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Mary Ellen Mark exhibition at National Museum of Women in the Arts explores girlhood
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Women in the Arts opened Mary Ellen Mark: Girlhood, a new exhibition of works by one of the most prolific documentary and portrait photographers of her generation. The exhibition features approximately 30 images that span Mary Ellen Marks 50-year-career, depicting girls and young women living in a variety of circumstances all over the globe. Mary Ellen Mark: Girlhood is open through July 11, 2021. Mary Ellen Mark (19402015) is known for her compassionate and candid depictions of subjects living outside of mainstream society. Over the course of her career, Mark traveled extensively, creating bodies of work in diverse communities in the United States as well as India, Mexico, the former Soviet Union and other countries. While Mark photographed people of all ages and from all walks of life, she was ... More

Mihnea Mircan and Kasia Redzisz appointed curators of the fourth edition of the Art Encounters Biennial
TIMIșOARA.- The Art Encounters Biennial has announced that Mihnea Mircan and Kasia Redzisz will curate its fourth edition, to be held in Timișoara, Romania, on 1 October-14 November 2021. Under the title of Our Other Us, the 2021 edition of the Art Encounters Biennial responds to the current global context by presenting two curatorial projects that explore empathy and responsibility as values that drive our existence. The curators investigate various modes of collectivity as alternative ways of being in the world, while simultaneously concentrating on the transformations that influence the act of self-perception. The ideas embedded in their exhibitions find their translation in the Biennials ongoing engagement with local institutions, organisations, and in initiatives aimed at establishing new partnerships and collaborations. The Biennials ... More

MACRO opens the first major solo show by Nathalie Du Pasquier in an Italian museum
ROME.- In the SOLO/MULTI feature, the column of Museum for Preventive Imagination, dedicated to exploring new approaches to the exhibition as a medium, MACRO presents the first major solo show by Nathalie Du Pasquier in an Italian museum. The French artist and designer has approached this show as a Gesamtkunstwerka silent symphony as the artist sayscomprised of a body of more than a hundred works produced from the 1980s to the present. Nathalie Du Pasquier looks at reality as a catalogue from which we can take everythingshe assertsand transform it into another world. She has always been intrigued by the relationship between objects and the space in which they exist. Over the years, this process of investigation has taken form in paintings, sculptures, drawings, models, constructions, carpets, books and ceramicsalways ... More

Battle of Goliad Map brings $250K to lead $1.7 million Heritage Americana & Political Auction
DALLAS, TX.- One of the earliest and most important contemporary printed records of the Texas Revolution, unseen since 1966, soared to $250,000 to lead Heritage Auctions Feb. 27-28 Americana & Political Auction to $1,695,964 in total sales. The two-day event boasted sell-through rates of 98.1% by lots sold, and 95.9% by value sold, and drew an impressive 1,669 bidders. One of the earliest and most important contemporary printed records of the Texas Revolution, Fort Defiance: 1836 Joseph Chadwick Map of Col. James Fannin's Defenses at the Historic Site of the Battle of Goliad raced past its pre-auction estimate of $100,000 before finishing at $250,000. The map drawn by Fannin's adjutant, Joseph Chadwick and sent to Chadwick's mother shortly before the pair died. The story of the Texas Revolution became the stuff of legend, and the tragic ... More

Steidl to publish 'Photographs: 1980s to now' by Jo Ractliffe
NEW YORK, NY.- Co-published with The Walther Collection, this book is the first to present a comprehensive selection of the work of South African photographer Jo Ractliffe. Looking back over the past 35 years, it brings together images from major photo-essays, as well as early works that have not been seen before. Described by Okwui Enwezor as one of the most accomplished and under-rated photographers of her generation, Ractliffe started working in the early 1980s, and her photographs continue to reflect her preoccupation with the South African landscape and the ways in which it figures in the countrys imaginaryparticularly the violent legacies of apartheid. In 2007 she extended her interests to the war in Angola and published three photobooks on the aftermath of that conflict and its manifestations in the South African landscape: ... More

The first Daimler Double Six VDP off the production line for sale with H&H Classics
LONDON.- Once in a while something really special comes along that need the love of a new owner to restore it to past glory. Just such a car is Chassis Number One, the very first Daimler Double Six Vanden Plas LWB Saloon made. It will be sold at No Reserve by H&H Classics on March 24 in a live auction online. Matching Chassis and Engine Numbers. Reputedly its sister car was gifted to HM The Queen Mother by the Daimler company. John Markey of H&H Classics says: This car is a gilt edged part of British motoring history the first Daimler Double Six VDP off the production line which today is a restoration project. The car pleasingly retains its original factory-fitted 5.3 litre V12. This Daimler surely belongs in a marque collection or museum. Once the pride of Browns Lane, this historic Daimler Double Six Vanden Plas LWB has the distinction of having ... More

Six Seuss books bore a bias
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As a child, I was led to believe that Blackness was inferior. And I was not alone. The Black society into which I was born was riddled with these beliefs. It wasnt something that most if any would articulate in that way, let alone knowingly propagate. Rather, it was in the air, in the culture. We had been trained in it, bathed in it, acculturated to hate ourselves. It happened for children in the most inconspicuous of ways: It was relayed through toys and dolls, cartoons and childrens shows, fairy tales and childrens books. At every turn, at every moment, I was being baptized in the narrative that everything white was right, good, noble and beautiful, and everything Black was the opposite. The first book I ever bought was a childrens book about Job from the Bible. Job was the whitest of white men in the book ... More

Exhibition showcases the talents of four Harlem-based photographers
NEW YORK, NY.- Claire Oliver Gallery is presenting Love Letters for Harlem an exhibition of photographs by John Pinderhughes, Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Jeffrey Henson Scales and Shawn Walker. Love Letters for Harlem showcases the talents of these four Harlem-based photographers and their work that celebrates the lives and culture of Harlem. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Harlem Community Relief Fund, an initiative of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce (GHCC), who in concert with Harlem Week, ReThink Food NY, NY State Assemblywoman Inez Dickens, CCNY, NAACP are working together to combat food insecurity in Harlem. The exhibition will be on view by appointment February 22 April 3, 2021. As longtime residents of Harlem, we are inspired by the rich cultural lineage of our neighborhood, states gallerist Claire ... More

Moufida Tlatli, groundbreaker in Arab film, dies at 78
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Moufida Tlatli, the Tunisian director whose 1994 film The Silences of the Palace became the first international hit for a female filmmaker from the Arab world, died Feb. 7 in Tunis. She was 78. Her daughter, Selima Chaffai, said the cause was COVID-19. The Silences of the Palace, which Tlatli directed and co-wrote with Nouri Bouzid, is set in the mid-1960s but consists largely of flashbacks to a decade earlier, before Tunisia achieved independence from France. The protagonist, a young woman named Alia (played by Hend Sabri), reflects on the powerlessness of women in that prior era, including her mother, Khedija (Amel Hedhili), a servant in the palace of Tunisian princes. Alias memories prompt a revelation that she has not achieved true autonomy even in the more liberated milieu of her own time. Silences ... More