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"My wish to share this masterpiece with as many people as possible begins in Basquiat's home town of Brooklyn," Maezawa wrote on his Instagram account Thursday.
NEW YORK.- A Basquiat masterpiece, bought by a Japanese billionaire for a record $110.5 million, will make its museum debut this month, going on display in the artist's home borough of Brooklyn. Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 "Untitled" has been virtually unseen in public and never previously been exhibited in a museum. It depicts a skull-like head in oil-stick, acrylic and spray paint, and was bought at Sotheby's last May by Yusaku Maezawa. The $110.5 million price tag set a new auction record for Basquiat and a record for the work of any US artist at auction. "My wish to share this masterpiece with as many people as possible begins in Basquiat's home town of Brooklyn," Maezawa wrote on his Instagram account Thursday. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture shows Israelis visiting the National Memorial Hall for Israel's Fallen next to the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, containing the names of every man and women who died during their military or security service since 1860. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum extends $10 million art theft reward | | Playwright Arthur Miller's archive comes to Harry Ransom Center | | Albert Einstein archives go on display in Taiwan |
Guests view art displays at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on December 27, 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts. Ryan McBride / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A US museum has extended indefinitely a $10 million reward for the recovery of 13 works of art, including priceless Rembrandts and a Vermeer, stolen three decades ago. Last May, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum doubled to $10 million a long-standing reward for information leading to the recovery of all 13 works in good condition, hoping that a deadline of December 31, 2017 would concentrate minds. The institution said it was the largest private reward in the world at that time and continues to identify the 1990 theft as "the largest art heist in history." The stolen art includes three Rembrandts, a Vermeer, and five sketches and watercolors by Degas, together estimated to be worth more than half a billion dollars. "The strategy generated some very good leads that continue to be pursued," the ... More | |
Typed letter from Arthur Miller to Molly Kazan, 1952. Arthur Miller Papers, Harry Ransom Center.
AUSTIN, TX.- The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of American playwright Arthur Miller (19152005). Obtained from the Arthur Miller Trust, the archive spans Millers career. During his lifetime the Ransom Center had a close association with Miller, who first donated a group of early play manuscripts and working notebooks to the Center in the early 1960s. This acquisition greatly extends that collection and tells the full story of Millers life and work, the production history of his major plays and the international reception that made Miller one of the most significant playwrights of the 20th century. Arthur Miller is one of our countrys finest playwrights, one who gave dramatic form to themes that are central to our still-evolving American story, says Ransom Center Director Stephen Enniss. For years to come, all primary source research into this ... More | |
Albert Einstein. Photo: The Albert Einstein Archives at Hebrew University.
JERUSALEM.- For the first time in history, the Albert Einstein Archives at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem will be on display in Asia. The exhibit, Albert Einstein: Life in Four Dimensions, curated by Avi Muller, will open January 12 at the National Chiang Kei-Shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. Scores of original Einstein memorabilia will be on display, including his 1921 Nobel Prize, handwritten pages from the Theory of Relativity, letters exchanged with Sigmund Freud, family members and lovers, and the physicists own vinyl record collection. Taiwan is the first stop on the Einstein exhibits Asia tour. Taipei will house the collection through April 8, whereupon the exhibit will head to China and Japan. This historical collaboration began more than two years ago when Taiwans Blue Dragon Art Company reached out to the Einstein Archives at Hebrew University to ... More |
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| Israel honours its fallen with understated architectural gem | | Sotheby's Paris to offer drawings from the Christian and Adrien Collection | | Celebrated Modernist architect Neave Brown dies at age 88 |
Etan Kimmel, architect who designed the the National Memorial Hall for Israels Fallen next to the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- A wide path gently curves underground revealing an undulating cavern, winning praise for both its unassuming architecture and its purpose, as Israel's new national monument to members of its security services killed in the line of duty. The recently opened monument at the Mount Herzl national cemetery in Jerusalem aims to honour and educate, but it has also been included on a list of finalists for a top international architecture prize. Its core is a curved, 250-metre (825-foot) wall composed of thousands of uniform bricks, all seamlessly arranged with the names of the fallen men and women. At the memorial's entry, a video installation by Israeli artist Michal Rovner juxtaposes groups of soldiers from various periods in the history of Israel's wars, moving and running on one shared landscape before fading away. "Stone, concrete and light are the only materials used here," ... More | |
Francesco Salviati, Seated nude man in profile. Estimate: 60,000-80,000. Sothebys / ArtDigital Studio.
PARIS.- This Spring, Sothebys will present a remarkable selection of Old Master drawings from the esteemed collection of Christian and Isabelle Adrien. The result of a lifetime of passion for painting and drawing, the cherished pieces in the collection together offer one of the most fascinating insights into the act of drawing seen in recent years. The viewer is taken on a special journey guided by an avid curiosity and demand for the highest calibre of draughtsmanship from the 15th century to the last luminaries of the 18th century, across the Italian, French, Dutch and Flemish schools. A landmark event in the field of Old Master drawings in Europe, the sale will present collectors with a rare opportunity to acquire such exceptional works. The auction will take place on 22 March at Sothebys in Paris, coinciding with the renowned Salon du Dessin art fair. In 2012, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes (Brittany) hoste ... More | |
Neave Brown Royal Gold Medal © Morley von Sternberg.
LONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects has reacted to the death of Neave Brown, the celebrated Modernist architect. RIBA President Ben Derbyshire presented Neave Brown with the 2018 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, on behalf of HRH The Queen, in October 2017. Brown was perhaps best known for his visionary Alexandra Road estate built by London's Camden Council in the 1970s. He believed every home should have its own front door opening directly on to the routes and streets that make up a city, as well as its own private external space, open to the sky in the form of a roof garden or terrace; each of these qualities was incorporated at Alexandra Road. Speaking today RIBA President Ben Derbyshire said: The architecture community has lost a giant. Neave was a pioneer: he showed us how intellectual rigour, sensitive urbanism, his supreme design skill and determination could deliver well-being to the local community he serve ... More |
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| Kim Dingle's fifth solo exhibition at Sperone Westwater opens in New York | | Steven Kasher Gallery opens first ever solo exhibition of founding Kamoinge Workshop member Shawn Walker | | Exhibition at Nahmad Contemporary surveys Hans Hartung's prolific career |
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NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater opened Kim Dingles fifth solo exhibition at the gallery, centering on an ambitious series of new grisaille paintings. Selected vintage works will situate these in the broader context of Dingles practice. Often depicting little girls in stereotypically gendered attire, Dingles work first attracted widespread critical attention for its trenchant portrayal of gender roles and its frank treatment of the ambiguous and occasionally monstrous psychological states associated with childhood. As Peter Schjeldahl wrote in 1995, Dingle is a bard of a certain American epic, that of conscience and its lack: the majesty and misery of too stern a moral standard and the glee and fear of too unbuttoned an amorality. Dingles work pivots sharply on the contrast between the prim children she depicts and the unruly, adult behavior in which they engage. The artists longstanding alter ego ... More | |
Shawn Walker, Untitled (from the Nude series), 117th Street, Harlem, New York, ca. 1968. Vintage gelatin silver print mounted on board, printed ca. 1968. Image Size: 13 x 9 in. Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery is presenting the first ever solo exhibition of founding Kamoinge Workshop member Shawn Walker (b. 1940). The exhibition surveys Walkers evolving and wide-ranging work from the 1960s through the 1990s and proposes his importance to the photography and art of our time. Embracing and melding abstraction, surrealism, social documentary and street photography, Walkers work challenges the myth of a singular African-American aesthetic. Each body of work marries transcendental spiritual philosophies with contemporary urban representations of African heritage. From his 30- year study of parades to his on-going series on shadows and reflections, Walkers work is connected to profound ... More | |
Hans Hartung, T-1971-R19, 1971 (detail). Courtesy of Nahmad Contemporary, Perrotin and Hartung-Bergman Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nahmad Contemporary announces Hans Hartung, on view from Jan. 12 through March 17, 2018. Surveying Hartungs prolific career, the exhibition brings together works spanning four decades beginning in the 1950s to the final years of his life. The presentation unearths the creative fervor and resolute discipline inherent to the artists practice and marks the first show in New York since his solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1975. After serving in the French army during World War II, German-born Hartung settled in Paris where he worked among artists, such as Jean Dubuffet and Pierre Soulages, associated with the School of Paris and Art Informel. Exemplifying the freeform style of his contemporaries and the expressive aesthetic characteristic to the postwar era, the earliest works ... More |
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| How a Commanding Officer found his place as a contemporary artist | | Heidi Davis-Soylu named new Director of Education at the IU Eskenazi Museum of Art | | RM Sotheby's adds 1953 Ferrari 166 MM Spider to Paris sale |
Clinton Hill (American, 19222003), untitled, 1960. Woodcut on paper. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift from the Clinton Hill / Allen Tran Foundation. GMOA 2012.377.
ATHENS, GA.- Many of us have dreamed of far-flung adventures or pursuing a career as an artist, but few of us actually do it. Clinton Hill managed to do both as well as serving as a commanding officer in the US Navy and helping to build the art scene in New Yorks SoHo. Now the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is presenting an innovatively installed exhibition of his work from throughout his career. The museums director, William U. Eiland, is its curator and the author of its acompanying exhibition catalogue. Born in Payette, Idaho, and raised on a ranch near several American Indian settlements, Hill grew to appreciate nature and vast spaces. He also learned to admire Native American culture his first exposure to any culture outside of his own. He craved exploration and a greater understanding of the world, which ... More | |
Most recently, Davis-Soylu was Director of Academic Engagement and Learning Research at Newfields (formerly the Indianapolis Museum of Art). Image: Courtesy of Newfields.
BLOOMINGTON, IN.- The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University announced Dr. Heidi Davis-Soylu as its new Lucienne M. Glaubinger Director of Education. Davis-Soylu will begin at the museum on January 11. Most recently, Davis-Soylu was Director of Academic Engagement and Learning Research at Newfields (formerly the Indianapolis Museum of Art). At Newfields she led the academic engagement department, including the St. Marys Child Center at the IMA preschool, the Art and Nature Homeschool Cottage (K-middle school), pre-K-12 school programs, docent program, adult and youth studio programs, studio classrooms, summer camps, educator professional development, and student and educator tours. A number of these programs began under Davis-Soylu's direction, including the launch ... More | |
Johnny Hallyday and his Iso Grifo A3/C in France in October of 1965. Photo: Courtesy of Getty Images.
LONDON.- RM Sothebys announced final featured entries for its fifth annual Paris sale, 7 February at Place Vauban during Rétromobile week. The 84 vehicles on offer are led by a supremely original 1953 Ferrari 166 MM Spider, chassis no. 0272 M. The fifth of 13 166 MMs built for 1953, the car on offer features unique spider coachwork, though its specific builder remains a mystery. Most historians believe that it was designed by Aurelio Lampredi and is thought to have been built by Ferrari itself. One of 0272 Ms earliest track outings was at the 1953 Mille Miglia, with original owner Dr. Alberico Cacciari and R.H. Bill Masonfather of Pink Floyd drummer and noted Ferrari collector Nick Masonat the helm. During this time, the car was also used in the production of the 1953 Shell movie about the Mille Miglia, directed by Bill Mason himself. Raced in numerous events across Italy throughout the 1953 ... More |
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Nailya Alexander Gallery exhibits works by master of Russian Avant-Garde photography Boris Ignatovich
NEW YORK, NY.- Nailya Alexander Gallery is presenting Boris Ignatovich: Master of Russian Avant-Garde Photography presented in collaboration with the Boris Ignatovich Estate, Moscow. This is the first ever solo exhibition held in New York for Boris Ignatovich (1899-1976), a towering figure in Russian Constructivist photography. The exhibition features some of the artists most celebrated photographs from the 1920s and 1930s, including large-scale gelatin silver prints of unprecedented size (29 x 39 inches) made by Ignatovich himself for the 1969 exhibition at the Moscow Central House of Journalists in honor of his seventieth birthday. We are privileged to exhibit these one-of-a-kind art objects in the gallery for the first time in nearly fifty years. The history of Russian art cannot be imagined without Ignatovich, a great innovator, who left an indelible mark ... More
Gallery Wendi Norris opens exhibition of works by MarÃa Magdalena Campos-Pons
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Cuban-born artist MarÃa Magdalena Campos-Pons addresses the unique and resilient nature of the Afro Cuban diaspora through photography, sculpture, performances, and video installations. Her West Coast debut and first exhibition with Gallery Wendi Norris, presents works ranging from 1990 to 2017, including three major installations, rare large-format Polaroid photographs, and a performance work. Among the significant works in the exhibition are gridded variations of large-format Polaroid photographs depicting ancestral, totemic and futuristic themes ranging from the slave trade to migration. Polaroid manufactured only four large-format cameras and they have been used by very few artists, including Chuck Close, Gerhard Richter and William Wegman. The company ended production of the film in 2017 making existing works increasingly ... More
Exhibition at Nohra Haime Gallery brings together works by Julie Hedrick and Anna Paola Protasio
NEW YORK, NY.- Polar Opposites brings together selected works of Canadian artist Julie Hedrick and Brazilian artist Anna Paola Protasio, revealing each artists methods in considering and depicting the natural world. The different techniques they employ in their approach is highlighted in this exhibition. Hedricks voluminous, abstract oil paintings contrast with Protasios geometric, recognizable forms and use of brass and aluminum. Using a limited palette of black, white, dark blue, and gold, Polar Opposites presents the artists views on the environment and its transitions, and the accompanying human experience. Protasios background in architecture and design is revealed through her structure of carefully controlled lines. Reflected in the contrasting colors of Moonstruck and Moonstruck in the Summer, separate metals are used, signifying different seasons and stages in time. ... More
Freeman's presents The Collector's Sale, aimed primarily at emerging, young collectors
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On Wednesday, February 7, Freemans will present The Collectors Sale an auction introduced by the house this past July, aimed primarily at emerging, young collectors and new art enthusiasts looking to imbue their home or living space with character and style. Replete with diverse objects spanning centuries and collecting genres, the sale promises to appeal to a variety of tastes and budgets. With the majority of its lots carrying pre-sale estimates below $1,000, the sale suggests that quality items are not necessarily attached to exorbitant price tags, and in turn, offers the Millennial and modern consumer an interesting buying experience and a more cost-effective alternative to high-end retail. Consisting of over 400 lots, the sale includes a host of paintings, furniture and decorative arts that could enhance or ... More
Block board of advisors donates $1M to set up endowment
EVANSTON, ILL.- The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University announced today that members of its board of advisors have contributed more than $1 million to establish the Block Board of Advisors Endowment Fund at Northwestern. Income from the fund will support collections, exhibitions, publications and programs that engage students, faculty and the broader community with global art and artists at the Block Museum and elsewhere on Northwesterns Evanston campus. The Block Museum of Art benefits from a visionary board of advisors who understand that support of the Museum also leads to broad support of the campus and community that we serve. We are deeply grateful for this gift, which will specifically allow us to expand our globally focused work, bringing the world to Northwestern and Northwestern to the world, said Lisa Corrin, the Block Museum ... More
Mead Art Museum receives $3 million gift from John and Sue Wieland
AMHERST, MASS.- The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College announced today that it has received a gift of $3 million from John Wieland 58 and his wife Sue to endow the Mead Director and Chief Curator position and to support contemporary art acquisitions. Long-time supporters of Amherst College and the Mead, the Wielands decided to make their gift to indicate support for a larger set of initiatives at the Museum that have included, over the last two years, a comprehensive reinstallation of the collection and an increased focus on cultivating exhibitions and programs that bring new, international voices to Amherst and more actively engage campus audiences. We are deeply grateful to John and Sue Wieland for this generous gift to Amherst and for their commitment to ensuring that the Meads exhibitions, educational programming and collection-building continue ... More
Extensive two-part series will include 30 classic films from Republic Pictures, curated by Martin Scorsese
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announced Martin Scorsese Presents Republic Rediscovered: New Restorations from Paramount Pictures, a two-part series organized by MoMA in association with The Film Foundation and Paramount Pictures. The 30-film program begins on February 1 at 7:00 p.m. with Alfred Santells seldom-seen masterwork That Brennan Girl (1946), and continues through February 15; part two of the series will begin August 9 and run through August 23. Curated by Scorsese, the program celebrates a new beginning for the Republic library, which is currently being restored and returned to wide distribution by Paramount. Republic Rediscovered is organized by Dave Kehr, Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art. From the 30s through the 50s, the different studio logos at the head of every picture ... More
Sworders prepare for the most eye-popping auction of the year as they launch Out of the Ordinary
STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- What do a Feejee mermaid, a dodo bone, a full-size replica Dalek and a signed Grayson Perry tapestry have in common? Theyre all in the inaugural Out of the Ordinary sale at Sworders on February 13, an auction that more than lives up to its name. Whether you are into classic design, traditional antiques, retro, contemporary art or historical oddities, this sale will have something for you, says consultant specialist Mark Wilkinson, whose eclectic mix of lots also includes a section on witchcraft, a presentation draft of Salman Rushdies The Satanic Verses, a David Linley for Dunhill architectural jewellery box and a copy of Marilyn Monroes first magazine cover, dating to 1946. Wilkinsons track record is second to none when it comes to updating the auction format to attract new buyers, especially those who would never have considered ... More
Elvis fans all shook up on Australia party train to annual fest
SYDNEY (AFP).- Elvis fans shook up Sydney's Central station Thursday with hundreds rocking to his famous tunes ahead of a special train trip to outback Australia to celebrate the late entertainer's birthday. Decked out in their glittering best, the fans were heading to Parkes -- a small town some 300 kilometres (190 miles) west of Sydney -- on the "Elvis Express" and "Blue Suede Express" trains to take part in a five-day festival. "He's such an icon and he hasn't lost any of that magic that he used to have," avid Elvis Presley fan Julie Mellae -- who wore an orange wig, tiara and fishnet stockings for the special occasion -- told AFP. "In fact, I think he's developed more, so this festival is like the biggest thing that happens in January. Everyone wants to be on the Elvis train and it's booked out years in advance." Elvis impersonators belted out the legendary singer's biggest ... More
'Jazz Messengers' signed photo sells for $20,000 at auction
BOSTON, MASS.- A vintage photograph of The Jazz Messengers signed by members of the band sold for $20,016 according to Boston-based RR Auction. The glossy photo of the band taken during a performance is signed by Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Walter Davis Jr, Jymie Merritt. The influential jazz combo that existed for over thirty-five years beginning in the early 1950s as a collective, and ending when longtime leader and founding drummer Art Blakey died in 1990. The image was among a collection of photographs originating from the jazz fan club, 'The Hot Club of Belgium. The club 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 many of these photos are inscribed to may very well be the founder, Willy De Cort, and Johnny Dover, a Belgian ... More
VCU Institute for Contemporary Art Director steps down
RICHMOND, VA.- Virginia Commonwealth University announced today that Lisa Freiman, Ph.D., has stepped down as director of the Institute for Contemporary Art, effective immediately. Freiman, who has served as the ICAs inaugural director since 2013, led the institutional vision and planning for the ICA, which opens in April 2018. Freiman remains a tenured faculty member of the VCU School of Arts and will be completing a scholarly work, a monograph on artist Claes Oldenburg, and then returning to the classroom to teach in her area of expertise. Freiman has been a tireless advocate of the ICA. During her tenure as director, the ICA successfully completed a $37 million capital campaign and launched an endowment campaign to sustain its future. She also built the ICAs administrative and curatorial staff, co-curated the inaugural exhibition, Declaration, and formed ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter Jusepe de Ribera was born January 12, 1591. Jusepe de Ribera (January 12, 1591 - September 2, 1652) was a Spanish Tenebrist painter and printmaker, also known as José de Ribera and Josep de Ribera. He also was called Lo Spagnoletto ("the Little Spaniard") by his contemporaries and early writers. Ribera was a leading painter of the Spanish school, although his mature work was all done in Italy. In this image: Jusepe de Ribera, Saint James the Lesser, ca. 1632.
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