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A room at the Tenement Museum in an as-yet unrestored space that will be dedicated to a 19th-century Black waiter, Joseph Moore, and his family, in New York, May 27, 2021. As the museum prepares to celebrate its reopening, it is researching an apartment re-creation dedicated to a Black family, introducing a neighborhood walking tour called Reclaiming Black Spaces and revising all of its apartment tours to look more squarely at the ways that race and racism shaped the opportunities open to the mostly white immigrants whose struggle and striving is explored there. (Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times.
by Jennifer Schuessler
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- There is no shortage of ghosts at the Tenement Museum, which for nearly three decades has explored issues of immigration, home and belonging through tours of the meticulously re-created apartments in its five-story building on the Lower East Side of New York City. But in recent years, the story of one particularly ghostly presence has lingered in the background. In 2008, shortly after the opening of an apartment telling the story of Joseph Moore, a 19th-century immigrant Irish waiter, a museum educator noticed something interesting in an 1869 city directory. Right above Moores name was another Joseph Moore, also a waiter, living a few neighborhoods away. Same name, same profession. But there was an extra designation Cold, or Colored. The educator started inviting visitors to think about the two Joseph Moores. How would their lives have been similar or different? As other educators picked up the story, a conversation grew about how to talk about the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of exhibition Nivola: Sandscapes at Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, New York. (May 8, 2021 - January 10, 2022) Photo by Marco Anelli. Courtesy Magazzino Italian Art.
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| ARTBnk's May 2021 auction sales performance report | | First-ever NFT sells for $1.47 mn at auction | | Judd Architecture Office in Marfa severely damaged in fire | 
Jonas Wood, Two Tables With Floral Pattern, 2013, oil and acrylic on canvas, 100 x 93 in. Christies May 11th 21st Century Evening Sale. Estimate: $2,000,000 - $4,000,000. Sold: $6,510,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- With major sales taking place this past week in New York, ARTBnk analyzed 525 works from day and evening sales at Sothebys and Christies to evaluate the state of the fine art market today. Within this analysis, well break down how these works performed across market sectors by utilizing presale fair market valueARTBnk Valuefor each individual work of art, determined through ARTBnk's unique AI valuation methodology which combines thousands of quantitative and qualitative data points with systematic regression analysis. The 446 lots sold totaled $880,675,615 in sales, 4.8% above their aggregated pre-sale ARTBnk Value totals of $840,726,528, and 2.0% above aggregated auction house buyer's premium adjusted mean estimate totals of $863,236,625. 34 (7.6%) of the 446 sold lots achieved sold prices greater than 100% above the buyers ... More | | 
An NFT titled 'CryptoPunk 7523' by Larva Labs is on display during a press preview of the Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale at Sotheby's on June 04, 2021 in New York City. Cindy Ord/Getty Images/AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- The first non-fungible token (NFT) ever created sold at auction on Thursday for $1.47 million, Sotheby's said, the latest sale in the technological revolution sweeping the art market. The auction house also sold a pixelated digital figure known as a CryptoPunk for $11.7 million, making it the second most expensive NFT to date. "Quantum," an octagon-shaped animation by New York artist Kevin McCoy, became the first work to be associated with an NFT-type certificate of ownership in May 2014, three years before the term NFT was coined. An NFT is a digital object such as a drawing, animation, piece of music, photo or video with a certificate of authenticity created by the blockchain technology that underlies cryptocurrency. It cannot be forged or otherwise manipulated. NFT exchanges take place in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin on specialist sites. ... More | | 
Architecture Office, Judd Foundation, Marfa, Texas. Photo © Judd Foundation.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Gary Mitschke, the chief of the Marfa Volunteer Fire Department, arrived at the Judd Foundation offices in Marfa, Texas, shortly after 12:30 a.m. on Friday, smoke at one building was coming out of anywhere it could escape from, he said. The fire was in Donald Judds office, in a two-story red brick building in this small desert city where Judd, a pioneer of Minimalism, had lived and worked after leaving the New York art scene in the 1970s. He died in 1994. Luckily, the office was empty: Judds architectural models, drawings, furniture and other design objects had been relocated as part of a three-year renovation of the space that was scheduled to conclude on July 3. Its in a sad state, Mitschke said, noting that the roof had pretty much collapsed and that large parts of the second floor had been burned through. The fire blazed for more than 12 hours before a team of about a dozen volunteer firefighters finally got it under contro ... More |
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| Look inside Philip Roth's personal library | | France sends the U.S. another, smaller Statue of Liberty | | The 'tube houses' that dominate Hanoi's streets | 
Books owned by Philip Roth on display at the Newark Public Library in Newark, N.J., June 2, 2021. Vincent Tullo/The New York Times.
by Elizabeth A. Harris and Vincent Tullo
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Philip Roth was not precious about the books in his personal library. When he died in 2018, he left behind more than 7,000 marked-up paperbacks and hardcovers, most of them tucked into the built-in shelves of his Upper West Side apartment and Warren, Connecticut, home. He donated them to the Newark Public Library, and when Nadine Sergejeff, the supervising librarian of what would become the Philip Roth Personal Library, looked at what she had, she found treasures. The books were crammed with marginalia, as if Roth was having conversations with the writers or making cranky observations about inconsistencies in their work. But the books were also stuffed with letters sometimes correspondence between Roth and the authors, other times messages that had nothing to do with the book. Sergejeff also found shopping lists, travel itineraries, pressed flowers, candy wrappers, toothpicks and straws. All the stuff you find at the bottom of a purse, said Rosemary ... More | | 
A replica of the Statue of Liberty is lifted by a crane from outside the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris on Monday, June 7, 2021. Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times.
by Derrick Bryson Taylor
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A replica of the Statue of Liberty began a journey this week from Paris to New York, officials in France said, sending the United States another, much smaller monument to freedom and symbol of French-American friendship. At under 10 feet tall, a 16th of her bigger sisters size, the bronze statue was carefully hoisted from its place at a museum of inventions in Paris during a ceremony on Monday, according to a news release from the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts. The statue, which weighs nearly 1,000 pounds, had been on display at the museum, Musée des Arts et Métiers, for 10 years and will be placed in a specially designed Plexiglas box for its nine-day voyage across the Atlantic. The smaller statue, based on the original 1878 plaster model by sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, was installed just outside the museums entrance in 2011. This statue was cast using a 3D scan of another model in Paris, the news ... More | | 
This aerial photograph taken on June 8, 2021 shows narrow residential houses, known as "nha ong" in Vietnamese or "tube houses", in a densely populated urban area of Hanoi. Tall, thin and brightly coloured, Hanoi's "tube houses" dominate the city's streets as nine million people compete for space in the bustling capital. Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP.
HANOI (AFP).- Tall, thin and brightly coloured, Hanoi's "tube houses" dominate the city's streets as nine million people compete for space in Vietnam's bustling capital. Although Vietnam saw a number of villas and garden houses built during the French colonial period, Hanoi has few of these grand residential homes. Instead, tree-lined streets are packed with dwellings that are barely four metres wide, but are three times that in depth. Typically, a tube house might be home to a family of four but two or three generations of relatives sometimes have to jostle for space. The first tube houses -- known as "nha ong" in Vietnamese -- are thought to have appeared in the capital at the end of the 19th century, when villagers looking to sell silver, traditional herbs and tools began to move to the area. A narrow architectural style evolved from the limited available space, said Tran Quoc Bao, a senior lecturer at the National University ... More |
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| After half a century, White Columns still surprises | | vanessa german joins Kasmin | | Major exhibition dedicated to Senga Nengudi opens in Philadelphia | 
Jeff Lewis studies a selection of White Columns publications from the 1990s and early 2000s, during the opening of the alternative spaces 50th anniversary exhibition in New York, June 5, 2021. Victor Llorente/The New York Times.
by Brett Sokol
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Im going to use a word youre not supposed to say, sculptor Jeffrey Lew declared with a touch of bravado. Im sort of a sociopath. In 1969 Lew and Rachel Wood, then his wife, purchased a decrepit six-story rag-salvaging factory in SoHo for $110,000. They moved into its upper floors with an assortment of kindred artists and, with fellow sculptors Gordon Matta-Clark and Alan Saret, turned the unheated ground floor and basement into a 7,400-square-foot exhibition space named 112 Greene Street (and later 112 Workshop), after its location. Subsequent shows featured a wall-mounted piece made of 500 pounds of decaying carrots, massive holes cut into the floor, and a dance troupe swinging overhead from the 17-foot-high ceiling. ... More | | 
vanessa german in her exhibition MATRIX 174 / i come to do a violence to the lie (2016) at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. Photo by Allen Phillips/Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin announced the representation of vanessa german (b. 1976, Milwaukee). german is a self-taught citizen artist working across sculpture, performance, communal rituals, immersive installation, and photography, in order to repair and reshape disrupted systems, spaces, and connections. The artists practice proposes new models for social healing, utilizing creativity and tenderness as vital forces to reckon with the historical and ongoing catastrophes of structural racism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, resource extraction, and misogynoir. To celebrate the announcement, the gallery will premier a presentation of germans work with Art Basel OVR: Portals, on view online from June 1619 with works on view at the gallerys High Line Nine space by appointment from June 15. This inaugural edition of Art Basels Portals platform focuses on artistic practices that ... More | | 
Installation view of the exhibition, Senga Nengudi: Topologies. Photo courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Photo by Joseph Hu, 2021.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art is the only East Coast venue for a major traveling exhibition devoted to Senga Nengudi, a leading figure of the 1970s Black American avant-garde and a pioneering artist of our time. Marked by her innovative use of everyday materials that range from water and sand to pantyhose and air conditioning units, Nengudis work bridges the mediums of sculpture and performance, offering a cross-disciplinary investigation into the personal experiences of the Black female body and the collective practices of community and ritual. Senga Nengudi: Topologies traces the expansive range of the artists career and context from the 1970s to today through a combination of more than 70 artworks, including sculptures, environmental installations, and archival documentation. Shown together, they affirm Nengudi's pivotal role in redefining the possibilities of sculpture and abstraction, and exemplify ... More |
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| Museum to create National Archives of Game Show History | | Cornelia Oberlander, a farseeing landscape architect, dies at 99 | | Paris Opera star finally bows after 3 failed attempts to leave | 
Main entrance. Courtesy of The Strong, Rochester, New York.
by Neil Vigdor
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Showcase Showdowns and Daily Doubles of yesteryear will no longer be relegated only to reruns. A museum in Rochester, New York, announced Wednesday that it would serve as the home of a first-of-its-kind National Archives of Game Show History to preserve artifacts and footage from programs like Jeopardy! The Price Is Right and the The $25,000 Pyramid. The archives will be housed at the Strong National Museum of Play, which is undergoing an expansion that will add 90,000 square feet to its space and that it expects to be completed by 2023. Curators at the museum already have some ideas about what types of artifacts would make an ideal centerpiece and are asking for items from collectors. The wheel from Wheel of Fortune would be iconic, Chris Bensch, the museums vice president for collections, said in an interview Wednesday. The museum, he said, would gladly accept the letter ... More | | 
Based in Vancouver, B.C., the 98-year-old Oberlander has been in practice for more that 70 years. Photo © Charles A. Birnbaum, courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, a German-born Canadian landscape architect who blended naturalistic designs with modernist ideals and recognized early on the urgency of climate change, designing public spaces to mitigate its effects, died on May 22 in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was 99. The cause was complications of COVID-19, said her daughter Judy Oberlander. Cornelia Oberlander was one of the first women to study at Harvards Graduate School of Design, founded by Walter Gropius, a leader of the Bauhaus movement. Its modernist ethos and her own upbringing gave her a mission to improve peoples lives with public spaces nourished by nature. With the Canadian modernist architect Arthur Erickson, she created some of the most enduring and beloved public spaces in Vancouver, her adopted city. One is Robson Square, a three-block downtown ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on September 18, 2019 Italian ballet dancer and Etoile at the Paris Opera Ballet Eleonora Abbagnato poses during a photo session in Paris. JOEL SAGET / AFP.
by Rana Moussaoui
PARIS (AFP).- Saying goodbye can be hard, and for one star dancer at the Paris Opera who has been trying to leave since 2019, it can also take a long time. Eleonora Abbagnato, an "etoile" (the highest rank in the ballet company), has had three farewell performances cancelled but is determined that the fourth attempt on Friday will be for real. "I think it's my last chance," the 42-year-old Italian said, laughing. Abbagnato was due to depart in December 2019, but the show was cancelled due to a new strike by Opera staff. Then the pandemic intervened to cancel two more planned farewells in 2020. Missing an etoile's goodbye -- a classic event with a marathon ovation and blizzard of confetti and glitter -- would have been a shame. So, after nearly a quarter of a century since she was inducted into the company, ... More |
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 Senegalese monks seek God through kora musicKEUR MOUSSA (AFP).- Monks in blue-grey habits lift their hands in supplication before breaking into a chant accompanied by the singsong twang of the kora, a traditional West African harp. It is mid-afternoon prayer in the abbey of Keur Moussa, just east of Senegal's capital Dakar, a tranquil 25-hectare complex filled with fruit trees and herb gardens -- and famed for its relationship with the kora. Dozens of monks are singing in a modernist church under a red-and-black mural of the nativity and crucifixion in which Jesus is represented as an African. Here, seven times a day, Benedictine friars sing the glories of God to the sound of the 21-string kora. In the monastery's workshop, luthier-monks also craft koras that are in high demand among professional musicians. Throughout the mostly-Muslim surrounding region, and the wider Catholic world, ... More  The 31st annual Cody Old West Auction will be held June 26th in Santa FeSANTA FE NM.- The roll-top desk and chair used by Pat Garrett while he was sheriff in Dona Ana, New Mexico, an Arizona Ranger Colt Frontier six-shooter, a circa 1863 Henry repeating rifle, J.B. Farrs 14kt gold presentation sheriffs badge and actor Clint Eastwoods film-worn hat from the movie Joe Kidd are just a hint of what bidders can expect at the 31st annual Cody Old West Auction scheduled for Saturday, June 26th, starting promptly at 4 pm Mountain time. The event is being held by Brian Lebels Old West Events, with live, in-person bidding at the Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza located at 100 Sandoval Street in Santa Fe, as well as online via the Old West Events website, www.oldwestevents.com. As with past events, the auction will be part of a three-day Old West Show, June 25-27, also hosted by Old West Events, in the nearby Santa ... More  Anna Perach presents an installation formed of three sculptural elementsROME.- For her solo exhibition at ADA, Anna Perach presents an installation formed of three sculptural elements. Conceptually this exhibition explores the narrative of the detachment of the head and body in the female form. The sculptures more specifically investigate the brutality of the compartmentalisation of feminine body throughout different resources and stories in Western history. Seven Wives, 2020, consists of seven tufted heads hanging on a hemp rope by S-shaped hooks often used for hanging meat. Each head represents the one of the seven female archetypes proposed by psychoanalyst Carl Jung: maiden, huntress, lover, queen, mystic, sage and mother. The idea of hanging the heads draws its inspiration from an illustration for the folktale of Bluebeard depicting Bluebeards hanging dead wives, symbol of the violent and irrational ... More  Kenny Mascary named first-ever Community Partnerships Manager for Now + ThereBOSTON, MASS.- Kenny Mascary was recently named the first-ever Community Partnerships Manager for Now + There, a Boston-based nonprofit that brings temporary, site-specific public art to all of the citys neighborhoods. Having a strong background with mission-driven organizations, Mascary will work with the Now + There team to expand the organizations reach and community impact, developing community-based relationships through public art projects. Mascary will identify and strengthen partnerships for signature and Accelerator projects alike. Growing up in Haiti, public art was mostly seen as art that happened, but no one knew where it came from, said Mascary. What always captured my attention was the size of the art, it couldnt be ignored. Or how it meant something significant. Mascary holds a bachelors degree from Northeastern University ... More  Mythical creatures come alive in the Garment DistrictNEW YORK, NY.- The Garment District Alliance announced the latest in its ongoing series of public art exhibits, showcasing 14 watercolor cutouts of fairies and fantastical creatures titled The Garden of the Unseen, created by artist Cydney Bittner. Located in a street-level window on 215 West 38th Street, the free exhibit is accessible to the public through July 11. The Garden of the Unseen is part of the Garment District Space for Public Art program, which showcases artists in unusual locations throughout the year and in over 16 years has produced more than 200 installations, exhibits and performances. Following this tumultuous year, we know New Yorkers will enjoy tapping into their inner child with Cydney Bittners fun, whimsical creations, said Barbara A. Blair, president of the Garment District Alliance. The Garden of the Unseen certainly captures ... More  Intersect Aspen, in-person art & design fair to be held August 1-5NEW YORK, NY.- Intersect Art and Design announces a pop-up edition of Intersect Aspen, an art and design fair taking place in person at the Aspen Ice Garden from August 1-5, 2021. The show will open with a VIP Preview Brunch on Sunday, August 1 from 10am to 11am, followed by a Public Opening Reception from 11am to 12pm, and will be open to the public daily from 11am to 5pm. The fair will also be presented online at Artsy.net from August 1-19, 2021. Becca Hoffman, Managing Director of Intersect Art and Design says, We are so pleased to be returning to Aspen this summer for what promises to be a dynamic and exciting time in the mountains. As our first in-person event since the pandemic, the curated selection of galleries highlights a thoughtful mix of established and younger galleries from around the country showcasing art, design, ... More  Daylight Books to publish 'Billable Hours: in 6 minute increments' by Robin DahlbergNEW YORK, NY.- In Billable Hours: in 6-minute increments (Daylight Books, Summer 2021), visual artist Robin L. Dahlberg uses staged photographs shot in documentary style to humorously reflect back on her first job as a junior lawyer at a large New York corporate law office. Her artfully crafted tableaux examine how women lawyers respond to the pressure to conform in a predominantly male culture rife with sexual innuendos (or worse), tedious work assignments, and stress levels off the charts. Dahlberg remained at her first job long enough to pay off her student loans and then left to become a civil rights lawyer. Fortunately, she is able to look back on the job with a sense of humor - but one that only came with the passage of time. Billable Hours includes essays by Leigh Gilmore, author of Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women ... More  Neal Schon's extraordinary guitar collection headed to Heritage AuctionDALLAS, TX.- It has been nearly 50 years since Neal Schon, then not yet 20, co-founded the band that would come to be called Journey. And almost 50 years later he knows that somewhere at this very moment, someone is singing at the top of their lungs a song he played on, sang on, probably co-wrote, too. A song that climbed the charts like King Kong atop the Empire State Building; a song that ruled radio like a benevolent monarch. A first-dance song. A first-kiss song. A lighters-in-the-sky song. Merely mentioning the title of a Journey song is enough to summon a half-forgotten remembrance that roars back like an old friend or a lost love. "Wheel in the Sky." "Lights." "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'." "Patiently." "Stone in Love." "Anyway You Want It." "Feeling That Way." "Open Arms." "Faithfully." "Who's Crying Now." "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)." And, ... More  Balboa Art Conservation Center welcomes Audience & Engagement Specialist, Andrea "Angie" ChandlerSAN DIEGO, CA.- The Balboa Art Conservation Center, the western regions nonprofit art conservation center, welcomed Cultural Strategist, Andrea Angie Chandler to support the organization's recent shift into Inclusion as its Audience and Engagement Specialist. Chandler joined the BACC team on May 25th, 2021. The addition of Angie Chandler to BACC is a timely and affirming move, said BACCs Executive Director, Leticia Gomez Franco. BACC is embarking on a very intentional shift, taking our 45 years of experience in the field of art conservation, and expanding it to be inclusive of the world we live in today. The intentionality in the work that lies ahead lives in our commitment to build community and expand our understanding of cultural preservation to fit the needs of institutionally underserved collections and communities. ... More  The Everson Museum launches new website and brandingSYRACUSE, NY.- The Everson Museum of Art launched its newly redesigned website and brand identity. The new visual identity was designed by creative studio In House International, with contributions from a wide team of designers, illustrators, typographers, and web developers. The brand, already on display at everson.org, provides visitors with an enhanced user experience and an improved navigation system. The site's vibrant new color palette, information architecture, and user-friendly format will also allow the Everson to better engage with the local community and online visitors from all around the world. The new site features include an interactive map of the building, a full listing of education resource guides, and, coming soon, a new online shop for Museum gift purchases including swag, garments, and stationary with the updated colorful ... More  Phoenix Art Museum announces CEO transition, interim leadership teamPHOENIX, AZ.- Tim Rodgers, PhD, the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum, has been appointed as the Nanette L. Laitman Director of the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York. Rodgers has served as the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum since July 2020 and will conclude his service on June 30, 2021. Prior to his time with the Museum, Rodgers served as the director of The Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami. He will assume his new position at MAD on September 15, 2021. Phoenix Art Museum and the community we serve mean so much to me, and I have been privileged not only to begin my academic journey here, but also to begin my museum career here as well, said Rodgers, who has worked, in his time, at ASU Art Museum, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter John Constable was born June 11, 1776. John Constable, RA (11 June 1776 - 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the naturalistic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home --- now known as "Constable Country" --- which he invested with an intensity of affection. In this image: A Sea Beach - Brighton estimated at £400,000 - 600,000. Photo: Bonhams.
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