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In an undated image provided via Christies, The Anse des Pilotes, Le Havre, by Camille Pissarro, painted in 1903. A Pissarro painting that was at the center of a dispute between the heirs of a Jewish couple whose art collection was seized by the Nazis before World War II and a Jewish family who bought it in 1994 will be sold at auction after the two sides reached agreement. Via Christies via The New York Times.
by Graham Bowley
NEW YORK, NY.- A Pissarro painting that was at the center of a dispute between the heirs of a Jewish couple whose art collection was seized by the Nazis before World War II and a Jewish family who bought it in 1994 will be sold at auction next month after the two sides reached agreement. The details of the settlement were not disclosed, but Christies has placed an estimate of $1.2 to $1.8 million on the work, The Anse des Pilotes, Le Havre, which it intends to sell May 14 in New York. Ludwig and Margret Kainer left behind a collection of art, including the Pissarro, when they left Germany in 1932 as Adolf Hitler rose to power. Their relatives have pursued a claim for the painting since 2015, and sued the family of Gerald D. Horowitz to reclaim it last year. Lawyers for the family said Horowitz had bought the painting from a New York dealer after making inquiries to determine whether it had been stolen. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors at the United States Pavilion, where Simone Leigh's stoneware work "Jug" is embedded with enlarged cowrie shells, at the Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy, April 20, 2022. This year's event is a lopsided affair, with a forceful central exhibition but disappointing national pavilions, writes New York Times critic Jason Farago. (Gus Powell/The New York Times).
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| At Venice Biennale, contemporary art sinks or swims | | Ginsburg's art and mementos go up for auction | | Haegue Yang's radical art of obscure delights | 
Workers put up a sign along the Grand Canal near the main display sites for the Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy, April 20, 2022. Gus Powell/The New York Times.
by Jason Farago
VENICE.- Its a bit lost now in the brain fog of time, but in March 2020 one of the first memes of the coronavirus pandemic arose from the waters of this Most Serene Republic. Some fraudster posted a picture of dolphins supposedly swimming in the Bacino di San Marco, and swans cruising down an unpolluted blue Grand Canal. The humans were gone, and Venice was a natural paradise! The city Henry James called his repository of consolations had been compressed to shareable size: an aquatic utopia, to be beheld on a touch-screen, as the virus scythed its way toward us. The dolphins were a hoax. But the sense that humanity is the enemy of life and beauty: that part may be right, to judge from the heaving, confounding, chockablock preview days of the 2022 Venice Biennale. The worlds oldest and most prestigious international exhibition of contemporary art opens to the public Saturday after a years delay, and the ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Centaure et Visage (A.R. 188), Terracotta with black engobe and glaze, 10 x 10 x 7 1/2 in. (25.40 x 25.40 x 19.05 cm.).
ALEXANDRIA, VA.- More than 150 personal items and works of art that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg kept in her Washington residence and Supreme Court chambers are up for auction. The Potomack Co. auction house in Alexandria, Virginia, opened catalogs this month for the items, which include ceramics by Picasso and a caricature print of the widely admired justice, who died in 2020. Proceeds will benefit the Washington National Opera, whose concerts Ginsburg frequently attended. The Potomack Co. said it would donate 10% of the sellers commission to fellowships offered by the Women of Berkeley Law, a student group at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Ginsburg was known for fighting for womens rights for more than a half century. The auction for Ginsburgs modern art collection will take place Wednesday, followed by a session the next day with decorative arts and memento items from her Supreme Court chambers and residence in the Watergate complex in Washington. These ... More | | 
The artist Haegue Yang in the courtyard of her atelier in the Kreuzberg district in Berlin, April 13, 2022. Mustafah Abdulaziz/The New York Times.
by Andrew Russeth
SEOUL.- When South Korean artist Haegue Yang went to see one of her sculptures while it was installed outdoors last year, she was required to strap on a bulletproof vest and a helmet, pass through military checkpoints and leave her phone behind. Finally, just 1 mile south of North Koreas border in the Korean Demilitarized Zone, she reached her piece, a roughly 5-foot-tall block of gray soapstone with a translucent bird perched atop it. It is a deceptive artwork. From some angles, the stone resembles a sphere, but it is actually a thinner, lenslike shape, and the bird a pale thrush, 3D-printed in resin has been separated from its center, although that, too, can be understood from only certain perspectives. I knew from the beginning that almost nobody would see it in person, and I think it will be more surveilled than visited, Yang said, recalling her trip during a video interview from Seoul one April morning. I wanted to make something ... More |
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| Sterling Ruby's new relief sculpture, HEX, unveiled on the facade of Palazzo Diedo | | She's the Peggy Guggenheim of SoHo | | Fire rains down at the Malta Pavilion | 
Inaugural Berggruen Arts & Culture Artist-in-Residence Sterling Ruby in front of HEX, the artists relief sculpture on the façade of Palazzo Diedo. Simone Padovani / Getty Images for Berggruen Arts & Culture.
VENICE.- A new sculpture, HEX, by Sterling Ruby, has been installed on the façade of Palazzo Diedo, a historic palazzo in Venices Cannaregio district which will be the permanent home of the newly created Berggruen Arts & Culture following its restoration. The artwork marks the first phase of Rubys A Project in Four Acts. Sterling Rubys relief sculpture HEX cuts across the façade of Palazzo Diedo, interrupting the classical architecture with a sense of precarity. Influenced by the spatial relations of Constructivism, the components balance on a vector, nodding to the prominence of assemblage in Rubys mobile and collage works. The title references hex signs the geometric, hand-painted, star emblems appearing on the sides of Pennsylvanian Dutch barns starting in the ... More | | 
Laura Mattioli Rossi, the founder of the Center for Italian Modern Art, at her home in SoHo, Manhattan, March 14, 2022. Above the fireplace are Cy Twomblys Untitled, two parts, 1976, and ceramics by George Ohr the artwork at right, seen through a window, is on a neighbors wall. Victor Llorente/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Think of her as Peggy Guggenheim in reverse. Laura Mattioli Rossi: an Italian, not an American, living in New York, not Venice, Italy, near Canal Street, not the Grand Canal. She established and runs a private foundation in New York, the Center for Italian Modern Art, which recalls the private, one-woman Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Since 2013, Mattioli has exhibited Italian art of the interwar and postwar period in the SoHo loft building on Broome Street where she also lives. Guggenheim displayed surrealists and abstract expressionists of the same period in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, where she lived. The two heirs, raised by nannies some 50 years apart, also shared lonely childhoods. Her fathers extensive collection of Italian futurist art ... More | | 
Arcangelo Sassolino, Pavilion of Malta at La Biennale di Venezia, © Massimo Penzo.
VENICE.- Arts Council Malta, under the auspices of the Ministry for The National Heritage, The Arts and Local Government announced that the Malta Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2022, has been co-curated by Keith Sciberras (MLT) and Jeffrey Uslip (USA) and features artists Arcangelo Sassolino (ITA), Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci (MLT) and composer Brian Schembri (MLT). The Malta Pavilion, titled Diplomazija astuta, reimagines Caravaggios seminal altarpiece The Beheading of St. John the Baptist as an immersive, sculptural installation that overlays biblical narrative onto the presenttraversing 1608 to 2022, from the noetic to the metaphysical. By transposing the zeitgeist of the Oratory of the Decollato in Valletta onto the Malta Pavilion, Diplomazija astuta re-situates Caravaggios immanent themes within modern life, prompting viewers ... More |
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| Welcome to a village with more booksellers than school pupils | | Rare 1736 Guarneris violin, the other Stradivarius, estimated for $4.3 million- $4.8 million heads to auction | | Artist Firouz FarmanFarmaian reveals first look of The Kyrgyzstan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale | 
Shelves in a bookstore in Urueña, Spain, on March 5, 2022. Spain has one of Europes biggest book-publishing markets. Samuel Aranda/The New York Times.
Raphael Minder
URUEÃA.- Standing on a hilltop in northwestern Spain, Urueña overlooks a vast and windswept landscape of sunflower and barley fields, as well as a famous winery. The walls of some shops are built directly into the 12th-century ramparts of the village. Despite its rugged beauty, Urueña, like many villages in the Spanish countryside, has struggled over recent decades with an aging and dwindling population that has left it stagnant at about only 100 full-time residents. There is no butcher and no baker; both retired in the past few months. The local school has just nine students. But for the past decade or so, one business has been thriving in Urueña: books. There are 11 stores that sell books, including nine dedicated bookshops. I was born in a village that didnt have a bookstore ... More | | 
Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarnerius "del Gesù" (1698 - 1744), Crémone, 1736. Measurement on the back: 351 mm Estimate: 4m ($4.3 million) - 4.5m ($4.8 million).
PARIS.- The old wood offers a unique sound quality because the instrument has oxidised over time: there is a kind of vibration that finds its way into the piece of wood. This is how the years improve the instrument, like good wine. The "Pasquier" belongs to the middle period, which contains some of the most attractive works of the prestigious violin maker, and for the first time since the beginning of the 21st century, a Guarnerius from the violin maker's most mature period (1730 - 1740) will be offered at auction. Moreover, it has been more than 10 years since a violin by this famous maker has been auctioned. Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarnerius, called "del Gesù", and Stradivarius are the two greatest violin makers of all time. A contemporary and great rival of Antonio Stradivarius, Guarnerius marked his production with IHS (Iesus Hominem Salvator) and a trefoil Greek cross. His first known independently produced ... More | | 
Kyrgyzstan is one of 8 countries participating in the Venice Biennale for the first time in 2022.
VENICE.- Following the success of the Central Asian Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia in 2005, The Kyrgyz Republic will participate for the first time in its history as a dedicated country pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia in 2022. Situated on the Island of Giudecca, The Kyrgyz Republic Pavilion presents Gates of Turan curated by Janet Rady with exhibitor Firouz FarmanFarmaian from 23rd April 27th November 2022. Gates of Turan takes its name from the Persian word Tūrān, meaning "the land of the Tur", a historic region encompassing modern Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and northern parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The original Turanians were an Iranian nomadic tribe of the Avestan age, and their descendants make up the tribes of Central Asia and Iran. Persian born nomad and international contemporary artist Firouz FarmanFa ... More |
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| Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro presents 150 years of sculpture in the Republic of Venice | | 'I deserve to be here': Riding his first professional gig to Broadway | | Elizabeth Armstron, Connie Butler and Glenn Kaino join the board of Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts | 
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, detto Donatello (Florence, 1386 ca. - Florence, 1466)
San Loawrence, 1440 ca. Terracotta. Londra, Private collection. Curtesy Colnaghi Gallery.
VENICE.- The Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca dOro presents From Donatello to Alessandro Vittoria, 1450 - 1600. 150 Years of Sculpture in the Republic of Venice, the first major exhibition dedicated to Venetian sculpture curated by Toto Bergamo Rossi, director of Venetian Heritage and Claudia Cremonini, director of Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro. Organized and financed by the Venetian Heritage Foundation, in collaboration with the Veneto Regional Directorate for Museums, the exhibition will take place from April 22 to October 30, 2022. The show, installed at the museums piano nobile, focuses on the dialogue between several works of masters operating in Venice and in the territories of the Republic between the 15th and 17th centuries, such as Donatello, Antonio Rizzo, ... More | | 
The actor Jaquel Spivey in New York, April 4, 2022. After graduating from college last May, Spivey is making his Broadway debut as the star of Michael R. Jacksons Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, A Strange Loop. Flo Ngala/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- During his first-ever Broadway curtain call, a teary Jaquel Spivey was overcome with emotion as he and his castmates received a standing ovation. There had been times when the young star of A Strange Loop wasnt sure he had what it took to play the demanding part. But there he was on the evening of April 14, finally taking his first Broadway bow after a tryout run in Washington, D.C., months of rehearsals and a series of COVID-19-related delays that postponed the start of preview performances by a week. Reflecting on his performance the next morning, he said, he had an epiphany during one of the last songs. It almost felt like my moment of realization that Im worthy to perform for a Broadway audience, he said. It just hit me like a ton of bricks: ... More | | 
Connie Butler, photo by Mark Hanauer.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts announced today the appointment of curators Elizabeth Armstrong and Connie Butler and artist Glenn Kaino to its Board of Directors. They join other board members Stephanie Barron, Board Chair, Miwon Kwon, Catherine Opie, Claire Peeps, Edward Rada, Gary Simmons, Pilar Tompkins Rivas, and Joan Weinstein. We are thrilled to welcome Liz Armstrong, Connie Butler, and Glenn Kaino, distinguished leaders in their fields, to the board of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts," said Stephanie Barron, Board Chair. They bring extensive knowledge, experience, and acumen to the Foundations board, and will be important voices as we guide the organization through its next chapter, a decade after Mike Kelleys passing. Added Mary Clare Stevens, Executive Director, The Foundations mission to support artists and arts organizations and to steward Mike Kelley ... More |
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More  Fiona Rae now represented by Miles McEnery GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Fiona Rae is an internationally regarded British artist whose abstract paintings expand the traditional boundaries of her field. Drawing on inspiration from Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Japanese anime, computer games, fashion and typography, Raes brushmarks and gestures are often ambiguous in their intention and appear both spontaneous and controlled, improvised and yet purposeful. Raes paintings approach abstraction as a language to be investigated and challenged; her paintings include a wide array of pictorial marks and styles, the resulting imagery sometimes teetering on the edges of figurative legibility and the surreal. Fiona Raes paintings capture our attention and invite the viewer to consider the continuing and unique possibilities of painting in the contemporary digital age. Fiona Rae (b. 1963, ... 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More  'Artists are migrants': A Nigerian Irish dancer's multiplicitiesNEW YORK, NY.- When dancer Mufutau Yusuf says, I will always consider myself a migrant, he means it in several senses. One is biographical. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, he moved to Ireland when he was 9. As a young adult, he studied dance in Austria for four years. Now 29, he lives and works mostly in Belgium. That informs how I like to make work, he said. Which is: Never stay with one idea but see how that idea migrates and changes depending on the context. Artists are migrants. From Thursday to Sunday, Yusuf is debuting his first hourlong solo, Owe, not in Europe but at the Irish Arts Center in New York, the city where he had his professional debut as a dancer in 2011. Owe is an investigation of identity, particularly of his roots in Nigeria, a country he returned to for the first time in January. Its about me understanding ... More  Nicholas Angelich, ocean-straddling pianist, dies at 51NEW YORK, NY.- Nicholas Angelich, an American-born pianist best known for his soulful interpretations of the Germanic repertoire, which he performed with elegant virtuosity and expressive intimacy, died Monday in Paris, where he had lived since he was 13. He was 51. The cause was degenerative lung failure, according to his manager, Stefana Atlas. A soft-spoken man with a gentle demeanor, Angelich performed most frequently in Europe, but when he made appearances at American concert halls, they were almost invariably praised. Reviewing a recital at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2011, Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times wrote that Angelichs performance of Bach, Chopin and Schumann consistently challenged my thinking about this repertory. But his playing, he added, was so deliberate in its intentions, ... 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Flashback On a day like today, Australian painter Sidney Nolan was born April 22, 1917. Sir Sidney Robert Nolan (22 April 1917 - 28 November 1992) was one of Australia's leading artists of the 20th century. Working in a wide variety of mediums, his oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. In this image: Sidney Nolan, Death of Sergeant Kennedy atStringybark Creek, 1946, enamel on composition board, 91.0cm x 121.7cm, Purchased 1972, Courtesy National Gallery of Australia.
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