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It was both deliberate and intentional for someone to white wash Black Wall Street on the exact date 100 years ago when the massacre happened, said the owner of the Black Wall Street Gallery in SoHo. Via Black Wall Street Gallery via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The owner and curator of the Black Wall Street Gallery, which has an exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, said the exterior of the gallery was vandalized three times this week and called on the police to treat it as a hate crime. The owner, Ricco Wright, said that the gallery had been defaced Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and that at one point, white paint was smeared on the window, obscuring the words Black Wall Street Gallery. A literal whitewashing, Wright said Thursday. Were going to leave that there and just put another vinyl sticker above it with the same lettering to let them know when they go low, we go high. It was both deliberate and intentional for someone to whitewash Black Wall Street on the exact date 100 years ago when the massacre happened, he added. Detective Denise Moroney, a spokesperson for the New York Police Department, said authorities responded Monday and Tuesday to calls ab ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Richard Bell, installation view, You Can Go Now, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist, photograph Anna Kučera.
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| Curated NFT sale by Lady PheOnix totals $1 million | | Masterpieces of Iraqi Modernism soar at Bonhams | | Whitechapel Gallery opens a major retrospective of the work of Eileen Agar | 
Auriea Harvey (b. 1971), Minoriea Bust Version 1 (Digital Version 2), 2021. HTML artwork with 3D model and augmented reality. Dimensions variable. Estimate unknown. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK.- Christies continues to underpin its position at the forefront of the burgeoning NFT market following the close of an expertly curated online auction today, PROOF OF SOVEREIGNTY, presented in partnership with Lady PheOnixone of the most respected voices in the new media landscape today. The sale of 19 unique NFTs realized a combined total of USD $1,000,000 with buyers from Asia, Europe and the United States. Christies also noted that more than 60% of the bidders were new to the auction house. The top lot in PROOF OF SOVERNEIGTY was multidisciplinary artist Jose Bellinis Genesis, which soared in the final minutes of the sale to realize $400,000. Created in 2017, Genesis was Bellinis first Cryptoart-themed and iconic work that vaulted the artist into becoming a pioneer of fine art in the blockchain landscape. After Genesis went viral online, Bellini devoted her full ... More | | 
Jewad Selim (Iraq, 1919-1961), Mother and Child. Sold for £444,000. (Estimate: £60,000 - 100,000). Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Important works from the collections of the Iraqi architects, Mohammed Makiya (1914-2015) and Said Ali Madhloom (1921-2017) achieved superb results at Bonhams Modern & Contemporary Middle Eastern Art sale yesterday (2 June), with the collection of Said Ali Madhloom (lots 14-30) 100% sold. Significant works by The Pioneers of Iraqi Modernism, including Jewad Selim (1919-1961), Dia Azzawi (1939-), Kadhim Hayder (1932-1985), Faeq Hassan (1914-1992) and Shakir Hassan Al-Said (1925-2004), all far-exceeded pre-sale estimates. The top lot was How He Wandered with the Heart of a Martyr by Kadhim Hayder (Iraq, 1932-1985), from the collection of Said Ali Madhloom (1921-2017), which sold for £598,750 against an estimate of £100,000 - 150,000 a new world record for a work by the artist. Works by Jewad Selim also achieved particularly impressive results with Mother and Child, ... More | | 
Eileen Agar, Eileen Agar, 1927. Oil on canvas, 765 mm x 641 mm. NPG 5881 © Estate of Eileen Agar/Bridgeman Images.
LONDON.- Whitechapel Gallery is presenting Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy, a major retrospective of the work of Eileen Agar (1899-1991). The exhibition is the largest of Agars work to date and coincides with a wider re-evaluation of women's contribution to the story of modern art. It features over 100 paintings, collages, photographs, assemblages and archive material, much of which has been rarely exhibited. Throughout her nearly 70-year career, Agar synthesised elements of two of the twentieth centurys most significant artistic tendencies: Cubism and Surrealism. The exhibition explores how these early inspirations rapidly developed into her very personal style that offered a moving commentary on society over a period of tremendous social change. Fascinated by classical art, ancient mythologies, the natural world and sexual pleasure, Agar mined these subjects and her own biography for the forms and content that filled ... More |
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| Art blooms alongside nature in Riverside Park | | Flowers Gallery opens an exhibition of new works by Tai Shan Schierenberg | | Farleys House & Gallery announces major exhibition and publication of Lee Miller's work | 
Glen Wilson and his piece, Deliver Us 2021, which weaves photos of mail carriers into the fence, in Re:Growth, a Celebration of Art, Riverside Park and the New York Spirit" in New York, June 1, 2021. Nina Westervelt/The New York Times.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In Riverside Park, behind the locked bars of an Amtrak maintenance entrance near 108th Street, a large still-life painting of flowers leans against a wall. The canvas appears to be rotting and fraying into a tangle of dead roots and leaves, with new blossoms erupting three-dimensionally from the surface. Artist Valerie Hegarty wanted to blend fiction with fact: She imagined a Dutch Vanitas painting a reminder of mortality had been stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and hidden here, only to be abandoned when the pandemic struck. Its been decaying, but now that spring has hit the city, things are growing back out of the destruction, said Hegarty, who placed on a nearby ledge a painted ... More | | 
Tai Shan Schierenberg, Mirage, 2021, oil on canvas © Tai Shan Schierenberg, courtesy of Flowers Gallery
LONDON.- Flowers Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new works created over the last 18 months by British painter Tai Shan Schierenberg. In this exhibition, nature is represented in a series of remembered landscapes and seascapes, which appear desolate and unpopulated or sparsely inhabited by lone figures. Schierenberg describes this sequence of works as "selfportraits of sorts," creating archetypal characters and metaphors within the landscape to navigate personal experience. In paintings such as Mirage, Bodies of Water and No Man is an Island, reflections in the mirrorlike surfaces of lake and ocean suggest states of division or flux. Schierenberg describes these works as contemplating isolation and disconnectedness, while also representing distortions of reality and the nature of illusion. The painting Ancient Ritual explores our enduring fascination with fire, making reference to the story of Prometheus from Greek Mythology, an ... More | | 
Lee Miller, Hats. Vogue Studio, London, England 1942 © Lee Miller Archives, England 2020. All rights reserved. leemiller.co.uk
CHIDDINGLY.- Farleys House & Gallery is presenting Lee Miller: Fashion in Wartime Britain. The exhibition explores the under recognised body of fashion photography made by the renowned surrealist photographer during the Second World War. It features over 60 of Millers images for British Vogue from 1939 to early 1944, many of which have never been seen before. The exhibition is accompanied by a major new publication, featuring over 100 recently archived images. This important aspect of Lee Millers wartime work has previously been overshadowed by her role as a front line correspondent in the final years of the war. New research, undertaken for the exhibition and book, on Millers wartime diaries has uncovered the sheer volume of editorial shoots for British Vouge that she worked on for most of the early 1940s. Despite paper rationing, British Vogue was kept in print throughout the war ... More |
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| Christie's announces a sale dedicated to women artists | | Simon Lee Gallery announces representation of Sonia Boyce | | Jerome Hellman, producer of 'Midnight Cowboy,' dies at 92 | 
Tamara de Lempicka, Figure de femme, huile sur panneau, 30.2 x 18.2 cm. Oil on panel, 117/8 x 71/8 in. Painted circa 1924. Estimate: 100,000-150,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
PARIS.- For the first time, Christie's in France will hold a sale dedicated to women artists, covering all mediums - ancient and modern paintings, sculptures, books and autographed letters, photographs, engravings, design, jewels, fashion. The panorama will pay tribute to women artists working over five centuries, of different nationalities, all of whom have marked art history, from the 16th to the 21st century. Alice Chevrier, specialist in the Rare Books and Manuscripts department and Bérénice Verdier, specialist in the Old Master Paintings department, in charge of the sale: "We are very proud to organise in France the first sale dedicated to women artists. In recent months, we have watched as events devoted to women artists were held by museums, including the exhibition "Peintres femmes, 1780-1830" at the Musée du Luxembourg, ... More | | 
Portrait of the artist, 2018. Photo: Anne Purkiss.
LONDON.- Simon Lee Gallery announced its representation of British Afro-Caribbean artist Sonia Boyce OBE RA. Boyce has been commissioned by the British Council to represent Britain with a major new exhibition at the 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2022. Simon Lee Gallerys inaugural exhibition with the artist will take place in London in Autumn 2022. Boyce is also represented by Apalazzo gallery, Brescia, Italy. Artist and academic Sonia Boyce was born in London in 1962. She came to prominence in the early 1980s as a key figure in the burgeoning Black Arts Movement of that time with figurative pastel drawings and photo collages that addressed issues of race and gender in Britain. In 1987, she became one of the youngest artists of her generation to have her artwork acquired by Tate and the first Black-British female artist to enter the collection. Since the 1990s Boyces practice has taken a si ... More | | 
Shot with an initial budget of only $1 million, the movie included straightforward but far from pornographic depictions of straight and gay sex, prostitution and gang rape. The films rating was later upgraded to R.
by Anita Gates
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Jerome Hellman, who produced Midnight Cowboy (1969), the only X-rated film ever to win the best picture Academy Award, and who went on to solidify his reputation with other tough-minded dramas, like the Oscar-winning Coming Home, died May 26 at his home in South Egremont, Massachusetts, in the Berkshires. He was 92. The death was confirmed by his wife, Elizabeth Empleton Hellman. Almost no one at the 1970 Academy Awards ceremony expected Midnight Cowboy to win. The movie was the gritty urban story of Joe Buck (Jon Voight), a young, handsome, naïve and not particularly bright Texan who decides to start a new life in New York City as a male hustler catering ... More |
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| KODE Bergen Art Museum presents on view, an Arvid Pettersen retrospective | | 81 Leonard Gallery opens John Weiner's first solo exhibition in New York | | Simon de Pury announces new artist studio exhibition: Microcosm by Henry Hudson | 
Arvid Pettersen, fra Folk som ikke eksisterer I-XII, 2020, olje på lerret, 200 x 150 cm.
BERGEN.- KODE launched the first large retrospective presentation of Norwegian artist Arvid Pettersens work. The exhibition On View encompasses more than 60 works from five decades, with an emphasis on the 1980s and recent works. An artist has to dare to make the leap into the waterfall and try to swim to land. Arvid Pettersen A reluctance to repeat himself has been a major driving force for Arvid Pettersen (b. 1943) throughout his more than 50-year-long career as a visual artist. At the same time he has kept steadfastly to the traditional painting medium, both as a framework and a field of research. The classical genres such as landscape painting, portraiture and still lifes are taken up for renewed treatment in an idiom that has alternated effortlessly between representation and abstraction. A willingness to embrace change is also clearly visible in his newest works, ... More | | 
Empty Eyes; Screenshot, 2018-2020, Oil paint and acrylic paint on canvas wrapped to shaped panel, 53" x 48".
NEW YORK, NY.- 81 Leonard Gallery is presenting John Weiner: if Six was 9, on view from June 3rd through July 30th, 2021. The artists first solo exhibition in New York features recent paintings and site-specific installations. There is a widely held romantic notion that art expresses emotions which words simply cannot describe. John Weiner, however, proves that the use of logic can indeed break an emotion down into a sum of simple parts. Color, line, formthese are the basic elements of our visual atmosphere; from these elements the world around us takes the shape of buildings, billboards, logos, and language. Drawing inspiration from advertising, Constructivist theory, and his own experience writing graffiti, John Weiners abstract paintings present a visual investigation into the urgency and efficiency of human communication as well as the capacity ... More | | 
Ai Weiwei, iPad Portrait.
LONDON.- The Swiss art dealer and internationally renowned auctioneer announced his latest venture, a new exhibition series titled de PURY presents
collaborating with international artists to stage exhibitions from their own studios. The first exhibition de PURY presents Microcosm by Henry Hudson launched on 1 June 31 July 2021 with the London-based artist, Henry Hudson. Hudson presents a new series of portraits, begun in 2019, of leading art world figures including Ai Weiwei, Ed Ruscha, Rashid Johnson, Sean Scully and others. Hudson has long had a diverse practice, working across painting, sculpture, ceramics, installation and print-making. These new works represent how his practice extends into the digital realm using the iPad, scanners and UV printers to inform his contemporary portraiture. For the series, Hudson takes a photo and draws a portrait of his sitters on an iPad, which is then printed via a UV Flatbed printer on a ... More |
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Alberto Giacometti 'The Artist's Mother' | New York | Summer 2021
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 Exceptional Victoria Cross to be sold at Dix Noonan WebbLONDON.- The unique and exceptional 1891 Capture and Defence of Thobal V.C. group of five awarded to 30-year-old Scotsman Lieutenant, later Colonel, C. J. W. Grant of the 12th Regiment (2nd Burma Battalion) Madras Infantry will be offered by Dix Noonan Webb in their live/ online auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Wednesday, June 23, 2021 on their website www.dnw.co.uk. It is expected to fetch £300,000-400,000. Charles James William Grant was born in Bourtie, Aberdeenshire in 1861, the son of Lieutenant-General P. C. S. St. J. Grant, and was educated privately and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the Suffolk Regiment on 10 May 1882, and joined the Madras Staff Corps in 1884. After a long military career, he spent his later years in Sidmouth in Devon, where he died in 1932, aged 71 years. As, Mark ... More  Miller & Miller announces highlights included in its Advertising & Breweriana AuctionNEW HAMBURG.- An important Black Cat Shoe Polish clock (known to collectors simply as The Black Cat Clock), a 4 foot by 8 foot circa 1938 porcelain sign for Orange Crush soda, and an early 20th century Kuntz Brewery Bologna Girl lithographed tin beer tray are just a few of the expected highlights in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.s upcoming online-only Advertising & Breweriana sale slated for Saturday, June 19th at 9 am Eastern time. The 650-lot sale will be headlined by the Peter Rea collection. Fans of breweriana will quickly recognize that condition is the common thread in what Peter Rea collected, said Ethan Miller of Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. Never have I met a collector so focused on perfection. Mr. Miller added, Were also featuring an ... More  MOCA Toronto appoints Charity Chan Head of Public Programmes and LearningTORONTO.- Kathleen Bartels, Executive Director and CEO of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Toronto, announced the appointment of Charity Chan as Head of Public Programmes and Learning. In this new position, Chan oversees MOCAs public performances, lectures, workshops, screenings, and learning opportunities. We eagerly look forward to Charity sharing her passion for arts education with our visitors and the larger Toronto and regional community. With Charitys guidance we look forward to forging new paths connecting art, artists, educators, and visitors and expanding MOCAs offerings to embrace new ways to experience and share contemporary art said Bartels. Chans career has included developing community learning initiatives; cross-cultural arts curation; academic research; large-scale live event production; and fundraising. Her organizational expertise ... More  Major Richard Bell survey exhibition opens at MCA AustraliaSYDNEY.- The largest Australian solo exhibition by artist and activist Richard Bell opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. You Can Go Now brings together over 30 years of the artists practice from the early 1990s through to 2021. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of public talks in solidarity and resistance that pay homage to and reflect the values of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. Richard Bell is one of Australias most important contemporary artists. The exhibition You Can Go Now brings together all facets of Bells life, reflecting on the person, the artist and activist. Known as an eviscerating political commentator, who shifts between the personas of artist and activist, Bell is internationally renowned for his practice. He uses humour and satire to address important issues around representation, identity politics, nationalism and neo-Liberalism and ... More  Lehmann Maupin opens its first exhibition with New York-based painter Arcmanoro NilesNEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin is presenting Hey Tomorrow, Do You Have Some Room For Me: Failure Is A Part Of Being Alive, the gallerys first exhibition with New York-based painter Arcmanoro Niles. Featuring a series of new portraits, still lives, and a single landscape, this exhibition continues the artists critical investigation into the function and form of historically revered genres in painting. Niles is best known for his vivid, brightly-hued canvases that illustrate the seemingly mundane aspects of daily life―a man about to get into his car, a father and daughter sitting on their stoop with their dog, a woman waiting at a bus stop. His subjects are drawn from photographs of friends and relatives and from memories of his past, offering a highly personal record of contemporary life. The paintings, though autobiographical, engage with universal subjects of desire, hope, fear, and failure, while also ... More  Cathy Wilkes presents a selection of her most recent work at Xavier HufkensBRUSSELS.- For her third solo exhibition in Brussels, Cathy Wilkes (b.1966, Belfast, N. Ireland) brings together a selection of her most recent work in an intriguing and visually rhythmic installation that draws the viewer inwards. In the downstairs gallery, the space is occupied by a transparent, diaphanous sculpture that is executed with great economy of means. Wire, loosely held together by pins, suggests a faceless human form. The fragility and weightlessness of the figure, which seems to hover on the threshold of presence and absence, contrasts sharply with the emphatic nature of the two wall-mounted display cases in the exhibition. The objects within thema pair of lamps in one, a Russian tazza in the otherare specific, historical and decorative. They seem significant, yet their meaning is cryptic, elusive and hard to apprehend. Wilkes creates sculptures from found objects and ... More  Six rare works by Albert York to be offered at Freeman'sPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans will present six works by Albert Yorkfive oil paintings and one watercolorin our June 6 American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists auction. Undoubtedly an auction highlight, this selection features both the pastoral scenes for which York is best known, as well as figurative work, including a bold, exquisite portrait of Yorks wife, a rare depiction of the subject. Concise and modest, Yorks paintings stand out to the viewer with a disarming rawness and purity that convey sentimentality, qualities that have led him to be called the Painter of the Ordinary. All of the pieces on offer come from an estate in Reading, Pennsylvania, and were acquired through Yorks lifetime dealer, Roy Davis. Though York remains anonymous to many art historians, dealers, and collectors, and his work very rarely appears at auction, he garnered a small, loyal group of ... More  New York's concert scene gets a lavish new addition: Brooklyn MadeNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For the past year, with the concert business mothballed by the pandemic, small clubs and theaters have warned that their survival was at risk, and dozens of venues across the country have shut down. But with concerts now coming back, something that might have seemed unthinkable just a few months ago is happening: Not only have old venues reopened their doors, but entirely new ones are sprouting up, buoyed by the hope that concert-hungry fans will help the industry come roaring back. On Sept. 30, Brooklyn Made, a new club in Bushwick, Brooklyn, will open with two nights featuring Jeff Tweedy of Wilco. Everything about the space is planned as deluxe and high-concept, from the Moroccan lamps adorning the 500-capacity performance space to the adjoining cafe and rooftop deck. Visiting artists will find an impossibly luxurious spread, ... More  The toasts are mimed, but the Kennedy Center Honors returnWASHINGTON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A handful of dignitaries made toasts without glasses in front of thousands of empty plush red seats, before a masked stagehand in white gloves quickly wiped down the microphone and lectern. Actual drinks had to wait for the safety of an outdoor terrace and a distanced reception. A brief photo line was moved from the Kennedy Centers grand entrance hallway to a wing offstage, where a half-dozen photographers stood in front of mementos from previous productions. In an opera house designed to hold more than 2,000 people, roughly 120 masked attendees had their temperatures checked with wrist scans before slipping through a nondescript backstage door to witness a short, scaled-back fragment of the 43rd Kennedy Center Honors. The ceremony was delayed, and transformed, but the show went on. Instead of receiving their ribboned medals at ... More  Some venue owners get a federal lifeline. Others are told they're dead.NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As the emails finally started arriving late last week, some business owners got the good news they had been long awaiting: They would be awarded a piece of a $16 billion federal grant fund intended to preserve music clubs, theaters and other live-event businesses devastated by the pandemic. But other applicants ran into fresh obstacles including the discovery that the government thinks theyre dead. It was the latest bureaucratic mishap for the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant initiative, an aid program created by Congress late last year that has struggled at nearly every turn to disburse badly needed relief funds. Derek Sitter, owner of the Volcanic Theater Pub, a 250-capacity music and performance venue in Bend, Oregon, was at home Saturday watching a British soccer game when an alert popped up on his phone: Congratulations, ... More  Tom Irvine appointed as Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Deputy DirectorAUCKLAND.- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki announces the appointment of Tom Irvine to the position of Deputy Director. The position will have responsibility for ensuring the operational needs of Auckland Art Gallery are met in respect to finance, HR, security, capital projects, maintenance and systems improvement. Tom brings to the Gallery a wealth of corporate, community and commercial expertise and experience. Moreover he is a respected leader in Tāmaki Makaurau with an impressive track record of delivering on strategic objectives. I am excited by the potential of what we will achieve together, side by side, says Auckland Art Gallery Director, Kirsten Lacy. Tom brings a fresh perspective and considerable mana to the Gallerys leadership team. His contribution to Auckland Art Gallerys operational management will undoubtably ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Danish artist Nicolai Abildgaard died June 04, 1809. Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard (September 11, 1743 - June 4, 1809) was a Danish neoclassical and royal history painter, sculptor, architect, and professor of painting, mythology, and anatomy at the New Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. Many of his works were in the royal Christiansborg Palace (some destroyed by fire 1794), Fredensborg Palace, and Levetzau Palace at Amalienborg. In this image: Nicolai Abildgaard (1743 - 1809), The Archangel Michael and Satan Disputing about the Body of Moses. ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum. C. 1782. Oil on canvas, 49.7 x 61.7 cm.
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