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In an undated image provided by Kevin Brown, the Stumpff lock, from which Beethovens whole genome was sequenced, with an inscription by its former owner Patrick Stirling. By analyzing seven samples of hair said to have come from Ludwig van Beethoven, researchers debunked myths about the revered composer while raising new questions about his life and death. (Kevin Brown via The New York Times)
by Gina Kolata
NEW YORK, NY.- It was March 1827, and Ludwig van Beethoven was dying. As he lay in bed, wracked with abdominal pain and jaundiced, grieving friends and acquaintances came to visit. And some asked a favor: Could they clip a lock of his hair for remembrance? The parade of mourners continued after Beethovens death at age 56, even after doctors performed a gruesome craniotomy, looking at the folds in Beethovens brain and removing his ear bones in a vain attempt to understand why the revered composer lost his hearing. Within three days of Beethovens death, not a single strand of hair was left on his head. Ever since, a cottage industry has aimed to understand Beethovens illnesses and the cause of his death. Now an analysis of strands of his hair has upended long-held beliefs about his health. The report provides ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A Xing Ruyi-Form Cosmetic Box and Cover with Molded Duck and Knot Design, Tang Dynasty, 618-907 AD, China Length: 11 cm and a Small Sancai Eagle-Head Ewer, Tang Dynasty, 618-907 AD, China Height: 16.5 cm are just two of the many splendid objects in The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection of Chinese Ceramics, offered at Zetterquist Galleries during Asia Week New York (March 16-24).Photo: Zetterquist Galleries.
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| Nancy Hoffman Gallery opens an exhibition off works by Hung Liu | | Eli Wilner dscusses framing on Dan Rattiner's Hamptons Podcast | | Hollywood by Mateo Blanco: Celebrating 100 years of the original marker for La La Land | 
Snow Lotus on Gold, 2022, mixed media, 20.5 x 20.5 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hung Liu spent half her life in China, where she was born in Changchun in 1948. The second half of her life she lived in the United States until the time of her death in Oakland in 2021. She was a citizen of two countries: China and the United States, living in each for 36 years. She grew up in Beijing during the revolutionary era of Mao Zedong. In 1968 she was sent to the countryside for four years during the Cultural Revolution where she worked with peasants in rice, wheat, and cornfields seven days a week. During this time, she photographed local farmers with their families and also made drawings of them. After returning from the countryside, she entered the Revolutionary Entertainment Department of Beijings Teachers College to study art and education. In 1979 Liu attended the Central Academy of Fine Arts where she majored in mural painting. In 1980, she applied to the Visual Arts graduate program at the University of California, San Diego. After ... More | | 
Eli Wilner, photographed in his Upper East Side gallery.
SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- Eli Wilner was the featured guest on Dan Rattiner's Podcast "Whos Here in the Hamptons." Mr. Wilner discussed the events in his early life that led to his career as the world's premier framer, including the art collection of his great uncle, and the artistic ambitions of his youth. He eventually discovered his talent for framing, despite having once sworn that he would never enter a frame shop. Once his passion for framing was ignited, he spent hours exhaustively researching the frames used by the most important artists of the past several centuries, visiting the major collections around the US and Europe and creating a meticulous library of historic frame photographs. Mr. Wilner recounted how, at the beginning of the Clinton Administration, he created an historically appropriate frame for Childe Hassams "Avenue in the Rain," as a gift to the White House. The painting was installed in the Oval Office, leading to a to ... More | | 
Hollywood by Mateo Blanco | Photo by Juan Tena
LOS ANGELES.- The world famous HOLLYWOOD sign reaches a landmark birthday! Mateo Blanco (@mateoblancoart), dreamer of dreams, joins in the celebration with HOLLYWOOD BY MATEO BLANCO, his clever conceptual piece. High up on the mountainside of Griffith Park, overlooking the city of Los Angeles, the 45 foot tall white letters, spelling out the name of the dream factory that seduces the world, span 35 feet. This iconic sign is instantly recognizable so the artist, Mateo Blanco cleverly spells it out, placing the letters in that undulating pattern that in itself is enough to evoke the power of the image. Mateo Blanco, a Colombian American artist who lives in Miami, has had a longtime interest in expressing the lure of Hollywood. He has explored the power of the image and fame in his highly original portraits of iconic screen sirens like Jennifer Lawrence, whose portrait he recreated using peanuts, Madonna, Dolly Parton and many Marvel superheroes, Avatar characters as well as beloved Star War ... More |
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| Levi van Veluw: In the depths of memory is now on view at Galerie Ron Mandos | | Pace Gallery announces global representation of the Estates of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen | | Berry Campbell represents the Estate of Libbie Mark | 
Installation view of Levi van Veluw: In the depths of memory.
AMSTERDAM.- Galerie Ron Mandos has recently opened in the depths of memory, a new solo exhibition by Levi van Veluw, which the artist has been working on uninterruptedly for the past year. With his new sculptures, film and installation, Levi van Veluw takes you into the deepest recesses of his memory to uncover our universal emotions and experiences. The exhibition, which began on Saturday March 18th, will run through Sunday April 23rd, 2023. Deep within your memory, hidden somewhere in the crevices of your brain, are stored the most important memories that have shaped you as a human being. No clear pictures as in photos or videos, but a mixture of sensory experiences. The pungent smell of a packed crowd, the oppressive silence during an unpleasant visit, the cracking of a voice, the intense gaze of a passing person. ... More | | 
Portrait of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, 1986. Photo by Robert Mapplethorpe.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace, together with Maartje Oldenburg, announces plans for the estates of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The gallery, which has formally represented the duo since 1990, will now serve as the global representative of the Oldenburg estate, the van Bruggen estate, and the Oldenburg and van Bruggen estate, continuing its commitment to sharing the intertwining legacies and individual achievements of the two artists with its global audience. Maartje Oldenburgthe artists daughter and a writer, editor, and lawyerwill serve as head of the estate after 13 years managing their studio and institutional engagement with their work. In 2024, the gallery will present a major exhibition tracing the roots of Oldenburgs revolutionary practice. The show will chronicle the transformation of the artists ... More | | 
Libbie Mark, Collage #67-6, 1967, acrylic and paper collage on paper, mounted on canvas, 39 7/8 x 30 1/4 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Abstract Expressionist American artist Libbie Mark (1905-1972) had connections with many of the twentieth centurys most significant artists, including Grace Hartigan, Hans Hofmann, Larry Rivers, and Vaclav Vytlacil. She created her work in important artistic communities of New York and Provincetown. Her unique "collage paintings" reflect a deep experimentation withand skilled handling ofcolor and texture that made her work stand out then and now. One of five siblings, Libbie Berman was born in 1905 in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Naomi Rachel (Nellie) Berman, née Rubin and Harold Berman, an editor and translator of Hebrew texts.1 In 1927, Libbie married Edward Mark, and they lived in Jersey City, then Queens, New York, before settling in Great Neck, ... More |
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| Joey Quiñones named Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art | | Abell Auction Co. presents Modern Interiors on March 28 in Los Angeles | | At Al Aqsa Mosque, shards of stained glass tell a story of conflict | 
Joey Quiñones.
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH.- Today, Paul Sacaridiz, the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art, announced that Joey Quiñones has been named the new Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Fiber Department. Quiñones replaces Mark Newport, who will be leaving the Academy to pursue full-time studio practice. Quiñones is an accomplished artist working across a wide range of materials, whose work focuses on African American and Caribbean history, as well as the intricacies of Afro-Latinx identity. They hold an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. Most recently, they established the Fibers and Mixed Media studio in the Sculpture Dimensional Studies Division at Alfred University, where they served as an Assistant Professor of Sculpture. Prior to teaching at Alfred, Quiñones spent 17 years teaching English at Earlham College in Indiana. As an artist, they have been ... More | | 
Thomas Moser, Deacons Bench.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Abell Auction Co. will present Modern Interiors on March 28 in Los Angeles. Whether youre a collector of simply seeking a one-of-a-kind addition to your home or office, each item is carefully curated to showcase the best of contemporary furniture and art. Live bidding for the online auction starts at 9 a.m. PST. A strong representation of furnishings by Roche Bobois, B&B Italia, Thomas Moser, Gaetano Pesce, Karl Springer and other prominent designers will be offered. Highlights include a Gaetano Pesce UP Chair and Ottoman ($1,000-$2,000); Ligne Rosset Togo sofa ($3,000-$5.000); Roche Bobois Mah Jong sofas ($3,000 - $5,000); and Thomas Moser Deacons Bench ($600-$800). The sale also will present fine original works of art by Sister Mary Corita Kent, Robert Indiana, Richard Jones, Paul Pascal, Pablo Picasso, Raimonds Staprans and many others. Highlights include a bronze, silver and jeweled landscape sculpture by Richard ... More | | 
Muhammad Rowidy, a Palestinian artisan who works to maintain and restore the historic mosques and other structures in the 35-acre Aqsa Mosque compound, revered by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and by Jews as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem, Israel on Sept. 1, 2022. (Afif Amireh/The New York Times)
by Raja Abdulrahim
JERUSALEM.- At a workshop on the edge of the Aqsa Mosque compound, Muhammad Rowidy spends hours hunched over panes of stained glass, painstakingly carving through white plaster to reveal geometric designs. While he works, there is a thought he cant shake. You see this, he said, pausing and leaning back, this takes months to finish, and in one minute, in one kick, all this hard work goes. Rowidy and dozens of other Palestinian artisans and workers maintain and restore the historic mosques and other structures in the 35-acre Aqsa Mosque compound revered by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and by Jews as the Temple Mount. They are ... More |
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| Superb results across Bonhams March Asia Week New York sales | | PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai announces exhibitor line-up for its 8th edition this April | | Mauro Staccioli: Sculpture as Transformational Thought' opens at the A arte Invernizzi gallery | 
A large Neolithic mottled grey jade cong, sold for US$1.5 million. Photo: Bomhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams saw incredible results across its five Asia Week New York sales, starting the week with the white-glove 100% sold sale of J.J. Lally & Co. properties which earned 10 times its estimate at US$4.2 million, and the Mary and Cheney Cowles collection with 95% of lots sold and achieving 5 times its pre-sale estimate at US$7.3 million. The top lot of the week, from the Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art sale, was a complete set of portrait bronzes depicting the five patriarchs of the Sakya Order of Tibetan Buddhism, which sold for US$2.9 million - nearly 6 times its estimate. From premiere Chinese art gallery J.J. Lally & Co., Bonhams presented 68-lots of ancient Chinese jades, silver, bronzes, and ceramics spanning 5,000 years from pre-historic China through the Qing dynasty. The white glove sale overall achieved US$4.2 million with 100% sold by lot and 100% sold by value. Sale highlights: ... More | | 
© Thandiwe Muriu, Camo 3, 2021, Courtesy of 193 Gallery.
SHANGHAI.- PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai announces today its gallery and exhibitor line-up for its forthcoming 8th edition. Organised by Creo and presented in partnership with Porsche, the fair returns to the Shanghai Exhibition Centre on April 20-23, 2023. Over 50 exhibitors, comprising high-end galleries, art spaces, institutions, publishers, and studios, are taking part in the different sectors including Main, Platform, Publishing and Culture Spaces. PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai is Asia Pacifics leading fair dedicated to photo-based and digital artworks. This years edition brings together a strong line-up of galleries from across China; it is a point of convergence, providing a platform for the most exciting emerging voices in Chinese contemporary photography whilst showcasing the historically significant and globally recognised artists that played a key role in shaping visual culture in the region. Fan Ni, Director, ... More | | 
Mauro Staccioli, Scultura, 2012. Weathering steel, 46x23x23 cm. Courtesy A arte Invernizzi, Milano. Ph. Bruno Bani, Milano.
MILAN.- The A arte Invernizzi gallery opened a solo exhibition by Mauro Staccioli on Thursday 9 March 2023, ten years after his last solo show in the same spaces, and five years since he passed away. Mauro Staccioli (Volterra 1937-2018 Milan) was one of the most important Italian sculptors of the twentieth century and he was widely acknowledged internationally. In the early 1970s, he started creating hundreds of what he called his intervention sculptures. He made these large temporary or permanent installations on an environmental scale all over the world. Their creation was always directly linked to where they were built, and in turn they modified the physical and conceptual coordinates of the place. This made the work not self-referential but active as a presence that would interact with its setting. These visual signs cut across the decades and through ... More |
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Sotheby's Talks: Women in Art: From Image to Image-Maker
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 Staley Wise Gallery opens a joint exhibition of father Patrick and son Victor DemarchelierNEW YORK, NY.- This joint exhibition of father Patrick and son Victor demonstrates the extreme elegance and perfection of their imagery and the continuation of a rich photographic legacy to the next generation. Patrick Demarchelier is a towering name in contemporary fashion photography. In a career that spanned over four decades he maintained his position at the pinnacle of his profession by his consummate taste, style, and meticulous technique. Born in the port city of Le Havre, Patrick began working in darkrooms and assisting photographers before magazines began hiring him on his own. His accomplished portraiture, exquisite use of color, and the elegance of his black and white work caught the eye of Condé Nasts famed editor Alexander Liberman and in 1974 he began working for American VOGUE. His photographs appeared ... More  For this experimental festival, bring your swimsuit and dancing shoesBERGEN.- Little could be predicted about a premiere by young experimental Norwegian-Tamil composer Mira Thiruchelvam. But it was held at a fjord-facing heated pool, so the presenter had a suggestion: Bring a swimsuit. It was par for the course at Borealis, the experimental festival here that has achieved renown as a launchpad for eclectic projects by musicians from Norway and beyond. If in recent decades, the Nordic countries facilitated by enviable government funding for the arts have proved a hotbed of musical activity, punching above their weight in the classical world, Borealis has become the regions warmhearted fringe festival, showcasing a blossoming experimental classical scene. Led by Artistic Director Peter Meanwell and Managing Director Rachel Louis, Borealis, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in a five-day festival ... More  'Camelot,' beloved but befuddling, gets the Aaron Sorkin treatmentNEW YORK, NY.- Camelot opened on Broadway 63 years ago, an eagerly anticipated new musical from the makers of My Fair Lady. But happily-ever-aftering took a while. Out of town, while trying to trim the overlong production, one writer was hospitalized with an ulcer, and the director collapsed from a heart attack. In New York, despite starring Julie Andrews and Richard Burton, Camelot took months to find its footing, and only did so following a televised segment on The Ed Sullivan Show. Today the musical, written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, is remembered as one of the last of Broadways Golden Age shows, but its traditional narrative Arthurian legend with all of its romance, politics, swordplay and sorcery has never quite clicked. Unfortunately, Camelot is weighed down by the burden of its book, New York ... More  New York birders reject Audubon name over slavery pastNEW YORK, NY.- NYC Audubon will drop Audubon from its name over concerns that the racist legacy of 19th-century naturalist and illustrator John James Audubon has become a barrier to its efforts to become more inclusive. The conservation group, which is a chapter of the National Audubon Society, made the decision Monday by a majority vote of its board of directors. The vote was called after the national organization reached the opposite decision last week, concluding that the organization transcends one persons name. The New York City chapter did not agree. Frankly, we were surprised and disappointed because our internal review found that the Audubon name was problematic for our organization because of its deeply negative connotations, said Karen Benfield, the president of the board of the New York City chapter. It joins a handful ... More  Exhibition of new paintings by Peter Shear opens at Cheim & ReadNEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read is presenting Following Sea, an exhibition of new paintings by Peter Shear, whose work was recently featured in Regarding Kimber, the gallerys homage to the painter Kimber Smith. The show opened on March 23, 2023, at the gallerys Chelsea location, 547 West 25th Street, New York, and run through May 13. A self-taught painter, Shear was born in 1980 in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, and grew up in Valparaiso, Indiana. The deeply hued canvases in this exhibition were made on a human scale, most of them mounted on panels measuring 11 x 14 inches. Their overriding characteristic is a distinct absence of dogma: elusive and spare, they hover in an interstitial space between abstraction and representation, often incorporating elements of both. They can suggest figures, landscapes, or architecture, ... More  The Estate Fine Art and Antiques auction held by Neue Auctions brings in $175,275BEACHWOOD, OH.- Talk about an eclectic sale. The top five lots in Neue Auctions Estate Fine Art and Antiques auction held online March 11th were a pair of rare old antique maps that combined for a staggering $147,600; a typed letter signed by Albert Einstein ($10,455); a carved and painted carousel giraffe ($9,840); and a stoneware vessel made by Claude Conover ($7,380). The 342-lot auction was filled with fine art, antiques, Mid-Century Modern, Modern Art, sterling, bronzes, decorative arts, printwork, maps, fine furniture, carpets and more, from prominent estates and collections. Internet bidding was provided by LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. All prices quoted are inclusive of the 23 percent buyers premium. By far the top lot of the auction was a map of the Persian and Red Seas, after Claudius Ptolemy, ... More  Curatorial+Co announces new permanent home in Sydney's Woolloomooloo SYDNEY.- Gallery and Art Consultancy, Curatorial+Co. has today announced that their physical gallery space will move to a new home in Woolloomooloo. Situated at the iconic 80 William Street in the heart of the Sydney city arts district, the new gallery space will open to the public on 4 May 2023, with exhibitions from landscape painter Susie Dureau and ceramicist Aleisa Miksad, continuing its focus on elevating emerging and mid-career artists. Surrounded by galleries including Chalk Horse, COMA, Jericho Contemporary and King Street Gallery on William and a short walk from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, this move cements Curatorial+Co. as a key player in Sydneys contemporary art scene. The gallery will feature an expansive 150 square-metre exhibition space, measuring five metres in height, alongside an additional ... More  Australian Premiere: Paradise Camp by Yuki KiharaSYDNEY.- Powerhouse has unveiled the Australian premiere of Paradise Camp by Yuki Kihara; co-commissioned by Powerhouse and Creative New Zealand, and curated by Professor Natalie King OAM. In 2022, Paradise Camp garnered international acclaim at the Aotearoa New Zealand pavilion at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia. In 2023, the Australian premiere includes new works created by Kihara created in response to the Powerhouse Museums Collection. An interdisciplinary artist of Japanese and Sāmoan descent, Yuki Kiharas work interrogates and dismantles gender roles, (mis)representation and colonial legacies in the Pacific. She was the first Pasifika, Asian and Faafafine (Sāmoas third gender) artist to represent Aotearoa New Zealand at La Biennale di Venezia. Yuki Kihara is currently undertaking a creative residency at the Powerhouse, ... More  Independent New York returns to New York City, May 11-14NEW YORK, NY.- Independent New York returns for its 14th edition May 11-14 in New York and online. The highly anticipated fair features works by more than 120 artists and 74 galleries and nonprofits from around the world. Independent sits at the intersection of an art fair and a biennial, with exhibitors vetted through a competitive nomination process. The fair enjoys an insiders renown and is a destination for meaningful discovery of contemporary art. Taking over four floors of Spring Studios, Independent New York features more than 50 solo and duo presentations, ten presentations by artists who have concurrent museum exhibitions as well as 22 New York artists debuts. Founder Elizabeth Dee states, Independent will headline the newly expanded art month in New York for the second year in a row, making this an important moment for the global ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Edward Weston was born March 24, 1886. Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 - January 1, 1958) was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographersâ¦" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." In this image: Tina on the Azotea, with kimono, 1924. Edward Weston (American, 1886â1958). Photograph, platinum or palladium print. The Lane Collection. Photograph courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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