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Japanese tech billionaire Yusaku Maezawa made an emphatic public entrance into the highest echelon of the art world with his 2016 purchase of Basquiats Untitled for $57.3m at Christies, New York, setting a world record for the artist at auction.
NEW YORK, NY.- Japanese tech billionaire Yusaku Maezawa made an emphatic public entrance into the highest echelon of the art world with his 2016 purchase of Basquiats Untitled for $57.3m at Christies, New York, setting a world record for the artist at auction. Maezawa was not finished however, purchasing another Basquiat work (also titled Untitled) the following year for $110.5m, once again setting a new world record at auction. By paying nearly double the unpublished estimate of $60m, Maezawa may have been bidding against the Basquiat boom he himself sparked the previous year. Maezawa was not only setting records, but establishing his place as an influencer in the contemporary art world and the cultural world in general. As is often the case, the value of art can't just be measured in the enjoyment of living with a work or its potential future financial returns. For Maezawa, the social media and press buzz of these acqu ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day India and Iran: Works on Paper at the London-based, Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch Ltd., includes a striking image of the Hindu God Vishnu as Venkateshvara, dated to the late 18th century. This gouache heightened with gold on paper, depicts the four-armed Hindu god Vishnu in his human avatar as Venkateshvara or forgiver of sins. It was painted in Andhra Pradesh in south India, probably at Tirupati, north-west of Madras (Chennai), where a school of painting flourished in the eighteenth century. The style of painting, with lavish use of gold, is distinctly south Indian.
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| Christie's to offer a landmark rediscovery, Antonio Canova's lost masterpiece 'Recumbent Magdalene' | | David Zwirner to jointly represent Michael Armitage with White Cube | | Phillips announces HIRÆTH, a selling exhibition in collaboration with PRIOR Art Space | 
Antonio Canova (Possagno 1757-1822 Venice), Maddalena Giacente (Recumbent Magdalene) marble, 1819-1822, 75 x 176 x 84.5 cm (29½ x 69¼ x 33¼ in.) Estimate: £5,000,000-8,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- A landmark re-discovery, Antonio Canovas (1757-1822) Maddalena Giacente (Recumbent Magdalene) 1819-1822, is the Italian titans lost masterpiece, which he completed shortly before his death (estimate: £5,000,000-8,000,000). Having accidentally become an art world sleeping beauty over the last 100 years her authorship gradually forgotten and whereabouts unknown this outstanding sculpture of Mary Magdalene in a state of ecstasy was commissioned by the Prime Minister of the day, Lord Liverpool (1812-1827). Recumbent Magdalene will be a star lot during Christies Summer edition of Classic Week in London. This is an extremely rare opportunity for the market to acquire such an important example of neo-classical sculpture. First on view at Christies ... More | | 
Portrait of Michael Armitage, 2022. Photo by Tom Jamieson © Michael Armitage. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is pleased to announce the joint representation of Michael Armitage with White Cube. David Zwirner will present new work by Armitage in New York in 2024. The drawings and paintings of Kenyan-British artist Michael Armitage have given shape to real and imagined histories of East Africa, constructing deeply rooted but nuanced impressions of the myriad sociopolitical and cultural contexts that affect contemporary daily life in the region. Armitage amasses research and initiates preparatory drawings in and around Nairobi, which he then translates into large-scale figurative paintings that take months or years to complete in his London studio. In an additive and subtractive process, he builds up and thins out layers of pigment on the highly textured surfaces of Ugandan Lubugo bark cloth, a material traditionally reserved for ritual purposes. ... More | | 
Navot Miller, Giulia in her room with Alex's artworks, 2021. Image courtesy of Phillips.
PARIS.- Phillips announced HIRÃTH, a virtual selling exhibition in collaboration with PRIOR Art Space. Featuring 24 works and including artists such as Ziad Kaki, Giorgio Celin, Skyler Chen, and Mona Broschar, among others, this exhibition explores themes of selfhood, belonging and the concept of the home. HIRÃTH is now online and available to view from 17 March to 10 April. Miety Heiden, Deputy Chairwoman and Head of Private Sales,, said, Phillips is honoured to collaborate with PRIOR Art Space, who work with emerging artists, seeking to enrich the contemporary art landscape and inspire the next generation of collectors by providing a platform for those artists. Their passion for producing thoughtful and carefully curated collections has drawn attention to the work of exceptional young artists and resulted in the present exhibition which we are delighted to host on Phillips.com. Oliver Elst, Cuperior Collection, ... More |
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| The Met announces Co-Chairs for the Spring 2022 Costume Institute Benefit | | From Eric Clapton to Gregg Allman to Heritage Auctions, this Gibson Les Paul Custom takes center stage in April | | Camille Norment explores new sonic terrains at Dia Chelsea | 
Lin-Manuel Miranda in New York, Dec. 11, 2017. Victoria Will/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announces today the co-chairs for The Costume Institutes annual spring benefit on May 2, 2022, in New York. Regina King, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, and Lin-Manuel Miranda will serve as the evenings co-chairs. Tom Ford, Adam Mosseri, and Anna Wintour will continue their roles as honorary co-chairs for the event, following last Septembers benefit for Part One of the In America exhibition. In celebration of Part Two, In America: An Anthology of Fashion, The Costume Institute Benefit (also known as The Met Gala) will return to the first Monday in May. The event provides The Costume Institute with its primary source of annual funding for exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, operations, and capital improvements. Opening to the public on May 7, In America: An Anthology of Fashion will explore the foundations of American fashion through a series of sartorial ... More | | 
Gregg Allman's circa 1970 Gibson Les Paul Custom Black Solid Body Electric Guitar, Serial #204460.
DALLAS, TX.- The lineup of instruments featured in Heritage Auctions April 3 Guitars and Musical Instruments Signature® Auction is positively star-studded, mementos from a stage crowded with Rock and Roll Hall of Famers. Theres the 1988 Gibson Flying V owned and signed by Metallicas Kirk Hammett. A five-string Mosrite bass custom-made for The Cars Benjamin Orr. The 1998 Punisher electric bass commissioned by KISS Gene Simmons and hand-painted by SAK. A 1977 Ibanez Artist Custom made for Steve Miller. And so many more. But only one guitar in this auction was made for Eric Clapton, then gifted to Gregg Allman. That would be the circa-1970 Gibson Les Paul custom black solid body, which, for the last 40 years, has remained in the care of a Florida woman whose mother was friends with Allman when he lived on Anna Maria Island from the late 1970s until the early 80s. We are very excited to be able to ... More | | 
In an undated image provided by Don Stahl, Camille Norment: Plexus consists of two sonic installations, one a monumental brass structure in two parts: a lower part that resembles an inverted bell, and a drop-shaped sculpture hanging from above. Don Stahl via The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the late 1960s and 1970s, the best place to hear new music was often not a concert hall but an art gallery. Back then, while Carnegie Hall and the still-new Lincoln Center played it safe uptown, minimalist composer Steve Reich was presenting his rhythmic, exacting compositions down at the Park Place Gallery, led by Paula Cooper. You could hear Philip Glass Music in 12 Parts at Leo Castelli Gallery, and Meredith Monks a cappella ululations at the Walker Art Center. Composers and artists collaborated with ease La Monte Young wrote compositions for sculptor Robert Morris; Glass assisted Richard Serra in the creation of his early splashes of lead and the very distinction between new art and new music could be hazy: ... More |
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| 2022 benefit auction includes over 45 works by world-renowned artists | | Christie's New York presents Magnificent Jewels | | Roland Auctions NY two-part multiple-estates Spring auction March 25th and 26th | 
Jose Alvarez, Surround Me With Your Love #2, 2021. Ink, colored pencil, feathers, and collage on mica on wood panel. 36 x 24 x 2 in. Courtesy of the artist and GAVLAK.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Art presents the 2022 Benefit Auction with Sothebys. The Benefit Auction, now in its third year, will showcase more than 45 exceptional works of art by pre-eminent artists from some of the worlds leading galleries. Online bidding will be available to the public at Sothebys.com beginning Monday, March 28, 10am ET and closing Monday April 11, 4pm ET. A direct link to the auction will also be available at norton.org/auction2022. In advance of bidding, works will be available to view in person at the Norton Museum of Art and online starting Monday, March 14. Works will remain on view at the Norton throughout the duration of the auction. Palm Beach County has emerged as an epicenter of the booming art world, having attracted many notable blue-chip art galleries and top collectors ... More | | 
Fancy Vivid Yello Diamond Ring of 15.31 carats. Estimate: $1,000,000-1,500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York announces the April 13 auction of Magnificent Jewels. The auction includes a superb selection of colored and colorless diamonds, and impressive gemstones, along with historic jewels from renowned private collections, and an impressive assemblage of signed jewels by Bvlgari, Cartier, JAR, Tiffany & Co., and Van Cleef & Arpels. Highlights from the sale will be on view at Christies Dubai between 26-29 March, followed by an exhibition of the full sale at Christies New York from 8-12 April. The auction is led by The Fuchsia Rose, a fancy intense purple-pink diamond of 8.82 carats, potentially internally flawless ($4,000,000-6,000,000). The sale also features superb colored diamonds, such as a fancy blue diamond ring of 11.63 carats, VS1 clarity ($2,500,000-3,500,000); a fancy vivid yellow diamond ring of 15.31 ... More | | 
Important French Louis XV Secretaire a Abbatant, secretaire a abattant, circa 1765. Estimate $8-12,000.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY in Glen Cove, NY will present their Spring Multiple Estates Two-Day auction on Friday, March 25th at 10am and Saturday, March 26th at 10am, a two-part fresh-to-market sale of Fine Art, Collectibles, Furniture, Antiques, Silver, Decorative Arts and Jewelry, all curated from prominent East Coast estates and private collectors all over the Northeast. Previews will be held on Wednesday, March 23rd, Thursday, March 24th and Friday, March 25th, from 10am - 6pm. Throughout the two-day auction, exquisite antique furniture is sure to get much of the attention, with an Important French Louis XV Bureauplat & Cartonnier, circa 1765, marquetry inlaid in tulipwood, kingwood and satine, with gilt bronze mounts and tooled leather top. Stamped "J.F. [Jean Francois] Dubut, JME" on both pieces. [Desk: 28 3/4" H x 51 1/2" W x 26" D; Cabinet: 18 3/4" H x 23 3/4" W x 9 1/4" D]. Estimate $30-50,000 ... More |
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| Annie Flanders, founder of Details Magazine, dies at 82 | | When the orchestra is the star of the opera | | Trinity Irish Dance Company review: Those flashing, percussive feet | 
Annie Flanders in New York on Feb. 1, 1985. Sarah Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Penelope Green
NEW YORK, NY.- Annie Flanders, the ardent, russet-haired founding editor of Details magazine, the proudly independent chronicle of downtown Manhattan in the 1980s, died March 10 at an assisted living facility in Los Angeles. She was 82. The cause was complications of Alzheimers disease, said writer Martha Frankel, a friend and former Details contributor. In the post-disco era of the early 1980s, a combustible mix of art, music and fashion erupted out of the nightclubs, boutiques and art galleries found mostly below 14th Street. That was Flanders territory, chaotic but symbiotic, and its tribes were her people. And though that world was tiny, its cultural impact the artwork of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, the fashion designs of Isabel Toledo, Betsey Johnson and Stephen Sprouse, and even the shenanigans of a sassy club kid named Madonna loomed large, and lingered. It was this mad collision, Simon Doonan, longtime creative director of Barneys ... More | | 
Elza van den Heever, left, and Iestyn Davies in the opera Rodelinda, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, March 8, 2022. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Zachary Woolfe
NEW YORK, NY.- Deep in his brooding, bitter opera Wozzeck, Alban Berg evokes a soldiers barracks in the dead of night. A choir chants: a faint, wordless gauze, punctuated by the strangled stabs of a double bass. When the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed that work at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, the voices were soft yet pungently permeating, redolent of a silent, stifling room of sleeping men. The bass notes were curt but not too harsh, like jagged stones wrapped in wool suggestive of anxieties made both vaguer and weightier by the lateness of the hour and the encompassing quiet. The moment is over after just a few seconds. But it is one of myriad passages, fiercely economical yet perfectly expressive, that, if executed well, convey a world of novelistic density in just 90 minutes. And the Boston Symphony, led by its music director, Andris Nelsons, executed this ... More | | 
Kaitlyn Sardin, right, performs in A New Dawn at the Joyce theater in New York, March 15, 2022. This Chicago company presents Irish dance of great skill, while trying, sometimes successfully, to modernize and invigorate the tradition. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- St. Patricks Day is at hand, and thats why Trinity Irish Dance Company is in from Chicago to perform at the Joyce Theater this week. As Brendan OShea, the affable lead singer of the troupes house band, joked Tuesday, They let us in. By the time he spoke, the first of nine numbers, not including the band interludes, had already established the basic template. This is Irish dance of high skill fleet in the feet, starched from the waist up embodied by a female-dominated group (gender ratio: 17-2) with the precision to speak as one while moving from line to circle to diamond. And all this is modernized with some theatrical lighting (spotlights, red haze) and a goosing of electric guitar. Its not Riverdance theres no New Age hash of Celtic mythology, no cocky male showboating. But the claim of Mark Howard, Trinitys founding artistic director ... More |
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 'Hart Island' gives voice to stories that might otherwise be lostNEW YORK, NY.- What we know about Hart Island, one of the largest mass grave sites in the country, we know from fragments. Fragments of history, memory, testimony. Since the 1800s, this potters field in Long Island Sound has been the final resting place for the marginalized, the unidentified and the sick. New York Citys homeless with no next of kin, stillborn babies and victims of epidemics, including yellow fever, tuberculosis, AIDS and COVID-19, have all been buried at the 100-acre cemetery. Until just a few years ago, the citys Department of Correction used to send inmates from Rikers Island each week to dig trenches and heave pine boxes for 50 cents an hour at the site, half a mile east of the Bronx. That all changed in 2019, after Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a bill to transfer jurisdiction to the Department of Parks and Recreation; penal control ... More  Banksy's Bomb Middle England sold for $500,000 and Morons sold for $128,000 at Julien's AuctionsLOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions, the world record-breaking auction house to the stars, held Sip, Bid and Win: An Evening of Drinks and Art, Street, Contemporary, Pop and Fine Art last night Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 in Beverly Hills with a VIP reception prior to the auction in front of a spirited audience of collectors and bidders attending live in the gallery, on the phone and online at juliensauctions.com. Over 50 works by some of the most talked about artists and revolutionary iconoclasts of our time including Banksy, Damien Hirst, Shepard Fairey, David Hockney, George Rodrique as well as sculptural works by KAWS and more were sold. The top selling lot of the evening, Bomb Middle England, created by the renowned and enigmatic British artist known as Banksy, sold for $500,000, well over its original estimate of $200,000. The early ... More  Looking back on 50 years of making beautiful booksNEW YORK, NY.- The last book that will ever bear the David R. Godine imprint is, fittingly, by David Godine himself. Its called Godine at Fifty: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher, and its a safe bet that the people who these days run his company (now called just Godine) will never put out such a volume again. Published last December, the book is oversized, with illustrations on every page, and typeset, in double, wide-margined columns, in Minion a face based on Renaissance designs, that comes with all kinds of ornaments and swirling ampersands. The paper a lush-looking, acid-free, 80-pound stock is a disappointment, Godine says. He would have liked heavier and smoother, but couldnt get it because of supply problems during COVID. He would also have liked a full-cloth binding. The cheapness ... More  The secret sounds of 'Dune': Rice Krispies and Marianne FaithfullNEW YORK, NY.- Dune is in the details, and Denis Villeneuve knows nearly all of them. The French Canadian filmmaker grew up obsessed with Frank Herberts seminal sci-fi novel and has spent the past few years of his life adapting that 1965 book into a budding film franchise. The first installment came out in October and the second one will begin shooting later this year, so if theres anything you want to know about the inner workings of Dune, Villeneuve is the man to ask. But last week in Malibu, California, as he regarded a blue cereal box with evident amusement, Villeneuve admitted that one key detail had eluded him until now. Im learning today there were Rice Krispies in Dune, he said. We were at Zuma Beach on the kind of warm March afternoon that New York readers would surely prefer I not dwell on, and Villeneuves Oscar-nominated ... More  A ballerina finds her modern dance home: It 'feels limitless'NEW YORK, NY.- Lauren Lovette has a new job that would have been unthinkable a few years ago not only for herself but for the dance world. Until the fall, Lovette was an esteemed principal at New York City Ballet, but now she has crossed over into modern dance and has been named the first resident choreographer at the Paul Taylor Dance Company. I said yes right away, Lovette, 30, said of the offer in a recent interview at the Taylor studio on the Lower East Side. Her first work for the company, Pentimento, which she started creating just before the COVID-19 shutdown and worked on throughout the pandemic, will have its premiere at the City Center Dance Festival, a new spring offering that opens with the Taylor company on March 24. Set to music by Alberto Ginastera, Pentimento celebrates the individuality of its cast of 14 dancers. Lovette ... More  Heather Christian's choral work is a study of time. Patience, too.NEW YORK, NY.- On a strangely comforting morning in early March, the composer Heather Christian made her way to Ars Novas space in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, for the first time in two years. The bright sun, radiating the warmth of a spring day, was enough to momentarily make her forget she was freezing. Once inside, she re-encountered the set for her delicately epic choral piece Oratorio for Living Things, which had two preview performances before the pandemic hit, and is back, running through April 17. I felt the weight of time, she said during a recent conversation over Zoom, reflecting on her return to the theater. It was the weight of expectation or even the grief of the last time I was in that space. It was only fitting that time felt like Christians companion, since Oratorio for Living Things, in the words of its creator, is a study of time in three ... More  'The Life' review: Turning more than a few new tricksNEW YORK, NY.- In case you have forgotten the premise behind Reaganomics, the musical The Life offers a primer right before a big number at the top of Act 2: It was based on the proposition that taxes on businesses should be reduced as a means to stimulate business investment in the short term and benefit society at large in the long term. And five, six, seven, eight! Not only is this dialogue leaden especially coming from a young pimp but it is not in The Life as we know it: The musical that opened last night as part of New York City Centers Encores! series has been drastically reconfigured from the one that premiered on Broadway in 1997. Back then, the composer Cy Coleman and the lyricist Ira Gasman conceived Mr. Greed as a cynical showstopper very much in a Kander and Ebb vein in which 80s-era pimps ... More  National Book Critics Circle names 2021 award winnersNEW YORK, NY.- Anthony Veasna Sos short-story collection Afterparties, which centers on the lives of Cambodian Americans in California, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best debut book Thursday. By turns dark and funny, Afterparties explores the ways in which the trauma endured by Cambodian refugees who fled the Khmer Rouge genocide has echoed across generations. The collection, which was widely acclaimed, was published about eight months after Sos death at age 28 from a drug overdose. In a statement, one of the judges, Jenny Shank, praised Sos vigor, originality and good humor and noted that the organization joins Sos loved ones and readers in celebrating his work and mourning his loss. Other winners, announced at a virtual ceremony Thursday night, included Diane Seuss, who won the poetry prize ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Cornelis Ketel was born March 18, 1548. Cornelis or Cornelius Ketel (18 March 1548 - 8 August 1616) was a Dutch Mannerist painter, active in Elizabethan London from 1573 to 1581, and in Amsterdam from 1581 to the early 17th century, now known essentially as a portrait-painter, though he was also a poet and orator, and from 1595 began to sculpt as well. In this image: Woman Aged 56 painted in 1594.
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