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Installation view of the Deering Estates Great Hall. Two paintings by Mira Lehr: Pandoras Blossoms, and Emerging from the Field of Reeds. Photo by Zachary Balber.
MIAMI .- The nationally acclaimed artist Mira Lehr, celebrated as the Godmother of Miamis Art Scene, has been selected for several prominent exhibitions, art fairs, and events during the eagerly awaited return of Art Basel Season this year in Miami. The Deering Estate has chosen Lehr for its season opener, with the new solo exhibition Mira Lehr: Regenerative Rhythms. Curated by Melissa Diaz, the show features all new works by Lehr created in 2021 that have never before been exhibited. International recognition of Lehrs artistic trajectory rises to even greater heights this year ― Skira Editore, one of the worlds leading publishers of art books, will host a private, by-invitation-only event during Art Basel Miami Beach to announce the new, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view: Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon, Whitechapel Gallery, 29 September 2021 - 9 January 2022. Image courtesy Whitechapel Gallery. Photo: Theo Christelis.
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| Israeli diver finds 900-year-old crusader sword | | Soundsuit by American multimedia artist Nick Cave acquired by Honolulu Museum of Art | | Christie's New York 21st Century Evening Sale presents: ARCADIA |
A picture taken on October 19, 2021, shows an ancient one-meter-long sword that experts say dates back to the Crusader-era and is believed to have belonged to a Crusader, displayed at the beach in the Israeli seaport of Caesarea, some days after being discovered by a local diver. Jack GUEZ / AFP.
CAESAREA.- Israel on Tuesday displayed a 900-year-old sword believed to have belonged to a crusader, found by a scuba diver off the Mediterranean coast. The Israel Antiquities Authority said diver Shlomi Katzin came across the iron sword, now encrusted in marine organisms, after shifts in the sand left it exposed. "The sword, which has been preserved in perfect condition, is a beautiful and rare find and evidently belonged to a crusader knight," Nir Distelfeld of the IAA said in a statement. The IAA said the Carmel coast area where the sword was found was used through the centuries by ships seeking shelter from storms due to its many coves, leaving various "rich archaeological finds". Kobi Sharvit of the IAA's marine archaeology unit said the trend of divers finding precious artefacts was growing. Even though professionals ... More | |
Nick Cave (b. 1959. Lives and works in Chicago), Soundsuit 8:46 (2021) . Mixed media including vintage textile and sequined appliqués, metal, and mannequin. Photo courtesy Honolulu Museum of Art.
HONOLULU, HI.- The Honolulu Museum of Art recently acquired a major work by legendary contemporary artist Nick Cave. Soundsuit 8:46 (2021), a mixed-media mannequin of vintage floral textiles and sequined appliques, is a response to recent police violence against people of color, in particular the tragic murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020. The work revisits Caves iconic series Soundsuits, which were first conceived after the 1991 Rodney King beating and the resulting riots in Los Angeles in 1992. Soundsuit 8:46 forms the centerpiece of the thematic reinstallation of HoMAs permanent collection entitled In Human Terms. This reinstallation showcases works in a variety of media that speak to humanitys desire to explore the meaning and significance embedded within the human form from antiquity to today. Nick Caves essential and innovative work is critical ... More | |
Andrés Reisinger (b. 1990), RAC (b. 1985), Arch Hades (b. 1992), ARCADIA, 2021 (detail). Estimate Unknown. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday, 9 November 2021, Christie's 21st Century Art Evening sale at Rockefeller Center will present ARCADIA (estimate unknown), a collaborative interdisciplinary NFT by contemporary visual artist Andrés Reisinger, Grammy-winning musician RAC, and bestselling poet Arch Hades. Through ARCADIA, these three artists, each a leading name within their respective fields, harmoniously fuse poetry, music, and graphic art in a film that unpacks concepts of a collectively felt existential crisis experienced universally by humankind in our current era. In ARCADIA, the message is inseparable from the medium, as three timeless and traditional fine artforms - musical, visual, and lyrical - culminate in the digitized manifestation of an NFT, an asset class specific to the 21C. The work will be minted in October 2021 by Aorist, a next generation cultural institution supporting a sustainable NFT marketplace powered on the Algorand Blockchain. No ... More |
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| Whitechapel Gallery visitors are invited to participate in an interactive installation by Yoko Ono | | Exhibition at Christopher Bishop Fine Art presents drawings on blue paper from the 16th-19th centuries | | David Finn, co-founder of a public relations power, dies at 100 |
Yoko Ono, Mend Piece, 1966. Broken cup and saucers, needle and thread, glue, plinth. Installation view: Yoko Ono: Unfinished Paintings and Objects, Indica Gallery, London, 1966. Image courtesy the artist / photo: Iain Macmillan.
LONDON.- This autumn, Whitechapel Gallery visitors are invited to participate in an interactive installation by world famous artist, musician and activist Yoko Ono (b.1933, Japan). Broken fragments of pottery are presented on two plain white tables, along with simple materials for repair glue, twine, scissors and tape. On entering the space participants are prompted by a set of simple instructions provided by the artist: Mend carefully. / Think of mending the world at the same time. Once finished, the mended objects are displayed on adjacent shelves. Ono first presented this work as Mending Piece I at her 1966 solo exhibition at Indica Gallery, London, a renowned centre for countercultural art. MEND PIECE for London now returns to the city more than 50 years later, following Onos extensive career spanning performance, writing, visual art, experimental ... More | |
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696 Madrid 1770), Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, c. 1750. Red chalk heightened with white on blue paper, 356 x 270 mm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Visions in Blue: Drawings on Blue Paper, an exploration of the techniques and historical context of drawings on blue paper from the 16th to the 19th centuries, will be on view at Christopher Bishop Fine Art in New York City from October 22 through November 13, 2021. The exhibition will be accompanied by an exuberant temporary floral display for the first week, bringing a midsummers touch to Manhattans autumn art calendar. Most closely associated with Northern Italian drawings of the 17th century and especially the masters of the Veneto including Veronese, Titian, and Tintoretto, the tradition of drawing on blue paper continued well into the 18th and even the early 19th century. Among the dozen drawings featured in the exhibition is Giovanni Battista Tiepolos (Italian, 1696-1770) large-scale drawing Christ in the Garden of Gesthemene, a rare preparatory study for a 1750 painting of the same name by ... More | |
David Finn in 2015 with a sculpture he made from straightened paper clips. While expanding his public relations firm, he furthered his involvement in the arts as a painter, photographer and sculptor. Ruder Finn via The New York Times.
by Glenn Rifkin
NEW YORK, NY.- David Finn, a dominant figure in the creation of the modern public relations industry as the co-founder of Ruder Finn, one of the most successful corporate PR firms to emerge after World War II, died Monday at his home in New Rochelle, New York. He was 100. His granddaughter Rachel Spielman said the cause was atherosclerotic cerebrovascular disease, which results from a thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries in the brain. Finn was a public relations counsel to such corporate giants as Lever Brothers, Exxon, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis and Coca-Cola. He was also devoted to the arts as a painter, illustrator, photographer and sculptor (notably using paper clips as his medium), and persuaded many of his clients, including the tobacco maker ... More |
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| Stephen Friedman Gallery announces the representation of Hulda Guzman | | Henry Moore bronze leads the fall offerings at Shannon's | | Public Art Fund unveils Gillian Wearing's sculptural tribute to Diane Arbus |
Drawing on surrealism, Mexican muralism and Caribbean folk traditions, Guzmáns junglescapes and studio scenes conjure portals to a mythic realm.
LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery announced representation of Dominican artist Hulda Guzmán. Hulda Guzmán was born in 1984, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She lives and works between Santo Domingo and the rainforest-covered mountains of Samaná, on the countrys northeast coast. Guzmáns paintings are populated by a technicolour cast of humans, animals, anthropomorphic plants and imaginary creatures. Employing distinct architectural locations and spatial tricks such as mise en abîme, her narratives occupy contradictory, dreamlike realities. Characters lounge on ambrosial shores beside derelict flats, join dancefloors that spill into the rainforest and chase demons through chic interiors. Though rooted in Guzmáns liberal childhood, these wittily painted gatherings also reflect her experiences of the artistic community in Samaná. Echoing the paradisial fantasies of Henri Rousseau and Paul Gauguin, Guzmán frequently i ... More | |
Bronze sculpture by Henry Moore (British, 1898-1986) titled Mother and Child on Ladderback Rocking Chair (1952), edition of 9 +1, 8 ¼ inches tall. Estimate $400,000-$600,000.
MILFORD, CONN.- Shannons has collected an exceptional group of 180 artworks to be offered in their Fall Fine Art Auction on Thursday, October 28th, beginning promptly at 6 pm Eastern time. There are spectacular offerings in every category, particularly 20th century American art, 19th century European art, Hudson River School painting, Modernism and Contemporary art. Headlining the auction are two works by celebrated the British Modernist, Henry Moore. Moore, best known as a sculptor, was a skilled draughtsman often working out concepts for his sculptures on paper. Shannons will offer both a bronze, Mother and Child on Ladderback Rocking Chair (estimated at $400,000-$600,000) and a colored, mixed-media work on paper, titled Rocking Chairs (estimate $100,000-$200,000) related to the series of mother and child sculptures on rocking bases. The bronze, from an edition of 9, was intended to rock back and forth, adding charm and playfulness to ... More | |
Gillian Wearing, Diane Arbus, 2021. Bronze, oil paint. Presented by Public Art Fund at Doris C. Freedman Plaza, New York City, October 20, 2021 to August 14, 2022 © Gillian Wearing. Courtesy of Maureen Paley, London, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York and Regen Projects, Los Angeles. Photo: Nicholas Knight, Courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Public Art Fund is presenting British conceptual artist Gillian Wearings life-size bronze sculpture Diane Arbusa tribute to the legendary photographer. Arbus was a lifelong New Yorker and often frequented Central Park, where she made photographs of everyday people. Wearings sculpture is on view in Doris C. Freedman Plaza at the southeast entrance to the park. It depicts Arbus with her finger on the shutter button of her iconic twin lens camera, as she might have been seen in the 1950s and 60s. Standing 56 tall, the sculpture is presented at street level without a plinth, directly meeting visitors. Her shoes are painted realistically to humanize the appearance of the bronze statue. A plaque bears a quote by Arbus: If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, ... More |
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| Andy Warhol's Endangered Species Portfolio sells for $1.875 million at Heritage Auctions | | Agnes Hsu-Tang elected next chair of New-York Historical Society's Board of Trustees | | MAXXI opens the exhibition "Thomas Hirschhorn. The Purple Line" |
Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Endangered Species, 1983. Ten screenprints on Lenox museum board, 38 x 38 inches (96.5 x 96.5 cm) (sheet). Ed. 64/150.
DALLAS, TX.- A pristine-condition edition of Andy Warhol's 1983 Endangered Species portfolio sold Tuesday at Heritage Auctions for $1,875,000, the second-highest price ever realized at auction for the landmark work. The collection of 10 signed screen prints served as the centerpiece of Heritage Auctions' Oct. 19 Prints & Multiples Signature® Auction, which attracted more than 540 bidders who spent $3,439,000 on extraordinary works by Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Banksy, Marc Chagall, M.C. Escher and other art-world titans. The sell-through rate exceeded 99 percent; the sale, too, more than doubled its pre-auction estimate. "When I logged in to my computer in the hours before the live auction began, I thought I was at a Wimbledon match," says Holly Sherratt, Heritage Auctions' Director of Modern & Contemporary Art. "It was thrilling to see so many bids roll in. I watched ... More | |
Dr. Hsu-Tang, an international cultural heritage policy advisor trained in archaeology and art history, has been a trustee of New-York Historical since 2013. Photo: Elena Olivo.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New-York Historical Society announced that Dr. H. M. Agnes Hsu-Tang has been elected as the incoming chair of its Board of Trustees. Her service as chair will commence on February 28, 2022. She succeeds Pam B. Schafler, who has served as board chair since 2013 and who will remain a trustee with the title chair emerita. Accomplishments during Ms. Schaflers tenure include the inauguration of the nationally-televised series, History with David M. Rubenstein, filmed live from New-York Historicals Robert H. Smith Auditorium; the reinstallation of the institutions magnificent Tiffany lamp collection; and the successful completion of a major capital campaign for the complete renovation of New-York Historicals permanent collection galleries. Dr. Hsu-Tang, an international cultural heritage ... More | |
Thomas Hirschhorn, The Purple Line © Giorgio Benni courtesy Fondazione MAXXI.
ROME.- An imposing 6-metre-high, more than 250-metre-long purple wall crosses MAXXI's Gallery 3, cutting through the sinuous spaces of the museum designed by Zaha Hadid, imprisoning the viewer and leaving the eye dazed: its The Purple Line, the long line conceived by Thomas Hirschhorn, one of the world's most famous and important artists, to present Pixel-Collage, a monumental series of 121 works produced between 2015 and 2017. 118 of these collages from 21 prestigious international private collections, institutions and galleries are on display at MAXXI, thereby marking the first time that almost all collages are featured together in an exhibition. Thomas Hirschhorn. The Purple Line, curated by Hou Hanru and Luigia Lonardelli, is open from 20 October 2021 to 6 March 2022. «Ive always loved making collages. I love bringing together what shouldnt be brought together». In these works, which are among the most ... More |
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The five-figure gold, leather and snakeskin Kobe Bryant cap that sold out within hours reappears at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- There were eight hats made. Each one bore the number 24. For Kobe. They were made to honor Kobe Bryant upon his retirement in 2016. During his legendary tenure with the Los Angeles Lakers, those were the numbers he wore: 8; then, when it finally came available, 24, which had been his first number in high school. "Twenty-four is every day," Bryant once said of the number he reclaimed in 2006. "Because when you get older, your muscles start getting sore. Body starts aching. You show up to practice that day, you have to remind yourself, 'OK, this day is the most important day.'" The hats, made by New Era for its "24 Collection" and sold through AEG Merchandise, were made of black leather with a black ... More
World Auction Gallery will hold a 700-lot major important estate auction
EAST MEADOW, NY.- A Major Important Estate Auction packed with around 700 lots of original paintings by listed artists, French Art Nouveau glass, silver, porcelain dinner services and Chinese and Japanese antiques is scheduled for Sunday, November 7th, by World Auction Gallery, starting at 10 am Eastern time. Previews will be held November 4th-6th, from 10am-4pm. The auction will be held online and live in the World Auction Gallery showroom, located at 228 East Meadow Avenue in East Meadow, a hamlet in the town of Hempstead on Long Island, about 30 miles outside of Manhattan. The in-person auction, however, will be limited to ten people and must be booked at least a day in advance. To book a reservation, call 516-307-8180. This promises to be one of our best auctions ever and includes items from various New York City, Long Island, New ... More
Garment District Space for Public Art presents "Stu.pe.fac.tion" exhibition by New York artist Joanne Handler
NEW YORK, NY.- The Garment District Alliance announced the latest in its ongoing series of public art exhibits, showcasing seven paintings titled Stu.pe.fac.tion, created by Garment District-based artist Joanne Handler. Located inside the Kaufman Arcade building on 139 W 35th Street, the free exhibit is accessible to the public through January 7. Stu.pe.fac.tion is part of the Garment District Space for Public Art program, which showcases artists in unusual locations throughout the year and over 16 years has produced more than 200 installations, exhibits and performances. We are proud to welcome Joanne and her innovative creations back as part of our series of public art exhibitions, said Barbara A. Blair, president ... More
An unassuming prince dons the velvet cloak at Ballet Theater
NEW YORK, NY.- Standing in a corner of a rehearsal studio at American Ballet Theater, dancer Thomas Forster cuts a striking figure. Hes tall, but at 35, still boyish. With his head slightly bowed, he has the air of a melancholy prince in a fairy-tale illustration, though hes wearing a surgical mask and athletic shorts under a dark velvet cloak. Forster, one of six American Ballet Theater dancers promoted to the rank of principal in September last year, is rehearsing the entrance of Count Albrecht in Act II of Giselle. He performed the role once in Washington, in February 2020, a month before the pandemic shut down virtually all the performing arts. After that, he had no idea when, or if, he would get to dance it again. His debut in Swan Lake, which was to take place later in April, was canceled. He made a funny video about it for Ballet Theaters Debut Deferred ... More
Tehran short film fest opens, with shot at Oscars for first time
TEHRAN.- Tehran's International Short Film Festival opened this week, for the first time as an Oscar-qualifying event, giving winning entries a shot at an Academy Award. The festival jury has members from the Islamic republic as well as Italy, Japan, France and Austria. The festival, now in its 38th edition and running until Sunday, earned qualification this year as a gateway to Hollywood's annual awards showcase. The event "was added as a qualifying festival in the Short Films categories this year," the the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirmed. "And it is the only current qualifying festival in Iran." The designation came despite high tensions between Washington and Tehran, which have had no diplomatic relations since 1979, before the festival began. This year's showcase also coincides with efforts to resume negotiations ... More
Rising out of the pandemic, City Ballet ushers in a new era
NEW YORK, NY.- Dance, perhaps more than any art, is one of reinvention and renewal, and New York City Ballets fall season showed that inevitable generational shift with particular clarity. It can be painful. When Lauren Lovette, bowing at her gorgeous farewell performance on Oct. 9, offered a tiny wave to the cheering crowd and then gave a decisive nod toward the wings a signal to lower the curtain I felt a hole in my heart. Shes only 29; while she wont stop dancing entirely, she wants to devote herself to choreography. Her last movement on the stage was a deep, subterranean sigh. Then, on Sunday, came the final performance of Maria Kowroski. She burst onto the scene about the time I began writing about dance, and I always felt a bond; my pursuit could seem impossible, but then I would watch Kowroski bravely stepping ... More
Live performance is back, with new rituals joining the old ones
NEW YORK, NY.- The long-awaited return of Broadway has brought back many familiar preshow rituals and also spurred a few that are new. One takes place a few hours before curtain time in middle of Times Square, under a canopy with a sandwich board sign proclaiming: Broadway Show Testing Site. It is there that some of the most dedicated theatergoers in the city children under 12 who are ineligible for the vaccines theaters require are taken by their parents to submit to nasal swabs so they can get the negative coronavirus test results they need to see shows. Remy Keller, a 5-year-old from Chicago who needed a test so she could see The Lion King, was among a crowd there on a recent Saturday, bracing herself for the swab. There were a few tears. Theres a lot of things we all have to do to minimize the effects of the virus on vulnerable ... More
Betty Lynn, Thelma Lou on 'The Andy Griffith Show,' dies at 95
NEW YORK, NY.- Betty Lynn, who portrayed Thelma Lou, the patient girlfriend of Barney Fife, the neurotic deputy sheriff of Mayberry in the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, died Saturday in Mount Airy, North Carolina. She was 95. The death was announced by the Andy Griffith Museum in Mount Airy, Griffiths hometown and the inspiration for Mayberry. Lynn joined the cast of the show in 1961, late in the first season, for an episode in which Sheriff Andy Taylor (Griffith) plays matchmaker between Barney and Thelma Lou. Thelma Lous occupation through 26 episodes remained a mystery, as did her surname. Although Barney (Don Knotts) had an occasional telephone flirtation with Juanita, a diner waitress who was never seen, it was clear that Thelma Lou was Barneys steady girl. But in a 1966 episode, after Knotts departure as a series ... More
A spy opera (or is it?) returns to the stage
NEW YORK, NY.- It was February 2020, and Mimi Johnson was pouring afternoon tea in the Tribeca loft she once shared with her husband, the composer Robert Ashley. Johnson was reflecting on what was then the recent revival of Improvement (Don Leaves Linda), by Ashley, who died in 2014 and whose innovative operas generally involved the blurry boundary of speech and singing, smooth electronic accompaniment, and enigmatic, witty storytelling. Another revival, of Ashleys early 1990s work eL/Aficionado, was supposed to follow shortly after. But because of the pandemic, Johnson was forced to shelve the nearly completed project, until Roulette in Brooklyn, on whose board she sits, approached her this year about reviving the revival; eL/Aficionado will run for three performances at Roulette, Thursday through ... More
No mask required: The joys and fears of seeing U.K. theater now
LONDON.- Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Nicolette Jones used to go to the theater with her daughter about 50 times a year. Now shes not going at all. Theater is my relaxation, my escape, said Jones, 61. The thought of sitting next to somebody who is unmasked for two hours, laughing and whatever, that is going to remove all that, she added. Theaters here have now been allowed to open without restrictions for three months, and while many audience members have been delighted to return to live performances, inconsistent rules are troubling some fans. Unlike on Broadway, theatergoers in England are not required to wear masks in their seats or be fully vaccinated. Instead, its up to each venue to decide what they require. Most West End venues are asking for proof of vaccination or a negative test result at the door, but some smaller ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Domenico Zampieri was born October 21, 1581. Domenico Zampieri (or Domenichino; October 21, 1581 - April 6, 1641) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School, or Carracci School, of painters. Domenichino's work, developed principally from Raphael's and the Carracci's examples, mirrors the theoretical ideas of G. B. Agucchi, with whom the painter collaborated on a Treatise on Painting (Domenichino's portrait of Agucchi in York occasionally has been attributed to Annibale Carracci). In this image: Apparition of the Virgin and Child and San Gennaro at the Miraculous Oil Lamp, 1637â38, Cathedral of Naples.
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