. Courtesy: the artist and Sean Kelly, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum opened Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities. This exhibition is organized by the RISD Museum, in Providence, Rhode Island, where it will be on view from November 12, 2021, through January 30, 2022. It then travels to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where it will run from March 13 through June 12, 2022. The exhibition is accompanied by a book copublished by the RISD Museum and Hirmer. Born in Lahore in 1969, Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander is internationally celebrated for bringing manuscript painting traditions from South and Central Asia into dialogue with contemporary art practice. This exhibition includes nearly 60 works borrowed from public and private collections and tracks the first fifteen years of her artistic journey, ... More |
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| This show sets the direction of art. Its past mirrored a changing world. | | Exhibition at Museum Ludwig features photo stories on migration | | Immersive art exhibit "Prairie of Light" opens its magical doorways for Moonlight debut |
Carlo Gentile, a historian at Cologne University, in Cologne, Germany, June 14, 2021. Ksenia Kuleshova/The New York Times.
by Catherine Hickley
BERLIN (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The members of ruangrupa, the Indonesian artist collective leading the next edition of Documenta, are under no illusions about the scale of the task they face. It will be the first time a group of artists has curated the five-yearly contemporary art megashow and theyre planning it in the middle of a pandemic. Then there is Documentas fearsome reputation to reckon with. Curating the show, which is set to take place next summer and fall, is one of the art worlds most coveted tasks because of the freedom it offers and the weight it carries in defining the direction of contemporary art. Documenta is also a barometer for changes in the world around it, as a major new exhibition in Berlin demonstrates. We are standing ... More | |
KeupstraÃe Nr. 70, Köln-Mülheim, 1977 © Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Köln.
COLOGNE.- This exhibition features personal photographs and interviews with Yücel Aşçıoğlu, Tayfun Demir, Chrysaugi Diederich, Onur Dülger, Antonella Giurano, Antonios Gogos, Zeynep Gürsoy, Alpin Harrenkamp, Ali Kanatlı, Bengü Kocatürk-Schuster, Angela L., the Özdağ family, Mitat Özdemir, Asimina Paradissa, Rosa Spitaleri, Fikret Üçgüler, and Sofia and Ioanna Zacharaki. Additional personal photographs come from Alibaba G., Salih G., Marie Claire Ippolito, Romolo di Sabatino, and others who remain unnamed, which were provided by the Documentation Center and Museum of Migration in Germany (DOMiD). The personal photographs are combined with photographs of urban life by Jörg Boström, Chargesheimer, Christel Fomm, GAG Immobilien AG (Cologne), Heinz Held, Candida Höfer, Kurt Holl, Gernot Huber, Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln, Ulrich Tillmann, Schulz, Dieter Storp, students ... More | |
The Prairie of Light - a large-scale, 3D immersive art installation leveraging the magic of light, sound and storytelling.
SEATTLE, WA.- The artist group known as the Moonlight Collective is unveiling their latest immersive art exhibit the Prairie of Light leveraging the magic of light and sound to transport you to a metaverse of possibility. James Gwertzman, Casey Marvin and Paul McDaniel, co-founders of the Moonlight Collective, invite you to explore their upcoming outdoor light exhibit. The piece uses art to explore our relationship to technology, the natural world, and one another through an immersive installation. While the artists and engineers are intentionally vague on details, they promise to transport you to a space and time outside of your reality. The Prairie is a dreamscape where you are free to discover new truths about yourself and the world around you. Collaboration is encouraged. The Prairies secrets can be learned only by those who work together to discover ... More |
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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents 'Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas'
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents a major retrospective exhibition of Sean Scullys most significant works from the 1970s to the present. Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, closely examines the Irish-born American artists contribution to the development of abstraction in various media over a span of nearly five decades. These works, rarely shown together, highlight the close relationship between the artists paintings, drawings, prints, and pastels. The exhibition will be on view June 20 through October 10, 2021, then will be presented at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the spring of 2022. Timothy Rub, the George D. Widener Director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art said, This exhibition will convey the richness and complexity of Scullys vision and will ... More
Golden Age comics collection keeps its promise with earth-shattering $7 million debut at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions made history Friday morning when it began bringing to market The Promise Collection, which consists of high-grade Golden Age comic books that haven't been seen since they were purchased off newsstands in the 1940s. The Promise Collection is the highest-quality pedigree collection, book for book, to debut in our hobby in the last 25 years, says Heritage Auctions' Senior Vice President Ed Jaster. When it made its eagerly anticipated debut during the third session of Heritages three-day Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction, which opened Thursday with a record-setting first session, the stunning assemblage kept its word: Over the span of four hours, just 181 comic books sold for a total of $7.1 million. That is but a mere fraction of a fraction of the 5,000-plus comic books that make up The Promise Collection, ... More
Kohn Gallery opens an exhibition of works by California Light and Space artist Joe Goode
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kohn Gallery opened 20 Years Later , an exhibition featuring historically significant paintings by prominent California Light and Space artist, Joe Goode. Created at the turn of the last century from 1999 to 2003, the works on view belong to Goodes three seminal series: Oil and Water, Night and Day, and Cause and Effect. Investigating duality and the sublime qualities of nature these works present the paradox of opposing natural elements, the passage of time, and the consequences of human interaction with the Earths delicate climate. The works in a general way refer back to Goodes sky paintings of the 1970s, but modified with more abstracted atmospheric effects. These works display Goodes ability to imbue painting with resonant subject matter as well as formal beauty. A member of the Los ... More
Curator Maria F. P. Saffiotti Dale retires
MADISON, WI.- The Chazen Museum of Art shares the bittersweet news that Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts Maria F.P. Saffiotti Dale will retire August 17, 2021, after nearly 22 years of service to the museum and the university. Saffiotti Dales last day at the museum was June 4. Over her more than 20 years at the Chazen, in addition to mentoring students, conducting research, and giving personal tours of the collection (sometimes in Italian), Maria has especially excelled at fostering enduring relationships with faculty and staff across the university, says Chazen Director Amy Gilman, PhD. Highlights of Saffiotti Dales curatorial work at the museum include Hidden Treasures: Illuminated Manuscripts from Midwestern Collections; Italian Drawings from the Joseph F. McCrindle Collection; Restoring a Baroque Painting: ... More
Academy Art Museum publishes catalogues for Miró and Morgan exhibitions
EASTON, MD.- The Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD has recently published two exhibition catalogues on its current exhibitions, Miró in New York, 1947: Miró, Hayter and Atelier 17 and Norma Morgan: Enchanted World. Miró in New York, 1947: Miró, Hayter and Atelier 17 explores a group of little-known etchings Joan Miró made with influential British printmaker Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, the New York outpost of his seminal printmaking studio in Paris. Both Miró and Hayter were key participants in the community of artists in Paris who ultimately formed the core of international movements in contemporary art from the 1930s to 1945. The exhibition is open to the public through July 8, 2021 and viewable online through August 1, 2021. Mehves Lelic, Curator at the Academy Art Museum comments, The catalogue explores a transformative ... More
Anonymous U.S feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls unveil large scale billboards across the UK
LONDON.- Anonymous U.S feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls unveiled a series of large scale billboards across the UK, in iconic locations from outside the Glasgow Barrowlands, and at London Bridge, to countryside locations and seaside towns from 18 June to 18 July 2021. The billboards have been launched as part of Art Night, a contemporary art festival which this summer is taking place across the UK for the first time. The billboards are part of a new commission titled The Male Graze is the artists largest UK public project to date and which explores bad male behaviour through the lens of art history. The work, delivered in partnership with Jack Arts and Ground Up Media, launched in London, Eastbourne, Dundee, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Cardiff, Warwick, Swansea and Lewes and is on display in partnership with Art Nights friends Compton Verney, ... More
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne opens an exhibition of works by Jean Otth
LAUSANNE.- A pioneer of video art in Switzerland, Jean Otth (19402013) began using in the 1960s the visual possibilities being made available by the new technologies of the day, i.e., the slide as a projected and dematerialized image; television and its particular idiom; and the shifting experimental character of video. Whether we are talking about Otths moving images, paintings, drawings, or installations, it is the questions and issues of representation itself that lie at the heart of his experiments more than his attachment to any one medium in particular. The show offers an overview of nearly fifty years of artmaking, all mediums included. It allows visitors to take stock of both the depth and diversity of a body of work that is centered on the dialectic tension between representation and nonrepresentation, visibility and obliteration, presence ... More
First exhibition in the UK by the American artist Karin Gulbran on view at MASSIMODECARLO
LONDON.- MASSIMODECARLO presents Somnambulist, the first exhibition in the UK by the American artist Karin Gulbran and her second with the gallery. Karin Gulbran, initially trained as a painter, turned her interests towards ceramics during the early stages of her career. Seamlessly shifting from two to three dimensions, her works reveal fantastic and figurative scenes on hand-built pots and vases, that feature wide-eyed creatures, lush nature, and inhabited waters. Gulbrans expressive beasts and creatures crawl around the edges of the works, the artists hand navigating the bumps and hollows of the surface with an ease that demonstrates her ability as a painter. The artworks in Somnambulist evoke a landscape of water and woods. The theme of the Somnambulist has interested the artist for a long time, inspired by the tradition of late nineteenth century ... More
Birmingham Museums acquires work by leading contemporary artist
BIRMINGHAM.- Birmingham Museums has acquired a sculpture by leading contemporary artist Hew Locke for the citys collection. Made in 2019, Souvenir 9 (Queen Victoria) is the first work by the artist to be acquired for the city. To coincide with the acquisition, a free event with artists Hew Locke and Matt Smith will explore commemorating and contesting Empire with Victorian ceramics, discussing the ways they have responded to 19th-century ceramics in their own work. The conversation between the two leading contemporary artists will take place online on Friday 25 June, 11am 12 noon, and will be chaired by Dr Sadiah Qureshi, Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham, who is a cultural and social historian of race, science and empire in the modern world. Hew Locke is a Guyanese-British sculptor whose work across a range ... More
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein hosts a solo presentation of Dara Birnbaum's work
BERLIN.- Dara Birnbaum is a pioneer of video art who has profoundly influenced the genres visual vocabulary since the 1970s. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the n.b.k. Video-Forum, founded in 1971, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein hosts the first solo presentation of Birnbaums work in Germany in over 20 years. The exhibition focuses on works by the artist that have been in the n.b.k. Video Forum collection since the 1980s. With her work Birnbaum vigorously and convincingly championed the establishment of video as an art medium, thereby expanding the boundaries of the art world. Her practice proved to be groundbreaking for subsequent generations of artists, both conceptually and aesthetically. With this presentation of her work, n.b.k. continues its support of critical positions using video as a means of artistic expression. Birnbaums ... More
Maureen Paley opens second solo exhibition by Felipe Baeza
LONDON.- Maureen Paley is presenting the second solo exhibition by Felipe Baeza at the gallery. At the heart of Felipe Baezas work is the body: abstracted, dismembered, remembered, obscured, suspended, floating, drowning, sprouting wings, feathers, leaves, both human and celestial, entrapped and expansive, unbound and unruly. In his series of collages Gente del Occidente de México II, for instance, Baeza renders the body grotesque and monstrous. Human limbs, torsos, and mouths are conjoined with photographs of pre-Columbian art objects to create totemic, hybrid entities that straddle multiple temporalities. They are at once more-than-human and anti-human as they scramble logics of self and other, male and female, subject and object. Disjointed, hyper-sexualized human body parts both male and female, replete with stereotypical ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Kurt Schwitters was born June 20, 1887. Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 - 8 January 1948) was a German artist who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called Merz Pictures. In this image: Kurt Schwitters, Mz 302, Linden, 1921. Collage on paper, 7 1/8 x 5 5/8 in. Private collection. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
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