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Pablo Picasso, Arlequin assis, 1923, Private collection, Pablo Picasso: Arlequin assis, 1923. Private collection and Kunstmuseum Basel, © Succession Picasso / 2020, ProLitteris, Zurich, Photo: Jonas Hänggi.
BASEL.- The exhibition Picasso, Chagall, Jawlensky at the Kunstmuseum Basel | Neubau presents a portrait of the Im Obersteg Collection in dialogue with selected works from the Kunstmuseum Basels own holdings and a small number of loans from international collections. Much of the Basel-based private collection of Karl Im Obersteg (18831969), which has been housed at the Kunstmuseum since 2004, was assembled in the first half of the twentieth century. From this treasure trove, curators have selected masterworks by Pablo Picasso, the world-famous depictions of Jewish characters that Marc Chagall painted in 1914, an extensive set of thirty works by Alexej Jawlensky, and seven haunting paintings by Chaïm Soutine, plus works by many other artists. In the exhibition, they appear in constellations complemented by works from the Kunstmuseums holdings, revealing interconnections between the private and public collections ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day JulienÂs Auctions will present property from Bill Wyman and His Rolling Stones Archive on May 29th, 30th and 31st, live in Beverly Hills and online at juliensauctions.com. This spectacular auction of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted English musician, record producer, songwriter and singer, will feature at the centerpiece over 1,000 lots selected from WymanÂs renowned and vast archive. The archive contains not only an unprecedented collection of his instruments, stage worn ensembles, awards, personal items and artifacts collected during his illustrious three-decade career as a founding member and bassist of the WorldÂs Greatest Rock Band, the Rolling Stones, but also important instruments and artifacts from his ongoing solo career.
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| | TEFAF art fair carries on. But business isn't usual. | | Exhibition of Kenneth Noland's Flare series on view at Pace Gallery | | 18th century Chinese gourd sells for $4.6 million at auction |
The 33rd annual edition of Europes most prestigious fair for traditional art and antiques has gone ahead, despite the cancellation or postponement of other high-profile events, such Art Basel Hong Kong and Art Dubai.
by Scott Reyburn
MAASTRICHT (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Hell sort coronavirus for us. He conquers epidemics, said antiques dealer Paul Moss, gesturing toward a monumental gilded statue of the Medicine Master Buddha that his gallery was exhibiting at a subdued preview of the TEFAF Maastricht art and antiques fair on Thursday, overshadowed by the COVID-19 crisis. Moss, a consultant for the London-based Asian art specialists Sydney L. Moss Ltd., pointed out that there were no comparable examples of such a large-scale Japanese sculpture from the 11th or 12th century in Western museums. Carved with the Buddhas right hand raised in the characteristic Fear Not gesture and his left holding a medicine jar, the serene figure was priced at 1.2 million pounds, or about $1.5 million. ... More | |
Kenneth Noland, Flares: Away, 1991. Acrylic on canvas on panel, 85-1/8" à 32" à 1-1/4" (216.2 cm à 81.3 cm à 3.2 cm). © The Kenneth Noland Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting Noland Flares, an exhibition of Kenneth Nolands Flare series paintings rarely seen together since their creation in the early 1990s. The exhibition encompasses approximately fifteen works and takes place on the third floor of Pace Gallerys new building at 540 West 25th Street. In the late 1950s, Noland broke with Abstract Expressionisms gestural aesthetic. Staining unprimed canvas with acrylic, he produced paintings with stark geometric shapes and bold color contrasts, becoming one of the pioneers of Color Field painting and the Washington Color School. Groundbreaking series, such as his Circle or Chevron works, were systematic yet intuitive investigations of paintings visual elements, especially color and shape. Eminent critics and artists soon lauded Nolands work, with Donald Judd affirming in 1965, by now Kenneth Nolands salience isnt debatable; ... More | |
Auctioneer Olivier Clair presents a rare blue, white and celadon porcelain moon flask with a dragon which belonged to the 18th century's emperor Qianlong on March 7, 2020 at the Palais Jacques Coeur in Bourges. The moon flask was sold 4,94 million euros. Guillaume SOUVANT / AFP.
BOURGES (AFP).- A Chinese porcelain gourd which once belonged to the 18th century Chinese Emperor Qianlong sold for 4.1 million euros ($4.6 million) at auction on Saturday. The cobalt blue and white gourd, which represents an imperial dragon with five claws in search of the sacred pearl, went to a Chinese buyer by telephone. Auctioneer Olivier Clair, who found the object while executing a will in a Parisian apartment, told AFP that with fees, the sale amounted to more than 4.9 million euros. "There have been a number, but it remains very rare," he said. "The gourd was intended for Chinese pilgrims. Little by little, it has become a decorative symbol like a coronation sword. It is an object that interests the Chinese because it is their heritage." The gourd was possibly looted, along with many other objects, during the sack of the Summer ... More |
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| | The networks that ruled earth's ancient seas | | Truck crashes into an Easter Island statue | | The Armory Show announces move to the Javits Center and new September dates for 2021 edition |
A photo provided by Alex Liu shows a large rangeomorph fossil near Little Catalina, on the Bonavista Peninsula in Newfoundland, Canada. Alex Liu via The New York Times.
by Cara Giaimo
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- More than half a billion years ago, peculiar beings called rangeomorphs ruled the seas. They looked like modern ferns, with leaflike protrusions that branched off in a fractal pattern. Some stood over 3 feet tall, while others lay flat. Scientists dont know why rangeomorphs emerged 571 million years ago before the Cambrian explosion filled Earths oceans with more familiar creatures, and when nearly all of their fellow organisms were microscopic or how they ate or reproduced. We also dont know how they fit into evolutionary history. There are many strange questions about them, said Alex Liu, a paleobiologist at the University of Cambridge who has been studying the frondy oddballs for 13 years. New research by Liu and Frankie Dunn of the Oxford University ... More | |
An unoccupied truck that rolled onto an ahu, a ceremonial mortuary structure, according to local officials and archaeologists on Easter Island. Comunidad Indigene Mau Henua via The New York Times.
by Christine Hauser and Alan Yuhas
EASTER ISLAND (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The statues on Easter Island have stood for centuries, facing inland to watch over a community that reveres them as memorials of their ancestors. Made of volcanic rock, they have braved many challenges over the years: climate change, lichen growth, damage from livestock and the encroaching development of tourism. Add a runaway pickup truck to that list. The unoccupied truck, which had been parked, rolled on Sunday onto an ahu, a ceremonial mortuary structure that supports about half of the nearly 1,000 statues, or their toppled remains, local officials and archaeologists said. Mau Henua, the islands cultural heritage organization, posted photographs of the crash on its Facebook page, showing the vehicle perched ... More | |
New Yorks essential art fair to take place September 9-12, 2021, kicking off the city-wide fall art season. Photo courtesy: The Armory Show and The Javits Center.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show announced today that starting in 2021, New York Citys essential art fair will shift to September at the state-of-the-art Javits Center. Designed by Architect James Ingo Freed of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners (previously I.M. Pei & Partners), the Javits Center will have recently completed a $1.5 billon expansion project when it welcomes The Armory Show September 9-12, 2021. The Armory Show 2021 will anchor a new Armory Arts Week and launch the fall art season in alignment with September New York gallery openings. We are thrilled for this exciting new chapter for The Armory Show and look forward to creating a spectacular fair in September 2021 at our new home at the Javits Center. September is a great time of year to be in New York City, and we are eager to align with gallery openings to kick off the fall season. We hope everyone will mark their calendars, said Executive Director Nicole Berry. ... More |
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| | TEFAF releases 'Art Market Report: Art Patronage in the 21st Century' | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of new paintings by Jennifer Guidi | | Kasmin opens 'Valley of Gold: Southern California and the Phantasmagoric' |
TEFAF pioneered commissioning original research into the art market, which it has been doing regularly for 20 years.
MAASTRICHT.- TEFAF Art Market Report: Art Patronage in the 21st Century was published today, Friday 6th March. The report is launched at the TEFAF Art Symposium on Auditorium 2, MECC Maastricht at 9.30am with a presentation by its author Anders Petterson, Founder and Managing Director of ArtTactic. This will be followed by a panel discussion on the topic of New Models and Innovations Shaping Art Patronage in the 21st Century, which will be moderated by Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo. The panel is made up of journalist and writer, Georgina Adam; Director of Development and Business Innovation at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Charlotte Appleyard; Co-Founder and CEO of Artory and Chairman of TEFAF, Nanne Dekking and Rima Mismar, Executive Director of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture. TEFAF pioneered commissioning original research into the art market, which it has been doing ... More | |
Jennifer Guidi, A Thousand Petals (Crown Diptych), 2019. Sand, acrylic, and oil on linen. Overall: 54 x 58 inches. Circle: 24 inch diameter. Triangle: 24 x 58 inches © Jennifer Guidi. Photo: Brica Wilcox. Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting Gemini, an exhibition of new paintings by Jennifer Guidi. This is her first exhibition with Gagosian in New York, following a 2018 exhibition, Heliocentric, at the gallerys Hong Kong location. Guidis radiant, mandala-like paintings are characterized by patterns and subtle textural and chromatic shifts, forging a connection with Minimalism while evoking metaphysical themes that transcend Western traditions. Her immersive compositions incorporate sand along with oil and acrylic paints to investigate color, light, and archetypal imagery. Beginning with an underpainting, she applies a thick layer of sand to the surface. While it is still wet, she makes marks with a wooden dowel in controlled and repetitive movements, often adding sand and paint in a U-shape on the top edge of the ... More | |
Robert Irwin, Daisetz, 1959 (detail). Oil on canvas, 66 x 66 inches, 167.6 x 167.6 cm. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin is presenting Valley of Gold: Southern California and the Phantasmagoric, curated by Sonny Ruscha Granade and Harmony Murphy. On view at 297 Tenth Avenue from March 5April 11, 2020, Valley of Gold explores the aesthetic legacy of the European surrealists and others who worked with similar sensibilities on the art of Southern California. Examining the influence of this charged period, the exhibition traces how its effects percolated through later movements such as California abstraction, conceptual art, and Light and Space. Man Ray nurtured the seeds of an art liberated from long-established rules in California beginning in the 1940s, spending the most prolific decade of his career in Los Angeles. He found the conditions of the place surrealist by nature. To him, the driving forces of the cityfilms, cars, and fast-paced expansionlent themselves to a freedom of experimentation and to the histo ... More |
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| | The Twist at Kistefos Museum and Sculpture Park in Norway wins LCD Berlin Award for Best Architecture | | Sotheby's to offer Francis Bacon's 'Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus' this May in New York | | House of Illustration opens the UK's first public exhibition dedicated solely to gay cultural icon Tom of Finland |
The Twist gallery at the Kistefos Museum and Sculpture Park in Norway. Photo © Kim Erlandsen.
JEVNAKER.- The Twist gallery (Bjarke Ingels) at the Kistefos Museum and Sculpture Park in Norway has won the LCD Berlin Leading Culture Destinations of the Year award for Best Architecture, fending off impressive competition from the National Museum of Qatar (Jean Nouvel) in Doha, Qatar, and the V&A Dundee (Kengo Kuma) in Dundee, Scotland, UK. The win by The Twist for Best Architecture represents one of two LCD Award winners from Norway, as the Bergen Assembly was honoured with the LCD Berlin Avis Travellers Award for Best Cultural Festival. Now in its sixth edition, the LCD Awards highlight the worlds best established and emerging cultural destinations, recognising their exceptional contribution to cultural life.The Leading Culture Destinations of the Year awards highlight the experiential shift of cultural destinations ... More | |
Acquired in 1984 by the Norwegian collector Hans Rasmus Astrup, the triptych has been in the care of Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo since its founding by Mr. Astrup in 1993. Estimated to sell for in excess of $60 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that Francis Bacons large-format Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus will highlight their Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York on 13 May 2020, when it will be offered with an estimate in excess of $60 million. Inspired by Aeschyluss trilogy of Greek tragedies dating to the 5th century B.C., the present triptych stands as one of the most ambitious, enigmatic, and important works of Bacons oeuvre, and a landmark of 20th century art. In this work from 1981, Bacon revisits the same classical text that inspired Three Studies for Figures at the Base of the Crucifixion, which announced his debut on the world stage in 1962 which now resides in the Tate Collection, London ... More | |
Pandemonia, Daniel Lismore and friend at Tom of Finland opening © House of Illustration.
LONDON.- House of Illustration opened the UKs first public solo show dedicated to gay cultural icon and prolific artist Tom of Finland (born Touko Laaksonen), in partnership with Tom of Finland Foundation and the Finnish Institute in London. This timely exhibition, on the centenary of his birth, celebrates the artist whose homoerotic visions had a profound effect on gay communities in Europe and North America during a pivotal period in their history and continue to have an immeasurable influence on popular culture today. Tom of Finland: Love and Liberation displays 40 works on paper produced from the 1960s to the 1980s, both before and after homosexuality was decriminalised in much of Europe and the U.S. It includes early drawings of men fighting that constituted the only legal way to show physical contact between men ... More |
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SXSW festival in Texas cancelled over coronavirus fears
HOUSTON, TX (AFP).- The South by Southwest festival in Texas has been cancelled due to concerns over the spread of the novel coronavirus, organizers and the host city of Austin said Friday. The decision comes as coronavirus concerns grow stateside and pressure ramps up over whether to cancel entertainment and sporting events that draw large crowds. "The city of Austin has cancelled the March dates for SXSW and SXSW EDU," the festival said in a statement. "SXSW will faithfully follow the city's directions." Austin mayor Steve Adler told a news conference he had declared a local disaster in response to the coronavirus, and had "issued an order that effectively cancels South by Southwest for this year." The music, tech and film festival was slated to take place March 13-22, although Netflix, Apple and Amazon had already pulled out. More than ... More
He played with Charlie Parker. For $15 he'll play with you.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- If you want a spot near the maestro at Barry Harris jazz workshop, youre going to have to fight for it. On a recent Tuesday evening, about 15 minutes before the session was to start, adults of all ages started jostling for the most coveted spot: the seat on the piano next to Harris, who always plays by example and always listens. The others clustered around the piano, many with their own keyboards and guitars. Some focused their cellphones on Harris in order to preserve every bit of the 90-year-olds wisdom. Small stuff is what you do best, said Harris, who is wiry with snow-white hair and glasses, and who wore a black overcoat and natty plaid scarf that night. Not big stuff. The pianist, composer and teacher he has four honorary Ph.D.s and so prefers to go by Dr. Harris is the last of his breed: an interpreter ... More
Columbus Museum of Art opens 'Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989'
COLUMBUS, OH.- Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, and organized by the Columbus Museum of Art, Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989 is a long-awaited and groundbreaking survey that features more than 200 works of art and related visual materials exploring the impact of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) liberation movement on the art world. The exhibition is the first national museum show of its kind to survey the impact of LGBTQ liberation on the visual arts and is the largest touring art exhibition in North America commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Monumental in scope and ambition, Art after Stonewall is on view in Columbus from March 6-May 31, 2020, having debuted in 2019 in New York City before traveling to The Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum in Miami. ... More
Throckmorton Fine Art opens an exhibition of photographic images by Don Farber
NEW YORK, NY.- Throckmorton Fine Art is presenting a special exhibition, Vision of Buddhist Life, of photographic images by photographer and Fulbright Scholar Don Farber at its New York gallery from March 5 April 18, 2020. In 1968, when he was 16, Don Farbers future revealed itself when he took a class at Barnsdall Park Junior Art Center in Los Angeles with documentary photographer and NEA Grant recipient, Seymour Rosen. On a field trip, Rosen took his students to see an exhibit by the master photographer Dorothea Lange at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Standing before her work, Farbers experience of her images was so profound, he decided on the spot that photography was to be his lifes work. Farber would become Seymour Rosens apprentice before studying photography formally at the Manchester College of Art ... More
Revered jazz pianist McCoy Tyner dead at 81
NEW YORK (AFP).- The influential jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, known for his work with the John Coltrane quartet, has died, his family announced Friday. He was 81 years old. One of the most revered jazz pianists in history in an elite class with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans and Chick Corea, Tyner's work is considered to have shaped the trajectory of modern jazz piano and made him a top bandleader for decades. "McCoy was an inspired musician who devoted his life to his art, his family and his spirituality," the family of the musician wrote on Instagram, without precising the cause of death. "McCoy Tyner's music and legacy will continue to inspire fans and future talent for generations to come." The artist born Alfred McCoy Tyner in 1938 in Philadelphia began taking piano lessons at age 13. He kicked off his career in his early 20s with the ... More
First book devoted solely to the ethical concerns museums face regarding collections published
NEW YORK, NY.- Museum Collection Ethics discusses the complexities inherent in acquiring, preserving, and, making accessible to the public the extraordinary range of culturally significant objects entrusted to museums. The book provides an encompassing look at the intellectual, practical and stewardship duties museums by definition assume. Differeces between ethics and laws, customes and expectations, practices and potentials are reviewed in the context of museum operations. These considerations are not synonomous. Each has its own characteristics. All infuse how museums treat collections. Controversies regarding museum collections are increasing. Debates continue to erupt over art stolen by the Nazis during World War II. Countries once colonized are demanding the return of cultural materials purloined by colonizing nations. Indigenous populations want sacred ... More
Petzel Gallery opens a solo exhibition of recent paintings by artist Rodney McMillian
NEW YORK, NY.- Petzel Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Rodney McMillian. The exhibition, titled Recirculating Goods, inaugurates Petzels newly expanded Upper East Side gallery, located at 35 East 67th Street. On view from February 27 to May 2, the show marks McMillians first exhibition with Petzel, and his first solo show in New York since 2012. Im excited to join Petzel, says McMillian, who is coming on board the gallerys roster this winter. Ive followed the program for many years and Im looking forward to being a part of the conversations emerging from there. For his debut at Petzel, McMillian shows paintings which further an ongoing conversation about class and ideals that have informed American landscape painting. These works are made primarily on blankets, sometimes with clear representations ... More
The Beatles' first performance stage, Hey Jude lyrics and more head to Julien's Auctions
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Julien's Auctions has announced The Beatles at Hard Rock Cafe, to take place on the 50th anniversary of the Fab Four's historic breakup on Friday, April 10 live in the heart of Times Square at Hard Rock Cafe ® New York and online at juliensauctions.com. Julien's Auctions will present nearly 300 Beatles items featuring some never-before-seen memorabilia, guitars and instruments, autographed items, rare vinyl, obscure licensed material and other rare and collectible artifacts. One of the headlines of the annual Beatlemania auction extravaganza is the rare and original stage from the first Beatles performance. The band performed on this stage at Lathom Hall in Liverpool, England on May 14, 1960 for one night only as The Silver Beats (their original band name) in their first advertised concert booked by Liverpool promoter Brian ... More
Poem 88 presents the second solo exhibition of Corrine Colarusso, Every Leaf a Shelter
ATLANTA, GA.- These days, global warming, the despoliation of our environment, and the loss of fragile ecosystems are front of mind - of my mind, at least. Having grown up in Louisiana, I know too well how the effects of toxic dumping combined with global warming have destroyed most of Louisianas wetlands providing next to no barrier for the destructive force of hurricanes. Activism comes in many forms. One ingenious friend has taken her knowledge of concrete to create man-made reefs that support sealife creating beds for oysters, the oceans own filtration system. Other people support environmental groups and write to their elected officials. But one person, Corrine Colarusso, makes paintings bursting with the light and energy of our natural world and invites us to marvel at the worlds inside worlds in a tide pool, or the buzzing, waving forms of marsh ... More
Pangolin London opens an exhibition of works on paper and sculptures by Geoffrey Clarke
LONDON.- Pangolin London is presenting an exhibition of works on paper and sculptures by Geoffrey Clarke. Known first and foremost as a sculptor, Geoffrey Clarke was also an exceptional print maker. Using his fathers press whilst studying at the Royal College of Art, Clarke began a body of work which used sign and symbol to communicate what he described as a philosophy of Intuitionism, an idea he developed over the next six decades. Clarkes earliest works from 1948-9, some of which are exhibited at Pangolin London for the first time, show a young, adept draughtsman, experimenting with a new medium and exploring influences from Klee to Picasso and from medieval landscapes to prehistoric cave painting. The following year however sees a distinct and exciting change in style and approach, one that shaped the rest of Clarkes career. ... More
A deaf-blind dishwasher achieves his childhood dream: Movie actor
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Doug Roland, a filmmaker, was walking home from a night out at 4 a.m. in the East Village when he saw a man standing on a deserted street corner in need of help. After trying to speak to the man, Roland, 35, noticed he held a sign explaining that he was deaf and blind and needed help crossing the street. He then scribbled on a notebook that he also needed help finding a nearby bus stop. It was the first time Id met a deaf-blind person and he just took my arm and trusted me, a total stranger on a New York street, to direct him, recalled Roland, who instinctively used his finger to trace his end of the conversation on the mans palm, with the man responding on notebook paper. There was a gift in every one of those exchanges, Roland recalled. In that chance encounter, there was an instant connection ... More
Almine Rech opens its first exhibition of Jansson Stegner with the gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech opened its first exhibition of Jansson Stegner with the gallery. The show is on view from March 3 to April 18, 2020. On this occasion, Stegner presents a selection of new works that are exemplary of his highly stylized aesthetic. I have always been interested in figurative art that takes great liberties with the human form and is grounded in realism without being confined by its rules. The artists whose work has most affected me come from different movements and eras, yet are connected by having invented their own strange language of the figure. Often their work has strong psychological undertones. El Greco, Ingres, Ensor, Schiele, Dix, Balthus, and Alice Neel are but a few of the artists that I would put in this category. If I had to name this kind of work, I would call it Unrealism or just Weird Figuration. I feel like these artists worked ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English sculptor and illustrator Anthony Caro was born March 08, 1924. Sir Anthony Alfred Caro OM CBE (8 March 1924 Â 23 October 2013) was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' industrial objects. His style was of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moore early in his career. He was lauded as the greatest British sculptor of his generation. In this image: Anthony Caro, Paper Like Steel, installation view.
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