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With charitable donations and public statements in support of Ukraine, Phillips auction house is trying to deflect those pushing for a boycott of the business, owned by two wealthy Russians. Image courtesy of Phillips.
by Graham Bowley and Scott Reyburn
NEW YORK, NY.- Russian troops had only started invading Ukraine when executives at Phillips auction house realized they had a problem. Public sentiment was building against Russian oligarchs and interests. Sanctions were being levied, assets frozen. Some collectors voiced concerns that Phillips was owned by two wealthy Russians who also control one of that countrys largest luxury retail companies, Mercury Group. We had to make sure people realized what side we were on, said Ed Dolman, executive chair of Phillips, which does most of its business out of New York and London. There were a lot of discussions that took place right across the company. On Feb. 28, four days into the invasion, Phillips issued a statement online that condemned the war and featured the Ukrainian flag. Auction house executives were soon reassuring clients that the business was financially stable. Then, just hours before a big London evening sale of contemporary art March 3, the company announced it ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day To Be Like Water at TENT Rotterdam explores and expands on the meaning of code-switching. The exhibition aims to examine and complicate the notion of identity, and consider code-switching as a manifestation of a fluid multiplicity that operates within vectors of power.
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| British Museum to remove Sackler name from its walls | | Anselm Kiefer's new work unveiled at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice | | The wreck of an 1830s whaler offers a glimpse of America's racial history |
New signs welcome visitors to the newly-reopened British Museum in London on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Tom Jamieson/The New York Times.
by Alex Marshall
LONDON.- The British Museum is to remove the name of the Sackler family from its walls, becoming the latest major cultural institution to cut ties with the family over its role in the opioid crisis. The decision, announced in a news release Friday, comes almost four months after the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York reached a similar joint agreement with the Sackler family to remove its name from several exhibition spaces, including the wing that houses the Temple of Dendur. The British Museum said in the news release that the decision was by mutual agreement with the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation, one of the familys British charities. The foundation had supported the museum for over 30 years, the news release said, making donations between the 1990s ... More | |
Anselm Kiefer portrait. Photo: Georges Poncet.
VENICE.- Anselm Kiefer presents a new body of work in the Sala dello Scrutinio and the Sala della Quarantia Civil Nova at the Palazzo Ducale (Doges Palace) in Venice to coincide with the 59th Venice Biennale. Kiefer was invited by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia (MUVE), to present a site-specific installation of paintings that responds to one of the most important spaces in the Palazzo Ducale and to the history of Venice. The exhibition will open on 26 March 2022 and run until 29 October 2022. It sometimes happens that there is a convergence between past and present moments, and as they come together one experiences something of that stillness in the hollow of a wave about to break. Originating in the past but pertaining at bottom to something more than the past, such moments belong as much to the present as to the past, and what they generate is of the utmost importance. --Anselm Kiefer The Palazzo Ducal ... More | |
An image provided by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration shows the remains of Industrys tryworks, a furnace that was used to render whale blubber, and an anchor, as well as two fish nestled under the tryworks. The shipwreck formally known as No. 15563 has been identified as Industry, the only whaling ship known to have sunk in the Gulf of Mexico. NOAA Ocean Exploration via The New York Times.
by Maggie Astor
NEW YORK, NY.- The shipwreck formally known as No. 15563 has been identified as Industry, the only whaling ship known to have sunk in the Gulf of Mexico. On Wednesday, scientists announced they were confident the wreck was Industry, which was built in 1815 and capsized in a storm on May 26, 1836. Its rediscovery and the newly discovered fate of its crew, which most likely included Black Americans, white Americans and Native Americans opens a window into the maritime and racial life of the antebellum United States. The ships remains ... More |
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| Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins dies at 50 | | Venus Over Manhattan celebrates tenth anniversary with second New York location | | Lisson Gallery announces representation of Lucy Raven |
Taylor Hawkins performing in New York on Nov. 18, 2021. Nina Westervelt/The New York Times.
by Caryn Ganz and Joe Coscarelli
NEW YORK, NY.- Taylor Hawkins, the hard-hitting, charismatic drummer for Foo Fighters, an enduring Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band that has won 12 Grammys and released seven platinum albums, has died at 50. A statement posted to the bands social media late Friday and sent by its representative confirmed the death, but did not provide a cause or location. The band had been scheduled to play a show Friday night in Bogotá, Colombia, at the Festival Estéreo Picnic. Recognizable for his flailing limbs, surfers good looks and wide, childlike grin, Hawkins became a member of the band led by Dave Grohl for its third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose, released in 1999, and played on the groups subsequent seven albums. He drew on two distinct styles: the fundamentals of Roger Taylor, from Queen, and the intricacy of Stewart ... More | |
View of Venus Over Manhattans new, second New York City location at 55 Great
Jones Street. Courte- sy Venus Over Manhattan, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, Venus Over Manhattan is pleased to announce that the gallery will open a second New York City location at 55 Great Jones Street between Lafayette Street and the Bowery, beside the historic carriage house that was formerly owned by Andy Warhol and housed the studio of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Venus new 4,000 square foot downtown space will complement the gallerys Upper East Side townhouse location at 120 East 65th Street, and will be inaugurated on April 8th, 2022 with an exhibition of new work by Ana Benaroya. Titled Swept Away, Benaroyas solo presentation comprises seven monumental paintings, alongside related works on paper, that depict substantial women whose extravagant musculatures gleefully upset traditional ... More | |
Lucy Raven, 2021. Photo by Ari Marcopoulos.
LONDON.- Lisson Gallery announces exclusive, worldwide representation of Lucy Raven. Following her major solo presentation at Dia in 2021, the artist will present a new work for the postponed Whitney Biennial, opening 6 April, ahead of 'Another Dull Day' at Wiels Centre d'Art Contemporain Brussels (27 April - 18 August) and 'A Divided Landscape' at The Momentary at Crystal Bridges, Arkansas (14 May - 25 September). Lucy Ravens distinct and methodical practice combines an extended and interdisciplinary enquiry into the form, function and apparatus of the moving image whether animated, digital, mechanical or cinematic with an ongoing appreciation for the landscapes, labours and myths surrounding the American West. Previous films China Town (2009, actually a photographic stop-motion feature) and Ready Mix (2020, a major installation premiered at Dia Chelsea) reappraise the empty, heroic deserts of Nevada ... More |
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| Trilobite fossils suggest cannibalism is more ancient than once thought | | Los Angeles Modern Auctions to auction the Diana Zlotnick collection | | Descendants trace histories linked by slavery |
In an undated photo from Russell Bicknell, three trilobites found at the Emu Bay Shale in Australia, showing injuries suggesting possible cannibalism. Russell Bicknell via The New York Times.
by Rebecca Dzombak
NEW YORK, NY.- Cannibalism is common among the millions of modern arthropod species. A praying mantis consumes her mate after copulation, termites suck blood out of wounded peers, and mosquitoes snack on larvae. But how far back does this gruesome mode of dining go in the history of life feeding on life? Previous studies place the earliest cannibalism about 450 million years ago in the Late Ordovician period. But a study published last month in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology says even older evidence of cannibalism can be found in a 514-million-year-old treasure trove of trilobites on an island off the South Australian coast, at a site called Emu Bay. There, old wounds on trilobite shells abound, and fossil excrements, likely produced by trilobites, contain yet more trilobite shells. ... More | |
Richard Pettibone, Frank Stella Tahkt Suleyman Appropriation. Estimate: $30,000-50,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles Modern Auctions announced On the Arts: The Diana Zlotnick Collection, an exclusive presentation of works from the voracious collector, community builder, and champion of Los Angeles-based contemporary artists. This single-owner auction on May 3rd will feature more than 250 lots, including significant works from 20th century luminaries Wallace Berman, Guy de Cointet, Richard Pettibone, and Andy Warhol, alongside a formidable selection of groundbreaking artists who helped shape post-war American art. Born in 1927 and raised in Los Angeles, Diana Zlotnick began collecting in earnest in the late 1960s when she purchased a painting by John Altoon from Ferus Gallery. She would later buy her first Ed Ruscha for $30 at an auction in 1963. With determination, savvy, and a healthy dose of chutzpah, Zlotnick amassed an extensive collection from major artists as their stars were rising among those who most captivated her wer ... More | |
Sharon Morgan in her home in Macon, Miss., on March 10, 2022. Some American descendants of enslaved people and others whose ancestors profited are using online portals to collaborate and reckon with their shared family pasts. Stella Rae Binion/The New York Times.
by Amanda Holpuch
NEW YORK, NY.- Each week, Sharon Morgan sits at her desk and consults property records, deeds and wills that draw a clear line from her computer in Noxubee County, Mississippi, to her ancestors who were enslaved at a nearby plantation. Sometimes Morgan, 71, still has to climb a rickety ladder at the county courthouse to retrieve heavy books from the 1800s, but the internet and other technologies have increasingly transformed the hard work of reconstructing the past as she had practiced it for decades. Handwritten government records from the aftermath of Emancipation are now available for free online. Distant relatives whose ancestors were forced apart by slavery can be reached with a few mouse clicks. ... More |
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| Christie's Prints & Multiples season highlighted by global competition for Andy Warhol prints | | Peter Bogdanovich had a vision for this film. Now it's finally being seen. | | 'Love, War and Beauty: From the Dukes of Burgundy to the Habsburgs' opens at The Royal Monastery of Brou |
Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger, 1975, Price Realised: £151,200. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- In addition to the exceptional results for Andy Warhol, further Pop Art highlights included Roy Lichtensteins Forms in Space, 1985, selling for more than double the pre-sale estimate (£113,400). David Hockney's Paper Pools sold for £69,300, a record for this subject matter by the artist. Works by modern masters Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, and Marc Chagall also performed strongly. Highlights included Picassos Femme au Corsage à Fleurs, 1958, which sold for £94,500, against a low estimate of £50,000, Marc Chagalls Les Amoureux de la Tour Eiffel, 1960 (£27,720) and Joan Mirós Le Chasseur de Pieuvres, 1969 (£13,860). As part of the Prints & Multiples March 2022 season in London, Laugh now but one day well be in charge: Banksy and 21st Century Editions Online Sale closed on 15 March 2022, and realised a total of: £2,615,886, selling 90% by lot. Strong prices were achieved for Banksys Banksquiat (Grey), 2019, selling for £163,800, ... More | |
The Last Picture Show. 1971. USA. Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art Film Stills Archive.
by Ben Kenigsberg
NEW YORK, NY.- Cash from a dentists office. Urns with ashes. A set of Chuck Close holograms. These are some of the items that Eric Eisenberg, 54, said he had found in storage lockers. A self-described full-time eBayer, Eisenberg makes a living buying lockers in arrears at auction and then selling the goods online. In one such purchase, he came across a tape of a movie called Squirrels to the Nuts and added it to his eBay listings. James Kenney, a 51-year-old English lecturer at City University of New York, is a lifelong fan of Peter Bogdanovich and had a habit of looking up the filmmakers work on eBay. He wasnt originally searching for a tape, but after he found Eisenbergs listing in 2020 and another Bogdanovich expert deepened his suspicion that it might be something special he recalled bargaining down the price to $100. It was, ... More | |
Johannes Hinderikus Egenberger (1822-1897) (detail), Anno 1434. The Reconciliation of Philip the Good and Jacqueline of Bavaria 1850-1863. Amsterdam © Amsterdam Museum
BOURG-EN-BRESSE.- The royal monastery of Brou is organizing an exhibition that explores, for the first time, the way in which the sovereigns of the former Burgundian Netherlands were represented in the art of the 19th century, at a time when the young European nations were building their history. The title of this exhibition almost sounds like that of a melodramatic TV series, "The Bold and the Beautiful", in French "Amour, gloire et beauté". And for good reason, the history and life of the sovereigns of the 15th and 16th centuries have all the makings of a soap opera of family rivalries, sentimental stories, power struggles, marriages and even assassinations. The monastery of Brou has chosen to relate the moments of this period through an exhibition which gathers about forty works of "troubadour" style. This artistic movement, prefiguring Romanticism, was born during the first half of the 19th century. ... More |
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Bruneau & Co. announces highlights included in its Historic Arms & Militaria Auction
CRANSTON, RI.- Bruneau & Co.s spring Historic Arms & Militaria auction, planned for Saturday, April 9th, is loaded with over 300 items focusing on the French & Indian War, the American Revolution, the Civil War, World Wars I and II and modern firearms. Offerings will be ideal for anyone from the beginning collector to advanced collections. The sale will be held live in the Bruneau & Co. gallery located at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston. It will also be hosted on several online bidding platforms. This will be just the third Historic Arms & Militaria auction for the firm, in the newly created Arms & Militaria department headed up by director Joel Bohy, a seasoned veteran of the arms and militaria scene. Im excited we are offering the personal collection of Erik Goldstein, a meticulously curated selection of swords, bayonets, historical artifacts ... More
MIT List Visual Arts Center opens a solo exhibition of recent works by Matthew Angelo Harrison
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- This spring, the MIT List Visual Arts Center presents a solo exhibition of recent works by Detroit-based artist Matthew Angelo Harrison. In his sculptures and installations, Matthew Angelo Harrison traces intersections of labor, technology, and cultural heritage. The objects he creates, as well as those he incorporates into his works, often speak to the impact of colonialism, capitalism, and racism while subtly addressing the aspects of identity formation and desire that underlie our relationship to objects. Harrisons experience working as a clay modeler at Ford Motor Company established a fundamental framework that has endured in his interest in the prototypea design stage the artist describes as an in-between state as both a reality and a possibility, and a concept that remains central to his artistic practice. ... More
Stevens Auction Company announces Multi-Estate auction on Saturday April 9th
ABERDEEN, MISS.- Stevens Auction Company will be selling three important estates on Saturday, April 9th, online and live in the gallery located at 609 North Meridian Street in Aberdeen. Offered will be lifelong collections of fine antique furniture, beautiful porcelains, handmade rugs, clocks, 19th century lighting, vintage cars, works of art and Southern finery. Many rare and unusual items, unparalleled in quality, will cross the auction block in this huge one-day event, said Dwight Stevens, the owner of Stevens Auction Company. The auction will get underway at 10 am Central time. An open house preview will be held on Friday, April 8th, from 10-6. Internet bidding will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com. Phone bids are welcome. A strong candidate for top lot of the auction is an incredible gilt and silvered six-arm gas light (or gasolier). Its very ornate, ... More
Putin goes into battle on a second front: Culture
NEW YORK, NY.- Beyond Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin is also fighting cultural battles. In a speech Friday from the nondescript, beige-walled office in which he has been conducting much of his public business this month, Putin made no mention of Ukraine. Instead, he expanded upon a personal obsession: cancel culture. Western elites canceled author J.K. Rowling because she did not please fans of so-called gender freedoms, Putin said in his nationally televised remarks, flanked by two Russian flags. Rowling was widely criticized in 2020 after voicing support for a researcher whose views on transgender people had been condemned by a court. Japan, he claimed, cynically decided to cancel the fact that it was the United States that dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War ... More
Amid opposition, Laurie Cumbo named New York City's culture czar
NEW YORK, NY.- Laurie Cumbo, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs last week by Mayor Eric Adams, worked as an intern at the Metropolitan Museum of Art when she was 15. She went on to found the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in 1999, in a brownstone in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. And when she was a member of the City Council, she served on its cultural affairs committee. She has also caused offense over the years. In 2013, in the wake of attacks on Jewish residents in Brooklyn, she wrote that many African American and Caribbean residents feared being pushed out by their Jewish landlords. And in 2015 she was criticized after asking why the New York City Housing Authority was moving so many Asian Americans into public housing units in Brooklyn. (She ... More
The Philharmonic's conductor returns to his perch
NEW YORK, NY.- Hes back: After six weeks of guest conductors including some prominent contenders to succeed him as music director when he leaves in two years Jaap van Zweden returned to the New York Philharmonic on Thursday. And hes back, too: A month after swooping into Carnegie Hall as a last-minute replacement for an artist with ties to President Vladimir Putin of Russia, pianist Seong-Jin Cho was once again in Manhattan. They joined at Alice Tully Hall for Beethovens Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor, its opening orchestral chord full and rounded; the balances between the strings and the winds, which had heavily favored the violins at Tully earlier this season, equitable; the tempos judicious. Cho, who played a tour date with the Philharmonic in 2019 but Thursday made his subscription series debut, was ... More
Museum Ludwig opens an Isamu Noguchi retrospective
COLOGNE.- The Museum Ludwig is hosting the first comprehensive retrospective in Europe in over twenty years on the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (*1904 in Los Angeles, 1988 in New York). It will cover all of Noguchis creative periods and practices with 150 works and present him as an experimental and politically engaged artist. The exhibition was organized and curated by the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the Zentrum Paul Klee in Berne, and the Barbican in London, in partnership with LaM Lille Métropole Musée dart moderne, dart contemporain et dart brut. The exhibition would not have been possible without the collaboration of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York. Noguchi is a great twentieth-century sculptor, who is often better known for his iconic collaborations ... More
CUE Art Foundation appoints Jinny Khanduja as Executive Director
NEW YORK, NY.- CUE Art Foundation is thrilled to announce the appointment of Jinny Khanduja to the position of Executive Director. Khanduja comes to CUE from Storefront for Art and Architecture, where she has served since 2015, most recently as the organizations Deputy Director. She brings with her over a decade of experience in programming, planning, and development in the realms of art, architecture, urbanism, and policy. She holds an M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia Universitys GSAPP and a B.A. in International Studies and Spanish Linguistics from Emory University. As Executive Director, Khanduja will oversee CUEs strategic vision and its programs, which include exhibitions by emerging and underrecognized artists and curators at the organizations Manhattan gallery space, mentorship and publication support ... More
Carnegie Museum of Art opens a solo exhibition featuring the paintings of artist and educator Zoe Zenghelis
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art announces Zoe Zenghelis: Fields, Fragments, Fictions, the first solo exhibition featuring the paintings of artist and educator Zoe Zenghelis in the United States. Opening March 26 and on view through July 24, 2022, the monographic show celebrates the interdisciplinary breadth of Zengheliss art practice by bringing her independent work in dialogue with her collaborative projects and teaching methods, as well as with objects from the museums permanent collection. The exhibition is being staged in the galleries of the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art, one of the nations foremost institutes for the study and curation of architecture. Zenghelis ... More
Curator Kathryn Hall to depart this summer, search for new curator announced
HOUSTON, TX.- Houston Center for Contemporary Craft announces the impending departure of Curator Kathryn Hall, who will leave her long-held position this June to relocate to New York City and pursue a series of independent projects. The Center also announces a national search for a new curator to begin work this summer. The impact that Kathryn has made on the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft over her decade-long career here is immeasurable, shares HCCC Executive Director Perry Price. Without the exhibitions she has curated, the work she has fostered with artists and colleagues from the Houston area and across the country, and the scholarship and ideas she has generated, the field of contemporary craft and the arts community of Houston would be much diminished. We have been the grateful recipients ... More
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The Wild Game
Murillo: Picturing the Prodigal Son
The 8 X Jeff Koons
Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo
Flashback On a day like today, painter and photographer Edward Steichen was born March 27, 1879. Edward Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 - March 25, 1973) was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, art gallery and museum curator. Steichen was the most frequently featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917. Together Stieglitz and Steichen opened the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, which eventually became known as 291 after its address. In this image: Edward Steichen, White, 1935, Gelatin Silver Print. Courtesy Condé Nast Archive, New York. © 1935 Condé Nast Publications.
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