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The rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce, designed by Tadeo Ando, with the 19th-century work Triumphal France above, and Urs Fischer's wax replica of the 16th-century Giambologna statue The Abduction of the Sabine Women below, in Paris, May 13, 2021. Contemporary art owned by the billionaire François Pinault is displayed beneath the rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce and frescoes of a colonialist past. Julien Mignot/The New York Times.
by Roger Cohen
PARIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- François Pinault, the French billionaire, has never had much time for convention. Avoid the paths already trodden, has been his motto. Bored with acquiring Impressionist or cubist works with surefire credentials, he said to himself four decades ago: Its impossible that we have become so stupid today that there are no human beings alive capable of creating tomorrows masterpieces. The fruits of that conviction are now on display in a contemporary art museum that opened in Paris on Saturday under the cupola of the Bourse de Commerce. With the Louvre Museum to one side and the Pompidou Center to the other, this upstart in the cultural life of Paris combines tradition and modernity. Once a grain exchange, the light-filled building has undergone a $170 million redevelopment conceived by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando, who previously worked with Pinault at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice. Ando installed a 108-foot-diameter concrete cylind ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Thirza Schaap, Plastic Ocean, Installation at Davisville Subway Station, Toronto, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
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| Laurence des Cars to head Louvre, first woman boss in its history | | Archaeologists vs. computers: A study tests who's best at sifting the past | | Asia Week New York 'LIVE' zooms-in on The Art of Installation and Display on May 27th |
Des Cars currently runs the Musee d'Orsay.
PARIS (AFP).- France on Wednesday appointed Laurence des Cars, known for promoting social issues through art, as the new head of the Louvre -- the first time a woman will be in charge of the world's biggest museum more than two centuries after it first opened. Des Cars currently runs the Musee d'Orsay, the Paris landmark museum dedicated to 19th-century art, where she is already the first-ever woman boss. Her legacy there includes boosting young visitor numbers and giving art and guests more physical space. During her four years at the Orsay, the 54-year old art historian has taken a stance on controversial topics through her work, including some related to race. On Wednesday, she told France Inter radio that she wanted the Louvre to become "an echo chamber of society". She has also come out in favour of restituting works looted by Nazis. "A great museum must face history, including by looking back at the history of our owns institutions," she told AFP ... More | |
Shards of Tusayan White Ware, a type of painted hand-formed pottery used in northeastern Arizona between 825 and 1300. Leszek Pawlowicz and Christian Downum/ Northern Arizona University via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A key piece of an archaeologists job involves the tedious process of categorizing shards of pottery into subtypes. Ask archaeologists why they have put a fragment into a particular category and its often difficult for them to say what exactly had led them to that conclusion. Its kind of like looking at a photograph of Elvis Presley and looking at a photo of an impersonator, said Christian Downum, an anthropology professor at Northern Arizona University. You know something is off with the impersonator, but its hard to specify why its not Elvis. But archaeologists have now demonstrated that it is possible to program a computer to do this critical part of their job as well as they can. In a study published in the June issue of The Journal of ... More | |
Installation shot of Treasures from Asian Armories, Asia Week New York 2019, by Runjeet Singh.
NEW YORK, NY.- When installing a precious work of artwhether its in a gallery, a collectors residence, museum or auction housea variety of elements must be considered for each environment. In The Art of Installation and Display, a panel of prominent experts: Anu Ghosh Mazumdar, Sandra Nunnerley , Runjeet Singh, and William Stender will provide their perspectives on how they approach the process. To reserve a spot, for Thursday, May 27 at 5:00 p.m. (EST) visit:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-iguxT90Q_eqjfU92W_k0Q Says Lark Mason, founder of iGavel Auctions and president of the Appraisers Association of America, who will moderate the discussion: The art of installation is more than just setting an object on a shelf. It takes expertise to understand the environmental conditions and the impact on the objectwhether from direct sunlight, heat, and cold transitionsor the ... More |
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| Hindman Auctions appoints Caroline Mujica-Parodi as Director of Museum Services | | Biden seeks to replace several Trump appointees on arts commission | | Stephen Hawking's office and archive saved for the nation |
She joins the Museum Services Department after working as Managing Director of Private Client Services for the Haven Art Group
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman announces the appointment of Caroline Mujica-Parodi as Director of Museum Services. Ms. Mujica-Parodi brings over 15 years of art industry experience to her role where she will lead the growth of the department and expand Hindmans institutional service offerings to clients including managing valuations, consignments, and acquisitions. We are thrilled that Caroline is joining Hindman and is bringing her significant museum and collections experience to our team, shared Hindmans Chief Executive Officer, Jay Krehbiel. We have always enjoyed strong working relationships with museums, but with Caroline on board, Hindman will be able to broaden the scope and depth of our services to institutional clients. She joins the Museum Services Department after working as Managing Director of Private Client Services for the Haven Art Group, a collection advisory subsidiary ... More | |
The Capitol dome is seen from the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington, June 27, 2019. Samuel Corum/The New York Times.
by Matt Stevens
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Four of the seven members of the federal Commission of Fine Arts, a generally low-key, earnest design advisory group that became embroiled in battles over architectural style during the Trump era, have been told by the Biden administration to resign or face termination, according to the commissions chair. All seven members of the commission were appointed by former President Donald Trump; four were appointed Jan. 12, just days before Trump left office. The commission offers advice on matters of design and aesthetics, as they affect the federal interest and preserve the dignity of the nations capital, according to its website. Trump thrust architecture into the culture wars late in his presidency when he signed an executive order establishing classical architecture as the preferred style ... More | |
Early generation voice synthesiser box used by Stephen Hawking © Science Museum Group
CAMBRIDGE.- In a once-in-a-lifetime acquisition for the nation, a treasure trove of archive papers and personal objects belonging to the late Professor Stephen Hawking from personalised wheelchairs and scientific bets signed with Hawking's thumbprint to his seminal papers on theoretical physics and his scripts from The Simpsons have been acquired by two leading UK cultural institutions. Following a landmark Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) agreement between Cambridge University Library, the Science Museum Group and the UK Government, Hawkings vast archive of scientific and personal papers will remain in Cambridge at the University Library. The entire contents of Hawkings office will be preserved as part of the Science Museum Group Collection, with selected highlights going on display at the Science Museum in 2022. Professor Hawkings Cambridge archive contains letters dating from 1944-2008, a first draft of A Brief His ... More |
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| Fritz Scholder skyrockets to $225k, and more from Los Angeles Modern Auctions Spring Auction | | Ten-year Panza Collection initiative concludes with publication and digital archive | | Germany unveils 2.5 billion euro fund to reboot cultural events |
Fritz Scholder, Indian with Peace Medal, 1972. Est. $10,000-15,000. Realized: $225,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles Modern Auctions closed its May 23rd spring auction with a climactic bout of competitive bidding for Fritz Scholder's 1972 painting Indian with Peace Medal. The large portrait realized a final price of $225,000, fifteen times its high estimate of $15,000, setting the world auction record for any work by the artist. A member of the La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians, Scholder (1937-2005) described himself as a "non-Indian Indian." His post-modern, Pop-inflected depictions of Native Americans are said to have "forever broke[n] the mold of what Indian painting had been," as reported by the Los Angeles Times upon the artist's death in 2005. Scholder studied in his youth with Wayne Thiebaud, created lithographs with the Tamarind Institute, and would influence a new generation of Native American artists, in large part through his teaching role at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in the 1960s. Other record-breaking lot ... More | |
Object Lessons: Case Studies in Minimal ArtThe Guggenheim Panza Collection Initiative. Cover image: Dan Flavin, untitled (to Henri Matisse), 1964. © 2021 Stephen Flavin/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Billy Jim, courtesy Dia Art Foundation, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Object Lessons: Case Studies in Minimal ArtThe Guggenheim Panza Collection Initiative, a major print publication contributing new scholarship on a critical period in art production and the field of conservation. In addition, the museum has launched a new digital archive, the Panza Collection Initiative Records. The book and archive were released upon the conclusion of the Panza Collection Initiative (PCI), a rigorous, three-phase project established in 2010 to investigate the long-term preservation, perpetuation, and display of variable, ephemeral, and fabrication-based artworks of the 1960s and 1970s. Objects from this period may exist in ways that are unstable rather than fixed, and may be subject to changing conditions of medium ... More | |
A river cruise ship on the river Spree makes its way past the Bode Museum on Museum Island in Berlin on May 24, 2021, as operators were allowed to resume business, amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. John MACDOUGALL / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- Germany on Wednesday unveiled a 2.5 billion euro ($3.0 billion) fund to revive the country's pandemic-battered cultural sector and encourage organisers to start planning events again now that the coronavirus outlook is improving. The fund will supplement ticket sales for events where venues' audience sizes must be limited because of hygiene precautions, and provide insurance in case events have to be cancelled or postponed should the pandemic worsen again. "It's about giving people the courage to make plans," Finance Minister Olaf Scholz told a press conference, "so that we can bring our diverse cultural sector back to life". The financial assistance will kick in from July 1 for events with up to 500 participants, followed by events for up to 2,000 attendees from August. The cancellation insurance will cover ... More |
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| Sculpture International Rotterdam enriched with new sculpture by Gavin Turk | | Artsy to auction work by Julie Mehretu with proceeds going to Art for Justice | | Hindman's Spring Modern Design auction surpasses $865,000 |
Gavin Turk, L'Ãge d'Or, 2019.
ROTTERDAM.- On World Refugee Day, Sunday June 20, Mayor of Rotterdam Aboutaleb will unveil a new work of art in Rotterdam. L'Ãge d'Or (2019) by Young British Artist Gavin Turk will be installed on the bank of the Maas, directly opposite the future FENIX Museum of Migration. L'Ãge d'Or is an open door made of painted bronze and measuring over 3.5 metres tall. This larger-than-life door will soon offer a view of the Maas, beckoning towards the North Sea and the Atlantic crossing. FENIX is providing the work on long-term loan to Sculpture International Rotterdam of the Rotterdam City Council. The Wilhelminapier in the Kop van Zuid district is an ideal location. In the 19th and 20th centuries, more than three million emigrants passed through the port of Rotterdam for the other side of the world. From all over Europe, they departed from Rotterdam to start a new life. At this location L'Ãge d'Or represents hope, dreams and opportunities, like ... More | |
The piece titled Dissident Score (201921), is now available online and via the Artsy app with all proceeds going directly to artists and advocates around the nation working to end mass incarceration.
NEW YORK, NY.- Artsy announced today the launch of Julie Mehretu for Art for Justice Fund: Benefit Auction 2021. The single-lot benefit auction, held exclusively on Artsy, will be devoted to a recently completed large-scale painting by Julie Mehretu titled Dissident Score (201921), estimated at $3 million to $4 million. All proceeds from the sale of the artwork will go to the Art for Justice Fund and directly benefit artists, advocates, and organizations working to end mass incarceration. Artsys global marketplace will also create added awareness of the Art for Justice Fund to collectors around the world. The auction will take place on Artsy from May 26th until June 10th. Artist Julie Mehretu commented: Mass incarceration, solitary confinement, youth imprisonment, and putting kids in prison for life without parole are sins of our society, slavery in ... More | |
Solstice. Christopher Ries (American, b. 1952). Price Realized: $25,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman Auctions Modern Design sale saw outstanding results on May 20, and ultimately realized over $865,000. Competitive bidding across multiple platforms led to estimates being surpassed, and works by acclaimed designers such as Mira Nakashima, Martin Szekely, Christopher Ries, and Philip and Kelvin LaVerne achieved top prices. Works by renowned designers Warren Platner, Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová, Vladimir Kagan, David Easton, and Florence Knoll also saw strong engagement. Furniture by American designers saw tremendous interest throughout the auction. Mira Nakashimas coffee table (lot 108) sold for $28,125, over five times its presale estimate. Nakashimas console table (lot 96) also realized a strong price of $13,750 against a presale estimate of $6,000-8,000. Christopher Ries Solstice (lot 200) topped its estimate of $4,000-6,000 to realize ... More |
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Major gift for the Canada Pavilion, Venice and gallery re-named to honour the legacy of Dr. Shirley L. Thomson
OTTAWA.- The National Gallery of Canada Foundation has received a transformational gift that will, in part, commemorate the important work of Dr. Shirley L. Thomson (1930-2010), Director of the National Gallery of Canada from 19871997. The announcement comes on the 33rd anniversary of the official opening of the Gallerys building at 380 Sussex Drive in Ottawa, which was overseen by Dr. Thomson. The new $3 Million anonymous donation establishes a Canada Pavilion Maintenance Fund to support ongoing and future upkeep costs for the Canada Pavilion in Venice, Italy, owned by the National Gallery of Canada. Since 1958, the pavilion has been used as the official site for Canadas participation in the ... More
Jack Shainman Gallery opens an exhibition of new work by Leslie Wayne
NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting The Universe is on the Inside, an exhibition of new work by Leslie Wayne. This series explores the powerful relationship between ourselves and the objects that support and sustain us in our daily lives during a year of complex, unavoidable isolation and ambiguity. At the core of the work is Waynes interest in exploring how we imbue these everyday objects, once inanimate and inert, with subjective meaning and purpose. This poignant and introspective presentation underscores Waynes personal and deeply intimate perspective on the creative process. Grounded in play between trompe loeil and verisimilitude, her pieces hover between abstraction and representation as the shape of each painting takes on the contours of the objects they represent. From utilitarian worktables and loft windows ... More
'Myths and Hymns,' a theater cult favorite, changes shape again
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Listening to Adam Guettels song cycle Myths and Hymns, after a year of pandemic isolation and cautiously hoping for vaccinated freedom, you might feel a pang of recognition in the lyric So get me up/ And get me out/ And let me never return, swelling to Im out of here/ I am going there/ I am gone! A little timelessness is to be expected in Guettels songs, a genre-hopping clash of ancient Greek tales and hymnal texts that debuted in 1998 (with a brief run at the Public Theater in New York that has taken on a mythic status of its own) and has since inspired artists to take it up in a variety of forms as simple as a recital showpiece, and as elaborate as a book musical adaptation. The latest iteration reunites Guettel with Ted Sperling the music director of that original production at the Public, and now the artistic ... More
Exhibition of works of small dimensions created by Agostino Bonalumi opens at The Cardi Gallery
MILAN.- The Cardi Gallery in Milan announced the opening of the Small Gems exhibition by Agostino Bonalumi, devoted to a special selection of works of small dimensions created by the artist during the entire course of his career. It is an official exhibition, realized in collaboration with the Archivio Bonalumi, and offers a truly unique opportunity to see a series works that have rarely been on display. Bonalumi is one of the figures who have made the most significant marks on the Italian artistic scene starting from the 1960s. He took part in the cultural debate that developed in those years, contributing decisively, together with Enrico Baj, Piero Manzoni and Enrico Castellani, to the transcending of informal language in the name of a new objectification of the artwork. Starting from 1959, Agostino Bonalumi began to create shaped works using convex canvas obtained ... More
Greece approves Dior shoot at key ancient sites
ATHENS (AFP).- Greece's top archaeological advisory body Wednesday approved use of several key sites including the Acropolis for an upcoming shoot by French fashion house Dior, a culture ministry source said. The photo shoots will be held for material to be presented during a runway show in Athens next month, the ministry official said. The trip will pay homage to an iconic photo session at the Acropolis 70 years ago for an haute couture collection by Christian Dior. The official said the central archaeological council had "unanimously" approved the shoots. In addition to the Acropolis, photo shoots will be held at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the Ancient Agora in Athens, the temple of Poseidon at Sounio and the temple of Zeus at Nemea, the official said. A further request to shoot at the Panathenaic stadium, where the 1896 Olympics ... More
Vienna's musicians find their voice after months of silence
VIENNA (AFP).- Classical musicians in Vienna are preparing to return to live performances after long months without audiences which have severely tested their motivation and, for some, even thrown their careers into question. They are dusting off their instruments after Austria's easing of coronavirus restrictions allowed cultural venues to open their doors again on May 19. Singers' agent Laurent Delage likens the challenge facing the musicians to "elite athletes who have to fire up the machine again" after a period of inactivity. In the ornate Golden Hall of the Musikverein, considered one of the world's finest concert halls and home to a world-famous New Year's concert, one of those "athletes" is French bassoonist Sophie Dervaux. She is rehearsing a symphony by Gustav Mahler and is keen to perform in front of a live audience again for the first ... More
Robbie McCauley, stage artist who explored race, dies at 78
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Robbie McCauley, a performance artist, writer and director who often put race at the center of plays and other works that sought to alter perspectives and foster dialogue, died Thursday in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she had been living with her sister, Anita Henderson. She was 78. Her family said the cause was congestive heart failure. McCauleys resume included reimagining classic American plays through diverse casting and a stint in the ensemble of Ntozake Shanges groundbreaking 1976 Broadway show, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf. But she was best known for shows she wrote and performed at venues like the Kitchen in Manhattan and Franklin Furnace in Brooklyn, in which she used her family and personal stories to confront universal ... More
Woaw Gallery opens a new group exhibition curated by Sasha Bogojev
HONG KONG.- Following the successful inaugural exhibition that introduced Hong Kongs newest gallery venue located at 9 Queens Road Central, Woaw Gallery is presenting Shape of An Image, a new group exhibition from 21 May 2021 to 14 June, 2021. Shape of an Image brings a selection of works curated by Juxtapoz magazines contributing editor, writer and curator Sasha Bogojev. The show highlights the contemporary practice to transcend the image from its initial flatness towards a three-dimensional sculptural rendering through the use of paint's materiality and/or additional materials. Whether incorporating complex textures (Mahsa Merci, Laura Sanders, Paco Pomet, Mr Starctiy), utilizing the surface of the work as part of an image (Friedrich Kunath, Ben Quilty, Kim Dorland), manipulating thick layers of paint as a sculpting material ... More
TarraWarra Museum of Art announces appointment of Léuli Eshrāghi as Curator for TarraWarra Biennial 2023
HEALESVILLE.- Renowned Sāmoan visual artist, writer, curator and researcher, Dr Léuli Eshrāghi, has been appointed as the curator for TarraWarra Museum of Arts TarraWarra Biennial 2023, opening in April 2023. TarraWarra Museum of Art Director, Victoria Lynn, said the appointment of Eshrāghi to curate the TarraWarra Biennial 2023 is a continuance of the Museums commitment to art as a world-making activity. At this time of global upheaval, it is timely to appoint a person who provides an intellectual, nuanced and sensitive approach to the relationship between art making, race, knowledge and gender, Ms Lynn said. Dr Eshrāghi is a rare combination of artist, curator, writer and academic who will make a unique contribution to the exhibition histories at TarraWarra. Léuli Eshrāghi has built a global profile in curatorial ... More
Anna Halprin, choreographer committed to experimentation, dies at 100
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Anna Halprin, a dancer and choreographer who sought to move beyond what she saw as the constraints of modern dance, and whose experiments inspired, challenged and sometimes perplexed generations of dancers and audiences, died on Monday at her home in Kentfield, in Marin County, California. She was 100. The death was confirmed by her daughter Daria. In a career that began in the late 1930s and took off after she moved to San Francisco in the mid-1940s, Halprin sometimes attracted controversy. But she also attracted students, disciples and enthusiasts fascinated by the creative issues she explored and the way she explored them. Halprins influence as a teacher was far-reaching. Among the dancers and choreographers who studied with her before going on to successful careers ... More
Lost Ravilious work last seen in 1939 unveiled at Hastings Contemporary's summer show
HASTINGS.- Hastings Contemporary, the much loved gallery on Englands south coast announced that it re-opened on 27th May with a spectacular summer blockbuster show Seaside Modern which celebrates and explores the relationship between artists and the beach from the 1920s to 1970s. Marking the beginning of summer and the hopeful and happy return to a better way of life, this exciting exhibition of more than sixty artists and designers works looks at the broader social and cultural phenomenon of the British heading to the beach in ever greater numbers. A cornucopia of visual mastery awaits audiences in Hastings, including paintings, sculptures and drawings produced by many of the most revered artists of the 20th century such as L.S. Lowry, Richard Eurich, Paul Nash, Laura Knight, William Roberts, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. These ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Georges Rouault was born May 27, 1871. Georges Henri Rouault (27 May 1871, Paris - 13 February 1958) was a French painter, draughtsman, and printer, whose work is often associated with Fauvism and Expressionism. In this image: Georges Rouault (French 1871-1958), Tristes Os, 1934. Color etching and aquatint wove paper, 12 1/4" x 7 7/8". SUAC 1975.22.08.
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