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The artist Julie Mehretu at her studio in Manhattans Chelsea neighborhood, March 4, 2021. Mehretu is preparing to take over the Whitneys entire sprawling fifth floor with the most comprehensive survey of her career. Josefina Santos/The New York Times.
By Robin Pogrebin
(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In a moment when museum collections are trying to integrate more women and artists of color, Julie Mehretu represents a powerful symbol of progress, the rare example of a contemporary Black female painter who has already entered the canon. At the same time, as the Black Lives Matter movement continues to fuel a national reckoning, Mehretu is being showcased at one of the many art institutions being held accountable for an entrenched history of white male exclusionism. It is with this unusual status as both an agent of change and a member of the establishment that Mehretu is preparing to take over the Whitneys entire sprawling fifth floor with the most comprehensive survey of her career, which opens to the public March 25. Were seeing this call to reconstruction, Mehretu said during a Zoom interview from her Chelsea studio near the museum, noting all of this important work that didnt get seen. Only now, she noted, are the artists w ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its CLEARANCE Antiquities | Ethnographic Art sale on Thu, Mar 25, 2021 8:00 AM GMT-6. The sale features discounted pricing on Asian art, Classical antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy, and the Near East...plus Pre-Columbian, Tribal, Russian Icons, Spanish Colonial, Fine Art, more! In this image: Fine Veracruz Stone Ballgame Yoke. Estimate: $11,000-$16,500.
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| Largest art canvas sells for $62 million | | Basquiat brings $41.9 million, even amid digital gold rush | | Hindman's Spring Fashion: A Century of Couture achieves over $415,000 |
Dubai-based British contemporary artist Sacha Jafri stares at fragments of his painting entitled 'The Journey of Humanity', in the Emirati city of Dubai, on February 25, 2021. Karim SAHIB / AFP.
DUBAI (AFP).- Work by British artist Sacha Jafri consisting of the world's largest painting on canvas has been sold for $62 million at an auction in Dubai, organisers said on Tuesday. The "Journey of Humanity" is split into 70 framed sections spanning 1,595.76 square metres (17,176 square feet) -- equivalent to nearly four basketball courts. Organisers said in a statement that the work sold for $62 million, double the amount targeted, with the money going to charities helping children. Andre Abdoune, a French national residing in Dubai -- one of the seven emirates that make up the UAE -- bought all 70 segments on Monday at an auction in Dubai's "Atlantis, The Palm". The work, confirmed by the Guinness World Records as the "Largest Art Canvas", had been put on display in the ballroom of the opulent hotel, and was originally meant to be sold in segments. "I come from a poor family, and I knew at times how it feels to have nothing to eat, but at least I had the love of my parents, schooling, and suppor ... More | |
Jean-Michel Basquiat, 'Warrior', 1982, Acrylic and Oil Stick on Wood Panel, 72 x 48 inches. Sold for: HK$323,600,000 / £30,265,619 / 35,077,853 / US$41,857,351. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
by Katya Kazakina
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Warrior, a 1982 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat that was said to symbolize the struggles of Black men in a white-dominated world, sold for $41.9 million, with fees, at Christies auction house in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Although Christies said it was the highest price paid at auction for a Western artwork in Asia, that may be a technicality: At a Sothebys New York sale in 2017, Japanese billionaire collector Yusaku Maezawa paid $110 million for Basquiats Untitled. It remains the artists auction record. Estimated at $31 million to $41 million, Warrior was offered as an unusual single lot. It leads a week of 20th and 21st century livestreamed auctions at Christies and Sothebys in London and Paris, which also include an old master and a rediscovered van Gogh. Christies was betting on Basquiats global appeal to help energize the art market as it tried to emerge from the ... More | |
Charles James Satin Evening Dress, 1945. Additional versions of this dress are recorded on page 130 in The Genius of Charles James (Coleman, 1982). Presale Estimate: $1,500 - $3,500. Price Realized: $12,500.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindmans Spring Fashion: A Century of Couture auction realized over $415,000, more than double its presale estimate, and saw outstanding international bidder engagement. The auction presented trademarks of fashion history, from the start of the 20th century to the cutting edge of contemporary avant-garde. Fashion by Charles James, Chanel, and Hermès sold for top prices and 99 percent of all lots sold. Designers featured in the sale also included Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, and Pierre Cardin, among others. Highlighting the sale was a sculptural Charles James gown (lot 5) which soared past its presale estimate of $1,500-$3,500 to achieve $12,500. The dress is an exceptional piece that dates from the 1940s and anticipates the structured, bold tailoring of Diors New Look of 1947. James is well known for his complex and articulated designs and for the use of innovative sartorial techniques, some of which he pio ... More |
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| New 'revelations' in the life of Francis Bacon, a master of darkness and distortion | | Het Nieuwe Instituut acquires only surviving model by Theo van Doesburg | | David McCabe, who photographed Warhol becoming Warhol, dies at 80 |
'Francis Bacon: Revelations' By Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan. Illustrated. 861 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $60.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The ball was given by a Lady Rothermere, but it was Princess Margaret everyone would remember, in typical, regrettable form. She had gotten hold of a microphone and was belting out Cole Porter, passionately off-key, and trying to dance (wriggling, according to one observer). The crowd responded with dutiful enthusiasm all except one man, who began to loudly boo, until Margaret fled, near tears. It was that dreadful man, Francis Bacon, writer Caroline Blackwood recalled one guest saying. He calls himself a painter but he does the most frightful paintings. I just dont understand how a creature like him was allowed to get in here. Its really quite disgraceful. Bacon was serene. Her singing was really too awful, he later said. Someone had to stop her. I dont think people should perform if they cant do it properly. Its a neat encapsulation of the artist and the man: his fearlessness and indiffer ... More | |
Theo van Doesburg and an associate in the construction office in Place Kleber, in front of the Aubette, 1927. Archive of Theo and Nelly van Doesburg, Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD).
ROTTERDAM.- Het Nieuwe Instituut has acquired a unique interior model by architect and artist Theo van Doesburg. The design is for the café-restaurant of the Aubette, one of the most important architectural projects of De Stijl, the art movement of which Van Doesburg was the figurehead. With this radical design, Van Doesburg no longer makes a distinction between architecture and painting. The acquisition was made possible by contributions from the Mondriaan Fund, the Rembrandt Association and Galerie Gmurzynska. The interior of the Aubette (Strasbourg, 1928) has become an icon of the 20th-century avant-garde. Van Doesburg created a dynamic colour design with diagonals across both the walls and the ceiling. The unity of form, colour and architecture was intended to entice visitors to move through the different spaces of this modern entertainment complex. ... More | |
David McCabe in 2019. McCabe, a photographer who was given the assignment of a lifetime in 1964 when Andy Warhol hired him to follow him around New York and chronicle his exploits for a year. Bernard McWilliams via The New York Times.
by Alex Vadukul
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- David McCabe, a photographer who was given the assignment of a lifetime in 1964 when Andy Warhol hired him to follow him around New York and chronicle his exploits for a year, thereby participating in the manufacturing of Warhols public image and the enduring myth of downtown New York, died Feb. 26 at a hospital in Albany, New York. He was 80. His wife, Susan Cipolla, said the cause was lung cancer. When McCabe arrived in New York in 1960, he was a 20-year-old art school graduate fresh from England. He got a room at the YMCA, began working as a photo assistant, and started shooting fashion editorials for magazines like Glamour and Mademoiselle. Four years later, Warhol noticed the young ... More |
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| Banksy's Game Changer sells for $23,176,314 | | Rare, 1937 Rockola World Series coin-op leads Fine Estate, Inc.'s Spring Auction | | Bertoia's to introduce new hybrid format with April 8-9 Annual Spring Auction |
Banksy, Game Changer, oil on canvas, 35.7/8 x 35.7/8in. (91 x 91cm.), painted in 2020. Price Realised £16,758,000 / $23,176,314 / 19,422,522. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- Banksys Game Changer was sold for £16,758,000 / $23,176,314 / 19,422,522 at Christies on 23 March 2021, in the 20th Century Art Evening Sale. Proceeds from the sale of the artwork will be used to support health organisations and charities across the UK that enhance the care and treatment provided by the NHS. Christies will donate a significant portion of the Buyers Premium to these causes. On 6 May 2020, during the first wave of the global COVID-19 pandemic, a painting by Banksy appeared in University Hospital Southampton. Banksys gift to the hospital was always intended to be sold. Through Southampton Hospitals Charity, proceeds from the sale will be used to fund wellbeing projects for staff and patients, and distributed to a wider community of healthcare providers both within the NHS ... More | |
Rockola Rock-Ola 1937 World Series Baseball Arcade Game
SAN RAFAEL, CA.- A fully-working, 1937 Rockola Rock-Ola 1937 World Series Baseball Arcade Game took top lot honors in Fine Estate, Inc.s March 21 auction, soaring past expectations to sell for $34,375, more than three times expectations. The coin-op collector favorite, rarely seen at auction in near mint condition, was just one of the high-end lots of sports and Americana memorabilia to dominate the auctions nearly 300 lots. We were really pleased to see strong bids for a single-owner collection of Americana, including rare pinback buttons, said Martin Codina, owner of Fine Estate, Inc. High-end sports memorabilia performed especially well and we were delighted to bring these rarities to market for our clients. A crisply-signed Spalding King of the Diamond ball autographed by both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig a collectors dream acquisition sold for $17,500. The ball features steel tipped ... More | |
Easter lichen-moss automobile, 11in long with well-dressed bunny chauffeur and pretty duck passenger, both made of composition and dressed in cloth attire. Estimate $2,000-$3,000.
VINELAND, NJ.- Bertoia Auctions will introduce an exciting new hybrid model at this years Annual Spring Auction, combining an April 8 opening session of high-end toys and trains with an April 9 session devoted to more-affordable items in the style of Bertoias popular Basics sales. Bidders will be able to choose from more than 900 lots of outstanding mechanical banks, boxed tin toys, American trains, Marklin and other European boats and trains; holiday collectibles and more. The event will be held live at Bertoias gallery (limited attendance by reservation only), with all remote forms of bidding available, including absentee, by phone or live via the Internet through Bertoia Live or LiveAuctioneers. Cast-iron mechanical bank collectors will find excellent buying opportunities in this sale, including a J&E Stevens Girl Skippings ... More |
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| 'CASA' by Chloë Manasseh opens at Art Porters Gallery | | V&A announces Jameel Prize shortlist, with new thematic focus on contemporary design | | COOEE ART to open new flagship 480sqm hybrid gallery and auction space |
Cool Palm (Side 1) 2021. Oil on Canvas, Folding Screen. H180 x W122 cm. Unique.
SINGAPORE.- Be treated to a spectacular visual art experience as Singapore-based, British fine artist Chloë Manasseh explores her Sephardic roots in her solo exhibition, CASA. The exhibition reflects on how ones concept of home and identity shifts over time. CASA delves into Jewish folklore, featuring wall paintings, two-sided folding screens, a tile installation, and pots that will transport the viewer to an alternate Morocco-born from the artists vivid imagination. Folklore tales, much like memory or landscapes, are imprecise and subject to change. Manasseh is interested in the imprecision of memory and the process by which imagination can intrude on physical space, influencing how people establish a connection to it, reflecting on how we inhabit space through visual identity. Chloë Manasseh is a British Israeli artist, with familial roots in Morocco, Iraq, Portugal, Britain, Israel, India, and Singapore, etc. Her paternal ... More | |
Kallol Datta, Karate Gi, Volume 1 Issue 2, 2018. Photo: Keegan Crasto.
LONDON.- The V&A today announces the shortlist for the Jameel Prize, the worlds leading award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition. Eight finalists have been shortlisted from over 400 applications for the £25,000 prize: Golnar Adili, Hadeyeh Badri, Kallol Datta, Farah Fayyad, Ajlan Gharem, Sofia Karim, Jana Traboulsi, and Bushra Waqas Khan. The Jameel Prize is a collaboration between the V&A and Art Jameel, founded in 2009 and now in its sixth edition. This edition marks a new era for the Prize by introducing a thematic focus, with the 2021 iteration dedicated to contemporary design. Opening 18 September 2021 at the V&A before touring internationally, Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics will showcase work by the eight shortlisted designers from India, Iran, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the UK. Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics will be the first international exhibition to focus ... More | |
Gabori Sally, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda, 2010. Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen, 152 x 198.5 cm.
SYDNEY.- The newest gallery to emerge in Sydney is the COOEE ART gallery in a new expansive 480sqm warehouse premises on Thurlow Street, Redfern announced today. COOEE ART is Australias oldest exhibiting Aboriginal fine art gallery. Since it opened in 1981 in Bondi Beach (and later in 2015 in Paddington), COOEE ART has presented over 400 exhibitions showing the work of the finest Australian Aboriginal and Indigenous art and represented many of the movements most seminal artists in Australia and overseas. COOEE ART in Redfern will operate as its new flagship gallery and auction space (in addition to its Bondi Beach location) with a program of monthly exhibitions alongside public program workshops and artist talks. The hybrid space will host the COOEE ART MARKETPLACE auction program and house an extensive archive collection of works ... More |
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'Magna Carta' of football to go on display as National Football Museum plans 27 May reopening
MANCHESTER.- An ancient manuscript which details the very birth of football will go on display at the National Football Museum, with a planned reopening of 27 May 2021. The handwritten Laws of The Game from 1863 contain the very first laws of football the origins of the global sport played and watched by millions of fans today. It is the most significant book related to football. In a sense, the Magna Carta of the beautiful game. As the museum marks 20 years since it first opened, a bumper summer is planned with new exhibitions and marquee signings unveiled to the world in the opening weeks. The museum will have been shut for 11 months during three national lockdowns by the time it reopens in time for the May half-term break. A star-studded line-up of new objects and exhibitions includes: Without this book, the world would be without its most popular sport. The 1863 Minute Book ... More
Anne Geddes was the original baby-picture influencer
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Photographer Anne Geddes has had a long and prolific career, but she is perhaps best known for Down in the Garden, a 1996 coffee-table book featuring tiny babies adorably (or tweely, depending on your perspective) tucked into unlikely horticultural scenarios, as if theyre hiding by chance in someones flower bed. Perhaps youve seen these images online, or on a mug or greeting card or calendar: the sleeping newborns snuggling into tiny pea pods, as if they are so many peas themselves; the babies wearing mouse outfits and dozing in old boots; the babies-as-butterflies, hedgehogs, cabbages, gnomes, worms, bumblebees, flowers. There was a time when a new book by Geddes, 64, who has been called the worlds most famous baby photographer, could sell many millions of copies; at the height of her fame, she was interviewed ... More
Moulin Rouge counting the days until cancan returns
NEW YORK (AFP).- The feathers may be gathering dust, but a year into its longest shutdown in more than a century, at least the windmill is still turning atop the Moulin Rouge. "It would be too sad otherwise," said Jean-Victor Clerico, whose family runs the Parisian landmark. The sails are moving, but everything else has been frozen since the last cancan was performed on March 12, 2020 -- the longest break since the theatre was destroyed by fire in 1915. Clerico recalls the following day, phoning round 1,600 ticket-holders to tell them the show was cancelled: "It was unprecedented and painful, and we never could have imagined that the closure would last this long." He thought it would end in the autumn, then the spring. Now, with non-essential businesses ... More
Euphoric recall, new works by Marisa Takal, now open at Night Gallery in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Night Gallery is presenting Euphoric Recall, an exhibition of new works by Marisa Takalthe artists third exhibition at the gallery. Takals paintings and sculptures concern our idiosyncratic yet routine systems of organization, exploring how each of us make sense of our chaotic worlds, both internal and external. Using vivid colors overlaid with graphic flourishes and bold handmade stenciled texts, her paintings assemble varied motifs into collapsing patterns that brightly echo the repetition, exhaustion, and small triumphs of everyday life. Euphoric recall is a psychological term that describes our tendency to remember past experiences in a purely positive light, while omitting all negative associations. Takals Euphoric Recall is an investigation of the way we connect to ourselves, each other, and the systems we live in. Throughout the paintings, vignettes of Takals ... More
Racy secrets revealed in Brits' lockdown postcards
LONDON (AFP).- Luxuriant body hair, stashes of sex toys and taboo desires: hundreds in Britain have revealed their deepest lockdown secrets on postcards sent to a London stationery shop. During the latest UK lockdown, reimposed in January, Eleanor Tattersfield started giving out stamped blank postcards marked "Lockdown Secret" to customers of her family's shop in central London. She saw it as a way to fill a lull in business, but also a means for people to unburden themselves. "I thought, 'God, wouldn't that be brilliant in lockdown to have an outlet for this strange year'," she said. Hundreds of cards began flowing in and now cover a table in the small letterpress design shop, Marby & Elm, while more are carefully filed in boxes. Tattersfield added she "could not have anticipated that it would have taken off in this way" and is astonished at the efforts that have gone into the cards. ... More
Anthony Cudahy joins Hales
LONDON.- Hales announced representation of American artist Anthony Cudahy. The gallery will present a solo exhibition of Cudahys work in New York City in September 2021. Cudahys tender paintings reveal the nuanced complexities of life. In masterful compositions he creates a world for unspoken stories, intimate moments and romantic gesture. Personal and poetic, Cudahys figures coalesce with the atmosphere of their environments in fluid brushstrokes. For Cudahy, the archive becomes a site for imagining in the process of painting, scenes become less specific to time and place but hint more at the mythical or potential reality. References from art history ranging from Pompeii tiles, the Bayeux tapestry, Bruegel and Bosch find their way into his lexicon and visual shorthand. Cudahy intuitively combines motifs with personal imagery to create a complex compositional puzzle. ... More
Wines from the cellar of Joseph Lau Part II opens Sotheby's wine spring sale series in Hong Kong
HONG KONG.- Sothebys Wine will open the Hong Kong Spring 2021 Sales with Wines from the Cellar of Joseph Lau Part II on 16 April 2021. Following the 100%-sold white-glove success of Part I last season, the sale will present a second offering of the finest French wines from the remarkable collection of the famed entrepreneur and art collector. With a combined estimate of HK$24-34.5 million / US$3-4.5 million, the sale is the first in a three-day series of wine and spirits auctions series, totaling HK$65-95 Million / US$8.5-12Million. Patti Wong, Chairman of Sothebys Asia, said: We are honoured to share a further insight into the incredible cellar of Joseph Lau, a pioneering collector across the fields of art and luxury. With his enduring passion and discerning taste, Mr Lau has curated a monumental collection of the very finest producers and vintages. The sale is a great opportunity to look ... More
Picasso plate tops Bonhams Picassomania sale in London
LONDON.- Visage de faune, a 22-carat gold repoussé plate by Pablo Picasso, was the top lot at Bonhams new Picassomania sale in London today (23 March), achieving an impressive £312,750. The 100-lot sale, which celebrated Picassos expansive oeuvre and brought together works by the master himself, as well as photographs and ephemera, made a total of £1,292,523 with 75% sold by lot and 78% sold by value. Head of Sale, Lucia Tro Santafe, commented: We are delighted that Picassomania lived up to its name attracting such competitive bidding across all the categories on offer. The standout lot was undeniably Visage de Faune. A prototype for Picassos creations in gold produced in collaboration with François and Pierre Hugo, this piece was simply exceptional. In 1946 Pablo Picasso made his first visit to Vallauris in the South of France. It was there that he started to ... More
Norman Rockwell Museum opens new political cartoon exhibition
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- The Norman Rockwell Museum announces a new special collection gallery featuring the inclusive political cartoons of Pat Oliphant, now on view through May 31, 2021. A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, Oliphant was described in 1990 by the New York Times as the most influential editorial cartoonist of his time. Now 85 years of age, his career spans over 60 years. His finely-tuned drawings have cast a clear eye on global politics, culture, the economy, and scandals, and his caricatures of American presidents and other powerful leaders are world renowned. The Oliphant collection features more than three hundred artworks and an extensive archive focusing on four prominent aspects of the artists work humorous but hard-hitting editorial drawings from the Nixon and Clinton years as well as personal drawings, paintings, and large-scale sculptures inspired ... More
Hindman's Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection auction exceeds $435,000
CHICAGO, IL.- On March 19, Hindman Auctions saw outstanding results in its Literature From a Private New Orleans Collection sale. The auction realized over $435,000, more than double its presale estimate, and included competitive bidding throughout. The sale presented several of the most significant literary works of the 19th and 20th centuries, with strong offerings of both American and English literature. Works by Bram Stoker, John Steinbeck, Herman Melville, Ernest Hemingway, and Aldous Huxley all achieved outstanding prices. 99 percent of the lots offered were sold, and over 75 percent of items sold for prices within or exceeding their presale estimate range. We were delighted with the very strong results for this carefully-formed collection including fine copies of the high spots of modern literature, said Hindmans Director and Senior Specialist of Books & Manuscripts Gretchen ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Edward Weston was born March 24, 1886. Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 - January 1, 1958) was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers..." and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." In this image: Tina on the Azotea, with kimono, 1924. Edward Weston (American, 1886 -1958). Photograph, platinum or palladium print. The Lane Collection. Photograph courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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