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Items are displayed in a gallery named for Dietrich von Bothmer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Feb. 14, 2023. Investigators seized the Attic Greek cup from the Met last year they, and others, doubt the museums reconstruction of it from fragments was simply a product of genius. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
by Graham Bowley and Tom Mashberg
NEW YORK, NY.- The first shards of pottery arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1978, a purchase from a Swiss dealer. A second handful was bought from a Los Angeles gallery a year later. These ceramic tidbits part of the hodgepodge of ancient fragments that the museum routinely collected bore the unmistakable designs of ancient Greek pottery. A Met expert thought they were a small part of a significant artifact, a drinking cup known as a kylix. In dribs and drabs over the next 16 years, a remarkable pattern emerged a Humpty Dumpty story with a happier ending. As hundreds of disparate shards of pottery arrived at the museum some as purchases, some as gifts dozens turned out to be parts of the same Greek kylix from roughly 490 B.C. With great patience and puzzle-solving, the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Tornabuoni Art Paris is pleased to present Painting and Poetry. Ungaretti and the Art of Seeing, an exhibition that celebrates the convergence of literature and visual arts through the figure of the Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti (Alexandria, Egypt 1888 - Milan 1970).
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| Warhol's Mick Jagger seizes the spotlight in Heritage's $1.5 million Prints & Multiples Auction | | Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map now on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art | | 'Sherrill Roland: do without, do within' on view at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery | 
Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Mick Jagger, 1975. Screenprint in colors on Arches Aquarelle paper, 43-5/8 x 28-7/8 inches. Sold on Apr 18, 2023 for: $131,250.00.
DALLAS, TX.- Andy Warhols light never fades. The artists iconic 1975 portrait of Mick Jagger, the irreplaceable Rolling Stone front man, took center stage on Tuesday, April 18 during Heritages Prints & Multiples event. The Picasso-inflected screenprint, signed by Jagger, brought in $131,250, well above its estimate, in a carefully curated sale of significant works on paper by modern and contemporary greats. After a two-hour bidding scrum for only 91 lots, the auction closed past $1.5 million and proved the current strength of this art category with a number of works that admirably outperformed pre-auction estimates, and new auction records for Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Hockney. Warhol cleaned up, in fact, claiming six of the top ten spots in the auctions final results, which included three of his early Campbells Soup cans: 1968s Onion Soup, Pepper Pot, and Hot Dog Bean each went for $57,500. His ... More | | 
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, The Vanishing American, 1994. Acrylic, newspaper, paper, cotton, printing ink, chalk, and graphite pencil on canvas, 60 1/8 à 50 1/8 in. (152.7à 127.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Dorothee Peiper-Riegraf and Hinrich Peiper in memory of Arlene LewAllen 2007.88. © Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.
NEW YORK, NY.- The exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art is the first New York retrospective of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (b. 1940, citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation), an overdue but timely look at the work of a groundbreaking artist. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map brings together nearly five decades of Smiths drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures in the largest and most comprehensive showing of her career to date. Smiths work engages with contemporary modes of making, from her idiosyncratic adoption of abstraction to her reflections on American Pop art and neo-expressionism. These artistic traditions are incorporated and reimagined ... More | | 
Sherrill Roland, I remember nights, I didn't remember nights, 2023. Etched acrylic, Kool-Aid, acrylic medium, epoxy, resin 48 x 23 x 1 7/8 inches; 122 x 58.4 x 4.7 cm (each panel), 48 x 48 3/4 x 1 7/8 inches; 122 x 123.8 x 4.7 cm (overall). Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles (file name: TBG 24425).
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is now presenting Sherrill Roland: do without, do within, the artists second exhibition with the gallery and first in Los Angeles, on view sinceApril 14 , and scheduled to continue until June 24, 2023. Sherrill Rolands interdisciplinary practice deals with concepts of innocence, racial ontology, and community; reimagining their social and political implications in the context of the American criminal justice system. For more than three years, Roland's right to self-determination was lost to a wrongful incarceration. After spending ten months in prison for a crime he was later exonerated for, he returned to his artistic practice, converting the haunting nuances of the surrounding aesthetics into new sculptural works, installations, and prints ... More |
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| rodolphe janssen opens the first solo show of Dan McCarthy in the Brussels gallery | | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco celebrates transformative gift with publication Native American Art | | Joy Oladokun's therapeutic folk-pop searches for hope. It's resonating. | 
Dan McCarthy, Ox Blood, 2022. Clay & glaze, 53.34 x 38.1 x 43.18 cm. 21 x 15 x 17 in. Courtesy the artist and rodolphe janssen, Brussels. Image © Kent Pell.
BRUSSELS.- rodolphe janssen is presenting the first solo show of Dan McCarthy in the Brussels gallery, running from April 13th to May 20th 2023. The exhibition brings together a new series of vivid and scintillating glazed ceramic sculptures that take the form of individual portraits, unfolding in a variety of colors and textures. McCarthys ceramics are intentionally low-tech, simple and direct. His tools are minimal ice lolly sticks, forks, spoons with a process that favours touch; and what drives him is the emotionally intuitive handling of wet, heavy clay that is constantly in a state of drying out, instinctively working this material into shapes with a sense of immediacy and buoyant spirit. Fittingly called Facepots, the often cheery - though sometimes rather sullen - vessels appear to hide a somehow darker undertone, one that points towards modes of vacuous consumerism that keep us smiling ... More | | 
Vessel, 1903-1907. Earthenware and polychrome. 43.2 x 55.9 cm (17 x 22 in). Gift of the Thomas W. Weisel Family to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Photograph by Randy Dodson, ©️ the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are pleased to announce the publication of Native American Art: From the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection, copublished with DelMonico Books. The expansive 432 page catalogue celebrates a transformative gift to the Museums that spans nearly one thousand years of artistic creativity by Native American artists. The volume brings together 206 works of art, exemplifying the exquisite artistry and rich cultural histories represented therein. Highlights of objects researched and presented in the book include 19th-century Diné/Navajo weavings, Ancestral and historic Pueblo pottery, Hopi and Zuni carved figures, and Yavapai and Apache basketry, as well as works from the Pacific Northwest and the Plains ... More | | 
Joy Oladokun in Nashville, Tenn., March 22, 2023. The singer-songwriter with Springsteen aspirations wants to make music for everyone, and her new album, Proof of Life, pushes her one step closer. (Kristine Potter/The New York Times)
NASHVILLE, TENN.- Joy Oladokun was sitting in her backyard, stoned and scrolling Twitter when a Christian pastor appeared in her feed. As the child of Nigerian immigrants who raised Oladokun and her sisters in the church, shes no stranger to religious doctrine and, as a queer person, no stranger to feeling as if its being weaponized against her. Still, she couldnt look away. Those guys always pop up and Im like, What are you doing here? Oladokun, 31, said on a January afternoon, seated at her dining room table wearing a Nirvana T-shirt, an electric mug and a weed vape within reach. Then she let out a laugh a distinct, cartoonlike thing perfect for defusing uncomfortable situations. And they are always saying something stupid, because thats an option to them. Oladokun ... More |
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| Dallas Museum of Art acquires 12 works from 2023 Dallas Art Fair | | Emily Carr masterpiece on auction for $1.5 mil once priced at $400, on view in Vancouver | | GRAY Chicago opens an exhibition of works by Jaume Plensa | 
Riley Holloway, Records on Repeat, 2023. Oil on canvas, 64 x 46 in. Acquired from Erin Cluley Gallery.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Art Fair and the Dallas Museum of Art today announced that 12 artworks from this years fair will be added to the museums permanent collection. The acquisitions were funded by the Dallas Art Fair Foundation Acquisition Program, an annual gift from the Dallas Art Fair Foundation that places works from the fair into the DMAs collection. Yesterday, the DMAs Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art Dr. Vivian Li, Interim Chief Curator and The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Senior Curator of European Art Dr. Nicole R. Myers, and a group of fund donors previewed the fair, selecting artworks by the following nine artists for the museums collection: Chelsea Culprit, Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu, Karla Diaz, Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Riley Holloway, Yifan Jiang, Yowshien Kuo, Masamitsu Shigeta, and Nishiki ... More | | 
Sitka Totem Pole. Oil on canvas, signed M. Emily Carr and on verso inscribed $400 / XV and variously and stamped twice with the Dominion Gallery stamp, 1912, 34 1/2 Ã 11 1/2 in, 87.6 Ã 29.2 cm.
VANCOUVER.- Ahead of its highly anticipated spring live auction, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, is thrilled to share with Vancouver art-lovers and collectors the museum-quality artworks that will be offered in the upcoming sale. Masterpieces by beloved BC and internationally renowned artists highlight the sale, including major works by Emily Carr, E.J. Hughes and Lawren Harris, among many others. The works will be on view for the public preview at the Heffel Gallery, beginning on April 15. The auction preview is free and open to the public, and is a chance to see and celebrate these museum-quality works, before they make their way into new hands, sometimes out of the public eye forever. The auction will take place in Toronto and will be broadcast live through Heffels Digital Saleroom ... More | | 
Jaume Plensa, Flora Silence, 2023.
CHICAGO, IL.- Widely celebrated for public sculpture that engages the human form, architecture, poetry, and language, Jaume Plensa presents recent work in the exhibition Forgotten Dreams at GRAY Chicago. For his 10th exhibition at GRAY, the exhibition includes two large-scale works in cast aluminum: a series of twenty-one doors, titled Forgotten Dreams, 2020; and Where Are You?, 2022, a body of freestanding sculptural portraits. Additionally, Plensa displays a series of drawings and two sculptures in granite and marble. The exhibition opened to the public at GRAY Chicago (2044 West Carroll Avenue) on April 7, and will be on view through June 3, 2023. The central work in the exhibition, Forgotten Dreams, marks Plensas return to the use of doors as a universal motif and symbol of the human condition. Installed along the periphery of the gallery, each of Plensas twenty-one cast-aluminum doors has been inscribed with the Univers ... More |
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| Blair Tindall, whose music memoir scandalized, dies at 63 | | Happy 100th birthday, 16-millimeter film | | Review: Pushing 100, the Martha Graham Dance Company leans into youth | 
Her 2005 book, Mozart in the Jungle, lived up to its subtitle, Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music, and was later made into an Amazon TV series.
NEW YORK, NY.- Blair Tindall, a freelance oboist and journalist who drew on both of those abilities to write Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music, an eyebrow-raising 2005 memoir that became an award-winning television series, died April 12 in Los Angeles. She was 63. Her fiancé, photographer Chris Sattlberger, said the cause was cardiovascular disease. Tindall had played in various ensembles and Broadway pit orchestras and was writing regularly for publications including The New York Times when Mozart in the Jungle appeared. Any reader holding a pristine view of the people who make classical music was quickly relieved of it: The book opens with Tindalls visit to a cocaine-fueled party of musicians and goes on to detail assorted escapades, among them her own sexual liaisons, including an early one with a middle-aged instructor when she was a teenager studying at the North Carolina School of the Arts. I got hired for most of my gigs in ... More | | 
The format was initially a boon to amateurs. Now, with moviemaking gone digital, its the choice of auteurs like Darren Aronofsky and Kelly Reichardt. Photo: Denise Jans.
NEW YORK, NY.- One hundred years ago, the Eastman Kodak Co. introduced a shiny new camera that promised to revolutionize moviemaking. The company had been selling filming devices for more than two decades by then, but this novel contraption the Ciné-Kodak camera, sold with the Kodascope projector offered a new thrill: the ability to make and screen movies at home, with no special expertise. The technical marvel, however, wasnt just the camera but also the film inside. Until 1923, the film used most commonly in motion pictures was 35 millimeters wide. That year, Kodak produced a new format that was only 16 millimeters. The image wasnt as sharp when you blew it up on the big screen, but it allowed for smaller, cheaper and more portable cameras. 16 millimeter ushered in a new era of movies made outside the Hollywood system. Regular folks could now record their own lives, journalists and soldiers ... More | | 
Anne Souder as the one-woman Chorus in Grahams Cave of the Heart, at the Joyce Theater in New York, April 18, 2023. The return of Martha Graham Dance Company to the Joyce Theater on Tuesday was timed to celebrate a birthday: The company, Americas oldest, turned 97. (Andrea Mohin/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The return of Martha Graham Dance Company to the Joyce Theater on Tuesday was timed to celebrate a birthday: The company, Americas oldest, turned 97. Were feeling frisky for our age, Janet Eilber, the groups artistic director, said in remarks before the show. And in the first of several programs distributed across a two-week run, this august institution certainly seemed like it was trying very hard to look younger. The seasons two premieres are by young choreographers, nearly beginners. These works arent bad, but the association with Graham does a lot more for the fledgling dance makers than their efforts do for the company or for Grahams legacy. Maybe they can attract younger audiences (they had young fans in the packed house Tuesday), but as has often been the case in recent years ... More |
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 Art collector who financed Hezbollah evaded sanctions, prosecutors sayNEW YORK, NY.- A Lebanese art collector accused of financing the militant group Hezbollah evaded U.S. sanctions using a complex web of businesses to disguise millions of dollars in transactions involving art and diamonds, according to an indictment unsealed in Brooklyn federal court Tuesday. Nazem Ahmad and eight others were also charged with money laundering and conspiring to defraud U.S. and foreign governments. His accountant, Sundar Nagarajan, was arrested in Britain Tuesday at the request of American prosecutors; the remaining defendants, including Ahmad, are at large outside the United States, authorities said. The indictment was part of a raft of actions aimed at Ahmads global operations, all announced on the 40th anniversary of an attack on the U.S. embassy in Beirut ... More  Marina Pinsky: Infinite Play opens today in Brussels at La LogeBRUSSELS.- Infinite Play, the exhibition opening today, April 20th, at La Loge, Brussles, by Marina Pinsky aims to level the social hierarchies built into the sites historical architecture as a masonic temple. Eschewing the symbolic languages of the buildings past use, the artist overlays an entirely different complex of symbols, rituals and games. The exhibitions central hall is rebuilt as a space for open-ended conversation. The arrangement of the interior is centred around a group of digital embroideries based on an early 20th century proposal from American industrialists for a thirteen month calendar. In our present, these meditations on divisions of time, and their arbitrariness, become a ground for lighthearted imaginings of new social dynamics. The exhibition will end on May 2nd, 2023. Marina Pinsky examines ... More  Kali Uchis is a complicated musician. She plans to stay that way.NEW YORK, NY.- On the main stage of Coachella, stars bring out guests to parade their connections and inspirations. In the first minutes of her performance at the festival Sunday, Colombian American songwriter Kali Uchis flaunted three quick cameos: from Don Toliver, Omar Apollo and Tyler, the Creator. Those duets and a bilingual set that included her hits, some reggaeton favorites and an unreleased song from her next album were a show of Uchis far-reaching musical and personal affinities: to R&B, pop, hip-hop, dance music and Latin roots. (Toliver, a platinum-selling rapper from Texas, is also her boyfriend.) I have so many different things that I am, Uchis, 28, said in a video interview a few days before the show. In order to become marketable on a mass or mainstream scale, you have to water y ... More  Review: Flying high and falling hard in 'Peter Pan Goes Wrong'NEW YORK, NY.- Six years ago, the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society brought its production of The Murder at Haversham Manor from its home base in England to Broadway. Mayhem ensued. Part of the manor collapsed. An actor was poisoned in a prop mix-up. After the leading lady was knocked unconscious by a door, she was replaced by the stage manager; when knocked unconscious as well, he was replaced by a sound technician and eventually, somehow, a grandfather clock. The company has grown up since then, or down, or perhaps just sideways. Rebranded as the Cornley Youth Theater, and for reasons of liability or just sheer embarrassment no longer associated with a polytechnic institute, it has returned to Broadway with its childrens version of J.M. Barries Peter Pan. Many ... More  Asian and Islamic works of art auction on April 26 at Olympia AuctionsLONDON.- The collection of blue and white Chinese porcelain to be auctioned by Olympia Auctions was begun twenty-five years ago, to decorate the dining room of an 18th century house in Covent Garden. A mix of Chinese, Japanese and Delft blue and white, it was arrayed on open shelves and coral brackets over black lacquer and dark grey panelling, designed to reflect and absorb candlelight. Additional purchases of Kangxi porcelain in Islamic style were made around 2010 for the owners apartment in Paris. The sale of 294 lots also includes the collection of Louisa Service O.B.E., who died in 2021. Her life was devoted to working voluntarily in promoting girls education, encouraging youth interest in music and her work as a J.P. She had a great interest in art and antiques and many items from her collec ... More  $25 million from Perelman Family Foundation to establish arts district at BrownPROVIDENCE, RI.- Building on strategic efforts to strengthen the arts at Brown, the Perelman Family Foundation has pledged $25 million to create the Ronald O. Perelman Arts District at Brown University. Perelman, who is chairman and CEO of MacAndrews & Forbes Inc., is a former Brown University trustee, the father of two Brown graduates and one of the countrys leading philanthropists, particularly in the arts. The Perelman Arts District, as it will be known, will represent where the arts happen at Brown, encompassing prominent performance spaces on its College Hill campus, as well as spaces dedicated to research, teaching and training in the arts. The district will include the Lindemann Performing Arts Center, which is scheduled for a formal opening in Fall 2023. Final construction for that project, ... More  Holabird / Finest Known will team for an auction on April 29thRENO, NEV.- For the first time ever, two numismatic companies that are giants in their field Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC and Finest Known, LLC will combine their considerable forces to hold a Treasure Trove of Rarities: Coins & Treasure Shipwreck Auction on Saturday, April 29th, online and live in Holabirds gallery at 333 Airway Drive (Suite 308). The auction, beginning at 9 am Pacific time, is small by Holabirds standards. Instead of their usual four-day monster sales, this one will be a tidy 164-lot event thats small in size but gigantic in importance for the collecting community. It offers some of the finest known treasure and numismatic rarities, including items recovered from the SS Central America and SS Republic. Also offered will be private Territorial gold coins and tre ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian-French illustrator Erté died April 21, 1990. Romain de Tirtoff (23 November 1892 - 21 April 1990) was a Russian-born French artist and designer known by the pseudonym Erté, from the French pronunciation of his initials (pronounced [??.te]). He was a diversely talented 20th-century artist and designer who flourished in an array of fields, including fashion, jewellery, graphic arts, costume and set design for film, theatre, and opera, and interior decor.
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