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Exhibition view © KHM-Museumsverband.
VIENNA.- Each year, the Kunsthistorisches Museum dedicates its autumn show to the Old Masters. The exhibition Titians Vision of Women shows over sixty paintings from international as well as the museums own collections in order to illuminate the depiction of women in the oeuvre of the Venetian master Titian (c.1488‒1576) and his contemporaries. Exceptional works are on loan from, among others, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Louvre in Paris, the Prado in Madrid, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, and the Gallerie dellAccademia in Venice. Titian and his contemporaries, including Palma il Vecchio, Lorenzo Lotto, Paris Bordone, Jacopo Tintoretto, and Paolo Veronese, were inspired by the love poetry and literature of their time to create poetic and sensual, idealizing images of women that went on to inform European painting for many centuries. This exhibition spotlights the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view Betye Saar Serious Moonlight at ICA Miami.
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| SFMOMA opens first museum survey of multimedia artist Tauba Auerbach | | Exquisitely preserved embryo found inside fossilized dinosaur egg | | Joan Didion, 'New Journalist' who explored culture and chaos, dies at 87 | 
Tauba Auerbach, Shadow Weave Metamaterial/Slice Ray, 2013; private collection; © Tauba Auerbach; photo: Steven Probert, courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Building a web of connections across time and media, Tauba Auerbach S v Z Auerbachs first museum survey debuting at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Artbrings together 17 years of the San Francisco-born New York-based artists artworks as well as designed and found objects, prototypes, reference materials and open-edition publications produced and distributed by their imprint Diagonal Press. Auerbachs interdisciplinary work asks us to consider the ways that structure, pattern and gesture function at intricate and vast scales. Often testing the boundaries of rational systems such as language, logic, geometry and physics, Auerbach is driven by a curiosity about where these established principles break down or become subjective. Undermining what the artist calls the habituated gaze, the work contends with questions of what and how we perceive, exploring the existence of multidimensional s ... More | | 
Photo of the oviraptorosaur embryo Baby Yingliang. It is one of the best-preserved dinosaur embryos ever reported. Image courtesy: Ma et al, 2021.
BIRMINGHAM.- A 72- to 66-million-year-old embryo found inside a fossilized dinosaur egg sheds new light on the link between the behavior of modern birds and dinosaurs, according to a new study. The embryo, dubbed Baby Yingliang, was discovered in the Late Cretaceous rocks of Ganzhou, southern China and belongs to a toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur. Among the most complete dinosaur embryos ever found, the fossil suggests that these dinosaurs developed bird-like postures close to hatching. Scientists found the posture of Baby Yingliang unique among known dinosaur embryosits head lies below the body, with the feet on either side and the back curled along the blunt end of the egg. Previously unrecognized in dinosaurs, this posture is similar to that of modern bird embryos. In modern birds, such postures are related to 'tucking'a behavior controlled by the central nervous system and critical for hatching success. After studying egg and embryo, researchers believe that ... More | | 
Joan Didion visits the Broadway theater where her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking was being adapted for the stage, in New York, Feb. 23, 2007. Didion, whose mordant dispatches on California culture and the chaos of the 1960s established her as a leading exponent of the New Journalism, died at home in Manhattan on Dec. 23, 2021. She was 87. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by William Grimes
NEW YORK, NY.- Joan Didion, whose mordant dispatches on California culture and the chaos of the 1960s established her as a leading exponent of the New Journalism, and whose novels Play It as It Lays and The Book of Common Prayer proclaimed the arrival of a tough, terse, distinctive voice in American fiction, died Thursday at her home in Manhattan. She was 87. The cause was complications of Parkinsons disease, according to an email sent by Paul Bogaards, an executive at Knopf, Didions publisher. Didion came to prominence with a series of incisive, searching feature articles in Life magazine and The Saturday Evening Post that explored the fraying edges of postwar ... More |
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| Rarities, unusual items and beautiful pieces of jewellery will be offered in online-only auction | | A Civil War-era time capsule is opened. Inside are more mysteries. | | Continuing treatment of Titian's Assunta in the Basilica dei Frari reveals splendor of the master's palette | 
A Saudi Arabian presentation saif, 20th century.
MUNICH.- Everywhere you look, there is a magical glitter and sparkle, buzzing and enticement. Auction house Hermann Historica is breaking new ground in its online-only auction from 31 January to 4 February 2022. Diamond-studded jewellery and a remarkable poster collection of the modern era jostle for position with rare period pieces and decorative antique arms and armour, vying for buyers' attention on the first two days. The online auction kicks off with art and handcrafts and Asian art on Monday, 31 January 2022. On Tuesday, 1 February 2022, it is the turn of the rarities in the antiquities section and the sensational poster collection amassed by graphic artist Willi Engelhardt, with antique arms and armour bringing up the rear. Lot number 5163 reveals a romantic gift. Set on a fine brass inlay with floral decoration, the exquisitely enamelled medallion on the lid of this jewellery box shows a young couple gazing enraptured ... More | | 
Conservators spent hours carefully prying open the container, which had been hidden beneath a monument to the Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Photo: Twitter / Governor Ralph Northam.
by Eduardo Medina
NEW YORK, NY.- After about five hours of meticulous prying and poking, the time had come Wednesday afternoon for Gov. Ralph Northam to lift the lid of a time capsule that had been hidden beneath a statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, since 1887. The hands of Kate Ridgway, one of the conservators doing the prying and poking, had begun to blister. No pressure, she told Northam. Inside, they found unexpected and seemingly random items: an 1875 almanac, a waterlogged book of fiction, a British coin, a catalog, one letter and a photograph of James Netherwood, a master stonemason who worked on the Robert E. Lee pedestal. We have not yet made sense of why this assortment was placed in the box, said Julie Langan, director of the Virginia ... More | | 
Detail of Titians Assumption of the Virgin during conservation. Photo: Matteo De Fina.
VENICE.- The conservation of Titians Assumption of the Virgin in the Basilica dei Frari continues with great diligence and is expected to be completed by the end of the summer 2022. Treatment has revealed that the 19th-century interventions performed on the Assunta included the broad application of pigmented patinas and areas of heavy overpainting, as was typical of the procedures and tastes of the time. These layers not only masked the full vibrancy of the masterpieces colors, but also caused instability, resulting in the lifting and flaking of the paint layer. Equipped with the results of comprehensive diagnostic investigations, and in consultation with expert conservation scientists, specialists, and officials from the Italian Ministry of Culture, project director Giulio Manieri Elia and conservator Giulio Bono devised a treatment plan to safely remove these detrimental non-original surface residues while ... More |
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| Frieze Los Angeles returns in 2022 with a major new venue hosting over 100 participating galleries | | Bertoia's wraps stellar year with $2.32M Annual Fall Sale of toys, banks and holiday antiques | | Glenstone Museum opens a new exhibition of works by Charles Ray | 
The Pit, Focus LA section, Frieze Los Angeles 2020. Photo by Casey Kelbaugh. Courtesy of Casey Kelbaugh/Frieze.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Frieze revealed first details of the highly-anticipated 2022 edition of Frieze Los Angeles, which will take place February 17-20 at a new location, 9900 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, adjacent to The Beverly Hilton hotel. Led for the first time by Christine Messineo (Director of Frieze Los Angeles and Frieze New York), the fair returns to the city following a hiatus last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Presented in a bespoke structure designed by Creative Director Kulapat Yantrasast and Landscape Director Mark Thomann of WHY, Frieze Los Angeles 2022 will bring together over 100 of the worlds leading galleries, in a celebration of the creative spirit of the city. The 2022 edition of the fair will also see the debut of Frieze Sculpture Beverly Hills, a celebrated public art initiative that has previously been realized in both London and New York, featuring major works by artists that work on a mo ... More | | 
Circa-1880 Santa Claus on a chimney figure, 16in tall. Shown on opening page of Bob Merck reference book Deck The Halls. Sold for $30,000 against an estimate of $8,000-$12,000. Provenance: Bob Merck collection to Ed and Brenda DeGarbolewski collection.
VINELAND, NJ.- Antique toy collectors couldnt have asked for more exciting buying opportunities than they had in 2021, thanks in no small way to the incredible roster of sales conducted throughout the year by Bertoia Auctions. One high-profile collection after another crossed the auction block at the companys inviting New Jersey gallery, with president and principal auctioneer Michael Bertoia maintaining a lively pace at the podium during each of the events. The years most talked-about collections included Aaron and Abby Schroeders spectacular American and European toys; and Paul Coles awe-inspiring Marklin trains and classic American toys, which were sold in a series of dedicated single-owner sales. In April, collectors reveled in bidding on rarities from dozens of high-quality collections in the Annual Spring Auction, whose ... More | | 
Charles Ray, Return to the one, 2020. Handmade paper, 59 ½ x 63 x 55 ½ inches (151 x 160 x 141 cm) © Charles Ray, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.
POTOMAC.MD.- Glenstone Museum opened the third in its ongoing series of exhibitions by American artist Charles Ray (b. 1953, Chicago, Illinois). Since the opening of the Pavilions, Glenstone has worked closely with the artist on installations of his work inside Room 8, which rotate every eighteen months. Ray approaches Room 8 as a laboratory of ideas, allowing each presentation to reveal previously uncharted connections between material and form. This third installation explores the tension between balance and instability, self-portraiture, and visual sleights of hand across a range of materials including concrete, steel, hand-made paper, and aluminum. Works on view span the entirety of the artists career to date, from an early sculpture conceived in the 1970s to a work completed last year. The new installation sheds light on the evolution of Charles Rays daring sculpture practice, from his early years when artmaking was akin ... More |
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| Exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery, London on view at Worcester Art Museum | | Gold box with portrait of Gustav III acquired by Nationalmuseum | | Solo exhibitions of works by Jadé Fadojutimi and Hugh Hayden on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami | 
Ford Madox Brown, Henry Fawcett; Dame Millicent Fawcett, 1872, oil on canvas, 1086 x 838 mm. National Portrait Gallery, London. Bequeathed by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Bt, 1911. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
WORCESTER, MASS.- The Worcester Art Museum opened Love Stories from the National Portrait Gallery, London, an exploration of the role of love in some of the greatest masterpieces of Western art. For over a year and a half, the COVID-19 pandemic has compelled people around the globe to be physically separated from loved ones. In tragic cases they have experienced loss and suffering. It is thus a timely moment to reflect on how portraits sustain us during long periods apart and preserve the memory of those no longer with us. As the first venue in an international tour organized while the National Portrait Gallery is closed for a major redevelopment, Love Stories at WAM is a rare opportunity for Americans to experience locally some of the National Portrait Gallerys treasures normally only seen in ... More | | 
Gold box à deux couleurs, unknown maker, Hanau. Johan Georg Henrichsen: Portrait of Gustav III, c.1778. Guilloché and chased gold in two shades, diamonds, enamel. NMB 2799.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has acquired a unique gold box bearing a portrait by the court enameller, Johan Georg Henrichsen, of King Gustav III. The box was given by the king as a gift to John Mackenzie, a Scottish officer, when he retired from the Swedish army in 1778. Very few such tokens of royal favour have survived intact, which is what makes this gold box unique. Jewel-encrusted portraits of the monarch were the most prestigious token of appreciation. The tradition developed at the French court in the 17th century and soon became a model for other European royal houses of the time. These portraits might take the form of a pendant or be mounted in a jewelled setting on the lid of a gold box. Queen Kristina was the first Swedish monarch to adopt this French fashion, which then flourished in the 18th century. Gustav III frequently handed out gold ... More | | 
Installation view, Hugh Hayden, Boogey Men at ICA Miami.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami is presenting two solo exhibitions dedicated to rising artists Jadé Fadojutimi and Hugh Hayden, marking the first solo museum presentation for Fadojutimi. Debuting a range of newly commissioned works created in the past year, the exhibitions highlight two artists at pivotal moments in the trajectory of their practices, who represent innovative approaches to their mediums and explore pressing global themes. Rounding out a year of dynamic solo presentations at ICA Miami, including the first solo museum exhibitions for established and emerging artists alike, these exhibitions reflect the museum's ongoing commitment to providing a critical, international platform for the most exciting voices in contemporary art and expanding scholarship and understanding of their work. "Fadojutimi and Hayden are each leaders in a generation of artists reinvigorating their mediums, while also exploring pressing hi ... More |
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 Peter Dinklage on 'Cyrano' and life after 'Game of Thrones'NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Dinklage doesnt consider himself much of a singer, and swordfighting is outside his usual area of expertise. But the opportunity to master those skills is precisely what appealed to him about the new movie musical Cyrano, which Dinklage leads as a crooning, jousting poet. Ive got to be intimidated by it, he said. Anything that scares me gets my interest. The 52-year-old actor first tackled the material in a stage musical written and directed by Erica Schmidt, Dinklages wife, with songs written by members of the band The National. After an off-Broadway premiere in late 2019, Schmidts Cyrano has now been made into a lavish film directed by Joe Wright (Atonement), which finds the title character covertly courting his true love, Roxanne (Haley Bennett), in the form of letters sent by besotted soldier Christian (Kelvin Harrison ... More  Castello di Rivoli presents a solo exhibition of the conceptual and interdisciplinary artist Agnieszka KurantTURIN.- Within the overall Museum program Espressioni taking place in 2021-2022, Castello di Rivoli presents Crowd Crystal, a solo exhibition of the conceptual and interdisciplinary artist Agnieszka Kurant (Lódz, Poland, 1978). The exhibition Crowd Crystal investigates the crowds as assets of late capitalism, in which the entire society became a factory of data mining. The title is inspired by the concept of crowd crystals introduced by the writer Elias Canetti in his book Crowds and Power (1960). In her work Agnieszka Kurant analyzes the transformations of the human and the future of labor and creativity. The artist questions the concept of individual authorship and reflects on the notion of the footprint that everyone leaves in the digital world, as well as carbon footprints, as actualizations of prehistoric imprints left by our ancestors. She reflects ... More  BFI marks centenary of the death of Sir Ernest Shackleton with BFI Southbank exploration seasonLONDON.- On 5 January 1922, the heroic age of Antarctic exploration drew to a symbolic close with the death of Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Marking both this centenary, and that of Britains first attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the BFI presents To the Ends of the Earth: Exploration and Endurance on Film, a season at BFI Southbank throughout January, with associated film releases in cinemas and for home entertainment. The season programme includes the BFI National Archive 4K remaster of South (1919) on extended run. It will also be released in cinemas UK-wide on 28 January, followed by Blu-ray/DVD on 21 February. Talks and events include a Q&A with explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes for his expedition record, To the Ends of the Earth: The Transglobe Expedition sharing his first-hand knowledge, and further events ... More  Latvian National Museum of Art offers a meditative art experience in the audio project The Route of WellbeingRIGA.- Visitors to the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga have access to a new audio project in the museums mobile app The Route of Wellbeing, which encourages them to get acquainted with the permanent display using meditative and awareness-raising techniques. Now, when mental well-being has become one of the most significant issues of our time in connection with various world events, there is a growing awareness of the importance of paying attention to the health of both the body and the mind. In response, the project team wants to highlight the potential of art and art museums to promote a positive, soothing, and harmonizing personal experience. 21st century life for a large ... More  ZKM opens 'BioMedia. The Age of Media with Life-like Behavior'KARLSRUHE.- What happens when an artificial intelligence learns from living cucumber plants? 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More  New in January at Smithsonian "FUTURES," an AI to write hilarious New Year's resolutionsWASHINGTON, DC.- Visitors can start 2022 off with a dash of dreaming as FUTURES at the Smithsonians Arts and Industries Building (AIB) invites future makers to an array of new free public programs and pop-ups that help set hopeful intentions for the year ahead. Launching Jan. 1, 2022, audiences can visit aib.si.edu to get their own New Years resolution from an artificial intelligence (AI) Resolution Generator thanks to acclaimed AI humorist and researcher Janelle Shane, author of You Look Like a Thing and I Love You. Resolutions range from the delightfully ambitious (Find and pet every dog in my state) to the truly weird (Make a perfect replica of my house made entirely of bread) to the never-thought-of-it-but-why-not (Spend 30 days with a cabbage and see if Im happier than 30 days before), all created by an AI-trained ... 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More  Steve Bronski, of pioneering gay band Bronski Beat, dies at 61NEW YORK, NY.- Steve Bronski, part of the 1980s British synth-pop trio Bronski Beat, whose members were openly gay at a time when that was uncommon and whose early songs unabashedly addressed homophobia and other gay issues, died after a fire on Dec. 7 at his apartment building in the Soho section of London, British news outlets reported. He was 61. The London Fire Brigade confirmed that it had responded to a fire on Berwick Street and taken an unidentified man to a hospital, where he later died. Josephine Samuel, a friend who had been helping to care for Bronski since hed had a stroke several years ago, told The Guardian that Bronski was the fire victim. Bronski formed Bronski Beat in 1983 with Jimmy Somerville and Larry Steinbachek, and their first single, Smalltown Boy, was released the next year. It was a stark story of a young ... More  Bellevue Arts Museum explores architecture and urban design in its sixth biennialBELLEVUE, WA.- Twenty-five artists, makers, and architects bring their explorations of the built environment to Bellevue Arts Museum for the sixth BAM Biennial exhibition. BAM Biennial 2021: Architecture & Urban Design, which opened at BAM on November 5, takes an in-depth look at the fields of architecture and urban design and considers the role of the built environment in our current moment. The exhibition is the first in the BAM Biennial series to focus on a concept rather than a specific medium within the realm of art, craft, and design. Works featured in BAM Biennial 2021 range from traditional architectural models to large-scale multimedia structures and explore themes of architectural history and archaeology, accessibility and ADA compliance, homelessness, queering architecture, the body in architectural space, city growth vs. sustainability, land ownership, ... More  The Aldrich presents the first solo museum exhibition of New York-based artist Lucia HierroRIDGEFIELD, CONN.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is presenting Marginal Costs, the first solo museum exhibition of New York-based artist Lucia Hierro (b. 1987). Hierros practice, which includes sculpture, digital media, and installation, confronts twenty first century capitalism through an intersectional lens. Appropriating imagery that ranges from commerce to art history, Hierros choices manifest her own multidimensional experience as a Dominican American artist raised in Washington Heights, and now based in Brooklyn. Marginal Costs is on view at The Aldrich through January 2, 2022. With a studio methodology steeped in Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, and European still life painting, as well as her own biographical circumstance, Hierros work surveys power, individuality, and opportunity specific to the communities she orbits. ... More  Freeman's announces excellent results for fall 2021 season PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The tremendous results for Freemans Fall 2021 season of sales confirms overall market strength, deep specialist expertise in Freemans team, and the houses ability to maximize returns on single-owner sales and significant artistic and cultural material. With such an abundance of strong results, its difficult to present the seasons highlights without missing some important pieces, says Fraser Niven, Freemans Chief Executive Officer. Our specialist team and support staff have worked tirelessly throughout this challenging year on behalf of our consignors to present auctions to our bidders worldwide. I am looking forward to our 2022 sale season, with exciting consignments already in-house and more to come. A season highlight was the white-glove sale of the Peltz Collection, a fresh-to-market selection of paintings by Pennsylvania ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Ad Reinhardt was born December 24, 1913. Adolph Frederick "Ad" Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 - August 30, 1967) was an abstract painter active in New York beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists and was a part of the movement centered on the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as abstract expressionism. In this image: View of the exhibition Hard to Picture: A Tribute to Ad Reinhardt, 17.06.2017 - 21.01.2018, Mudam Luxembourg © Estate of Ad Reinhardt; courtesy of David Zwirner, New York/London. Photo: Rémi Villaggi/ Mudam Luxembourg.
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