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Government documents obtained by the director Laura Poitras on display in November 20, 2004, 2016, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Feb. 3, 2016. The Warhol copyright case currently being considered by the Supreme Court may force us to rethink 500 years of art. (Jake Naughton/The New York Times)
by Blake Gopnik
NEW YORK, NY.- Any day now, the Supreme Court will hand down a decision that could change the future of Western art and, in a sense, its history, too. Blame the appeals court judgment from 2021 declaring that Andy Warhol had no right to appropriate someone elses photo of Prince into one of the pop artists classic silk-screened portraits. The art world quailed at the ruling. It strikes at the heart of the way artists today have been raised to make and understand art, the Brooklyn Museum opined in a brief to the Supreme Court, which is now reconsidering the appeals courts conclusion about copyright law. Artists piled on with a brief slamming the appeals court for denigrating art that borrows, appropriates and replicates prior works as something akin to plagiarism or exploitation. In its own brief, the Andy Warhol Foundation, whose fight with photographer Lynn Goldsmith got the case started, quoted a certain Blake Gopnik, writing in this newspaper: ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Tallinn Art Hall opened major international exhibition Immerse! at its Lasnamäe Pavilion, introducing novel artistic perspectives. Photo: Paul Kuimet.
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| Doomed vessel and its unused lifeboat are discovered at the bottom of Lake Huron | | NIKA Project Space opens with group exhibition | | Two important permanent works by Jan Fabre donated to churches in Naples |
A point cloud extracted from water column returns from multibeam sonar shows the Ironton, which sank in 1894 after colliding with another ship in Lake Huron, as it sits on the lake floor. (Ocean Exploration Trust/NOAA Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary via The New York Times)
by Michael Levenson
NEW YORK, NY.- When a 772-ton wooden schooner barge named Ironton collided with a wooden freighter loaded with 1,000 tons of grain and sank in Lake Huron on Sept. 26, 1894, its seven-man crew tried to escape on a lifeboat. But no one untied the rope that secured the lifeboat to Ironton. Five crew members died. More than 120 years later, when researchers discovered Ironton, magnificently preserved in the cold water at the bottom of Lake Huron, hundreds of feet below the surface, they also found that doomed lifeboat, still lashed to Irontons stern. Ironton was located in 2019, but the discovery was not revealed to the public until Wednesday to allow researchers time to study and document the wreck, said Jeff Gray, the superintendent of the Thunder Bay National Marine ... More | |
Alexander Ugay. Obscuration 9. Vertical Horizon, wood, silver, gelatin, c-print, 215 х 23 х 23 (each), 2018. Courtesy of the artist.
DUBAI.- NIKA Project Space, a new 250 m2 hub for art and culture located in Dubais Al Quoz district in Al Khayat Avenue, is opening on March 3, 2023 to coincide with Art Dubais 16th edition. NIKA Project Space is a new platform for artistic experiments, research and the advancement of curatorial practice for both local and international artists. The space provides a critically engaged program that emphasizes. contemporaneity and cross-cultural dialogue in art creation with a focus on conceptualization, abstraction, and philosophical inquiry with a strong focus on the works by female artists. Designed by T.ZED Architects the space serve as a catalyst for artistic, cultural, and philosophical inquiry. For its first exhibition, NIKA Project Space will present a group show titled Fragments of Time Unending on view through April 23, 2023. Curated by Sarah Daher, a Lebanese curator based in Dubai, the show features six artists, including: Olga Chernysheva, Nika Neelova, Adria ... More | |
Jan Fabre, The Number 85 (with Angel Wings), 2022. Precious coral of depth, pigment, polymers, wood. © Photo Luciano and Marco Pedicini.
NAPLES.- From today, Thursday 2nd March 2023, two important artworks will further embellish the Royal Chapel of the Treasure of Saint Januarius and the church of Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco in Naples. The works in question are To Eusebia and The Number 85 (with Angel Wings), two permanent installations created by the Flemish master Jan Fabre that have been donated by Gianfranco D'Amato and Vincenzo Liverino. Under curatorship of Melania Rossi, To Eusebia will be installed in Naples Cathedral in the Chapel dedicated to the city's patron saint alongside paintings by Domenichino and Lanfranco, more than fifty sculptures and statues of fellow patron saints, and the so-called Splendours of Royal Chapel of the Treasure of Saint Januarius (400 kgs of silver). The second sculpture, The Number 85 (with Angel Wings), will be set in a niche to the left of the altar in the church of Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco, restoring a mystical-sacral aura to its surrou ... More |
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| Fresh to market Alex Katz leads Bonhams' Post-War & Contemporary Art sale | | Gagosian announces the representation of Derrick Adams | | Xavier Hufkens opens 'Constantin Nitsche Oranges et Lavande' |
Alex Katz (B. 1927), Yvonne with Flowers, 2001 (detail). Estimate: £700,000 - 1,000,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A signature work by one of the definitive American painters of the 20th century, Alex Katz, leads Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art sale on Thursday 16 March in London. Yvonne with Flowers is completed in Katz characteristic and instantly recognisable style. The work, which has never before been offered at auction, has an estimate of £700,000 - 1,000,000. Leonie Grainger, Head of Department for Post-War & Contemporary Art, commented: Yvonne with Flowers is a truly exceptional work of portraiture by the one and only Alex Katz. Featuring a simplified figure, definitive lines, and bold colours, the work contains many of the most recognisable elements employed within Katz signature works. With a recent career-spanning retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, an already strong demand from collectors and institutions internationally has only been ... More | |
In Your Face, 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian announced the global representation of Derrick Adams. The gallerys debut exhibition of new paintings by Adams will be presented in Beverly Hills in September 2023. Adamss paintings, sculptures, collages, performances, videos, and public projects celebrate and expand the dialogue around contemporary Black life and culture through scenes of normalcy and perseverance. He has developed an iconography of joy, leisure, and the pursuit of happiness. Adamss distinctive style synthesizes representational imagery with planar Cubist geometry to produce multifaceted figures and faces that address the richness of the Black experience. Adamss current exhibition I Can Show You Better Than I Can Tell You is on view at the FLAG Art Foundation, New York, through March 11, 2023. These expansive panels from his Motion Picture Paintings series (202022) combine references to movies, music, and the artists obse ... More | |
Fleur d'Agave, 2022-2023.
BRUSSELS.- For his debut exhibition with the gallery, Oranges et Lavande, German painter Constantin Nitsche presents a series of paintings in which everyday scenes are transformed into enigmatic compositions that hover between fiction and reality. Nitsches paintings are inspired by his immediate surroundings: people and interiors, social interactions, animals and nature, street scenes and still lives. These are not rendered literally but distilled through the filter of memory and act of painting into atmospheric compositions with few, if any, references to time or place. Interiors are sparse and impersonal, faces are inscrutable and impassive, streets and landscapes lack topographical detail. The indeterminacy is purposeful: Nitsche is not aiming to recreate specific or immediately recognisable scenes, preferring instead to leave their significance open to interpretation. Executed from recollections and photographs, or a mixture of both, Nitsches ... More |
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| A successful editor turns debut author, surprising nearly everyone | | An ode to spring, Sotheby's Hong Kong to offer The Dr. Alice Cheng Falangcai Bowl | | New Danshuis unites all dance styles under one roof in Rotterdam |
The author Jenny Jackson in Brooklyn, Jan. 30, 2022. (Celeste Sloman/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Jenny Jackson means onetime Brooklyn Heights resident Truman Capote no disrespect, and his quote I live in Brooklyn. By choice serves as an epigraph to Pineapple Street, her first novel. But Jackson sets off on a walking tour with a different Brooklyn Heights in her sights. She gestures toward the red brick Heights Casino, where the novels old-money Brooklyn plays tennis year-round, and the St. George Hotel, which catered to Brooklyns rich of the Jazz Age. Theres the imposing bay-windowed house on Columbia Heights that inspired the heirloom-stuffed limestone at the heart of the book. And the Joe Coffee on the corner of Pineapple and Hicks streets is where Georgiana, the youngest daughter of the novels adamantly Social Register Stockton family, utters the immortal line, Oh no, I left my Cartier tennis bracelet in Lenas BMW and shes leaving for her grandmothers house in Southampton as she is fatefully spotted b ... More | |
A Fine and Superbly Enamelled Imperial Falangcai Swallow Bowl, Blue Enamel Mark and Period of Qianlong, 11.3 cm. Expected to Fetch in Excess of $200 Million. Courtesy Sothebys.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys Hong Kong Chinese Works of Art 2023 Spring Sales Series will take place on 8 April, led by the Dr Alice Cheng falangcai bowl. The masterpiece will be offered in a stand-alone single lot auction and is expected to fetch in excess of HK$200 million/ US$ 25.5 Million. Dr Alice Chengs Falangcai bowl ranks among the most legendary pieces ever to have been offered at auction and broke a world record for Chinese art when it was sold in 2006 for HK$151,320,000. It is a gem of Imperial porcelain, the delicate, creamy white body having been painted by master court enamellers in Beijing in close proximity to the Qianlong emperor. The superb painting of two loving swallows beside a flowering apricot tree intertwined with a willow tree is complemented by a short poem evocative of the spring. During the latter years of the Qing dynasty ... More | |
Sketch design. Danshuis MAD Architects.
ROTTERDAM.- The future Danshuis (dance house) combines all dance styles under one roof. The philanthropic Droom en Daad Foundation invited the Chinese firm MAD Architects to design the transformation of a former warehouse located on the south bank of the river Maas in Rotterdam into a dynamic house for dance. The former warehouse is originally part of the Fenix warehouse, where Stichting Droom en Daad is currently creating FENIX; the museum for migration. The Danshuis is the latest major cultural project of the Droom en Daad Foundation. In the future, the Danshuis is intended to become the place for professionals and amateurs, from hip hop to classical dance. The Danshuis welcomes dance initiatives from near and afar; from the neighbourhood and the world. It will be equipped with professionally equipped dance studios, an exhibition space, a showcase studio and an amphitheater on the roof. Where FENIX becomes the museum for migration and the movement of people as ... More |
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| The Pompidou Center announces acquisition of an NFT by Jill Magid from the artist's Genesis Collection | | The ZKM mourns the death of Peter Weibel | | Noonans to sell the Frank Goon Collection of British Malayan banknotes - launching its auctions in Singapore |
Artwrld x Jill Magid, Hand-Hacked Bouquet 1, from the series Out-Game Flowers, 2023. © Jill Magid.
PARIS.- Artwrld announced the acquisition of Hand-Hacked Bouquet 1 by the Pompidou Center as part of the Musée National dArt Modernes first-ever acquisition of NFTs. The selected work is one of 15 large bouquets with audio from Jill Magids genesis NFT collection Out-Game Flowers, presented by Artwrld. Hand-Hacked Bouquet 1 will join the Pompidou Centers permanent collection along with 17 other works acquired as part of the museums strategy, since its inception, to support artists as they seek to master new means of creation, and is the result of joint work with the scientific and administrative teams of the Ministry for Culture. This major initiative constitutes the first of its kind by a French public institution, and by a modern and contemporary art institution of its scale; the acquisitions build ... More | |
Peter Weibel © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Photo: Christoph Hierholzer.
KARLSRUHE.- It is with great sadness that the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe announces that the Artistic-Scientific Chairman of the ZKM, Peter Weibel, passed away in Karlsruhe on March 1, 2023 at the age of 78 after a short serious illness. As an artist, theorist and curator, Peter Weibel, born in Odessa in 1944, left his mark on the art world with his visionary power, extensive knowledge and courage. For over 24 years, he developed the ZKM into an internationally renowned art institution with a unique profile worldwide. Until the end, he worked intensively on the upcoming exhibitions, events and publications of the ZKM. Petra Olschowski, Minister of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg: With his exhibitions at the ZKM, Peter Weibel has repeatedly shown us how our perception of the world is changing through ... More | |
Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya, a proof set of the 1 January 1939 series. Photo Courtesy of Noonans.
SINGAPORE.- Londons specialist auctioneers Noonans will be holding their first auction in Singapore on Saturday, March 25, 2023, at 6pm local time (10am GMT). The sale of the legendary Frank Goon Reference Collection of British Malayan Banknotes one of the greatest collections of all time - will take place at Sands Expo and Convention Centre, 10 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018956. The Goon Collection covers banknotes of Malaya, The Straits Settlements, Sarawak, British North Borneo, Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei. A third of the collection, comprising some 250 lots, will form the inaugural Noonans Singapore auction and is expected to fetch in the region of S$2,200,000 to S$3,000,000 (£1,400,000 1,900,000). Without doubt, this the finest collection of its type in existence ... More |
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Barbara Earl Thomas's 'The Illuminated Body' is now on view at the Chrysler Museum of Art
NORFOLK, VA.- The exhibition organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art "Barbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body" is now on view since February 24th and will continue through August 20th, 2023. Layers of luminous, jewel-colored paper pulse with life behind cut black-paper portraits made by Barbara Earl Thomas (American, born 1948). These new works by the celebrated artist, writer, and thinker meditate on the visual experience of the body within a physical and metaphorical world of light and shadow. Based on real people, the portraits elevate to the magnificent her family, friends, and neighbors, as well as cultural icons of the African American literary landscape. Like a conjurer, alchemist, and magician, Ive created my illuminated bodies from scraps of shadow, light, and color. I use them for their elemental qualities to animate and ... More
"Color is Light on Fire: Sam Francis works on Paper" at Omer Tiroche Gallery
LONDON.- Omer Tiroche Gallery has opened the exhibition Colour is Light on Fire: Sam Francis Works on Paper. The featured works span four pivotal decades of Francis career, from the early 1950s to the late 1980s, and will serve as a mini survey in celebration of the centennial of the artists birth. This exhibition aims to examine Francis pioneering and innovative exploration in the use of colour as well as highlight his critical contributions to both Tachisme and the Art Informel movement. Born in San Mateo, California in 1923, Francis began his career as an aviation cadet in the US Army Air Corps Reserves, with hopes of becoming a reconnaissance pilot. After sustaining an injury whilst training, Francis was diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis and spent several years in a hospital bed. This experience proved pivotal for Francis. As a form ... More
Opening March 10th: "New York Now: Home" - a new photography triennial at Museum of the City of New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Theres no place like home home is where the heart is home, sweet home feeling at home. There are many evocative and iconic expressions about the concept, but what does home in New York City look like today? Opening March 10th, New York Now: Home the inaugural edition of the Museum of the City of New Yorks new contemporary photography triennial considers the literal places we dwell and the homes we choose to make, exploring the many facets of contemporary homemaking in and around New Yorks five boroughs. Inspired by the Museums landmark presentation of the same name in 2000, New York Now will occur every three years with different themes. Co-curated by Thea ... More
Locust Projects opens expansive new home with a monumental installation by Cuban-American Artist Rafael Domenech
MIAMI, FLA.- Locust Projects, Miamis longest-running nonprofit alternative art space, is doubling in size with a move to Little River in March and opening with an immersive, multi-layered installation by Cuban-American artist Rafael Domenech. As an incubator of new art and ideas, Locust Projects plays a unique and critical role in Miamis arts community by embracing a culture of yes, and inviting artists to experiment on a large-scale in ways that lead to creative breakthroughs and new career opportunities. With 17-foot ceilings, an open floor plan, and access to a large, enclosed courtyard, the former industrial warehouse at 297 NE 67th St. will be a laboratory for both physical and digital art, where Miami-based ... More
IU Eskenazi Museum of Art hires Jean Graves as new Patricia and Joel Meier Chair of Education
BLOOMINGTON, IN.- The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University has hired Jean A. Graves as the Patricia and Joel Meier Chair of Education. In addition to serving on the museums senior leadership team, Graves will oversee an education department that focuses on comprehensive course-connected experiences, pre-K12 engagement, art therapy programs, and public programming. She will work with her team to develop a creative, mission-driven strategy for learning that prioritizes authentic experiences with works of art from the museums collection of more than 45,000 objects. Graves received her MA in art history from Boston University and her PhD in art education from Indiana University. She will relocate from Orem, Utah, and begin her tenure at the Eskenazi Museum on April 3. A committed art museum ... More
Solo exhibition of oil and mixed media paintings by Brenda Goodman on view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is presenting Hop Skip JumpNew Work 2022, a solo exhibition of oil and mixed media paintings by Brenda Goodman. This presentation centers on the shifts and developments in Goodmans newest work, and her continued exploration of the painted medium. Hop Skip JumpNew Work 2022 will be on view through March 11, 2023. An exhibition catalogue featuring an essay by David Pagel has been published by the gallery. Spanning nearly sixty years, Brenda Goodmans artistic career is defined by her resistance to any singular definition under medium, subject, or mode of representation. Vacillating between periods of pure abstraction and perceptible figuration, her works illuminate profound spaces of psychological expression and physical evocation. Joy, grief, humor, and vulnerability imbue the spirit ... More
Richard Anobile, chronicler of the Marx Brothers, dies at 76
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Anobile, a prolific creator of film books whose friendly collaboration with the anarchic comedian Groucho Marx on a project called The Marx Bros. Scrapbook turned sour when Marx sued to stop its distribution after reading his unedited quoted remarks in print, died on Feb. 10 in Toronto. He was 76. His wife, Elizabeth (Golfman) Anobile, said the cause was idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Richard Anobile (pronounced a-NO-buh-lay) first entered the world of Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo Marx with the publication in 1971 of Why a Duck? (the title is based on wordplay between Groucho and Chico over the word viaduct in the 1929 movie The Cocoanuts). The book combined blowups of frames from scenes in eight of the comedy teams films with the dialogue that accompanied them. Groucho Marx wrote the introduction. ... More
Hannah Traore Gallery opens 'Deborah Czeresko: Fruiting Bodies-Creatures of Culture'
NEW YORK, NY.- Hannah Traore Gallery presents Fruiting BodiesCreatures of Culture, an installation of hand-fabricated glass by artist Deborah Czeresko (she/they) that formally references the wild glamour of a forest. Posing glass as an androgynous material, Czeresko explores how the fluid state of glass embodies the parallel ways in which LGBTQIA+ culture and natural ecosystems germinate and grow. Through sculpture, the artist explores philosophies of queer identity, glamour paradigms, chosen family and community, abundance in marginalization, and the nonbinary quality of glass. As in a forest, Czereskos constructed environment is built from the floor to an imagined canopy. The forest floor consists of 1200 pounds of glass soil populated by hand-sculpted glass mushrooms, fruiting bodies, decaying leaves, and neon ... More
For two Broadway stars, a love story blossoms in a honky-tonk
LOS ANGELES, CA.- During a rehearsal of The Lonely Few at the Geffen Playhouse, Lauren Patten, a Tony winner for her performance in Jagged Little Pill, was sharing a stage with Ciara Renée, whose Broadway credits include Waitress and Frozen. The performances were mesmerizing, and loud (drumsticks were broken; earplugs were provided), with Patten steamrolling her way through a pair of headbangers about the joys of rock n roll and the desire to escape, and Renée filling the room with a heartbreaking ballad about unrequited love. I would go see that band, Zoe Sarnak, the shows composer and lyricist, said during a break. The setting was about as far from a Broadway stage as one could imagine: a small rehearsal space in the Westwood neighborhood. And the actual performance space for the show, the Geffens ... More
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Gabriele Münter
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Awol Erizku
Leo Villareal
Flashback On a day like today, Danish painter and sculptor Asger Jorn was born March 03, 1914. Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 - 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. He was born in Vejrum, in the northwest corner of Jutland, Denmark, and baptized Asger Oluf Jørgensen. In this image: Untitled (Figures in a head), ca. 1960/1963. Oil on fiberboard, 19.69 x 27.56 inches 50 x 70 cm.
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