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Tessa de Alarcon, a conservator, photographs sculptures for a digital archive at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, Nov. 28, 2012. Mark Makela/The New York Times.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- More than 175 years after his death, a man named John Voorhees may finally have a proper burial. Voorhees died of consumption, or tuberculosis, at a Philadelphia hospital for the poor in 1846, when he was 35 years old. But, after his death and without his consent or knowledge, his remains ended up in the hands of Samuel George Morton, a 19th-century physician and anatomist known for his influential racist theories on intellect. Voorhees was one of 13 Black Philadelphians whose skulls were subject to Mortons experiments. Come fall, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, known as the Penn Museum, is hoping to give them a traditional burial ceremony that it said was long overdue. Students had for years called for the remains to be returned to descendants. Its a really important moment to do the right thing and acknowledge the problematic history of parts of this collection, said Christopher Woods, the director of the museum, which ha ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Beauty & Beasts: Ancient, Ethno, Fine Art sale on Aug 11, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5. The sale offers a whimsical gathering of ancient, ethnographic, and fine art from around the world that ignite the imagination and perfectly encapsulate the adage of how beauty is in the eye of the beholder! 18th C. Papua New Guinea Wood Drum Segment - C14 Tested. Estimate $10,000 - $15,000.
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| New Executive Director at Mad Sq Park Conservancy | | Phillips X presents 'Different Throws of Dreams: Aboudia x Dubuffet' | | Exhibition at The National Art Center, Tokyo assembles Lee Ufan's most important works |
Madison Square Park Conservancy Executive Director Holly Leicht. Photo: Rashmi Gill.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Board of Trustees of Madison Square Park Conservancy today announced the appointment of Holly Leicht as the organizations next Executive Director. Leicht brings 25 years of experience leading urban planning, open space, and development initiatives, most recently serving as the Executive Vice President of Real Estate Development & Planning at Empire State Development, New York States economic development agency, and having previously held prominent leadership roles at federal and municipal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, as well as at leading urban planning and advocacy nonprofits, supporting New Yorkers for Parks and the Municipal Art Society. As the Conservancys next Executive Director, she will implement a strategic vision ... More | |
Jean Dubuffet, Paysage Amoncelé, 1968. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips presents Different Throws of Dreams: Aboudia x Dubuffet. In collaboration with Aboudia, this selling exhibition will present ten paintings by the artist in conversation with a selection of works by Jean Dubuffet. Different Throws of Dreams will be on view in Phillips London galleries on Berkeley Square from 10 to 31 August. Miety Heiden, Phillips Deputy Chairwoman and Head of Private Sales, said We are delighted to collaborate with Aboudia in exhibiting these remarkable paintings to our audience in London this summer. Showing these alongside the work of Jean Dubuffet, created half a century ago, provides the opportunity to find extraordinary dialogue between the work of these two artists. Maura Marvão, Phillips International Specialist, 20th Century & Contemporary Art, Portugal & Spain, said, With his exquisite way of reflecting reality, Aboudia's paintings appeal ... More | |
Lee Ufan, Relatum (formerly Phenomena and Perception B), 1969/2012, glass, stone
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
TOKYO.- The National Art Center, Tokyo is presenting a major retrospective by Lee Ufan on the occasion of the Art Centers 15th anniversary. Eagerly absorbing a wide range of thought and literature from the East and the West in the late 60s and early 70s, Lee spearheaded the postwar Japanese artistic phenomenon Mono-ha (School of Things) by combining natural and artificial materials in a temperate manner in both his visual art and writings. Moreover, through his art and writings, Lee evolved a worldview based on the notion that all things are interrelated. This exhibition assembles Lee's most important works, including everything from his earliest pre-Mono-ha pieces, which considered the problem of vision; the Relatum series, which changed the concept of sculpture; and his highly spiritual paintings, which produce ... More |
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| David Kordansky Gallery presents an exhibition of new wall-and pedestal-based sculptures by Anthony Pearson | | Retouched and revitalized, Washington looks forward | | Wendy Red Star debuts new works that transform Apsáalooke (Crow) tribe carrying cases |
Anthony Pearson, Untitled (Tablet), 2022, bronze, 35 1/8 x 15 5/8 x 1 1/2 inches, (89.2 x 39.7 x 3.8 cm). Photo: Lee Thompson.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery is presenting Casements, an exhibition of new wall- and pedestal-based sculptures by Anthony Pearson, on view July 23 through August 27, 2022. Anthony Pearson has developed a formal vocabulary informed by photography, painting, and sculpture. For more than twenty years, he has been producing an interrelated body of objects in which subtle evolutions of material, color, and mood elicit meditative looking and quietly immersive perceptual experiences. Recent groups of wall-based sculptures, which he calls Casements and Coupled Casements, are made by pouring pigmented Hydrocal cement into bunched sections of fabric; when the dry cement is removed, finished, and installed on the wall, its shapes and volumes evoke a wide range of geological and organic forms. Upright Casements, works produced in a similar way and installed on pedestals, ... More | |
Visitors at the Planet Word museum in Washington, June 15, 2022. The Planet Word museum, which opened in 2020, sends visitors through a host of interactive and self-guided exhibits touching topics from humor to early-childhood language acquisition. Tony Cenicola/The New York Times.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Visitors are back in Washington, for all the reasons they came before. Gaggles of school groups and tour buses are on the National Mall, enjoying the green space and the museums. Demonstrators are marching. Convention centers have 19 large-scale events scheduled this year, with the largest booked by the Association of the United States Army nonprofit anticipating as many as 30,000 attendees. The city has yet to fully rebound from the coronavirus; the number of international visitors is not expected to reach pre-pandemic levels until 2025, according to Destination DC, the districts official marketing organization. But timed entry passes to favorite sites and reservations at coveted restaurants are vanishing quickly, and many local businesses and attractions, ... More | |
Wendy Red Star created for JCDecaux bus shelters in New York City, Chicago, and Boston.
NEW YORK, NY.- On August 10, Public Art Fund will debut Travels Pretty, an exhibition based on 12 new paintings by artist Wendy Red Star created for JCDecaux bus shelters in New York City, Chicago, and Boston. Continuing her practice of mining museum archives and collections that house Apsáalooke (Crow) objects, for this new series, Red Star has explored parfleches, the suitcases of the nomadic tribes of the North American Great Plains. These hand-painted rawhidesused to store and transport food and personal possessionswere traditionally made by women and served as a compelling means of both self and tribal expression for those who created them. They constitute one of the great traditions of imagery created by Native artists. Red Stars 12 detailed and vibrant paintings celebrate the communal knowledge of Apsáalooke parfleches, which were unique utilitarian containers instrumental to nomadic life. By taking the ... More |
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| How we mourn COVID's victims | | Unit London opens its first exhibition with Heesoo Kim | | BAMPFA opens the first West Coast museum exhibition of work by Hannah Levy |
An art exhibition blankets the National Mall with more than 700,000 white flags, each representing a person lost to COVID-19, in Washington, on Sep. 16, 2021. Kenny Holston/The New York Times.
by Christine Hauser
LONDON.- Piece by piece, the COVID-19 sanctuary was born on a hilltop in the town of Bedworth in central England. The process was meant to be a metaphor for a human life. Like bones fused over time, it grew taller as the memorials creators spent months joining intricate pieces of wood into a skeletal structure that finally stood on its own, 65 feet high. Then they burned it all down. There have always been monuments to commemorate the loss of life from calamitous events, such as the thousands of memorials dedicated to world wars, the Sept. 11 attacks, the Holocaust. But the COVID-19 pandemic, now in its third year, has presented a unique challenge for grieving families. It is not a singular event, ... More | |
Heesoo Kim, Untitled (Mixed feelings), 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 65 cm x 53 cm.
LONDON.- Heesoo Kims first solo exhibition with Unit London explores our shared contemporary experience through portraiture. In what the artist defines as an expression of the mundane, Normal Life is an accumulation of everyday observations. Surrounded by a society that constantly grapples for recognition and success, Kims body of work subtly engages with the mild sense of insecurity that is engendered by an achievement driven world. Having struggled with his own insecurities, Kims portraits act as a means to regain agency as the artist chooses to paint the stories of those around him, recording the feelings and emotions that connect us all. These portraits do not attach themselves to any specific sense of personhood; each figure, wiped clean of idiosyncrasies, could be anyone. Kim therefore encourages his viewers to project themselves onto his portraits, revelling in the conceivable meanings of our universal ex ... More | |
Hannah Levy: Untitled, 2021 (detail); nickel-plated steel, silicone; 27.75 x 8 x 15 in. each; courtesy the Arts Club of Chicago, © Hannah Levy. Photo: Michael Tropea.
BERKELEY, CA.- The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is mounting the first West Coast museum exhibition of work by Hannah Levy, the acclaimed sculptor whose steel-and-silicone creations explore the visceral tension between flesh and metal. Hannah Levy / MATRIX 279 will showcase six recent sculptures by Levy, including a major new work that will be on view for the first time at BAMPFA. Complementing a concurrent presentation at this years Venice Biennale, Levys solo museum debut is the latest installment of the MATRIX Program at BAMPFA, a vanguard exhibition series that has highlighted distinctive and important voices in contemporary art for the past four decades. Noted for her evocative integrations of gleaming metal with squishy facsimiles of human and non-human ... More |
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| 'Doug Aitken: Flags and Debris' opens at the The Israel Museum, Jerusalem | | CHART presents Anthony Miler' 'There Are More Good People Than We Know' | | 'Legendary Rarity' 1927-D Double Eagle leads latest Bob R. Simpson Collection offerings at Heritage's U.S. Coins Auction |
Doug Aitken, history of forgetting, 2022. Mixed handdyed and sewn fabrics, 309.9 x 309.9 x 7.6 cm. Courtesy of the artist; 303 Gallery, New York; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; Victoria Miro, London; and Regen Projects, Los Angeles © Doug Aitken, Courtesy of 303 Gallery, New York; Victoria Miro, London; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
JERUSALEM.- Flags and Debris weaves together sights and feelings that the Covid-19 pandemic produced as it left its mark on urban activity, on the body, and on the human spirit. In 2020, during the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic, the multidisciplinary artist Doug Aitken sought sources of inspiration in his own house and turned clothes and other fabrics he found into works of collage. The research, meticulous labor, and stillness of his work process planning the composition, dying the cloth, cutting, sewing were a result of being secluded and looking inward. These textile works recall flags or banners ... More | |
Anthony Miler (b. 1982), Not Titled, 2022. Oil, acrylic, and graphite on canvas framed: 51 x 61 3/8 inches (129.5 x 155.9 cm). © The Artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- CHART is presenting There Are More Good People Than We Know, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Anthony Miler. The exhibition features nine new paintings in the main gallery, with a selection of over twenty works on paper from the past five years of Milers practice installed on the gallerys lower level. The exhibition remains on view through August 19th. In Anthony Milers newest paintings, a decade-plus artistic evolution arrives at the present amalgamation of past materials and formal stylings. Featuring curving, organic forms set amid colorfully stained backdrops, the paintings on view offer a more meditative and pared-down experience than previous works. At first glance, they could be seen as simple landscapes, with bird-like forms dashing across their surfaces, often offset by ... More | |
1927-D Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle, MS66.
DALLAS, TX.- In their classic reference, Encyclopedia of U.S. Gold Coins 1795-1933, Jeff Garrett and Ron Guth call the 1927-D Saint-Gaudens double eagle "a legendary rarity the rarest regular-issue gold coin of any denomination of the 20th century." Add to that the provenance that comes with being a part of The Bob R. Simpson Collection, Part IX, and it immediately is clear why a 1927-D Double Eagle MS66 PCGS will turn heads and open eyes when it crosses the block in Heritage Auctions' US Coins Signature® Auction August 22-28. The rarity alone it is one of just 13 known survivors from an original mintage o 180,000 pieces makes it a must-have for the most serious of collectors. "This is an extraordinary coin," Heritage Auctions President Greg Rohan said. "Four are in international holdings, and two more have not been seen in decades. There are just seven examples, including the one ... More |
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Barack Obama & Maya Lin on Lin's Sculptural Commission for Obama Presidential Center
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Now Live: NADA Curated: Reduction to Satire (Reductio ad Satura) by Fatoş Ãstek
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Art Dealers Alliance is presenting Reduction to Satire (Reductio ad Satura), curated by Fatoş Ãstek, now live on newartdealers.org. The second edition of NADA Curateda new series of online exhibitions highlighting artists and art spaces from NADAs international community through curated thematic presentationsfeatures 21 artists present by 17 galleries. Curatorial Statement: A newly coined termlike all othersfaces an uncertain future. Will the wording be picked up by the masses and inflict itself in the language to mean something in the future? Or does it have a meaning now? The artists selected for the Reduction to Satire exhibition were invited to respond to what they think the newly coined term might mean, or how it resonates within their current practices. Borrowed from two distinct disciplines of knowledge ... More
'Hamilton' team protests after church production adds Christian themes
NEW YORK, NY.- Lawyers for the creators of Hamilton, the record-setting musical that remains a worldwide draw seven years after its Broadway debut, protested after a Texas church put on an unauthorized production this weekend. Church performers changed some lyrics and introduced Christian themes that were not part of the original. A pastor at The Door McAllen, a nondenominational Christian church in McAllen, Texas, near the Mexican border, claimed on Sunday that the Hamilton team had given the church a license to perform its version of the musical on Saturday and Sunday. But after the church posted footage of the production online, they were immediately contacted by a lawyer from Hamilton, who asked them to remove it, the pastor said. The church complied, and she gave us the OK to continue on Sunday, the pastor ... More
What's next for this New York theater leader? Nursing school
NEW YORK, NY.- Theres been a lot of turnover in theater leadership lately. Some have been drummed out of their jobs. Others have quit to do something else in the arts. Many have retired. Daniella Topol, the artistic director of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and a careerlong theater director, is leaving to become a nurse. The unusual move arrives at a pivotal time for Rattlestick, a small off-Broadway company that, in addition to rejuvenating after the long pandemic shutdown, is about to embark on a much-needed renovation of its cozy but imperfect West Village home, in a 19th-century church parish house. Topol, 47, has been leading Rattlestick since 2016, succeeding David Van Asselt, who co-founded the company. Just before assuming the leadership position, she directed at Rattlestick a production of Ironbound by Martyna Majok, who went ... More
Olivia Newton-John: That headband was a crown
NEW YORK, NY.- We wouldve just called her ONJ now. But part of the appeal, I think, was all of that name, the possible royalty of it. Nobody wanted to waste a syllable. Olivia Newton-John. Just saying it might bestow a crown. The rest of her allure sprang from that classiness: She was neither queen nor first lady of anything, yet she seemed, ultimately, like a lady. And that was something she could have some fun with, a category she could smudge. Eventually. I mean, this was a person who, at the heights of funk, disco and glam rock, recorded six country-esque albums, throw pillows for your ears. And most of their singles topped what was once known as Billboards easy listening chart. (So maybe she was the queen of that.) By the end of the 1970s, though, she had figured out the whole lady thing and spent 90% of her first Hollywood movie ... More
Graves Gallery at Museums Sheffield opens an exhibition of works by photographer and writer, Johny Pitts
SHEFFIELD.- What is Black Britain? In 2021, photographer and writer, Johny Pitts, and poet Roger Robinson circumnavigated the British Coast in search of an answer. The resulting project, Home is Not a Place, presented as an exhibition supported by Photoworks, and book published by Harper Collins, reflects on Black British culture, people and geographies, exploring the notion of home. My photographic practice involves trying to celebrate Black spaces, capture them while theyre still here and give them a home. If not in a literal sense in a figurative sense, for me home is somewhere that you take with you. Johny Pitts Travelling in a red mini cooper along the Thames and then from Margate to Lands End, Bristol to Blackpool, Glasgow to John OGroats and Scarborough to Southend on Sea, Pitts and Robinsons circumnavigation encompassed ... More
If these beautiful ornaments could speak
NEW YORK, NY.- The Clamor of Ornament, a dazzling new exhibition at the Drawing Center, gathers nearly 200 drawings, etchings, photographs, tunics and weavings to tell a complicated story, one that spans five centuries, about cultural exchange and appropriation. The curators define ornament as embellishment, surface or structural, that can be lifted from its context, reworked, reproduced, and redeployed. This wide-open description gives them space to include nearly anything, and they do: There are Albrecht Dürer woodcuts from the early 1500s, a bark painting by an anonymous Papua New Guinean artist, a series of black-and-white cakes and pastries that illustrator Tom Hovey drew for a coloring book version of The Great British Bake Off. An ingenious exhibition design lets you imagine these squiggles and frills leaping around ... More
Issey Miyake, Japanese fashion designer, dies at 84
NEW YORK, NY.- Issey Miyake, the Japanese designer famed for his pleated style of clothing and cult perfumes, and whose name became a global byword for cutting-edge fashion in the 1980s, died Friday in Tokyo. He was 84. The death was announced Tuesday by the Miyake Design Studio, which said the cause was liver cancer. Miyake is perhaps best known for his micro pleating, which he first unveiled in 1988 but has lately enjoyed a surge in popularity among a new and younger consumer base. His proprietary heat treating system meant that the accordionlike pleats in his designs could be machine washed, would never lose their shape and offered the ease of loungewear. He also produced the black turtleneck that became part of the signature look of Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder. His Bao Bao bag, made from mesh fabric layered ... More
Lamont Dozier, writer of numerous Motown hits, dies at 81
NEW YORK, NY.- Lamont Dozier, the prolific songwriter and producer who was crucial to the success of Motown Records as one-third of the Holland-Dozier-Holland team, died Monday in Arizona. He was 81. Robin Terry, the chair and chief executive of the Motown Museum in Detroit, confirmed the death but did not specify a cause. In collaboration with the brothers Brian and Eddie Holland, Dozier wrote songs for dozens of musical acts, but the trio worked most often with Martha and the Vandellas (Heat Wave, Jimmy Mack), the Four Tops (Bernadette, I Cant Help Myself) and especially the Supremes (You Cant Hurry Love, Baby Love). Between 1963 and 1972, the Holland-Dozier-Holland team was responsible ... More
Market-watchers pounced on rare original comic strip art at Hake's $2.7M pop culture memorabilia auction
YORK, PA.- Original comic strip art continues to solidify its position alongside fine art in the collector marketplace, with the latest proof coming on day two of Hakes July 26-27 auction of pop culture rarities. Amongst the highlights of the $2.7 million sale was a selection of six consecutive lots of original concept art created in the late 1970s for a proposed Star Wars daily newspaper comic strip. Drawn by legendary comic strip artist Al Williamson (1931-2020) as part of a series of twelve strips, the artworks never saw publication. Six of the artworks were gifted to George Lucas, while the other six were given to Star Wars marketing genius Charles Lippincott (1939-2020), explained Alex Winter, president of Hakes Auctions. For more than forty years Mr Lippincotts six artworks remained with his family until they were consigned to Hakes by his widow earlier this year. Offered consecutively, the si ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, The Smithsonian Institution was chartered by the U.S. Congress August 10, 1846. The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, and licensing activities. In this image: "The Castle," the building on the National Mall that is home to the Smithsonian's administration, is seen. Photo: Smithsonian Institution.
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