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Imaging scientists at the National Gallery of Art in Washington examine Vermeers Girl With the Red Hat. National Gallery of Art, Washington via The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- For the past three decades, art historians have questioned the authenticity of two paintings by Johannes Vermeer held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. They were the only paintings among his authenticated works that were completed on wooden panels. So, while the museum was closed during the coronavirus pandemic, its curators, conservators and scientists used powerful new technology to look beneath the paintings and try to figure out exactly whose hand was responsible. On Saturday, the group presented its findings and officially change the attribution for Girl With a Flute. It is a Vermeer no more. Microscopic pigment analysis and advanced imaging technology revealed an unusual approach to layering pigments within the painting. Whoever was imitating the 17th-century Dutch artist had botched his ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Paul P., Vespertilians exhibition view Maureen Paley: Studio M, London, 2022 © Paul P., courtesy, Maureen Paley, London. Photo: Mark Blower.
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| Wildfire destroys a piece of Black history in rural California | | David Lynch joins Pace Gallery | | Centro BotÃn puts on "Expanded View" exhibition of works by Damián Ortega |
Chester Hopkins picking through the rubble of his Lincoln Heights home, which he owned for 40 years before it burned in the Mill fire, in Weed, Calif., Sept. 17, 2022. Brian L. Frank/The New York Times.
by Kellen Browning
WEED, CALIF.- The gray rubble appears suddenly on both sides of the highway winding through this small Northern California town, as houses give way to a landscape of charred wreckage and the remains of homes, bleached white by wildfire. The devastation stretches for blocks. Metal skeletons of cars and blackened trees indicate where properties once stood in the shadow of Mount Shasta. This neighborhood, Lincoln Heights, was once the thriving and vibrant home of a Black community a rare sight in predominantly white, rural Siskiyou County, which hugs the Oregon border. Black laborers moved here from Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas to work at a lumber mill in the 1920s, and their descendants continued to live ... More | |
David Lynch, White Table Top Lamp, 2022 © David Lynch.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace announced its worldwide representation of artist and filmmaker David Lynch. For over five decades, Lynch has nurtured a multidisciplinary practice that stems from his early work as a painter and spans painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, music, and film. From November 4 to December 17, Pace will present an exhibition of new and recent work by Lynch at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York, marking the artists first show with the gallery. Titled Big Bongo Night, the exhibition will feature mixed media sculptures, paintings, and a work on paper that shed light on Lynchs distinctive visual arts practice. Concurrent with Lynchs debut at Pace, Sperone Westwater in New York will present I Like to See My Sheep, a show dedicated to his works on paper that follows the artists major solo exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and drawings with the gallery in 2019. Though he is an artist ... More | |
Damián Ortega. Photo: Belén de Benito.
SANTANDER.- Centro BotÃn presents Expanded View [Visión Expandida], an exhibition of works by Mexican artist Damián Ortega (b. Mexico City, 1967). Curated by Vicente TodolÃ, President of Fundación BotÃns Art Advisory Committee, the exhibition runs from 8 October until 28 February 2023 on Floor 2 of Fundación BotÃns arts centre inSantander. In his artwork, Ortega uses his ingenuity and humour to deconstruct familiar objects and processes. By changing their functions and transforming them into original experiences and hypothetical situations, he raises broader issues such as the economic, social and political discourse associated with the material and the relationships it is given. The artist investigates various aspects of the material used from its composition and molecular behaviour to the discourses that shape it and situate it within ownership dynamics and hierarchies. His work applies the concepts of physics to human inter ... More |
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| Sculptor Arlene Shechet disrupts the view in new installation at Harvard Art Museums | | Modern Art opens exhibition of new work by Peter Halley | | Gallery 125 Newbury opens new gallery space with Wild Strawberries |
Arlene Shechets Swim (2012) and Tumbling Vases (2012), displayed in one of the wall niches. Image: Courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums; © President and Fellows of Harvard College.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The Harvard Art Museums have unveiled a new, one-of-a-kind installation designed by contemporary American sculptor Arlene Shechet. Disrupt the View: Arlene Shechet at the Harvard Art Museums presents recent work by the artist alongside historical German, Japanese, and Chinese tableware and figures from the museums collections, encouraging visitors to look anew at works of porcelain and other objects. The multiyear installation is on view through July 6, 2025, in Gallery 1510 (Level 1). Disrupt the View was organized by Lynette Roth, Daimler Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum; Jessica Ficken, Cunningham Curatorial Assistant for the Collection in the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art; and Gabriella Szalay, former Renke B. and Pamela M. Thye Curatorial Fellow ... More | |
Halleys exhibition at Modern Art comprises a group of new shaped-canvas paintings that Halley has been evolving over the past several years.
LONDON.- Modern Art announced an exhibition of new work by Peter Halley at its Helmet Row gallery. This is Halleys second solo exhibition with Modern Art. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Peter Halleys paintings and extensive writings about the ever-growing digitisation of cultural, artistic, and social life established him as a leading figure of the Neo-Conceptualist movement in New York City. In his paintings and writings, Halley described the increasingly isolated built environment through his uniquely invented language of cells, prisons and conduits. These central motifs were a means of thinking through the French Post-Structuralist ideas of Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard among others in relation to digital technology and capitalism. The gridded forms of Halleys paintings reference not only the societal structures of the urban grid and the expa ... More | |
Paul Thek, Untitled (Hand with Ring), 1967, Photo: Richard Gary © The Estate of George Paul Thek, Courtesy Alexander and Bonin, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gallery 125 Newbury announced the opening of its new project space in New York helmed by Arne Glimcher, founder of Pace Gallery, located at the corner of Broadway and Walker Street in Manhattans Tribeca neighborhood. The new space opened to the public on September 30, 2022 with Wild Strawberries, an intergenerational group show of 17 artists whose works traffic in the dreamlike exchange between threat and seduction. Inspired by Ingmar Bergmans 1957 cinematic masterpiece, Wild Strawberries brings together sculpture, painting, photography, and film by a wide range of artists, including Lynda Benglis, Lee Bontecou, Julie Curtiss, Alex Da Corte, Doreen Lynette Garner, Robert Gober, David Hammons, Deana Lawson, Shahryar Nashat, Brandon Ndife, Kathleen Ryan, Lucas Samaras, Max Hooper Schneider, Kiki Smith, Paul ... More |
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| Legends of music: The Beatles, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane and more at Bonhams Music Auction | | Andrew Kreps Gallery now represents Julien Creuzet | | Second annual edition of The Big Collectibles Show will be held at Akron-Canton Airport |
A saxophone played by John Coltrane estimated at $50,000 70,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- An alto saxophone played by John Coltrane, a tablecloth signed and doodled on by The Beatles and Joan Baez on the night of the Beatles last ever live performance, a dress Billie Holiday wore on stage, and other objects documenting the history of 20th Century Music will be presented in a Bonhams online sale, Music, from October 7 19. The sale brings together a curated selection of instruments, autographed documents, vintage tour posters, photographs, and personal items. A highlight of the sale is a saxophone played by John Coltrane (1926-1967) on a Prestige Records recording with Gene Ammons All Stars in 1958, estimated at $50,000 70,000. A titan of American jazz and 20th century music, Coltrane borrowed this alto saxophone from Ira Gitler, jazz historian and Down Beat Magazine editor, for the historic recording. It was Gitler who first coined the phrase sheets ... More | |
Julien Creuzet, Our secrets back to back, our secrets in our romances..., 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Andrew Kreps Gallery announced the representation of Julien Creuzet (b. 1986, Blanc-Mesnil, France.) Creuzet's first solo exhibition in New York, flapping feathers our hands our wings glimmer to dance the orange sky, is on view through October 29 at the gallery's 394 Broadway location. Both skeletal and architectural, Julien Creuzets materially dense sculptures weave together his own lived experience with the broader, social reality of the Caribbean Diaspora, which is the result of shared history but simultaneously, has produced a multitude of outcomes. Abstract in appearance, the works metal armatures are drawn from maps, topographies, and an array of other images. The resulting forms slowly accrue media, found and new plastics in kaleidoscopic color, detritus, torn fabric, varying textures, and the vestiges of Creuzets own touch, creating an accumulation of material that feels like the aftermath of moving thro ... More | |
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt Man With A Heart campaign poster, offered by Ted Hake and Scott Mussell, $2,000.
NORTH CANTON, OHIO.- Where can a $5 bill buy collectors an entertaining day of antiques and collectibles shopping, free expert appraisals, and admission to one of Americas most exciting museums? At The Big Collectibles Show taking place October 21 and 22 at the MAPS (Military Air Preservation Society) Air Museum. Housed in a giant hangar at the south end of Akron-Canton Airport, the museum venue ordinarily houses 42 deactivated historical aircraft. However, to accommodate the 2022 edition of The Big Collectibles Show, all airplanes except those which are aerially displayed will be removed so 260 tables can be set up 50 more than there were at the 2021 debut show. Last year, the shows footprint allowed for 210 tables, but because the event was a sellout with no room for additional tables, some dealers missed out. For the shows 2022 edition, the lone jet that had ... More |
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| Award-winning painter Selma Parlour's third solo exhibition opens at Pi Artworks | | East African rarities among global attractions at Heritage World Paper Money Auction | | Helen Frankenthaler's enduring love affair with printmaking shines through in Heritage's Prints & Multiples Auction |
Selma Parlour, Salon II, 151.5 x 122 cm, oil on linen 2.
LONDON.- Having created a unique visual vocabulary comprising diagrammatic space, framing, trompe l'oeil illusion, haptic surfaces, transparency, repetition, and of course, colour, Selma Parlour, on view since October 6 at Pi Artworks Gallery, is known for her meticulous oil paintings that appear as though they are drawn, dyed, or printed. These elegant paintings, which will be exhibited through October 28th, belie a rigorous process that sees the weave of the soft linen substrate exposed within colour. And, colour pastel, vivid, sour is backlit by the white primer beneath creating a glow reminiscent of the photograph or screen. From Piet Mondrians homogenisation of pictorial space, to Jonathan Laskers impasto lattices, and Heimo Zobernig leaving his masking tape attached, the modernist grid is synonymous with an assertion of painting as a literal object, over and above its facility for illusion. Conve ... More | |
Incredible High Denomination 50 Florins. Serial Number 8 East Africa East African Currency Board 50 Florins = 5 Pounds 1.5.1920 Pick 12 PMG.
DALLAS, TEXAS.- Bidders will have a chance to acquire a combination of extraordinary artwork with historical storytelling when more than 500 banknotes from around the globe are offered Oct. 20 in Heritage Auctions World Paper Money Signature® Auction. 2022 has been an incredible year for our world banknote collectors. This auction adds to the unparalleled variety of high-quality notes we have recently offered. Heritage Auctions Numismatics Vice President Dustin Johnston said. Our global network of offices and experts have sourced incredible rarities, many of which have never been offered at auction. The auction includes a selection of 10 extraordinary banknotes from East Africa, including a Serial Number 8 East Africa East African Currency Board 50 Florins = 5 Pounds 1.5.1920 Pick 12 PMG About ... More | |
Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Marilyn Monroe, from Marilyn Monroe, 1967, Silkscreen printed in colors on paper. 36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm) (sheet), Ed. 167/250, Signed in pencil and number stamped verso. Published by Factory Additions, New York.
DALLAS, TEXAS.- In the art world October is Print Month, which makes this the perfect moment to present a lavish selection of works by artists whose mastery of printmaking and working in multiples distinguished their careers. As seasoned collectors continue to invest in the prints of their favorite artistswho often made some of their most innovative and distinctive work in editioned formand new collectors find the liveliness and accessibility of prints irresistible, Heritage offers its October 26 Prints & Multiples Signature® Auction, featuring significant works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Helen Frankenthaler, Pablo Picasso, Keith Haring and more. This is a rich and varied collection of highly sought-after works by many of the art worlds ... More |
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Gallery Tour: 20th Century & Contemporary Art | London | October 2022
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Fotomuseum in Maastricht presents the exhibition BACK HOME
(MAASTRICHT).- Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, the Netherlands, presents the exhibition BACK HOME from 9 October 2022 until 29 January 2023. The museum shows new works by eight professional photographers nominated for the Somfy Photography Award 2022. The two winners of the European photography competition will be announced at the opening of the group exhibition. The photographers include Jérémy De Backer (FR), Popel Coumou (NL), Nathalie Daoust (CAN), Chantal Heijnen (NL), Viktor Hübner (DE), Bas Losekoot (NL), Petra Noordkamp (NL) and Fab Rideti (FR). The finalists have visualized the current theme of BACK HOME in an individual photo series and are each given their own space in the museum to present the series. The global pandemic in 2020 and 2021 forced everyone to focus on 'home'. Suddenly, much more time ... More
The NGV unveils The Rigg Design Prize 2022: Major exhibition of contemporary advertising and communication design
MELBOURNE.- An Australian-first creativity index on the share market, a vending machine selling priceless inventions, and an invaluable scratchie card are among eight creative campaigns launched today as part of NGV's Rigg Design Prize 2022. The exhibition that opened to the public on Friday 7 October, Rigg Design Prize highlights the creativity underpinning the work of eight leading Australian-based agencies. Including the Australian offices of multinational and independent creative agencies, the finalists invited by the NGV to compete for the $30,000 triennial Prize are: Clemenger BBDO Melbourne, DDB Group Melbourne, Frost*collective, Gilimbaa, Leo Burnett Australia, TBWAMelbourne, The Royals ... More
Arlington Arts Center changes name to Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington and launches national biennial exhibition
ARLINGTON, TEXAS.- Arlington Arts Center, the visual arts anchor in Arlington for nearly five decades, has changed its name to the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington. The new name was approved by its Board of Directors as a strategic step to increase its visibility and to reflect its position as a premiere hub for contemporary art and artists and as the only art museum in Arlington County. For nearly fifty years, Arlington Arts Center has built a reputation for launching the careers of emerging artists and presenting some of the finest contemporary art exhibitions in the mid-Atlantic region, said Carrie Schum, Board Chair of the museum. Changing our name to the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington reinforces ... More
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park announces new leadership: Tricia Reed, Adam Weinert and Paloma Herrera
TIVOLI, NY .- Kaatsbaan Cultural Park announced new leadership appointments effective this month. Tricia Reed will be Kaatsbaaan's Managing Director, effective October 17; Adam Weinert will join as Artistic Associate, also beginning October 17; and Paloma Herrera will be Artistic Director for Kaatsbaan Ballet Intensive 2023, effective immediately, with Kevin McKenzie stepping into the role of Artistic Advisor. I am thrilled to welcome these deeply talented leaders to our organization, said McKenzie, Kaatsbaan Co-Founder, Board Chair and Artistic Advisor. They each bring a depth of experience, knowledge and vision and I am confident they will help Kaatsbaan Cultural Park further deepen its mission to provide an extraordinary environment for cultural innovation and excellence. Tricia Reed is an Arts Administrator and Concert & Special Events Producer ... More
Review: Lift me up (but where?). A dance of escape and connection.
NEW YORK, NY.- Its not over I think thats what I heard the young dancer Logan Farmer whisper as she walked toward the center of the French Institute Alliance Françaises Skyroom on Thursday, setting in motion the premiere of Kimberly Bartosiks The Encounter. Soon, Farmer raised her gaze and arms. It was the posture of someone who longs to escape, to be taken away maybe up, up and away. It was the posture of the assumption of Mary, of the Rapture, of alien abduction. It turned out to be a core gesture of the hourlong dance. Reviewing Bartosiks 2020 work Through the Mirror of Their Eyes in The New York Times, Gia Kourlas remarked on a resemblance to the Netflix sci-fi series Stranger Things. That resemblance continues in The Encounter, presented as part of the Crossing the Line Festival in New York City. As ... More
Anton Fier, drummer who helped shape a downtown scene, dies at 66
NEW YORK, NY.- Even at his musical peak in the 1980s, Anton Fier, a drummer, producer and bandleader who brought power and precision to his work with acts as diverse as the Feelies, Herbie Hancock, Laurie Anderson and his own star-studded ensemble, the Golden Palominos, seemed to glimpse a dark end for himself. Film and music critic Glenn Kenny, in an email, remembered running into Fier in the mid-1980s at the Hoboken, New Jersey, nightclub Maxwells, then a cauldron of indie rock, and querying him about alarming details on the sleeve of the Palominos album Visions of Excess. The rear cover featured a photograph of Fier, visibly drunk, quaffing a cocktail at a rock club. With it was an acknowledgment that read, For Jim Gordon and Bonzo, a reference to the Derek and the Dominos drummer who murdered his mother during a psychotic ... More
What I've learned in 60 years of listening to the Philharmonic
NEW YORK, NY.- In April 1962, having just turned 14, I attended a New York Philharmonic concert at Carnegie Hall that brought together my top two classical music heroes: Leonard Bernstein and Rudolf Serkin. Well, three heroes, if you include Beethoven, the evenings featured composer. I can still see Serkin swaying on the piano bench, mouthing the German words to a joyous theme, almost a beer hall tune, in the Choral Fantasy, as he played along. Their exhilarating performance of the mighty Emperor Concerto made me fantasize about somehow, someday playing it. After the concert, I waited at the stage door and, mumbling shyly, got Serkins autograph. I still have two scrapbooks of programs and playbills from those days, now falling apart. That Carnegie concert was just five months before the orchestra was to take up residence ... More
A Kurt Cobain opera examines the myth, not the man
NEW YORK, NY.- Onstage at the Royal Opera House here last Friday, actor Agathe Rousselle pulled a huge, furry green coat over her head as four singers swarmed around her, demanding money and favors. Rousselle was rehearsing Last Days, a new opera in which she plays out the final hours in the life of Blake, a rock star reminiscent of Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of the grunge band Nirvana who died by suicide in 1994. Rousselle was also wearing the style of vintage white sunglasses Cobain made famous. As Rousselle hid under the coat, the stage manager appeared, carrying a shotgun. That prop remains onstage throughout the opera, reminding the audience of the forthcoming tragedy and the potential cost of fame. Last Days, which premiered Friday, is one of the most eagerly anticipated new operas in Britain this fall, having long ... More
Judy Tenuta, accordion-playing 'love goddess' of comedy, dies at 72
NEW YORK, NY.- Judy Tenuta, a stand-up comic who shot to fame during the 1980s by delivering her frenetic, off-kilter comedy while dressed in outlandish outfits, playing the accordion and anointing herself the Love Goddess, died Thursday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 72. Her longtime manager, Roger Paul, said the cause was ovarian cancer. The stand-up scene was largely a male one when Tenuta and other women, Paula Poundstone and Rita Rudner among them, began cracking comedys top ranks in the 1980s. The 1988 American Comedy Awards named her comedy club female comic of the year. (Jerry Seinfeld won the equivalent award for men that year.) Two of her comedy albums were nominated for Grammy Awards for best spoken comedy album, Attention Butt Pirates & Lesbetarians in 1995 and In Goddess We Trust in 1996. Tenuta ... More
Günter Lamprecht, German actor who electrified in 'Berlin Alexanderplatz,' dies at 92
NEW YORK, NY.- Günter Lamprecht, the German character actor whose acclaimed performance anchored Rainer Werner Fassbinders 14-part television epic, died Tuesday in Bad Godesberg, a suburb of Bonn, Germany. He was 92. His agent, Antje Schlag, confirmed the death, at an elder care facility, on Friday. When Berlin Alexanderplatz was first broadcast in West Germany in 1980, Lamprecht was hailed for his portrayal of Franz Biberkopf, an ex-convict navigating life in the gritty Berlin of the late Weimar era. Berlin Alexanderplatz was later shown in movie theaters in the United States, in cut of more than 15 hours. In the 1990s, Lamprecht became a familiar face to television viewers in the newly reunified Germany as police inspector Franz Markowitz on the long-running crime procedural, Tatort. Before Berlin Alexanderplatz, ... More
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Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia
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Flashback On a day like today, British artist Simeon Solomon was born October 09, 1840. Simeon Solomon (9 October 1840 No. 3 Sandys Street, Bishopsgate, London, England - 14 August 1905 in St. Giles's Workhouse, Endell Street) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter. Examples of his work are on permanent display at the Victoria and Albert Museum and at Leighton House. In December 2005/January 2006, there was an important retrospective of his work, held at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, and in London at the Ben Uri Gallery in October / November 2006. In this image: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, 1863.
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