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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Cube Bronze Maquette after William Bill Tarr.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX.- From an elaborately embroidered Qing Dynasty Chinese robe to a maquette of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Bronze after William Tarr, Lark Mason Associates announced that first in a series of multiple sales from the Property of an American Collector is now open for bidding on iGavelAuctions.com through January 26, 2023. Says Lark Mason: With highlights reflecting a wide swathe of cultures including Chinese, Japanese, South Asian, Central Asian, African, American, this single-owner sale features items from the curated collection of an American connoisseur whose tastes and interests are united by two themespattern and design. Among the eclectic offerings is an extraordinary collection of elaborately embroidered and appliqued Chinese robes many of which date from the Qing dynasty bed covers, shawls, rank badges, and panels as well as Japanese kimonos and silk Obi. Among the most outstanding ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Gina Lollobrigida in New York on Nov. 10, 2010. Lollobrigida, the Italian movie actress who became one of the post-World War II eraâs first major European sex symbols, has died. She was 95. Her death was confirmed on social media by Gennaro Sangiuliano, Italyâs culture minister, on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. (Keith Bedford/The New York Times.
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| Gina Lollobrigida, movie star and sex symbol, is dead at 95 | | Pace presents an exhibition of new and recent work by Tara Donovan | | Exhibition of new paintings by Jim Shaw opens at Gagosian Beverly Hills |
Gina Lollobrigida in New York on Nov. 10, 2010. (Keith Bedford/The New York Times)
by Anita Gates
NEW YORK, NY.- Gina Lollobrigida, an Italian movie actress who became one of the post-World War II eras first major European sex symbols, died on Monday in Rome. She was 95. The death was confirmed by her agent, Paola Comin. Lollobrigida had already appeared in more than two dozen European films when she made her first English-language movie, John Hustons 1953 camp drama, Beat the Devil, in which she played Humphrey Bogarts wife and partner in crime. That film, and the attention she garnered in Fanfan la Tulipe, an Italian-French period comedy released in the United States the same year, were enough to put her on the cover of Time magazine in 1954. She went on to unqualified American movie stardom, exuding a wholesome lustiness in a handful of high-profile films. She starred in Trapeze (1956) with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis; The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956) ... More | |
Tara Donovan, Screen Drawing, 2021. Aluminum insect screen, 15-1/2" à 15-1/2" à 1-1/4" (39.4 cm à 39.4 cm à 3.2 cm) © Tara Donovan, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace is presenting an exhibition of new and recent work by Tara Donovan at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York. On view from January 13 to February 25, the show brings together a selection of screen drawings made with aluminum insect screen. For these works, which Donovan began creating during the pandemic, she moves, pinches, and cuts the wires of aluminum screen to extract mesmeric patterns from the materials existing grids. Ranging from just over a foot in height and width to nearly four feet wide and tall, these two-dimensional screen drawings feature unique geometric motifs that produce varied visual effects. Donovans screen drawings reflect her longstanding investigations into the possibilitiesand limitsof human perception. The artists practice, which spans sculpture, installation, drawing, and printmaking, centers on transformations of familiar, everyday objects into talismanic, shape ... More | |
Jim Shaw, Cary Grant, 2022. Oil and acrylic on muslin, 84 x 64 in. © Jim Shaw. Photo: Jeff McLane.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Gagosian is presenting Thinking the Unthinkable, an exhibition of new paintings by Jim Shaw. This is his first exhibition with the gallery, which announced its representation of the artist in 2021. In these works, Shaw reanimates mythological themes through incidents from political history and popular entertainment, outwardly disparate fields that collide here in a dreamlike mélange. The characters that populate these images represent what Catherine Taft, writing for Gagosian Quarterly in 2022, describes as an American limbo, troubled waters into which the artist wades deeper and deeper. Shaw elaborates on the exhibitions iconography: Strewn throughout are competing symbols, including the mushroom cloud, the pillar, the egg, the alphabet, and the ocean. The exhibitions title, which suggests both a psychedelic context and the impossibility of examining our own consciousness, is adapted from Herman ... More |
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| Alioune Diagne unveils fifteen large-scale canvases at Galerie Templon's Brussels space | | Murillo, not so saintly: A quiet master reassessed | | Hauser & Wirth Zurich presents David Smith's exhibition 'Four Sculptures' |
Alioune Diagne, Arrivée des pêcheurs à Cayar Sénégal, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, huile et acrylique sur toile, 100 x 100 cm, 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in.
BRUSSELS.- For his first show at Galerie Templons Brussels space, Franco-Senegalese painter Alioune Diagne is unveiling fifteen large-scale canvases centring on the notions of travel, motion and displacement with the Tukki exhibition. Composed of figurative images created from an infinite number of motifs, Diagnes work enthrals thanks to its complexity and the energy of the scenes portraying the daily life of the Black community and African diaspora around the world. The exhibition unfurls in a palette of shimmering colours: lime green rubs shoulders with indigo, aquamarine and canary yellow in an explosion of vivid hues. The pieces in this series flirt boldly with abstraction. At first glance, our gaze is lost in the countless marks that make up the painting, none of them identical. It is only by standing back from the canvas that we can make out the local scenes, captured in all their artlessness. One of them depicts a market ... More | |
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Two Women at a Window, c. 165560. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Widener Collection. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.
by Walker Mimms
FORT WORTH, TX.- In the twilight of Spains Golden Age, in the 1660s and 70s, the great Diego Velázquez had gone, and it was Bartolomé Esteban Murillo who reigned. When his work arrived on loan in 1830, the people of Boston fawned. In our Cynical Age, however, Murillo has lost some favor. His specialty is devotional imagery saints and cherubs and Virgins. His principal mode is charm. His brushwork is tactfully loose but never risky. We could blame it on secular modern life, but Velázquezs cold dissections of courtly power and his vigorous action painting have proven much more popular. A long-overdue reassessment has arrived at the Kimbell Art Museum here. The painters largest show in America in 20 years, Murillo: From Heaven to Earth, curated by Guillaume Kientz ... More | |
David Smith Zig I, 1961. Steel, paint, 245.1 x 144.8 x 81.9 cm / 96 1/2 x 57 x 32 1/4 in Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich. © 2022 The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy the Estate and Hauser & Wirth.
ZURICH.- One of the foremost artists of the 20th Century and the sculptor most closely associated with the abstract expressionist movement, David Smith (19061965) is celebrated for his use of industrial materials and processes and the integration of open space into sculpture. David Smith. Four Sculptures is being held in Hauser & Wirths glass-fronted exhibition space on Bahnhofstrasse 1, Zurich through April 6th, 2023. The exhibition will showcase four extraordinary, painted sculptures that represent major sculpture groups Smith made in the early 1960s. Throughout his career, Smith referred to himself as both a painter and a sculptor, working in both mediums simultaneously. Citing the unification of painting and sculpture in ancient Egyptian and Greek art, Smith applied painting concepts ... More |
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| Pippy Houldsworth Gallery extends Albano Hernández exhibition 'Bah! Forraje!' until February 4th | | Record 10 lots exceed $1 million each, leading Heritage FUN Auctions beyond $88 million | | Currier Museum of Art welcomes Lorenzo Fusi as Chief Curator |
Albano Hernández, Bah! Forraje!, 2022.
LONDON.- Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is extending to Bah! Forraje!, a new kinetic sculpture by Albano Hernández in The Box, the gallerys micro project space until February 4th, 2023. Much of Hernándezs work is based around ceramics that, although rooted in pictorial thought, are defined by a transcategorical condition. His studio practice is a constant game of dichotomies, in which a labour-intensive practice is mixed with industrial processes, undoing is as important as making, and impurity is as substantial as purity. In these processes, he follows a circular economy policy that allows him to reduce the amount of waste generated, establish dialogues between different works, and generate a more elastic and sustainable practice. In Bah! Forraje! waste materials from Hernándezs studio practice are transformed into bright accents that function as an eye-catcher for an object displayed as a luxury good. He highlights ... More | |
1873-CC 10C No Arrows MS65 PCGS.
DALLAS, TX.- Numerous records were set and a 1873-CC No Arrows Seated Dime, MS65 sold for a record $3.6 million to lead Heritage Auctions FUN US Coins Signature® Auction Jan. 11-15 to $51,857,970. Coupled with the $12,079,520 from Heritages FUN Currency Signature® Auction, the combined total for the events climbed to $63,937,490. Add in The Bass Collection, Part II US Coins Signature® Auction - Orlando FUN that brought $24,322,741 Jan. 5 and Heritage Auctions has sold $88,260,231 in U.S. coins and currency in just the first two weeks of 2023. All told, a record 10 lots across the three events topped $1 million. The top lot, one of three unique coins offered in the auction, was one of six coins to crack the million-dollar plateau in the FUN U.S. Coins event; the most seven-figure coins in a FUN auction was seven, a standard Heritage achieved twice: in 2015 and again in 2022. The 1873-CC No Arrows Seated ... More | |
Lorenzo Fusi has broad experience with artists and exhibitions.
MANCHESTER, NH.- The Currier Museum of Art announced that Lorenzo Fusi is joining its leadership team as Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art. Fusi will advance the museums mission of connecting the community with art, and help make the Currier Museum a catalyst for positive change in its region. We are thrilled to welcome Lorenzo Fusi, a highly respected international curator, says Alan Chong, director and CEO of the Currier Museum of Art. He has considerable experience in nurturing innovative artists from around the world, and even more important, has connected those artists with audiences. I am honored to join the Currier Museum of Art, says Lorenzo Fusi. The museum has strong artist and community programs and I hope that my enduring interest in art in the public sphere will deepen and expand these initiatives. Moreover, the museum has a rich ... More |
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| Ruth Adler Schnee, exuberant designer of Modernist textiles, dies at 99 | | Green Vault jewels will not be exhibited until court case ends - Free State of Saxony seeks additional civil action | | Catherine Southon to sell the archive of important Quaker Samuel Starbuck |
A photo provided by Cranbrook Archives shows Ruth Adler Schnee in her studio in Detroit in 1947 with her first fabric designs, called Slits and Slats and Pits and Pods. (Cranbrook Archives via The New York Times)
by Penelope Green
NEW YORK, NY.- Ruth Adler Schnee, whose ebullient fabric designs and avant-garde home furnishings store in the heart of Detroit introduced midcentury modernism to baffled and delighted Midwesterners and who lived and worked long enough to have her work celebrated by a new generation of critics and design enthusiasts died Jan. 5 at her home in Colorado Springs. She was 99. Her death was announced by her son Daniel. Cant a cooking spoon have a beautiful shape? asked a radio advertisement that Adler Schnee and her husband and business partner, Edward Schnee, crafted to tempt a wary public into their store, Adler Schnee. The store was a bright, glassy space showcasing Adler Schnees boldly colored textiles ... More | |
Degen (Diamantrosengarnitur). Christian August und August Gotthelf Globig, Dresden 1782-1789, Inv.-Nr. VIII 16
DRESDEN.- An initial inspection of the jewels stolen from the Historisches Grünes Gewölbe (Historic Green Vault) and now handed over to Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) has shown that despite some damage to individual pieces, this has not diminished either their important place in art history or their international appeal. As the items of jewellery are still being used as evidence in the criminal proceedings, they may not yet be exhibited in public. As an SKD restorer testified at the main hearing on Tuesday, the pieces are in different states of preservation, having been exposed to a range of external influences extending from mechanical damage to contact with moisture. This damage can, however, be almost fully repaired. The SKD plans to convene a panel of experts to discuss the condition of the items and the restoration measures to be taken. The SKD has regained possession ... More | |
Starbuck Archive. Photo: Catherine Southon Auctioneers.
LONDON.- An important and detailed archive of early 19th century correspondence and supporting printed material compiled by prominent abolitionist Samuel Starbuck will be offered in Catherine Southon Auctioneers & Valuers Sale of Antiques and
Collectables on W ednesday February 8, 2023 at Farleigh Court Golf Club,
Selsdon in Surrey. Dating from 1821-1829, the archive is estimate at £6,000-8,000 and is being sold by descendants of the Starbuck family. The Starbuck family were prominent in the Anti-Slavery movement both in the UK and the USA. Having been involved in the founding of Nantucket, members of the family emigrated to Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire, South Wales after the American Revolutionary War and continued their successful Whaling business. The family who were Quakers were active abolitionists throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. As Catherine Southon ... More |
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Galerie Miranda presents 'Undergarments & Armor' by NYC-based artist Tanya Marcuse
PARIS.- Galerie Miranda is presenting, for the first time in France, the beautiful and fascinating series Undergarments & Armor by NYC-based artist Tanya Marcuse, made in 2002-3 with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship. The artist anchors the project in typological foundations, formally expressed with highly precise yet sensual black & white pigment prints. The complete series of Undergarments & Armor was first exhibited in Northern Ireland at Belfast Exposed gallery. The series has also featured at the triennial of photography and video called Dress Codes at the International Center for Photography (New York) and in Love and War at the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology (New York). A lavish 3-volume slipcased monograph of the series was published by Nazraeli Press in 2005 with an essay by Valerie Steele ... More
De Appel Amsterdam presents Pope.L's 'Togetherness'
AMSTERDAM.- De Appel is presenting the video installation Togetherness by the American artist and educator Pope.L. This video installation is the continuation of the work Misconceptions, that Pope.L made for Portikus in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2021. In Togetherness, Pope.L thematizes different expressions of oppression and exclusion that persevere in Dutch society today; from nationalism, xenophobia and racism to colonialism, imperialism and sexism. The framework of the video installation is a tv game show with quiz elements, in which individual contestants of different cultural backgrounds, ages, and professions compete against each other for the coveted grand price. By means of the enlargement and conversion of characters, a game between fact and fiction, the alternation of script through improvisation, and the use of absurdism and taboo ... More
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, welcomes new Deputy Director Alex Bortolot
HANOVER, NH.- The Hood Museum of Art announced Alex Bortolot as just the second deputy director in the museums history. This position has renewed resonance for the museum in the wake of its 202226 strategic plan, which calls for, among other things, enabling greater access to its resources and championing museum practices that positively impact staff, audience, and environmental wellbeing. As a senior staff member at the nexus of the exhibitions, collections, digital platforms/media/archives, and external relations/operations areas, the deputy director will guide and support work with the museums resources to purposefully expand their impact. Bortolot brings over a decade of experience in museum content strategy and internal organizational leadership to this task from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. He also enjoys a professional homecoming of sorts ... More
'Here Lies Love,' an Imelda Marcos disco musical, will play Broadway
NEW YORK, NY.- Here Lies Love, a wild, immersive, disco-driven dance musical about Imelda Marcos, the extravagant and colorful former first lady of the Philippines, will make its long-anticipated trip to Broadway this summer. The show, with downtown roots and dance-floor audiences, will be an unusual fit for Broadway: Its animating idea has been that both the actors and the audience are on their feet, circling one another as they move throughout the production. A sung-through musical written by pop musicians David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, Here Lies Love began its public life in 2007 as an embryonic multimedia song cycle presented at Carnegie Hall. In 2010, Marcos listened to part of the double album with a New York Times reporter (Im flattered; I cant believe it! she said). Then came the stage productions: in 2012 at Mass MoCA ... More
Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome presents 'readymades belong to everyone ® Philippe Thomas declines his identity'
ROME.- Philippe Thomas declines his identity is the first exhibition that an Italian institution has dedicated to piecing together an expanded portrait of the figure of Philippe Thomas (1951-1995). The show, which will run through February 26th, 2023 at MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, takes its title from that of a book connected with a lecture-performance by the French artist best known for his research connected to the concept of authorship. The latter led him to eventually annihilate his own presence. He operated within a conceptual approach driven by the practice of making the buyer of an artwork at once its owner and its author. In a tension between reality and fiction, the process of writing his biography ... More
Iradj Moini and Judith Leiber are among the highlights of Moran's Costume Jewelry & Luxury Accessories Online sale
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- Roses are red, violets are blue, Morans will be having a jewelry sale just for you! While flowers and chocolate are nice, everyone knows the true way to a womans (or mans) heart is with jewelry. This Valentines Day, Tuesday, February 14th, 2023 at noon PST, John Moran Auctioneers will present their Costume Jewelry & Luxury Accessories Online auction. This colorful sale will highlight the costume jewelry of the Dumont Collection from West Hollywood. There will be vintage designers ranging from CHANEL, Yves Saint Laurent, Iradj Moini, Trifari, Joseff of Hollywood, and Miriam Haskell to name but a few. And, for those that want to keep up with this years Spring and Summer jewelry trends ... More
Cutaway model of a 1962 Vickers VC-10 BOAC jet airplane expected to soar in Miller & Miller's online auction
ONTARIO.- A cutaway model of a 1962 Vickers VC-10 BOAC (later renamed British Air) jet plane, one of only two known to exist, made by Walkers Westway in England, is expected to soar to new heights in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.s online-only Advertising & Historic Objects auction planned for Saturday, January 21st, at 9 am Eastern time. The eclectic sale is filled with 376 lots of advertising signs, banks, breweriana, bicycles, bottles, clocks, coin-ops, fruit jars, general store, historic objects, models, militaria, soda advertising and sports memorabilia. There are several rare and desirable vintage airplane models in the auction (not all are cutaways). The Vickers VC-10 is the expected overall top lot (est. $9,000-$12,000). All estimates quoted in this report are in Canadian dollars. Also, all lots are being offered without reserve ... More
Richmond Art Center presents 'The Remembrance Project' as part of their winter exhibition schedule
RICHMOND, CALIF.- The Remembrance Project will open January 18th at the Richmond Art Center as part of their winter exhibitions project, which will include an opening reception on Saturday, January 21st from 2pm-4pm, as well as a project workstop and book talk. Social Justice Sewing Academy presents The Remembrance Project, a cloth memorial of activist art banners commemorating the many people who have lost their lives to systems of inequity and racist structures. These banners have been created collectively by volunteers across the country to help educate and inform communities about the human impact of systemic violence. The Remembrance Project banners are displayed by local and national organizations to express solidarity in the fight for social justice and remembrance of those lost to violence ... More
Exhibition showcases more than a century of African studio portraits
TORONTO.- A century after its arrival in Central and Western Africa, commercial portraiture came into its own. On view now at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the new exhibition You Look Beautiful Like That: Studio Photography in West and Central Africa considers the evolution of that art form through more than 50 portraits and albums dating from the 1860s to the mid-1980s. Spotlighting the artistry of Cameroonian photographer Michel Kameni, the pioneer Malian photographers Malick Sidibé and Seydou Keïta and Ivorian photographer Paul Kodjo, among others, You Look Beautiful Like That is curated by Julie Crooks, AGO Curator, Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora and is on view through June 11, 2023. Highlighting the unique approaches to studio portraiture that evolved in Western and Central Africa in the 100 years following ... More
Morgan Lehman opens an exhibition of new photogram collages by Wendy Small
NEW YORK, NY.- Morgan Lehman is presenting New Math, an exhibition of new photogram collages by Wendy Small. This marks the artists second solo show with the gallery. New Math is the name of an experimental teaching methodology from the 1950s1970s that ran parallel to the more conventional American education system. New Math was touted by experts and followers as providing "an enlightened emphasis on understanding". It was also the name of a now-closed gallery on the Lower East Side, a neighborhood where Wendy Small returned to live in the 1980s to attend art school. Small has long considered the cyclical connections between analog and digital photography mediums, and the slippages that occur between these worlds. New Math represents a departure from the artists usual process of working ... More
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New Images in the Age of Augustus
Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Antonio del Pollaiuolo was born January 17, 1429. Antonio del Pollaiuolo (17 January 1429/1433Â - 4 February 1498), also known as Antonio di Jacopo Pollaiuolo or Antonio Pollaiuolo (also spelled Pollaiolo), was an Italian painter, sculptor, engraver and goldsmith during the Italian Renaissance. In this image: Assunzione di Santa Maria Maddalena.
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