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Members of a pro-Trump mob storm the Capitol building to disrupt the recording of Electoral College votes to confirm the victory of President-elect Joe Biden in Washington, Jan. 6, 2020. Not long after Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned his Republican colleagues that their efforts to overturn an election would send democracy into a âdeath spiral,â fear surged through the Senate chamber. Erin Schaff/The New York Times.
by Sarah Bahr
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Barbara A. Wolanin did not leave her TV much Wednesday afternoon, watching terrified, she said, as hundreds of Donald Trump rioters rushed into the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building where eight large, framed historical paintings hang. She once was curator for the Architect of the Capitol, the office that preserves and maintains the buildingâs art and architecture. She knew much better than most the horrific possibilities that were presenting themselves. What if rioters slashed John Trumbullâs âDeclaration of Independence,â one of the large paintings from the early 1800s that depict Americaâs fight for freedom? Or smashed the bronze bust of Martin Luther King Jr.? âAll the art in the Capitol is basically on view,â said Wolanin, 77, who served as Curator for the Architect of the Capitol from 1985 until she retired in 2015. âThere arenât a lot of things hidden away.â For nearly four hours, the collection she h ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Yip Yew Chong's more than 50 nostalgic murals painted all over Singapore are immensely popular. Here, with Art Porters Galleryâs co-founder Guillaume Levy-Lambert in front of the âHome (Tiong Bahru)â mural, Yip is holding a canvas from his maiden gallery exhibition, âSomething, Somewhere, Somewhenâ. Calendars with the date 12 January are characteristic of Yipâs work, itâs actually the artistâs birthday. Bien sur, the exhibition opens at Art Porters Gallery on 12 January 2021. Photo courtesy www.artporters.com
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| Miles McEnery Gallery now represents mixed media artist Douglas Melini | | The Ringling receives a wonderful gift of art | | Coco Chanel's final days still fascinate 50 years on | 
Douglas Melini, Untitled (SHRooMS blue frame), 2020. Watercolor and collage on paper with artist frame (reclaimed wood), 14 3/4 x 11 5/8 inches, 37.5 x 29.5 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery announced its representation of Douglas Melini. Douglas Melini is a mixed media artist whose paintings and collages investigate color and space. His hard-edged abstract paintings use color, geometry and pattern to create an eccentric visual experience for the viewer. For over the past twenty years, Melini has explored the abstract and pictorial nature of image making. Most recently, Melinis work has engaged with the landscape, focusing on abstraction in nature. The artist refers to these new works as Tree Paintings. The paintings are made from weathered, reclaimed wood, then stained, and merged with paintings made from densely applied layers of oil paint on linen. The juxtaposition of the naturally eroded surface of the wood with hand applied, brushed layers of accumulated oil paint creates an enticingly meticulous texture. The work conflates the visual realms of geometric abstraction with the natur ... More | | 
George Rickey, Column of Six Parallelelepipeds, 1986. Stainless steel incised with the artist's name, date 1986 and number 1/3 on the base, 86 5/8 by 10 by 10 inches.
SARASOTA, FLA.- The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art announced a recent gift of art to the museum from Murray Bring and Kay Delaney Bring. The donors will contribute 22 works of art by important artists in support of the modern and contemporary collection at The Ringling. The museum is ecstatic to receive this generous gift from Mr. and Mrs. Bring, said Steven High, Executive Director. These acquisitions will greatly expand our contemporary art collection. We are excited to soon be able to share these with the community. The Bring collection includes fine examples of contemporary art by established and celebrated American, British and Japanese artists. The artworks range from the mid-1950s to late-1990s, and include sculpture, painting, and works on paper. The most significant are the examples in bronze, steel, stone and marble by renowned sculptors including Anthony Caro, Clement Meadmore, Beverly Pepper, George Rick ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on January 1, 1960 French fashion designer Coco Chanel poses onboard of a plane at Paris airport. AFP.
by Frédéric Dumoulin
PARIS (AFP).- The greatest fashion designer of the 20th century, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, died suddenly in her suite at the swish Hotel Ritz in Paris half a century ago this week. The woman whose designs still shape what we wear today, died at 9:00 pm on January 10, 1971. Despite it being a Sunday, the 87-year-old was working on a new collection, which was shown two weeks after her death. A perfectionist to the very end, the designer was seen by staff at her fashion house on the rue Cambon the day before checking the slightest details, choosing cloth and inspecting all the buttons. AFP broke the news the middle of the night: "Mademoiselle Coco Chanel died on Sunday evening in Paris." The creator of the little black dress had freed women from the tyranny of Victorian corsetry, borrowing liberally from men's wardrobes to do so. But while her tweed suits, two-tone shoes and quilted handbags were synonymous with French elegance and female liber ... More |
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| More than 80 weavings tell the story of Navajo history with vibrant colors and experimental design techniques | | Wolfgang Tillmans compiles 30 years of his work to draw a picture of where we are today | | Norton launches Augmented Reality app with local projects | 
Unidentified artist, Navajo, Transitional blanket, 18901910, Handspun wool, aniline dyes, Collection of Carol Ann Mackay.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- Bold diamond shapes, dominant stripes, and eye-dazzling zigzags in brilliant colors are just some of the design elements seen in the stunning artistry of Navajo textile art starting from the nineteenth century. In the new special exhibition, Color Riot! How Color Changed Navajo Textiles, individualism and a flair for experimentation of Navajo weavers are vividly expressed in textiles from the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century to today. During this time, weavers acquired new materials, such as vibrant aniline dyes and complex Germantown yarns. These colors, combined with examples of the design system of Hispanic textiles, touched off experiments with color and design in Navajo weaving that were unprecedented. More than 80 of these remarkable textiles in striking colors of orange, red, gold, blue and green are on view from December 19, 2020 through March 14, 2021 at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. The weavi ... More | | 
Wolfgang Tillmans. four books. 40th Anniversary Edition. Wolfgang Tillmans. Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.41 kg, 512 pages.
NEW YORK, NY.- Like hardly any other artist of his generation, Wolfgang Tillmans has shaped our perception of the world. From early portraits of his friends to still lifes, travel shots, nudes, landscape and sky photographs, to his abstract work, Tillmans has created a multitude of iconic works in his unmistakable visual language, opening up new paths and possibilities for both photography and contemporary art. In 2000 he was the first photographer and the first non-British person to receive the renowned Turner Prize. His first volume for TASCHEN (1995) shows the young generation of the 1990s, of which Tillmans himself was a member, in clubs, at Gay Pride, at fashion events, and in everyday life. His dense, realistic photographs conjure up tangible utopias of community and society and are important documents of their time as well. With the follow-up volume Burg (1998), Tillmans enriches his subject matter with another array of beautiful, now iconic ... More | | 
The app launch focuses on six works. Photo: Eric Mika / Local Projects.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- This month, the Norton Museum of Art will launch Norton Art+, an augmented reality (AR) app that creates interactive experiences with contemporary art. Made possible by a $1M grant from the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, to create interactive, accessible experiences with art, the app is designed to engage young audiences and their families with contemporary works from the Nortons collection. The app launch focuses on six works: Nick Caves Soundsuit (2010), Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggens Typewriter Eraser, Scale X (1999), Ugo Rondinones MOONRISE. east. November MOONRISE. east. July (2006), Danh Vos We the People (detail) (2011), Pae Whites Eikón (2018), and Rob Wynnes I Remember Ceramic Castles, Mermaids & Japanese Bridges
(2018). Norton Art+ is included with museum admission, available in English and Spanish, and is accessible on iPads provided by the Museum beginning ... More |
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| Marianne Boesky Gallery presents group painting exhibition In Situ | | Jane Lombard Gallery presents a new body of work by artist Elizabeth Schwaiger | | Nye & Company announces highlights included in the Estate Treasures Auction | 
Eleanor Swordy, Hard Rain.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery is presenting In Situ, a group exhibition featuring new and recent paintings by thirteen artists: Cecily Brown, Olivia Erlanger, Barnaby Furnas, Jammie Holmes, Forrest Kirk, YoYo Lander, Maud Madsen, Chidinma Nnoli, Collins Obijiaku, Celeste Rapone, Lorna Robertson, Eleanor Swordy, and Michaela Yearwood-Dan. Using Charlotte Perkins Gilmans seminal 1892 text The Yellow Wallpaper as a point of departure, In Situ brings together paintings created throughout 2020 that offer reflections of life in isolation as necessitated by the current health crisis private and still, yet restless and resolute. In Situ will be shown in two parts: works by the thirteen included artists will be on view January 7, 2021 February 6, 2021 at the gallerys 507 West 24th Street in New York, and an additional selection of paintings will be highlighted at the gallerys Aspen location from Jan ... More | | 
Elizabeth Schwaiger, Doppleganger, 2020. Acrylic, watercolor, ink, and oil on canvas, 78 x 78 in. Courtesy of the artist and Jane Lombard Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery is presenting, From the Dark Sea, a new body of work by Texan born, Brooklyn based artist Elizabeth Schwaiger. The artists first solo exhibition with the gallery will offer a visual investigation of conscious and subconscious human interiors across two floors of our new Tribeca space. Exploring the precarity of the present, entangled between the tension of past and future, Schwaigers work provides the viewer with a moment of pause; an opportunity to sit and comfortably ruminate within the slippage of time and shifts of power. The structure of the exhibition is designed to pull the viewer through works and between worlds, both major and minor in key. Within this transition, Schwaiger upholds a sense of visual mystery, balancing the benign and malign in shifts between the recognizable ... More | | 
Oil on canvas double portrait of Sheldon and Adelbert Niles Potter by William Worcester Churchill (1858-1926), late 19th century.
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers two-day, online Estate Treasures auction, featuring property from the Siegmund collection of folk art and the Steve and Stephanie Alpert collection, will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, January 20th and 21st, at 10 am Eastern time. The whimsical, online sale will offer a wide variety of fine and decorative arts. Every price point will be represented. Real time online and absentee bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com, Bidsquare.com and the Nye & Company website: www.nyeandcompany.com. Telephone bidding will also be available on a limited basis. The auction is packed with a variety of property from private collections, with an emphasis on American and English furniture, folk art and self-taught/outsider art, American ... More |
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| 'Jason Seife: A Small Spark vs a Great Forest' opens online at Unit London | | Berry Campbell Gallery opens the 2021 season with a solo exhibition of recent work by Jill Nathanson | | Fans of H.G. Wells cry foul over errors in commemorative coin | 
Jason Seife, Lasso, 2020, Oil on canvas, 80 cm diameter, courtesy the artist and Unit London.
LONDON.- In 2018, Jason Seifes solo exhibition Nucleus took place at the Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates. Since then, Seife has been building towards A Small Spark vs a Great Forest. After undertaking a personal and artistic journey through Iran, Syria and Turkey, Seife is presenting his first solo exhibition with Unit London. At the heart of A Small Spark vs a Great Forest is an understanding of the collective nature of humanity: whether from North or South, East or West we are, in essence, cut from the same cloth. This kind of universal humanity has only been emphasised by the Coronavirus pandemic. Covid-19 has no concern for man-made borders; it spreads indiscriminately, irrespective of race, gender or religion, one more wildfire in our burning world. Jason Seife looks to take this renewed appreciation and understanding of cultural equality and explore it by connecting with his Middle ... More | | 
Jill Nathanson.
NEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell Gallery started of the 2021 season with a solo exhibition of recent work by New York artist, Jill Nathanson. Nathansons new paintings continue her exploration of color theory. Combining this with her elaborate process of mixing and pouring paints on to wood panel, Nathanson stands apart from her contemporaries. In 2015, Nathanson was one of six artists in Confronting the Canvas: Women of Abstraction at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida, curated by Jaime DeSimone, an exhibition focused on new, experimental approaches to the process of painting. The other participants were Keltie Ferris, Maya Hayuk, Fran ONeill, Jackie Saccoccio, and Anke Weyer. This year, the Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, and the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, have all acquired works by Nathanson. This is Berry Campbells third exhibition ... More | | 
The coin has irked some fans of Wells who quickly spotted what they described as flaws and botched imagery in the coins design, which was inspired by the authors books. The Royal Mint via The New York Times.
by Johnny Diaz
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The idea was to create a commemorative coin to celebrate the work of H.G. Wells, the British writer, historian and sociologist best known for the novels The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man. But the 2-pound coin that the Royal Mint in Britain unveiled this week has irked some fans of Wells who quickly spotted what they described as flaws and botched imagery in the coins design, which was inspired by the authors books. For instance, the Martian machine that Wells described in The War of the Worlds as a monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, appears to have four legs instead of three. And the image of the invisible man on the coin has ... More |
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 Joan Mitchell Foundation adds conservator Jim Coddington to its BoardNEW YORK, NY.- The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced today the appointment of conservator Jim Coddington to its Board of Directors for a three-year term. Coddington recently retired from the Museum of Modern Art where he was chief conservator from 1996 to 2016. Prior to his appointment to the Foundations Board, from 2019 to 2020, Coddington served as an advisor to the Foundations Legacy Committee, a group of board members who work closely with staff to support planning around the preservation, documentation, and research of the Foundations artwork and archival collections as well as other aspects of stewardship of artist Joan Mitchells legacy. The announcement follows the appointments of finance specialist Marc Chennault and artist Paul RamÃrez Jonas to the Board in 2020. Jim brings to our Board ... More  Karma opens the first New York solo exhibition of Reggie Burrows HodgesNEW YORK, NY.- Karma is presenting the first New York solo exhibition of Reggie Burrows Hodges. Hodges creates paintings centered on the human form, imbuing his subjects with the mystery and significance of remembered scenes or recollected stories. Hodges begins a painting by laying down a matte black ground, circumscribing the contours of his figures in passages of acrylic and pastel. Leaving the faces and other individualizing features of his silhouetted subjects largely undefined, they emerge through the hazy, soft-focus environments that Hodges builds from the ground up with painterly brushwork in luminous palettes. Some of Hodges protagonists are physically active while others exert themselves through attentive contemplation, conveying a feeling of cinematic drama realized through his uniquely painted vision. In On Your Mark: ... More  Beethoven's 'Für Elise' doesn't deserve your eye rollsNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Even if you dont know Für Elise, you know Für Elise. A bagatelle the length of a pop song, Beethovens trifle is recognizable from the start: a wobble between E and D sharp that gives way to a tune youve heard virtually everywhere. Ringing from cellphones and childrens toys; sampled in rap and featured on Baby Einstein albums; as likely to appear in a serious drama as in a Peanuts cartoon, Für Elise is shorthand for classical music itself. In Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure, its used to identify Beethoven without even saying his name. But you probably havent heard Für Elise in a concert hall. More likely to inspire eye rolls than awe among the cognoscenti, its rarely programmed unlike, say, Beethovens Fifth Symphony, with its famous dun-dun-dun-DUN fate motif, or his Ninth, which ... More  Jean Valentine, minimalist poet with maximum punch, dies at 86NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Jean Valentine, a former New York State Poet whose minimalist, dreamlike poetry was distinguished by crystalline imagery followed by an unexpected stab of emotion, died Dec. 29 in Manhattan. She was 86. Her daughter Rebecca Chace said the cause of her death, in a hospital, was complications of Alzheimers disease. Over a six-decade career, Valentine published 14 collections of poetry. Seamus Heaney once described her verses as rapturous, risky, shy of words but desperately true to them. She received the 2004 National Book Award in poetry for Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 and was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Break the Glass, a collection of poems, the Pulitzer citation said, in which small details can accrue great power and a reader is never sure where ... More  Joanne Michaels, who sketched the Hudson Valley in words, dies at 69NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Joanne Michaelss books mostly guides to New York states Hudson Valley region are typically sold in museum gift shops. But they can also be found in hospital kiosks, pharmacies and gas stations. That is because Michaels, with persistence, enthusiasm and many a solitary drive on the New York State Thruway, managed to place her stock in improbable places. That work paid off during the pandemic, when city dwellers poured into the Hudson Valley for short- or long-term escapes and sought to learn about their surroundings. I went from fretting over whether I should file for unemployment to having the busiest summer Ive had in 30 years, Michaels wrote for Hudson Valley Magazine in October. She died at a hospital in Poughkeepsie, New York, on Dec. 15, two weeks before her 70th birthday. ... More  Whyte's annual review 2020 DUBLIN.- On March 9 Whytes held its first major art auction of the year, just as the pandemic took effect in Ireland. That weekend the government imposed the first set of restrictions including a limit of 100 people at indoor events. The auction room at the RDS was packed and nearly exceeded that limit. The sale was extremely successful and grossed 1.2 million for 85% of the lots offered. Unusually the highest result was for a Polish artist, Tadeusz Brzozowski (1918-1987) whose painting MASTIFF (CWAJNOS), 1967, fetched 190,000 plus fees from a collector in Poland. Of course there was an Irish connection the painting had been exhibited at ROSC in 1967 after which it was purchased by an Irish collector. A week later the first lockdown was imposed and all businesses closed their doors until June. However, Whytes continued to service buyers ... More  Classic car buyers maintain their passion despite pandemic - H&H Classics 2020 overviewLONDON.- For many of us Collector Vehicles, be they Cars or Motorcycles, engender a sense of freedom and enjoyment that even the harshest pandemic lockdown cannot quell. Interest in restoration projects increased markedly this year and certain bidders exhibited a carpe diem mentality when pursuing their chosen lot. By the end of 2020, Covid-19 had infected over 80 million people worldwide and claimed some 1.8 million lives. Governments were borrowing at nigh-on wartime levels and many a stock market had been left with concussion. Pandemics have ever been a part of human history inspiring as much resilience and ingenuity as they do fear and anguish. The H&H sale calendar was disrupted but the company adapted to the new normal better than most because its Live Auction Online platform had been operational for over a year by the time ... More  Podcast launches with conversations from Bill T. Jones, Isabel Allende, Yo-Yo Ma, Kemp Powers and moreNEW YORK, NY.- WaitWhat, the media invention company founded by former TED executives June Cohen and Deron Triff creators of the award-winning hit podcasts Masters of Scale and Meditative Story today released the premiere episode of Spark & Fire , an imaginative new audio series that turns the creative process into a captivating, edge-of-your-seat heros journey. Skillshare, the worlds leading online learning community for creative and curious people, joins WaitWhat in an exclusive partnership to bring Spark & Fire to its community of more than 12 million members who seek inspiration and ideas for their creative journeys. Spark & Fire is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music. In each episode of Spark & Fire, a single artist or creator tells the gripping first-person story behind the birth of a beloved ... More  Yinka Ilori presents bright and vibrant installations at St Stephen's CentreLONDON.- The entire world has suffered appalling disease and loss this year. Amid such suffering, people need some joy so its pertinent that a series of unique artworks and design interventions by leading artist Yinka Ilori are being installed in the last few days of this unprecedented year at St Stephen's Centre, part of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, to bring cheer and lift the mood for patients and staff. Over the years I have worked on a number of art commissions but this one is important, now more than ever in view of what is happening in todays world. I hope it brings joy, peace and calmness into peoples lives today, forever and in times of need, explains Ilori. Ilori aims to provide messages of positivity and inspiration during these challenging times in his practice, which fuses his British and Nigerian heritage to tell ... More  San Francisco Ballet's Helgi Tomasson to conclude tenure as Artistic Director by mid-2022SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Helgi Tomasson today announced that he will be concluding his tenure as Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer of San Francisco Ballet by mid-2022, following nearly four decades of creative leadership. As SF Ballet embarks on its first digital season, Tomasson will continue to actively lead the Company and work with the Board of Trustees and Ballet leadership to help implement a multi-phased plan ensuring the smooth transition to the next Artistic Director. Tomasson will begin programming the Companys 2022 season featuring highlights from his tenure as well as newly choreographed works. Over the coming months, he will be prioritizing the Companys safe return to in-person performances and will continue to work in collaboration with the Board and Ballet leadership to support the ongoing development ... More  Ahlers & Ogletree to offer art and objects from the estate of Jack WarnerATLANTA, GA.- Important art and objects from the estate of the noted American art collector and philanthropist Jack Warner (1917-2017), items salvaged from the wreckage of the passenger steamship RMS Carpathia, and more than 1,000 lots of fine art, period antiques, decorative arts, silver, jewelry and Asian arts pulled from prominent estates and collections will be packed into a massive three-day auction event slated for January 15-17 by Ahlers & Ogletree Auction Gallery. The event nicknamed A Collectors Dream Auction to Start 2021 will be held live in the Ahlers & Ogletree gallery located at 700 Miami Circle in Atlanta, as well as online, through the companys relaunched website and bidding platform: www.AandOAuctions.com. Start times all three days are 10 am Eastern time. Pre-bidding has been in effect since December 26th. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch-English painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema was born January 08, 1836. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (8 January 1836 - 25 June 1912) was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. In this image: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tademaâs The Finding of Moses.
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