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Landscape with Figures and Cottages by Jacob Isaackz van Ruisdael (circa 1628-1682), estimated at $150,000 250,000. Photo: Bonhams.
BOSTON, MASS.- In November, Bonhams Skinner will offer exceptional material from the Fine Art department as well as Native American & Tribal Art. Leading off the month is Modern & Contemporary Art featuring an oil work, Le bouquet champêtre, by French-Vietnamese painter Le Pho and European Art highlighted by a landscape from Dutch painter Jacob Isaackz van Ruisdael titled Landscape with Figures and Cottages. Native American and Tribal Art will then present several notable collections including a large selection of material from the renowned collection of Roy H. Robinson. Modern & Contemporary Art on November 1 will feature the works of 20th and 21st century artists from around the world including Le bouquet champêtre, an oil work, by French-Vietnamese painter Le Pho (1907-2001), estimated at $40,000 60,000. Pho is best known for his idyllic domestic scenes pulled from his childhood in Hanoi with particular focus on flora and elegant women. A ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day MACRO presents ...E Prini, the most extensive exhibition ever dedicated to the work of Emilio Prini (Stresa, 1943 - Rome, 2016). Comprising over 250 works, the exhibition project, realized in collaboration with the Archivio Emilio Prini, is conceived according to a chronological path which spans fifty years, from 1966 to 2016.
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| Now showing, an ancient spell book for the dead | | Pop culture rarities line up for their stellar auction debuts at Hake's Nov. 14-15 auction | | At New York's 'Friends' Museum, mourning Matthew Perry |
A statue of the god Anubis, the jackal-headed guide to the underworld. (Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago via The New York Times).
NEW YORK, NY.- In the mid-19th century, British antiquarian Sir Thomas Phillipps announced his intention of owning one copy of every book in the world. A professed vello-maniac, Phillipps, a quarrelsome baronet, bought manuscripts indiscriminately from booksellers with whom he engaged in ceaseless battle. Soon there was hardly room in his moldering Cotswolds mansion for his second wife, Elizabeth, who eventually moved to a boardinghouse in Torquay, an English working-class seaside resort. By the time Phillipps died in 1872, he had amassed a collection of 60,000 documents and 50,000 printed books. His descendants auctioned off his private library bit by bit, and by the late 1970s his collection of 19 ancient funerary scroll fragments each a part of what is today collectively known as the Egyptian Book of the Dead was acquired by New York book dealer Hans P. Kraus. Together with his wife, Hanni, Kraus donated the lot ... More | |
Mego Iron Man action figure from Worlds Greatest Super Heroes line, copyright 1975 Marvel Comic Group. Intact blister card. AFA-graded 75 Ex+/NM. Only graded example in AFA Population Report. Estimate: $10,000-$20,000.
YORK, PA.- Two things have proved to be true with each successive pop culture auction hosted by Hakes: bidder engagement has increased over the previous sale, and collectibles once thought to have been apocryphal have surfaced to prove that they do, indeed, exist. All indications point to that trend continuing at Hakes November 14-15 auction, which is packed with the elusive memorabilia todays collectors desire but rarely see in the marketplace. Perennially a strong category for Hakes, political memorabilia will open the 1,909-lot sale, starting with an item of great historical importance. Lot #1 is a March 31, 1968 church program book from Washington Cathedral, signed by the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr, who delivered his last Sunday sermon at that service. Four days later, Dr King lost his life to an assassins bullet. The autograph was obtained by a then-18-year-old college student who went ... More | |
Costumes displayed at Friends the Experience in New York on Oct. 29, 2023. The day after Matthew Perrys death, fans paid tribute at a storefront re-creation of the sitcoms famous sets. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
by Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK, NY.- Every night, Marnie Stein, an elementary school principal from Montreal, falls asleep to the lullaby of Friends streaming on her TV. At school, the decorations in the teachers lounge reference Central Perk, the Manhattan coffee shop where the shows main characters held court. All we do is quote Friends, Stein said of her and her colleagues. So, on Sunday afternoon, while on a trip to New York City with her daughter and best friend, Stein took a pilgrimage to a storefront at East 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue, where sets from the long-running sitcom have been re-created for fans in a two-floor tourist magnet that is part museum, part photo opportunity. After the news Saturday night that Matthew Perry, one of the shows lead actors, had died suddenly at his home in Los Angeles, the trip to the Friends Experience ... More |
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| Mexican-American artist Abel Alejandre presents exhibition 'The Chicano Moon Landing of 1968' | | Sikkema Jenkins & Co. announces representation of Teresa Lanceta | | First ever exhibition of works by French writer George Sand to be presented at Jill Newhouse Gallery |
Abel Alejandre, Astronaut I, 2023. Acrylic painting, 12H x 12W.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- LAUNCH Gallery is presenting The Chicano Moon Landing of 1968, featuring new paintings by celebrated Mexican-American artist Abel Alejandre. In this new series, Abel delves into themes such as conventional masculinity, valor, patriarchy, the connection to one's surroundings, and the capacity to gaze ahead with purpose and assurance. Born in Mexico and raised in Southern California, Abel draws upon his immigrant experience as he reflects on a bygone era and an uncharted timeline. Art making serves as a vehicle and medium for him, allowing exploration of his past while interpreting the dynamics of contemporary American society and his role within it. This current series of paintings introduces us to Xicanoland. This majestic place and its alternative history honors real and imagined ancestors in a society that acknowledges past miss-steps while embracing hope for a better future. This personal story ... More | |
Portrait of Teresa Lanceta. Courtesy of MACBA and the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. announced the representation of the Spanish artist Teresa Lanceta. Over her five-decades long career, Teresa Lanceta has expanded the art of textile beyond practical enactments of materiality and towards a mode of epistemological inquiry. The patterns and compositions seen across her work are intrinsically founded upon the physical structure of the woven, sewn, and fiber form and the idea of technique as a universal code. As in her weavings, the repetitive interlocking of weft and warp constitutes the fundamental open source of language, generating unique, unscripted conversations of thread and color with each successive weave. Lancetas methodology emerges from a deeply reciprocal engagement of artistic traditions and sustained dialogues across geographies, cultures, and socioeconomic environments; most significantly, her time living in the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona and her tra ... More | |
George Sand, Imaginary Ruins. Watercolor on paper, 4 15/16 x 5 1/8 inches. (detail)
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the very few successful female writers of the 19th century, George Sand is best known as a novelist and playwright, a true equal of her male contemporaries Balzac, Flaubert, and Victor Hugo. Sand published more than 70 novels and 30 plays in her lifetime, as well as being a regularly published journalist. Less well known about George Sand is that she was also a brilliant and innovative visual artist working primarily on paper; and although her oeuvre is well known in Europe, it has never been shown in the United States. The watercolors shown here will confirm Sands reputation as a painter, while telling the story of the life of a female author and artist in 19th century France. George Sand (1804-1876) was born Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin in France in 1804, the daughter of a working class mother and a father of aristocratic descent. As a child, Amandine spent a good deal of time in Paris, but was raised primarily by ... More |
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| UK's best new building - John Morden Centre wins RIBA Stirling Prize 2023 | | MACRO presents the most extensive exhibition ever dedicated to Emilio Prini | | Tracing treasures of ancient Rome to a village that looted its own heritage |
John Morden Centre. Photo: Jim Stephenson.
LONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects has named the John Morden Centre - a retirement day centre in London - by Mæ as the winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2023, sponsored by Autodesk. Presented since 1996, the prestigious prize is awarded to the UKs best new building. The John Morden Centre provides day care for residents of Morden College, a retirement community, in Blackheath. The new centre complements existing buildings on the Grade I-listed college grounds, including an almshouse and chapel, both attributed to St Paul's Cathedral architect Sir Christopher Wren. The building is arranged as a series of red brick pavilions housing care and social spaces, stitched together by a central timber cloister. A striking, zinc-clad roof and high chimneys echo those of its 17th century neighbours. A light and airy reception hall is the starting point for a journey through the new building which foll ... More | |
Photographic documentation of the intervention carried out for the exhibition Op losse schroeven: Situaties en Cryptostructuren, Amsterdam, 1969.
ROME.- MACRO presents E Prini, the most extensive exhibition ever dedicated to the work of Emilio Prini (Stresa, 1943 Rome, 2016). Comprising over 250 works, the exhibition project, realized in collaboration with the Archivio Emilio Prini, is conceived according to a chronological path which spans fifty years, from 1966 to 2016. The retrospective is fruit of an extensive research involving institutional and private collections, both Italian and international, to reconstruct the work of one of Italys most complex and enigmatic artistic figures from the recent past, whose work has not been fully surveyed to this day. Prini emerges in 1967 following an invitation from Germano Celant to participate in the exhibition Arte poveraIm Spazio at Galleria La Bertesca, which sanctioned the birth of the Arte Povera movement. He thus ... More | |
A damaged head of the Roman emperor Caracalla that was seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to be returned to Turkey. (via Manhattan District Attorneys Office via The New York Times)
by Graham Bowley and Tom Mashberg
NEW YORK, NY.- One towering ancient bronze was found last year in the Sutton Place apartment of a notable New York philanthropist. Another this year in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A third bronze, the head of a young Roman boy, was seized from Fordham University in March. Each of these ancient artifacts, and a half-dozen more like them, are believed to have once graced an elaborate shrine in a region that is now part of Turkey. Erected by locals to honor the Roman Empire at a time when it ruled that part of the world, the shrine in the ancient city of Bubon featured a pantheon of emperors, experts say. So, Lucius Verus, its thought, stood next to Marcus Aurelius, his adoptive brother ... More |
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| Galerie Urs Meile Zürich presents artworks by Marion Baruch | | 'Playing with Pattern' by Maeda Masahiro to open at Joan B. Mirviss LTD | | Solo exhibition of new work by French-German painter Pierre Knop opens at Yossi Milo |
Exhibition View, Marion Baruch, Galerie Urs Meile Zürich, Switzerland, October 20 - November 25, 2023, photo by Bruno Augsburger.
ZURICH.- After a series of exhibitions abroad, Galerie Urs Meile offeres a glimpse into the extensive oeuvre of Romanian artist Marion Baruch at its Zurich location. Born in 1929 in the Romanian town of Timișoara, Baruch went through numerous changes of residence over the years, from Israel to Italy, England, and France, until she finally settled in Gallarate, an Italian town in close proximity to the fashion capital of Milan. Social and cultural influences of her various habitats, as well as her deep involvement with different languages Marion Baruch speaks Romanian, Hungarian, German, French, English Italian and Iwrit the language of Israel are reflected in her work. Baruchs extensive body of work has undergone dramatic stylistic shifts; from expressive painting to printmaking; from large metal sculptures to her groundbreaking performative works Contenitore-Ambiente and Abito-Contenitore (translated as ambient container and clothing container ... More | |
Maeda Masahiro, Large bowl with cacti design inside and outside and two owls in center, 1995. Glazed porcelain, gold and silver overglazes 3 5/8 x 11 x 11 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Avidly collected in Japan for decades, Maeda Masahiro's painterly ceramics will be presented in an artist-curated retrospective show this fall at Joan B Mirviss LTD. This long overdue exhibition brings together major works from each stage of his career. When viewed altogether, a picture of a singular artist emerges. Though his style has undergone transformations over the years, Maeda's artistry is rooted in a unique layering of decorations, often utilizing a remarkable range of colors and motifs that are accentuated in gold and silver. Working steadily for over fifty years, Maeda is renowned for his skills in iro-e, an overglaze enamel technique that traces its roots to the vibrant Japanese polychrome porcelain ware of the seventeenth century. By combining his technical expertise with exuberant patterning, Maeda Masahiro is a modern master committed to enlivening tradition while occasionally ... More | |
Pierre Knop (French-German, b. 1982), Big Wave, 2023. Ink, Acrylic, Oil and Oil Pastels on Canvas, 66 15/16" x 66 15/16" (170 x 170 cm), (PK.24121).
NEW YORK, NY.- Yossi Milo is pleased to announce Idylle und Verderben, a solo exhibition of new work by French-German painter Pierre Knop. Opening on Thursday, October 26 and on view through Saturday, November 25, the artists second exhibition at the gallery will feature new paintings of dreamy seaside landscapes and whimsical boxing matches from eras past. Guided by his painterly intuition, Knop spins painted tales of enchanted realms filled with surreal bodies, otherworldly forms, and spellbinding color. The artist gives way to the pull of his various mediumsallowing his hand to lead him as he coaxes compositions from his subconscious. Much of Knops imagery comes from the recent histories of his native countries, Germany and France, and the decades of turbulence and shifting paradigms that came to define them. Inspired by the impressionists and expressionists that emerged during the nineteenth and twentieth ... More |
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Berkshire Museum displays its most unique pieces in 'One-of-a-Kind Wonders'
PITTSFIELD, MA.- Berkshire Museum is conducting the exhibition, One-of-a-Kind Wonders, featuring a captivating collection of extraordinary artifacts that have remained hidden within the museum's archives. On display since October 28, 2023, through January 7, 2024. An opening preview event was held on Friday, October 27 offering the first look at the One-of-a-Kind Wonders exhibition, followed by a screening of Brian De Palmas 1974 cult film, Phantom of the Paradise, starring (Berkshire Museum's Festival of Trees opening celebration guest), Paul Williams. Chief Curator, Jesse Kowalski, notes, Our staff have identified many unusual objects within the vaults of the Berkshire Museum. Included within the exhibition are numerous items that have unbelievable stories, bizarre origins, and are unique to the Berkshire Museum. This exhibition should be a delight for children of all ages. ... More
'Watercolour Country: 100 works from Hermannsburg' from the Hermannsburg school now on view
VICTORIA.- Celebrating the indelible legacy and lasting importance of the Hermannsburg school of watercolourists, Watercolour Country: 100 works from Hermannsburg brings together the NGVs significant holdings from this pivotal school of Australian art, including 77 never-before displayed works generously gifted to the NGV. The exhibition features both historical and contemporary works by more than forty Arrernte, Western Arrernte and Kemarre/Loritja artists working at Hermannsburg from the 1930s to the present day, including Albert Namatjira, his sons Enos, Ewald, Gabriel and Oscar Namatjira, as well as significant figures from key artistic families, such as the Inkamala, Pareroultja, and Raberaba families. Displaying familial generations together, the exhibition traces the artistic lineage of the families of artists living in and around ... More
Serena Bocchino's 'Lyrical Roar' now on view at Ivy Brown Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Lyrical Roar is an exhibition of works by Serena Bocchino, whose process of organic morphing, where one medium seamlessly transitions into another. Bocchino encompasses various dimensions, including the intellectual, emotional, spiritual, physical, and aesthetic aspects in her work that includes paintings, mixed media and sculpture. Jazz music plays an inspirational role in Serenas work. Its complex styles and intricate, propulsive rhythms have a direct result on the lines and shapes Bocchino creates. Intellectually her exploration allows you to examine and question the concepts and ideas that underpin her work. Emotionally, she taps into the depths of your feelings and translates them into visual expressions, evoking specific responses from the viewer. Spiritually, her artistic practice becomes a means of connecting with ... More
National Women's History Museum opens 'DENDROFEMONOLOGY: A Feminist History Tree Ring'
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Womens History Museum, an innovative museum dedicated to uncovering, interpreting, and celebrating womens diverse contributions to society, and artist and activist Tiffany Shlain are pleased to announce DENDROFEMONOLOGY: A Feminist History Tree Ring, will be installed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. from November 1 4, 2023. DENDROFEMONOLOGY is a reclaimed deodar cedar wood sculpture that offers a timeline of humanity through an intersectional feminist lens, mapped against the concept of trees bearing witness to humanity and history as a new kind of monument for the 21st century. The installation aims to inspire, engage, and galvanize people ahead of the 2023 elections. With more than 93,000 races on the ballot this November that could affect ... More
Saatchi Yates presents Elena Garrigolas first debut at the gallery
LONDON.- Today, Saatchi Yates will present a debut solo exhibition by Spanish artist Elena Garrigolas. The presentation will include 17 new works depicting an eclectic array of visceral and bewildering imagery. Taking inspiration from dreamscapes, internet culture, and personal experience, Garrigolas twists banal scenes into outlandish and confronting self-portraits. Growing up in a religious family and attending Catholic school, Garrigolas was encouraged to suppress her feelings and ignore the physical embodiment of her being. In retaliation to this upbringing, Garrigolas practice confronts traumatic experiences and personal vulnerabilities. Her surrealist subjects include anthropomorphic characters that explore themes around motherhood, ageing and beauty. Inspired by a historical trajectory of feminist artists such as Frida ... More
'The Art Show Ann Agee' a solo booth of new works by Ann Agee
NEW YORK, NY.- For ADAA: The Art Show, P·P·O·W is pleased to present a solo installation of new sculptures by pioneering ceramicist Ann Agee. Through cleverly executed, experimental techniques, Agee imbues historical motifs with an idiosyncratic style to obscure the distinction between devotional and industrial objects. This presentation showcases the latest works from her ongoing and widely celebrated series Madonnas of the Girl Child, which was first presented at P·P·O·W in 2021. Honing and developing her Madonnas over the course of the last five years, Agee has expanded the series in both number and scale, invoking a new sense of monumentality and projecting power and strength. Together, Agees sculptures form a landscape of color, pattern, and technique, showcasing her mastery of the medium and her ongoing interest ... More
In the early days of lockdown, a writer considers a perplexing age
NEW YORK, NY.- Animals and uncomfortable topics: Count on these in a Sigrid Nunez novel. Her slim, discursive, minor yet charming new one, The Vulnerables, is no exception. The animal is a parrot, a sociable macaw named Eureka. The narrator, an unnamed writer, moves into a friends apartment in Manhattan to care for Eureka when his owner gets stuck on the West Coast. Its the spring of 2020 and America is in COVID lockdown. The bird needs company. Macaws have egos. They can go mad, like the rest of us, if neglected for too long. The apartment, a condo near Madison Square Park, is luxury squared. It is described as the collision of great imagination, great taste and a whole lot of money. The owners also have a place upstate, and a third in (obviously) Marfa, Texas. If there is one thing COVID taught us, Nunez writes, its that more people than we thought have places upstate. The Vulnerables is Nunezs ... More
'I Can Get It for You Wholesale' review: Rag trade revival, recut for today
NEW YORK, NY.- What a shame that the 1962 musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale, a critique of vulture capitalism disguised as a rag trade comedy, is now best known as the Broadway show that gave Barbra Streisand her start at 19. No matter how good she was and the recording of her big number, Miss Marmelstein, overflows with stupendous, youthful invention hers was only a small, comic role in a much darker story by novelist Jerome Weidman; her song a bauble in a fascinating and multifaceted score by Harold Rome. A clash of styles probably contributed to the shows meh run. In Weidmans novel, the main character, a garment industry climber named Harry Bogen, is an impenitent snake, a moral bottom feeder who knows no bottom. (On his way up, he breaks a strike, lies to his mother, dupes his pals, two-times his girlfriend ... More
Keith Giffen, comic book maverick for DC and Marvel, dies at 70
NEW YORK, NY.- Keith Giffen, a celebrated comic book artist and writer who began his career when comics were still on the fringes of popular culture, in the 1970s, but who rode the superhero wave toward the mainstream with DC Comics Justice League and Marvels Guardians of the Galaxy, popular franchises that became Hollywood films, died Oct. 9 in Tampa, Florida. He was 70. His daughter, Melinda Giffen Frater, said his death, in a hospital, was caused by a stroke. Giffen brought new energy, imaginative artistic styles and sly wit to Marvel characters like the Silver Surfer, Nova and Thanos, as well as to DC institutions like Aquaman and the Flash. In the 1980s, he collaborated with writer J.M. DeMatteis and artist Kevin Maguire on offering a fresh take on DCs Justice League, subverting the traditional superhero melodrama with a heavy ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and educator William Merritt Chase was born November 01, 1849. William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 - October 25, 1916) was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons The New School for Design. In this image: William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1916), The Young Orphan (An Idle Moment) by 1884. Oil on canvas. National Academy Museum, New York. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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