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A conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston inspects Philip Gustons City Limits (1969) during installation, April 25, 2022. The long-delayed show of Gustons work, known for featuring Ku Klux Klan motifs, is now wrapped in the equivalent of caution tape, the New York Times critic Holland Cotter writes. Tony Luong/The New York Times.
by Holland Cotter
BOSTON, MASS.- On Oct. 16, 1970, American painter Philip Guston, currently the subject of a potent and controversial retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, committed career suicide. Or so it seemed. In his late 50s, he was a star of the abstract expressionist movement, then still considered the mandarin market style. But that year, he filled a New York gallery not with his signature flickery, emberlike abstractions, but with paintings of goony, cartoonish figures wearing white Ku Klux Klan hoods. Instantly, he plummeted from art world grace. Guston had touched a nerve, though not what might have seemed the obvious one. The Klan images themselves werent the primary source of offense; his betrayal of high art was. At a point when the preeminence of abstraction was steadily being submerged under the plastic tide of pop, Guston had joined the polluters. As it has turned out, the work that got him canceled in 1970 ended up cementing his place in the art historical pantheon, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Ben Brown Fine Arts announces Les Lalanne: Makers of Dreams, an extensive survey of the work of the late legendary French artistic duo François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne - known collectively as 'Les Lalanne'.
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| San Francisco Art Institute receives $200K grant from the Mellon Foundation to support its Diego Rivera fresco | | 1920's/1930's cars, Demetre Chiparus bronze - top sellers at Roland Auction NY April 23rd auction | | 'Ira Simon Collection' outstrips expectations in "white glove sale" at Toomey & Co. | 
Diego Rivera, The Making of a Fresco, whole mural.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Art Institute announces that the Mellon Foundation has awarded a $200,000 grant supporting the schools monumental 1931 Diego Rivera fresco, The Making of a Fresco, Showing the Building of a City, one of San Franciscos most enduring and beloved cultural assets. The grant award will support the first phase of a multi-faceted initiative centered on the fresco, encompassing public programs, conservation, scholarship, and preserving and digitizing SFAIs related archival collections. The Diego Rivera mural occupies an essential and profoundly meaningful place in the culture and history of SFAI and San Francisco, says SFAI Board Chair Lonnie Graham, a photographer, cultural activist, and graduate of SFAI (MFA 84'). Now, with this generous gift from the Mellon Foundation, we will elevate how we share the mural with the public by expanding cultural discourse and creating a broadly ... More | | 
587-Demetre Chiparus (Romanian, 1886-1947) Solo (Les Girls) patinated, gilt and cold painted bronze figure of dancers, on a marble base, circa 1925. Sold $11,250.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY in Glen Cove, NY presented their highly successful Spring Multiple Estates auction on April 23rd, 2022, a fresh-to-market sale of Fine Art, Collectibles, Furniture, Antiques, Silver, Decorative Arts and Jewelry, all curated from prominent East Coast estates and private collectors all over the Northeast. Restored 1920s & 1930s motorcars, a selection of Demetre Chiparus bronze sculptures from the same era and French Art Deco furniture pieces all shared the spotlight in the highly-stylized auction. Leading the April auction was a three-car collection of restored vintage automobiles from 1929 and 1931. The cars belonged to a U.S. collector of classic cars in and all three were purchased by another serious collector in Philadelphia. These included a rare 1929 gray Nash ... More | | 
Rare Jeweled Drop Head Dragonfly table lamp: shade, #1507-15 on a telescoping reticulated Queen Annes Lace base, #397. Estimate $150,000-250,000. Sold for $545,000.
OAK PARK, IL.- On Wednesday, April 27, 2022, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers presented a single-owner sale, The Ira Simon Collection: Sold for the Benefit of the Art Institute of Chicago. Curated by Vice President & Senior Specialist John P. Walcher, the unprecedented offering featured over 300 lots with many rare and important examples of art and design from the Art Nouveau, Aesthetic Movement, Arts & Crafts, and Art Deco periods. Proceeds from the auction will go to the Art Institute of Chicago. Ira Simon was a Chicago-based collector who, in the 1970s and 1980s, began putting together one of the most impressive collections of late 19th and early 20th century material, strongly featuring works by Tiffany Studios and Ãmile Gallé. Auction highlights included: rare Tiffany Studios Jeweled Drop Head Dragonfly ... More |
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| Pace presents a focused selection of paintings and works on paper by Richard Pousette-Dart | | An extensive survey of the work of the late artistic duo François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne opens in London | | Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presents 'History of Night and Destiny of Comets' | 
Richard Pousette-Dart, Space Continuum, Part II, 1989 (detail). Oil on linen, 72" à 72" (182.9 cm à 182.9 cm). © Richard PousetteDart /Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
PALM BEACH, FLA.- Pace is presenting a focused selection of paintings and works on paper by Richard Pousette-Dart. The exhibition brings together harmonious, elegantly resolved works produced in the later years of the artists life. This is the last major solo show of the season at Paces Palm Beach space. Pousette-Dart is widely known as a first-generation Abstract Expressionist painter, but his achievement can also be understood beyond the confines of that movement. His practice, which spanned painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture, often explored the spiritual and transcendental possibilities of art making. Deeply interested in elemental forms, qualities of light, and abstract beauty revealed within nature, the artist strove toward an enlightened, improvisational mode of creating throughout his career. The paintings and works on paper in the gallerys show use layered, painterly strokes to create meditati ... More | | 
François-Xavier Lalanne (1927 - 2008), Hippopotame I, 1968/1998. Blue laminated molded polyester resin and brass, 126 x 283 x 88 cm; (49 5/8 x 111 3/8 x 34 5/8 in.)
LONDON.- Ben Brown Fine Arts announced Les Lalanne: Makers of Dreams, an extensive survey of the work of the late legendary French artistic duo François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne known collectively as Les Lalanne. Choreographed by famed Italian designer Manfredi della Gherardesca, this unprecedented body of over 100 works includes some of the most known pieces to date and will create a Les Lalanne magical menagerie spread across the iconic Mayfair locations, Ben Brown Fine Arts and newly opened Claridges ArtSpace. Ben Brown Fine Arts has exhibited the work of Les Lalanne for nearly two decades, yet this will mark their first show at the gallery following Claudes passing three years ago. Della Gherardescas exhibition choreography combines the heavenly and the bucolic, constructing a dreamlike equilibrium of Yin and Yang across the two spaces. In both, the nature-based style of Les Lalanne is the le ... More | | 
Gian Maria Tosatti, History of Night and Destiny of Comets (Storia della Notte e Destino delle Comete), Italian Pavilion at Biennale Arte 2022, curated by Eugenio Viola, Commissioner of the Italian Pavilion Onofrio Cutaia. Courtesy DGCC - MiC.
VENICE.- History of Night and Destiny of Comets [Storia della Notte e Destino delle Comete], the Italian Pavilion at the 59th International Venice Biennale (April 23November 27, 2022), is open to the public. Promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary CreativityMinistry of Culture and curated by Eugenio Viola, it presents the work of a single artist for the first time in the history of the Italian Pavilion: Gian Maria Tosatti. The exhibition is envisioned according to a theatrical ratio that articulates the narrative into a prologue and two acts: History of Night and Destiny of Comets. It is a vast environmental site-specific installation that deals with the difficult balance between man and nature, sustainable development and territory. It proposes a vision of the current state of humanity and its future prospects and is conceived as an intermediary device that mixes various languages. Italy, ... More |
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| Terrible Tilly, Oregon's legendary lighthouse, is for sale | | "Adam Silverman: Marks and Markers" opens at Friedman Benda | | Renoir from collection of former Washington Post President & COO to highlight Hindman American & European Art Auction | 
n a photo provided by S. B. Crow, via Library of Congress shows, Tillamook Rock and lighthouse. S. B. Crow, via Library of Congress via The New York Times.
by Christine Hauser
NEW YORK, NY.- From a distance, the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse looks like a real-estate investors dream. There are views of Oregons coast from the tower, perched on a rugged island a mile offshore. Most days, the solitude is broken only by the sound of crashing waves, and the seclusion is broken only by nesting birds and sea lions. After more than a century weathering storms, guiding ocean mariners, hosting wildlife and serving as a repository for cremated human remains, the lighthouse known in local legend as Terrible Tilly is being prepared for its next owners. But first, they will need $6.5 million, a unique vision and a way to get there. The island is a craggy basalt rock that juts up from water so rough that boats cannot ... More | | 
Adam Silverman, Untitled, 2021, Stoneware, 68.5 x 33 x 33 inches, 174 x 83.8 x 83.8 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Friedman Benda is presenting Los Angeles-based artist Adam Silvermans third solo show with the gallery entitled Marks and Markers. The title of the show refers to not only the marks from Silvermans process (the artists hands, the fire, the glaze and the compounding alchemy), but also referencing the markers that denote certain ceremonies, rituals, the passing of time and boundaries, or a signpost marking ones physical and existential position. Tracing the evolution of Silvermans career through two discrete bodies of work, this self-reflective exhibition refers back to the genesis of his ceramics practice while looking ambitiously to the future. The culmination of a three-year long investigation, Marks and Markers premieres a series of large-scale sculptures up to 6 feet in height that challenge the physical limits of the material. Driven to communicate through form, ... More | | 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir La Baie de Villefranche-sur-Mer, 1899 (detail). Estimate: $400,000 - $600,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- Property from the Collection of Richard D. Simmons (Alexandria, VA), the President and Chief Operating Officer of The Washington Post from 1981 to 1991, will highlight Hindmans May 10th American and European Art auction. Simmons played an integral role in the development of the Post into one of the nations leading newspapers. Pierre-Auguste Renoirs 1899 oil on canvas titled La Baie de Villefranche-sur-Mer, which will be offered with an estimate of $400,000-600,000, will headline the collection. This magical landscape is exemplary of Renoirs work at the time, with its rapid brushstrokes and naturalistic representation of the coastline. The auction will offer over 100 paintings, works on paper and sculptures, with a strong selection of American and French Impressionist and Modernist works. Celebrated artists will include William Merritt Chase, Alfred Sisley, Robert ... More |
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| Combating sensory overload: How zoos and museums are redefining inclusion | | Barnes Foundation opens centennial year with first exhibition dedicated to Native American art | | Andrew Wyeth works to be made accessible through historic partnership | 
A photo provided the Museum of the American Revolution of an exhibit at the Philadelphia attraction, which equips guests with guides they can use to tailor the experience according to their sensitivities. Museum of the American Revolution via The New York Times.
by Joanne Cleaver
NEW YORK, NY.- It wasnt roaring lions or butting goats that sent 6-year-old Avery Shipley into a tailspin last summer at the Fort Wayne Childrens Zoo. It was a sudden Indiana thunderstorm that crumbled his composure, when he and dozens of other summer campers scrambled for shelter under a pavilion. As the campers crowded under a roof pinging with rain, Avery just completely shut down. He froze, said his mother, Kimber Shipley, 36. Help was within reach. The zoo staff had a pair of noise-canceling headphones at the ready and helped Avery put them on. With one element of the chaos muted, he was able to regain his equilibrium and rejoin the group. After the incident, he was diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, his mother said. For decades, zoos, museums and other venues have immersed ... More | | 
Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo, b. 1969), Tahu, c. 2011. Clay, slip, and wild spinach paint; 20½ x 10½ x 5½ in. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Nancy L. Harris, 2013.243.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- This spring, the Barnes Foundation presents Water, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art in Community, a major exhibition of historic and contemporary Southwest Native art, including Pueblo and Navajo pottery, textiles, and jewelry. Exploring living artistic traditions that promote individual and community well-being through their making and use, this exhibition is the Barness first dedicated to Native American art and is on view in the Roberts Gallery through May 15, 2022. Co-curated by Lucy Fowler Williams, associate curator-in-charge and Jeremy A. Sabloff Keeper of American Collections at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, and Tony Chavarria (Santa Clara Pueblo), curator of ethnology at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, Water, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art in Community features approximately 100 works, including objects that Dr. Albert C. Barnes collected in New Mexico in ... More | | 
N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), Tapping up and down the road in a frenzy, and groping and calling for his comrades, 1911, oil on canvas, 47 x 38 in. Brandywine River Museum of Art, Gift of the Betsy Wyeth Estate, 2022.
CHADDS FORD, PA.- The Wyeth Foundation for American Art has announced that it has established a collections-sharing arrangement managed by the Brandywine River Museum of Art, an approach that will ensure Andrew and Betsy Wyeths extensive collection of works by the artist is available to the public. The Foundations collectionassembled primarily by Betsy, who was Andrew Wyeths muse and who also carefully documented his careeris deeply personal and gives significant insight into Wyeths artistic and career trajectory. It comprises nearly 7,000 works from across Wyeths seven decades as a working artist, with rarely seen paintings, watercolors, sketches and sketchbooks. The Brandywine will oversee the collection andwith a new curatorial position at the Museum funded by the Wyeth Foundation to supervise the collectionconduct research, develop ... More |
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 New exhibition at Rowan University Art Gallery explores the complexities attributed to gardens and cultivated spacesGLASSBORO, NJ.- Rowan University Art Gallery is presenting Cultivated Space, a new group exhibition featuring work by Anonda Bell, Henry Bermudez, Linda Brenner, Fritz Dietel, Steven Donegan, Rachel Eng, Darla Jackson, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Mi-Kyoung Lee, Michelle Marcuse, Sana Musasama, and Joanna Platt. The exhibition opened on April 11, 2022. This group exhibition includes works that resonate with the complexities and divergent perceptions attributed to gardens and cultivated spaces. On a personal and intimate level, gardens are perceived as a place of refuge, solace and emotional centering. The larger broader impacts, however, reveal the disparate interpretations of cultivated spaces ... More  Solo exhibition of old and new work by Rafael Melendez opens at Fitzrovia GalleryLONDON.- Fitzrovia Gallery is presenting Erasures, a solo exhibition of old and new work by Rafael Melendez (b. 1970, Fresno, CA). The title summarises the body of work in focus, fresh out of the studio and the artists technically most complex endeavour this far. Alluding to post-war American artist Robert Rauschenbergs Erased de Kooning Drawing, the theme is not a repeat. Rather, it concerns structures generated with the rise of digital devices and unprecedented distribution of information. Making drawings which are then erased with a squeegee, Melendez rejects his role as a messenger of information. He systematically deletes the signs that make up his pictorial vocabulary. A flick through one of his many notebooks reveals a stream of sketches of patterns, text, bodies with elongated limbs, and swift takes ... More  V&A unveils new film: Creativity. It's what makes us.LONDON.- Today, the V&A launches a new creative campaign with the release of a film which captures and celebrates the museums iconic South Kensington site. The film, in itself an artistic endeavour created by and with a host of talent including Director Georgia Hudson at Park Pictures, tells the story of a mannequin encountering incredible art, design and performance inside the museum; from fashion and jewellery to photography and sculpture, its the boundless creativity within the museum walls that brings our hero to life. As the mannequin, dancer and lead choreographer Max Cookward (BBC Young Dancer 2019, Contemporary Finalist), journeys through the galleries to a haunting soundtrack, they meet other dancers along the way and gather energy and momentum as they move together through the empty museum. ... More  Michele Gabriele's The Vernal Age of Miry Mirrors' curated by Treti Galaxie opens at NAM - Not A MuseumFLORENCE.- In front of an unexpected event, but also in the presence of new and unknown shapes, objects or situations, the human brain can adopt two strategies: in the first one, it receives visual inputs, elaborated by the entorhinal cortex, and compares them with memories of similar past experiences contained in the hippocampus. From this comparison, it identifies a single and minimal detail that can be traced back to a familiar memory, on which it builds a totally subjective image of reality. The novelty is automatically traced back to something already known, something already seen. In the second strategy, the brain registers the novelty as an error or as a traumatic event, and simply prevents us from seeing it. It makes it invisible to our gaze, and our ability to perceive it becomes similar to a mirror that has momentarily lost ... More  German Pop art icon at auction for the first timeMUNICH.- Everyone in the art scene knows Konrad Fischer as one of the most influential gallerists with locations in Düsseldorf and Berlin. Under the name of Konrad Lueg he was a likewise acclaimed painter and, above all, a German Pop art pioneer. Now the first work he ever sold, formerly part of the seminal collection of Gustav Adolf and Stella Baum, will be called up in the Evening Sale at Ketterer Kunst in the auction in Munich on June 10/11. The work is being offered at auction for the first time and has an estimate of US$ 190,000-320,000 ( 180,000-300,000). FuÃballer is an impressive large-size work. It was made in Düsseldorf in 1964 as part of a series of pictures of football players and boxers based on photos from newspapers and magazines. Recapturing figurative image contents, Konrad Lueg took a stand against ... More  Sarah Silverman's family show (really!) about divorce and depressionNEW YORK, NY.- When comedian Sarah Silverman was maybe 8, her father gave her a joke book. This was no childhood compendium of riddles and rhymes. It was a collection of tasteless humor, and on the very first page, she recalled, it contained a zinger about Little Red Riding Hood getting it on with the Big Bad Wolf. As a child, Silverman was mystified by these punch lines. As an adult, she said, I went, oh my God, what is wrong with my father? And then she wrote the whole bit into The Bedwetter, the new off-Broadway musical based on her memoir of the same name. Its one of many R-rated episodes that were inspired by her beloved dad, who taught her to swear when she was 3, unwittingly setting her on the path to becoming a comic. The family life she has memorialized onstage was short on boundaries ... More  Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, award-winning Hispanic novelist, dies at 93NEW YORK, NY.- Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, a charismatic, award-winning writer who created a fictional version of the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where he was raised by Anglo and Hispanic parents, as the backdrop for 15 novels set in a border land like his own, died on April 19 in Cedar Park, Texas, a suburb of Austin. He was 93. His daughter Clarissa Hinojosa said the cause of his death, in a memory care center, was complications of dementia. A major figure in Chicano literature along with Tomás Rivera, Sandra Cisneros, Rudolfo Anaya and others, Hinojosa-Smith wrote stories in Spanish and English about race, power, class, money and war in Belken County, creating a vivid world that mirrored his own life. In 2014, he received the National Book Critics Circles Ivan Landrof award for lifetime achievement. The award ... More  Billy Crystal carries the tune in 'Mr. Saturday Night'NEW YORK, NY.- On the heels of City Slickers, just a few years after When Harry Met Sally, Billy Crystal was at the apex of his film stardom when he made the 1992 movie Mr. Saturday Night. If you watch it now, you can see why it flopped, not least because Crystal was playing against type as Buddy Young Jr., a ruthlessly selfish has-been comic with a vicious streak. At the time, Crystal was in his 40s; for much of the film, Buddy is in his 70s. And Crystal embodied him with a middle-aged comedians idea of that later phase of life: under old-guy makeup so egregious that viewers couldnt possibly suspend disbelief, and with the physical mannerisms of an ancient like Miracle Max, Crystals indelible elder from The Princess Bride, but without the charm. Three decades later, Crystal too is in his 70s, and in the new musical ... More  Composers give new shape to Ornette Coleman's jazzNEW YORK, NY.- Bang on a Can had big plans for 2020. Before the pandemic started, this classical music collective was busy planning its most ambitious festival yet in New York City: a three-day event called Long Play, with acts stretched across multiple venues in Brooklyn. In moving beyond their storied, single-day marathons, Bang on a Can was signaling new ambitions, and was going toe-to-toe with other major avant-garde bashes like the Big Ears Festival in Tennessee. Of course, those designs were plowed under. So Bang on a Can reacted nimbly and quickly by commissioning artists from those scuttled dates to write solo pieces that were premiered online. Those pandemic solos, as they have been called, became a tradition of their own. (Some of them showed up as programming last year at the collectives summer ... More  The estate of legendary entertainers Siegfried & Roy comes to auction at BonhamsLOS ANGELES, CA.- From humble beginnings in war-torn Germany to international fame and a record-setting run at The Mirage in Las Vegas, Siegfried & Roy were unparalleled as entertainers and personalities. On June 8-9, 2022, Bonhams will present more than 500 personal items from Siegfried & Roys professional and personal lives in two days of live sales with Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible at Bonhams Los Angeles. All proceeds will go towards the SARMOTI Foundation, Siegfried & Roys personal charity. Helen Hall, Director of Pop Culture at Bonhams commented: We are thrilled to offer the astounding and magical collection of Siegfried & Roy at Bonhams in Los Angeles. Siegfried & Roy dreamed a life for themselves and then made it a reality, whether on stages around the world or in their homes ... More  Kenneth Tsang, veteran Hong Kong actor, dies at 87HONG KONG.- Kenneth Tsang, a Hong Kong actor known for his tough-guy supporting roles as cops, crime bosses and kung fu masters, and as a ubiquitous TV pitchman for hair dye, died Wednesday while in hotel quarantine in the city. He was 87. His death was confirmed by his manager, Andrew Ooi. A cause of death was not immediately reported. Tsang was undergoing mandatory quarantine as part of the standard requirement for travelers entering Hong Kong from abroad and had tested negative for the coronavirus a day before he was found dead, the public broadcaster RTHK reported. Hong Kong requires most arrivals to spend at least one week in hotel quarantine. Tsang appeared in more than 200 Hong Kong and Hollywood films, often cast as a tough mafia boss, a police officer or a military official, including a North Korean ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English landscape painter David Cox was born April 29, 1783. David Cox (29 April 1783 - 7 June 1859) was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of impressionism. He is considered one of the greatest English landscape painters, and a major figure of the Golden age of English watercolour. In this image: A Train on a Viaduct by David Cox.
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