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Some pieces of 19th-century womenâs clothing on display in the exhibition âEpic Iranâ at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, May 28, 2021. The organizers of the exhibit wanted to put politics aside and showcase the countryâs rich 5,000-year-old culture â but politics kept getting in the way. Tom Jamieson/The New York Times.
by Alex Marshall
LONDON.- The director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London once told the BBC that the museum was proud to have been supported by the Sacklers the family whose philanthropy is tied to the drug at the heart of the opioid crisis. The museum was not going to be taking its name off the walls, the director, Tristram Hunt, added at a 2019 news conference. Yet now, the museum has done just that: removing signage that pointed visitors to its Sackler Courtyard, the glittering multimillion-dollar main entrance that opened to much fanfare in 2017, as well as to its Sackler Center for Arts Education. The museum, which has one of the worlds leading design and decorative arts collections, said in a statement that it had mutually agreed with the Sackler family that the name would be removed. We have no current plans to rename the spaces, the statement added. The changes, which were previously reported by The Observer, a British newspaper, will ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Tuli Mekondjo, Oudjuu wo makipa etu_ The burdens of our Bones, 9 September - 9 October 2022, Hales New York, Photo by JSP Art Photography.
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| Gagosian exhibits new paintings by Mehdi Ghadyanloo in Hong Kong, his first solo exhibition in Asia | | Phillips to offer early works by Andy Warhol from the Warhola Family Collection | | Sacheen Littlefeather, activist who rejected Brando's Oscar, dies at 75 |
The Mystic Messenger, Mehdi Ghadyanloo.
HONG KONG.- Gagosian is now presenting new paintings and works on paper by Mehdi Ghadyanloo, in his first solo exhibition in Asia that will continue through November 5, 2022. "I'm creating a kind of atmosphere, a space of ambiguity," Mehdi Ghadyanloo. The artist's paintings are composed with meticulous attention to geometry, color, and chiaroscuro. At once familiar and mysterious, the slides, tunnels, and ladders he depicts are sited in shallow rectilinear chambers. The scenes are illuminated from above by skylights, with painted beams of light that reveal the details of the plastic and metal structures while indicating different times of day. The pieces of playground equipment exist as symbols, monuments to psychological states, as much as they are imagined physical constructions. Absent of children or other figures, they have an enigmatic, monumental presence that prompts nostalgia for the innocence of childhood play while hinting at existent ... More | |
Andy Warhol, Living Room, 1948. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, Phillips will offer two early paintings by Andy Warhol in the November Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art Nosepicker I: Why Pick on Me (The Broad Gave Me My Face But I Can Pick My Own Nose) and Living Room, both created during the artists last years at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). Executed in 1948 and indicative of the genius that was to come, these incredible relics of one of the 20th centurys greatest visionaries have remained in the artists family for over seventy years, until now. Prior to the sale in New York on 15 November, they will travel to Southampton, Los Angeles, London, and Paris. James Warhola, Nephew of Andy Warhol, said, These two paintings have been a treasured part of our familys collection for as long as I can remember and they have given my siblings and me a great deal of joy over the decades. Having ... More | |
Sacheen Littlefeather standing before the Oscar statue holding Marlon Brando's statement at the 45th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Photo: UCLA Library Special Collections.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sacheen Littlefeather, the Apache activist and actress who refused to accept the best actor award on behalf of Marlon Brando at the 1973 Oscars, drawing jeers onstage in an act that underscored her criticism of Hollywoods depictions of Native Americans, died Sunday at her home in Marin County, California. She was 75. Her death was announced in a statement by her family and by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The cause was not cited. Her death came just weeks after the Academy apologized to Littlefeather for her treatment during the Oscars. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in August, she said she was stunned by the apology. I never thought Id live to see the day I would be hearing this, experiencing this, she said. When Littlefeather, then 26, held up her right hand ... More |
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| Columbia Museum of Art traveling exhibition makes hometown stop | | Kimbell Art Museum adds three masterpieces to permanent collection | | BFI celebrate Ann and John Bloomfield's unique design partnership with new BFI Southbank exhibition |
Venetian Workshop, possibly that of Michele Giambono (Italian, active mid-15th century). The Virgin and Four Saints, c. 14501460. Tempera painting on fruitwood panel. Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art opened its fall exhibition European Splendors: Highlights from the Kress Collection, on view Saturday, October 1, 2022, through Sunday, January 1, 2023. The exhibition offers occasion to reconsider Renaissance art through the lens of the CMAs remarkable holdings largely off view since 2017 in a luxurious new way. With a focus on the Italian schools, it reveals the artistic innovations in Europe from the late 13th century through the Baroque period. From the early years of the museums history, these important Renaissance and Baroque artworks formed the core of our collection, says CMA Curator Michael Neumeister. We are thrilled to present them anew in the context of a thematic exhibition, offering a fresh way to see old favorites. During the 1950s, the Kress Foundation donated some ... More | |
Gu Wine Vessel, Possibly Henan province, China; Late Shang dynasty, c. 12th century BC, Bronze; h. 12 3/4 in. (32.7 cm). Acquired in 2022.
FORT WORTH, TX.- On its 50th anniversary, the Kimbell Art Museum has acquired three artworks that demonstrate the institution's dedication to collecting and exhibiting objects that speak to the transcendent power of art: a bronze vessel from China's Shang dynasty (c. 1600 - 1050 BC); a larger-than life-sized sculpture, The Mountain (La Montagne), designed by Aristide Maillol in 1937 and cast posthumously; and a 16th-century alabaster statue, Virgin and Child, from the Atelier of Saint-Léger in Troyes, France. The new acquisitions have been unveiled this week during the Kimbell's anniversary celebrations. "Each object in the Kimbell's collection of just over 350 works is a masterwork of its respective period or movement, illuminating individual high points of aesthetic beauty and historical importance. The three pieces we have added to the collection are no different: one of the finest examples of an ancient gu ritual wine vessel, ... More | |
Doctor Who The Talons of Weng Chiang, costume design for Tom Baker as The Doctor. BFI National Archive, Ann and John Bloomfield Collection.
LONDON.- Coinciding with an exciting new exhibition opening at BFI Southbank, BFI announced that Ann and John Bloomfield, one of Britain's most successful costume design partnerships, have generously gifted their collection of original designs in its entirety to the BFI National Archive. To celebrate the donation of The Ann and John Bloomfield Collection and in recognition of the pair's influence on and incredible contribution to the art of costume design, the BFI Southbank Mezzanine Gallery exhibition, Costume Design: the Alchemy of Ann and John Bloomfield, open 30 September 2022, running through to 15 January 2023. Staged in consultation with the Bloomfields, the exhibition reveals the story of their long and fruitful creative partnership, bringing together design drawings as well as original costumes and accessories from their 40 year career. The display showcases some of their best known work including The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970, BB ... More |
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| ART X LAGOS 2022 West Africa's leading international art fair returns | | Exhibition at the Norton Museum of Art presents photographs from the Nicola Erni Collection | | Paintings by Onderdonk and Salinas, sculptures by Umlauf lead Heritage's October Texas art auction |
Ibrahim Khatab, Untitled, 2020, mixed media on board, 101.5 x 101.5 cm.
LAGOS.- ART X Lagos, the leading international art fair in West Africa, returns for its seventh edition celebrating artistic excellence from Africa and its global Diaspora. With 31 galleries participating in this edition, 2022 will mark the largest ever edition of the international art fair. ART X Lagos 2022 will be held from 4-6 November at The Federal Palace, Victoria Island, Lagos, while virtual audiences can engage on Artsy.net. The private Collectors' Preview and Opening Night will be held on Friday 4th November, with the fair opening to the public on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th November 2022. ART X Lagos is both a catalyst for international cultural exchange and a platform for urgent discussions, and the 2022 fair will highlight the unique ability of contemporary art to inspire, uplift and empower, through this years theme, Who Will Gather Under the Baobab ... More | |
Albert Watson (Scottish, born 1942), Sebastian in Issey Miyake, New York City, 1989, Pigment print, Edition 9 of 25, 30 x 24 in. (76 x 61 cm), Nicola Erni Collection, Photo by Albert Watson.
WEST PALM BEACH, FL.- Marking the first time this renowned collection will be on view beginning October 8, 2022, and continuing through to February 12, 2023 to the public at the Norton Museum of Art. High Fashion & Street Style includes nearly 300 works by more than 100 different artists from across the globe. The exhibition showcases highlights from the Nicola Erni Collections unparalleled holdings and encompass nearly a century of iconic imagesincluding photographs of jetsetters and celebrities, from Lena Horne to Kate Moss and Zendaya, and featuring work by quintessential designers like Schiaparelli, Givenchy, and Issey Mikaye. This exhibition explores fashion and street style photography through the eyes of Swiss collector and patron Nicola Erni, who has built one ... More | |
William Lewis Lester (American, 1910-1991), Old Man & Woman Planting Garden, 1947. Oil on Masonite 30 x 24 inches. Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000.
DALLAS.- There are two things to keep in mind while pondering the term "Texas Art." One is that Texas art encompasses so many decades, sensibilities and mediums that it's impossible to reduce it to "Western" themes. The second thing to remember, conversely, is that sometimes Texas art indeed evokes subjects and themes that are quintessentially Texan or Western. This dichotomy is the beauty of a category that's both sweeping and intimate for followers of Texas art: Texas-based artists are never limited by geography, but they don't necessarily attempt to dodge it, either. In this respect, Heritage's upcoming Texas Art Signature® Auction feels something like a homecoming. This is a return to familiar names and subjects that have lit up this category since the early 1900s, when Julian Onderdonk pitched his plein air easel ... More |
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| Foster Sakyiamah's first European solo exhibition 'Patterns of the Everyday' opens at the Kutlesa gallery | | Thomas Dane Gallery opens 'Mettere al mondo il mondo' curated by Mark Godfrey | | Early printed books at Swann, featuring Part II of the Ken Rapoport Collection |
Ghanaian artist Foster Sakyiamah presents his work for the first time in Europe with a solo exhibition at Kutlesa gallery titled Patterns Of The Everyday. After an impressive Phillips auction record the eye-catching works receive international attention from prominent galleries and museums.
ACCRA, GH.- Foster Sakyiamah (b.1983, Ghana) shares a new collection of paintings for his first European show at Kutlesa gallery. In his latest body of work, the painter considers his personal journey to manhood and his identity within a matrilineal society. His mother, sisters, and wife, who have often been depicted on his canvases, remain key figures here, serving as a grounding presence for reflection and celebration. Characters from his local community form the essence of Sakyiamah's paintings: vibrant, stylish, often in pairs or trios, yet highly individual, even when sartorially coordinated. A sense of connection, tradition, and camaraderie permeate through his compositions, his subjects epitomizing what Sakyiamah terms 'casual ... More | |
Arthur Simms, Boy, 2007 © Courtesy of the artist and Martos Gallery. Photo: Jason Mandella.
NAPLES.- In 1971, Alighiero Boetti began to use the phrase 'Mettere al mondo il mondo'. One translation is 'giving birth to the world', but another more prosaic translation is 'putting the world back into the world' which implies a way of making art that Boetti followed. Instead of inventing images, constructing forms, or having things fabricated, Boetti took the stuff of the world, rearranged it, and put it back into the world as art. He used stamps, maps, the names and lengths of rivers, the colours of biro pens. Boetti's idea of putting the world back into the world is one approach among the many that artists take when transforming used objects, and this exhibition that opens today and will continue through to 23 December 2022 at the Thomas Dane Gallery explores the different reasons they do this. In the early 1970s, Cecilia Vicuña left her home in Chile to flee the military dictatorship. She started to make tiny constructions fr ... More | |
William Shakespeare, Comedies, Histories, and Histories, fourth folio, London, 1685. Estimate $60,000 to $80,000.
NEW YORK.- Swann Galleries' Thursday, October 13 Early Printed Books sale will include works from the Early Modern/Enlightenment period, starting with the Manny Coleman Collection, as well as publications on economics, science, medicine and travel, and will feature part two of the collection of Ken Rapoport. The house's spring offering of Ken Rapoport's collection delivered outstanding results for rare printings of iconic works of English and Spanish literature. The fall auction prepares to deliver the same with 125 lots on the auction block representing the collection's strengths. Highlights include early editions of Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Geoffrey Chaucer and more. Opening the auction is a small collection of books formed by bibliophile Stephen White after White acquired a portion of the Manny ... More |
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A trio of dangerous women in a Met Opera week to remember
NEW YORK, NY.- When you get the opportunity to see a bunch of operas in quick succession, the canon starts forming narratives for you. It suddenly seems obvious that Cherubinis Medea, from 1797, which the Metropolitan Opera opened its season with Tuesday, found a germ of inspiration for its title character in the similarly jealous, witchy Elettra of Mozarts Idomeneo (1781), which the Met performed the next evening. And if you, like me, were in the house once more Thursday to complete this little marathon, you would have felt that Katerina Ismailova, the murderous, defiant antihero of Shostakovichs Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1934), had been conceived in the tradition of Medea: a woman who earns our sympathy even as her crimes repel us. What a week. Three of operas most memorable scores, each distinctive, none overfamiliar, ... More
In 'Textplay,' Stoppard and Beckett get snarky, FWIW
NEW YORK, NY.- The game is Guess That Play and the first round is a gimme. Among the clues one player texts the other are emoji of a skull, a goblet, crossed swords and nine tombstones. The answer is obviously Hamlet, but the next round isnt as easy. What to make of a glass of milk, some trees and, yes, another tombstone? If you can solve that one, youre probably the right kind of audience for Textplay, a witty two-character, no-actor sketch, conducted entirely in the worlds latest lingua franca, complete with emoji, emoticons, ellipses and erasures. (The virtual NYU Skirball presentation is available on demand through Dec. 3.) On the screen of your choice, you watch as a pair of playwrights amuse themselves electronically: teasing, bickering and generally debunking their reputations, or having them debunked. That the playwrights ... More
'Bold enough to go full-tilt': Gabby Beans is playing to the balcony
NEW YORK, NY.- Onstage in Lincoln Center Theaters maximalist revival of The Skin of Our Teeth last spring were a giant brontosaurus puppet, a full-scale amusement park slide and a stage-spanning verdant field in full bloom. But it was the towering performance from a 5-foot-3 force of nature named Gabby Beans that made the production a must-see. Taking on the role of Sabina in this messy epic by Thornton Wilder, nebulously set between prehistory and the end of the world, is a hard enough task for any actor. And though Tallulah Bankhead, who originated the role in 1942, left big shoes to fill, Beans, in her Broadway debut, stuffed them with a gargantuan presence and a knowingly ridiculous voice, picking up a Tony nomination for lead actress in a play. (Alexis Soloski, in her review for The Times, described Beans as a ferocious ... More
Richard Mosse premieres moving image work at the National Gallery of Victoria
MELBOURNE.- Co-commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, VIA Art Fund, the Westridge Foundation, and Serpentine Galleries in London, Irish artist Richard Mosses world-premiere moving image work, Broken Spectre, is a powerful response to the devastating and ongoing impact of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest. Filmed in remote parts of the Brazilian Amazon, the immersive video installation Broken Spectre is the result of three years of careful documentation using a range of scientific imaging technologies. Seeking to overcome the inherent challenges of representing climate change and making visible one of the worlds most crucial yet often ignored environmental emergencies, Broken Spectre is Mosses most ambitious work to date and ... More
Exhibition at David Nolan Gallery profiles pioneering women gallerists
NEW YORK, NY.- David Nolan Gallery will host through to October 22nd the exhibition MAD WOMEN, profiling pioneering women gallerists Jill Kornblee, Martha Jackson, Eleanore Saidenberg, Eleanor Ward, and their respective exhibition programs that flourished along Madison Avenue in the 1960s. During a complex and fraught decade in American history, each of these groundbreaking women became an essential and defining part of the contemporary cultural landscape, all of which remains relevant today. Madison Avenue, located on an Uptown-Downtown axis in Manhattan, is the ideal retail destination between the residential gold coasts and museums of Fifth and Park Avenues. Shops and galleries proliferated in the 1950s and 1960s along or close to Madison Avenue, forming a robust inter-connected community that catered to an expanding ... More
Excalibur Auctions to offer the largest ever private collection of model cars
LONDON.- Excalibur Auctions is excited to present the largest collection of individual automobiles in 1:43 scale that charts the history of motor cars and motor racing around the world. The private collection titled The Old Garage Model Automobile Collection (TOGMAC) comprises over 6,500 cars and more than 600 different makes of car. It has been amassed over 50 years and painstakingly documented and photographed as a virtual museum online at www.togmac.com by a passionate private collector. The collection features rare and unusual examples, alongside more well-known models and offers collectors and enthusiasts a rare opportunity to obtain a unique piece of motoring history. Speaking about the collection Jonathan Torode of Excalibur Auctions said: "We are so proud to have been appointed to sell this complete original collection ... More
Revisiting 'Baldwin & Buckley at Cambridge'
NEW YORK, NY.- On Feb. 18, 1965, the Cambridge Union hosted a debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. The resolution: The American Dream Is at the Expense of the American Negro. Baldwin, unsurprisingly, spoke for the affirmative. Buckley, who agreed to appear after several other American conservatives had refused, opposed him. Elevator Repair Service, an experimental theater company, revives this discussion every word of it and a few more in Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge, directed by John Collins at the Public Theater in Manhattan. Greig Sargeant, a longtime company member who conceived the piece, stars as Baldwin. Ben Jalosa Williams, another veteran, plays Buckley. The set for this Cambridge University institution is minimal two tables, two chairs, two tabletop lecterns. Sargeant and Williams dont imitate ... More
Original art from some of Harlan Ellison's most famous works and the world's most (in)famous 'Star Trek' photo
DALLAS, TX.- Upon Harlan Ellison's death in June 2018 at the age of 84, The New York Times described him as "a furiously prolific and cantankerous writer whose science fiction and fantasy stories reflected a personality so intense that they often read as if he were punching his manual typewriter keys with his fists." The tagline for the 2008 documentary about Ellison, Dreams with Sharp Teeth, described him as "Genius. Monster. Legend." Ellison author of classics, collector of awards, reviewer of films and comics and television shows, maker of trouble did nothing to disabuse fans and followers of his reputation. In the introduction to the first episode of his short-form Harlan Ellison's Watching, made in the mid-1990s ... More
$1.755 million red diamond leads Heritage Auctions' Fall Jewelry Event above $8.1 mllion
DALLAS, TX.- A 1.21-carat Fancy Orangy Red Diamond shattered estimates Thursday when it sold for $1,755,000 in Heritage Auctions' Fall Fine Jewelry Signature® Auction. The final price was nearly 12 times the ultra-rare gemstone's high pre-auction estimate of $150,000 and the highest price ever paid for an item of jewelry at Heritage Auctions. The scarlet sparkler, one of only a few diamonds to display enough saturation and intensity to be graded as a true red, helped lead the event to $8,168,119. "Diamonds described as predominantly red are extraordinarily uncommon, and finding one over 1.00 carat is especially rare," says Jill Burgum, Heritage Auctions' Executive Director of Fine Jewelry. "So we weren't surprised that this magnificent specimen caught the eye of our discerning bidders. But we were thrilled to see the winning bid and ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Jean-François Millet was born October 04, 1814. Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 - January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers; he can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. The exhibition "Jean-François Millet: Sowing the Seeds of Modern ArtJean-François Millet: Sowing the Seeds of Modern Art" opens today at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. In this image: Jean-François Millet, 'The Angelus', 1857-1859, Musée d'Orsay, Paris (bequest of Alfred Chauchard, 1910).
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