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Leonard Stern at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan in Oct. 10, 2022. An inventive collaboration allows a privately assembled collection of 161 ancient works to be viewed by the public. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Colin Moynihan
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the worldâs most significant privately assembled collections of Cycladic antiquities will be going on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, part of a novel arrangement that includes an acknowledgment that it belongs to the Greek state. The collection, which was put together over some 40 years by businessperson and philanthropist Leonard N. Stern, consists of 161 mostly marble figures and vessels created thousands of years ago in the Cyclades, a group of islands off the coast of Greece in the Aegean Sea. As part of the arrangement, 15 of the most esteemed items accumulated by Stern will first be exhibited in early November at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece. These works and others from the collection will then occupy a prominent place in the Metâs Greek and Roman galleries for at least 10 years, beginning in early 2024. The plan that is bringing Sternâs collection to the Met was designed to win Greeceâs approval at a time when the country is aggressively pursuin ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Autumn and Art: Fine, Folk, Fun auction on Starts on: Oct 13, 2022 10:00 AM GMT-5. Artemis Gallery invites you to FALL in love with art! Since fall is the season of harvest, we have gathered a dazzling array of fine art, folk art, and fun visual delights from all of the world. 20th C. Haida Bone Smoking Pipe - Bear, Raven, Fox. Estimate $3,600 - $5,400.
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| An empress ahead of her time is having a pop culture moment | | Now live: Tara Donovan NFTs on Art Blocks | | Museums vote to allow the sale of art to care for collections |
Michaela Lindinger, a curator and author who has studied the Empress Elisabeth of Austria for more than two decades, with a 1882 portrait of the empress, at Hermesvilla, a Vienna palace, on Sept. 28, 2022. David Payr/The New York Times.
VIENNA.- The 19th-century Empress Elisabeth of Austria is everywhere in Vienna: on chocolate boxes, on bottles of rosé, on posters around the city. The Greek antiques she collected are at Hermesvilla, on the city outskirts; her hearse is at Schönbrunn Palace, the former summer residence of the Habsburg royal family; and her cocaine syringe and gym equipment are on display at the Hofburg, which was the monarchys central Vienna home. These traces paint an enticing, but incomplete, picture of an empress who receded from public life not long after entering it and spent most of her time traveling the world to avoid her own court. She had a tattoo on her shoulder, drank wine with breakfast and ... More | |
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NEW YORK, NY.- Tara Donovans first-ever NFT project, titled QWERTY, comprises 500 unique, generative works that meditate on the ways that type can function as a building block for creating pattern. Donovan, whose practice spans sculpture, installation, drawing, and printmaking, often explores the talismanic qualities of everyday materials and objects. The artists new NFT series is deeply engaged with her screen drawings, in which she moves, pinches, and cuts the wires of woven aluminum insect screen to extract patterns from existing grids, using a mathematical methodology to draw out the phenomenological potential of the material. Each NFT in Donovans QWERTY series depicts rhythmic, mesmeric arrangements of a single, repeating letter or symbol represented on computer keyboards. The 26 letters and 30 symbols that make up the layered, gridded compo ... More | |
The Brooklyn Museum in New York, July 28, 2019. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK, NY.- Members of the Association of Art Museum Directors have voted to allow U.S. institutions to sell their art to finance the cost of caring for works in their collections. The vote, announced Sept. 30, rolls back a long-held policy that prohibited museums from using the funds from sold works to pay their bills. The rule had been relaxed during the pandemic, allowing institutions a two-year window in which they could put those funds toward maintaining their collections while they dealt with financial upheaval and plunging attendance. Since then, museum leaders have been engaged in a sometimes heated debate over whether it is time to make permanent the loosening of that policy, and now a majority of voting members of the association ... More |
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| Phillips to offer Marc Chagall's "Le Père" in the New York Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art | | Newly acquired drawing by Paul Gauguin conceals the story of a unique woman | | Happy birthday to the man who stole the Mona Lisa and took it to Italy |
Marc Chagall, Le Père, 1911. Estimate: $6-8 Million. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 15 November, Phillips will offer Marc Chagalls Le Père in the New York Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art. Executed in 1911, during a transformative period in the artists career, the painting is among fifteen works of art that the French Government have restituted earlier this year part of an ongoing effort to return works in its museums that were wrongfully seized by the Nazi Party during World War II. A long-treasured part of the collection of David Cender, a musical instrument-maker from ŁÃ³dź, Poland, the work was taken from him in 1940 before he was sent to Auschwitz with his family. By 1966, it had been reacquired by Chagall himself, who held a particular affinity for the painting, as it portrays his beloved father. In 1988, the Musée national dart moderne, Centre national dart et de culture Georges-Pompidou in Paris received the painting by dation from Chagal ... More | |
Paul Gauguin, Sovende kvinde. Portræt af Madame Mette Sophie Gauguin, slut 1870erne, pastel og kul på papir. © Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
COPENHAGEN.- Meet Paul Gauguins wife, Mette Gauguin, as immortalised in Sleeping Woman a pastel and charcoal tribute by the artist. Demonstrating Gauguins association with Denmark, this newly acquired work also conceals the untold story of a progressive woman who is owed a great deal of credit for Gauguins success as an artist. From 11 October, visitors to the Glyptotek can see a new work by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). The museum has acquired a rare drawing for its Gauguin collection, described as one of the finest in the world. Sleeping Woman. Portrait of Madame Mette Sophie Gauguin (late 1870s) portrays Gauguins Danish wife Mette Gauguin (née Mette Sophie Gad) (1850-1920). The drawing dates from Gauguins early years, when his art was still an enjoyable diversion alongside his job as a stockbroker. In Paris, he, Mette and the children lived ... More | |
An archival photo of Vincenzo Peruggia, the man who stole the Mona Lisa from France and returned it to Italy in 1911. Wikimedia Commons via The New York Times.
by Sam Roberts
NEW YORK, NY.- Saturday was the anniversary of the birth and the death of the Italian painter who made perhaps the biggest art repatriation blunder in history. Vincenzo Peruggia, the man who stole the Mona Lisa from France and returned it to Italy, was born on Oct. 8, 1881 and died on Oct. 8, 1925. Though he was misguided as a historian and an umpire of provenance the painting had been clearly and cleanly purchased by the King of France, the country to which it was ultimately returned Peruggias caper is worth recalling at a time when repatriation remains a murky battleground. Each week, it seems, investigators announce new seizures of looted antiquities from museums and private collections. Countries of origin ... More |
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| 25 years after 'Sensation,' has London's art scene kept its cool? | | Art that rose through the cracks | | Rare exclusive Tiffany Lap-Over-Edge flatware service leads Bonhams Silver Sale |
The city is still capitalizing on the success of a landmark 1997 show that put it on the contemporary art map and launched the careers of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. Photo: Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net).
LONDON.- A monumental mural of a notorious child murderer painted with childrens hand prints. A tent embroidered with the names of all the lovers the artist had slept with. A 14-foot-long tiger shark embalmed in a tank of formaldehyde. Mannequins made to look like mutilated corpses tied to a tree. Britains exhibition-going public had never seen anything like it. This fall is the 25th anniversary of Sensation, the famously provocative exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London that alerted the world to the radically new kind of art being made by young graduates such as Angus Fairhurst, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Jake and Dinos Chapman. The 1997 exhibition showcased pieces owned by advertising mogul Charles Saatchi, Britains most voraciously acquisitive contemporary art collector at the time. It drew 300,000 visitors and set off a ... More | |
Kate Newby, We are such stuff, 2022. Blown glass, handmade rope, bronze, wire. Glass was fabricated at Caliente Hot Glass, TX. Dimensions variable.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the 1980s, newly arrived in Manhattan, in exile from her native Chile, artist Cecilia Vicuña found beauty in the crumbling buildings and waterfront, the broken sidewalks and vacant lots of TriBeCa, before it traded its grit for boutique galleries. She had paused to photograph the weeds and plant life growing between the cracks, sometimes embellishing them with thread or highlighting their geometries with chalk. These Sidewalk Forests (1981), as she called them, monumentalize the transitory, transforming what could be seen as brokenness or neglect into a vision of natures insistent reaching toward the sun. Life Between Buildings, organized by Jody Graf, assistant curator at MoMA PS1, connects the development of community gardens in New York in the 1970s to the work of artists, including Vicuña and Gordon Matta-Clark, who began using overlooked outdoor sites especially abandoned ... More | |
American silver and enamelled 108 piece 'Lap over Edge' flatware service made around 1891 by Tiffany & Co, New York. Estimate: £40,000-60,000.
LONDON.- A spectacular and very rare American silver and enamelled 108 piece 'Lap Over Edge' flatware service made around 1891 by Tiffany & Co. New York leads Bonhams two-day Silver and Objects of Vertu including Gold Boxes sale in London on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 October. It is estimated at £40,000-60,000. The Tiffany 'Lap Over Edge' service is so named because the rolled silver handle edges are turned towards the back, or sometimes towards the front, making the edges thicker than the middles. Every individual item fork, knife spoon, etc incorporated a different design giving a more random and unique appearance to the service as a whole. Each piece in the service offered for sale was hand-made to the clients precise specifications. It was, therefore, extremely costly to produce and although the identity of the client is unknown, he or she would have been very wealthy. Every piece was hand struck and hand ... More |
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| Speed reinstalls permanent collection to reflect community-driven curatorial approach | | Leonard Kriegel, 89, dies; Wrote unflinchingly about his disability | | Shahzia Sikander creating site-specific installation at Mad Sq Park and adjacent courthouse |
Reinstallation highlights recent acquisitions and thematic juxtapositions between new and revered works.
LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museum announced it is undergoing a major reinstallation project, marking the first comprehensive revision of the Museums permanent galleries since 2016. With plans to completely reimagine the presentation of the Speeds Contemporary, American, European, African, Native American, and Kentucky collections, the reinstallation typifies the community-driven approach central to the Speeds curation and programming, using art to spark meaningful conversations and reflection for visitors. In conjunction with these changes, the Speed is reinstating its hours to be open five days a week on Wednesday through Sunday beginning October 21,2022, and also reinvigorating beloved in-person programming like Museum ... More | |
He was known for his scholarly and popular writings about historical phenomena. But he was best known for writing about losing the use of his legs.
NEW YORK, NY.- Leonard Kriegel, an American memoirist and essayist whose work blazed with rage at the loss of the use of his legs to polio, died Sept. 25 in New York City. He was 89. The cause was heart failure, his son Mark said Tuesday. An academic and literary critic who taught for many years at the City College of New York, Kriegel was known for scholarly and popular writings that examined large historical phenomena (the struggles of the labor movement, the social construction of masculinity, the treatment of disabled people) at the level of the individual life often his own. When Kriegel seizes rhetorical authority, he can challenge readers in ways pundits cant, by remaining true to his own experiences, a critic for The Antioch Review wrote in 1999, reviewing his largely ... More | |
Shahzia Sikander.
NEW YORK, NY.- This winter, significant new works on the theme of justice by artist Shahzia Sikander will be featured in a major multimedia exhibition at Madison Square Park. Presented simultaneously in the park and at the adjacent Courthouse of the Appellate Division, First Department of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, the exhibition Havah to breathe, air, life features two new large-scale sculpturesone within the park that can be transformed through augmented reality and another atop the Courthouse rooftop, the first female figure to adorn one of its ten plinths. Additionally, a recent video animation by Sikander will be on view in the park, visually intertwining the distinct elements. The exhibition is a culmination of Sikanders exploration of female representation in monuments and marks her first major, site-specific outdoor exhibition in sculptural form. Havah to ... More |
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Dindga McCannon opens exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
LONDON.- Pippy Houldsworth Gallery announced representation of Philadelphia-based artist Dindga McCannon (b. 1947), and is also presenting her first European solo exhibition from 11 October to 12 November 2022. The gallery looks forward to co-representing the artist with Fridman Gallery, New York. McCannons practice explores multiple media including textiles, quilts, prints and sculpture, focusing on and celebrating the histories of Black women. Growing up in Harlem in the 1950s, McCannon started working in textiles, selling dashikis to fund her art making. As part of the burgeoning Harlem Renaissance movement she joined several activist groups in the early 1960s, leading her to join the pre-eminent Weusi Artist Collective, a group that supported and gave voice to African American artists, allowing them to express and exhibit their ... More
Douglas Kirkland, who took portraits of movie stars, dies at 88
NEW YORK, NY.- Douglas Kirkland, a noted photojournalist and portraitist whose subjects included Marilyn Monroe wrapped in a silk sheet and Coco Chanel at work in her Paris atelier, died Oct. 2 at his home in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. He was 88. Francoise (Kemmel-Coulter) Kirkland, his wife and manager, confirmed the death but did not specify a cause. For more than 60 years, Kirkland was a leading celebrity photographer, first for Look and Life magazines and then as a freelancer for various magazines, Hollywood studios and advertising agencies. Courteous and exuberant he was no annoying paparazzo Kirkland was welcomed into stars homes and hotel rooms and onto movie sets. The tall, dashing Kirkland had this magical quality, said Karen Mullarkey, who worked with Kirkland as director of photography at New York and Newsweek ... More
Can flashy music festivals go green?
NEW YORK, NY.- In Nashville, Tennessee, this past August, about 5,000 revelers in neon chaps, gothic chains and kaleidoscopic crop tops descended on Bicentennial Park for an electronic music festival. They gyrated to pulsating sets by British DJ Chris Lake and the electronic duo Snakehips. They watched choreographed light shows and got massages in a healers village. And when they raised their arms in the air, many of them flashed a green wristband, signifying a commitment to partying in a way that was carbon neutral. Billed as the greenest festival in the country, Deep Tropics had no trash cans (though there were plenty of recycling and compost bins), and single-use plastics were banned. Festival organizers said that all the carbon consumed for the two-day event (including the fuel used by all the festivalgoers) will be offset by the planting of some ... More
1882 $100 gold certificate brings $750,000, leads Heritage's Long Beach Currency Auction past $10.6 million
DALLAS, TX.- One of just two known examples of an extraordinary hand-signed, triple signature 1882 $100 gold certificate lived up to its billing and then some when it sold for $750,000 to lead Heritage Auctions Long Beach Expo US Currency Signature® Auction - Long Beach to $10,682,198 Oct. 5-7. The event was part of an extraordinary week of Heritage Long Beach Expo auctions. The Harry W. Bass Jr. Core Collection Part I US Coins Signature® Auction reached $20,459,645, then the Long Beach Expo US Currency Signature® Auction - Long Beach brought $10,682,198. Last but not least, the second Long Beach Expo US Coins Signature® Auction finished at $17,875,326 boosting the three events to $49,017,169, setting a new all-time record for any Long Beach Expo numismatic auction total. The only privately-owned example of this exceptional ... More
"Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Art and Life in Modern Mexico" opens at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
AUCKLAND.- Through more than 150 artworks, including Fridas self-portraits and Diegos paintings of Mexican life, the exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki reveals how the artists played a crucial role in defining a new art following the Mexican Revolution. Taking in Frida and Diegos wider social and artistic circles, the exhibition includes the work of muralists David Siqueiros, Rufino Tamaro and MarÃa Izquierdo, whose star rivalled Fridas own during their lifetimes. A large collection of photography on display reveals mid-century Mexican life through the lenses of Lola Ãlvarez Bravo, Manuel Ãlvarez Bravo and Nickolas Muray. Gain a deeper appreciation of cultural icon Frida Kahlo and see her original paintings in Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Art and Life in Modern Mexico, opening this Saturday the 15th, and which will continue on through ... More
Pierneef paintings directly from artist's family make market debut at African Art Sale
LONDON.- An exciting collection of paintings by Jacob Hendrik Pierneef (South African, 1886-1957), offered directly from the artists family, will see the market for the first time at Bonhams Modern & Contemporary African Art sale. The landscape, culture and history of South Africa has remained a rich source of inspiration to its artists, none more so than Pierneef, who will take centre stage at Bonhams Modern & Contemporary African Art sale in New Bond Street, London, on Wednesday 19 October. The 102-lot sale will showcase the talent that has emerged from continent of Africa over the last century. Further contributing to a strong selection of South African art are works by Irma Stern, Vladimir Griegorovich Tretchikoff, Gerard Sekoto and Dylan Lewis. Giles Peppiatt, Bonhams Group Head, Fine Art, U.K, commented, Pierneef is undoubtedly South ... More
With fanfare, ribbon-cutting and jazz, the new Geffen Hall opens
NEW YORK, NY.- After years of missteps and false starts, David Geffen Hall, the Lincoln Center home of the New York Philharmonic, finally reopened Saturday after a $550 million renovation designed to fix long-standing acoustic woes and to create a world-class hall that could entice new generations of concertgoers. It was a festive occasion, with speeches by cultural leaders and elected officials, a ribbon-cutting ceremony and the premiere of San Juan Hill, a multimedia work by jazz trumpeter and composer Etienne Charles. The revamped hall sparkled as visitors inspected its beechwood walls, richly upholstered seats and hanging lights meant to evoke fireflies. The early reviews were largely positive, with musicians and members of the public praising the halls appearance and, more crucially, its sound. Heres a look at the day ... More
Ladbroke Hall: New arts stage for London celebrating creative freedom announced
LONDON.- Ladbroke Hall in Notting Hill will present a new stage on which to experience creative expression in its many forms: contemporary art, collectible design, culture, dining and music. The reimagined 43,000 square foot space will be a meeting place celebrating creative freedom. Connecting to the renewed cultural vitality in the area, Ladbroke Hall will open to the public, friends, patrons and collaborators in spring 2023. Ladbroke Hall is steered by Loïc Le Gaillard and Julien Lombrail, founders of Carpenters Workshop Gallery, the global leading gallery in collectible design and functional art whose London gallery space will now be based in Ladbroke Hall with its other galleries in Paris, New York and Los Angeles. Childhood friends, Le Gaillard and Lombrail, have called on several of their closest collaborators to help them realise their vision for Ladbroke Hall, featuring: ... More
The Brant Foundation presents (Female Figure) by Jordan Wolfson in new immersive installation
NEW YORK, NY.- The Brant Foundation is presenting Jordan Wolfsons (Female Figure), 2014, at its East Village location. Last exhibited in New York City in 2014, this technologically complex sculpture now on view at the Foundations historic building since October 11th, is housed in a new artwork-specific room. Wolfson is well known for his powerful and unsettling artworks that examine the conditions of contemporary life. Pulling from a variety of sources, including advertising, the internet, and technology industries, the artist explores difficult and ambitious narratives. The questions he interrogates are numerous: How is information and imagery understood? What is the role of fetishization in art? How does technology infiltrate our perception of the world? These queries are decidedly left unanswered by the artist; Wolfsons animated figures speak for themselves. ... More
Clarke Auction Gallery will offer two-day auction October 29-30
LARCHMONT, NY.- Clarke Auction Gallery is leaping into the fall season with an unprecedented two-day auction October 29-30; sessions start at 12 pm daily, featuring a highly curated selection of A-list art, jewelry, silver and decorative objects. Make no mistake though, while this sale is far-ranging, art collectors will want to take notice as nearly half the lots in the first day alone are artworks. The selection of fine art in this auction that came from an important New York City gallerists estate was so good and large that we decided to expand to a two-day auction format, said owner and auctioneer Ronan Clarke. We are also excited by some very choice examples of diamond jewelry, Rolex watches, and statement pieces for the home. Latin American art has been growing by leaps and bounds as a highly sought after segment in the art world and ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American architect Richard Meier was born October 12, 1934. Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American architect, whose rationalist buildings make prominent use of the color white. In this image: Architect Richard Meier speaks as he was honored at the Ellis Island Family Heritage Awards on Ellis Island on Thursday, April 19, 2012.
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