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Steven Bergman with a kiddush cup that was taken from his fathers Munich home in 1938 and then returned this year by the Bavarian National Museum, at home in Silver Spring, Md., April 6, 2023. Some German institutions have begun to give back cups, candlesticks, teapots and other items of crafted silver that Jews were forced to surrender during the reign of the Third Reich. (Jared Soares/The New York Times)
by Milton Esterow
NEW YORK, NY.- It was noon on Nov. 10, 1938, when Nazi officers came to the door of William Bergmans Munich home, arrested him for being a Jew and shipped him off to the Dachau concentration camp, about a 30-minute drive away. Also taken from the home that day was a 19th-century kiddush cup typically used to sanctify the Sabbath and Jewish holidays. After five months, Bergman, a metallurgist, managed to escape the camp by bribing its guards. He went to England and Montreal, where he lived and worked until his death in 1986. But the cup was not seen again by his family until this February when his son, Steven Bergman, a retired sales executive in Maryland, received a package in the mail from a curator at a museum in Munich. One box was inside the other, all wrapped tightly with Styrofoam, Bergman said. They could have shipped an egg and it would not have broken. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day ON STAGE - All the Art World's a Stage at mumok explores the various theatrical and stage-related forms of expression in art since the 1960s, when a neo-avant-garde critical of tradition began focusing on performative and Actionist art forms that endowed artists with a stage-like presence, often in front of an audience.
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| MoMA opens the first exhibition to focus on Georgia O'Keeffe's practice of drawing series | | Works by Rashid Johnson & Tracey Emin among recent Israel Museum acquisitions | | The Met announces fall 2023 artist commissions for the Fifth Avenue facade and Great Hall | 
Georgia OKeeffe. An Orchid, 1941. Pastel on paper mounted on board. 27 5/8 x 21 3/4″ (70.2 x 55.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Bequest of Georgia OKeeffe, 1990. © 2022 Georgia OKeeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Georgia OKeeffe: To See Takes Time, the first exhibition to investigate the artists works on paper made in series. Using charcoal, watercolor, pastel, and graphite, she explored forms and phenomenafrom abstract rhythms to natures cyclesacross multiple examples. Some of these sequences also gave rise to related paintings, which have been installed alongside these works on paper. On view in MoMAs third-floor south galleries from April 9 through August 12, 2023, the exhibition reveals a lesser-known side of this artist, foregrounding OKeeffes persistently modern process on paper. Over 120 works created over more than four decadesincluding key examples from MoMAs collectiondemonstrate the ways in which OKeeffe developed, repeated, and changed motifs that blur ... More | | 
A rare, decorated booklet form Shiviti (Central Europe, 18th century) presenting an elaborate opening page and outstanding combination of texts and prayers, the most lavishly example of shiviti represented in the collection. Purchased through the gift of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, to American Friends of the Israel Museum.
JERUSALEM.- Over the past year, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem has seen significant growth across its encyclopedic collection with new acquisitions that give insight into the development of cultural and religious traditions, global art movements, and contemporary viewpoints from Israel and abroad. Totaling over 400 works spanning multiple continents and many centuries, highlights include an important group of Edo period scroll paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection; a rare example of an early Shiviti booklet, and a rare 19th century American map of the Holy Land. These acquisitions were joined by significant additions to the Museums contemporary holdings, including works by Ilit Azoulay, Rashid Johnson, Michal Rovner, Gilad Ratman ... More | | 
Nairy Baghramian. Photo by Abigail Enzaldo, courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced two new artist commissions for fall 2023 following the spring opening of The Roof Garden Commission: Lauren Halsey (April 18October 22, 2023), which will present a compelling and monumental architectural project by Lauren Halsey. For The Met Fifth Avenues facade niches, Nairy Baghramian will create four new sculptureson view September 7, 2023 through May 19, 2024marking the artists first public installation in New York City. From October 2 through November 26, 2023, the Museums Great Hall will be transformed by Jacolby Satterwhite with a site-specific video installation, a soundscape, and performances. These projects are the latest in The Mets series of contemporary commissions in which the Museum invites artists to create new works of art, establishing a dialogue between the artist's practice, The Met collection, the physical Museum, and The Met's a ... More |
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| 'Picasso: Celebrating 50 Years' on view at Rosenbaum Contemporary in Palm Beach | | "Tony Moore: Eternal Becoming Wood-fired Ceramic Sculptures and Fire Paintings" opens at Garrison Art Center | | The Portland Museum of Art announces major reinstallation of permanent collection galleries | 
Pablo Picasso, Exposition Vallauris, 1962.
BOCA RATON, FLA.- Picasso: Celebrating 50 Years, an exhibition of ceramics and prints by Pablo Picasso, will be on view through May 31 at Rosenbaum Contemporarys Palm Beach gallery (2 Via Parigi Worth Avenue). With this exhibition, Rosenbaum Contemporary joins more than 50 museums throughout the world this year in honoring the legacy of Picasso, whose influence on the art world still continues 50 years after his death on April 8, 1973. Picasso is recognized as one of the leading painters, sculptors and graphic artists of the 20th century. He began making ceramics in the summer of 1946 at the Madoura Pottery in Vallauris, France, and continued to work in the medium until his death in 1973, ultimately creating 633 editions as well as unique ceramic works. Ceramics were an integral part of his achievement, which brings a richer perspective to his extraordinary career, Marvin Rosenbaum said. These days many col ... More | | 
Tony Moore, In Memory Of 2022, wood-fired ceramic, steel. Photo: Al Nowak.
GARRISON, NY.- Garrison Art Center is presenting a solo exhibition of Tony Moore: Eternal Becoming. Wood-fired Ceramic Sculptures and Fire Paintings, opening April 8 to May 7, 2023. The exhibition features 3 large solid mass ceramic and steel sculptures, 3 smaller Open Form slab-constructed sculptures and groupings of 18 ceramic and glass Fire Paintings on the walls. A newly published 38-page catalogue will be available, featuring informative essays by Carl Van Brunt and Doug Navarra. Tony Moore is represented in international museum collections including the Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, US and Derby Museum and Yorkshire Museum, UK. This will be his second solo exhibition with GAC in the Hudson Valley where, after 25 years in NYC he has resided and maintained a studio in Cold Spring for another 25 years where, on a mountain top property, he built ... More | | 
With an extensive collection and nationally renowned exhibitions, the Portland Museum of Art is the cultural heart of Portland, Maine.
PORTLAND, ME.- The Portland Museum of Art will open a major, collaborative, and community-driven reinstallation envisioned by museum curators, educators, and an Advisory Committee. Made possible through the generosity of the Terra Foundation for American Art, Maine Community Foundation, Wyeth Foundation for American Art, Unum, and the Friends of the Collection, Passages in American Art is a fundamental reinterpretation of the collection, platforming multiple voices, revealing new ways of looking at some of the museums most beloved works of art, and inviting community members to drive the conversation. Opening May 27, 2023, the project examines the existing collection, and along with recent acquisitions, commissions, and select long-term loans, integrates Atlantic narratives and Indigenous perspectives to ... More |
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| Sound and garden installation will open on Clyfford Still Museum terraces in May | | Morton Fine Art to open an exhibition of Andrei Petrov's new paintings | | Mullin Automotive Museum hosts exhibit featuring the works of Keith Collins | 
Nathan Hall. Photo: Fireside Production.
DENVER, CO.- The Clyfford Still Museum will open Abstract Expressions, a new sound and garden installation on the Museums terraces envisioned by composer and artist Nathan Hall in collaboration with Denver Botanic Gardens horticulture outreach in May. Kevin Philip Williams, assistant curator and horticulturist, designed and will install the landscapes. It is the first time the Museum has reconceptualized the terraces since opening in 2011. This multi-year collaboration between CSM and our communities highlights the connections that exist between Stills art, life, the natural world, and Denvers creative ecosystem, said Bailey Placzek, CSM curator of collections, catalogue raisonné research and project manager. Were incredibly excited to have such a special place to bring the work of interdisciplinary and local creatives to the forefront in a way that will grow and evolve with the seasons. ... More | | 
Andrei Petrov, Milestone, 2023. Oil on canvas, 30 x 48 in. Courtesy Morton Fine Art and the artist.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Morton Fine Art presents Footprints in the Snow: A Siberian Escape Story, a solo exhibition of oil paintings by the artist Andrei Petrov. Composed of twelve new works that riff on the mindsets and landscapes of his paternal grandfathers journey to freedom, this exhibition is dedicated to the refugees and millions striving for freedom in Ukraine. The artists seventh solo show with the gallery, Footprints in the Snow will be on view from April 12 May 7, 2023 at Morton Fine Arts Washington, D.C. location (52 O St NW #302). Andei Petrovs most personal body of work to date, Footprints in the Snow was inspired by the story of his grandfathers escape from a Siberian gulag in 1915. Having spent over a year in the labor camps miserable conditions after he was branded an anarchist by the Russian Empire, the elder ... More | | 
Opening April 20, the Los Angeles-based tapestry designer and oil painter will present pieces inspired by the crown jewels of the Mullin collection.
OXNARD, CALIF.- The worlds premier French automotive museum hosts a new art exhibition highlighting the works of visual artist Keith Collins. Collins, whose work explores the automotive realm, portraiture, music, sports and abstract genres, showcasing 20 art pieces influenced by the Mullin Automotive Museum collection. Titled ArTexture, the exhibit spotlights fine art tapestries, paintings and assemblage sculpture alongside the actual vehicles that inspired the very pieces. On display include a painting capturing the Mullins 1935 Voisin Type C25 Aerodyne winning Best of Show at the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours dElegance, as well as a painting of the Mullins 1936 Type 57SC Bugatti Atlantic and a woodcut of the 1934 Voisin Type C27 Aérosport. Primarily known for its distingui ... More |
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| Al Jaffee, king of the Mad Magazine fold-in, dies at 102 | | Modern and contemporary art headlines Shannon's Spring sale | | National Gallery of Art acquires works by Charles White and Doris Adelaide Derby | 
Mad magazine artist Al Jaffee at work in New York, on March 4, 2008. Al Jaffee, a cartoonist who folded in when the trend in magazine publishing was to fold out, thereby creating one of Mad magazines most recognizable and enduring features, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 102. (Librado Romero/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Al Jaffee, a cartoonist who folded in when the trend in magazine publishing was to fold out, thereby creating one of Mad magazines most recognizable and enduring features, died Monday in Manhattan. He was 102. His death, at a hospital, was caused was by multisystem organ failure, his granddaughter Fani Thomson said. It was in 1964 that Jaffee created the Mad Fold-In, an illustration-with-text feature on the inside of the magazines back cover that seemed at first glance to deliver a straightforward message. When the page was folded in thirds, however, both illustration and text were transformed into something entirely different and unexpected, often with a liberal-leaning or authority-defying message. For instance, the fold-in from the November 2001 issue asked, What mind-altering ... More | | 
Gouache on paper painting by Lynne Mapp Drexler (American, 1928-1999), titled Foliage Study (1962), artist signed, 16 inches by 13 inches (est. $30,000-$50,000).
MILFORD, CONN.- Shannons Fine Art Auctioneers will host a Spring Fine Art Auction on Thursday, April 27th, starting promptly at 6 pm Eastern time. The sale, featuring 139 lots, includes numerous examples of fine paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings. Modern and Contemporary art will headline the auction, with fresh-to-the-market works by American Modernists. A George Tooker painting titled The Watchers depicts three figures staring wide-eyed and with their mouths agape. Other figures are visible around them. The group must surely be observing a suspenseful scene evidenced in their expression. Dated circa 1962, this rare, museum-quality work is expected to realize $250,000-$350,000. Following the previous seasons successful sale of a Lynne Drexler oil painting for $450,000, Shannons will offer four works on paper by the artist. Each watercolor is vibrantly colored and dated 1962. The works will be sold individually and estima ... More | | 
Doris Derby, Member of Southern Media Photographing a Young Girl, Farish Street, Jackson, Mississippi, 1968. Gelatin silver print, image: 32.7 x 21.9 cm (12 7/8 x 8 5/8 in.) sheet: 35 x 28 cm (13 3/4 x 11 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of David Knaus 2022.149.2.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Charles White (19181979) was a celebrated artist, teacher, and activist who magnified the power of the Black figure in drawings, prints, murals, and paintings. The National Gallery of Art has acquired its first painting by the artist, I Accuse (c. 1950), which joins several prints by White in the collection. The acquisition was made possible by Patrons Permanent Fund and through the generosity of P. Bruce Marine and Donald Hardy. I Accuse depicts a mother of one of the Scottsboro Boysnine African American teenagers falsely accused and tried for rape in the 1930swho traveled the country with other mothers to raise awareness of the unjust trials of their incarcerated sons. Inspired by Ãmile Zolas account of the Dreyfus Affair of 1894, the title serves as an indictment of the US legal system. The womanin a stance reminis ... More |
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 'Hey, Mr. Living Composer': 'Champion' takes shape at the MetNEW YORK, NY.- A basement rehearsal room at the Metropolitan Opera was so packed recently that it began to resemble a sweltering boxing gym. In one corner, members of the Mets music staff were grouped together like judges tallying punches as they looked down at their scores. Nearby, a drummer and pianist locked into a syncopated groove, following the beat of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who was conducting while seated on an elevated platform. A phalanx of dancers rushed in to evoke an intense, collective workout regimen filled with balletic grace and pugilistic intensity. Those moves were choreographed by Camille Brown, who was close by, keeping an eye on every acrobatic feint. A former World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion paced the room, offering exhortations and encouragement ... More  Chinati appoints new TrusteesMARFA, TX.- The Chinati Foundation announces the appointment of two new Trustees to its Board: Miguel Fernandez and Franck Giraud. Miguel and Franck are accomplished business leaders and dedicated philanthropists. Their vision and expertise will be vital as we focus on Chinatis future, said Mack Fowler, chair, and Annabelle Selldorf, co-chair, of the Board of Trustees at Chinati. We are delighted to welcome these incoming members to the Board and look forward to collaborating with them, alongside Chinatis other wonderful Trustees and our new director, Caitlin Murray, to guide the organization during this exciting new chapter in its history. Miguel Fernandez is a business and community leader active in both the United States and Mexico. He serves as CEO of Flō Networks, a leading provider of di ... More  Solange curates powerful performances of Black joy and pain at BAMNEW YORK, NY.- When alto saxophonist Angélla Christie strode onstage Friday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, she was joined only by a piano player. But Christie, one of the more prominent instrumentalists in contemporary gospel, was at full throttle from the very first note playing in high-gloss, reverb-drenched ostinatos and within moments, the crowd had become her rhythm section, clapping along on every offbeat. An usher got swept up while walking a couple to their seats, and on her way back up the aisle she shimmied a bit, her right hand flying into the air in a testifying motion. A woman sitting at the end of Row H reached out for a high five, and their palms gripped each other for a moment. It was just a few minutes into Glory to Glory (A Revival for Devotional Art) part of BAMs multidimens ... More  Jennifer Muller, choreographer whose dances told human tales, dies at 78NEW YORK, NY.- Jennifer Muller, a prolific choreographer and dancer whose humanistic works emphasized emotion and storytelling in an era when minimalism and conceptual themes prevailed, died March 29 at her home in Jersey City, New Jersey. She was 78. Katy Neely, general manager of Mullers company, Jennifer Muller/The Works, confirmed the death but did not specify the cause. Renowned for her expressiveness and her balletic modern style, Muller was a former principal dancer with New York Citys Limón Dance Company, a pioneering force in modern dance. But her choreographic career, which spanned more than five decades and produced more than 125 dances, set her apart from her postmodern contemporaries. Im not an abstractionist, she told The New York Times in 1983. A great deal o ... More  Myriam Ullens, philanthropic baroness with a disputed fortune, dies at 70NEW YORK, NY.- Myriam Ullens, a pastry chef who married a billionaire Belgian aristocrat and turned his fortune into a globe-spanning source of philanthropy, died of gunshot wounds on March 29 in Ohain, a village in the Walloon Brabant province of central Belgium. She was 70. Her stepson Nicolas Ullens presented himself to police and said he had killed Ullens, the Walloon Brabant prosecutors office said. Authorities seized a handgun from him and proceeded to the home of Myriam Ullens and her husband, Guy Ullens, where they found her dead in a Volkswagen and Guy Ullens beside her, in a state of shock, with a wounded leg. According to the prosecutors statement, Nicolas Ullens attributed his actions to a family fight over money and said that moments before he shot his stepmother, he had been arguing ... More  African American Museum, Dallas presents "Frank Frazier - The Visionary, The Advocate, The Artist"DALLAS, TX.- Opening today at the African American Museum, Dallas, Frank Frazier The Visionary, The Advocate, The Artist charts the 60-year career of one of Americas most influential modern artists. The exhibition follows Fraziers epic and polarizing career as he changes artistic styles and explores mixed media, all while leaving his mark on the global art world. The exhibition will feature more than 30 paintings and drawings from the Dallas-based artists public and private collections. Free and open to the public, the exhibition will run through June 27, 2023, at the African American Museum, Dallas in historic Fair Park (3536 Grand Ave., Dallas, 75210). Fraziers works encompass the personal and the political, the abstract and the figurative, and the joy as well as the tragic in his images. Fraziers work is greatly i ... More  Sargent's Daughters opens its third solo exhibition of Wendy Red Star's workNEW YORK, NY.- Sargent's Daughters is presenting Our Side, the third solo exhibition of Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke (Crow), b.1981, Billings, MT) at the gallery. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Spring 2023 release of Red Star's monograph BÃilukaa, published by Radius Books and featuring interviews with the artist, members of her extended family and scholars. The book's title, BÃilukaa, is in reference to what the Apsáalooke (Crow) call themselves: Our Side. Our Side builds upon Red Star's research into historical photographs of Apsáalooke individuals and objects, with the artist drawing on both her personal collection and works held in museums and archives across the country. Red Star notes, Since the time I left the Crow reservation I have encountered my tribes material cultur ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Chris Burden was born April 11, 1946. Christopher Lee "Chris" Burden (April 11, 1946 - May 10, 2015) was an American artist working in performance, sculpture and installation art. In this image: Operator Alison Walker watches miniature cars move along the roads in Chris Burden's latest kinetic sculpture, "Metropolis II," at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles.
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