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Philip Guston (American (born Canada), 19131980), Floor, 1976. Oil on canvas, 69 x 98 in (175.3 x 248.9 cm) © The Estate of Philip Guston The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Promised Gift of Musa Guston Mayer.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- How much is too much? Its a question that consumers should ask themselves every time they shop, build or step onto a fuel-guzzling jet. It is also a question that museums might raise before adding works of art to their collections. This does not seem to have happened when the Metropolitan Museum of Art decided to accept 220 works by celebrated and prolific American painter Philip Guston (1913-1980) from the personal collection of his daughter, Musa Guston Mayer. The gift came with a big bright bow: Mayer and her husband, Thomas, are also giving the museum $10 million to establish the Philip Guston Endowment Fund to support Guston scholarship, which will instantly make the museum the worlds center for Guston studies. Of the 220 donated works, 124 are drawings. Ninety-six are paintings, which is the important number here. Close to ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day 'Flutterbye Mansion', an immersive, multi-perspectival architectural illusion wrapped around the Art Porters booth at the inaugural ART SG, enclosing the many viewers. The immersive installation was confabulated by Gary Carsley and Renjie Teoh, colluding as the ArtHitects. The artist and architect are flanked by Sean Soh and Guillaume Levy-Lambert, co-founders of Art Porters, on this photo taken on January 11, 2023 at the largest fair ever held in South-East Asia. Photo Rachel Lin for Art Porters.
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| Picasso's joyful & tender portrait of his daughter Maya comes to auction with an estimate of $15-20 million | | Hauser & Wirth opens Mike Kelley's first solo exhibition in the Greater China | | Museum Tinguely acquires a key work by Jean Tinguely from the 1960s |
Pablo Picasso, Fillette au bateau (Maya), dated 4.2.38 (lower right), oil on canvas. Painted on 4th February 1938. Estimate $15-20 million (in the region of £12-18 million). Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- The women in Picassos life have always been at the heart of the artists oeuvre. On September 5, 1935, a new muse arrived in the form of his daughter Maya, named MarÃa de la Conceptión after Picassos beloved late sister, and born in secrecy while Picasso was still married to his first wife, the former ballerina Olga Khokhlova. The daughter of his greatest love Marie-Thérèse Walter, Maya was to prove an immense source of happiness for Picasso. Her timely birth coincided with a personal crisis which Picasso later referred to as the worst period of his life. A lengthy divorce battle with Olga and the associated loss of his beloved property, Château de Boisgeloup, in combination with the increasingly worsening political situation in Europe and a deepening sense of the inevitability of war, conspired to overwhelm the artist, who was experiencing a nearly year-long ... More | |
Mike Kelley, Bottle 4, 2007. Video projection with sound, 18:25 min. Ed. 3/5 + 1 AP, dimensions variable. © Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All Rights Reserved/VAGA at ARS, NY. Courtesy the Foundation and Hauser & Wirth.
HONG KONG.- Widely considered one of the most ambitious and influential artists of our time, Mike Kelley drew from a wide spectrum of high and low culture, mining the banal objects of everyday life to question and dismantle Western conceptions of contemporary art and culture. Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong is presenting the late Los Angeles-based artists first solo exhibition in the Greater China: Mike Kelley: Subharmonic Tangerine Abyss. Organized in collaboration with the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, the exhibition includes works from one of Kelleys most significant later series, Kandors, including three distinct kinds of videos that Kelley included in his original Kandors show at Jablonka Gallery in 2007 videos documenting crystal growth, animations, and a bottle projection. Kelley began his Kandors series in 1999, in preparation ... More | |
Jean Tinguely, Ãloge de la folie, 1966, 540 x 780 x 75 cm, aluminum frame with wooden wheels, wire, rubber bands, balls, electric motors, all painted black © Museum Tinguely, Basel; photo: Christian Baur.
BASEL.- Museum Tinguely has purchased one of Jean Tinguely's key works from the 1960s: Ãloge de la folie, 1966. Tinguely made the work for the ballet of the same name by Roland Petit. The large-scale work is an important addition to the museum's collection and was last shown in Wolfsburg and Basel over 20 years ago. As part of the new permanent exhibition La roue = c'est tout, it will be made accessible to the public again from 7 February onwards. For the ballet LÃloge de la folie, Tinguely made one of his key contributions to the dramatic arts and one of his most important works of the 1960s. Tinguelys machine, known like the ballet itself as Ãloge de la folie, is a flat gear train that acts as a silhouette- and relief-like backdrop. Like his early reliefs méta-mécaniques whose coloured metal parts danced to the rhythm of the rotating wire wheels, now it was large, flat wheels cut out of plywood and painted ... More |
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| Contemporary works star in the first of three live editions sales for the New York spring season | | Oolite Arts presents "Good Times," a solo show by artist Chris Friday | | The daughter of a king, and a legacy of tears |
Dieter Roth, Im Meer (Into the Sea) (D. 1970.4), 1970 Estimate: $3,000 5,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- This February, Phillips New York Editions auction will feature over 140 lots of Contemporary prints, spanning 1950s to present. On view from 6 15 February at 432 Park Avenue, the live sale will take place on 15 February with two sessions, the first beginning at 10am and the second at 2pm. Highlights from the sale include Ascent, Olympic, Leeches and Liberty the set of four After Jean-Michel Basquiat screenprints, Banksys Banksquiat, and a group of 22 early works on paper by Andy Warhol. The sale will also feature additional works on paper from Dorothea Rockburne, mixed-media collages by Michael Heizer, and editions by Keith Haring, Alex Katz, Robert Longo, Dieter Roth, Ed Ruscha, and Kara Walker among others. Cary Leibowitz and Kelly Troester, Worldwide Co-Heads of Editions and Deputy Chairpersons, Americas, said, After a record-breaking year in 2022 and a wonderful 10th anniversary ... More | |
Good Times - installation photo. Courtesy of WorldRedEye.com/Alejandro Chavarria.
MIAMI, FLA.- In her solo exhibition, now open, at Oolite Arts, Chris Friday continues her exploration of the depiction of Black bodies and their presence or absence in contemporary space. Before 2020, Fridays artwork was an expression of her own willingness to directly address and have conversations around systemic issues facing Black communities. However, after the murder of George Floyd and the public nature of his death, Friday and her figures turned inward. In Good Times, a reference to the popular 1970s sitcom, Friday sources personal narratives, expressions of popular culture, and communal rituals to present broader and more nuanced understandings of blackness and Black life. Large-scale drawings depict Black bodies at leisure - playing, dancing, resting. Simultaneously, the figures turn slightly away from the viewer, keeping part of themselves hidden, rejecting full disclosure in this age of assumed access ... More | |
Priscilla Presley speaks during a memorial service for her daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, at Graceland in Memphis, Tenn., on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. (Houston Cofield/The New York Times)
by Richard Fausset
MEMPHIS, TENN.- An hour before a gospel choir kicked off the funeral for Lisa Marie Presley on the broad lawn of Graceland, Kathy Chandler, the owner of a restaurant in Pilot Point, Texas, was ambling down Elvis Presley Boulevard with a heavy heart. She was clutching a red rose. Oh my God, she said. This is like the last of Elvis to me. Chandler, 58, was among more than 1,000 fans who flocked to Graceland on Sunday morning and stood in the bitter cold to pay their respects to Presley, a singer-songwriter, scandal-scarred tabloid fixture, and a woman who occupied a unique place in popular culture. She was, as former Memphis Mayor A C Wharton put it, the only child born to the worlds most famous father. The death of Presley ... More |
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| Edward Pressman, film producer who boosted many careers, dies at 79 | | Bath's Holburne Museum opens 'Illustrating the World: Woodcuts in the Age of Dürer' | | Folkert de Jong creates new version of Botticelli's Venus |
Producer Edward R. Pressman in Beverly Hill, Calif., Feb. 1, 2001. (Monica Almeida/The New York Times)
by Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK, NY.- Edward Pressman, a prolific film producer who guided some of the earliest movies by Brian De Palma, Terrence Malick, Oliver Stone, Kathryn Bigelow and other leading directors, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 79. The cause was respiratory failure, his family said. Pressman was producer or executive producer on almost 100 movies across a range of genres. His career began in the late 1960s and by 1988 had already resulted in enough acclaimed films that he was the subject of an 11-movie retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The New York Times said then that he has been distinguished by his dedication to both highly literate and decidedly quirky movie projects during the last two decades. And he still had some three decades and more than 60 movies ahead of him. Pressmans name is on films ... More | |
Albrecht Dürer, The Great Passion: Frontispiece, The Man of Sorrow Mocked by a Soldier, 1510, 245 x 200mm. inset with later margin, Woodcut on paper. Mark Dalton Photography.
BATH.- The New Year sees visitors to Baths Holburne Museum offered a rare opportunity to see a complete set of twelve woodcut prints by the most celebrated artist of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). Known as the Great Passion, the biblical images are normally inaccessible in their entirety, as they are most frequently bound into an album or incomplete. Especially for Illustrating the World: Woodcuts in the Age of Dürer, these beautiful images detailing moments in Christs Passion have been framed, allowing the viewer to appreciate the full cycle. Published in 1511, simultaneously with the Apocalypse and the Life of the Virgin cycles, the Great Passion formed what is known as the Three Great Books, in reference to their large format, and represents the pinnacle of experimentation in the woodcut technique. The Holburne ... More | |
Dea Consumptia, Goddess of Consumption by Folkert de Jong at the LAM museum, Lisse, The Netherlands. Photo by Corine Zijerveld.
LISSE.- Dutch artist Folkert de Jong has created a new version of the famous painting The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. He produced it for the LAM museum, located on the Keukenhof Estate in Lisse. Botticellis masterpiece is still regarded by many as the ultimate symbol of beauty and hangs in the Italian Uffizi Gallery, attracting thousands of visitors each month. Pop stars, photographers and fashion designers are still inspired by the goddesss looks. Folkerts sculpture is 265 cm tall and made from epoxy resin, polyurethane foam and Styrofoam. She has irregular skin and rises up out of a bowl of plastic soup. With this artwork, Im criticising the consumption of feminine beauty, says Folkert. Folkerts Venus is called Dea Consumptia, Goddess of Consumption. The work is now on display at the LAM museum. Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) painted The Birth of Venus around 1483. According to legend ... More |
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| "Maria Calandra: Outskirts of Infinity" opens this week at GNYP Gallery | | New brooms sweep into Olympia Auctions in 2023 | | Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to George A. Olah to be auctioned |
Maria Calandra, Promise is a Pendulum, 2022. Acrylic on linen, 203.2 x 152.4 cm 80 x 60 in. Photo courtesy of GNYP Gallery.
BERLIN.- Et in Arcadia ego. Credited as one of the primordial creators of the landscape as an autonomous genre, Nicolas Poussin did two paintings titled after this Latin phrase. Usually translated as even in Arcadia, there am I, it implies that even in Utopia, death is present. The paintings, then, depicting a group of men surrounding a tomb in a pastoral scenery, becomes a memento mori, a remembrance of mortality. Still, the sentencewhose subject is never entirely clearcan also suggest, pure and simple, the presence of contrasting thoughts, moods, and desires in the most idyllic settings. It is a reminder that one never walks alone. The main subject of Maria Calandras paintings in her first exhibition with GNYP Gallery, scheduled to open on January 27th, is nature, represented in all its sublime power, indifference to the human scale, our considerations, or even safety. After all ... More | |
Adrian Biddell ran Paintings and Fine Art at Chiswick Auctions with great success from 2019 2021.
LONDON.- Adrian Biddell comes to Olympia Auctions with considerable experience, having worked for 27 years in Sothebys, first in the Impressionist department for more than a decade, after which he ran the 19th century European paintings department for 16 years. He also ran Paintings and Fine Art at Chiswick Auctions with great success from 2019 2021. Under his direction, Olympia Auctions British and Continental Paintings and Works on Paper department will be doubling their picture auctions with two mid-season sales in the spring (22nd March) and autumn, and two Fine sales in the summer (14th June) and winter. Adrian succeeds Harry Moore-Gwyn who will continue to play a significant role, supporting the sales with his expertise in Modern British pictures among other areas. In the June and December Fine sales the department is looking to feature up to 100 lots from Old Masters to the 20th century, estimated ... More | |
Olah's groundbreaking work resulted in the elimination of poisonous leaded gasoline in automobiles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to George A. Olah in 1994, will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on January 26, 2023. Interested bidders may participate in the auction online. George Olah was a Jewish refugee from Budapest, Hungary, who emigrated to the United States during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, after surviving the Nazi occupation of Hungary during World War II. Olah is best known for his groundbreaking work in hydrocarbon technology, which eliminated the need for the highly destructive chemical Tetraethyllead in automobiles. Lead-based Tetraethyllead was mixed in with gasoline beginning in the 1920s, even though it was hazardous to human health - especially children, and contaminated groundwater, soil and air. It wasn't until Olah's Nobel Prize winning research in the early 1960s that a clean alternative to Tetraethyllead was discovered. As a result ... More |
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A car accident couldn't halt the saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin's rise
NEW YORK, NY.- In mid-September 2021, saxophonist and bandleader Lakecia Benjamin was driving home from a performance in Cleveland when her car slid off the highway, careened through a wooded area and flipped into a drainage ditch. I woke up the first time to somebody pulling me out of the car, trying to break it open, Benjamin, a bright light on the New York scene since the early 2010s, said through two masks on a recent Saturday morning at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Then I woke up in the hospital on a surgical table and them telling me, Youre going to be OK. I didnt know what happened or what was going on. The accident left the Washington Heights native with three broken ribs, a fractured scapula, a perforated eardrum, a concussion, neurological damage and worst of all a broken jaw, a severe blow to any horn player, let alone one with her intensity ... More
Innovative mixed-use Nelson Glass House adds housing density, responsibly
PRINCETON, NJ.- In a neighborhood just outside the central business district a transition zone mixing residential and commercial properties the site of a former glass-and-aluminum fabrication shop now features six elegant new apartments, set atop a reimagined commercial space hosting a coffee counter and a cigar bar. Designed by globally known, locally focused firm Joshua Zinder Architecture + Design (JZA+D) Nelson Glass House is maybe most notable for bringing a modern aesthetic to a street dominated by traditional architecture. Not only are neighbors delighted by the new housing and retail options, developers are taking note of the innovative approach to increasing density in areas where approvals for innovation are notoriously hard to wrangle. According to Joshua Zinder, AIA, LEED AP, funder and managing partner of JZA+D ... More
Smith College Museum of Art announces 2023 Artist in Residence Abdessamad El Montassir
NORTHAMPTON, MASS.- Artist Abdessamad El Montassir will join the Smith College Museum of Art as an Artist in Residence (AIR) from March 6 April 21, 2023. El Montassir practices art at the crossroads of research and creation. He creates photos and videos to revive buried histories of North Africa. His collaborations with scientists, citizens, and activists will bring a viewpoint rarely seen in the United States. El Montassirs engagement with the Smith College community adds to knowledge of Saharan, North African, and Middle Eastern scholarship and research processes. His residency will include a presentation to the public in Spring 2023. Emma Chubb, PhD, Charlotte Feng Ford '83 Curator of Contemporary Art, situates this residency within Smith Colleges unique collections and resources. SCMAs residency brings artists who are at a pivotal point in their careers ... More
Exhibition at CHOI&CHOI Gallery features new works by Jae Ho Jung
SEOUL.- CHOI&CHOI Gallery presents Jae Ho Jungs solo exhibition How long have I been I here, on view from 13 January through 25 February 2023. This is Jung's first solo exhibition with the gallery following the three-person show Moment to Monument in Cologne, 2020, and the group exhibitions Berlin meets Seoul and FLOWER in Berlin and Seoul in 2022. The artist is known for his realistic depictions of Industrial-era buildings that remain as remnants of Koreas history of modernisation. This exhibition features new works from his series portraying the area of Eulji-ro, Seoul, which he has continued over the years. Eulji-ro was developed during Korea's rapid period of economic growth. It contains traces of its dynamic history but has since become an aging time capsule after decades of neglect. In todays era where skyscrapers built through vast capital and wealth dominate ... More
The Ukrainian Museum presenting Yelena Yemchuk's first large-scale exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- The Ukrainian Museum is pleased to present the first large-scale exhibition of work by artist Yelena Yemchuk, and the debut of a haunting new short film shot in the Carpathian Mountains of her native Ukraine. The exhibition brings the modalities of life in Ukraine into focus, and broadens our understanding of this vivid and complex part of the world. It opened on 20th January and will continue until 16th April 2023. From teenagers on the Black Sea to a pagan-rooted festival, Yemchuks individual stories are positioned as driving narratives within her compositions. At first glance, her works demonstrate specific decisive moments, with the surrounding stories remaining elusive to the viewer. Seen together, they weave a compelling and moving visual story. As a child growing up in Kyiv, Yelena Yemchuk was fascinated by the reputation of Odesa as a place of freedom ... More
Dana-Fiona Armour's "A Tale of Symbiogenesis" now on view in Stockholm
STOCKHOLM.- Andréhn-Schiptjenko opened this past January 12th "A Tale of Symbiogenesis", Dana-Fiona Armours second solo exhibition at their gallery and her very first in Stockholm. Symbiogenesis is the extremely rare, but permanent, merger of two organisms from phylogenetically distant lineages into one radically more complex organism - as stated - Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Symbiogenesis: Mechanisms, Evolutionary Consequences, and Systematic Implications, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, 2013. Is there still value in Darwins theory, stating that competition is the most certain way to survive, in the age of the Anthropocene? Or is cooperation between different species, potentially leading to hybridization and symbiogenesis, a shortcut to increase survival? Dana-Fiona Armours exhibition at Andréhn-Schiptjenko investigates these questions and aims to create ... More
Galerie Nathalie Obadia Brussels presents paintings and works on paper from 2015-2021 by Fiona Rae
BRUSSELS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting the first solo exhibition of Fiona Rae at its Brussels gallery, having exhibited the artist six times at its Paris gallery since the start of their collaboration in 1994. The British artist is recognised as one of the most important abstract painters of her generation on the international scene. Born in Hong Kong in 1963, Fiona Rae initially studied at Croydon College of Art in London before entering Goldsmiths College in 1984. This is where she first came into contact with Damien Hirst, Gary Hume and Sarah Lucas, with whom, among others, she became part of the Young British Artists (YBAs) group, the embodiment of the resurgence of the British art scene in the 1980s and 1990s. For over 30 years, Fiona Rae has been developing an oeuvre with a rich and complex vocabulary, one that both pays homage to the history of art ... More
Marion Meade, biographer of Dorothy Parker, dies at 88
NEW YORK, NY.- Marion Meade, who helped revive interest in Dorothy Parker, the celebrated writer and sardonic wit of the Algonquin Round Table, with her 1988 biography, died Dec. 29 at her home in Manhattan. She was 88. Her granddaughter Ashley Sprague confirmed the death. She said that Meade had recently had COVID-19, but that a cause had not been determined. Meades Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? detailed the vibrant if difficult life of a major figure on the literary scene of the 1920s and 30s. Parker joined Vanity Fair magazine as its drama critic at 24; coined well-known lines like Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses and You can lead a horticulture but you cant make her think; and was a founding member of the round table at the Algonquin Hotel in midtown Manhattan where she, writer Robert Benchley, critic Alexander Woollcott ... More
(So) Happy Together: "Ever since the Big Bang, it's ALL collage!", Todd Bartell
QUEENS, NY.- Finding common ground in Contemporary Art today is not necessarily about aesthetic or messaging commonality. The age of Isms, or schools of art are rare, largely due to the fact that labels are limiting and many artists are experimental or in new media. One of the things I have noticed over the years is how much new art looks multidimensional. How it is common to see dueling perspectives and timelines, think Neo Rauch; or accumulations as art or installation with works by Mike Kelly, Faith Ringgold or Nick Cave. The title of this exhibition, which refers to the 1967 song by The Turtles, was one of the first things I thought of when thinking about the art in this exhibition. That feeling that an artist reaches, at some point in the making of an art work, when the process and purpose of a work comes together and drives the artist to dig deep. For this exhibition ... More
Ginny Redington Dawes, composer of memorable ad jingles, dies at 77
NEW YORK, NY.- Ginny Redington Dawes, a songwriter whose compositions included memorable advertising jingles such as the chipper McDonalds declaration You, Youre the One and Coca-Colas boast that Coke Is It, died Dec. 31 in the New York City borough of Manhattan. She was 77. Her companion and only immediate survivor, James McCullar, said the cause was complications of hepatic cirrhosis. Dawes never became well known herself, but she helped maintain or boost the popularity of the products she promoted. And she insinuated infectious tunes into the nations repertoire that Americans whistled and hummed as much as the songs played on Top 40 radio. She hooked listeners with melodically and rhythmically catchy jingles that accompanied slogans for everything from Tide detergent to Hartzs tick- and flea-fighting pet collars ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Robert Motherwell was born January 24, 1915. Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 - July 16, 1991) was an American painter, printmaker, and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School (a phrase he coined), which also included Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. In this image: Robert Motherwell, The Hotel Corridor, 1950. Oil on masonite, 44 x 55 inches, 111.8 x 139.7 cm. © Dedalus Foundation, Inc./ Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
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