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Chela Metzger, the head of preservation and conservation for the U.C.L.A. library, with a water-damaged book, in Los Angeles on Dec. 21, 2022. As extreme weather events become more common, archivists and conservators are scrambling to protect their collections. (Jessica Pons/The New York Times)
by Emmett Lindner
NEW YORK, NY.- At Tulane University, 1.5 million books and manuscripts were drenched when Hurricane Katrina swept through Louisiana in 2005. In 2018, UCLA was in talks to receive a donors collection when it was destroyed in the Woolsey fire. And the next year, the Getty fire sent up thick, black plumes of smoke that threatened to filter into UCLAs libraries and damage the fragile materials housed inside. We were lucky that day, recalled Chela Metzger, the schools head of preservation and conservation. Acidic smoke and greasy soot are grave concerns for any conservator, but in this case, the winds held them at bay. But luck is not a safeguard against the growing threat posed by extreme weather events such as wildfires and floods to book collections, even collections housed in professional facilities. As those events have become more common as a result of climate change, preservationists across the United States know they must adapt their practices to keep books and archiv ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Over 50 Old Master paintings on long term loan from Dulwich Picture Gallery - and a further eight works from a private English collection â have just gone on display at Strawberry Hill House, helping to recreate the atmosphere of how the house would have appeared over 250 years ago. Photo © Matt Chung.
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| Gagosian to participate in the inaugural edition of ART SG in Singapore | | Sukanya Rajaratnam to depart Mnuchin Gallery | | Arkansas man arrested in theft of 1,500-year-old church relics |
Thomas Houseago, Yellow Autumn Roses with my Chair, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm) © Thomas Houseago. Photo: Thomas Lannes. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
SINGAPORE.- Gagosian announced the gallerys participation in the inaugural edition of Art SG, with a selection of works by international contemporary artists including Banksy, Georg Baselitz, Ashley Bickerton, Edmund de Waal, Helen Frankenthaler, Katharina Grosse, Mark Grotjahn, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Thomas Houseago, Tetsuya Ishida, Alex Israel, Jia Aili, Harmony Korine, Takashi Murakami, Nam June Paik, Giuseppe Penone, Ed Ruscha, Spencer Sweeney, Sarah Sze, Tatiana Trouvé, Anna Weyant, Jonas Wood, and Zeng Fanzhi. The presentation features two works by Ashley Bickerton, who passed away in November 2022. Seascape: Floating Ocean Chunk No. 1 (2017) and 6°50'03.0"S 121°06'55.0"E (2022) belong to Bickertons Ocean Chunk series of wall-mounted sculptures. These translucent resin blocks, embedded with fabricated formations of sand, rock, and coral ... More | |
Ms. Rajaratnam joined the gallery, then L&M Arts, in 2008. Photo by Weston Wells.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mnuchin Gallery announces that partner Sukanya Rajaratnam will depart the gallery after 15 years of working closely with founder Robert Mnuchin. Ms. Rajaratnam joined the gallery, then L&M Arts, in 2008. In 2013, she was named a partner and, in coordination with Mnuchin, helped the renamed Mnuchin Gallery maintain their collective vision for museumÂ-quality exhibitions and rigorous scholarship. Over the next decade, in concert with partner Michael McGinnis, who joined in 2016, they strengthened Mnuchin Gallery's reputation as one of the world's most respected galleries. Rajaratnam is responsible for some of Mnuchin Gallery's significant exhibitions and for expanding the gallery's scope of programming. She organized the first New York surveys in decades of artists including Sam Gilliam, Ed Clark, Alma Thomas, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Betty Blayton, and, most recently, Lynne Drexler. She also enabled collaborative ... More | |
An undated photo provided by Subiaco Abbey shows the marble altar that was damaged at the church at Subiaco Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Subiaco, Ark. (Subiaco Abbey via The New York Times)
by April Rubin
NEW YORK, NY.- A man is accused of entering an Arkansas church, smashing a hammer through the center of its altar and stealing two boxes containing 1,500-year-old relics. Jerrid Farnam, 31, was arrested Thursday and faced likely charges of property theft, criminal mischief in the first degree, residential burglary, breaking or entering and public intoxication, the Logan County Sheriffs Office said. The altar at Subiaco Abbey in Logan County, in northwestern Arkansas, was made of marble imported from Italy, officials said. Two brass-colored boxes inside it contained relics from saints from over 1,500 years ago. On Thursday afternoon, guests of the church alerted officials that there was an apparently intoxicated man damaging artifacts. The abbey called the police ... More |
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| Jack Shainman Gallery opens an exhibition of new work by Odili Donald Odita | | Art Rotterdam 2023 announces NN Art Award, Sculpture Park and outdoor artworks | | New Korean War Memorial is riddled with errors |
Odili Donald Odita, Burning Cross, 2022. Acrylic latex paint on aluminum-core fabricated wood panel with reconstituted wood veneer, 60 x 60 x 3/4 inches © Odili Donald Odita. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting Burning Cross, an exhibition of new work by Odili Donald Odita at the 513 West 20th Street location. The premise of this exhibition stems from the idea of trust, or the lack thereof, in American life. There are many reasons and circumstances in the last few years that can be cited for this lack of trust: white-nationalism, antisemitic rhetoric, anti-Asian street attacks, sanctioned police brutality, the institutional persecution of LGTBQ persons and their families, as well as recent propagandist actions such as the movement of entire migrant families via private jet to various Sanctuary cities throughout America. My understanding of these symptoms has come to a single notionthe threat to democracy. What is the threat to democracy? What would the opposite of democracy look like? ... More | |
Atelier Van Lieshout, Destiny, 2021. Photo: Courtesy Galerie Ron Mandos.
ROTTERDAM.- The 24th edition of Art Rotterdam, to be held from 9 February to 12 February, is starting to take shape more and more. As in previous years, the Van Nelle Fabriek in Rotterdam will be accommodating over one hundred leading national and international galleries and their exhibitions of works by both up-and-coming and established artists. A partner of Art Rotterdam for seven years, the NN Group (which includes Nationale Nederlanden) has announced the nominees for the NN Art Award. The selection process for the outdoor artworks on the grounds of the Van Nelle Fabriek and Sculpture Park in the Tabakshal also recently came to an end. Every year, the NN Group presents the NN Art Award to an exceptionally talented artist who graduated from a Dutch art academy. This year marks the first time that artists from the Prospects exhibition could also submit their work for consideration. This year's jury for the NN Art Award consisted ... More | |
Hal Barker with a picture of his father, Lt. Col. Edward L. Barker, a Marine pilot who fought in the Korean War, at the apartment he shares with his brother in Dallas, Dec. 2, 2022. (Nitashia Johnson/ The New York Times)
by Dave Philipps
NEW YORK, NY.- An arc of gleaming black granite slabs etched with 36,634 names was unveiled on the National Mall over the summer, built to honor American service members who died fighting in the Korean War. People like Frederick Bald Eagle Bear, an Army corporal who was killed as he rallied his infantry squad to fend off an enemy attack. And Walder McCord, a bomber pilot who crashed during a night mission. And John Koelsch, a helicopter pilot who was shot down trying to rescue another pilot, died in captivity and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. But Koelschs name is spelled wrong, McCords name is not on the wall at all, and the name of Frederick Bald Eagle Bear, a member of the Lakota tribe, is so mangled that the polished granite lists him as Eagle B F Bald. There are hundreds more mistakes like those ... More |
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| Perrotin opens the group exhibition 'Cache-cache (Hide and Seek)' | | Exhibition at Somerset House explores 50 years of creative rebellion | | Old Masters give Strawberry Hill House a sense of how it was in Horace Walpole's time |
Elené Shatberashvili, Tusheti, 2021. Oil on canvas, 130 à 100 cm | 513/16 à 393/8 in. Courtesy of the artist, GB Agency and Perrotin.
PARIS.- The group exhibition Cache-cache (Hide and Seek) brings together for the first time at the gallery works by Adrian Geller, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Dora Jeridi, Nino Kapanadze, and Elené Shatberashvili. Across a selection of twenty pieces, the exhibition invites us to interpret the artists childhood memories. The featured paintings do not show real images of their past but explore a reconstructed childhood and its narrative transformation. Delving into this immense edifice of memory, each artist imagines a kind of autobiographical fiction, a quasi-psychoanalytical journey through their work. For the young child who has no real sense of time and space, the game of hide and seek is useful. It helps the child understand that when the adult is out of sight, they do not disappear completely, their reappea- rance producing a pleasurable surprise ... More | |
Kerry Stewart, The Boy From The Chemist Is Here To See You, 1993. Courtesy of Kerry Stewart.
LONDON.- Somerset House presents The Horror Show!: A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain, a major exhibition exploring how ideas rooted in horror have informed the last 50 years of creative rebellion. The show looks beyond horror as a genre, instead taking it as a reaction and provocation to our most troubling times. The last five decades of modern British history are recast as a story of cultural shapeshifting told through some of our countrys most provocative artists. The Horror Show! offers a heady ride through the disruption of 1970s punk to the revolutionary potential of modern witchcraft, showing how the anarchic alchemy of horror its subversion, transgression and the supernatural can make sense of the world around us. Horror not only allows us to voice our fears; it gives us the tools to stare them down and imagine a radically different future. Featuring over 200 artworks ... More | |
Installation view. Photo © Matt Chung.
TWICKENHAM.- As part of an ambitious project through acquisitions and loan agreements, including the partnership forged with Dulwich Picture Gallery - Strawberry Hill House, the remarkable former home of the writer, antiquarian and politician, Horace Walpole (17171797) is endeavouring to return some of the 6000 objects from the collection he amassed during his lifetime and, where possible, recreate the original atmosphere of the house, when the rooms were filled with fantastic works of art. In 1842, following Walpoles death, the contents of the House were dispersed in a famous auction, known as the Great Sale. Since then, it has been a long-held desire of the Strawberry Hill Trust to bring as many pieces once in his collection back to the historic villa in Twickenham. Indeed, its efforts have recently seen the acquisitions of an extraordinary portrait of Catherine de Medici and a celebrated Chinese ceramic fish ... More |
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| Sargent's Daughters opens Touchstones an exhibition representing a variety of backgrounds and nationalities | | Morphy's concludes stellar year with $1.9M auction of fine and decorative art | | Phillips appoints Robert Sleigh as Managing Director, Asia, Based in Hong Kong |
Christian Quin Newell, Late night development I, 2022. Oil and charcoal on canvas, 15.75 x 11.8 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sargents Daughters is now presenting since January 6th Touchstones, featuring works by Yevgeniya Baras, Hawkins Bolden, Christian Quin Newell, Laurence Pilon, and Nickola Pottinger. Representing a variety of backgrounds and nationalities, several of these artists have chosen or been forced to leave their countries of birth for new homes, while others have radically reexamined the internal and external landscapes they inhabit. Through nuanced abstractions and unconventional media, all of them consider themes of migration, translation, wayfinding, and landscape in their work. Like a smooth stone carried in a travelers pocket, the assembled artworks represent what these artists have held close throughout their migrations, helping them to chart new courses through unfamiliar territories. Yevgeniya Baras (b. Syzran, former Soviet Union) is an artist in New York. She has exhibited her work at galleries including ... More | |
Tiffany Studios Peony leaded-glass table lamp in vibrant color scheme dominated by red and pink blooms with yellow centers. Sold above high estimate for $79,950.
DENVER, PA.- Morphy Auctions set the stage for a beautiful Christmas season with its $1.9 million Fine & Decorative Arts Auction held December 19-20 at the companys spacious Pennsylvania gallery. Collectors, tastemakers and holiday shoppers vied for superior jewels and watches, paintings, art pottery, silver, and more than two dozen dazzling Tiffany Studios lamps a festive way to wrap a year of memorable, high-profile sales. The lamp selection was especially fine, with three particular Tiffany designs attracting the lions share of attention at the preview, said Dan Morphy, president of Morphy Auctions. At the center of the Tiffany winners circle was a signed and numbered Nasturtium lamp with a leaded-glass shade profusely decorated with multicolored confetti glass tiles and a bevy of richly-hued flowers. Resting on a telescoping Tiffany-stamped cats-paw ... More | |
He will oversee Phillips Business Development team in Asia and work in partnership with the Global Chief Marketing Officer to manage the marketing and communications team in the region. Image courtesy of Phillips.
HONG KONG.- Phillips announced the appointment of Robert Sleigh as Managing Director, Asia, based in Hong Kong. Mr. Sleigh brings with his extensive experience in the global auction industry across Asia, US, and Europe, as well as comprehensive knowledge within all areas of the art market. In this new leadership position, Mr. Sleigh will be responsible for implementing, managing, and optimising all procedural and operational aspects of Phillips in the region with a focus on realising the companys vision and strategic plan alongside accelerating the growth of the brand. He will oversee Phillips Business Development team in Asia and work in partnership with the Global Chief Marketing Officer to manage the marketing and communications team in the region. I am delighted to welcome ... More |
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How these sign language experts are bringing more diversity to theater
NEW YORK, NY.- Zavier Sabio didnt have much exposure to theater growing up. But when he was asked to join the Roundabout Theatre Companys production of A Soldiers Play and help make the show about race relations in the military in the segregated South accessible to deaf theatergoers, he decided to give it a shot. I really wanted to present this story, as well as the interpretation, through a Black lens, Sabio, who is Deaf, said through an interpreter. To do that, he also relied on his knowledge of Black American Sign Language (a variation of American Sign Language) and Black Deaf culture. Sabio joined the 2020 production as a co-director of artistic sign language, or DASL, a position that some shows fill in order to create a more cohesive theater experience for deaf audiences. DASLs collaborate with American Sign Language interpreters who specialize in theater ... More
Kunstmuseum Basel announces 2023 programme: Fauves, Andrea Büttner, Charmion von Wiegand and Shirley Jaffe
BASEL.- The Kunstmuseum Basel announced the exhibitions for 2023. The programme includes outstanding female artists, some of whom are little known in Switzerland: in spring, the work of Shirley Jaffe, who came to Paris from the USA in 1949 and was inspired by Abstract Expressionism, can be discovered. At the same time, Charmion von Wiegand was fuelled by the encounter of Piet Mondrian in New York. Both painters later developed their very own formal language. The German artist Andrea Büttner, on the other hand, who will be exhibiting at Haus Gegenwart in the summer, has been creating paintings on major social themes since the early 2000s. In autumn, the first floor of the Neubau belongs to the Fauves the "wild animals", as they were maliciously called. The group around Henri Matisse and André Derain unshackled the painting scene in Paris between 1904 and 1908 ... More
Review: A Philharmonic contender returns to the podium
NEW YORK, NY.- A changing of the guard on the worlds great orchestral podiums was in the air Friday. Daniel Barenboim, 80, longtime music director of the Berlin State Opera, had just announced he would step down at the end of the month because of his declining health. A potential generational shift was looming at the New York Philharmonic, too. The evening before, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, 37, had conducted that ensemble with crisply elfin spirit as one of the leading candidates to take over when Jaap van Zweden, 62, leaves at the end of next season. Rouvali faces steep competition not least from Gustavo Dudamel, 41, who is widely considered the favorite for the position and who arrives in New York this spring for Mahlers Ninth Symphony, a classic music director showcase. But it is no accident that Rouvali is the only Philharmonic guest conductor ... More
Fairchain announces newly established Gallery Advisory Council
Fairchain has announced the establishment of The Gallery Advisory Council: a coalition of twelve innovative and artist-minded galleries and organizations that will draw on their seasoned art market experience to help establish a new standard for championing artists while creating a more equitable art ecosystem for all. The twelve pioneering galleries and organizations comprising Fairchains Gallery Advisory Council are: The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), Helena Anrather, James Cohan, Magenta Plains, David Nolan Gallery, 56 HENRY, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, regular normal, Sargents Daughters, Sebastian Gladstone, Rachel Uffner Gallery, and The Journal Gallery. Each member included in the advisory council is also an early advocate ... More
Ewbank's to sell stunning ceramics with links to Bloomsbury Group
LONDON.- As the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, and the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell (1910-96) proved to be one of the very last links with the Bloomsbury Group. Now a collection of his striking and singular ceramics, created for the celebrated Fulham Pottery, will be offered at in Ewbanks Interiors & Modern Design auction on January 26. Bell inherited his familys artistic talents and went on to establish his own reputation, not only as an artist but also as an academic and author, lecturing in fine art at Durham University in the 1950s before being appointed Professor of Fine Art at the University of Leeds in 1959, then Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University five years later. He was also appointed Ferens Professor of Fine Art at Hull University and Professor of Art History and Theory at Sussex University. His biography of Virginia Woolf won both the James ... More
Bonhams appoints Caroline Schulten as Head of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Department in Paris
PARIS.- Bonhams has appointed Caroline Schulten as Head of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Department in Paris with immediate effect (January 2023). She will be based in Paris. Caroline Schulten began her career in the Chinese art world at the Asian Art Museum in Berlin where she worked as Associate Curator in the Chinese department researching their extensive collection of Chinese archaic bronzes. Following three years at Lempertz as a Specialist in Asian Art, Caroline joined Sothebys in 2006 as a Senior Specialist working in Amsterdam and London. She relocated to New York in 2008 and subsequently to Paris in 2012, where she was appointed Head of the Chinese ceramics and works of art department. With two decades of experience in the Chinese art world, Dr. Schulten has handled a number of prominent collections and spearheaded ... More
Russell Banks, novelist steeped in the working class, dies at 82
NEW YORK, NY.- Russell Banks, whose vivid portrayals of working-class Americans grappling with issues of poverty, race and class placed him among the first ranks of contemporary novelists, died Sunday at his home in Saratoga Springs, New York. He was 82. His literary agent, Ellen Levine, said the cause was cancer. The prolific author of 21 works of fiction and nonfiction, Banks brought his own blue-collar background to bear in his writing, delving into the psychological pressure of life in economically depressed towns in the Northeast, their stark reality often shadowed by the majestic Adirondacks of northern New York state. In Banks world, geography is a kind of grim destiny, Jennifer Schuessler wrote in The New York Review of Books in 2008. Two of his novels, Continental Drift (1985) and Cloudsplitter (1998), were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction ... More
Erika Somogyi presents nine new works at Kristen Lorello
NEW YORK, NY.- Kristen Lorello is presenting Brooklyn-based artist Erika Somogyi's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Comprised of nine new works, the exhibition deepens Somogyi's expertise and experimentation with the medium of watercolor within complex depictions of sublime nature, pattern, and the female figure. Plants, flowers, insects, and the profile of the female face form repeated patterns within Somogyi's compositions. At times the artist's young daughters appear within the fantastical scenes, as swirling, growing flowers and plants mimic the children's energetic sense of discovery. Somogyi is influenced by the floral textile patterns of historic artist and designer Vera Neumann and the fantasy floral landscapes of contemporary painter Inka Essenhigh. She is also interested in the concepts of anthropomorphism (the attribution of human traits to non-human things) ... More
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Lebbeus Woods
Yayoi Kusama
New Images in the Age of Augustus
Alexander McQueen
Flashback On a day like today, English sculptor Barbara Hepworth was born January 10, 1903. Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 - 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. She was one of the few female artists of her generation to achieve international prominence. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War. In this image: Dame Barbara Hepworth, Parent I, conceived in 1970, number 2 of the 4 individual casts that were made of each of the nine figures (est. £2,000,000-3,000,000). Photo: Sotheby's.
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