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di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art prominently places Mark di Suvero sculpture at entrance to property
NAPA, CA.- Miracles do happen. When Mark di Suvero and Rene di Rosa first dreamed about placing the thirty-foot tall sculpture For Veronica on the di Rosa campus in 1993, they agreed that the best place for it would be on the hillside in front of Winery Lake. In this highly visible location, the sculpture could be seen from every direction. This would identify di Rosa as an art center, not a winery. di Suvero and di Rosa were disappointed that the County did not approve the location at that time and so they installed the work on a hill in the sculpture garden where it has stood for over 25 years. Additional attempts were made to move the sculpture to the front of the property but the estimated cost to relocate it was simply beyond the reach of di Rosa. Executive Director Kate Eilertsen called on her friend Mark di Suvero who enthusiastically supported the project and committed his staff to ... More

Art Rotterdam 2021 summer edition: Indoor and outdoor exhibitions
ROTTERDAM.- The twenty-second edition of Art Rotterdam, once again to be held in the iconic Van Nelle Factory, is taking place at the height of summer from Thursday 1 July to Sunday 4 July. This year, there will be lots to experience and discover outdoors around the building. Apart from large-scale works of art and installations, many of which have been created especially for the occasion, there will also be several food trucks with drinks & bites on the factory grounds. With a surface area of over 10,000 m2, the inside of the factory has room for more than 100 galleries to exhibit the work of up-and-coming and established talents alike. Director of Art Rotterdam Fons Hof comments, "We are very much looking forward to welcoming participants and visitors to this unique summer edition of Art Rotterdam. The catalogue is being presented on GalleryViewer.com, Art Rotterdam's online ... More

394-pound meteorite will be auctioned online, April 6th, by Gallery 63
ATLANTA, GA.- A museum-quality, 394-pound meteorite by far the largest specimen of its kind for sale in the world will come up for bid in an online-only Premier Spring Estate Auction planned for Tuesday, April 6th, at 11 am Eastern time by Gallery 63 in Atlanta. Online bidding is via the Gallery 63 website, plus LiveaAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Meteorites of this size and importance do not come up for public sale very often, said Paul Brown, who serves as a consultant for Gallery 63, having passed along ownership to his son, Elijah. It wouldnt be out of place in any of the worlds museums. The meteorite, which comes with a custom-built iron stand measuring 74 inches tall, has an estimate of $100,000-$200,000. The meteorite is comprised of various platinum group metals. Based on that alone, Brown said, its valued at close to $500,000, but its real value is in its his ... More

'Wish you were here': Postcards help Germans connect in pandemic
BERLIN (AFP).- Brightly coloured rectangles of cardboard fill almost every wall of Gesa Funke's apartment in southern Berlin, with piles more stashed in corners and drawers -- some from places as far-flung as French Polynesia. The 29-year-old student has been sending and collecting postcards for years. But, like many Germans, she has found herself putting pen to paper more often as a result of travel and other restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic. "It's a little less effort than writing a letter, and it's still nice to receive something from another person, to have a bit of contact," she says. While many Germans have embraced digital technology in the virus era, others have turned to more traditional forms of communication to keep in touch with loved ones. In December, Deutsche Post said it had carried 11 percent more postcards than during the same month the previous year ... More

'The Guide' by John Myers published by RRB Photobooks
LONDON.- The Guide combines some of the best-loved photographs from John Myers career with his unique and wry prose on the method and theory of his work. The photographs in the book are some of most familiar images from The Portraits, Looking at the Overlooked and The End of Industry alongside five previously unpublished works. The images are published alongside insights to the circumstances behind the pictures, influences and Myers working practice, drawing the reader into conversation. A majority of the photographs in the book were taken within walking distance of Myers home in Stourbridge on his 5 x 4 Gandolfi plate camera between 1972 and 1988. He was driven by his admiration for the work of August Sander, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget and Walker Evans and he only ever shot approximately 1800 negatives. The photographs are a study of the mundane and every day ... More

Times Square Arts presents Allison Janae Hamilton's "Wacissa" for April Midnight Moment
NEW YORK, NY.- Times Square Arts, the largest public platform for contemporary performance and visual arts, is presenting Wacissa by Allison Janae Hamilton for the month of April as part of the organizations signature Midnight Moment series in partnership with Marianne Boesky Gallery. Midnight Moment is the worlds largest, longest-running digital art exhibition, synchronized on electronic billboards throughout Times Square nightly from 11:57pm to midnight. In Wacissa (2019), Hamilton transports viewers through a series of rivers in her home region of North Florida. The rivers she navigates are all linked through the areas Slave Canal, so-called as it was built via slave labor in the 1850s to aid the transport of cotton through the Florida panhandle. Filming from her kayak, Hamilton placed the camera into the water, plunging viewers directly into the river. ... More

With guitars played by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Metallica's Kirk Hammett, this auction goes to 11
DALLAS, TX.- The Martin acoustic Bruce Springsteen played during his earliest auditions and used on his first two records. The six-string Bob Dylan used to strum during visits to the apartment of then-girlfriend Suze Rotolo. The ESP Kirk Hammett wielded in Metallica's first, finest and most famous video, "One." The '64 Fender upon which Rev. Horton Heat had some mighty psychobilly freakouts. The Ludwig drum kit Buddy Rich played on The Tonight Show, then gifted to Johnny Carson. And a Frankenstrat made for who else? Eddie Van Halen. A rock-and-roll hall of fame's worth of instruments take center stage at Heritage Auctions this spring. Not to mention a 1956 Bigsby electric guitar made for Louisiana player and poet Luke Charpentier Jr. and, likely, the last axe ever made by Paul Bigsby, the oft-unheralded genius and solid-body pioneer who quietly did as much as anyone to ... More

Vienna's Secession opens an exhibition of works by Yuji Agematsu
VIENNA.- Secession is presenting Yuji Agematsus day-to-day collection of urban detritus finds turned into miniature sculptural formations from the entire 2020 calendar year. Displayed in custom-made acrylic glass shelves that represent monthly calendar sheets, and alongside diary entry notebooks, his 2020 zips offer a fresh and decidedly unique review of a most remarkable year. Yuji Agematsu is a kind of chronicler of our times and, moreover, he can be considered an experimental cartographer and archivist of only seemingly petty findings from the streets of his hometown. An urban flaneur, Agematsu has taken daily walks through the streets of New York ever since he moved there from Japan in the early 1980s. On this daily routine, which has now been part of his artistic practice for more than a quarter-century, he picks up and scrutinizes litter that attracts his attentionbits of paper, ... More

GRIMM opens a new solo exhibition by Caroline Walker
NEW YORK, NY.- GRIMM is presenting Nearby, a new solo exhibition by Caroline Walker (UK, 1982) in New York. Caroline Walker's paintings are a lens for the everyday lives of women, and her portraits of diverse subjects tell their story through the spaces they inhabit. Each of Walker's series conveys a distinct sense of time and place: from the undisguised luxury and class dynamics of beauty parlors in her series Painted Ladies, to the humanistic portraits of refugees and asylum seekers in Home, to scenes of anonymous women at work framed by the architecture of London in service. For her upcoming exhibition at GRIMM, Walker turns her focus to her immediate surroundings. She explores the boundary between being an observer - that is preserving the "objective" eye of an outsider - and magnifying the experience of a place which has become part of the fabric of her life. ... More

Ryan Lee opens exhibition of new photo-based images by Clifford Ross
NEW YORK, NY.- Ryan Lee is presenting Clifford Ross: Prints on Wood, an exhibition of new photo-based images in which the artist pursues his long-standing interest in capturing the sublime in nature by printing on hand-selected maple veneer. These include stark black and white negatives of details taken from his high-resolution color photographs of Mount Sopris, as well as dramatic crops of his black and white hurricane wave photographs. The altered images, in combination with the varied color and texture of the wood as a substrate, add drama and a distinctly nonphotographic quality to Rosss compositions, pushing his work toward the realms of drawing and painting, a return of sorts to his original media. Ive been missing the materiality of paint and canvas and found this mix of imagery and materials propelled my photography into an unexplored place, Ross explains. ... More

With open ears, Indian ragas and western melodies merge
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Amit Chaudhuri, an author and vocalist, blends memoir and music appreciation in Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music, out now from New York Review Books. In it, Chaudhuri charts a personal journey that began with a Western-oriented love for the singer-songwriter tradition, followed by a headlong immersion into Indian classical music. That heritage remained supreme for him until an accident of what he calls mishearing made him conscious of the elements shared by ragas and Western sounds a realization that led to his ongoing recording and performance project This Is Not Fusion. In the book, Chaudhuri reflects on the raga, the framework of Indian classical music. Resisting the urge to find an analogue to Western tradition, he writes: A raga is not a mode. That is, it isnt a linear movement. Its a simultaneity of ... More