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Dr. Richard Aste will depart San Antonio to launch his own coaching practice on the West Coast. Photo: Josh Huskin.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Today, the McNay Art Museum announced that after completing his contract this fall, Director and CEO Dr. Richard Aste will depart San Antonio to launch his own coaching practice on the West Coast and join the executive coaching team at the University of California, Irvine. Aste will join his partner of 10 years, Max Goodman, in Los Angeles. Out of great admiration for the McNay, Aste will remain in his role through January 2023 to afford ample time for the Board to identify a successor and ensure a smooth transition for staff. The Board was saddened but supportive and accepting of Richs decision, said Don Frost, McNay President of the Board of Trustees. The positive impact he has had on the Museum and the community is immeasurable. Rich has greatly advanced our mission and vision. And thanks to a strong Board, leadership team, and staff, the McNay is positioned for a successful next chapter. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Eva Rothschild, Our Life, Our Sweetness and Our Hope, Modern Art Helmet Row, exhibition view, 26 May - 25 June 2022. Photo: Ben Westoby. Courtesy: the artist and Modern Art, London.
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| Mauro Palombo joins ABFin as CEO and Chairman to accelerate the deployment of ARTBnk's strateg | | Queen Victoria's exquisite pearl and enamel musical domino box to be offered at Sotheby's London | | Valuable art was sold at low prices. Prosecutors say it was a scam. | 
Mauro Palombo boasts an impressive career in the banking industry, spanning 35 years.
ZURICH.- ARTBnk announces Mauro Palombo as the new CEO and Chairman of their financial arm ABFin. As an experienced business leader, Mauro, will assume responsibilities on 1 June 2022. Mauro Palombo boasts an impressive career in the banking industry, spanning 35 years. He is a highly accomplished financial leader with an illustrious background in wealth management and credit risk management. He has spent the last 3 and a half years at EFG Group with EFG Bank Ltd, Zurich, which offers private banking and asset management services. During his tenure at EFG, he was globally responsible for credit solutions, wealth planning and strategic client management. Mauro spent the two decades before joining EFG at Julius Baer Group Ltd, the leading Swiss wealth management group, where Mauro spent most of his time at the helm of a key function, namely as Group Chief Credit Officer. Additionally, he headed the strategic client management initiative for the ... More | | 
Estimated at £250,000-400,000 the exquisite pearl and enamel musical domino box by Bautte is one of the most exquisite examples of early 19th-century Geneva workmanship. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- A rectangular blue enamel and pearl encrusted domino box once belonging to Queen Victoria is set to come to auction on July 5th at Sothebys London as part of the upcoming Treasures sale. One of the most exquisite examples of Geneva workmanship from the early nineteenth century, the set is estimated to fetch between £250,000-400,000. Playing dominoes was said to be one of Queen Victorias favourite pastimes, with the game mentioned nearly 40 times in her journal between 1839 and 1861. The Queen, who ruled between 1837 and 1901, particularly loved to play the game with her husband Prince Albert. In one entry from Sunday December 18th 1842, which was spent at Windsor Castle, she writes: Albert read to me, and we played at dominos, such a good game. However, after his death in 1861, reference to the game ceased to be recorded and it is purported that she gave ... More | | 
A painting said to be by Jean-Michel Basquiat was found to be a reproduction. Photo: Department of Justice.
by Claire Fahy
NEW YORK, NY.- The art enthusiast couldnt believe what was hanging on the walls of a gallery in Palm Beach, Florida pieces by renowned artists, listed for unbelievably low prices. The gallerys owner offered that customer a deal four original pieces by Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring and Henri Matisse, works the customer later described as the holy grail, all for $290,000 paid by credit card in April 2021. According to federal prosecutors, the bargain was too good to be true. Daniel Bouaziz, the gallerys owner, appeared in federal court Friday in the Southern District of Florida to face charges of fraud and money laundering. Prosecutors contend that pieces he represented as authentic works were cheap reproductions that Bouaziz bought through online auctions. Bouaziz was charged after an investigation that included search warrants ... More |
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| La Belle Epoque Auction announces staying open after severe water damage incident | | Marianne Boesky Gallery announces representation of Sarah Meyohas | | Janet Borden Inc. opens an exhibition of works by Hanno Otten | 
Cachou Lajaunie Original Vintage Poster, French, 1875 - 1942) Matted and Framed, 58 x 38. Sold for $3,580 at February auction.
NEW YORK, NY.- New York Citys newest full-service boutique auction house La Belle Epoque Auction, located at 71 Eighth Avenue in the Meatpacking District of the West Village, has announced it is staying open after suffering extreme water damage just three weeks ago. The water damage was caused by a small fire in the space above La Belle Epoque, which set off sprinkler systems for an extended period of time, causing major flooding in the space below with portions of the ceiling literally caving in. Their 5,000 square foot commercial space, which partners Elie Saporta and Linda Tarasuk renovated beautifully before opening La Belle Epoque Auction in late 2021, was home to their successful debut auction in February of this year, which featured art, decorative items, Mid-Century Modern, antique furniture and collectibles. Their next auction ... More | | 
Sarah Meyohas with Interference #8, 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery announced the representation of French-American artist Sarah Meyohas (b. 1991). The gallery will debut her most significant work to date from the Interference series at Art Basel in June 2022. Meyohas will also be featured in the Conversation series at Art Basel, The New Patrons: NFT Collectors and Supporters, on June 16. Meyohas is a conceptual artist and pioneer in her use of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology as the foundation for her work in performance, documentary video works, photography, and sculpture. In 2015, Meyohas created Bitchcoin, a cryptocurrency backed by her physical artworks. Predating the launch of Ethereum, Bitchcoin is the first tokenization of physical art on a blockchain, effectively a proto-NFT. The artist translates these complex systems into her own visual language and pushes the boundaries of a gradually changing art landscape with the advancement of emerging ... More | | 
Hanno Otten, Corso 11, 2022 (detail). 10.12 x 23.62" archival pigment print. Mounted on Dibond. Edition #1/3, 1AP.
NEW YORK, NY.- Janet Borden announces CORSO, a fascinating new exhibition by Hanno Otten. This is Ottens sixth exhibition with the gallery, and it continues his visual discourse on the nature of color. Pure vivid color is Ottens language. This exhibition includes photographs and videos. In these photographs, Otten literally dissects color photography and uses the individual elements to create unique images. Lush bands of color comprise the Boulevard Section. These are complemented by Otten's elegantly composed unique photograms, or Lichtbilder (Light Pictures). Ottens new work continues to explore the abstract, with new approaches and refinements. These photographs embrace a more organic and personal approach to photography than in his previous studies. Below is Hanno Ottens Artist Statement on this work: Throughout my ... More |
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| A Judy Baca moment: 'My work has been good for a long time' | | Making art on top of the world | | Can ancient Maori knowledge aid science? Ask these freshwater crayfish. | 
Judith Baca, a muralist, on Mayne Island, in the Gulf Islands of Canada, May 30, 2022. Alana Paterson/The New York Times.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- It has never been easy to see a Judith Baca mural. They are scattered around this city, splashes of color and depictions of triumph and trauma hidden alongside highways, alleyways and riverbanks. And they were even harder to paint. Baca had to overcome fumes from traffic whizzing by on the 110 Freeway (she brought a tank of oxygen for when her legs began feeling heavy), flash floods in the Tujunga Wash and 112-degree afternoons in the San Fernando Valley. That is finally changing. After 50 years of painting, teaching and social activism, Bacas career is now being recognized in more conventional settings museums, with walls, roofs, skylights, electricity, running water and air conditioning. There are exhibitions celebrating this Chicana artist at the J. Paul Getty Museum and another set to open at the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles, which will use its warehouse space to display her traveling international exhibition, The World Wall: A Vision of the ... More | | 
Shuvinai Ashoona, Hunters, 2015. Colored pencil & ink on paper, 30 x 23 in.
by Patricia Leigh Brown
KINNGAIT.- Just 125 miles shy of the Arctic Circle, in a hamlet etched into an icescape of rock and snow, a tiny figure clutching worn colored pencils sprawls atop a huge drawing, her frame half the size of the paper. Shuvinai Ashoona is putting the finishing touches on her latest work, a calendar populated by fellow Inuits, an Indigenous people of Arctic Canada. Some in parkas are communing with a walrus, some are chewing bubble gum. The artist, whose enchanting and enigmatic drawings recently won special mention at the Venice Biennale, is ensconced in her warm corner of Kinngait Studios, where she works alongside printmakers and lithographers in one of the most influential and challenging art-making spaces in the world: an improbable studio-that-could that has nurtured five generations of acclaimed Inuit artists, many of them Ashoonas relatives. To reach the striking, corrugated blue metal building that houses Kinngait, simply dodge the snowmobiles buzzing with hornet intensity ... More | | 
Cory ONeill, Māori tribe Te Arawas lead diver, checks crayfish in Lake Rotomā, in New Zealand, May 7, 2022. Cornell Tukiri/The New York Times.
by Pete McKenzie
LAKE ROTOMA.- A riot of native plant life once covered the shallows of Lake Rotomā, one of the many bodies of water that speckle New Zealands upper North Island. At night, mottled green crayfish scuttled from the deep to graze beneath the fronds in such plentiful numbers that the local Māori tribe could gather a meal in a few minutes of wading. These days, the lake bed is carpeted by an alien canopy. Sharply spiraled weeds, introduced by goldfish owners dumping unwanted tanks, form an impenetrable wall around the lakes edge. Unable to push through it on their daily commute, the crayfish largely vanished. Now the local tribe, Te Arawa, and conservation agencies are racing to suppress the weeds explosive growth as it chokes once-pristine aquatic ecosystems. At Lake Rotomā, the tribe found a surprising solution in a centuries-old tool and added to a pitched debate about how ancestral Māori knowledge can complement ... More |
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| Frist Art Museum presents Light, Space, Surface: Works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art | | Maruani Mercier exhibits works by three contemporary masters of abstraction | | SO-IL Architects to design new building for Williams College Museum of Art | 
Mary Corse. Untitled (Clear White), 1968. Plexiglas, argon fixtures, solid state Tesla coils, and monofilament. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the Modern and Contemporary Art Council. © Mary Corse, courtesy Kayne Griffin Corcoran. Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA.
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents Light, Space, Surface: Works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, an exhibition of sculptures, paintings, and immersive installations by a loose-knit group of artists working in Southern California from the 1960s to the present. Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Light, Space, Surface will be on view from June 3 through September 4, 2022. Featuring 50 works by 22 artists that range from small sculptures to walk-in experiential environments, this visually alluring exhibition explores how the properties of light and space as well as highly polished surfaces can themselves be art forms. This ... More | | 
Joanna Pousette-Dart, Untitled, 2020-21. Acrylic on wood panel, 91.4 x 64.8 cm 36 x 25 1/2 in.
BRUSSELS.- Maruani Mercier is presenting three contemporary masters of abstraction: Marina Adams, Paul Mogensen, and Joanna Pousette-Dart. Each of these artists represent a slightly different generation of New York painters, all working with light, color, and form, creating works that challenge and inspire our conception of what painting can mean. The result is a crystalized moment of vision and a manifestation of stasis: a quiet reflection in a fast-moving world. Structuring Light refers to the current state of abstraction, particularly its vitality and adaptability to an ever-changing environment. The exhibition title was suggested by Joanna Pousette-Dart in a comment to curator Raymond Foye where she noted, "I think all of our work involves the alchemical transformation of color into light. Marina Adams (b.1960) synthesizes a wide range of influences in her work, from music to architecture to textiles. Although ... More | | 
so-il-team. Photo: Vincent Tullo.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- Williams College President Maud S. Mandel announced today that SO-IL architects will develop the conceptual design for a new building for the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) in Williamstown, MA. The project would provide the first stand-alone facility for WCMA, widely acknowledged as one of the most influential institutions in its field, whose collection has been housed since 1851 in Lawrence Hall, the Colleges first library building. Based in Brooklyn, New York, SO-IL has quickly risen to prominence since principals Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg founded the practice in 2008. Known for designs that inspire intellectual and social engagement, the firm has been widely praised for projects including the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis (its largest building to date) and an art campus for the non-profit arts organization Amant in New York. Among the many honors ... More |
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 Odili Donald Odita joins David Kordansky GalleryLOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery announced their representation of Philadelphia-based artist Odili Donald Odita in collaboration with Jack Shainman Gallery. Odili Donald Odita brings heightened awareness to color and space in paintings where abstraction is an optically, physically, and culturally-felt phenomenon. Though they are rooted in a broad range of historical lineagesAfricanist approaches to pattern; modernist painting and design; and contemporary conceptual positions, to name a fewhis compositions make immediate appeals to the senses in the here and now. Odita's take on non-objective art is suffused with connectivity to the world around him, and arises from memories, philosophical reflections, and meditations on the ways in which political forces shape relationships between perception and form. His primary ... More  Major retrospective exhibition General Idea opens at the National Gallery of CanadaOTTAWA.- Bold, provocative, visionary, the Canadian artist group General Ideaactive from 1969 to 1994was groundbreaking in their anticipation of contemporary concerns, foreshadowing the development of social media, reality TV, digital avatars and fluidity in sexual and gender identity. This Friday, June 3, a major retrospective exhibition of the trio, composed of Jorge Zontal (19441994), Felix Partz (19451994), and AA Bronson (b. 1946), opens at the National Gallery of Canada. With more than 200 works on view, this is the most comprehensive exhibition ever produced of General Idea, organized by the National Gallery of Canada in close collaboration with AA Bronson, the surviving member of the group. It will be on view until November 20, 2022. The exhibition is accompanied by a monumental publication presenting a visual ... More  Sotheby's to offer two ultra-rare casks of Whisky from the fabled Brora and Port Ellen DistilleriesLONDON.- The names of Brora and Port Ellen are often referenced in the same breath and with distinct tones of reverence by whisky aficionados. This summer, Sothebys will offer two ultra-rare casks, one from each distillery, from Diageos Casks of Distinction programme.* Never to be seen again, these offerings are among the rarest and most valuable casks in existence from Brora and Port Ellens dwindling stocks of ghost casks, containing the liquid left behind when the distilleries fell silent. Carrying an estimate of £700,000 to £1,200,000 each, they will open Sothebys sale of Scotch Whisky in London on 14 June, with advance bidding open from 31 May. Diageo will donate 5% of the final hammer price from both casks to Care International to support the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Jonny Fowle, Sothebys Head of Whisky, ... More  Artist Cristina Iglesias unearths forgotten landscapes in major site-specific installation at Madison Square ParkNEW YORK, NY.- Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias invites the public to consider the forgotten terrains and geographic history of New York City in a new public art installation opening today at Madison Square Park, marking her first major temporary public art project in the United States. Landscape and Memory places five bronze sculptural pools, flowing with water, into the parks Oval Lawn, harkening back to when the Cedar Creek coursed across the land where the park stands today. Building on Iglesias practice of unearthing the forgotten and excavating natural history, Landscape and Memory resurfaces in the imaginations of contemporary viewers the now-invisible force of this ancient waterway. On ... More  'Meteorite Men' host Geoff Notkin's out-of-this-world collection lands at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- Any time an elite collection is brought to market, the contents often dictate the value and interest
which can increase depending on who assembled the collection. The more notable the consignor, the greater in the interest the collection. Such is the case with the collection of Geoff Notkin, known best as one of the hosts of Meteorite Men, a documentary reality television series that ran on the Science Channel. On the show, which often featured scientists and professors as guests, Notkin and co-host Steve Arnold roamed the globe, looking for meteorites. Notkins fascination with meteorites, however, extended far beyond the three seasons (2009-12) in which the show aired. His was a fascination that lasted a lifetime. My fascination with meteorites started when I was six years old, Notkin says. In a museum exhibit I ... More  Omega Speedmaster watch presented to astronaut Michael Collins rockets to $765,000 at Heritage Auctions DALLAS, TX.- A stellar Omega watch soared light-years beyond pre-auction expectations when it sold for a record $765,000 to lead Heritage Auctions Fine Watches & Timepieces Signature® Auction June 1. The sale totaled $3,352,567, with 1,117 bidders vying for the events 210 lots. The Omega, Very Rare And Important Gold Speedmaster Professional Wristwatch, No. 19, Presented To Astronaut Michael Collins, circa 1969 is an extraordinary timepiece given to Michael Collins, who flew the Apollo 11 command module around the moon in 1969 while fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first crewed landing on the lunar surface. Only 28 were made. The first two were offered ... More  The Grace Garcia Estate goes up for bid on June 4 at Turner Auctions + AppraisalsSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals presents the Grace Garcia Estate, Part I, on Saturday, June 4, 2022. It features a wide array of paintings, religious items, and decorative arts from the personal collection of the late Grace Garcia, a passionate collector of beautiful things and avid world traveler. Known as Gracie by her many friends, acquaintances, and customers, she was owner of Gilroy Antiques in Gilroy, California, for over 30 years. Part II of her collection will be offered in early summer. This auction also includes jewelry, a silver water pitcher, and several other items from other California estates. Items of fine art and decorative art in this sale from the trust of the Grace Garcia Estate are diverse and eclectic, mostly from the 18th to 20th centuries. They include paintings, marble sculptures and busts, glass ... More  Modern Art opens a solo exhibition of new work by Eva Rothschild LONDON .- Modern Art opened a solo exhibition of new work by Eva Rothschild at its Bury Street gallery. This is Rothschilds sixth solo exhibition with Modern Art. Eva Rothschilds sculptures are underpinned both by the legacy of modernist sculpture notably the work of Hepworth, Brancusi, and Hesse - and the enduring forms of classical architecture. Typically using materials such as Jesmonite, Perspex, steel, polystyrene and ceramic, Rothschilds work attends to relationships between objects and bodies, and to creating conversation between individual sculptures. Often grouped together in order to highlight dynamics between form, colour, and mass, Rothschild creates social spaces, both indoor and outdoor. How objects and materials acquire religious, spiritual and magical meanings is a question that her work continues ... More  This high school musical teaches confidence, power and teamworkNEW YORK, NY.- Check one, two, three, two characters sing into hand-held microphones, grooving in gold-rimmed sunglasses. This is Benny on the dispatch, yo. Cut to eight dancers in front of a Monsey Trails bus who start stepping: stomping, clapping, slapping their thighs, doused in rhythm. This scene arrives toward the beginning of In the Stuy, a Bed-Stuy adaptation of Lin-Manuel Mirandas musical In the Heights created, performed and filmed by the students and staff of Brooklyn Transition Center, a special education high school in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Each year for a decade, the centers arts teachers have put on a musical, and in this years event filmed because of the coronavirus pandemic step has a starring role. In the Stuy will be screened Friday (for friends and family) and Saturday ... More  Christie's announces Spring DesignNEW YORK, NY.- This June, Christies presents three live sales of exceptional design on June 6, 7 and 10 in New York, including The Spirit of Paris, An Important Private Collection of 1920s and 1930s Design (June 6), a private collection of over 70 works by Alberto Giacometti, Jean-Michel Frank, Jean Dunand, Marcel Coard, among others, Tiffany Masterworks from the Garden Museum, A Private Collection (June 10) a dedicated sale of works by Tiffany Studios, and Design, (June 7), with a range of important works by 20th and 21st Century innovators of Art Nouveau, French Art Deco, American Studios, Mid-Century, Italian and Contemporary Design. The exhibition will be on view in Christies New York galleries starting June 2. Design, a various-owner auction includes nearly 180 lots of important design by American and European ... More  How Los Angeles has changed (in a good way)LOS ANGELES, CA.- Sun, sand, sightings of celebrities in their natural habitats: Tourists have long descended on Los Angeles for some combination of the above. If youre keen on that cocktail, rest assured, it remains on offer wrest your way into a coastal hot spot like Nobu Malibu or Giorgio Baldi and you can indulge with abandon. But Los Angeles has more to offer than the obvious. New, genre-bending restaurants and bars have cemented the citys status as a culinary capital of the world. Stages, outdoors and in, are booked with acts, big and rising. Museums, including the long-delayed, $484 million homage to Hollywood, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, are courting crowds. Travelers are coming in droves. Los Angeles comeback story is well underway, said Adam Burke, the president and CEO of the citys ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Raoul Dufy was born June 03, 1877. Raoul Dufy (3 June 1877 - 23 March 1953) was a French Fauvist painter, brother of Jean Dufy. He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events. He was also a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, scenic designer, a designer of furniture, and a planner of public spaces. In this image: A woman looks at artworks by late French painter Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) exhibited at the Beaux-Arts museum of Nice, on June 18, 2015, as part of the cultural event "Nice 2015. Promenade(s) des Anglais".
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