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The Sackler Wing, which houses the Temple of Dendur, background, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on May 15, 2019. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Sackler family jointly announced on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, that the Sackler name would be removed from seven exhibition spaces. Karsten Moran/The New York Times
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- In the wake of growing outrage over the role the Sacklers may have played in the opioid crisis, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Sackler family jointly announced Thursday that the Sackler name would be removed from seven exhibition spaces, including the wing that houses the Temple of Dendur. Our families have always strongly supported the Met, and we believe this to be in the best interest of the museum and the important mission that it serves, the descendants of Dr. Mortimer Sackler and Dr. Raymond Sackler said in a statement. The earliest of these gifts were made almost 50 years ago, and now we are passing the torch to others who might wish to step forward to support the museum. The announcement marks a significant break between the worlds largest museum and one of the worlds biggest benefactors, a potent symbol of the upheaval underway at cultural institutions over where their donations come from. We are seeing museums transition from ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Light & Space 2021. Installation view Light & Space, Copenhagen Contemporary.
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| Doyle to auction The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection in two landmark sales | | Gurr Johns to acquire Forum Auctions | | 10 works of art that evaded the algorithm this year | 
The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle presents the landmark auctions of The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection. This important and extensive collection will be offered in two sessions with Part I taking place on Tuesday, December 14 at 2pm. The public is invited to the exhibition on view Saturday, December 11 through Monday, December 13 at Doyle, located at 175 East 87th Street in New York. View the catalogue and place bids at DOYLE.com Melissa Bennie, ceramics expert and guest specialist for this collection, will conduct informal gallery talks profiling highlights from the Collection on Saturday and Sunday at 1pm. The talks are free and open to the public. The auction of The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection: Part II will take place in Fall 2022. Joan Stacke Graham (1934-2020) was a preeminent expert in the field of majolica the brilliantly hued ceramics that filled the hearts and ... More | | 
Gurr Johns acquires Forum Auctions.
LONDON.- Global art advisory firm Gurr Johns are acquiring Forum Auctions to significantly expand the firms auction division. Founder Stephan Ludwig joins the Board of Gurr Johns to lead all auction operations including oversight of Dreweatts. Mr. Ludwig will work with Ben Clark, as Co-Chief Executive Officers of the group. Ben Clark will continue to lead the global art advisory businesses. Together they will work with Chairman, Harry Smith, to jointly develop and grow the groups capabilities in the art markets fast changing landscape. We are delighted to welcome Stephan to Gurr Johns and after strong performances across the businesses in the last twelve months, this acquisition reflects continued opportunity for growth, said Ben Clark, Chief Executive Officer, Gurr Johns. Marked change in global art collectors appetites and activities has spurred digitalization in the art market ... More | | 
A statue of Hercules, which a curator called a puzzle with pieces from at least two statues, at the Capitoline Museums in Rome on Oct. 12, 2020. Nadia Shira Cohen/The New York Times.
by Jason Farago
NEW YORK, NY.- The coronavirus pandemic is a health crisis with so many cultural sequelae: above all, the absorption of all facets of our lives deeper into networks and phone screens. Even more than last year, Ive been drawn to art, music and movies that, in one way or another, evade the workings of likes and shares and carve out a place for human creativity in a world too governed by algorithmic logic. The apple of my eye. The Museum of Modern Arts meticulous, almost overwhelming summer exhibition distilled modernisms father figure to his essence, revealing the day-by-day, stroke-by-stroke scrutiny needed to make a piece of fruit as weighty as the Holy Family. Those bottom-heavy pears, ... More |
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| Lina Wertmüller, Italian director of provocative films, dies at 93 | | VIVE Arts launches new global art trading platform | | Eric Pryor is appointed next President of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | 
Lina Wertmüller speaks during an interview in New York on Jan. 16, 1976. Jack Manning/The New York Times.
by William Grimes
NEW YORK, NY.- Lina Wertmüller, who combined sexual warfare and leftist politics in the provocative, genre-defying films The Seduction of Mimi, Swept Away and Seven Beauties, which established her as one of the most original directors of the 1970s, died overnight at her home in Rome, the Italian Culture Ministry and the news agency LaPresse said Thursday. She was 93. The culture minister, Dario Franceschini, said in a statement that Wertmüllers class and unmistakable style had left its mark on Italian and world cinema. Grazie, Lina, he said. She was the first woman to receive an Academy Award nomination for best director, for Seven Beauties (1975). Wertmüller, an Italian despite the German-sounding last name, burst onto the cinematic scene with a series ... More | | 
Alphonse Mucha, Reverie 1897. Courtesy of Mucha Trust.
LONDON.- VIVE Arts announced a new global art trading platform for the art and culture sector, which launched to the public today, Thursday 9 December. The platform marks the next stage in VIVE Arts' evolution, as it harnesses the latest technologies to build a complete ecosystem for digital art, supporting artists and institutions to create, exhibit and sell ground-breaking artworks and experiences, reaching global audiences both physically and online. The inaugural sale will take place on Friday 17 December and will offer NFTs of iconic Art Nouveau masterpieces by renowned Czech artist Alphonse Mucha (18601939), as part of a major collaboration with the Mucha Foundation. The sale, Timeless Mucha, will coincide with opening of the exhibition Mucha to Manga The Magic of the Line in Taipei, organised by the Mucha Foundation, and new NFT series will drop monthly throughout the duration of the exhibition, ... More | | 
Eric Pryor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Courtesy of JEH Creatives/Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announced that Eric Pryor has been appointed president of the historic museum and college, beginning January 18, 2022. One of Americas cornerstone cultural institutions, PAFA is poised to move forward into its next significant institutional chapter. A strategic, creative, and collaborative leader, Pryor is skilled at guiding institutions through transitions and will partner with PAFAs constituents to reimagine the organization and ensure its long-term sustainability. Pryor comes to PAFA from the Harlem School of the Arts (HSA), where he has served as president since 2015. During his tenure he secured a significant gift that enabled the school to undertake its first major renovation in 40 years and move toward becoming a cultural hub for the neighborhood. Previously he served as Executive ... More |
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| nft now x Christie's x OpenSea sale totals 843 ETH / US $3.6 million | | Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris opens an exhibition of works by Simone Pheulpin | | New president appointed to ADAA Foundation, Six U.S. museums receive foundation grants | 
The top lot of the sale was CyberKong #201, selling for 185 ETH (US$793,439).
NEW YORK, NY.- nft now x Christies x OpenSea, the auction houses first on-chain sale hosted on OpenSea.io, closed December 7, achieving a total of 843 ETH (US$3.6 million) The sale was comprised of a group of NFTs curated by leading NFT digital media platform nft now, Christies Head of Digital and Online Sales Noah Davis, and crypto collector and curator Ronnie Pirovino. A select number of highlights from the sale were exhibited on December 2 and 3 at The Gateway the nft now x Christies-hosted showcase during Art Basel Miami which stood as a celebration of a new era of NFT innovation. nft now is now the first digital media publication in history to co-curate a major auction house sale. This sale is historically significant as Christies first on-chain auction, meaning the bidding, payment and transfer process took place on the Ethereum blockchain via NFT platform OpenSea. In contrast, previous major ... More | | 
Simone Pheulpin. © Antoine Lippens © Adagp, Paris, 2021.
PARIS.- From December 7th, 2021 to January 16th, 2022, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris welcomes Simone Pheulpin. Time Bender, an exhibition paying tribute to a unique artist who has celebrated her 80th birthday in 2021. The exhibition highlights almost 50 years of an exceptional career. Made of strata, rifts and concretions, her cotton artworks seem to defy time, reflecting how the artist views nature and the world. Both her approach and her craft derive from an original personal technique, modeling, out of folds, organic sculptures with an infinity of textures. More than 40 artworks including three recent acquisitions open a dialogue with the museums historic collections. A reference monograph published by Ãditions Cercle dArt accompanies the exhibition. Sleek, poetical, and timeless, the monograph reflects Pheulpins style. The book is exclusively available at the Musée des ... More | | 
In tandem with the close of the 2021 grant cycle, James Cohan, Founder and Partner of James Cohan, has been appointed ADAA Foundation President, overseeing the Foundation's mission and grant-making program.
NEW YORK, NY.- Six museums across the country have been selected to receive 2021 Art Dealers Association of America Foundation grants in support of exhibitions, community engagement programs, and curatorial research that advances art historical scholarship. Funded by members of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), the nation's nonprofit organization of leading art dealers, the grants are awarded annually to small and mid-sized museums, archives, and art institutions across the United States. The 2021 recipients-Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (Boulder, CO), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (Houston, TX), the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (Brooklyn, NY), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (Atlanta, GA), the ... More |
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| Anna Perach and Anousha Payne collaborate on immersive installation on view at Cooke Latham Gallery | | Miller & Miller announces results of Petroliana, Advertising Signs & Memorabilia Auction | | Alexander Berggruen opens an exhibition of works by Sholto Blissett, Emma Fineman, and Madeline Peckenpaugh | 
Anna Perach and Anousha Payne Backwards Eyes, 2021, wood frame, rattan, ceramic, tufting, frame 207 x 109 x 3 cm. © the artists and courtesy Cooke Latham Gallery. Photo: Ben Deakin.
LONDON.- Anna Perach and Anousha Payne have collaborated to create an immersive installation in which their contrasting aesthetic practices are united by the shared themes and concepts that permeate their work. In As She Laughs the gallery is populated by four large sculptures which dominate the space, three figurative works and a giant head which hangs suspended by chains in the center of the gallery. On the walls are painted the distorted and elongated shadows cast by the sculptures. Hinting at firelight, ritual and magic the shadows unite the artworks, a sculptural coven of female forms. Using the surrealist concept of the "exquisite corpse" as a point of departure the sculptures combine Perach and Payne's work. The term was coined in the first half of the twentieth century, the result of the collective automatic writing employed by the surrealists. An initial writing experiment resulted in the following ... More | | 
1950s Canadian ESSO double gasoline pump, restored to Imperial ESSO, with original porcelain faces and a reproduction globe, tagged Gilbarco Sales, graded 8.25 (CA$5,900).
NEW HAMBURG.- A 1930s Canadian Eco Model 160 clockface gasoline pump and a circular, 1946 McColl-Frontenac double-sided porcelain sign, also from Canada, each knocked down for $35,400 in an online-only Petroliana, Advertising Signs & Memorabilia auction held December 4th by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. based in New Hamburg, Ontario. All prices in this report are in Canadian dollars and include an 18 percent buyers premium. The rare, 1930s Canadian Eco Model 160 clockface gas pump with original reverse painted glass dials and the correct nozzle marked, Service Station Equipment, was the expected top lot of the auction, with a pre-sale estimate of $20,000-$25,000. Eager bidders beat the high estimate by $10,000. The clockface pump had had an older, professional restoration to the Texaco colors. The 1946 McColl-Frontenac porcelain sign, six feet in diameter ... More | | 
Emma Fineman, Golden Calf, 2020. Bronze, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 7 7/8 in. Edition of 5.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen presents Sholto Blissett, Emma Fineman, Madeline Peckenpaugh. This exhibition will open Friday, December 10, 2021 at the gallery (1018 Madison Avenue, Floor 3). Sholto Blissett, Emma Fineman, and Madeline Peckenpaugh are contemporary artists whose depictions of time and space disorient linear readings and question the natural world. Though their approaches vary perceptively, through paintingand sculpture as well for Finemaneach artist explores humanitys fluctuating relationship with the surrounding environment. Sholto Blissett constructs fantastical landscapes, marked by imagined monuments and topiary in the foreground. They are eerie scenes suffused with the tension between human attempts to modify nature, and natures resistance to these contortions. Blissett reveals this attempt to control nature as a human self-delusion: humanity is indivisibly connected toeven embedd ... More |
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 Charles Darwin letter on the success of his 'Origin of Species' sold for $144,020 at auctionBOSTON, MASS.- A Charles Darwin letter that discussed the success of his book, 'On the Origin of Species' sold for $144,020, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The two-page handwritten letter signed "C. Darwin," dated January 29, [1860]. In part, the letter to his former teacher, John Stevens Henslow, "The measles has gone like wild-fire through the house, but we are now quit of it. We shall be delighted to see you here, whenever you can spare the time
I shall be particularly glad to hear any of your objections to my views, when we meet. My Book has been far more successful as yet, than I dreamed ofThe two last chapters are in my opinion the strongest." Henslow was a friend and mentor to Charles Darwin, credited with inspiring his passion for natural history. Upon the book's publication on November 24, 1859, Darwin had his publisher, John Murray, forward a copy to Henslow. ... More  Christie's Handbags x HYPE: The Luxury Remix achieves $2.9MNEW YORK, NY.- Handbags x HYPE: The Luxury Remix, a curated auction that reformulates our understanding of luxury today, achieved a total of $2,902,000. The sale was sold 97% by lot and 142% hammer above low estimate. Leading the sale was a pair of game-worn and dual signed Air Jordan XIIIs from Michael Jordans last regular season game of the Chicago Bulls championship season, which sold for $375,000. Other highlights from the sale include a complete collection of Virgil Abloh Nike Off-Whites, which achieved $62,500, and a complete set of Kanye West Adidas Yeezy 350s, which realized $37,500. The sale also achieved exceptional results for Hermès pieces, including: a rare Bleu Marine, White, Orange Faubourg Sellier Birkin 20, which sold for $175,000; a rare Matte White Himalaya Niloticus Crocodile Birkin 35, which achieved $137,500; and a Braise Porosus ... More  Betts Project opens an exhibition of new works by Pier Vittorio AureliLONDON.- Betts Project is presenting Synthesis and Destruction, an exhibition of new works by Pier Vittorio Aureli. This will be the third solo exhibition of the artist at the gallery. Synthesis and Destruction presents thirty-six drawings Walls and Doorways by Pier Vittorio Aureli produced between 2020 and 2021. Made in ink on paper, the chiaroscuro style of the works lends a theatrical allure to their abstract forms. Crisp frames capture the contemplative movement of rapidograph pen on paper, as if caught in the act. Walls (35 cm x 25 cm) portrays a series of twenty-one linear tectonic forms. Deliberately drawn in axonometric perspective, the resulting cross-hatched forms extend to the borders of the paper, omitting any information about what is inside or beyond the frame. Instead, the drawings seem to emphasise the primary purpose of a wall: that is, they mark the territory and coordin ... More  Pie Herring's first London solo show 'Fortitude' opens on Wigmore StreetLONDON.- Albany Arts announced the latest solo exhibition of work by Pie Herring. Fortitude marks Herrings debut London solo show, featuring an explosive body of painted works. The exhibition comprises of two series of work which reflect and were inspired by a year she spent painting across two continents. Last year Pie was invited to spend time at a conservation park in Northern Kenya known as Lewa Wildlife. She was asked to create a body of work detailing the impact that the Covid 19 virus, and the subsequent lack of tourism, has had on the rural communities surrounding the parkland. Pies work from Kenya was exhibited at a successful group show at the High-Line Nine Gallery in New York earlier this year, and subsequently her piece entitled To Have Three Daughters has recently been awarded second place in the Women United Art Prize. Pie says I was lucky ... More  Christie's announces new sale site for WineLOS ANGELES, CA.- Christies Wine department announces its expanded presence on the West Coast with a new sale site at Christies Los Angeles. The transition of Wine auctions to Los Angeles reflects a strategic decision to cater to and cultivate this dominate wine state of the United States in conjunction with our Asian markets. The Luxury division at Christies, and Wine in particular, has seen a marked increase in participation from these two regions of the past five years, with 40% of active Wine clients hailing from either the West Coast or Asia. The Department will also expand with Adam Schneider, who joins as Junior Specialist based in Christies Los Angeles. Adam holds a BA from Harvard University and an MFA from The New School, and is currently working toward his WSET Diploma with a concentration on California wines. Starting with the Fine & Rare Wines online ... More  'Kimberly Akimbo' review: What's an anagram for 'wonderful'?NEW YORK, NY.- The sweetest love scene on a New York stage right now involves neither Left Bank bohemians, Orpheus and Eurydice nor even that freak with the mask. Rather, its between a tuba-playing, elvish-speaking high school über-nerd and a girl who looks like his grandmother. Thats because the girl, Kimberly Levaco, born with a genetic aging disorder akin to progeria, appears to be in her 60s even though shes just turning 16. In the funny and moving new musical Kimberly Akimbo, which opened Wednesday in an Atlantic Theater Company production at the Linda Gross Theater, Victoria Clark brings her to life so believably and gorgeously that you find yourself rooting for a kiss you might otherwise find creepy. Thats no surprise; Clark, 62, is one of our great singing actors, situating herself exactly where the two impossible arts intersect. In role after role particularly as ... More  New Contemporaries returns to South London Gallery with 75 new artistsLONDON.- New Contemporaries returns to South London Gallery in December for the fourth consecutive year with 75 emerging and early career artists from UK art schools and alternative peer-to-peer learning programmes. This longstanding and vital organisation gives visibility and recognition to the incredible breadth and depth of emerging talent whilst also providing access to other development opportunities that enable artists practices to become more sustainable. The Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021 exhibition is complemented by a specially created online platform, and an exciting range of public programmes. This includes peer mentoring with ArtQuest; Craft-techworkshops, artist responses and a panel discussion around the intersection of craft and technology; NC Liveartists working with performance responding to and animating their exhibited works; and New ... More  Balkrishna Doshi to receive 2022 Royal Gold Medal for ArchitectureLONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects announced that Balkrishna Doshi will receive the Royal Gold Medal 2022, one of the worlds highest honours for architecture. Given in recognition of a lifetimes work, the Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by Her Majesty The Queen and is given to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence on the advancement of architecture. It has been awarded since 1848 and will be presented to Balkrishna Doshi at a special ceremony in 2022. With a 70 year career and over 100 built projects, Balkrishna Doshi has influenced the direction of architecture in India and its adjacent regions through both his practice and his teaching. His buildings combine pioneering modernism with vernacular, informed by a deep appreciation of the traditions of Indias architecture, climate, local culture and craft. His projects ... More  Punctum Press to publish Brink: Photographs by David ButowNEW YORK, NY.- From a dingy motel room in the swing state of Michigan, to the Oval Office, BRINK chronicles dynamics that unfolded during the 2016 presidential election and led, finally, to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in January 2021. Photographer David Butow moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Washington, D.C. in 2017 to document what he knew would be a chaotic time in U.S. politics. While I expected the incompetence, I underestimated the treachery, he says in the books Endnotes. The visual narrative is presented in three acts to highlight the histrionic sequence of events. Act I begins with photographs made shortly before the 2016 presidential election, focusing on ordinary Americans in battleground states in the U.S. Midwest, a combination of rural areas and Rust Belt towns where many voters were drawn to Trump's nativist and anti-establishment message ... More  Exhibition presents mural paintings discovered at imperial and secondary tombsHONG KONG.- The Indra and Harry Banga Gallery of the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) presents the new exhibition A Glimpse of Tang Prosperity from Murals from December 3rd, 2021, to February 27th, 2022, revealing the prosperity and art achievements of Tang China. A Glimpse of Tang Prosperity from Murals is a large-scale exhibition, jointly organised by the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation, the National Cultural Heritage Administration, the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Heritage Administration, and the Hong Kong Rosamond Foundation. Prior to coming to Hong Kong, the exhibition was very well received in Taiwan and Macau. Now the 42 mural paintings, discovered at imperial and secondary tombs, can be seen in Hong Kong, where they are recombined for the first time, using digital technologies and light projection to restore the full splendor of imperial tomb ... More  The Royal Society of Sculptors begins £6.5m restoration of its historic home, Dora HouseLONDON.- The Royal Society of Sculptors is undertaking a conservation project to transform its historic home, Dora House, the Grade II listed building. The project that has achieved planning consent will be completed next Summer and is the first phase of capitals works to revitalise the building and support the Societys vision as the leading home for sculpture and 3D art. Dora House has been home to the Society and a place for artists and creatives to congregate since the 1970s. Situated in the heart of Londons museum district, it was formerly used as the studios and homes of distinguished sculptors, photographers and architects, and was gifted by Cecil Thomas to the Society. Originally constructed by William Blake in 1820 as a pair of Georgian houses, Dora House, which is now the oldest building in the Queen's Gate Conservation area of Kensington, was remodelled by architect ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Scottish architect and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh died December 10, 1928. Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 June 1868 - 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. His artistic approach had much in common with European Symbolism. His work, alongside that of his wife Margaret Macdonald, was influential on European design movements such as Art Nouveau and Secessionism. He was born in Glasgow and died in London. In this image: Design for a house for an art lover, 1901 © RIBA Library.
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