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The architect Emilio Ambasz at his apartment in New York on April 22, 2023. A man of many hats, Ambasz practiced green architecture long before it was fashionable. (Sasha Maslov/The New York Times)
by Matt Shaw
NEW YORK, NY.- When architect Emilio Ambasz won a 1998 competition to redesign the headquarters of Eni SpA, an oil company controlled by the Italian government, he recalled wagging a metaphorical finger at the companys president, saying, You owe it to Italy to do something green. Ambasz proposed a new facade for the building that would cover the rusting and leaking 1960s curtain wall and save millions by eliminating the need to relocate workers. This exterior portion would be a 20-story vertical garden, which would cool the building by shading it with flowers and plants that would change colors seasonally. Although the green facade was never built, it represented a typical confrontation by a fearless pioneer. No polluting, extractive governmental bully was going to shrivel his environmental dreams. Now 79 and a witness to many trendy environmental innovations, including verdant towers, Ambasz finds t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day MoMA PS1 will present the largest museum exhibition to date of the work of multidisciplinary artist Daniel Lind-Ramos (b. 1953, LoÃza, Puerto Rico). In this image: Daniel Lind-Ramos. Centinelas de la luna nueva (Sentinels of the New Moon). 2022â2023. Photo: Steven Paneccasio.
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| La Belle Epoque Auction House and Vintage Poster Gallery to present lecture series | | Andréhn-Schiptjenko opens Cornelia Baltes first exhibition at the gallery | | In Berkeley, a library protest is a fight for anthropology in an AI age |
Rene de Joie, 1892, by Toulouse Lautrec.
NEW YORK, NY.- La Belle Epoque Vintage Posters, which also houses the newly re-opened La Belle Epoque Auction House, will host a lecture in collaboration with ArtfulBuzz.com, La Belle Epoque Era of Advertising on Sunday, June 4thfrom 2-4pm at 71 8th Avenue in Manhattan, with featured speaker Linda Tarasuk, co-owner, La Belle Epoque Auction House and La Belle Epoque Vintage Posters. As many are aware, longtime co-owners Linda Tarasuk and Elie Saporta are considered to be among the top professionals globally in the area of La Belle Epoque era advertising posters.Their expertise has allowed them to maintain their highly-regarded all original vintage poster business, ... More | |
Cornelia Baltes, Ell, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 40 x 3 cm (19 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 1 1/8 in.). Photo: Joe Clark.
STOCKHOLM .- Cornelia Baltes first exhibition at Andréhn-Schiptjenko is now open until June 22, 2023. The artist is known for her paintings and installations that oscillate between abstraction and figuration. Her iconography slips in and out of recognition, where the viewer may discern hints of objects or figures in the broad, fluid strokes overlaying iridescent colour. Baltes scans the environment for everyday, peripheral details and convert them into something monumental, tempting the viewer to process and make sense of what is seen. The resulting paintings are formally and figuratively in flux, and morph into a different narrative for each of us. ... More | |
Books at the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library at the University of California, Berkeley, which is slated for closure to save costs, on April 22, 2023. (Marlena Sloss/The New York Times)
by Tim Arango
BERKELEY, CA.- To kick off homecoming weekend last fall, the University of California, Berkeley, held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new data sciences building, known as the Gateway. At a cost of more than half a billion dollars, the 367,270-square-foot building, with extended sightlines and natural light-filled corridors, is being billed as a hub for research in artificial intelligence, data analytics and machine learning. That may represent the future, but the past is just a short ... More |
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| Shara Hughes at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art | | Ahlers & Ogletree announces results of its Estates & Collections auction | | Phillips' New York Evening Sale to offer exceptional works across 20th century & contemporary art |
Artist Shara Hughes, now on view at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark.
AALBORG.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber announced the exhibition Right This Way by the US-American artist Shara Hughes at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark, now on view from May 4 to September 17, 2023. Hughes works are at once surreal and abstract, inviting and alarming, beautiful and scary. Their bold, clashing colours and shifting perspectives manifest into immersive and dream-like landscapes. Hughes invented landscapes, as she calls them, neither depict true-to-life landscapes nor the imagined. Though profoundly personal, her fantastical worlds are also open-ended, inviting us in as portals to our own experiences and psychological discovery. The exhibition will consist mainly of new works, including works on paper, as well as large-scale paintings inspired by the Nordic landscape and light. After a short residency in Skagen, Hughes also became draw ... More | |
Brass plaque by Roy Lichtenstein (American 1923-1997), titled Modern Head Relief (1970), with an etched signature and edition number of 70/100 ($14,250).
ATLANTA, GA.- A monumental Art Deco style bronze jardiniere sold for $26,620, a Cartier style 18kt yellow gold and diamond panther collar necklace finished at $20,520, and a brass plaque depicting a stylized face by Roy Lichtenstein realized $14,520 in Ahlers & Ogletrees three-session April Estates & Collections auction held April 20th, 21st and 22nd in Atlanta, Ga. The Art Deco style bronze jardiniere, 54 ½ inches tall, was after a vase by Pierre Lenoir (French 1879-1953) and Marcel Guillard (French 1896-1932), for Etling, Paris. It was sculpted as two semi-nude, draped maidens standing back-to-back, supporting an ovoid urn between them, resting on a rectangular base and having allover verdigris patination. The heavy 18k yellow gold and diamond panther collar necklace, made in the manner of Cartier, contained about 364 ... More | |
Pablo Picasso Tête de femme au chignon, 1952 Estimate: $6,000,000 9,000,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced highlights from the New York Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art. Boasting a strong mix of Modern, Post-War, and Contemporary Art, with artists such as Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein, Yayoi Kusama, and Anna Weyant, the sale features 41 lots that represent the true breadth of the category. Leading the auction is an exceptional Banksy painting, Banksquiat. Boy and Dog in Stop and Search, executed in response to a 2017 exhibition of Jean-Michel Basquiats work at the Barbican Centre in London. Works with fascinating backstories and provenance by Yayoi Kusama, Andy Warhol, and Robert Rauschenberg will also be among the star lots of the auction. The Evening Sale will take place on 17 May at 432 Park Avenue, following the Day Sale on 16 May. Jean-Paul Engelen, President, Americas, and Robert Manley, Deputy Chairman, the Worldwide Co-Heads of 20th Century & Contemporary ... More |
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| Unique jewellery pieces by Kerstin hlin Lejonklou donated to Nationalmuseum | | 'Paul Wackers: Sounds Before The Sun Hits' now open at Jack Hanley Gallery | | Phillips' Day Sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art poised to be among the most successful in company history |
Kerstin Ãhlin Lejonklou, Lena Olofsson, Brooch, 2003. Silver, gold, mandarin garnet. NMK 51/2023.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has received six unique pieces of jewellery designed by the Swedish silversmith Kerstin Ãhlin Lejonklou. The pieces, in gold and oxidized silver set with brilliants, tanzanite, rubies and mandarin garnet, were designed between 1974 and 2007. They have been generously donated by the artist herself, who is closing her Ãstersund studio after 60 years. Kerstin Ãhlin Lejonklou (born 1937) enrolled at Konstfack in 1956. Over the course of her career, her jewellery has evolved from understated modernistic pieces, designed with wearability and function in mind, into statement pieces that express her personal aesthetic. Ãhlin Lejonklou herself was the prime mover behind this evolution, and her jewellery serves as an expression of the wearers personality. Geometric forms are a recurring feature in her work. One day I fell in love. With a cube, she has said. Different surface ... More | |
Paul Wackers, Sounds Before The Sun Hits, 2023. Acrylic, spray paint on canvas, 73 1/2 x 107 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Hanley Gallery is opening Sounds Before The Sun Hits, a solo exhibition of new work by Brooklyn-based artist Paul Wackers. This will be the artist's first solo show in New York in seven years and his second solo show with the gallery. In this exhibition Wackers presents a new series of works that continues to expand on his signature style of strange and vibrant still life painting. The artist creates abundant scenes that are often framed by a grid system, with shelving and surfaces creating frames within the paintings. While the compositions in this series are increasingly busy, there is a shift in the use of color in this show. The palettes are relatively calm compared to earlier works. The resulting effect is a very balanced group of paintings. The compositions are further enhanced by varying forms of paint application, with splatters of acrylic paint and spray paint present throughout. ... More | |
Keith Haring, Untitled, 1982. Estimate: $600,000 - 800,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced highlights and the full web catalogue from the upcoming 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sales taking place on 16 May at 432 Park Avenue, New York. Maintaining a firm hold on the growing middle market, the Morning and Afternoon Sessions feature a wide range of blue-chip and fresh-to-market artists. Amongst important post-war names, such as Wayne Thiebaud, Joan Mitchell, and Keith Haring, are many exciting works from artists hitting their stride. The sale preview will commence on 6 May and will be on view through 15 May with the works available to view online for the Morning Session here and the Afternoon Session here. Annie Dolan and Patrizia Koenig, Co-Heads of the New York Day Sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, said, We are pleased to present one of Phillips largest Day Sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art to date, encapsulating some ... More |
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| The Fine Art Museums of San Francisco appoint Chief Philanthropy Officer Danielle St. Germain | | Nicola Vassell opens 'Uman: I Want Everything Now' | | Hung Liu's 'Two continents: Themes and Variations' to be honored with closing reception |
St. Germain joins the Fine Arts Museums from the San Francisco Ballet, where she has led the organization as its Executive Director in partnership with Artistic Director Tamara Rojo. Photography by Gary Sexton Photography. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, comprising the de Young in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, today announced the appointment of Danielle St.Germain as its Chief Philanthropy Officer. With more than 25 years of leadership experience in arts management and fundraising, St.Germain will plan, implement, and oversee the Fine Arts Museums philanthropic initiatives across development, special events, and museum membership in support of the organization's strategic vision and growth. She will assume her role in June. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are delighted to welcome Danielle St.Germain as our Chief Philanthropy Officer, said Thomas P. Campbell, ... More | |
Uman, Yellow #5, 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nicola Vassell has opened Uman: I Want Everything Now, an exhibition steeped in Umans life story, which will remain on view until June 17th, 2023. She is an artist who wanders probingly into her own psyche, grounds herself in a ritualistic creative practice, and venerates the time and space that metaphysical artwork demands.
Born in Somalia, followed by a childhood in Kenya, adolescence in Denmark, early-adult life in New York City, and current residence in Upstate New York, her geographic migration and personal evolution embody perpetual motion. Her travels, triumphs and traumas inform her inventory of knowledge. Umans workencompassing painting, drawing, sculpture and glassblowingare documents of metamorphosis: an intricate cosmos of imagination and geometry. Channeled through every medium she explores, her self-image proliferates into myriad pictorial outcomesan intimate dance with nature, wit, lore ... More | |
Manchu Bride Study (Red), 2020, mixed media, 20.5 x 20.5 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Dorothy Moss, Director of the Hung Liu Estate, prior curator of the National Portrait Gallery & NHG announces a closing reception on May 4th from 6-8 PM for the exhibition Two Continents: Themes and Variations which first opened on March 9th at Nancy Hoffman Gallery. Hung Liu spent half her life in China, where she was born in Changchun in 1948. The second half of her life she lived in the United States until the time of her death in Oakland in 2021. She was a citizen of two countries: China and the United States, living in each for 36 years. She grew up in Beijing during the revolutionary era of Mao Zedong. In 1968 she was sent to the countryside for four years during the Cultural Revolution where she worked with peasants in rice, wheat, and cornfields seven days a week. During this time, she photographed local farmers with their families and also made drawings of them. After returning from the countryside, ... More |
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Dressed to Impress: Coronation Portraits with Jonquil OâReilly
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Mario Carrieri: Fuoriortiocola 2023 now on view at Gallerie d'Italia
MILAN.- The Gallerie dItalia in Milan is now presenting Amati Fiori, a photographic exhibition of works by Mario Carrieri. For the last forty years, the artistic research of Mario Carrieri has been focused on the theme of the 'tragic nature of human existence'. Large-scale works, imagined as large stages on which the flower-actors act out the tragedy of the fragility of beauty and the awareness of its transience. Realised on the occasion of Orticola 2023 an event that aims at promoting the knowledge of plants and flowers the exhibition has been inspired by the writings by the 1911 Nobel Prize winner, Maurice Maeterlinck. Orticola 2023's theme aims to stimulate a deeper awareness of plants and flowers, where they are seen not merely as ornaments but as living organisms, highlighting not only their intelligence, but also their ability ... More
As Broadway rebounds, 'Some Like It Hot' gets 13 Tony nominations
NEW YORK, NY.- As Broadways rebound from the pandemic shutdown picks up pace, Tony nominators showered much-sought attention on a wide variety of shows, from razzle-dazzle spectacles to quirky adventurous fare. Some Like It Hot, a musical based on the classic Billy Wilder film about two musicians who witness a gangland slaying and dress as women to escape the mob, scored the most nominations: 13. But it faces stiff competition in the race for best new musical ticket buyers have not made any of the contenders a slam-dunk hit, and there does not appear to be a consensus among the industry insiders who make up the Tony voting pool. Three other musicals picked up nine nominations apiece: & Juliet, which combines pop songs with an alternative narrative arc for Shakespeares star-crossed lovers; New York, ... More
Robert Patrick, early, and prolific, playwright of gay life, dies at 85
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Patrick, a wildly prolific playwright who rendered gay (and straight) life with caustic wit, an open heart and fizzy camp, and whose 1964 play, The Haunted Host, became a touchstone of early gay theater, died April 23 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 85. The cause was atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, said Jason Jenn, a friend. Patricks story is intertwined with that of Caffe Cino, the New York coffee shop that was the accidental birthplace of off-off-Broadway theater. One day in 1961, a 24-year-old Patrick followed a cute boy with long hair into the place, where playwrights John Guare, Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson and, soon, Patrick, all got their starts; the cute boy was John P. Dodd, who went on to be a well-known lighting designer and die of AIDS in 1991. The cafe, run by a former dancer named ... More
Muses upon muses inside the Met Gala cocktail party
NEW YORK, NY.- Nicole Kidman and her husband, Keith Urban, were among the first celebrities to arrive inside the Great Hall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday for the Costume Institute benefit, honoring designer Karl Lagerfeld. The couple was accompanied by Baz Luhrmann and his wife, Catherine Martin. For the cameras, Kidman, with her long, strawberry blond locks, in a swath of peachy fabric, seemed to float toward Luhrmanns side, in front of a towering centerpiece featuring hundreds of one-liter plastic bottles sourced from a recycling plant. The light of many flash bulbs reflected off the bottles, lighting Luhrmanns face as he fluffed Kidmans train, gesturing with his hands, softly, toward her face. Kidman, who starred in Luhrmanns films Moulin Rouge! and Australia, poked her chin up, meeting the directors hand ... More
Anke Van Wagenberg, Ph.D. named Senior Curator of American and European Art at Norton Museum
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- Today, the Norton Museum of Art announced the appointment of Anke Van Wagenberg, Ph.D. to the position of Harold and Anne Berkley Smith Senior Curator of American and European Art. In this expanded position, Van Wagenberg will be responsible for developing innovative, original exhibitions of European and American paintings, sculpture, and works on paper; proposing acquisitions that will enhance the museums collection in this area; and overseeing care of the Museums permanent collection. Additionally, Van Wagenberg will steward the Friends of American Art (FoAA), one of the Nortons four curatorial friends groups that boasts a membership of sophisticated collectors and enthusiasts and supports acquisitions for the benefit of the Museums permanent collection. Van Wagenberg assumes ... More
Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. to offer The Jean-Marc and Danielle Belzile Collection, May 13th in Quebec
NEW HAMBURG.- For the first time ever, Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. will leave the cozy confines of its home province of Ontario to venture into Quebec, and with good reason. The firm will auction the outstanding Jean-Marc and Danielle Belzile collection of 18th and 19th century Quebec furniture, folk art, sculpture and Canadiana on Saturday, May the 13th. Instead of a customary online-only sale, Miller & Miller will hold the event live, at the Marriott Courtyard West Island/Baie-d'Urfé in Quebec (20000 Route Transcanadienne, Baie-d'Urfé, QC H9X 0B3), starting at 9am Eastern time, as well as online, via LiveAuctioneers.com and MillerandMillerAuctions.com. Phone and absentee bids will be accepted for the sales 359 lots. Beginning in the 1960s, Jean-Marc and Danielle Belzile set out to find the rarest, the most ... More
Mod Brit artist records broken at Sworders
LONDON.- The auction record for the Anglo-Czech painter Ernest Neuschul (1895-1968) was broken twice at Sworders sale of Modern & Contemporary Art on April 25. Two oils by the increasingly collectable artist, entered for sale by London private clients, attracted international bidding. Estimated at £2000-3000, but sold at £23,000 to Czech buyer was Woman holding a bowl of fruit The subject, shown against a black background, is said to be Neuschuls first wife, the Dutch-Javanese dancer Takka-Takka (real name Lucie Lindenmannovou) who he met in Prague shortly after the First World War. They enjoyed Weimar Berlin together as Neuschul made his name as a painter in the avant-garde New Objectivity movement. However, as a socialist and pacifist of Jewish descent, he was later declared a degenerate by the Nazis and fled ... More
Illuminating Rachmaninoff's Vespers, a pinnacle of Russian sacred rep
NEW YORK, NY.- In a classical music world obsessed with anniversaries, be they grand or modest, the 150th birthday of Russian émigré composer Sergei Rachmaninoff has inevitably drawn notice. Just as inevitably, commemorations have tended to focus on his war horses: the symphonies, piano concertos and solo piano works. It seems to have fallen to Steven Fox and his excellent choirs to tend to Rachmaninoffs motley but treasurable body of choral works. The sacred ones, particularly with their flowing yet restrained lyricism and none of the bombast or sentimentality often associated with the composer represent the very best of Rachmaninoff. On Wednesday, Fox, artistic director of the New York-based Clarion Music Society, will return to his alma mater Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire to lead the Clarion Choir ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Frederic Edwin Church was born May 04, 1826. Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 - April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, perhaps best known for painting large panoramic landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets, but also sometimes depicting dramatic natural phenomena that he saw during his travels to the Arctic and Central and South America. In this image: Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), Winter Twilight from Olana, about 1871-2. Oil on paper, 25.6 x 33 cm© New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation / Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY (OL.1976.4)
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