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Mose Tolliver, Untitled, c. 1995, mixed media on wood, 32 x 24 (81.28 x 60.96 cm), Palm Springs Museum of Art, Gift of Gordon W. Bailey.
PALM SPRINGS, CALIF.- Palm Springs Art Museum announced today a gift of seventeen artworks from Los Angeles-based, advocate, scholar, and collector Gordon W. Bailey. The gift marks Bailey's first to the museum and includes a number of works created by African American artists who lack formal training, representing a milestone in the museum's commitment to diversifying its collection. A highlight of the gift is a painting of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary on aluminum by Sam Doyle, an artist whose works have influenced several contemporary ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation View, Kiki Kogelnik: The Dance, May 23 - Aug 3, 2024, London © Kiki Kogelnik Foundation, courtesy Pace Gallery. Photo: Robert Glowacki, courtesy Pace Gallery.
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| In Plain Sight exhibition opens at Halcyon Gallery | | After hack, Christie's gives details of compromised client data | | The unknown Ray Johnson takes the spotlight |
This show explores how a diverse range of artists respond to the everyday, transforming the mundane into the miraculous.
LONDON.- In Plain Sight is on view at Halcyon Gallery's flagship at 148 New Bond Street until July 7, presenting artwork by six artists with a bright, fresh aesthetic and an air of joie de vivre. Their work displays diverse stylistic and technical approaches, from David Hockneys vivid tulips created on an iPad to Bob Dylans energetic portrayal of sunflowers in watercolour and Dominic Harriss digital ... More | |
Its disclosure came after RansomHub claimed responsibility for the cyberattack and threatened to release client data on the dark web. (via Christie's via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Auction house Christies said Thursday that it had alerted the FBI and the British police about the cyberattack that hobbled its website earlier this month, and began telling clients what types of personal data had been compromised. The company said in an email to clients that neither their financial data nor any information ... More | |
Ray Johnson, With Two Antacid Ingredients, c.1953-59. Collage of cut printed and painted paper with tempera and gouache, on colored cardboard, mounted on board, 14 1/4 x 10 in. Ray Johnson Estate, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1949, a young American artist named Ray Johnson left Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina, moved to New York City and began to explore his prolix talents, both visual and verbal. By the mid-1960s, Johnson (1927-95) had established himself in the downtown avant-garde as a multitasking ... More |
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| Ordovas opens exhibition of 132 drawings by the Colombian artist José Antonio Suárez Londoño | | The ancient art of calligraphy is having a revival | | Pioneering artist Kiki Kogelnik's first solo presentation in London opens at Pace |
Installation view.
LONDON.- Ordovas presents an exhibition of 132 drawings by the celebrated Colombian artist and master draftsman José Antonio Suárez Londoño. One Year: 52 envelopes, 132 drawings represents the creative output of his daily drawing practice in 2014, a year in which the artist dedicated each week to a specific theme or subject. This is the second major exhibition of Londoños work to be held at Ordovas following his inaugural European retrospective at the gallery ... More | |
Calligraphy, a centuries-old art form, is seeing a surge of interest, including among young people more familiar with coding than cursive. Image generated by ChatGPT.
NEW YORK, NY.- For the first time in many years, a teacher was correcting my handwriting. Go more slowly, Laura Edralin, a calligraphy teacher in London, told me, as she walked around a table of beginners on a recent Wednesday night, explaining how to achieve even, flowing strokes. As a breaking news reporter for The New York ... More | |
Kiki Kogelnik, Untitled (Hanging), c. 1970. Sheet vinyl with chromed steel hanger, 63" à 19-3/4" à 1-5/8" (160 cm à 50.2 cm à 4.1 cm). © Kiki Kogelnik Foundation. All rights reserved.
LONDON.- Pace is presenting Kiki Kogelnik: The Dance, the first solo presentation of the pioneering artists work in London, running from May 24 to August 3. This exhibition, whose title draws inspiration from the allegorical Danse Macabre, or the Dance with Death, includes works across various mediums that are emblematic of Kogelniks ... More |
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| I was a nude model for a half hour. Revelatory? Actually, yes. | | A crowning achievement in a neighborhood's fight against air pollution | | Holabird will hold a huge four-day American History & Hall of Fame Showcase auction |
A handout photo shows Sculpture Tactile, part of Yves Klein and the Tangible World at the Manhattan gallery Lévy Gorvy Dayan. (Tom Powel/Lévy Gorvy Dayan via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Before last week, I had never interviewed someone who had seen me naked. That changed when I went to an art fair in Gowanus, Brooklyn, that invites New Yorkers to Get Nude, Get Drawn. In front of seven artists, I laid my bare thighs on the floor and posed for these strangers. The next day I interviewed two of them. The reverse was also true: Never before had ... More | |
Jordan Webers New Forest, Ancient Thrones, in East Canfield Village in Detroit, May 17, 2024. Webers New Forest, Ancient Thrones takes the form of crowns worn by two African queens. (Sylvia Jarrus/The New York Times)
DETROIT, MI.- The East Canfield Village neighborhood of Detroit is not the most likely place to encounter a monumental sculpture of an African crown glittering with gold lowrider paint and soaring high into the trees. Yet this queenly structure, designed by land artist and activist Jordan Weber, is fitting for one of the citys most disadvantaged ... More | |
Rare carte de visite of John Wilkes Booth, signed and inscribed by him circa 1859 on the reverse: J. Wilkes Booth to James W. McDerman, a hotel manager (est. $5,000-$10,000).
RENO, NEV.- Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC will greet the warm weather with a little heat of their own, in the form of a huge, four-day American History & Hall of Fame Showcase auction, June 6th thru 9th, online and live in the gallery located at 3555 Airway Drive in Reno, starting each day at 8 am Pacific time. A staggering 2,335 lots will come up for bid. This auction boasts ... More |
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| First-production copy of 'Super Mario World' leads Heritage's $2.14 million Video Games Auction | | Crescent City Auction Gallery to offer quality property from local and regional estates | | How a self-published book broke 'all the rules' and became a bestseller |
Super Mario World - Wata 9.4 A Sealed [4 Line Warranty, First Production], SNES Nintendo 1991 USA.
DALLAS, TX.- Over the past weekend, Heritage once again claimed its leading position in the category of Video Games when it sold all 314 lots in its May 24 - 25 Video Games Signature ® Auction totaling $2,143,969. Among the top lots were pristine copies of Super Mario World, Mega Man, Castlevania and first-production copies of Japans originating debut ... More | |
This mid-20th century set of six Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen swan chairs is expected to change hands for $3,000-$5,000.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- A three-piece Arts and Crafts sterling silver tea service, an oil painting by British artist Alfred Fontvill De Breanski (1877-1957), a set of six Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen swan chairs and a selection of antique and vintage weapons are part of Crescent City Auction Gallerys Important Estates Auction ... More | |
Keila Shaheen in Austin, Texas, on May 2, 2024. (Eli Durst/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Over the summer, a book changed Kohn Glays life. A TikTok ad had steered him to The Shadow Work Journal, a slim workbook that directs readers to explore hidden parts of their unconscious their shadow selves, in the books vernacular. He ordered a copy and soon was back on TikTok, fervently recommending it to his followers. If youre on your spiritual ... More |
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The world needs an action hero. Enter Twyla Tharp (and Camus).NEW YORK, NY.- Last year, Twyla Tharp immersed herself in the work of French writer and philosopher Albert Camus, namely The Plague. World events were on her mind, and his 1947 novel about a pandemic in Algeria struck a chord. In her new full-length work, an outdoor dance-and-musical hybrid, How Long Blues, named after a Leroy Carr song, Tharp finds inspiration in that writing and also in American jazz. With original music and arrangements by T Bone Burnett and David Mansfield, the work opens the revamped summer festival at Little Island in Manhattan and its theater overlooking the Hudson River. It reminds Tharp a little of performing at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park in 1971, when she presented the premiere of Eight Jelly Rolls. A couple of performances had puddles onstage, she said. We were not above ... More David Zwirner now represents Scott KahnNEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner announced exclusive global representation of American artist Scott Kahn (b. 1946). The gallery will present a new painting by Kahn, Wolf Moon, at Art Basel, and a solo exhibition of the artists work will be on view in November 2024 at the Hong Kong location. Rooted in the artists everyday life and experiences, Kahns enigmatic landscapes, portraits, and dreamscapes blend real and surreal elements. The artist has remained committed to a figurative mode of expression over the course of more than five decades, using a distinctive formal language to achieve a nuanced and poetic rendition of the simultaneous splendor and mundanity of the world around him. His surfaces are meticulously constructed according to precise geometries and chromatic and spatial relationships wherein the ... More Thaddaeus Ropac opens an exhibition of works by Not VitalPARIS.- In this exhibition, Swiss artist Not Vital presents his new series of self-portraits, whose pared-back compositions propose a minimalistic, abstract take on the human form. These are shown alongside a selection of the artists sculptures across mediums, including works rooted in the landscape and a life-sized rendering of Nijinskys last jump, as well as collages on paper that recreate natural formations using everyday materials. Brought together in the gallerys Paris Marais space, these works form a meditation on selfhood and on our relationship with the surrounding world. The beginning of the exhibition is flanked by sculptures that recall the landscape of the Engadin valley in Switzerland, where Vital spent his youth, and where he still lives and works for a part of the year. Fontana (2024), a sculpted tree cast in bronze, from the branches ... More Claire Oliver Gallery opens 'A Brief History of the Future'NEW YORK, NY.- Claire Oliver Gallery presents A Brief History of the Future, a special group exhibition of works by artists BK Adams, Barbara Earl Thomas, Stan Squirewell, LaNia Roberts, and Carolyn Mazloomi. Expressing themselves through painting, paper cuts, glasswork, found photography, and quilting, the artists in this presentation are time benderswielding their practices in order to explore the interdependent and evolving dimensions of past, present, and future. With their unique variations on the choreography of reflection and anticipation, these artists prove that chronological systems of time are insufficient to address the compounding complexities of and ever-shifting revelations about identity, race, gender, family, nature, culture, and politics. Calling on ancestral, generational, and societal wisdom, this show gives equal ... More Goldin presents a legendary round-up of iconic comic booksRUNNEMEDE, NJ.- In a celebration of the timeless superheroes that have captivated audiences for generations, Goldin, the leading collectibles marketplace, announces it has curated a collection of some of the most sought-after comic books of all time. Goldins May Pop Culture Elite Auction will feature an unbelievable lineup of over 80 comics, including highlights such as first appearances of the Incredible Hulk, Sub-Mariner and Fantastic Four. These comics stand as pillars of the industry, embodying the heroism and adventure that has resonated with fans worldwide for generations. Iconic copies of comics featured in Goldins May Pop Culture Elite Auction, include: 1974 Incredible Hulk #181, which marks the first full appearance of the legendary character Wolverine and a momentous occasion in comic book history. The Trimpe ... More Albert S. Ruddy, movie producer whose first Oscar was for 'The Godfather,' dies at 94NEW YORK, NY.- Albert S. Ruddy, who found early success in television as a creator of Hogans Heroes, a situation comedy about Allied prisoners outwitting their bumbling Nazi captors in a POW camp, and then became a movie producer who won Oscars for The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby, died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 94. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his wife, Wanda McDaniel, and his daughter, Alexandra Ruddy. Ruddy was a gravelly-voiced former systems programmer and shoe salesman who, by the time Paramount Pictures was preparing to film The Godfather, had become known for the unlikely success of Hogans Heroes and for producing a couple of movies that had come in under budget. Ruddy is a tall, thin, nervously enthusiastic man who sees himself as a shrewd manipulator, Nicholas Pileggi wrote ... More 'Not everything was bad': Saluting the Mercedes of Eastern Europe and a Communist pastPIRNA, GERMANY.- As the beige car bounced up to the former Soviet barracks, the rattling of its half-century old motor overpowered the din of people setting up for the days festivities at a temporary fairground. A man dressed in the dark green uniform of a 1950s traffic cop, replete with an old-fashioned leather cap, blew his whistle sharply and waved the car a well-maintained 1980 Wartburg, a classic despite the engines clatter through to the parking lot. The driver of the little sedan, once considered the Mercedes of Eastern Europe, slipped the clutch, jolting the car forward. The lapse earned a rebuke from a costumed parking attendant. You are entering the GDR now, he yelled with mock anger, referring to the extinct East German state. Leave your Western manners behind! For more than a decade, the GDR Museum Pirna has ... More Rare Wu-Tang Clan album to be played at exhibit in TasmaniaNEW YORK, NY.- A decade ago, the Wu-Tang Clan issued a sole copy of a CD-only album, secured it in an engraved nickel and silver box, locked it away in a vault and said it could not be heard by the public until 2103. The move was seen as a protest against the devaluation of music in the streaming era. But a year later, the album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, got caught up in the very capitalistic endeavors that Wu-Tang had tried to avoid, when it was purchased by Martin Shkreli, the disgraced pharmaceutical speculator who was convicted of fraud in 2017. He bought the album at auction for $2 million, only for it to be seized by the government and sold in order to pay off Shkrelis nearly $7.4 million debt. As these things go, an NFT collective purchased the album for $4 million in 2021. And soon, if you can get yourself to the island ... More With a body double, an artist reflects on life as a trans-deaf influencerNEW YORK, NY.- A spotlight dimmed as artist Chella Man signaled to a section of the audience where their parents were seated in all-white costumes. In a haunting approach, the parents tiptoed toward an eerily lifelike replica of their childs body and carefully transferred the silicone doppelgänger to an operating table. There, as part of the performance piece Autonomy, Man performed two surgeries that had helped define their experience as a deaf and trans teenager. Poking and prodding the silicone dummy, Man mimed installing cochlear implants in both ears similar to the ones that turned them into a self-described cyborg. Then they traced the scars of top surgery, asking their father to sew a line through the chest tissue that helped Man, 25, embody their transmasculine, genderqueer identity. What fuels this desire to share ... More Carole Gibbons' debut show at Hales opens in LondonLONDON.- Hales today opened, Of Silence and Slow Time, a solo exhibition by Carole Gibbons. Her debut show at the gallery exhibits still life paintings spanning a ten-year period from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s. The show at Hales London follows on from Gibbons' inclusion in Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990, which originated at Tate Britain and tours to National Galleries Scotland (25 May 2024-26 Jan 2025), as well as Gibbons' first solo exhibition in the US at White Columns, New York. Carole Gibbons (b. 1935 Glasgow, Scotland) studied at Glasgow School of Art and was a member of The Young Glasgow Group alongside her peers Alan Fletcher and Douglas Abercrombie. After her studies she travelled to Europe, living in Spain for a time which deeply impacted her work, before returning to Glasgow, where ... More Across New York City, building young dancers on and off the stageNEW YORK, NY.- She put up with the giggles for a while, but they would not stop. Finally, Dionne Figgins took a break from rehearsing a group of eighth graders for their coming performances at the Joyce Theater to give a mini-lecture. But what started out as a talk about disruptive giggles soon became something more expansive: a consideration of the audience-dancer relationship. If a giggle is taking over the performance, youre not doing the show anymore, said Figgins, who is the artistic director of Ballet Tech, a tuition-free ballet school in New York. Dance is a service. The students stopped talking. Their twitching ceased. The patron is our boss, Figgins said. Does that make sense? So you have to care about the experience of the audience, so it doesnt involve a giggle unless a giggle is what were providing. And there are giggles in there! ... More Wayne Brady and Nichelle Lewis on striving for excellence in 'The Wiz'NEW YORK, NY.- That show was so Black, my 8-year-old whispered after we saw The Wiz on Broadway. He hadnt made this observation last fall after seeing a performance of the show in Baltimore, during the national tour that preceded this revival. So I was curious: What had changed, and why was this iteration more culturally resonant for him than even the 1978 movie starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson or NBCs 2015 The Wiz Live! special that Id screened for him. I suspected my son was drawn to this versions colloquial expressions (All I got to do is stay Black and die, Evillene tells Dorothy), choreography (ranging from Atlanta street dancing to South African amapiano) and its casting of Wayne Brady as the Wiz, who greets the Scarecrow and the Tinman with a dap. (Brady will depart the production June 12.) The ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Ellsworth Kelly was born May 31, 1923. Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 - December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form, similar to the work of John McLaughlin and Kenneth Noland. Kelly often employed bright colors. He lived and worked in Spencertown, New York. In this image: A woman walks past the work 'White Relief with Black III' by the artist Ellsworth Kelly during a press conference at the Haus der Kunst (House of Arts) in Munich.
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