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In an undated image provided by Mark Witton, an artist's rendering Tyrannosaurus rex feeding. Without dinosaur DNA, the lines between one fossil species and another are messy, so paleontologists measure different traits, like the size and shape of a particular bone. But fossils can also mislead. Mark Witton via The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- The worlds most iconic dinosaur is undergoing an identity crisis. In February, a team of scientists posited that Tyrannosaurus rex was actually three distinct species. Instead of there being only one sovereign tyrant lizard king, their paper made the case for a royal family of supersized predators. Joining the king in the genus Tyrannosaurus would be the bulkier and older emperor, T. imperator, and the slimmer queen, T. regina. The proposed T. rex reclassification struck the paleontology community like an asteroid, igniting passionate debates. On Monday, another team of paleontologists published the first peer-reviewed counterattack. The evidence was not convincing and had to be responded to because T. rex research goes well beyond science and into the public sphere, said Thomas Carr, a paleontologist at Carthage College in Wisconsin and an author of the new rebuttal. It would have been unreasonable to leave the public thinking that the multiple spec ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold an Antiquities | Ethnographica | Fine Art sale on Jul 28, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5. The sale features classical antiquities, ancient, and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Fossils, more! Rare Mesopotamian Painted Fresco Chariot w/ Horse. Estimate $11,000 - $16,500.
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| Almine Rech Shanghai opens Leelee Kimmel's second solo exhibition with the gallery | | Kimbell Art Museum acquires rarely before seen painting by 19th century Austrian artist | | Toledo Museum of Art acquires 27 works that broaden the narrative of art history |
Leelee Kimmel, The Transfer, 2021 (detail). Oil, oil stick and acrylic on canvas, 198.1 x 304.8 cm, 78 x 120 in © Leelee Kimmel. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech. Photo: Charles Roussel.
SHANGHAI.- Almine Rech Shanghai is presenting Leelee Kimmels second solo exhibition with the gallery, also her first solo show in China. Abstraction in painting much more than representation can dress itself in the metaphors and symbols of Science. Albert Edelfelts late-nineteenth century portrait of Louis Pasteur, lost in contemplation in the midst of laboratory equipment of his own intends to depict a revolutionary man of science, of unflinchingly precise measurements, ideal titrations, bio-menaces beneath the microscope, bacilli of contagion. But Pasteurs revolutionhis discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization is in no way rendered in the makeup of his image, which is utterly confined to a species of Realism far less obstreperous than that of Courbet: a kind of realist alibi ... More | |
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Dog Guarding a Basket of Grapes, 1836 (detail), oil on canvas. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth.
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Kimbell Art Museum has acquired Dog Guarding a Basket of Grapes, an impressive still life by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, one of the most important and innovative Austrian painters of the 19th century. Merging several painting genres, Dog Guarding a Basket of Grapes (1836) demonstrates Waldmüllers mastery of animal portraiture, still life and landscape, as well as his uncanny ability to capture diverse textures and surfaces, such as the downy fur of the watchdog, varicolored hues of the grapes and the dusky atmosphere of the background. Dog Guarding a Basket of Grapes will be unveiled on August 26 at the Kimbell, installed with the permanent collection in the museums iconic Louis I. Kahn building. When making acquisitions, we focus on works of outstanding merit and aesthetic quality, said Eric M. Lee, director of the Kimbell Art Museum. Were proud to welcome ... More | |
Grace Hartigan (American, 1922-2008), Harvester, 1966, oil on canvas, Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment.
TOLEDO, OH.- This year, the Toledo Museum of Art has acquired 27 works to date, including eight bequests, all advancing the Museums collecting strategy. The additions include paintings, beadwork, glass, multimedia and more that span thousands of years, with some objects dating as far back as fourth century B.C. Works by African American artists, Indigenous artists, women artists and others are strongly represented among the new holdings. These new acquisitions demonstrate the Museums collecting strategy in action, with each curator adding superlative artworks to our collection, said Adam Levine, Edward Drummond and Florence Scott Libbey director of the Museum. As we continue to grow our curatorial ranks and our acquisitions, we will further demonstrate that a relentless focus on quality and a commitment to a culture of belonging result in a broadened narrative of art ... More |
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| Antique quilts, Americana and folk art from the estate of Laura Fisher now open for bidding on iGavelAuctions.com | | Phillips announces the New York selling exhibition, Arrangements in Black | | Marianne Boesky Gallery and Paula Cooper Gallery announce that artist Jennifer Bartlett passed away |
Daisies on Vines applique quilt, Midwest, circa 1930s-40s, cotton. 93''h, 81''w. Estimate: $300-500.
NEW YORK, NY.- South Bay Auctions announced a single-owner timed auction of items from the estate of late quilt expert, Laura Fisher (1945-2021), is now open for bidding exclusively on igavelauctions.com through Thursday, August 11th, 2022. More than 150 lots from Fishers estate will be offered including antique quilts, hooked rugs, Americana, jewelry, Folk Art, and more. We are delighted to offer this wide selection of Americana from the estate of Laura Fisher, in partnership with South Bay Auctions, says Lark Mason. This sale is a treasure trove a beautiful antique quilts, Americana, jewelry, and Folk Art with very accessible estimates. Highlights include a circa 1920s Alphabet Postage Stamp quilt that, looks like a needlework sampler thanks to the one-inch postage stamp squares used ... More | |
Kim Dacres, Destanni, 2022. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced Arrangements in Black, a selling exhibition in New York on view at 432 Park Avenue from 27 July to 19 August. Featuring 21 contemporary artists who have created 40 unique works of art specifically for the show, Arrangements in Black explores each artists response to the color black. Starting with the one-color prompt and expanding beyond that into a multitude of unique expressions, these works grew to include the relationship to color and light, prisms by extension, along with wavelengths, spectrums, and refractions. This exhibition incorporates a breadth of creativity only accomplished by bringing each artists individual approach together in dialogue with one another. Lindsey Brittain Collins, whose work is featured above, said, "Black is both the presence of all colors and the complete absorption of visible light. This ... More | |
Jennifer Bartlett by Takaaki Matsumoto.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery and Paula Cooper Gallery announced that artist Jennifer Bartlett passed away on July 25, 2022 at the age of 81. Bartletts visually bold, intellectually rigorous works drew inspiration from Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism, and Conceptualism, sometimes deploying strategies from all three movements within a single work. Often grounded in precise mathematical abstractions, Bartletts paintings and room-sized installations constantly questioned the restrictions of the grids or constraints she herself had imposed, resulting in dynamic compositions with deep poetic and aesthetic resonance. In 1968, Bartlett began working on the square steel plates on which she went on to create her most notable works. Rhapsody (1975-1976), a polyptych first installed at Paula Cooper Gallery filling ... More |
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| Exhibition spotlights work by key modern and contemporary artists | | 'Projekt Mkt' Vintage Poster Market returns to Peckham with unique vintage art from just £10 | | The Jackie Robinson Museum is about a lot more than baseball |
Irving Penn, Black and White Fashion With Handbag (Jean Patchett), New York, 1950. Gelatin silver print mounted to paper image, 16-3/4" à 15-1/2" paper and mount, 17-3/8" à 15-1/2" signed, titled, dated and annotated verso with stamps and ink print made 1984. © The Irving Penn Foundation, courtesy Pace Gallery.
HONG KONG.- Pace is presenting Chewing Gum V, the latest presentation in a series of group exhibitions highlighting the gallerys expansive, international program, at its Hong Kong space. On view from July 22 to September 1, the exhibition spotlights work by key modern and contemporary artists, including Zhang Xiaogang, Louise Nevelson, Mao Yan, Irving Penn, Kiki Smith, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, and other figures. The show meditates on exchanges between artists across temporal and geographic boundaries. Cultivating a dialogue among paintings, sculptures, and photographs created between the mid 20th century and present day, Chewing Gum V follows four previous editions in the exhibition ... More | |
Orson and Welles, The Wizard of Oz, 1970s. Estimate: £1500
LONDON.- The UKs one and only vintage poster market returns as a 3-day pop-up at Copeland Gallery in London from 23-25th September 2022. Bring your walls to life with this soulful art medium. Entry is £2, accompanied under 16s go free, four-legged friends (dogs) extremely welcome. The event was launched by Harriet + Sylwia of Projekt 26 in May 2021 as the UK emerged from its final lockdown. With retail allowed to open, but exhibitions still on hold, there was an opportunity to hire The Copeland Gallery. They had the idea to bring together fellow vintage poster dealers in a celebration of this unsung art medium. With 2000 visitors coming to visit over 3 days, they were blown away by the response. And so, the biannual event Projekt Mkt was born! For anybody with a love of mid-century pop culture, interiors, art and graphic design, this is the affordable and sustainable art fair you wont want to miss. ... More | |
A display of trophies from Jackie Robinsons exploits, including those in sports other than baseball, at the new Jackie Robinson Museum in New York, July 24, 2022. Elias Williams/The New York Times.
by David Waldstein
NEW YORK, NY.- Jackie Robinsons family home in Stamford, Connecticut, had a den featuring trophies, artifacts and a big scrapbook commemorating his many achievements. David Robinson, his son, fondly recalled in an interview how one wall held photographs and plaques depicting his fathers success in sports. Another wall with a collection twice as big highlighted his fathers social activism, something of far greater significance to Jackie Robinson and his family. The ethos evoked in that den, emphasizing social activism over sports, is carried on, along with many of the same artifacts, to a new museum in lower Manhattan dedicated to the legacy of one of the most important figures ... More |
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| Nigerian artist brings local perceptions to international stage | | SeMA, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art presents Artland by Do Ho Suh and Children | | Springfield Art Museum awarded $3 million In ARPA funding from city |
Drawing from area culture and communities, Amarachi Okafors work embodies the Nigerian spirit while showcasing a global talent.
ABUJA-FCT.- From local to international, artist Amarachi Okafor has a knack for using the culture that surrounds her to create powerful messages that reflect the human condition. Now, after 20 years of accolades and achievements, Okafor reflects on the global culture while continuing to draw inspiration from what is happening around her, in Nigeria and all of Africa and the experience of the people that live there as she prepares for a solo exhibition in October at the Red Door Gallery in Lagos. I weave the issues of the day into my work as they are reflected locally, nationally and globally, Okafor said as she prepared for her latest exhibition. Through my travels, I have seen a connective tissue that runs through all people. With my work, I want to share that connection while at the same time exploring the inspiration ... More | |
Do Ho Suh and Children, Artland, 2022. Childrens modelling clay, dimensions variable. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates. © Aami Suh, Omi Suh and Do Ho Suh. All rights reserved, 2022.
SEOUL.- The Seoul Museum of Art presents a participatory exhibition in collaboration with artist Do Ho Suh (b. 1962, Seoul, Korea), which engages children in the creative process. Over the past seven years, Suh and his family have been creating a fantastical ecosystem called Artland out of childrens modeling clay. The circumstances of the pandemic and isolation allowed the family to reflect more deeply on the conversation that Artland invited. Artland is both an imaginary world and, with the participation of others, an ever-expandable platform that celebrates the unique creative potential of the childs mind. Artland is inhabited by diverse species of animals and plants, while its peculiar climate and soil result in different growth cycles and conditions for its flora and ... More | |
Since kicking off the 2028 Campaign in October of 2021, the Museum has raised over $12 million toward its $25 million fundraising goal.
SPRINGFIELD, MO.- At the Monday, July 25 City Council meeting, members voted to award the Springfield Art Museum $3 million from the City of Springfields American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding. The Museums Master Plan is one of 16 projects to receive an allocation from the Citys pool of more than $40 million in ARPA funds. City Council ARPA Review Committee Chairman Matthew Simpson noted the importance of funding projects with long term transformative impact on the community. The Museum is thrilled to receive this significant public investment toward its capital improvement project, said Museum Director Nick Nelson. Coupled with the lead $5 million gift from The Sunderland Foundation, and substantial completion of critical grounds work to mitigate flood risk, the Museum is well ... More |
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New Orleans Museum of Art presents 'Picture Man: Portraits by Polo Silk'
NEW ORLEANS, MO.- The New Orleans Museum of Art presents Picture Man: Portraits by Polo Silk, on view July 16, 2022January 8, 2023. For more than three decades, Selwhyn Sthaddeus Polo Silk Terrell (American, born 1964) has been photographing New Orleans, creating a unique body of work that blends elements of portraiture, fashion, performance, and street photography. Picture Man explores how Polo Silk blends all of those elements and illustrates his contributions in the history of American photography. The exhibition features more than 35 images by Silk spanning 20 years from 19872007, with an emphasis on the 1990s. Through his years of documenting seminal moments in New Orleans, Polo Silks name and photos have become synonymous with New Orleans culture, said Susan Taylor, ... More
Rediscovering Australia's Generation of Defiant Female Directors
NEW YORK, NY.- In the opening moments of Gillian Armstrongs debut feature, My Brilliant Career (1979), a freckled, tawny-haired young woman stands in the doorway of her house in the Australian outback and declares: Dear countrymen, a few lines to let you know that this story is going to be all about me. The woman is Sybylla, played by a fiery, young Judy Davis, and she dreams of a long, fruitful career as a writer love, marriage, motherhood and all of societys other expectations be damned. Sybyllas words might as well have been the rallying cry for a whole generation of Australias female filmmakers, who had waited for years to tell their own stories. Their defiant and eclectic body of work is the subject of Pioneering Women in Australian Cinema, a fascinating series that opened last week at the Museum of the Moving ... More
Heritage Auctions sells Muhammad Ali's WBC Championship belt for $6.18 million
DALLAS, TX.- A heavyweight bout lasted well into Sunday morning. And when the final bell rang at Heritage Auctions, Indianapolis Colts owner and philanthropist Jim Irsay walked away with the championship belt specifically, Muhammad Ali's World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight championship belt earned in his victory over George Foreman in 1974's legendary Rumble in the Jungle in Zaire. The WBC belt realized $6,180,000, the highest price for a sports collectible sold at Heritage Auctions. It was offered alongside other historic Ali items in Heritage's July 21-23 Summer Sports Catalog Auction. "After several hours of watching two bidders go back and forth over this belt, this proved to be a battle worthy of the Rumble itself," says Chris Ivy, Heritage's Director of Sports Auctions. "We're just thrilled this extraordinary ... More
Sarah Faux joins Hales
NEW YORK, NY.- Hales announced representation of Brooklynbased painter Sarah Faux in collaboration with M+B and Capsule Shanghai. The gallerys first solo exhibition with Faux will open at Hales New York in Spring 2023. Sarah Faux (b. 1986 Boston, MA, USA) received her MFA in Painting from Yale University in 2015. She gained a joint BA and BFA from Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009. Faux lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Faux is a painter whose somatic work lies at the threshold of figuration and abstraction. Her paintings embrace unabashed sensuality, autonomy and pleasure. Faux's fluid compositions teeter on the edge of reality, revealing how much of our emotional and sensory lives take place beneath the surface. Initially, her works often appear abstract. Overlapping ... More
Sacred Site at Olana by artist Diana Wege highlights intersection of art and environmental history
HUDSON, NY.- Artist and environmentalist Diana Wege studied one of Frederic Churchs masterpieces for a decade. Her impulse was to focus on Churchs traditional representation of Niagara Falls as a way to raise contemporary awareness of the climatic and environmental challenges we face today. The result is Sacred Site, an installation of twelve hand-painted full-scale replicas of Churchs largest painting, Niagara, from the American Side. Placed in the North Meadow at Olana State Historic Site, this installation is accessible and free for all visitors to Olanas designed historic landscape. Of the twelve canvases she painted, Wege altered four of them to emphasize abstract qualities of Churchs imagery. A closer look at all the reproductions shows changes which reflect humanitys destructive impact on our planet. Through ... More
Going where the wind blows in Italy's Salento
NEW YORK, NY.- Go to one of the inland cities today, advises the burly fruit seller as he hands me a barattiere, a mixture of melon and cucumber thats indigenous to Puglia, the region that forms the stiletto heel of Italys boot. The sand will be blowing today on both the coasts, and you wont be able to see the lovely colors of the sea. The wind and the sea are constant topics of conversation in Puglia. Whether its the scirocco, the hot current coming from the Sahara, or the tramontana, the cold draft from the Alps (not to mention the ponente or the levante), the way the wind blows determines which beach to go to and how to plan the day. Bartenders, street vendors and shop owners are quick to opine about which is in force and how to best navigate its currents. Tonight in Lecce, the tramontana takes center stage and the effect is like a fan ... More
Paul Sorvino: A voluble man who excelled as a brick of a mobster
NEW YORK, NY.- When Paul Sorvino was offered the role of Paulie Cicero, the Queens-based mob underboss in Martin Scorseses Goodfellas (1990), he very much did not want to accept it. In the first place, he was a proud Italian American. A connoisseur of Italian culture, particularly food and music, he was not inclined to play a Mafioso. In addition, Sorvino, who died Monday at 83, was a voluble guy, and he liked playing voluble guys. Paulie was largely a brick. Much is made in the early scenes of the movie about how most of the criminals directives were executed with a mere nod. He accepted the role anyway and went into rehearsals. A few days before shooting began, he called his agent and asked if he could bail. At a 2015 panel at the Tribeca Film Festival commemorating the 25th anniversary of Goodfellas, ... More
1825 coin worth $4 million+ to be auctioned
COSTA MESA, CA .- Stacks Bowers Galleries will present the finest of three known Proof 1825/4/1 Capped Head Left half eagles in their Summer 2022 Global Showcase Auction, offered as part of the Mocatta Collection of U.S. Gold Rarities. Graded Proof-67 Cameo by PCGS and awarded a CAC sticker for superior quality, it boasts a magnificent provenance stretching back to before 1864 and has been held privately off the market since the early 1970s. It is first traced to the collection of George F. Seavey formed before 1864, which was purchased en bloc by Lorin G. Parmelee in 1873. It appeared in lot 957 of the June 1890 sale of the Parmelee Collection where it sold for $40, or just eight times the face value. Over the next hundred years, this coin passed through a litany of legendary cabinets including those of Waldo Newcomer, ... More
Black portraits get new names, and a new show
LONDON.- In the early 20th century, Glyn Philpot was one of Britains most respected portrait painters. The artist was known for depicting high-society sitters in a style mimicking the old masters, so his works sat comfortably on the walls of his clients country homes alongside generations of their family members. All the papers are raving about P. now. Have you seen? Philpots friend Gladys Miles wrote to art historian Randall Davies in 1910. Everyone is rushing to be painted like sheep. By the 1930s, though, not only had Philpots painting style become more modernist, incorporating abstracted backgrounds and a lighter color palette, he was also painting sensitive portraits of Black people, some of which, unusually for the time, were shown at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Philpots most frequent Black subject ... More
Aldrin's space memorabilia sells for more than $8 million
NEW YORK, NY.- A white, Teflon-coated jacket worn by astronaut Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969 sold for $2.7 million at a Sothebys auction Tuesday, fetching the highest price among dozens of pieces of rare memorabilia tracing his career in space exploration. Aldrin, now 92, has a storied career as an astronaut, joining NASA in 1963 after flying for the Air Force. Within three years, he had executed the worlds first successful spacewalk in the Gemini 12 mission. Then, on July 20, 1969, millions of people watched on television as he became the second man to walk on the moon, about 20 minutes after Neil Armstrong, who declared it one giant leap for mankind. The custom-fitted jacket Aldrin wore on that mission sold after fierce bidding lasting nine minutes, with the auctioneer calling it the most valuable ... More
A new commission by Devin Kenny launches on the Whitney Museum's Artport
NEW YORK, NY.- Today, the Whitney Museum of American Art launched Ongoing, Individual Adaptability or How to Quiet Quit, a new project by artist Devin Kenny on whitney.org. Commissioned for artport, the Museums portal dedicated to Internet art and an online gallery space for commissions of net art, this two-part work explores artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of art institutions, creativity, collaboration, and labor. To create the work, a compilation of images and videos, Kenny used a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), a form of machine learning in which algorithms trained on specific data sets continuously generate new images with the same characteristics as the originals. Kennys data set to train the AI for this work comprises thousands of installation images documenting exhibitions at the Whitney Museum. Devin ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer William Egglestonwas born July 27, 1939. William Eggleston (born July 27, 1939) is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium. Eggleston's books include William Eggleston's Guide (1976) and The Democratic Forest (1989). In this image:Untitled from The Democratic Forest, c. 1983-1986. © Eggleston Artistic Trust. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London.
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