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Esmaa Mohamoud, The Brotherhood FUBU (For Us, By Us). Installation at Westin Harbour Castle Conference Centre,Toronto, 2021. Courtesy of the artist, Georgia Scherman Projects and Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
TORONTO.- The Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival is pleased to present a diverse slate of powerful outdoor installations by Canadian and international artists that were delayed due to COVID-19 health restrictions. This years Festival extends beyond its customary month-long event in May (as it responds to fluctuating public health guidleines) to roll out programming throughout the year to dynamically engage viewers in public spaces across Toronto. Updates on project locations and dates are available on the CONTACT websites new interactive map. Core Program outdoor projects now or soon to be on view include work by: Sara Angelucci, Dayna Danger, Gohar Dashti, Max Dean, Sasha Huber, Vid Ingelevics & Ryan Walker, Leyla Jeyte, Aaron Jones, Erik Kessels & Thomas Mailaender, Luther Konadu, Esmond Lee, Ange Loft, Peter Morin, Esmaa Mohamoud, Ebti Nabag, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Frida Orupabo, Andrew Savery-Whi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Design 1900 - Now showcases 250 objects from the V&A's collections of 20th- and 21st-century art and design displayed across two galleries.
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| Rare Miro works on sale as part of Mayfair Art Weekend | | New Gagosian Director spotlights Black artists involved in social change | | Mayfair Art Weekend opens with 12 exhibitions of art | 
Joan Miro, Trace sur la Paroi II (detail).
LONDON.- The Cyzer Gallery is presenting a select group of works by Joan Miró, spanning 40 years of the artists career. The exhibition, which runs until the 27th of June, brings together a collection of beautiful examples of Mirós works on paper from 1931 to 1970. Paper was a medium in which Miró excelled. Here we see his skill with oil, watercolour, gouache, brush and ink, ink wash and wax crayon, and his adeptness at the use of mixed media on paper. Rarely ever seen as a complete set, the show also includes Trace sur la paroi I-VI, six large etchings with aquatint and carborundum, printed in colours from 1967. These are hung together on one wall, creating a powerful adjunct to the original works on paper alongside. In addition, during Miró the gallery is also showing a complimentary group of fine paintings by Picasso, Calder, Dubuffet, Leger, Kandinsky and Brauner, amounting to a stunning range of 20th century mas ... More | | 
Antwaun Sargent at Gagosian, where he curated Social Works, featuring 12 Black artists engaged with their communities, in New York, June 22, 2021. Kendall Bessent/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the past, the writer and critic Antwaun Sargent was often thwarted in his ideas for gallery exhibitions, told they were too costly or ambitious. Then he became a director at Gagosian. Sargent can dream big now, which he has with his first show, Social Works, opening Thursday at the gallerys West 24th Street location in Manhattan. The exhibition he has curated features the work most of it created over the last challenging year of 12 Black artists, all of whom are actively engaged with their communities through efforts like food banks, mentorship and neighborhood revitalization. The whole thing is about art as a social act, said Sargent ... More | | 
Tursic & Mille 'Strange Days' June 25- July 11 2021.
LONDON.- Now in its eighth year, Mayfair Art Weekend is a three-day visual arts festival with special exhibitions, gallery tours and late openings, a sculpture trail, screenings, talks, artist open-studios and pop-up events all in the heart of global art world Londons West End. Everything is free to attend. A whole range artists, from Old to Modern Masters to the giants of the contemporary art world plus emerging artists, are represented in the 40 galleries involved in this annual celebration of art. One of the few events not to have skipped a year due to the lockdown, MAW has a unique offer in 2021 12 exhibitions of art made during and about the Covid-19 pandemic that we have all experienced. These shows include a pop-up exhibition 'There Are No Calories in Kisses' by Illuminate Productions in the shop window at 48 Brook Street, HYPNOS, a site-specific installation by seven artists at Grosvenor Chapel based ... More |
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| Alaska digs reveal dinosaurs' Arctic lives | | Toledo Museum of Art adds group of exceptional works to its renowned holdings | | Churchill painting from Onassis superyacht sells for $1.85 million | 
A rendition by James Havens shows the tyrannosaur Nanuqsaurus with its young. Baby dinosaur microfossils suggest that many species lived and thrived in some of the coldest parts of the planet. James Havens via The New York Times.
by Cara Giaimo
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The hot dinosaur has captured the public imagination. Our favorite prehistoric giants are often depicted roaming dry savannas or munching on tropical leaves. But some dinosaurs had a chiller lifestyle. Deposits of baby dinosaur bones and teeth in northern Alaska, reported Thursday in Current Biology, suggest that a number of species survived year-round above the Arctic Circle enduring freezing temperatures, food shortages and four straight months of darkness, as well as the occasional snowstorm. The first polar dinosaur footprints were found in 1960, stomped into the Svalbard archipelago. Over the following decades, evidence of dinosaurs at both Arctic and Antarctic latitudes ... More | | 
Lonnie B. Holley (American, born 1950), Cutting Up Old Film (Don't Edit the Wrong Thing Out), about 1984, film reel and scissors, 14 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 5 in.
TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art added more than 30 outstanding and diverse works of art to its collection in June through purchase and gifts. Among the many highlights of the new acquisitions are photographer Imogen Cunninghams pioneering botanical study False Hellebore (Glacial Lily) (1926), Lonnie Holleys incisive assemblage Cutting Up Old Film (Don't Edit the Wrong Thing Out) (circa 1984), meditative still lifes by the 17th-century French painter Louyse Moillon and an anonymous 19th-century Mexican artist, and Head of Charlie Parker (circa 1955), a remarkable sculpture never before exhibited publicly by Los Angeles artist Julie Macdonald. The Toledo Museum of Art is grateful to welcome these outstanding and deeply resonant works of art to our galleries, said Adam M. Levine, TMAs Edward Drummond and Florence Scott Libbey director and CEO. These new ... More | | 
Sir Winston L.S. Churchill, The Moat, Breccles, Painted circa August 1921 (detail). Estimate: $1,500,000-2,000,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A painting by wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill that was gifted to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis sold for $1.85 million at a Phillips auction in New York on Wednesday. "The Moat, Breccles," a signed 1921 oil landscape, went for within its pre-sale estimate price of between $1.5 million and $2 million. The sale was far less than the $11.6 million netted by another Churchill painting sold by Angelina Jolie at Christie's last March. Despite failing to shatter records, the landscape which Churchill mentioned in a December 1921 essay titled "Painting as a Pastime" -- appealed to both history and celebrity buffs. Churchill kept the painting for 40 years before offering it in 1961, four years before his death, to his friend Onassis. The tycoon was so proud of his gift that he hung it in a place of honor -- behind the bar of his yacht -- alongside works by Vermeer, Gauguin, El Greco ... More |
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| Christie's Art + Tech Summit: NFTs and Beyond will be held July 15 | | Banksy back at Bonhams for dedicated prints sale | | UCCA announces appointment of Holly Roussell as Curator | 
The Summit will feature a stimulating mix of keynote lectures, debates and panel discussions, interspersed with short and powerful ideas-based talks.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces its fourth annual Art + Tech Summit: NFTs and Beyond will take place on July 15 with a hybrid in-person and virtual ticketed conference. The Art + Tech Summit continues Christies ongoing initiative to spark dialogue about the role and impact of emerging technologies in the art world. This year we will bring together innovators, artists, thought leaders, collectors and more, for a series of panel discussions around NFTs in the morning session, followed by afternoon conversations on the way technology is impacting the way we create, experience, buy and sell art. The Summit is presented by Stella Artois, a brand that has forever been a patron of the arts as well as has been at the forefront of globally offering NFTs, perfecting the recipe for ... More | | 
Banksy (Born 1974), Laugh Now Screenprint in colours, 2004, on wove paper, signed and dated in black ink, Estimate: £70,000 - 100,000.
LONDON.- Bonhams is holding its first sale dedicated exclusively to the street artist Banksy. Running on bonhams.com from now until 29 June, Banksy Online Sale, brings together an exceptional number of much-sought-after prints by the artist, including Girl with Balloon (£120,000-180,000) and Laugh Now (£70,000 - 100,000), amongst others. Leading the sale is Love is in the Air, a screenprint in colours from 2003, which has an estimate of £300,000 - 500,000. Head of Sale, Laetitia Guillotin commented: Bonhams was the first ever auction house to offer works by Banksy in 2003 and has achieved some of the most amazing results for Banksy since, regularly setting world auction records for his prints. Were very excited to present here a survey of the graphic work by this guerrilla artist and global phenomenon. ... More | | 
Holly Roussell, photo by Anoush Abrar, 2021.
BEIJING.- UCCA Center for Contemporary Art announced that Holly Roussell has joined as curator. In her new role, Roussell will organize exhibitions in keeping with UCCAs mission to situate contemporary art in China within the global discourse, as well as strategically contributing to the expansion of the museums international collaborations. UCCA Director Philip Tinari notes, As a curator and museologist specializing in photography and Chinese contemporary art who has been based between Switzerland and China over the last decade, Roussell has actively worked to engage in meaningful collaborative relationships with artists from China and abroad at all career levels. We are thrilled to have her join our team. The role places Roussell in collaboration with UCCAs curatorial team in Beijing and Shanghai, as well as with recently appointed curator-at-large Peter Eleey in New York. Roussell remarks ... More |
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| San Antonio Museum of Art announces new acquisitions to its expansive collection of Chinese art | | A front-row seat on the spectacle of ice | | The abandoned houses of Instagram | 
Hairpins, China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Silver and kingfisher feather, 5 ¾ to 5 ¼x3 ¼ by 3 1/8. Purchased with funds provided by the Bessie Timon Endowment Fund 2021.1.4.a-c
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The San Antonio Museum of Art announced today the acquisition of important historic Chinese artworks, including a gilt openwork crown and a gilt plaque decorated with a standing lion, both from the Liao dynasty (9071125); a set of jade belt plaques from the Ming dynasty (13681644) and a set of gilt silver hairpins embellished with kingfisher feathers from the Qing dynasty (16441911). These new artworks expand SAMAs stellar collection of Chinese art, which has particular strengths in ceramics from the dawn of Chinese civilization to modern time. The new acquisitions are part of an ongoing effort to enhance under-represented areas within the Museums wider Asian art collection such as metal work and jade. The artworks announced today capture the incredible artistry and skill of Chinese craftsman from across history, while also illuminating the importance of these objectsand the imagery and mat ... More | | 
Copenhagen-based architect Dorte Mandrup. Mandrup won a 2016 competition to design the Ilulissat Icefjord Centre. Cecilie Lindegaard Jensen via The New York Times.
by Julie Lasky
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Ilulissat Icefjord Centre in Greenland is a 16,000-square-foot building designed to cultivate respect for the beauty, importance and vulnerability of ice. Cantilevering over an inland lake with views of a fjord called Kangia in the Greenlandic language, the center is an observation post, an exhibition hall, a meetup spot for locals, a workspace for climate scientists and a classroom for schoolchildren, all lodged beneath an undulating roof that is also a promenade. When it opens July 3, in the western coastal city of Ilulissat, it will be the first of six planned centers supporting tourism in Greenland, which is seen as essential to the territorys economic future in the face of high unemployment. (The expected number of annual visitors once COVID travel restrictions are lifted is 25,000.) Before this, it was only heads of state and very ... More | | 
A humble shack overhung by trees. The preservation of rural houses is what drives Kelly Gomez, a photographer, to document them for an online project called "The Forgotten South." Kelly Gomez via The New York Times.
by Lia Picard
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Vines crept up the house. It looked as if it were about to cave in. The Colonial in Roscoe, New York, a hamlet of the Catskills, was decrepit which made it all the more appealing to Bryan Sansivero, 36, and a friend, who had arrived before dawn. They entered the musty, empty dwelling, which was not really a dwelling because no one dwells there, and sat in the dark for about half an hour until sunrise. Soon, the living room was aglow and its contents revealed: antique furnishings, a fireplace with a knickknack-lined mantel, and, most shockingly, a tiger skin rug (the creatures mouth agape) and a hunting rifle. We were like: This house is insane. How is this just sitting here and completely abandoned like this? Sansivero said. Despite the dilapidated condition, including peeling walls ... More |
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Jean Royére: The Majdalani Collection
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 Gianna Rolandi, spirited soprano with a radiant voice, dies at 68NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Gianna Rolandi, an American soprano who brought effortless coloratura technique, bright sound and a vibrant stage presence to diverse roles over a 20-year international career, died on Sunday in Chicago. She was 68. Her death, in a hospital, was announced by the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Rolandi had earlier been the director of the companys Ryan Opera Center, a training program. No cause was specified. Her husband was the renowned British conductor Andrew Davis, who will step down on June 30 after nearly 21 years as music director and principal conductor of the Lyric Opera. Rolandis auspicious 1975 debut at the New York City Opera, as Olympia in Offenbachs Tales of Hoffmann, came when she was 23 and just out of the conservatory. She took over the role on short notice when the scheduled soprano withdrew. (Three ... More  Mesoamerican figure highlights Heritage Ethnographic Art AuctionDALLAS, TX.- From a faraway place in a faraway time, three extraordinary artworks from the earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization will be among the top lots featured in Heritage Auctions' Ethnographic Art: American Indian, Pre-Columbian and Tribal Art Auction July 14. "The Olmec art style always was, and still is, a hallmark of the culture," Heritage Auctions American Ethnographic Art Specialist Delia Sullivan said. "Their spectacular artwork was created in a number of media, including jade, clay, basalt and greenstone, among others, often portraying human and animal images." Olmec lots featured in the auction include: · An exquisite Olmec Standing Figure (estimate: $75,000-100,000) made during the Middle Pre-Classic Period (circa 900-300 BC) from highly desirable blue-green jade with a high polish, it stands 3-1/4 inches high. Olmec figures carved in translucent blue-green ... More  Samuel L Jackson, Danny Glover among those to receive honorary OscarsLOS ANGELES (AFP).- Actors Samuel L Jackson and Danny Glover, Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann and actress-director Elaine May will receive honorary Oscars ahead of the main 2022 gala, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday. Jackson, May and Ullmann will be given honorary statuettes, while Glover will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Governors Awards on January 15, the Academy said in a statement. "We are thrilled to present this year's Governors Awards to four honorees who have had a profound impact on both film and society," said Academy President David Rubin. Glover, 74, first earned widespread recognition on the big screen in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of "The Color Purple" (1985) before starring opposite Mel Gibson in the popular "Lethal Weapon" cop buddy movies. "Danny Glover's decades-long advocacy ... More  Museum Folkwang opens the first major overview exhibition of the work of Tobias ZielonyESSEN.- With The Fall, Museum Folkwang is presenting the first major overview exhibition of the work of Tobias Zielony (25 June 26 September 2021). Zielony stands in a long lineage of artistic documentary photography. His visual world is seen as paving the way for a younger generation. Few photographers have observed developments in society and the media as keenly and translated these into a contemporary visual language as he has. Around 180 photographs and video works offer a comprehensive view of Zielonys work of the last 20 years. The people and spaces that attract Tobias Zielony are not on the margins of society, but the places in deprived areas where adolescents meet, hang out and show off: Be this in Wuppertal, Trona, Naples, Osaka, Halle-Neustadt or Kiev. The youths and young adults whom Zielony accompanies with his camera as a confidant and observer ... More  UOVO + Brooklyn Museum unveil new public art mural by Baseera KhanNEW YORK, NY.- UOVO has unveiled a new public art mural by Baseera Khan, recipient of the Brooklyn Museums second annual UOVO Prize, on the façade of its Brooklyn facility in Bushwick. Commissioned on the occasion of the UOVO Prize, the 50x50-foot installation features a large-scale image of Khan performing Braidrage (2017-ongoing), their best known, multi-disciplinary work bridging sculpture, video, and performance. The mural unveiling coincides with the announcement of Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive, the artists first solo museum exhibition, to be presented by the Brooklyn Museum this fall as part of the UOVO Prize. Curated by Carmen Hermo, Associate Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the exhibition will be on view October 1, 2021-July 10, 2022. Khans UOVO Brooklyn mural is on view to the public now through mid-2022. Braidrage, as visualized ... More  Taft Museum of Art promotes Curators Tamera Lenz Muente and Ann Glasscock, PhDCINCINNATI, OH.- The Taft Museum of Art promoted two outstanding curatorial members. Tamera Lenz Muente, who has a focus in paintings and works on paper, has been promoted from associate curator to curator. Dr. Ann Glasscock, who has a focus in decorative arts and furniture, has been promoted from assistant curator to associate curator. Both curatorial appointments coincide with the opening of In a New Light (July 3, 2021May 1, 2022), the Taft Museum of Arts upcoming bicentennial exhibition which showcases more than 80 works of art from the Tafts permanent collection. Muente and Glasscock collaboratively curated this exhibition as well as contributed research and writing to the recent publication, Taft Museum of Art: Highlights from the Collection. Their work can be seen in another bicentennial exhibition, Borrowed Gems, on loan to Cincinnati Museum Center (July 23, ... More  150 years after Giacomo Balla's birth, MAXXI celebrates him with an exhibitionROME.- On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Giacomo Ballas birth, the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts is celebrating him with an exceptional project, namely the first-ever opening to the public of his incredible Futurist house in Via Oslavia, Rome a total work of art , as well as an exhibition at MAXXI highlighting its extraordinary topicality and creating a connection in space and time. The Casa Balla. From Home to the Universe and Back project, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Director of MAXXI Arte, and Domitilla Dardi, MAXXI's Design Curator, will open to the public in two stages: the exhibition at MAXXI will begin on 17 June, while the house in Via Oslavia will be open to visitors at weekends as of Friday 25 June (booking required at www.maxxi.art). Casa Balla and the MAXXI exhibition will be open until 21 November 2021. The project is the product of ... More  Hales opens a solo exhibition of new work by Gray WielebinskiLONDON.- Hales is presenting Oil and Water, a solo exhibition of new work by Gray Wielebinski. In their debut exhibition with the gallery, Wielebinski continues with their explorations of the intersections of mythology, identity, nationhood, and memory. Reconfiguring and transforming iconography and visual codes, their work seeks to navigate and question societys frameworks and belief systems. Wielebinski (b. 1991 Dallas, TX, USA) lives and works in both London, UK and Los Angeles, CA, USA. They received a BA from Pomona College, Claremont CA, USA in 2014 before completing an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK in 2018. In Oil and Water, Wielebinski takes the American cities of Dallas, Texas and Los Angeles, California as a starting point to explore the perpetuating mythologies that are entrenched in both places. Spending their formative years in the two cities, ... More  Kenny Scharf works star at Bonhams Modern & Contemporary Art saleLONDON.- Two works by the prominent American artist, Kenny Scharf (Born 1958), DNA (DO NOT ASK) and SEXOMETRY, are amongst the highlights of Bonhams Modern & Contemporary Art sale on 30 June in London. DNA (DO NOT ASK), a work from 1994, has an estimate of £20,000-30,000, whilst Scharfs 1992 SEXOMETRY has an estimate of £50,000-70,000. Bonhams Head of sale, Itziar Ramos, commented: Kenny Scharfs psychedelic, post-Pop style has captivated global audiences since his debut in the New York scene of the 1980s. Launched into the limelight alongside his friends Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, Scharfs work assimilates street art, Neo-Expressionism, and Pop Art into a heady, bombastic style that captures the punkish energy of the Lower East Side during its heyday. DNA (DO NOT ASK) and SEXOMETRY are full of all the symbolism, pop culture influence ... More  Aeropittura: Italian Futurism in Flight soars at BonhamsLONDON.- In Italy during the early 20th century there grew an obsession with the future with new technology, speed, and human progress. It was an obsession that grabbed the young, and one group of artists in particular. The Futurists were fascinated by what they saw as the triumph of the machine over the natural world and by 1929 one aspect of that gave birth to a very specific movement: Aeropittura or aeropainting. Launched with the manifesto Perspectives of Flight signed by Benedetta Cappa, Fortunato Depero, Gerardo Dottori, Fillìa, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Enrico Prampolini, Mino Somenzi and Guglielmo Sansoni (Tato) this new movement proclaimed that "the changing perspectives of flight constitute an absolutely new reality that has nothing in common with the reality traditionally constituted by a terrestrial perspective." The aeroplane, and the opportunities it ... More  First oaks felled for Notre Dame cathedral rebuildPARIS (AFP).- Hundreds of years' old and at least a metre thick, the first ancient oak trees have been felled in northwest France for use in the reconstruction of the fire-damaged Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. Experts have been scouring forests across France to select 1,000 developed oaks with long, straight trunks that can be used in the spire and roof of the Gothic cathedral, which was ravaged by fire in April 2019. The first four were loaded onto a heavy goods trailer by crane on Thursday in the forest of Berce near Le Mans, 200 kilometres (125 miles) from Paris, with another four set to follow on Friday. "We're lucky to be working with these exceptional specimens," Mickael Durand, manager of the sawmill selected to cut them, told AFP. "We're working with 15 tonnes and you can't make any mistakes... "They're maybe 300 years old." The trees will be cut up and stored for 12 to 18 months to ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Sam Francis was born June 25, 1923. Samuel Lewis Francis (June 25, 1923 - November 4, 1994) was an American painter and printmaker. Francis was initially influenced by the work of abstract expressionists such as Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky and Clyfford Still. He later became loosely associated with a second generation of abstract expressionists, including Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler, who were increasingly interested in the expressive use of color. In this image: Sam Francis, Untitled [Berkeley], 1948. Watercolor on paper, 19 x 25 3/4 inches. SFF4.61. © 2018 Sam Francis Foundation, California/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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