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| | | Pérez Art Museum Miami presents What Carried Us Over: Gifts from Gordon W. Bailey | |
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Sam Doyle (United States,1906-1985), Ford, 1970s (detail), house paint on metal, 34 x 25 in. (86.36 x 63.5 cm), Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, gift of Gordon W. Bailey. © Photo Courtesy Gordon W. Bailey Collection. Doyle, whose works were collected by Jean-Michel Basquiat, recorded Americas unique Gullah culture and African American achievement with house paint on cast-off metal roofing.
MIAMI, FLA.- Pérez Art Museum Miami is presenting What Carried Us Over: Gifts from Gordon W. Bailey, an exhibition organized by PAMMs curatorial staff in concert with Gordon W. Bailey, a Los Angeles-based collector, scholar, and advocate. The exhibition will be on view from September 12, 2019 through April 25, 2020. The title of the exhibition emphasizes the artists impassioned commitment to their diverse practices and confirms the inclusive theme of the show which features artworks selected from 60 gifted by Bailey to PAMM since 2016. A variety of media is displayed including drawing, painting and sculpture. A number of well-known artists from the American South are represented: Sam Doyle, Purvis Young, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Thornton Dial Sr., Clementine Hunter, Herbert Singleton, Roy Ferdinand, Leroy Almon, Lonnie Holley, O. L. Samuels, Mario Mesa, Minnie Evans, Sulton Rogers, Welmon Sharlhorne, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver, and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery is presenting the solo exhibition of Italian sculptor Matteo Pugliese (b.1969), entitled Seven Dimensions, showcasing a total of 35 pieces of sculptures in three series Extra Moenia, The Guardians and The Beetles.
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| | Following Neanderthals' footsteps to learn how they lived | | Piguet to offer complete dinosaur skeleton | | In Belgrade, a struggle to excavate an urban Nazi camp |
This file photo shows a reconstruction of the Man of Spy displayed for the Neanderthal exhibition at the Musee de l'Homme in Paris. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Like modern humans and primates, Neanderthals -- our closest evolutionary cousins -- are thought to have lived in groups, but their size and composition have been difficult to infer from archeological and fossil remains. Now, though, scientists have reported the discovery of 257 footprints along the Normandy shore in France that were immaculately preserved over 80,000 years, offering major new clues into the social structures of its prehistoric inhabitants. Their work, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, suggests the band numbered 10 to 13 individuals, mostly children and adolescents, along with a few very tall, likely male adults, who could have been up to 190 centimeters (six feet three inches) in height, judging from foot size. Jeremy Duveau, a doctoral student at France's National Museum of Natural History and one of the study's co-authors, ... More | |
For the first time in Switzerland, a fascinating collection of Natural History and Palaeontology featuring a full dinosaur skeleton will be auctioned.
GENEVA.- Today, Piguet announced its Autumn sales to be held from 23 to 26 September at 51 rue Prévost-Martin. For the first time in Switzerland, a fascinating collection of Natural History and Palaeontology featuring a full dinosaur skeleton will be auctioned. As part of the Autumn sales, Piguet Auction House is organising its very first sale dedicated exclusively to 21st century art with works from the Manja Gideon collection. This collection will be exhibited in its original setting; an exceptional modernist villa in Cologny. Complementing the collection in this ideal interior will be an array of designer furniture, contemporary works of art and modern furniture (viewing in Cologny). A total of almost 3,000 lots including paintings, jewellery and watches, leather goods, silverware and tableware will be auctioned with a global estimate of CHF 4 to 5.8 million. "We are delighted with these major exhibitions, which are boosting the French-spea ... More | |
Serbian citizen Ester Bajer, who was born in a former Nazi camp, known as "Staro Sajmiste" poses reflected in a mirror in her house in Belgrade, on August 23, 2019. OLIVER BUNIC / AFP.
BELGRADE (AFP).- Moments after she was born in a wartime Nazi concentrationcamp in Belgrade, Estera Bajer was furtively smuggled out in a bag. Nearly eight decades on, she has one wish: to live to see a memorial built at the site where her mother and some 7,000 other Jewish women, children and elderly people were taken to their deaths during the Holocaust. "So the next generations can see and know what happened there," says the petite, bright-eyed 77-year-old, at her apartment in Belgrade's suburbs. The former camp, known as Staro Sajmiste, sits on prime real estate in the Serbian capital, flanking the left bank of the Sava river across from the city's historic heart. Yet few visitors -- or locals -- would know it exists. Its central tower is crumbling, while the lawn beneath it is strewn with children's seesaws and washing lines. Surrounding buildings have been converted into homes and businesses ... More |
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| | Marc Chagall's immigration letters & self portrait to be offered at Guernsey's | | $16.4M sales kick off Sotheby's Asia Week auctions in New York | | Thieves again target lead work by German artist Kiefer |
A collection of eight remarkable letters written by Marc Chagall during and after the Holocaust.
NEW YORK, NY.- Though limited to a few select lots, the auction will give bidders the opportunity to purchase a collection of remarkable letters written by Marc Chagall during and after the Holocaust, seeking to immigrate to the United States, along with a rare self-portrait of Chagall. The auction will take place at the historic Fifth Avenue Synagogue on September 19, 2019. Other lots in the auction include a historic collection of documents that outline the future of the new Israeli State as envisioned by the 37 members of Israels Provisional Council (Moetzet Haam). Each of the councils thirty-five men and two women eventually signed the scroll that would act as the Israeli Declaration of Independence. Signatures include those of David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir. Also present will be an archive of personal correspondence from Israeli military leader Moshe Dayan, a close ... More | |
White and Apple-Green Jadeite Landscape Table Screen. Sold for $1.1 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby's opened its September Asia Week sales series with three dedicated auctions that together totaled an exceptional $16.4 million, outpacing their overall high estimate of $12.4 million. Led by the sale of Chinese Art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Florence and Herbert Irving Gift that more than doubled expectations, a strong 81.6% of lots offered today were sold, driven in large part by competition by bidders from around the world. Angela McAteer, Sothebys Head of Chinese Works of Art Department in New York, commented: We are thrilled with the tremendous results from todays opening Asia Week sales, which were incredibly robust across a variety of artistic styles, media, and historical eras. We also saw strong participation internationally, with enthusiastic bidding from across the Asia region, including Mainland China and Hong ... More | |
Kiefer, 74, considered one of Germany's foremost post-war sculptors, has lived in France since the early 1990s.
MELUN.- Thieves in search of valuable lead damaged a massive sculpture by German artist Anselm Kiefer at his Paris workshop early Wednesday, police said. A security guard scared away the two thieves around 1:30 am after they had cut through the fence of the studio and begun to remove parts of the sculpture in the form of a book, police told AFP. "These thieves did not realise the value of the work," the source said. "They were mainly after the lead, which is valuable, especially in this form." Kiefer, 74, considered one of Germany's foremost post-war sculptors, has lived in France since the early 1990s. Since buying the lead roof of Cologne's cathedral in 1985 as it was renovated, he has used parts of it in many works, reflecting a penchant for recycling and fascination with all forms of alchemy. In August 2016, thieves damaged a sculpture ... More |
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| | Colossal Tony Cragg sculpture offered at Bonhams contemporary sale | | The Art Institute of Chicago presents an examination of midcentury art and design | | LAUNCH LA announces the death of Marion Lane at the age of 56 |
Sir Tony Cragg, CBE RA, b. 1949, Constant Change, 2005, 4.5 x 2.2 x 2.2 m. Estimate: £450,000-650,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Constant Change (2005), a monumental sculpture by Sir Tony Cragg CBE RA, will be offered at Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Sale, on Thursday 3 October, at its London New Bond Street saleroom. This spectacular example of his work will lead the sale with an estimate of £450,000-650,000. Cragg (b. 1949) created Constant Change in 2005. Standing over 4.5 metres tall, the sculpture is the largest work by the artist ever to appear at auction with the two, highly polished, stainless steel columns towering over viewers. In an interview for Bonhams Magazine, Cragg stated, Sculpture isnt driven by usefulness it is a free extension into the material. My works are things that wouldnt exist if you didnt make them. Bonhams Global Head of Post-War & Contemporary Art, Ralph Taylor, commented, This work is incredibly exciting to bring to auction, as Tony Cragg is one of the most important sculptors of our ... More | |
Lola Ãlvarez Bravo. AnarquÃa arquitectónica en la ciudad de México (Architectural Anarchy in Mexico City), about 1954. Collection of González Rendón Family. © Center for Creative Photography. Photography by Rodrigo Chapa, courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago presents an examination of midcentury art and design with In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury, on view from September 6, 2019January 12, 2020. The exhibition brings together the work of Clara Porset (b.1895), Lola Ãlvarez Bravo (b.1903), Anni Albers (b.1899), Ruth Asawa (b.1926), Cynthia Sargent (b.1922), and Sheila Hicks (b.1934), reflecting the unique experiences of these designers and artists in Mexico between the 1940s and 1970s. Despite their singularities, they created work that reflected on artistic traditions, while at the same time opened up new readings of daily life at a time of great social and political change. This exhibition takes its title from a quote by Clara Porset who, encouraging makers to seek inspiration widely, wrote: There ... More | |
Lane leaves behind a rich and singular body of work created over the past 20-plus years. Photo: Gretchen Rollins.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Marion Lane died on Sunday September 8, surrounded by friends and family in Los Angeles, at the age of 56 after a brave struggle with cancer. Lane leaves behind a rich and singular body of work created over the past 20-plus years as an active and deeply Californian artist, part of the last-generation Venice Diaspora, and later as part of next-generation downtown. Her work has been shown extensively across California, from Los Angeles to San Francisco, and internationally in Australia and Japan. Lanes art has been featured in Beautiful Decay, Juxtapoz Magazine, Artillery Magazine, Artweek.LA, ArtScene and the L.A. Weekly. People always talk about being a true original, and usually theyre just being kind. But the case of Marion Lane its plainly true. She combined her graduate-level mathematics and chemistry studies with an intentional lack of formal art education to create ... More |
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| | Michael Rosenfeld Gallery showcases a new body of paintings by William T. Williams | | Timothy Taylor Gallery opens exhibition of works by Simon Hantaï, Pierre Soulages and Antoni Tàpies | | Amy O'Neill's film The Zoo Revolution on view at Paula Cooper Gallery |
William T. Williams at his studio in Connecticut, 2018; Photograph by Grant Delin.
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is presenting its fourth solo exhibition for William T. Williams (American, b. 1942), showcasing a new body of paintings. Scheduled to be on view from September 6 to November 9, 2019, William T. Williams: Recent Paintings features 35 paintings from the 465 Series, the first series of paintings completed by Williams in his rural Connecticut studio. A masterful colorist, his new work continues to expand our understanding of abstraction and positions Williams as one of the great abstractionists of his generation. William T. Williams: Recent Paintings is accompanied by a fully-illustrated color catalogue with new scholarship by Jonathan P. Binstock, Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director of the Memorial Art Gallery (MAG), Rochester, NY and an interview conducted by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director at Serpentine Galleries, London. The work of William T. Williams resonates with cultural history and ... More | |
Installation View,Simon Hantaï, Pierre Soulages and Antoni Tà pies at Timothy Taylor, London. Courtesy of Timothy Taylor London/New York.
LONDON.- The mature work of Antoni Tà pies, Simon Hantaï and Pierre Soulages finds each artist addressing their materials with determined irreverence. Each in his own way has pushed painting to its sculptural limits: Tà pies with the introduction of sand, cement, marble dust and objects into his painted surfaces; Hantaï in laboriously bundling and folding canvases before approaching them with a brush; Soulages, in using thick oil paint as a material to be moulded and gouged. Born within a few years of one another Soulages in Aveyron in 1919, Hantaï near Budapest in 1922, Tà pies in Barcelona in 1923 they came of age as artists amid the poverty and bomb-shattered debris of post war Europe. For each, adolescence and young manhood was accompanied by conflict. The Spanish Civil War started in 1936 as Tà pies turned thirteen years old. The Second World War commenced when Soulages was nineteen: he was ... More | |
Installation view, Amy O'Neill: The Zoo Revolution, Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 W 21st Street, New York, September 7 October 12, 2019. Photo: Steven Probert.
NEW YORK, NY.- On view from September 7 through October 12, 2019, is an exhibition of Amy ONeills film The Zoo Revolution. Created between 2006 and 2019, the film combines original and found footage to examine the derelict remnants of twentieth-century Americana through a lens that is both personal and political. Raised in the 1970s and 80s in the Pennsylvania Rust Belt, ONeill interrogates the regions history of industrial decline and economic uncertainty, isolating cultural narratives that continue to resonate today. Texturized by pulsing camerawork, layered imagery, and traces of archival matter, The Zoo Revolution evokes the affective and perceptual experience of recollectionin which vivid details punctuate hazy or enigmatic abstractions. Set to a riotous death-metal soundtrack by the band Orphan, The Zoo Revolution brings together ... More |
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New monumental art at Christie's Sculpture Garden
NEW YORK, NY.- Artist Jonathan Prince, together with Christies and Park Tower Group, announced the debut of Princes Shatter Series at Christies Sculpture Garden at 535 Madison Avenue at 54th Street. Three monumental works are on view through November 10, 2019 in the Christies Sculpture Garden located in the public courtyard of 535 Madison Avenue, which features large-scale sculpture exhibitions offered for sale by Christies New York. This is Princes second solo exhibition since 2012 at the space. Prince, a New York and Massachusetts-based artist, is best known for large-scale sculpture fabricated from Cor-Ten, stainless steel and granite. The Shatter Series, fabricated in his Berkshires studio from Cor-Ten and mirror polished stainless steel, contends with surpassing the limitations of the physical constraints of materiality while interrogating notions ... More
Solo exhibition of recent paintings by Mariano Ferrante opens at Art Projects International
NEW YORK, NY.- Art Projects International will present Mariano Ferrante: New Work, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Mariano Ferrante. The exhibition, the first dedicated to his new work, will be on view from September 12 to October 26, 2019. Mariano Ferrantes richly colored works, often dense with lines and non-repeating patterns, come out of a conversation with the constructivist, concrete, and neo-concrete art movements as they were manifested in Latin America. In the conceptual origins of the mathematical systems behind his constructions and in the diversity of his projects, whether paintings, or murals, or installations in the open air, a viewer can see affinities with the works of fellow Argentinians Emilio Pettoruti and Tomás Maldonado. In sensitivities to geometry and color, one can see parallels to the more op art related work of Carlos ... More
Felix LA announces 2020 exhibitor list
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Felix LA announced the exhibitor list for its second edition, which will take place within the private suites and bungalows of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel from February 13-16, 2020. The 2020 edition of the fair will feature a new, redesigned format throughout the hotels guest rooms for optimal access and client experience, while keeping the scale intimate and personal. Felix LA 2020 will showcase a diverse selection of 60 local, national, and international exhibitors, including galleries from China, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Poland, and the United Kingdom. The second edition of the fair welcomes back a majority of the original exhibitors from the first edition, including Jack Hanley (New York), Jessica Silverman Gallery (San Francisco), Tanya Leighton (Berlin) and Bortolami (New York). The fair will expand its reach this year, ... More
Dhaka Art Summit announces artists for the 5th edition
DHAKA.- Convening a critical mass of artists, thinkers and participants, the fifth edition of the Dhaka Art Summit 2020: Seismic Movements will provoke us to reconsider (art) histories, movements, borders and fault lines. From 7 15 February 2020, Dhaka will be the epicentre of a radical upheaval of how we think about art, activated by intellectual and curatorial contributions and spanning four floors of the Shilpakala Academy in the citys vibrant University belt. Built through alliances across Africa, Australia, South and Southeast Asia (and also extending into Europe and the US) this platform will be free to the public and include contributions by 500 individuals including artists, scholars, curators and collectives, gathering together for panel discussions, performances, and symposia as well as opportunities for participation from the 300,000+ visitors focused ... More
Miyako Yoshinaga opens its second solo exhibition of works by Mikiko Hara
NEW YORK, NY.- To kick off the 2019 fall art season, Miyako Yoshinaga presents its second solo exhibition of works by Mikiko Hara, an award-winning Japanese artist known for her squareformat snapshot photography. Accompanied by the artists new publication, photopaper 44/45, the exhibition runs from September 12 to September 26, 2019. In Haras latest series Kyrie the title of which is inspired by its mystic sound rather than its origin in Christianity the artists intuitive eye taps into hidden narratives behind seemingly mundane moments in the suburbs of Tokyo. Hara utilizes a classic film camera to unassumingly approach her subjects at close range. Speaking on her work, Hara says, There is no set theme; I'm not trying to communicate a particular message. Instead I gamble on serendipity. I hope that each snapshot will stir some fragment ... More
The Winter Show loan exhibition to feature masterworks from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library
NEW YORK, NY.- The Winter Show announces its 2020 loan exhibition featuring masterworks from the renowned collection of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, spanning 4,000 years of Hispanic history, art, and culture. On view January 24February 2, 2020, the exhibition is co-curated by esteemed art historian and curator Philippe de Montebello, Chairman of the Board of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, and acclaimed architect Peter Marino. The Winter Shows annual loan exhibition offers visitors a focused look at exceptional collections of art, antiques, and design from leading historic institutions, reflecting the quality, range, and expertise of the Fairs exhibitors. Unrivaled embodies the Hispanic Society Museum & Library collections significance and breadth. With more than 18,000 works of art from the ... More
Knife used to stab Bolsonaro to become museum exhibit
BRASILIA (AFP).- The knife used to stab Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro during his 2018 election campaign is to be put on display at a police museum due to its "historical value", a court ruled. The court in the southern state of Minas Gerais on Tuesday ordered the knife to be given to the National Police Academy museum in Brasilia, in response to a request by federal police. "There are no doubts about the relevant historical value of the knife used in the attack against the president," judge Bruno Savino said in his ruling. The judgement also handed "swabs impregnated with biological samples" from both Bolsonaro and his attacker to the museum. The same judge in June ordered Adelio Bispo de Oliveira -- who stabbed the then-candidate during a campaign rally on September 6 last year -- to be held indefinitely in a prison mental facility. In an Instagram ... More
104-year-old Hupmobile Model HA Tourer for sale with H&H at its next live auction online
LONDON.- A magnificent example of the increasingly rare 1915 Hupmobile Tourer is for sale with H&H Classics at their next Live Auction Online on October 2nd. Henry Ford paid the Hupp 20 the ultimate compliment. "I recall looking at Bobby Hupp's roadster at the first show where it was exhibited and wondering whether we could ever build as good a small car for as little money." H&H Classics say that this car has been family owned from new and comes with the original sales invoice and is offered with early history. The car is understood to be in good to excellent overall condition. Hupmobiles were built from 1909 through 1939 by the Hupp Motor Car Company. The prototype was developed in 1908 and had its first successful run on November 8 with investors aboard for champagne at the Tuller Hotel a few blocks away. The company was incorporated ... More
Maddox Gallery opens an exhibition of works by London-based photographer Haris Nukem
LONDON.- Drawing on Nukems captivation with spiritual iconography, Faith imaginatively blurs the past and present to create a new visual and mythic narrative. Rich in symbolism and theatricality, Nukems photographs convey a crucial comment on modern culture. Touching upon pressing concerns such as hedonism, online trolls, tribalism, social media, fame, and the fragility of public services, the series explores the concept of moral and spiritual conviction and what the meaning of faith signifies in the interconnected world we live in today. Mixing the romantic sumptuousness of classical imagery with a socially conscious, urban aesthetic, Nukems muses (up-and-coming musicians, models, artists, creatives and friends) are portrayed as a range of icons - biblical, historical, royal, mythological all within a contemporary setting. Reframing ... More
Chantal Drake promoted at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens
MEMPHIS, TN.- The Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, TN has expanded the role of Chantal Drake, the current Director of Communications and Strategic Engagement, to Director of Development and Communications. Drake will assume her new responsibilities in early September, and will guide the Dixons fundraising, membership, planned giving, and corporate partnership programs, as well as continue to oversee the museums marketing and messaging. The Director of Development position has been vacant since July 2019. As Director of Development and Communications, Chantal Drake will institute greater alignment between the departments responsible for two areas key to the Dixons success: revenue generation via philanthropy and audience growth. Among her most immediate goals are expanding the corporate partners program, growing ... More
The Ringling Archives serve as temporary home for Selby Gardens rare botanical collection
SARASOTA, FLA.- In preparation for the start of construction of a new library, the Selby Gardens is working with the Archives at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art to find temporary housing for their collection of rare botanical books and prints. Selbys collection, which consists of 500 volumes dating from the mid-1700s and 2500 prints that are over 100 years old, was created in the 1970s by the Selby Foundation. Highlights of the collection include a complete set of Curtis Botanical Magazines, starting with edition 1, published in 1787 and a rare copy of The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala, (1837-1843). Bruce Holst, the Selbys vice president for Botany, said We are very pleased to be collaborating with the Ringling Archives in housing and preserving this important collection during our construction. We anticipate moving the collection into ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Anselm Feuerbach was born September 12, 1829. Anselm Feuerbach (12 September 1829 - 4 January 1880) was a German painter. He was the leading classicist painter of the German 19th-century school. His works are housed at leading public galleries in Germany. Stuttgart has the second version of Iphigenia; Karlsruhe, the Dante at Ravenna; Munich, the Medea; and Berlin, The Concert, his last important painting. In this image: Francesca da Rimini und Paolo Malatesta c. 1864.
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