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John Kacere, Anne 88, 1988, oil on canvas, 40 x 60 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Louis K. Meisel Gallery is presenting Remembering John Kacere, a solo exhibition that surveys and celebrates the career of the late Photorealist painter. Recognized for his large-scale paintings of womens lingerie-clad midriffs, Kacere was an early practitioner in the Photorealist style. His surprising compositions have long been the subject of controversy, and yet, his work continues to resonate with contemporary audiences, having served as visual inspiration to cultural tastemakers that include Sophia Coppola and Christopher Kane. Originally an Abstract Expressionist, Kaceres iconic figurative paintings began in the late 1960s. Featuring only the torsos of women clothed in silky lingerie and nightgowns, this series of paintings was presented in large-scale, with many early works measuring 55 by 80 inches or larger, far greater than lifesize. Dramatically cropped from the bottom of the rib cage to mid-thigh, these oversized ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day All's fair in love and war - and especially fair is the pricing! Join Artemis Gallery for a specialty auction featuring axes, mace heads, swords, spears, various types of armor, and more! In this image: 19th C. Indian Steel Bagh Nakh
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| | Peabody Essex Museum receives outstanding collection of modern Asian photography | | EU to target stolen artefacts in post-Brexit talks | | Rem Koolhaas and AMO explore radical change in the world's nonurban territories at the Guggenheim |
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, 69th Street, Woodside, From the series Habitat 7, 2004 (detail), color transparency. Gift of the Joy of Giving Something Foundation, Inc., 2019. © Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao.
SALEM, MASS.- The Peabody Essex Museum has accepted a transformational gift of more than 1,600 works of photography from the Joy of Giving Something (JGS) Foundation. The JGS Foundation, a nonprofit formed in 1998, is renowned for work that explores the intersection of photography and social issues, as well as its support for emerging artists and arts education. This gift of photographs features the work of 123 artists, primarily those of East Asian descent or working in East Asia, from 1930 to the present day. The addition of these exceptional 20th-century artworks to PEMs already strong collection of 19th-century photography makes PEM one of the leading institutions for Asian photography in the U.S. and Europe. We are so grateful for JGSs extraordinary generosity in supporting PEMs photography program, said Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, PEMs James B. and Mary Lou Hawkes Deputy Director. These ... More | |
A picture taken on February 19, 2020 shows the European Union flags fluttering outside the European Commission building in Brussels. kenzo tribouillard / AFP.
BRUSSELS (AFP).- Europeans could include the issue of stolen cultural artefacts, especially Greek or Roman antiquities, in negotiations on their future relationship with Britain, according to the latest draft of the EU negotiating mandate. The mandate, seen by AFP, sets out the EU's objectives and red lines and now includes a call on the parties to "return unlawfully removed cultural objects to their countries of origin". Early reports, denied by officials on Wednesday, said the mention pertained to the Parthenon marbles, the ancient sculptures commonly known as the Elgin marbles that are on display in the British Museum in London. EU diplomats insisted that this was not the case, but aimed to ensure stolen artefacts that arrived into post-Brexit Britain could not be sold legally. A British government spokeswoman ruled out the prospect of discussing the iconic sculptures during next month's trade talks. ... More | |
Installation view. Image: Laurian Ghinitoiu courtesy AMO.
NEW YORK, NY.- From February 20 through August 14, 2020, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents the exhibition Countryside, The Future, organized in collaboration with architect Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal, director of AMO, the think tank of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. To coincide with the opening of the exhibition, the book Countryside, A Report (Guggenheim Museum and Taschen, 2020) has been published. Countryside, The Future is organized by Troy Conrad Therrien, Curator of Architecture and Digital Initiatives, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in collaboration with Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal, Anne Schneider, Alexandr Zinoviev, Sebastian Bernardy, Rita Varjabedian, Yotam Ben Hur, Valentin Bansac, with Ashley Mendelsohn, Assistant Curator, Architecture and Digital Initiatives, at the Guggenheim. In June of 2014, the UN released World Urbanization Prospects, a report that announced that half of all humankind now lived in ... More |
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| | 300th anniversary of Piranesi's birth marked by exhibition of his work as a draughtsman | | Major retrospective on Madame D'Ora opens at Neue Galerie New York | | Afghan artist brushes aside disability to open arts centre |
A monumental staircase in a vaulted interior with columns, c. 1750-55 © The Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- Virtuosic and turbulent, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 1778) was a visionary printmaker, architect, antiquarian and dealer. These varied aspects of his career were based on his practice of drawing, which has received comparatively little attention. The British Museum will mark the 300th anniversary of Piranesis birth through a new exhibition focusing on his work as a draughtsman. Piranesi drawings: visions of antiquity will examine his draughtsmanship through the quality and impact of his pen and chalk studies, as well as examining how the Venetian artists style developed throughout his career. This exhibition is the British Museums first to focus on Piranesi as a draughtsman and celebrates the extraordinary richness of its collections of his drawings, which is one of the largest groups in the world. Through over 50 works, Piranesi drawings looks at his practice broadly chronologically with sections ... More | |
Countess J. Gozdawa-Godlewska in a silver lamé evening gown by Maggy Rouff, ca. 1938. Photoinstitut Bonartes, Vienna.
NEW YORK, NY.- Opening at Neue Galerie New York on February 20, 2020, Madame DOra will be the largest museum retrospective on the Austrian photographer ever presented in the United States. Dora Kallmus (18811963), who came to be known as Madame dOra, was an unusual woman for her time with a spectacular career as one of the leading photographic portraitists of the early 20th century. The exhibition will consist of sections devoted to the different periods of her life, from her early upbringing as the daughter of Jewish intellectuals in Vienna, to her days as a premier society photographer, through her survival during the Holocaust. On view through June 8, 2020, the show will include more than 100 examples of her work, which is distinguished for its extreme elegance, and utter depth and darkness. Forging a path in a field that was dominated by men, dOra enjoyed an illustrious 50-year career, from ... More | |
This photo taken on December 5, 2019 shows 19-year-old Afghan artist Robaba Mohammadi painting in her studio in Kabul. NOORULLAH SHIRZADA / AFP.
by Mushtaq Mojaddidi
KABUL (AFP).- Unable to use her hands, arms, or legs, Afghan artist Robaba Mohammadi has defied unlikely odds in a country that routinely discriminates against women and disabled people. Denied access to school, as a child she taught herself to paint by holding a brush in her mouth, clenching it between her teeth to create elaborate and colourful portraits. Today, the 19-year-old's works sell and exhibit internationally, and she is so accomplished that she has launched a dedicated centre to help train other disabled artists. "I do paintings mostly about Afghan women, women's power, the beauty of women, the beauty of paintings, love, and the challenges women face," Mohammadi said. Some 50 students attend classes at her centre in Kabul, which she opened last year and funds herself with money from selling ... More |
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| | Award-winning architecture firm Barozzi Veiga will design new Miami home for Oolite Arts | | Stack's Bowers Galleries to offer multimillion dollar Gold Rush coin | | Whisky auctioneer breaks multiple world records including million dollar Macallan |
Barozzi Veiga Architects by Christine Mendenhall.
MIAMI BEACH, FLA.- Oolite Arts, the leading resource for Miami-based visual artists, has selected the Barcelona-based firm Barozzi Veiga to create a new home for the organization in the City of Miami. Barozzi Veiga, recently chosen to create the Art Institute of Chicagos new masterplan, will design the new campus slated to open in 2022. Miamis visual arts community has grown exponentially over the past decade, and Oolite Arts has transformed its programming to help Miami-based artists grow, said Dennis Scholl, president and CEO of Oolite Arts. Our new home will enable us to better meet the needs of both visual artists and the community. Now in its 36th year, Oolite Arts helps Miami-based artists advance their careers, by providing visual artists with free studio space, exhibition opportunities and the financial support they need to experiment and grow. The sale of its Miami Beach building in 2014 ... More | |
The first-ever 1854-S half eagle coin, struck in April 1854 just one day within of the opening of the San Francisco Mint, is the finest of just three examples confirmed to exist. It has been graded AU-58+.
BALTIMORE, MD.- Stacks Bowers Galleries will offer an extremely rare $5 gold coin or half eagle worth millions of dollars in their upcoming auction, scheduled for March 20 in Baltimore, MD. The first-ever 1854-S half eagle coin, struck in April 1854 just one day within of the opening of the San Francisco Mint, is the finest of just three examples confirmed to exist. It has been graded AU-58+, far finer than the EF-45 example that brought $2.16 million in August 2018. To help deal with the overwhelming amount of gold discovered in California during the Gold Rush, the United States set up an official government Branch Mint in San Francisco in April 1854, the first such facility west of the Mississippi. On the second day of official operations, the Mint struck 268 five-dollar gold coins ... More | |
Highly coveted, valuable and rare Macallan 1926 Valerio Adami 60 Year Old with a hammer price of $1,072,000.
PERTH.- Whisky history has been made as the results from the first part of the worlds largest private whisky collection to go to auction were announced today Wednesday (19th February 2020) with notable record breaking hammer prices. Sold by the online whisky auction, Whisky Auctioneer from Perthshire in Scotland, the auction saw 1642 bidders from 56 countries around the world taking part. The highly coveted, valuable and rare Macallan 1926 Valerio Adami 60 Year Old with a hammer price of $1,072,000 (£825,000) broke the current world record hammer price of $912,000 set from October 2018. The sale also creates a landmark moment for the secondary whisky market, with Whisky Auctioneer becoming the first online whisky auction to sell a million dollar bottle. Bids for the lot came in from across 11 countries, including UK, Germany, ... More |
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| | Originally the property of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands 1938 Lagonda LG6 Drophead Coupe | | Exhibition at Museum Tinguely explores our sense of taste as a dimension of aesthetic perception | | Photography archive of Shawn Walker and a collection of Harlem photography workshop acquired by Library of Congress |
1938 Lagonda LG6 Drophead Coupe.
DUXFORD.- Originally the property of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and known by subsequent keepers as 'Penelope' this stunning car featured extensively in the authoritative book 'Lagonda' by Bernd Holthusen. It comes to auction with H&H Classics at Duxford Imperial War Museum on March 18 with an estimate of £200,000 to £250,000. The drophead coupe was beautifully restored by the late Peter Whenman of Vintage Coachworks during 1992-1993 and is still highly presentable. The LG6 was invited to the 2016 Dutch Paleis Het Loo Concours d'Elegance where it won its class. The four-seater was also an award winner with the Lagonda Club in both 1959 and 2003! A very special Post Vintage Thoroughbred says Damian Jones of H&H Classics. The Lagonda was used by the vendor to learn how to drive whilst it belonged to his father from 1958-1962 and has been in the current ownership since 2002. Prince Bernhard was ... More | |
Daniel Spoerri, Achtung Kunstwerk (Attention oeuvre d'art), 1968. Jar with pickled herring, glass, herring, paper, plastic, 12 x 7.5 cm. Vice-Versand edition, ex. no. 3. Centre Pompidou Musée national dart moderne Centre de création industrielle, Paris © 2020, ProLitteris, Zurich. Photo: Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Georges Meguerditchian.
BASEL.- Does art taste sweet, sour, bitter, salty or even umami? What role does our sense of taste play as an artistic material and in our social interactions? Museum Tinguely continues its series on the human senses in the arts that began with Belle Haleine (2015) and Prière de toucher (2016). The group exhibition Amuse-bouche. The Taste of Art (February 19May 17, 2020) presents artworks by some 45 international artists from the Baroque period to the present, all of which explore our sense of taste as a dimension of aesthetic perception. Breaking with the usual museum practice of appealing primarily to the sense of sight, the show offers ... More | |
Portrait of Shawn Walker. Photo: Jenny Walker.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Library of Congress has acquired the archive of photographer Shawn Walker and his collection of photos, ephemera and audio recordings representing the influential Kamoinge Workshop based in Harlem. Founded in New York City in 1963, the Kamoinge Workshop is a collective of leading African American photographers, such as Anthony Barboza, Louis Draper, Adger Cowans, Albert Fenner, Ray Francis, Toni Parks, Herb Randall, Herb Robinson, Beuford Smith and Ming Smith. Walker is a founding member and also served as an archivist, helping to preserve the groups history. The Shawn Walker archive contains nearly 100,000 photographs, negatives and transparencies depicting life in Harlem a pivotal crossroad of African diaspora culture between 1963 and the present. The Kamoinge collection generously donated by Walker consists of nearly 2,500 items, including prints by Kamoinge members such ... More |
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Blank Forms announces the official formation of The Maryanne Amacher Foundation
NEW YORK.- Blank Forms announces the official formation of The Maryanne Amacher Foundation and the donation of her archival material to The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Assembled shortly before her death in 2009, Maryanne Amachers archive contains a wealth of knowledge and research potential that promises to be a source of interest and inspiration for generations of artists and scholars to come. Much of the material was organized by Amacher herself, including for example, a critical collection of documents that she felt to be her most important works and writings representing various periods, as well as annotated drafts, project notes, performance materials, ephemera, audio versions dating to the early '60s, and more. In addition to notebooks, scores, sketches, and other papers, the archive consists of over ... More
Pérez Art Museum Miami acquires works by Vaughn Spann and Theresa Chromati
MIAMI, FLA.- On Saturday, February 15, Pérez Art Museum Miami hosted artists, philanthropists, and museum supporters for the seventh annual Art + Soul, which supports the museums Fund for African American Art and highlights the vast scope of African American and African Diasporic artists. PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans revealed the funds most recent art acquisitions: The bull is out and my foot is in my mouth (are we staying or leaving)?, a painting by Theresa Chromati, and Marked Man (Mitchell), a mixed media painting by Vaughn Spann. Both artists address themes of African American identity and the politics of life in the moment with personal though also collective subjectivity. The evening also honored philanthropist and collector Pamela Joyner, whose collection will be displayed in PAMMs upcoming exhibition opening next month on April 24, Solidarity ... More
Bronx Museum names Jasmine Wahi Holly Block Social Justice Curator
BRONX, NY.- The Bronx Museum of the Arts announced the appointment of Jasmine Wahi as the Holly Block Social Justice Curator for exhibitions in 2021, which marks the museums 50th anniversary. In the role, Wahi will curate exhibitions that highlight the museums rich history of social activism, with a focus on both emerging and established artists responding to The Bronx. Im inspired to join an institution whose mission of inclusivity reflects my own values as a curator, said Jasmine Wahi, Holly Block Social Justice Curator at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. I look forward to bringing dynamic programming that channels the longstanding history of activism and radicalism for which the Bronx Museum is known, and am excited for the future of what that looks like both regionally and at a global scale. Wahi is a curator, activist, TEDx speaker, and a founder ... More
Buzzy Linhart, eccentric and eclectic singer-songwriter, dies at 76
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Buzzy Linhart, a whimsically eccentric singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose compositions were recorded by Bette Midler, Carly Simon and others, died on Thursday in Berkeley, California. He was 76. His son Xeno Rasmusson confirmed the death. He said Linhart had been in declining health since having a heart attack in 2018. The anthemic (You Got to Have) Friends, written by Linhart and Moogy Klingman, became Midlers unofficial theme song after appearing in two versions on her debut album, The Divine Miss M (1972). It was also sung by Barry Manilow on his first album and, later, by the Muppets, in a duet with the actress Candice Bergen, and by Eddie Murphys donkey character in the hit animated feature film Shrek. On his own, Linhart wrote the shimmering ballad The Loves Still ... More
Inspiration - Iconic Works opens at Nationalmuseum
STOCKHOLM.- On 20 February, an exhibition of iconic works and how they have influenced contemporary artists opens at Nationalmuseum in Sweden. One of the exhibitions key questions is why some works of art have become more famous than others? Artists in the exhibition include Marina Abramović, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Nancy Fouts, Mark Karasick, Sara Masüger, Kiki Smith, Yinka Shonibare and Henrik Jonsson. The 19th century was the great century of the foundation of museums in Europe. Art history was built up via the collections, the museums exhibitions, and the art history handbooks. The works in the Inspiration Iconic Works exhibition emphasise the strong links between art history and contemporary art. More than thirty artists from various parts of the world are participating, to show how they have worked with the great ... More
'Cauleen Smith: Mutualities' opens at The Whitney
NEW YORK, NY.- Mutualities, the multidisciplinary artist Cauleen Smiths first solo show in New York, opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art on February 17. The exhibition includes two films, Sojourner (2018) and Pilgrim (2017), shown in two installation environments newly created for the Whitney, along with a group of new drawings, collectively titled Firespitters (2020). Scott Rothkopf, Senior Deputy Director and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator, remarked, Were delighted to welcome Cauleen Smith back to the Whitney. With their exquisite atmosphere and construction, Sojourner and Pilgrim offer lyrical views of important figures and sites in Black history, and also look toward a shared future. The show builds a beautiful bridge between the other pillars of our spring exhibition program, pointing to the political concerns of Vida ... More
'Good Times' actress Ja'Net DuBois dies
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- JaNet DuBois, the actress who played the sassy Willona Woods in the 1970s TV show Good Times and sang the theme song to The Jeffersons, died Monday at her home in Glendale, California. Her death was confirmed by her daughter Kesha Gupta-Fields. DuBois family said she was 74, although public records indicate she may have been older. Good Times was one of the first sitcoms with a predominantly black cast and was noteworthy for featuring a two-parent home. DuBois character, Willona, was the single upstairs neighbor of Florida Evans (played by Esther Rolle), the matriarch of the shows family. Willona was stylish and outspoken, but she also had a big heart. She did not hesitate to take in Penny, an abused child played by a young Janet Jackson. While she was taping Good Times, DuBois ... More
Zoe Caldwell, winner of four Tony Awards, is dead at 86
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Zoe Caldwell, who won Tony Awards four in all in the 1960s, 80s and 90s, the last for portraying the opera star Maria Callas in Master Class, Terrence McNallys study of the twilight of the singers career, died Sunday at her home in Pound Ridge, New York, in Westchester County. She was 86. Her son Charlie Whitehead said through a spokeswoman that the cause was Parkinsons disease. Caldwell, born in Australia, began her acting career in that country; joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in England in 1959; and then, after a stop at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, was part of the inaugural season of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in 1963. In 1966 she was in a bill of two short Tennessee Williams plays on Broadway, combined under the title Slapstick Tragedy. The run lasted only seven ... More
In 'Anatomy of a Suicide,' pain in triplicate
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- When I walked into Alice Birchs Anatomy of a Suicide at the Atlantic Theater Company, a spell of springlike weather had snapped toward freezing. When I walked out again, the temperature hadnt really budged. But the world felt even colder. Cleareyed, comfortless, often dazzling, like sun on ice, Anatomy of a Suicide follows three generations of women tethered to life by the thinnest possible filament. Staged simultaneously across three time periods seemingly the 1970s, the 1990s, the 2030s it explores, unflappably, the interior devastation that leads at least two of these women to take their own lives. The play, which won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2018, is also, somehow, a bleak love letter to mothers trying the best they can, even if that best is appallingly inadequate. Did I mention ... More
Art Brussels 2020 announces galleries' content for 38th edition
BRUSSELS.- Now in its 38th edition, Art Brussels - one of Europes oldest and most established art fairs - maintains its reputation as a discovery fair and reveals details of the artistic presentations by participating galleries. The fair welcomes returning local and international galleries to its PRIME section who continue to exhibit thoughtfully presented booths, alongside an increased number of SOLO presentations - 31 this year, proving Art Brussels continues to become more highly curated with each edition. Alongside the new and exciting works commissioned for the fair, Art Brussels 2020 will feature thought-provoking artworks which examine gender, technology, cultural identity and environmental issues. New commissions include Antwerp based visual artist Philip Mettens booth design and scenography for Zeno X (Antwerp) and Joel Meslers live portrait painting ... More
La Cucaracha: New photographs by Pieter Hugo go on display for the first time in the UK
LONDON.- This latest body of work is the result of four trips to Mexico by Hugo over a period of two years. During these trips Hugo travelled to the industrialised zone of Mexico City, the desert of Hermosillo and the mountainous regions of Ixtepec and San Crisobel, The resulting photographs a mix of individual portraits, vibrant and visceral landscapes, interior studies and still lifes present a multifaceted study of place. Mexico has a particular ethos and aesthetic; there is an acceptance that life has no glorious victory, no happy ending. Humour, ritual, and a strong sense of community and an embrace of the inevitable make it possible to live with tragic and often unacceptable situations. There is a very different relationship with death here to what I am used to. If one looks beyond the clichés of dancing skeletons and sugar skulls, theres a deeply complicated ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Jan de Baen was born February 20, 1633. Jan de Baen (20 February 1633 - 1702) was a Dutch portrait painter who lived during the Dutch Golden Age. He was a pupil of the painter Jacob Adriaensz Backer in Amsterdam from 1645 to 1648. He worked for Charles II of England in his Dutch exile, and from 1660 until his death he lived and worked in The Hague. His portraits were popular in his day, and he painted the most distinguished people of his time. In this image: Members of the magistrate of The Hague, 1682.
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