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A Manchester Silver Paul Revere Presidential Presentation Bowl, presented as a gift to President and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower from the people of Rhode Island (Estimate: $7,000-10,000) with a Gorham Sterling Silver Military Presentation Tray, with inscription: The General of the Army and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower with The Respect and Affection of Citizens of The District of Columbia, honoring General Eisenhower on His Return from Europe, June 18, 1945, Washington D.C. (Estimate: $7,000-10,000).
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX.- With its milestone 20th anniversary now underway, Lark Mason Associates will present The Collection of Anne Eisenhower with Property from President and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, which goes live on iGavelAuctions.com November 21st through December 19th, 2023. A cocktail reception will be held at Lark Mason Associates on November 18th, 210 West Mill Street, New Braunfels, Texas. This highly anticipated auction of the Estate of Barbara Anne Eisenhower, distinguished philanthropist, renowned interior designer, and granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower will captivate collectors and design aficionados with its exquisite treasures and historical significance. Bidders will eagerly vie for a chance to own pieces curated by a woman whose legacy spans both creative brilliance and charitable endeavors, making this auction a true celebration of her multifaceted ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Fred Wilson: Dramatis Personae 1201 South La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90019 November 4 - December 22, 2023 Photography courtesy Pace Gallery.
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| What is the Inverted Jenny, and why is it worth $2 million? | | Rarely seen Hilma af Klint and special Matisse series opening at Glenstone | | The Morgan Library & Museum presents 'Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality' |
Larry Lyons, the executive director of the Philatelic Foundation, shows an Inverted Jenny postage stamp, in New York, Sept. 5, 2018. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
by Victor Mather
NEW YORK, NY.- Name a stamp. Any stamp. Unless you are a hard-core stamp collector, you might well answer: Theres one with an upside-down old-timey airplane, isnt there? That stamp, known to philatelists as the Inverted Jenny, has transcended the hobby and gained a measure of fame. And the other day, one of them, originally priced at 24 cents, sold for more than $2 million. Oops, I created something of tremendous value. The Inverted Jenny, issued by the U.S. Post Office in 1918, depicts a biplane called the Curtiss JN, known as a Jenny. But in part because of a rush to print the stamps, the plane was accidentally printed upside down on some. Only one block of 100 of the misprinted ... More | |
Hilma af Klint, Tree of Knowledge (detail), 1913-1915. Watercolor, gouache, graphite, and ink on paper. Photo: Courtesy David Zwirner. Courtesy: Glenstone Museum.
POTOMAC, MD.- Today Glenstone Museum is opening Iconoclasts: Selections from Glenstones Collection, an exhibition celebrating developments and breakthroughs in art over the last century. The presentation will cover a range of approaches to artistic production, tracing crucial moments of experimentation that have come to define the postwar era. Through subversion, innovation, and disruption, the more than 50 artists included in Iconoclasts challenged precedents and changed how we experience and understand art today. Drawn exclusively from Glenstones collection, Iconoclasts will feature an extensive selection of widely recognized masterworks that have not been shown at the museum since the opening of the Pavilions in 2018. ... More | |
Fra Angelico, St. Anthony Shunning the Mass of Gold, tempera on panel, Italy, Florence, ca. 143540. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 44.550 / The Edith A. and Percy S. Straus Collection / Bridgeman Images. (Detail)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum is now showing Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality. The exhibition is the first to examine the economic revolution in medieval Europe and to chart the expanding role and perception of money during that period. Anchored around some of the Morgans most acclaimed medieval manuscripts, it critically recontextualizes items from the collection as well as other exceptional objects on loan through a decidedly new lens. Medieval Europe witnessed an economic revolution: trade was conducted on an unprecedented scale, banks were established, and coin production surged. The expanding role of money in daily life sparked ethical and theological debates as individuals ... More |
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| Italian artist Emilio Vedova presents first solo exhibition in Korea | | 'Yoshitomo Nara: The Bootleg Drawings 1988 - 2023' artist's first ever solo show in Geneva | | Gazing into the past and future at historic observatories |
Emilio Vedova, ... Da dove ... 1983 - 13, 1983. Acrylic paint, nitro paint, pastel, charcoal and sand on canvas. 230 x 300 cm (90.55 x 118.11 in). © Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova.
SEOUL.- Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul presents the first solo exhibition of Italian artist Emilio Vedova in Korea. Embodying the bold colours and dynamic, gestural style characteristic of Vedovas abstract work, the exhibition features paintings spanning almost 25 years of the artists long and distinguished career, from the early 1980s to the mid-2000s. The evolution of his practice over this period asserted Vedovas influence on an emerging generation of neo-expressionist artists, including fellow painter and friend Georg Baselitz, and his impact continues to resound in the contemporary art world today. Born into a Venetian family of artisans in 1919, Vedova was almost entirely self-taught as an artist. In 1943, he joined the Italian anti-fascist group Corrente, who celebrated the revolutionary potential of painting and, three years ... More | |
Yoshitomo Nara © Yoshitomo Nara, courtesy Pace Gallery. (Detail)
GENEVA.- Pace will be presenting a survey of drawings by Yoshitomo Nara at its Geneva gallery. The exhibition marks the artists first-ever solo show in the Swiss city. Tracing more than three decades of his career, Yoshitomo Nara: The Bootleg Drawings 1988 2023 will bring together nearly 200 works on paper informed by politics, punk rock, folk music, and 1960s counterculture along with the artists own memories, childhood experiences, and his years spent living in Germany. For his exhibition, Nara has culled a selection of never-before seen works which embraces somewhat raw and unfiltered sensibility. Individually, each drawing in the show sheds light on the artists aesthetic interests and approach to figuration at different points in his life. Together, these works present a holistic, deeply personal picture of his career through the lens of a singular medium. Created in notebooks and on found materials ranging fr ... More | |
This file photo shows firefighters at the top of Mount Wilson during the Bobcat Fire in Los Angeles, Sept. 16, 2020. (Eric Thayer/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- At the top of Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, Lick Observatory looks out over the dense sprawl of the San Francisco Bay Area. On a clear day from the 4,200-foot summit, you can see San Francisco to the north, as well as the entrance to Yosemite Valley, 120 miles east, as the crow flies. At night you can see even farther millions of light-years into space. When it was completed in 1888, Lick (named for its sponsor, James Lick) boasted the best telescopes and best year-round conditions of any observatory in the world. Its white domes were beacons for astronomers and visiting dignitaries, as well as hundreds of curious locals who made the long journey up the mountain each weekend. Now, Lick Observatory is one of only a few remaining historic observatories still open to the public in the United States. Contemporary funding prioritizes ever-larger telescopes ... More |
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| Roberts Projects announces representation of Suchitra Mattai | | Vince Clarke, a synth-pop mastermind, on his unexpected solo album | | 'Springing to Life: Drawings by Leon Kossoff' now opening at Annely Juda Fine Art |
Portrait of Suchitra Mattai in her studio.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Roberts Projects announced representation of Suchitra Mattai. This announcement follows the gallerys first exhibition of Mattais work In the absence of power. In the presence of love. this past July. The Guyana-born artist explores how memory, myth, and oral traditions can be used to unravel colonial and patriarchal narratives. Drawing from European tapestry traditions, Indian miniature painting, and other craft-based traditions like embroidery and weaving, she imagines a future space where new mythologies are formed to celebrate and monumentalize the experiences and labor of brown women. Mattais great-grandparents were brought from the state of Uttar Pradesh, India to Guyana, South America as indentured laborers under British colonial rule. Mattai learned sewing, embroidering, and other techniques ... More | |
Vince Clarke at home in New York on Nov. 6, 2023. Clarkes made irresistible hits with Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure. (OK McCausland/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Do you want to see it? Vince Clarke asked. For the previous few minutes, Clarke, one of the most successful electronic musicians from the 1980s, had tried to explain Eurorack, the system he used to create Songs of Silence, his deeply personal first solo album, due Friday. Its like having a Porsche engine glued together with a reliable Volvo car, and the wheels are the best ones from Dunlop, but they all join together. Does that make any sense? he asked with a laugh. Im very nerdy, he added. Clarkes nerdiness, along with his sterling pop sensibility, has contributed to lots of great music. He wrote the three hit singles on Depeche Modes 1981 debut album, then quit the band and formed a duo, Yazoo, with singer Alison Moyet. ... More | |
Embankment Underground Station, 1993. Pastel and charcoal on paper, 59.5 x 69 cm.
LONDON.- Today Annely Juda Fine Art is opening Springing to Life a survey of an extraordinary body of drawings by Leon Kossoff (b. 1926, d. 2019) curated by Andrea Rose, editor of the artists Catalogue Raisonné. The exhibition will include drawings from 1943 up to some of Kossoffs last drawings of 2014, some of which have never been seen before. Acknowledged as one of the worlds greatest post war figurative painters, Kossoffs paintings are recognisable by his heavily worked impasto paint surface and brushwork. Central to his practise was also a constant desire to draw and sketch from life. Whether in pencil, charcoal, pastel or crayon on paper his drawings show him to be a consummate draftsman capable of subtle delicacy as seen in the intimate sketches of his sleeping baby son ... More |
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| Morgan Lehman opens an exhibition of new works by Kim McCarty | | Eric N. Mack conducting first one-person exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery | | Lyndsey Ingram opens Kate Friend's second solo show at the gallery |
Kim McCarty, "Untitled (Tall Girl)," 2023, Watercolor, oil stick, oil pastel on paper, 78h x 45w in (detail).
NEW YORK, NY.- Morgan Lehman announced the opening of an exhibition of new works by Kim McCarty. This marks the artists fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Over the course of her career, McCarty has fused a deep-seated interest in figuration with a propensity for material experimentation. Her paintings rely on the gauzy, aqueous blur of alla prima watercolor technique to imbue her subjects with a sense of transience, longing, and memory. Often working at a massive scale, McCarty drenches unstretched heavyweight watercolor paper with water before marking the surface with gestural brushwork that clouds and blooms as pigments disperse into substrate. Translucent paint veils overlap and interact to form luminous color networks that verge on the abstract when viewed up close. McCartys painterly approach and ambitious sense of scale produce a powerful rawness in her work; this rawness serves as a counterpoint to the tendernes ... More | |
Installation view, Eric N. Mack, Paula Cooper Gallery, 2023. © 2023 Eric N. Mack.
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.
NEW YORK, NY.- Using fabric and other found objects, Eric N. Mack creates richly textured compositions that collapse the boundaries between fine art, fashion, and architecture. The artist identifies as a painter working in the medium of fabric, although his works frequently move away from the walls to synthesize painting with sculpture. Macks first one-person exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery opened on November 3, following the announcement of his representation in 2021 and his inclusion in four group exhibitions since 2020. In the past year, Mack has completed residencies at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, and the American Academy in Rome, and his site-specific installation Sarong is currently on display at Palazzo Grassi, Venice, through January 2024 as part of the group exhibition Chronorama Redux. The centerpiece of Macks forthcoming exhibition will ... More | |
Kate Friend, Yinka Ilori, Daisy, North London, 2022. C-type colour print. Signed and numbered verso. Edition of 5 with 2 APs: 80 x 65 cm (31 1/2 x 25 1/2 in). Edition of 3 with 1 AP: 153 x 122 cm (60 1/4 x 48 in).
LONDON.- Lyndsey Ingram presents their exhibition, As Chosen By Part II. This is Kate Friends second solo show at the gallery and is the final installment of this series of work. In these portraits, her sitters are flowers or plants, each one selected by a recognisable public figure or creative who is then recast through a plant of their choosing. These sitters are chosen by the artist. Friends approach to making this series is rigorous: a single flower (in bloom on the day of the shoot) and vessel, chosen by the sitter, is shot in natural light at their home, studio or garden on medium format film. Each photograph is as much a portrait of a place and time as it is a portrait of a person and a flower. The coloured backdrop for each image is selected by Friend, with her choice driven both by the aesthetic of the chosen flower and by a deeper intuitive sense of her sitters character. Althou ... More |
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Contemporary Week at Dorotheum: Modern and contemporary art, jewels and watches sales from 28 November to 1 December
VIENNA.- The Contemporary Week auctions at Dorotheum, from 28 November (Modern Art) to 29 and 30 November 2023 (Contemporary Art), demonstrate that works of art can indeed carry social and political explosive potential. Revolutionary art must be abstract this was the credo of the Italian artist Emilio Vedova. With verve and full physical commitment, his raw, brutal brushstrokes and gestures bear witness to the reality of a world shaken by wars. Created in the 1950s and 1960s, his works remain relevant today. This is also the case for the black and red painting "Per la Spagna" ( 240,000-360,000) offered in the Contemporary Art sale on 29 November 2023. Picassos Guernica mural, ... More
Fred Wilson: Dramatis Personae presented by Pace Gallery
LOS ANGELES.- Pace ipresented Fred Wilson: Dramatis Personae, an exhibition of new and historical works by Fred Wilson, at its Los Angeles gallery. On view from November 4 to December 22, the upcoming presentation will situate the artists Murano glass works within his broader inquiries into the ways Blackness has been coded in the construction of Western art history. This will be Wilsons seventh solo exhibition with the gallery since 2012, and it marks the twentieth anniversary of his project for the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Since the 1990s, Wilson has developed an expansive and influential body of work that spans sculpture, painting, photography, collage, printmaking, and installation. Through his interdisciplinary practice, he challenges and deconstructs assumptions surrounding history, culture, and race as ... More
New-York Historical Society announces details of its new Democracy Wing as construction begins
NEW YORK, NY.- Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of the New-York Historical Society, shared new details today about the Museums nearly 80,000-square-foot expansion and renovation project as construction commences. New Yorks first museum and one of the earliest cultural institutions in the United States, New-York Historical will open a new Democracy Wing in 2026, timed to the celebration of the United States of Americas 250th anniversary. Designed by architecture firm Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA) and unanimously approved and highly praised by the Landmarks Preservation Commission for its respect for the past and solicitation of community input, the five-story structure will complete the institutions complex on Central Park West. The addition and renovation will provide New-York Historical with expanded space for educational ... More
Molly Crabapple's most personal project 'The Chair Series' now on view at Postmasters 5.0
NEW YORK, NY.- Postmasters 5.0 is hosting the show Molly Crabapple: The Chair Series, which began on November 11th. Just two humans, pigment, junk cardboard, eye and hand. People from all walks of life had their portraits painted by Molly Crabapple, an artist and writer known for documenting extremes: from nightclubs to war zones. The Chair Series is Crabapples most personal project. Seated in the same chair for the intimate one-on-one sessions in her apartment the sitters and the artist share more than the space. The result is a group of extraordinary images at once loud and poetic. "I painted this series from between the winter of 2022 and the summer of 2023, when the city had finally crawled out from under COVID and all I wanted was the physical presence of other humans. For each portrait, I sat a friend or stranger on a pink ... More
Works from the Saloni Doshi Collection 'The Right To Look' now on view at Space118
MUMBAI.- Celebrating more than twenty years of impassioned art collecting, The Right To Look introduces to the public for the first time the photographic collection of the Mumbai-based art patron, Saloni Doshi. Borrowing from the notable visual theorist Nicholas Mirzoeff, the exhibition mediates on profound currents that define Saloni's carefully considered collection a collection rooted in history and informed by the present that is audacious in challenging our right to look. That we have with us images which touch upon the experiences of humanity, pricking us with questions like, 'who gets to look at the camera?'; 'what does the viewer see?'; and perhaps most importantly, 'what do the photographs show, and what do they hide?', is a testament to her keen eye, a lifelong enthusiasm for engaging with photography, and the narration ... More
'Hollow Leg' at Laurel Gitlen displays works that permute production into metaphor and back again
NEW YORK, NY.- The fruits of mass production are always in season. Ripe products constantly drop, bounce around and then settle, packing every available nook and cranny of negative space in the world. When enough solid objects accumulate, they begin to mimic liquid, oozing out of our carts, closets, and feeds to envelope, saturate and reseed themselves in our bodies and minds. Insatiability irrigates the fields, keeps conveyor belts rolling; our collective hollow leg never fills. Is art, by definition, scarce and difficult to produce? Does it circulate in the same flowing ooze of consumer goods? Artists circumvent societal rationale surrounding labor and value, to more intimately negotiate the value of their products in a speculative and volatile marketplace. But artistic access to broader global consumer markets is limited by the most timeless ... More
Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York exhibits a collection of photographs by Paulette Tavormina
NEW YORK, NY.- Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York announced Fiori del Giardino, a collection of photographs by Paulette Tavormina. This will be her first solo exhibition with the gallery. Through these strikingly detailed still life compositions, Tavormina reflects on moments of fleeting beauty in nature. With a clear nod to Old Master still life painting, Tavorminas works are deeply personal and speak to her own family history and lived experience. Like Golden Era Dutch still lifes, Tavorminas photographs capture theatrically lit flora, fauna, and foods. Her subjects are perfectly imperfect, and their relationships with one another create meaningful vignettes. Dutch Tulips and Goldfish, for example, is a cheerfully abundant composition depicting quintessentially Dutch flowers arranged organically in a glass bowl. A pair of fritillaria droop ... More
Israel-Hamas War sows disruption at the National Book Awards
NEW YORK, NY.- As the cultural fallout from the war in the Middle East continues, several finalists for the National Book Award plan to call for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip during the ceremony Wednesday. Two sponsors have decided not to attend the ceremony after learning authors were planning a political statement. I dont want to look back on this time, said Aaliyah Bilal, a finalist in the fiction category and one of the authors planing to speak out, and say that I was silent while people were suffering. Rumors that authors would take a stand regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict during the ceremony were flying in the days leading up to the event, but it was unclear what the statement would include, leaving several sponsors concerned. One of the sponsors that withdrew after learning that some authors were planning a political ... More
An opera's riverboat journey brings the rainforest onboard
NEW YORK, NY.- There really was no reason for Mary Zimmerman to get stuck while directing her new production of Florencia en el Amazonas, which premieres Thursday at the Metropolitan Opera. The staging is her sixth for the Met, and at first glance, the work looked to be square in her wheelhouse. Her storytelling often has a dreamlike quality, and here was an opera suffused with poetic oneirism and the magical realism of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez: the tale of a diva traveling incognito on an Amazonian riverboat ostensibly to perform in Manaus, a city nestled deep in the rainforest, but really to try to reunite with her missing lover and muse, butterfly hunter Cristóbal. Yet when time came to start conceptualizing her production, Zimmerman found herself stalling. The fit was maybe too perfect. Im quite a bit overidentified with Florencia, ... More
Joe Harjo's main space exhibition investigates language as a tool for oppression
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace San Antonio announced their Fall Main Space exhibition, featuring local artist and City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture Individual Artist Grant Recipient, Joe Harjo. Harjos solo exhibit, Look Now What Ive Become is currently on view and will remain so through December 31, 2023. A public reception will be held on Thursday, December 7, alongside the Hudson Showroom opening. A multidisciplinary artist, Harjo continues to expose the realities of Native culture in America. Look Now What Ive Become delves into the impact of language, identity, and the nature of citizenship. This exhibit aims to explore how language shapes societal perception and confronts the cultural manipulation of the terms immigrant and native within America's complex relationship with citizenship, white nationalism ... More
'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea' review: Aubrey Plaza steps into the ring
NEW YORK, NY.- Nursing beers and munching on pretzels, Danny and Roberta are sitting at neighboring tables in a Bronx bar as Hall & Oates slinky hit I Cant Go for That (No Can Do) booms out of the jukebox. Where do you dare me/To draw the line?/Youve got the body/Now you want my soul, the song goes, as if laying out a playbook for the complicated courtship that they are about to enact. These two hopeless loners are the only people in the bar in this off-Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanleys Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, at the Lucille Lortel Theater. Though modest in scale, the show is one of the falls hottest thanks to its stars, Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbott. Plaza, who is making her stage debut, has seen her screen career shift to a higher gear in the past few years, with acclaimed performances in the ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, The Hoxne Hoard was discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes November 16, 1992. November 16, 1992.- The Hoxne Hoard is the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain, and the largest collection of gold and silver coins of the fourth and fifth century found anywhere within the Roman Empire. Found by a metal detectorist in the village of Hoxne in Suffolk, England, on 16 November 1992, the hoard consists of 14,865 Roman gold, silver and bronze coins from the late fourth and early fifth centuries, and approximately 200 items of silver tableware and gold jewellery.
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