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Isaac Mizrahi, Desert Storm, 1991. Silk georgette. Collection of Isaac Mizrahi. Image Credit: Jason Frank Rothenberg.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- From gowns to grunge, Fashion Nirvana: Runway to Everyday marks the first fashion and video art exhibition in McNay history. Set in the wake of the Cold War, in a decade of great hope and freedom ushered in by the fall of the Berlin Wall, the innovative installation celebrates the fearless designers, photographers, and video artists who made the 1990s iconic and worthy of its current revival. As a museum dedicated to innovation in the art of our times, the McNay proudly honors the bold artistic achievements of a decade that did more to pave the way for change than any other since the 1960s, said Richard Aste, McNay Director and CEO. Through their authentic, experimental creations, the eras emerging artists captured the optimism, anxiety, and diversity of a generation poised to reinvent itself. Fashion Nirvana features over 60 garments by famous designers Dior, Tom Ford, Jean Paul Gaultier, Carolina Herr ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson poses in front of his artwork "Your spiral view" during a presentation of the "Olafur Eliasson: In real life" exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in the northern Spanish Basque city of Bilbao on February 13, 2020. ANDER GILLENEA / AFP
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 | | Argentine researchers find distant Tyrannosaurus relative | | Andrew Jones Auctions announces first Collections Curated by Designers of Distinction auction | | In trippy times, Bill Graham took care of reality | 
Tralkasaurus would have been dwarfed by its distant cousin Tyrannosaurus rex which could grow to 14 meters in length. Photo: Agency CTyS-UNLaM.
BUENOS AIRES.- The remains of a 90-million-year-old carnivorous dinosaur distantly related to Tyrannosaurus rex has been discovered in Argentine Patagonia by a team of paleontologists. The four-meter-long (13-foot-long) theropod was discovered in February 2018 in the central Argentine province of Rio Negro. Scientists have christened it Tralkasaurus cuyi, the National University of La Matanza's Scientific Disclosure Agency said on Thursday. Tralkasaurus means "thunder reptile" in the indigenous Mapuche language common in Patagonia. Cuyi relates to the place the fossil remains were found, El Cuy. Tralkasaurus would have been dwarfed by its distant cousin Tyrannosaurus rex which could grow to 14 meters in length. "The size of the Tralkasaurus body is smaller than other carnivores in its group -- the abelisaurids," said Dr Federico Agnolin, an investigator from the Argentine Museum of Natural ... More | | 
Set of six Louis Vuitton monogram Alzer hard sided suitcases, second half 20th century, the largest 20 inches tall by 29 ¾ inches wide (est. $5,000-$7,000).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Andrew Jones Auctions will present its first-ever auction of Collections Curated by Designers of Distinction on Sunday, Feb. 23, online and in the gallery at 2221 South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, starting promptly at 10:30 am Pacific time. The auction comprises 500 lots of select important antiques and fine art. Were proud to have been chosen to offer six important collections of antique furniture, Asian works of art, decorative and fine art above all other California auction houses, said company president Andrew Jones. The arbiters of style that assembled these collections have put their signature on the aesthetic thread of each while reflecting the character of the individual owners. Turkish-born Kalef Alaton (1940-1989) is widely regarded as one of the biggest influences on the Californian residential interiors in the 1980s. His feel for antiques and ability to mix styles, colors ... More | | 
Jimi Hendrixs coat and shirt on display in Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution, a multimedia exhibition at the New-York Historical Society. George Etheredge/The New York Times.
by Jon Pareles
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Many concert promoters keep a low profile. Theirs is mostly a backstage job, dealing with the mundane: contracts and equipment, schedules and security, advertising and accounting. Yet those tasks are essential to building any live music scene. Bill Graham the promoter who got started in hippie-era San Francisco, opened the Fillmore East in New York City in 1968 and went on to present concerts worldwide was by no means self-effacing. He made himself Americas best-known rock promoter from the 1960s to the 1990s. In the late 1980s, when Graham presented annual New Years Eve arena concerts by the Grateful Dead, he would take to center stage at midnight in costume. As a young man he had wanted to be an ... More |
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| | Mudlarks scour the Thames to uncover 2,000 years of secrets | | Nicolas Party's first Los Angeles solo exhibition opens at Hauser & Wirth | | Frederick Koch, who spurned family business, dies at 86 | 
Lara Maiklem looks for items from London's past along the Thames River. Andrew Testa/The New York Times.
by Megan Specia
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- On a finger numbingly cold morning, Lara Maiklem swung open a metal gate tucked behind a pub in southeast London and scrambled down a set of slick stone steps onto the banks of the River Thames. The river runs through the city west to east, bisecting London as it winds past the new skyscrapers and old docks that line its banks. But twice a day, the low tide pulls the flowing edges of the Thames back dropping the river level by 20 feet in some areas revealing centuries of forgotten London life in the fragments that poke out from the newly exposed land, known as the foreshore. This is when the mudlarks, like Maiklem, come out. What you are looking for are straight lines and perfect circles, she said, her eyes scanning the surface of the mud for man-made artifacts. They sort of stand out from the natural shapes. Within minutes she ... More | | 
Portrait with Snakes, 2019. Pastel on canvas, 150 x 127.2 x 2.5 cm / 59 x 50 1/8 x 1 inches. © Nicolas Party. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Jeff McClane.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Hauser & Wirth is presenting Sottobosco, the first LA solo exhibition for critically admired New York-based Swiss artist Nicolas Party. Comprised of new paintings, sculptures, site-specific murals, and an architectural installation, Sottobosco conjures the shadowy world of the forest floor in a brilliant pastel universe where subject, form, and time collapse in visual splendor. Best known for his unique approach to landscapes, portraits, and still life scenes created in pastel, Party directs his idiosyncratic choice of medium toward otherworldly depictions of objects both natural and manmade. With the new works on view at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, he further explores this binary through what Italians call sottobosco. The Italian word for the undergrowth of a forest also denotes the sub-genre of still life painting devoted to botanical and zoological life in natures darker regions. Through his uniqu ... More | | 
Frederick Koch and Margo Langenberg during the annual autumn dinner at the Frick Collection in New York on Oct. 17, 2016. Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times.
by Katharine Q. Seelye
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In 1983, a wealthy American wandered into the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon in England. He saw a scale model of a new theater that the company hoped to build, if only it had the money. The American said he would underwrite the project, but he wanted to remain anonymous. Three years later, Queen Elizabeth II presided at the opening of the new Swan Theater. The American, Frederick R. Koch, who had built the theater for $2.8 million, stood by her side. But she respected his wish for privacy: She thanked our generous benefactor but did not name him. Koch (pronounced coke) kept a low profile for most of his life. When the news media mentioned him at all, it was usually in passing in reports about his three hard-charging billionaire younger ... More |
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| | Statues in winter woolies as Romanian museum bids to aid homeless | | Gerald Peters Contemporary opens an exhibition of works by Maurice Burns | | Napoleon meets his successor, in Timberlands | 
A bronze sculpture adorned with a woolen scarf to "guard against the cold" is displayed in the garden of the National Art Museum of Romania (MNAR) in Bucharest. Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP.
BUCHAREST (AFP).- Statues at Romania's national art museum sported colourful hats and scarves Wednesday as part of an "appeal against indifference" towards homelessness in one of the EU's poorest member states. The winter woolies adorned a dozen bronze sculptures in the garden of the National Art Museum of Romania (MNAR) in the campaign set to run through February. "A museum must protect works of art but also people, especially those in need," museum director Liviu Constantinescu told AFP. The goal is to "send an artistic message but also an appeal against indifference," Constantinescu added. The "Sheltered by Art" exhibit in the former royal residence in central Bucharest includes information panels on how to help the homeless. "We will stop to admire a sculpture, but when we encounter a homeless ... More | | 
Maurice Burns, Harlem, 1998, assemblage.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gerald Peters Contemporary is presenting an exhibition of works by Maurice Burns (b. 1937) on view at 24 East 78th Street in New York. The exhibition marks the first appearance in New York of Burnss vital, frequently autobiographical canvases, produced after the artist retreated to Santa Fe in the 1970s to immerse himself in painting. A MacDowell fellow and Pollock-Krasner award recipient, Burns weaves together ideas and iconography from the Harlem Renaissance, Pop Art, and the School of London in pursuit of a cultural territory unbound by 20th-century conceptions of racial identity and the conventions of high culture. As Burns remixes art history and pop culture on his postmodern canvases, a distinctly personal imaginary emergesone as complex and uncompromising as the jazz legends, Native American chiefs, mathematicians, and everyday people who populate his world. Burns was raised in segregated Talladega, A ... More | | 
Detail from Kehinde Wileys Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps (2005), at the Brooklyn Museum, Jan. 23, 2020. Emily Andrews/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- A French masterpiece has come to New York for the first time ever, and has been greeted with a curious silence. Its Jacques-Louis Davids Bonaparte Crossing the Alps, from 1801, and you know it even if youve never seen it in person, so enduring is its propaganda. To commemorate Napoleons victory over Austria at the Battle of Marengo, David painted him charging up a mountain on a piebald steed, right arm pointing skyward, trademark bicorne on his head, cool and cocksure as his horse bucks its front heels. In copies the artist and his studio made afterward Napoleon wears a red cape, but here, in the original, hes wrapped in a mantle of gold, starchy and solid in the Alpine air. Its actually here! Usually, to see Bonaparte Crossing the Alps, you have to trek to the suburbs of Paris, where it hangs in the Château de Malmaison, the home of Empress ... More |
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| | Tornabuoni Art opens the first ever London exhibition of the Italian Novecento | | Art Institute of Chicago acquires monumental Tiffany stained glass window | | Grown-up art at a Children's Museum. But it's still playtime. | 
Gino Severini, Natura morta con strumento musicale a fiato e coppa di frutta, 1928-29 tempera on cardboard 12,99 x 8,66inch - 33 x 22 cm © Tornabuoni Art.
LONDON.- Tornabuoni Art presents the first ever London exhibition of the Italian Novecento, the figurative art movement founded in 1922. Featuring over thirty works of art by leading Italian artists, such as Giorgio Morandi, Giorgio de Chirico, Felice Casorati, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini and many others, this exhibition explores Italian art in the period between the two World Wars. Most of the works on display come from the Tornabuoni Art collection, with a loan from the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art in London. This exhibition takes inspiration from the landmark 1926 exhibition Prima Mostra del Novecento Italiano in Milan, organised by the charismatic writer and curator Margherita Sarfatti, who launched the Novecento movement. In particular, the show looks at figurative art of this period through the three main themes of the original Novecento exhibition: still life, landscape and the representations of women ... More | | 
Design attributed to Agnes F. Northrop (American, 18571953); Tiffany Studios (American, 190232). Hartwell Memorial Window (Light in Heaven and Earth), 1917. Corona, New York. Leaded glass; 701 x 487.7 cm (276 x 192 in.).
CHICAGO.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced the acquisition of an extraordinary memorial window, attributed to Agnes F. Northrop and made by Tiffany Studios in 1917. Originally commissioned for the Central Baptist Church (now known as Community Church of Providence) as the gift of Mary L. Hartwell in memory of her husband, Frederick W. Hartwell, the window is a pinnacle achievement in the medium of stained glass. Art Institute President and Eloise W. Martin Director James Rondeau shared: It is with great pride we welcome this transformative work of art into the collection, an object that demonstrates the highest level of achievement in American glass production and exemplifies our ongoing commitment to excellence. Tiffany Studios became synonymous with radiant materials and technical brilliance, and this ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: January Stewart.
by Laurel Graeber
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- On a recent visit to an exhibition, I broke what is usually a museums most immutable rule. I touched the art. No shocked guards stopped me or shooed away the many smaller patrons who were doing the same. Granted, this was the Childrens Museum of Manhattan. But unlike many displays for the young, this one, Inside Art, features work by 11 adults whose résumés include the Jewish Museum, El Museo del Barrio and the Whitney. The show lets visitors encounter art not as a child sort of pretending to be an adult, said Leslie Bushara, the museums deputy director of education and exhibitions, but running around like a child. Run around they do. Joiri Minayas Spandex Installation #6 (Labyrinth) invites the curious into a vibrantly printed fabric maze. Up & Around, a cluster of large cylinders suspended vertically by the duo Yeju & Chat, beckons museumgoers to stand inside ... More |
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 Tom Hunt joins Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac as DirectorLONDON.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac announced the appointment of Tom Hunt as a Director based in the London gallery. Toms role encompasses both primary and secondary market sales as well as working as artist liaison, curating exhibitions at the galleries.. We are delighted to have Tom join the team. He brings with him a wealth of curatorial and international art advisory experience, as well as a great appreciation of the artists we work with. Furthermore, his approach to working with artists, institutions and collectors chimes with the core values of the gallery. Thaddaeus Ropac With over a decade of experience, Tom has worked closely with a number of the worlds leading artists, placing their works in prominent public and private collections, curating exhibitions, writing about their practice and developing relationships with curators and collectors. Tom joins ... More Kalfayan Galleries opens a solo exhibition of new works by Edouard SacaillanATHENS.- Following the successful retrospective presentation of Edouard Sacaillans work in Versailles in 2018, Kalfayan Galleries (Haritos 11, Kolonaki, Athens) presents the solo exhibition of new works with reference to one of his most popular themes, the spectators. Edouard Sacaillans first solo exhibition focused exclusively on the theme of 'spectators' was held at Kalfayan Galleries in Thessaloniki in 2008. The 2020 gallery show in Athens manifests the endless, hearty and multi-faceted inspiration of the artist, who is researching the theme of spectators from a sociological and philosophical view point. Incarnating the existential anxiety of the modern man, Sacaillans 'observers' star in scenes from everyday life. The invironments and themes of the spectators are enriched and the urban landscape plays a dominant role in the works ... More Steidl publishes Joel Sternfeld's "American Prospects"GÃTTINGEN.- First published in 1987 to widespread critical acclaim, American Prospects has come to be regarded as an enduring classic as relevant to societal conditions now as it was four decades ago. In particular the role of the seasons and of natural disasters seen in its pages presages great threats to the earth we now witness. This revised edition permits a deeper look into the surprising ways that Joel Sternfelds delicate, pastel hued images presented a deep mediation on the America in the 1970s and 80s that managed to be simultaneously funny and despairing, calmly beautiful and grim. American Prospects has been likened to Walker Evans American Photographs and to Robert Franks The Americans in its ability to visually summarize the zeitgeist -and to influence the course of photographic representation following its publication. ... More Exhibition of the largest public display of material from the Levi Strauss & Co. Archives opens SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In 1873, near the end of the Gold Rush, Levi Strauss & Co., named for a Bavarian Jewish dry goods merchant in San Francisco, obtained a U.S. patent with tailor Jacob Davis for the process of putting metal rivets in mens work pants to increase their durability. This small innovation marked a transformative moment in American style it was the birth of the blue jean. From February 13 to August 9, 2020, The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco celebrates the cultural legacy this invention inspired with Levi Strauss: A History of American Style, an original exhibition showcasing the life of Levi Strauss and the worldwide phenomenon of the now iconic blue jean. Featuring over 250 items from the Levi Strauss & Co. Archives, including garments, advertisements, photographs, and ephemera, The CJMs exhibition represents the largest ... More Lyle Mays, Pat Metheny Group keyboardist, is dead at 66NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Lyle Mays, a keyboardist, composer and arranger best known for his long association with guitarist Pat Metheny, died Monday in Simi Valley, California. He was 66. His death, at Adventist Hospital, was announced by his niece Aubrey Johnson, a jazz singer. She did not specify the cause, saying only that he died after a long battle with a recurring illness. Metheny has long been one of the marquee names in jazz. But the albums he made with his working band from 1978 to 2005 for ECM, Geffen and other labels were always credited to the Pat Metheny Group, never just to Metheny. And Mays was an integral part of that lean quartet from its early days, whether giving depth and color to its sound on synthesizers or soloing gracefully on grand piano. The group gained fame by merging jazz ideas with a rock ... More Solo exhibition of new work by Sebastiaan Bremer opens at Edwynn Houk GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Edwynn Houk Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of new work by Sebastiaan Bremer (Dutch, b. 1970). Nocturne marks the debut of several series of portraiture that Bremer has been developing over the course of the past two years, culminating in the monumental triptych, Storm Breaking Over a Valley, 2020. Each unique image in the exhibition is characterized by Bremers meticulously hand painted white pointillist dots, however these three new series are distinct in the evolution of the techniques used, as he continues to push the bounds of his hybrid creative process. In Veronica, Bremer furthers his investigation into personal memories, a common thread throughout his oeuvre, by reinterpreting a series of candid pictures of his mother Veronica, taken by his father when she was the same age as the artist. He engages ... More Fondazione Giuliani opens a solo show of works by Esther KläsROME.- Fondazione Giuliani is presenting Maybe it can be different, the first exhibition in Rome of German-born, Barcelona-based artist, Esther Kläs. The exhibition includes a variety of works, including sculptures, ceramics, oil stick drawings, wool tapestry and video, which both embody the artists engagement with material experimentation, and highlight her interest in gesture and motion. While grounded in the contemporary, Kläs is indebted to minimalism, albeit nuanced with a hands-on craftsmanship and Arte Povera sensibility. She often returns to similar forms in her work: rounded shapes, curves, hands, volumes folding in on themselves, but they are always mutable, different in their repetition. Working with pliable materials, any possibility of a pristine, smooth surface is eschewed for the rough-hewn and undulating, tactile and textured. The making of the work ... More Alessandro Bianchi, new General Manager of Pirelli HangarBicoccaMILAN.- From March 2nd, 2020, Alessandro Bianchi will be the General Manager of Pirelli HangarBicocca. His appointment follows the six-year tenure of Marco Lanata, who will retain his role as Real Estate Management Director for the Pirelli Group. With many years experience in a number of important cultural institutions, Alessandro Bianchi will oversee the management of Pirelli HangarBicocca, working closely with the Artistic Director Vicente Todolà and the institutions entire team. Alessandro Bianchi (Turin, 1976), holds a BA in Philosophy and a Masters in Management of Cultural Heritage. He was General Secretary of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo from 2002 to 2009 coordinating the 2005 and 2008 editions of the Turin Triennale of contemporary art during this time. From 2009 to 2013, he served as Executive Director of Fondazione ... More Immersive sound and video installation by Stefan Karrer on view at Kunsthaus BasellandBASEL.- No cave, but a nice view. Calypsos Cave was once one of the most important mythological sites on the Maltese island of Gozo, yet this recent piece of online commentary seems tinged with an air of disappointment. According to the legend, the nymph Calypso once held Odysseus captive as a prisoner of love in this cave for seven years. Since 2012, however, the cave has been closed to the public given the risk of it collapsing. Now, another cave nearby serves as the locus of touristic longings and social media content. The Instagram tag #calypsocave has thus long ceased to refer to images of the original site. This development recalls the famous caves in Lascaux, France. Known as Lascaux IV, there is already a fourth identical copy of the original caves, which have been closed since the 1980s. Here too, the majority verdict among the social ... More Growing bill to fix Britain's Big BenLONDON (AFP).- The bill to repair London's iconic Big Ben clock tower has increased by millions of pounds after the discovery of World War II bomb damage, pollution and asbestos, Britain's parliament said Thursday. The cost of renovating the Elizabeth Tower housing the famous clock, which began in 2017, is now set to rise to nearly £80 million ($104 million, 95 million euros). The extensive damage requiring an extra £18.6 million was only revealed once the project team was able to begin intrusive surveys for the first time ever on the 177-year-old structure. However, the efforts to restore the tower "to its previous splendour" remain on track for completion in late 2021, according to officials. A spokesperson for the House of Commons Commission, which is overseeing the project, called the spiralling costs "very frustrating". Ian Ailles, director general of the House ... More Cantor Arts Center appoints Dr. Patrick Crowley as Associate Curator of European ArtSTANFORD, CA.- John and Jill Freidenrich Director of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Susan Dackerman announced today the appointment of Patrick Crowley to the role of Associate Curator of European Art, effective April 20, 2020. Crowley is currently assistant professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago, where he leads courses on a range of topics in the history of art and in his specialty, the art and archaeology of the Roman world. Beyond traditional categories of classical art, including sarcophagi and portraiture, his research encompasses ancient aesthetics, theories of vision and representation and phenomenological approaches to visual evidence. This expertise extends to timely themes of materiality, media and embodiment, which Crowley brought into the museum setting through collaborations ... More Several major collections will be offered without reserve at Woody AuctionDOUGLASS, KAN.- The Saturday sale will be held in Woody Auctions auction hall, located at 130 East Third Street. Up for bid will be Wave Crest, biscuit jars, Royal Flemish, Mt. Washington, art glass, art, furniture and more. Woody Auctions first live auction of 2020 has rapidly developed into a major, must-attend event for collectors. Nearly 500 quality lots, including furniture items, will be offered to the highest bidder without reserve on Saturday, March 14th. The event will be held online and in the Woody Auction gallery at 130 East Third Street in Douglass, beginning promptly at 9:30 am Central. The sale will be headlined by the Mr. and Mrs. Whitney Newland collection of Wave Crest and other C.F. Monroe pieces; the Blattner collection of biscuit jars, including Royal Flemish and Mt. Washington items of the highest quality; the late Betty and Bob ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German sculptor Katharina Fritsch was born February 14, 1956. Katharina Fritsch (born 14 February 1956) is a German sculptor. She lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. Katharina Fritsch is known for her sculptures and installations that reinvigorate familiar objects with a jarring and uncanny sensibility. In this image: Katharina Fritsch, Erdbeere / Strawberry 2017. Polyester, paint, 31 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches, 80 x 80 x 80 cm. ©Katharina Fritsch / VG BildKunst, Bonn / Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Photo: Ivo Faber, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
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