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Colette Pierce Burnette, president and chief executive of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, at the Butter fine art fair in Indianapolis, Sept. 3, 2022. Burnette, who was hired to lead the Newfields campus that includes the Indianapolis Museum of Art after a controversy about a racially insensitive job posting, has left the organization after 15 months on the job and shortly after the arrival of a new museum director. (Cheney Orr/The New York Times)
by Marc Tracy
NEW YORK, NY.- Colette Pierce Burnette, who was hired to lead the Newfields campus that includes the Indianapolis Museum of Art after a controversy about a racially insensitive job posting, has left the organization after 15 months on the job and shortly after the arrival of a new museum director. The appointment of Burnette, the first Black woman in the role, was part of Newfieldsâ response to the furor, along with establishing a $20 million fund to buy art from marginalized groups, increasing its boardâs diversity and holding anti-racism training. Burnette was previously president of Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, a historically Black university. Burnette declined to comment Monday. Newfields apologized in 2021 whe ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Morgan Library exhibition reflects on disparities in wealth, personal values, and morality. Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality charts the economic revolution that took place at the end of the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance.
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| How the T. Rex built up that bone-crushing bite | | Pace Gallery opens 'Picasso: 14 Sketchbooks' in New York | | Donum Collection announces new acquisitions: Antony Gormley & William Kentridge |
The Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, March 1, 2019. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
by Jeanne Timmons
NEW YORK, NY.- If you have ever stood in the presence of a complete fossil of a Tyrannosaurus rex, there is no doubt it was the apex predator of its era. The adults were enormous, with giant skulls and banana-size serrated teeth. The strength of the bite of a full-grown T. rex has been the subject of numerous scientific studies, but mysteries endure about what led to this powerful chomp that ruled the end of the dinosaur era. In research published in September in the journal The Anatomical Record, a team of scientists sought to understand the oral arsenals of the tyrannosaur species that prowled Asian and North American landscapes for millions of years before the T. rex. Through their analysis of bite forces and the stress all that gobbling put on tyrannosaur craniums, the researchers showed that tyrannosaurs steadily built up their bone-crunching powers over the eons. They also found that even in its juvenile ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, Self-portrait from ParisBiarritz sketchbook (Carnet 214), 1918 graphite, 3 1⁄2 à 5 1⁄4" © FABA Photo © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace announced its presentation of Picasso: 14 Sketchbooks at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York, marking the 50th anniversary of the artists death. On view from November 10 to December 22, this exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Madrid (FABA). Picasso: 14 Sketchbooks offers a unique and intimate view of the ways in which Picasso worked, tracing the evolution of his observations and ideas into plans for his compositions across painting and sculpture. Pace has been extremely fortunate to have worked with the Picasso family mounting extraordinary exhibitions over the last 40 years. This collaboration with FABA marks Pace's thirtieth show featuring Picasso's work and its eighth major solo presentation dedicated to the artist. As part of the gallerys presentation, Pace Publishing produced a new book focused on the sketchbooks in the exhibition, which ... More | |
Antony Gormley, Show, 2010, Cast Iron, 253.9 x 175.9 x 204.1 cm © The Donum Collection and the artist. Photo by Robert Berg.
SONOMA, CALIF.- The Donum Estate, a leader in single-appellation Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from Northern California, announced the latest additions to its world-renowned, accessible private art collection. The unveiling of two monumental sculptures - 'Show' (2010) by Antony Gormley (United Kingdom, 1950) and 'Open' (2019) by William Kentridge (South Africa, 1955) - amplifies the collection's artistic resonance both within the United States and internationally. These exceptional pieces join a revered of nearly 60 artworks, inclusive of both paintings and monumental open-air sculptures, gracefully situated on the Donum Estate. Holding its place as one of the world's most extensive, accessible, privately-owned outdoor sculpture experiences, the Donum Collection continues to solidify its standing within the international art community and among the world's most esteemed private collections. Mei and Allan Warburg, Owners of The Donum Estate, noted ... More |
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| 'Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody' opens at the Art Gallery of Ontario | | Art Institute of Chicago presents 'Canova: Sketching in Clay' | | Significant and rare early 20th century Lancia Lambda collection is generating global interest |
Keith Haring, Red Room, 1988 (detail). Acrylic on canvas, 243.8 à 454.7 cm. The Broad Art Foundation. © Keith Haring Foundation.
TORONTO.- A pop culture icon, synonymous with New York in the 1980s, Keith Harings bold images of barking dogs, dancing figures and radiant babies, have become part of our visual vocabulary. Since Nov. 8, 2023, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the revealing new retrospective Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody goes far beyond the familiar, to explore the artists foundational commitment to social justice. Organized by The Broad, Los Angeles, and curated by Sarah Loyer, Curator and Exhibitions Manager, Art Is for Everybody is presented at the AGO by Georgiana Uhlyarik, Fredrik S. Eaton, Curator of Canadian Art. The first exhibition of Harings work to be shown in Canada in more than 25 years, and reverberating with energy and love, Art Is for Everybody features more ... More | |
Antonio Canova. Head of Medusa, about 17971800. Museo Gypsotheca Antonio Canova, Possagno, Inv. no. 141. Photography by Luigi Spina.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago will soon be exhibiting Canova: Sketching in Clay, on view from November 19, 2023 through March 18, 2024. Italian sculptor Antonio Canova was the most celebrated European artist of his time and this exhibition focuses on his lesser-known but unforgettable work in clay. The first show in more than 50 years dedicated to these terracotta sketches, these vivid works reveal how the artist developed his ideasfrom the first brilliant spark of imagination to his laboriously finished marble figures. With more than 60 works in the show, including 37 terracotta sketches and models, this is the largest exhibition of Canovas work to ever be displayed in the United States and includes many sculptures that have rarely been seen in public. The clay works are ... More | |
1927 Lambda 7th series.
MELBOURNE.- An important collection of five rare Lancia Lambdas and an aero-engined Edwardian special is expected to create global interest when the cars go under the hammer at Donington Auctions, in Melbourne, Australia. Bidding opens on 13th November and concludes on 26th November 2023. A highlight of the auction, which is expected to bring an unprecedented figure, is an unrestored 1927 Lancia Lambda Torpedo fitted with the factory option Ballon Smontabile hard top (lot 3, estimate 200,000 -230,000). The car is believed to have covered a mere 61,000 miles since new. Likely the most original and low milage Lambda still in existence anywhere in the world, it retains both its original paint and all original leather interior trim, just as it did when left the Torinese factory on the 14th of June 1927. Brainchild of Vincenzo Lancia, the innovative Lambda ... More |
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| David Zwirner offers an extensive look at a formative moment in Robert Ryman's career | | The Art Show celebrated 35th annual edition at Park Avenue Armory | | Two San Francisco Mint silver ingots from the 1930s or '40s combine for over $10,000 |
Robert Ryman, Untitled, c. 1961. © 2023 Robert Ryman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Private collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of early paintings by Robert Ryman (19302019) at the gallerys 537 West 20th Street location in New York. Curated by Dieter Schwarz and organized in collaboration with the artists family, the exhibition focuses on the years 19611964. Composed primarily of significant loans from museums and private collections in the United States and Europe, this is one of the most extensive looks at this formative moment in Rymans career. Ryman gained initial recognition for the work he made in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As a result, his paintings created prior to this period remain less well known to this day. Yet it was during the early 1960s that Ryman began to firmly establish the broad parameters of his radical and inventive practice. His paintings from these years reflect how, even at this early point, Ryman was already looking ... More | |
The Art Show Benefit Preview, 2023. Photo by Scott Rudd Productions, 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), returned for its 35th annual edition this past week at the Park Avenue Armory. The fair ran from November 1-5, bringing together the citys top collectors, curators, museum directors, advisors, artists, and writers. On November 1, the Benefit Preview united the worlds of art and philanthropy to support Henry Street Settlementthe social services and arts organization that has aided New Yorkers in need for 130 yearsduring a glamorous first look at the fair. Proceeds from the Benefit Preview and admissions from the run of show garnered over $1.1 million for the Settlementa number that is due to increase substantially after the forthcoming sale at the Sothebys Contemporary Day Auction on November 14, 2023, of an intimate drawing by Henri Matisse, generously donated by The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. For the 12th consecutive yea ... More | |
San Francisco Mint silver ingot produced in the 1930s or 40s, featuring a type one oval hallmark and consisting of 6.48 ounces of 999.75 fine silver, 32 mm by 52 mm ($5,422).
RENO, NEV.- Two San Francisco Mint silver ingots produced in the 1930s or 40s combined for just over $10,000 ($10,001 to be exact) in Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLCs two-day, online-only Hauntingly Good timed auction held October 21st-22nd, on iCollector.com. The auction featured more than 2,000 lots of Americana, numismatics, philatelic and dealer items. We assembled a wide variety of great stuff, from true individual item rarities to very popular collecting categories such as mining, numismatics, philatelics, sports and a great selection of Western history and collectibles libraries, said Fred Holabird of Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC. Every lot started at just ten dollars, which made for brisk, competitive bidding. The largest category was numismatics, with about 300 lots. The San Francisco Mint silver ingots were the top two lots of the auction. ... More |
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| Karma presents 'Night' an exhibition of new paintings by Ann Craven | | ZZ Top Dusty Hill's Eliminator Hot Rod car guitar, "Sharp Dressed Man" & "Gimme All Your Lovin" basses added to sale | | 'Life Onto Land: The Devonian' unearths a pivotal period shaping the world as we know it today |
Craven, Dahlias (For the Pink Moon 2, 10-9-23, White St.), 2023. Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches; 60.96 x 45.72 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- The eight nocturnal paintings in Night survey major motifs of Ann Cravens nearly thirty-year-long practice. For the first time, she has set all of her scenes in the darkness of evening, creating a consistent chromatic background that intensifies her always-vibrant colors. Craven primarily approaches her subjects in one of two ways: painting from observation or from appropriated sources, both her own former compositions and images from books, postcards, movies, posters, and other painters, notably Georgia OKeeffe. The methods are intimately connected, as she often scales up and repaints her small en plein air paintings in the studio. These oils of moons, trees, birds, flowers, and deer constitute the latest chapter in her systematic catalog of what she terms revisitations, each of which is also a reinvention of her subject matter. Cravens methodical revisitations emerge from material and psychic loss. In 1999, ... More | |
Dusty Hills 1965 Fender Fretless Precision Bass ($7,000 - $9,000).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions has announced today additional marquee headliners and the full catalog of The Collection of Dusty Hill of ZZ Top, a three-day auction event honoring the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bass legend of one of the best-selling acts and biggest touring bands of all time, who sold over 50 million albums worldwide. The year-end single artist event culminating Juliens 20th Anniversary celebration will take place on Thursday, December 7th Friday, December 8th and Saturday, December 9th, 2023 live at the legendary musician and vocalists birthplace of Dallas, Texas at the auction venue 915 Slocum Street and online at Julien's Live. Over 1,000 relics featuring the rock icons sensational one-of-a-kind instruments, custom made stage and appearance worn western style wardrobe, gear, creative ephemera, signature style items such as his favorite cowboy hats, boots and buckles, memorabili ... More | |
'Life Onto Land: The Devonian' centers around the Academys internationally celebrated paleontological research and the incredible discovery of Tiktaalik roseae.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (the Academy) opened a new exhibition titled, Life Onto Land: The Devonian, centered around a crucial period of Earths evolution, the Devonian Period, more than 350 million years ago. Since November 11, 2023, the Life Onto Land exhibition presents animation, giant murals and models, CT scans, rare fossils specimens, and maps sharing key elements and discoveries of the Devonian, all to illuminate the catalytic period that transformed Earth into what people understand as the world today. A star of the exhibition is Tiktaalik roseae (Tiktaalik), one of the most important paleontological discoveries of recent decades and one made by the Academys very own research team (in collaboration with colleagues from The University of Chicago and Harvard University). Tiktaalik returns ... More |
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Kunsthaus Bregenz presenting installation exhibition by Solange Pessoa
BREGENZ.- Kunsthaus Bregenz is now showing an exhibition of works by Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa. Solange Pessoa works with various mediums such as sculptures, installations, painting, drawing, ceramics, and videos. Born and raised in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, she is fascinated by the colonial baroque architecture of the region, especially by the soapstone, known for its softness and diversity of tonalities. Pessoa finds primal creativity in the cycle of life, often using organic materials for her works, such as earth, moss, wax, leather, blood, or feathers. The first floor of the exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz features Untitled (Version Minas-Texas), an installation comprising burlap sacks that have been sewn together and suspended from the ceiling like towering walls. The sacks are filled with soil, plants, bone fragments, dried ... More
Ayyam Gallery opens the exhibition 'Faces of Resilience' by Roshanak Aminelahi
DUBAI.- Ayyam Gallery will now be opening Faces of Resilience, a solo exhibition featuring Roshanak Aminelahis recent body of work. This is her second solo exhibition at Ayyam Gallery, following her first exhibition in 2017. The vernissage is on November 14th from 6 pm - 9 pm, in presence of the artist. This exhibition illuminates the stories of women who navigated a male-dominated society and persevered through adversity. Women who have empowered political, economic, and cultural development. Women who simply inspire. The selected women come from diverse backgrounds, spanning different generations, continents, and life paths. Each woman carries her unique story, yet collectively, they embody a universal tale of courage. Portraits of ordinary citizens are placed next to queens and idols, highlighting the irrelevance of roles; their commonality ... More
'Larissa Nowicki : New Narratives' now on view at Jack Fischer Gallery
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Through the use of paper and thread, Larissa Nowickis exhibition, new narratives, disrupts the established canon of western art history. By deconstructing artist monographs and repurposing the pages and images as material, Nowicki utilizes weaving and sewing as a mode of reconstruction and communication. What was once pejoratively known as womens work is now the focal point of these new artworks where the handmade is literally prioritized over the historical artworks of the male masters featured in the original monographs. Text and language have been cut away leaving blank book margins which provide Nowicki with material to create plain woven canvases upon which she draws, punctures, and patterns new narratives communicated through the language of the handmade. In this show ... More
M+ celebrated second anniversary with free General Admission to exhibitions and public programmes
HONG KONG.- M+, Asias first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, marked its second anniversary on this Sunday, 12 November 2023. The museum has received over 4.6 million visitations since its opening in 2021, thanks to the strong support of the Hong Kong community as well as Greater China and international audience over the past two years. To celebrate the milestone and express gratitude for public support, M+ offered special free admission arrangements and public programmes. M+ opened from 10:00 to 18:00 on 12 November 2023 where visitors enjoyed free access to all General Admission exhibitions and programmes without pre-registration. Visitors entered the museum through Artist Square Entrance only, though some of the entrances and exits of the museum ... More
Government destruction of small California town in the name of progress documented in groundbreaking exhibition
CARTERSVILLE, GA.- Featuring photographs by two of the 20th centurys most important photographers, Death of a Valley is a nearly 70-year-old story full of contemporary issues such as water policy, private property rights, land conservation and local governance vs. state and federal jurisdiction. Dorothea Lange is famous for her social realist images, including the iconic Migrant Mother which many consider THE image of the Dustbowl and Great Depression era of the 1930s. In 1956, she convinced Life magazine to commission a photo essay documenting the last year of the Berryessa Valley, including the town of Monticello, roughly 80 miles northeast of San Francisco. The entire area was due to be submerged ... More
Caroline Kent instigates sites for interpretation in exhibition 'This Spade For Correspondence'
NEW YORK, NY.- Every touching experience of architecture is multi-sensory; qualities of space, matter and scale are measured equally by the eye, ear, nose, skin, tongue, skeleton and muscle. Architecture strengthens the existential experience, ones sense of being in the world, and this is essentially a strengthened experience of self. Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses, 1996. Casey Kaplan is now showing Caroline Kent: This space for correspondence, an exhibition of monumental unstretched paintings with new wall-based sculptures in relief, stretched acrylic paintings, and site-specific wall cut-outs. This space for correspondence is a directive often written on the back of a postcard denoting a designated area for a brief message. Postcards have become an insignia for nostalgia and ... More
Jónsi's 'Vox' opens at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery opened Vox, Jónsis third exhibition with the gallery and second in Los Angeles, on view from November 11, 2023 through February 3, 2024. Interdisciplinary artist and musician Jónsi grounds his visual practice in material and metaphysical experimentations with sound, often through the engineering of immersive installations that reconfigure the act of listening by means of sight, smell, taste, and touch. Known for synthesizing compositions that are at once ethereal and electrifying, Jónsi employs a tonal palette ranging from ambient sounds, mechanically generated frequencies, samples from nature, as well as his own voice in boundlessly innovative sonic arrangements. Using a perfume organ to develop new and invigorating scents, Jónsi infuses his works with earthy, atmospheric fragrances ... More
Mnuchin Gallery exhibits 'Frank Stella: Indian Birds'
NEW YORK, NY.- Mnuchin Gallery announced its exhibition, Frank Stella: Indian Birds. In a historic first, the exhibition presents six of Stellas Indian Birds, alongside the artists archival drawings and maquettes for the series. This broad display, focused on a singular body of work, illuminates Stellas intricate and multi-layered artistic process. On view from October 4th through December 9th, 2023, the exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, authored by Karen Wilkin. In October 1977, Frank Stella arrived in Ahmedabad, India, at the invitation of the prominent Sarabhai family, whose foundation regularly extended hospitality to visiting artists. Assisted by the Sarabhais team, Stella would complete the preparatory drawings and maquettes that form the foundation of the Indian Bird series. To begin, he would create two ... More
Koller offers a selection of high-quality works for end-of-year auctions
ZURICH.- The Impressionist & Modern Art auction on 1 December will be led by a magnificent landscape by Camille Pissarro, 'Prairies à Gisors', which was one of the paintings the artist kept for himself until the end of his life, and it remained in Pissarro's family until the 1950s (lot 3211, CHF 1.1 / 1.6 million). Another outstanding Neo-Impressionist painting is 'Impression de gelée, le matin au soleil levant' by Gustave Loiseau (lot 3206, CHF 100 000 / 150 000). Works by German Expressionists include a view of houses among dunes, painted by Hermann Max Pechstein at the artist's colony in Nidden, Pomerania (lot 3235, CHF 100 000 / 150 000), and Emil Nolde's watercolour 'Mountain Lake', which he made during his last trip to Switzerland in 1948 (lot 3226, CHF 80 000 / 120 000). A snow-covered Tyrolian mountain landscape by Austrian ... More
Galerie Eva Presenhuber opens its first solo exhibition with artist Sofia Mitsola
ZURICH.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber is presenting Villa Venus: An Organized Dream, its first solo exhibition with the London based, Greek artist Sofia Mitsola. In 1902, the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt painted three naked female figures and a goldfish. Despite its gorgeous meshing of sensual lines and shimmering layers of gold-inflected colour, at its unveiling, the work created a scandal. Seen from behind, the buttocks of one of the women dominates the picture; she peers out at us over her shoulder, through her blazing curtain of red hair, smiling provocatively. Klimt created the work as a riposte to his critics; originally titled To My Detractors, he changed it to Goldfish when he exhibited it in 1903. When I visited the Greek artist Sofia Mitsola in her London studio in August, she cited Goldfish as a painting that I always have at the back of my mind. Its basically she said, a fuck you painting. And I ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Claude Monet was born November 14, 1840. Claude Monet (14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). In this image: In this Jan. 19, 2011 photo, Dean Yoder, conservator of paintings for the Cleveland Museum of Art, gently dusts Claude Monet's vast water lilies painting at the museum in Cleveland.
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