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This file photo taken on September 16, 2015 shows people looking at a variety of Power Figures during a press preview of Kongo: Power and Majesty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art will now have to pay $25 to enter if they do not live in New York state starting March 1,2018 a first in half a century. Since 1970, this cultural landmark on New York's Fifth Avenue only asked for a "suggested" donation of $25 per adult, which Met president Daniel Weiss noted was "uncommon." Students and seniors visiting from other regions will get reduced fares of $12 and $17, respectively. Entry will be free for children under the age of 12. Don EMMERT / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art will now have to pay $25 to enter if they do not live in New York state starting March 1, a first in half a century. Since 1970, this cultural landmark on New York's Fifth Avenue only asked for a "suggested" donation of $25 per adult, which Met president Daniel Weiss noted was "uncommon." Under the new policy, the fee -- which will be paid largely by tourists -- will fetch a ticket that lasts for three days and also covers entry to the museum's annexes -- Met Breuer for modern and contemporary art, and The Cloisters for medieval and decorative arts. "We think that is an extraordinary value," Weiss said. In order to not penalize students from New York and the surrounding region, they will only be asked to pay what they can. Students and seniors visiting from other regions will get reduced fares of $12 and $17, respectively. Entry will be free for children under the age of 12. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Libyans visit the theatre in the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Leptis Magna in al-Khums, 130 kilometres east of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on January 4, 2018. MAHMUD TURKIA / AFP
| Christie's announces highlights from Abstraction Beyond Borders, Impressionist and Modern Art Evening sales | | Musée dArt Moderne et Contemporain de Saint Ãtienne Métropole celebrates thirty years with exhibition | | Christie's announces highlights from its Americana Week 2018 | 
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), Richard Freytagbild (Das Richard-Freitag-Bild). Oil and wood relief on panel, in the artist's frame, 33 3/4 x 27 1/4 in. Executed in 1927. Estimate: £500,000-700,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
LONDON.- Christies will offer a collection that traces the development of abstraction as artists across Europe redefined art in the 20th Century. Abstraction Beyond Borders will be included in the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale and The Art of the Surreal on 27 February 2018, launching 20th Century at Christies, a series of sales that will take place in London from 27 February to 7 March 2018. A total of ten works represents the diversity of artists working in different cities across the continent, such as Georges Braque, Frantiek Kupka, Francis Picabia, Kurt Schwitters and Georges Vantongerloo, who shunned pictorial representation, instead creating unprecedented works that pushed the boundaries of what art could be. This group demonstrates the idiosyncrasy of these artists restless invention. From line, colour ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Femme assise, 8 décembre 1971. oil on canvas. 100 x 81 cm. Collection MAMC+. © Succession Picasso.
SAINT-ÃTIENNE.- On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the Musée dArt Moderne et Contemporain de Saint Ãtienne Métropole is shedding light on the diversity of its extensive and unique collection. This exhibition proposes a reading beyond chronologies and medium-based sections. The diversity and extent of the MAMC+ collections allow this plurality of dialogues between works of different time periods and techniques. The recreation of lineage and elective affinities organized in stem is likely to surprise, touch, intrigue, disturb and open the way to fruitful debate. As Raoul Glaber phrased it, the year 1000 saw the rise of a white mantle of churches. All throughout the world, the beginning of the 21st century saw the multiplication of new museums to answer to the audiences new interest and wish for enchantment in front of masterpieces that were inaccessible before. Housed in what was one of President François Mitterran ... More | | 
Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), After Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), Portrait of George Washington as a Colonel of the Alexandria Militia, early 19th Century. Oil on canvas. Est: $400,000-600,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
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presents Americana Week 2018, a series of auctions, viewings and events, to be held January 12-19. The week of sales is comprised of Chinese Export Art featuring 100 Lots from Marchant, Est. 1925 on January 18, Beyond Imagination: Outsider and Vernacular Art featuring the Collection of Marjorie and Harvey Freed on January 19, and Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Silver on January 19. Highlights of the Chinese Export sale include 100 lots from the esteemed Chinese art dealers Marchant, est. 1925, and a very rare set of 17 blue and white dishes depicting the various stages of tea cultivation. The Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Silver auction features The Hunter-Dunn Family Chippendale Plum Pudding Mahogany Block-and-Shell Tall-Case Clock ($200,000-300,000) ... More |
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| Galerie Lelong & Co. opens exhibition inspired by the recent protests of NFL players during the national anthem | | Solo exhibition of new paintings by Odili Donald Odita opens at Jack Shainman Gallery | | LACMA and the Autry Museum of the American West announce unprecedented new partnership | 
Melvin Edwards, Art Education, 2002. Welded steel, 10 x 8 x 6 inches (25.4 x 20.3 x 15.2 cm). Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London © 2017 Melvin Edwards / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Lelong & Co. presents Sidelined, a group exhibition curated by Samuel Levi Jones. Inspired by the recent protests of NFL players during the national anthem, Sidelined brings together artists responding to injustices experienced by people of color both on and off the sports field: Melvin Edwards, Derek Fordjour, Lauren Halsey, David Huffman, Samuel Levi Jones, Glenn Kaino, Patrick Martinez, and Deborah Roberts. The artists pose urgent questions about the systems of power that can devalue the lives of minorities in the United States. Several works on view were made in direct response to the recent demonstrations. Deborah Robertss O! say can't you see (2017) features a young girl kneeling in protest. Her figure ... More | | 
Odili Donald Odita, Flag, 2017. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 36 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman Gallery announces Third Sun, the fifth solo exhibition of new paintings by Odili Donald Odita. Fight for your right to party. 1 Party for your right to fight. 2 Celebration and subjectivity are two central themes in my exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery. It is my intention to utilize the idea of celebration as a performative for freedom. Celebration is integral to forming and shaping the identity of people within cultures. It provides a way of acknowledging the existence of oneself, and ones accomplishments in this space. It caps the end of events, and lights the way into each new day. On another hand, I want to look into the expression of resistance as a choice against forces wanting to shut down, flatten, and nullify this sentiment at any, and all costs. Be it racial and religious conformity, or simple greed, there exists a virulent, global political dynamic ... More | | 
Chris Burden, Urban Light (detail), 2008, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Gordon Family Foundation's gift to Transformation: The LACMA Campaign, © Chris Burden/ licensed by The Chris Burden Estate and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Autry Museum of the American West will announce an unprecedented new partnership at a January 9 program with Michael Govan, LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director, and W. Richard West, Jr., President and CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West. The two directors will discuss an evolving and collaborative approach for museums in the 21st century. This new LACMA-Autry partnership allows both museums to expand their programming content through the sharing of collections, joint programs, exhibitions, publications, and more. Via this new model, LACMA and the Autry can now extensively explore the art of the American ... More |
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| Smithsonian Channel celebrates 65th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in new one-hour special | | Works spanning the 20th 21st centuries lead Phillips Evening & Day Editions Sales in London | | Lori Yarrish named Director of the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum | 
Her Majesty the Queen with the St Edward's Crown © Her Majesty the Queen.
WASHINGTON, DC.- In partnership with the BBC and Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Smithsonian Channel shares the compelling story of the Crown Jewels and the ancient ceremony for which they are used in THE CORONATION. On June 2, 1953, after 16 months of planning, The Queen set out from Buckingham Palace to be crowned at Westminster Abbey, in a ceremony that was watched by millions of people throughout the world. A ceremony dating back more than a thousand years was to herald the dawn of a new Elizabethan age. As part of the film, to mark the 65th anniversary of Her Majesty The Queen's Coronation, The Queen shares memories of the ceremony, as well as that of her father King George VI in 1937. The special airs in the U.S. exclusively on Smithsonian Channel on January 14 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Viewing both private and official film footage, The Queen recalls the day when the weight of both St. Edwards Crown and the ... More | | 
A Rowney wooden artist's palette. A wooden artist's palette with oil paint recto and verso, used by Lucian Freud and gifted to Nicola Bowery after completing And the Bridegroom, 1993. 41 x 25 x 2 cm (16 1/8 x 9 7/8 x 3/4 in.). Estimate: £6,000 - 8,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips opens the new year in London with Evening & Day Editions, presenting works by an array of Modern and Contemporary masters. Highlights include etchings by Lucian Freud, gifted by the artist to Nicola Bowery and her then husband Leigh Bowery, an eclectic group of Picasso ceramics from the Collection of Betty and Stanley Sheinbaum, and property from a Private Rhineland Collection including unique objects and found-art multiples by Joseph Beuys, Imi Knoebel and Blinky Palermo. With a total of over 320 lots, the Day sale will be held on 25 January at 1pm (lots 89-327), with the Evening sale following at 6pm (lots 1-88) on the same day. Robert Kennan, Head of Editions, Europe, said, As forerunners in the Editions space and with ten years of record-breaking ... More | | 
Yarrish has served as acting director of the museum since June 2016.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Lori Yarrish was named director of the Anacostia Community Museum, effective December 2017. Yarrish has served as acting director of the museum since June 2016, where she has led a number of revitalization projects at the museum, including a new mission statement and operations model. In recognition of her work at the museum, Washingtonian magazine named Yarrish one of the citys most powerful women in the arts in 2017. Yarrish has overseen the 50th anniversary celebration of the Anacostia Community Museum, which included the exhibition Your Community, Your Story: Celebrating Five Decades of the Anacostia Community Museum, 19672017, and will continue with the 50th-anniversary exhibition A Right to the City, opening in April. Under her leadership, the museum has increased its digital offerings and incorporated museum activities into local communities. Yarrish has also successfully incre ... More |
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| Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld dies at 85 | | New exhibition of works by Byron Kim opens at James Cohan | | Rick Hall, unlikely producer of soul sound, dead at 85 | 
This file photo taken on May 27, 2010 shows Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld delivering a speech. Philippe MERLE / AFP.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld, a Holocaust survivor who became one of the foremost contemporary Hebrew-language writers, died on Thursday aged 85, officials said. Israeli public radio said that he passed away at Beilinson hospital near Tel Aviv in the early hours of Thursday morning. Maariv newspaper said he would be buried in Jerusalem on Sunday. Born in 1932 in a village near what was then the Romanian city of Czernowitz -- today part of Ukraine -- his mother was murdered during the Nazi Holocaust and at the age of eight he was sent to a concentration camp with his father. He told AFP in a 2010 interview how he escaped in 1942 and fled into the forests, where he was "adopted by a gang of Ukrainian criminals". He was recruited as a kitchen orderly into the advancing Red Army until 1945 ... More | | 
Byron Kim, Sunday Painting, 01/19/14, 2014 (detail).
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan presents Sunday Paintings, 1/7/01 2/11/18, a new exhibition by Byron Kim at the gallerys Chelsea location. This exhibition is Kims third with James Cohan, and represents the largest single presentation of Sunday Paintings to date. The exhibition will be on view from January 5 through February 17, 2018. Starting in 2001, Byron Kim engaged in a project to make a single painting every week. In this ongoing series entitled Sunday Paintings, Kim has looked upward and painted a patch of sky on a 14x14 inch canvas, inscribing a short journalistic entry in pen or pencil, and marking the specific place and time. Featuring only a portion of this prolific project, this show will include nearly 100 paintings representing various moments from 2001-present. Over the course of the exhibition, Kim will create and display a new Sunday Painting week after week. Byron Kims paintings occupy ... More | | 
Rick Hall, founder of FAME Recording Studios, sitting in the FAME studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Rick Hall, the white fiddler who became an unlikely force in soul music and made the small town of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, an international destination, has died at age 85, his family said Wednesday. Hall, who had been suffering from cancer, died Tuesday at his home near the legendary Fame Recording Studios he built in the riverside town of 14,000. "We hope the band in Heaven is ready. If not, there's going to be a problem," his family said in a statement. Hall turned his studio in a go-to hub for soul music, with distinctive horns and a steady rhythm section complementing the vocal powers of visiting singers. The studio had its breakthrough when Hall licensed Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman," recorded nearby, and labels soon were sending star talent to Fame to make their albums. The studio recorded Etta James, Otis Redding, Little Richard, Wilson ... More |
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 Blaffer Art Museum exhibits the work of Chicano artist Gabriel MartinezHOUSTON, TX.- The Houston-based Chicano artist, educator and performer Gabriel Martinez (b. 1973) digs into the relationship between art, public space and collective memory in order to uncover lost social histories. Over the last 15 years, Martinez has established a set of ongoing gestures based on his interactions with American cities, including urban guerrilla interventions, gathering and repurposing street debris and re-appropriations of public semiotic codes. Martinez understands the relationship between art and public spaces not from the standpoint of an integration with architecture and the landscape, but in a more radical if precarious, civic sense of art in the public interest. Wandering through the narrow shoulders of car-centric cities, Martinez operates as a gleaner in a wasteland, rummaging through glass, bricks, trash and signage. The public ... More Freight + Volume opens Slow Hum: An exhibition of new works by Kelley JohnsonNEW YORK, NY.- Freight + Volume presents Slow Hum, New Works by Kelley Johnson. Slow Hum reveals new artworks by Miami-based artist Kelley Johnson. Johnson, an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans painting and sculpture, embraces a style simultaneously precise and deceptively minimal. The exhibition features new works from the artists Kite paintings series, which combines aspects of Op Art and Color Field Theory, intermingled with concepts from Rosalind Krauss theory of Sculpture in the Expanded Field. These installation artworks extend into physical space. The result is a series of compelling, unique objects arranged to create an immersive experience continually in flux. Visitors witness multiple exhibitions in one area as shapes shift and colors flicker, the effect dependent purely on viewpoint. Taking simple shapes and primary hues ... More Addie Wagenknecht's second solo exhibition with bitforms gallery opens in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- bitforms gallery announces Alone Together, Addie Wagenknechts second solo exhibition with the gallery, which features a new series of paintings rendered in International Klein Blue pigment. The works speak to the artists longtime preoccupation with gendered labor, power structures, and technology. The title of the exhibition, Alone Together, refers to the book by technology and society specialist, Sherry Turkle. Wagenknechts latest paintings expand upon themes in the artists prior series Black Hawk Paint (2008- current) and Internet of Things (2015), exploring dynamic action painting with small-scale drone aircraft and networked functionality using Roomba-based sculptures and wifi hardware that respond or jam networks within the space. The Roomba is a product line of autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners sold as household consumer ... More Gallery 8 announces New York expansion, gallery opening February 2018LONDON.- Gallery 8 has announced an expansion into New York after ten years on Duke Street St James, London. The move, announced and directed by Gallery 8 London owner Celine Gauld, is an opportunity to return to the curatorial role as well as repurposing the successful London model. Gallery 8 New York will provide a spacious gallery in a newly developed and historic 19th century building in Harlem. A corner space on historic Strivers Row, the gallery will contain vast street-facing windows, that placed in front of partitions, allow for the work on display to be witnessed by passersby. The gallery is located on Frederick Douglass Boulevard (cross street 139th Street), and is a stones throw away from the City College of New York campus. Gauld has, since 2008, ... More Boca Raton Museum of Art exhibits the work of artists working in the medium of photographyBOCA RATON, FLA.- The Boca Raton Museum of Arts newly created Contemporary Photography Forum is established to present the work of emerging to mid-career artists working in the medium of photography. The inaugural exhibition is on view through April 8, 2018 and includes the work of Daniel Gordon, Paul Kneale, and Florian Maier-Aichen. This exhibition considers photographys influential role in contemporary art and also aims to build upon the significant collection of 1,600 historical photographs in the Boca Raton Museum of Arts collection. The medium of photography has shifted with the advent of new technologies, says Assistant Curator Lanya Snyder, who organized Contemporary Photography Forum. While it is the foundation for the work in this exhibition, these artists use the process merely as a starting point. ... More The Hot Club of Belgium Jazz photographs featured at auctionBOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction presents a collection of photographs originating from the jazz fan club, 'The Hot Club of Belgium this January. The Hot Club of Belgium was founded in 1939 by Willy De Cort, Albert Bettonville, Carlos de Radzitzky, and others, which operated until the mid-1960s. The Willy and Johnny that these photos are inscribed to may very well be the founder, Willy De Cort, and Johnny Dover, a Belgian clarinetist and saxophonist who once won the clubs award for best clarinet player. Featured is a fantastic lineup of some of the greatest names of the jazz agefrom Louis Armstrong to Lester Young, and many icons in between. Highlights include: The Jazz Messengers vintage glossy photo signed by Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Walter Davis Jr., and Jymie Merritt. The influential jazz combo ... More National Coalition Against Censorship condemns effort to halt publication of book critical of TrumpNEW YORK, NY.- The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), an alliance of 56 national non-profits, today condemned an effort by President Donald Trump to intimidate the author and publisher of a forthcoming book. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, a book by Michael Wolff, contains statements by former White House adviser Steve Bannon and others administration officials that are harshly critical of the president. A lawyer for the president has sent a letter to Wolff and his publisher, Henry Holt, demanding that they cease and desist efforts to publish the book next week because it contains false statements that are punishable under New York libel law. The American people have a First Amendment right to read Fire and Fury and other works that contribute to an important public debate, even when they contain statements critical of the president. ... More Museum of Fine Arts Bilbao welcomes painting by Pablo Picasso to its Guest Work programmeBILBAO.- During the course of 2017 a number of exhibitions and associated activities have been held to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the creation of Guernica by Picasso. Among them was the exhibition 1937. On Gernika. War and "civitas", held at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum as one of the events devised to mark San Sebastián as European Cultural Capital 2016. With the same aim of highlighting the importance of Guernica, one of the key works of 20th-century art, over the next few months and with the sponsorship of Fundación Santander the Guest Work programme is presenting a major painting by Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Malaga, 1881 -Mougins, 1973). This is an exceptional loan as the painting is one of the most important works in the collection of the prestigious Beyeler Foundation (Riehen, Basel, Switzerland), founded in 1982 by the art dealer Ernst ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French-American painter Yves Tanguy was born January 05, 2018. Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 - January 15, 1955), known as Yves Tanguy, was a French surrealist painter. Tanguy, the son of a retired navy captain, was born at the Ministry of Naval Affairs on Place de la Concorde in Paris, France. His parents were both of Breton origin. In this image: A pair of earrings, painted by Yves Tanguy.
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