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The private living room in Paige Rense Nolands Florida home is designed for comfort. Her husband Kenneth Nolands painting spans one wall, and several pieces being offered in Palm Beach Moderns May 15th auction rest on her coffee table and light the room. Photo: Augustus Mayhew.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- You can find feminist icons in the pages of magazines or you can find them in charge of magazines. Before the current-day household names, there was Paige Rense Noland, editor-in-chief of Architectural Digest until 2010. The girl who ran away from her adoptive parents at fifteen because they lacked vision, changed her name and faked a college degree to get a writing job became the woman who transformed the ultra-competitive world of publishing and dined with princes, but she never forgot the things that inspired her. My first introduction to Paige is when she wrote about our gallery on South Dixie, says Rico Baca, auctioneer and co-owner of Palm Beach Modern Auctions in West Palm Beach, Florida. It was 2007 I think, and we were just building the auction house. The article was a brief mention, but thats where it all began. Paige Rense Noland was an avid buyer at auction, biddi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A replica of a small part of Lascaux cave is displayed in the Lascaux cave replica complex on May 12, 2012 in Montignac, during preparations for its reopening following a closure as part of restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP
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| Shrunken head displayed in Georgia was returned to Ecuador | | Robert Longo joins Pace Gallery | | Lucas Museum acquires Robert Colescott's 'George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware' |
A ceremonial shrunken head at the university. Adam Kiefer/Mercer University.
Christina Morales
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- No bigger than a fist, the shrunken head had nonetheless become a major headache. The head, a mummified Amazonian war trophy called a tsantsa, had been in the possession of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, for decades. Over that time, it was puzzled over by professors, used as a prop in a John Huston comedy and displayed in a university museum. And in 2019, it was returned to Ecuadorean officials but only after it was authenticated with a 33-item checklist, according to an article published this week by Mercer researchers. Before the head could be repatriated, the researchers also had to meet a separate list of standards provided by Ecuadors National Cultural Heritage Institute. In the article, published Tuesday in the journal Heritage Science, they described how they had traced the history of the head to at least 1942 using memoirs and local newspapers. The head was turned over to the Ecuadorean ... More | |
Untitled (Eric), from the series "Men in the Cities," 197983. Charcoal and graphite on paper, 96 x 60 inches (243.8 x 152.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Glimcher, CEO and President of Pace Gallery, announced today that the gallery will be welcoming Robert Longo to its roster. Pace will collaborate closely with Thaddaeus Ropac as Longos existing gallery in Europe. With Ropac, Pace looks forward to building upon the work Metro Pictures did with Longo over the course of their four-decade relationship. Robert Longo is a classically trained artist with a daringly contemporary vision. Over the past 40 years, Longo has explored drawing, photography, painting, sculpture, performance, and film to make provocative critiques of the anesthetizing and seductive effects of capitalism, mediatized wars, and the cult of history in the United States. In his monumental drawings, Longo marries intense imagination and creative ambition with exacting attention to detail to powerful effect. Rendering images from news media and popular culture at large scales in charcoal on mounted paper, he ... More | |
George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook' by Robert Colescott is on display during Sotheby's NY press preview of the upcoming Contemporary Art Evening Auction at Sotheby's on May 03, 2021 in New York City. Cindy Ord/Getty Images/AFP.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art today confirmed that it purchased Robert Colescotts 1975 painting George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook at auction at Sothebys New York on May 12. The monumental painting, measuring 78 ½ x 98 ¼ inches, has been exhibited and published many times since it was first shown in a museum, in the Whitneys 1978 traveling exhibition Art About Art. Over the years, it has come to be seen as the apex work in the career of Robert Colescott (19252009) and a stunning breakthrough in late 20th-century American art, emboldening many other artists with its outspoken Blackness, outraged and outrageous political content, high-handed appropriation of art history, and scabrous, satirical use of cartoon imagery. Writing about the painting in 1984 for Artforum, ... More |
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| Hood Museum of Art acquires Hollywood photograph archive of the John Kobal Foundation | | Georgia Museum of Art to participate in Blue Star Museums | | Thaddaeus Ropac to open in Seoul |
John Engstead, Marlon Brando for A Streetcar Names Desire, Warner Brothers, 1950, gelatin silver print. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: The John Kobal Foundation Collection: Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund; 2019.57.19.Object photo by Jeffrey Nintzel.
HANOVER, NH.- The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, announced the completion of a multi-year acquisition process of over six thousand Hollywood photographs from the John Kobal Foundation. Set up to continue the work of its eponymous founder, who lived from 1940 to 1991, the foundation long divided its efforts between grantmaking for photographers and promoting the photography collection that Kobal had amassed, which traces the history of Hollywood from approximately 1916 to the 1970s. With this sale of Kobals prints to the Hood Museum, the foundation will now focus on its support of a new artists fellowship. With this archive, the museum will be able to aid the research of Dartmouth faculty ... More | |
The nationwide list of participating museums is available at http://arts.gov/bluestarmuseums as is a parent toolkit for visiting museums with your family.
ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will participate this summer in Blue Star Museums, a program organized by the National Endowment for the Arts that offers free admission and special discounts to military personnel and their families from Armed Forces Day (May 15) through Labor Day (September 6). Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense and museums across the United States. Each summer since 2010, Blue Star Museums have offered free admission to the nations active-duty military personnel and their families, including National Guard and Reserve. Although admission to the museum is always free, the Museum Shop is offering a 10 percent discount for military personnel and their families. ... More | |
Thaddaeus Ropac. Photo: Marco Riebler.
SEOUL.- Thaddaeus Ropac announced that the gallery will open a new location in Seoul, South Korea, with its inaugural exhibition taking place in early Autumn 2021. The inaugural exhibition will be announced in due course. Thaddaeus Ropac's new gallery will be located in Seoul's Hannam-dong district, in a 750sqm space on the first floor of the outstanding architectural landmark the Fort Hill building, awarded the Korean National Architecture Award 2011 and Seoul Architecture Award 2011 and designed by SAI architects, led by the celebrated Director Architect Prof. Juhwan Park. The bespoke gallery interior will be designed by acclaimed interior designer Teo Yang Studio to create a unique setting for the presentation and experience of exhibitions by the gallery's artists. Its with tremendous excitement that we are establishing the gallery in Seoul and a privilege to participate in and contribute to a city that has ... More |
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| Basquiat and other artists of color lead a swell of auction sales | | Peter Halley transforms Museo Nivola temporary exhibition space | | Einstein letter with world's most famous equation up for auction |
An auction at Sothebys in New York, May 12, 2021. Nina Westervelt/The New York Times.
by Zachary Small and Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Just as the art market withstood the trauma of the Sept. 11 attacks and the economic plunge of 2008, so did the purchasing of high-priced paintings prevail at Sothebys on Wednesday during the first live contemporary auction since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. Somehow, whatever crises convulse the world, the wealthy continue to buy art. In a deliberately sparse salesroom in Manhattan, with auction specialists beamed in from London and Hong Kong on screens, business was strong at Sothebys, which raised a total of $218.3 million from 32 lots. Christies raised $210.5 million Tuesday evening from 37 lots in a fully virtual sale. Oliver Barker, a Sothebys auctioneer, seemed palpably energized by the return to a live sale and the new format, at one point pronouncing the market ... More | |
Peter Halley. Photo: © Nicholas Calcott.
ORANI.- Museo Nivola is presenting the exhibition Peter Halley ANTESTERIA. Peter Halley, a pivotal figure in the American Neo-conceptualism of the 1980s, is known for his geometric painting alluding to the social spaces of late capitalism and their dimension of confinement, isolation, and surveillance. "Cells," "prisons, and "conduits" - recurring motifs in his work since the Eighties - relate to the rigid and angular structures of corporate skyscrapers, as well as to computer microchips, electrical circuits, and the internet's infinite connections. His vision of the contemporary world, influenced by thinkers such as Foucault and Baudrillard, is steeped in pessimism. However, his language is electrifying, vitalistic, full of overwhelming energy. Starting in the 1990s, Halley began to transform the architectural space through digitally generated mural works, sometimes developed in collaboration with other artists. The project created for ... More | |
The sale is highlighted by a rare letter in which Einstein writes his famous equation, "E = mc2," the only known example in private hands.
BOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction is presenting the Einstein Archives of Ludwik Silbersteina remarkable collection of correspondence focused on the theory of relativity. The sale is highlighted by a rare letter in which Einstein writes his famous equation, "E = mc2," the only known example in private hands. Everyone has seen the famous equationit is part of the background of our lives. But how many have seen it written in Einsteins own hand? According to archivists at the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (where Einsteins papers reside), only three holograph examples are knownand none of those are in private hands. This examplethe fourthis being revealed to the public for the first time. The one-page letter in German, signed A. Einstein, blindstamped personal Princeton letterhead, October 26, 1946. Handwritten letter to Dr. ... More |
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| Christie's Magnificent Jewels New York features The Dancing Sun and The Chrysler Diamond | | Jeffrey Deitch opens an exhibition of works by Dominique Fung | | Picasso's portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter achieves superb result at Bonhams |
The Dancing Sun, a fancy intense yellow diamond of 204.36 carats, VVS2 clarity ($3,500,000-5,500,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York announces the June 8 auction of Magnificent Jewels and the preceding Jewels Online sale from May 20 to June 4. The auction includes a significant selection of colored diamonds, colorless diamonds, and gemstones, along with signed pieces by Bvlgari, Cartier, Graff, Harry Winston, JAR, Tiffany & Co., and Van Cleef & Arpels. Estimates range from $10,000 to $3,500,000. An exhibition by appointment will be held at Christies New York from June 4-7. The June 8th auction is led by an incredible discovery, The Dancing Sun, a fancy intense yellow diamond of 204.36 carats, VVS2 clarity ($3,500,000-5,500,000). The Dancing Sun is the largest polished diamond mined in North America. This exceptional stone, along with six additional diamonds (Lots 62-67) ranging from 14.52 to 1.06 carats, were cut and polished from the largest gem quality rough diamond unearthed in North America. Weighing 552.74 carats, the rough ... More | |
Dominique Fung, Will you keep singing?, 2021. Oil on linen, 94 x 78 inches. Photo Cooper Dodds and Genevieve Hanson. Courtesy of the artist, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, and Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Some scientific studies suggest the existence of an invisible energy that an observer unconsciously emanates through the act of staring. This energy, the ghostly feeling of being looked atas Dominique Fung describes itreinforces the idea that looking at someone or something is not a passive exercise. It can physically and emotionally alter the subject being observed. In Dominique Fungs exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch, a series of sumptuous birdcages hang from the gallerys ceiling, inviting viewers to peer through and observe their ceramic inhabitants. Inspired by the tradition of taking songbirds for walks in parks in Hong Kong, these works stem from the artists interest in the act of staring and our shifting perception of subjects and objects. Fungs work is fueled by Asian American critical feminism. She is interested in theorist Anne Anlin Chengs analysis of the figurati ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, Femme au Béret Mauve. Price realized: $10,837,063. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pablo Picassos major portrait, Femme au Béret Mauve, 1937, sold for $10,837,063 at Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art sale in New York on May 13. The painting, which had never been offered at auction, came from an American collector who had owned it for the past 37 years. The 32-lot sale made a total of $13,839,368 with 99% sold by value and 84% sold by lot. Molly Ott Ambler, Bonhams Head of Impressionist, Modern, European and American Art in America, said: We are thrilled with the impressive price achieved for Picassos Femme au Béret Mauve. It was in beautiful condition, had a distinguished provenance and I'm not at all surprised that it attracted so much global interest. Bruno Vinciguerra, Bonhams CEO, said, This has been an extraordinary week for Bonhams. We have had two multi-million dollar white glove sales in a week [Roger Keverne Ltd: Moving On Sale in London and Kusama: The Collection of the Late Dr Teruo Hirose], and now an excellent result for th ... More |
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NASA Mercury mission headset crosses the block at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Has anyone ever felt so strong a need to connect through a call from home? To say the astronauts aboard the Mercury missions, the first manned spaceflights conducted by NASA between 1961 and 1963, were in uncharted territory is an immeasurable understatement. Space travel had been the subject of dreams and study for years, but imagine being Alan Shepard, who rode the Mercury space capsule Freedom 7 on a 15-minute, suborbital flight that covered 302 miles, or the first manned flight in orbit, the Feb. 20, 1962 Freedom 7 mission commanded by John Glenn. Those astronauts' lifeline back to NASA was their communication with Chris Kraft, NASA's first Flight Director and the creator of Mission Control, which now bears his name. During the first voyages to space, astronauts spoke to Craft through his Personal ... More
One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's annotated Columbia Law school books gavels in at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- A Columbia Law School textbook once owned and full of notes by one of the unquestioned giants of the U.S. legal system will occupy a new shelf after it is sold in Heritage Auctions' Manuscripts Auction May 19. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Personal Heavily Annotated Columbia Law School Book, The French Legal System An Introduction to Civil Law Systems likely is the first of her textbooks ever brought to market, one of the texts that helped to launch the career of a pioneer in the battle for women's rights and LGBTQ rights, who changed the role of women in the legal world. "Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature," Chief Justice John Roberts said after Ginsburg died Sept. 18, 2020. "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth ... More
Work by Circle of Rubens gallops to £72,500 at Parker Fine Art Auctions
FARNHAM.- An oil on panel Study of a Man on a Rearing Horse catalogued as Circle of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) fetched £72,500* at Parker Fine Art Auctions in a sale of Fine Paintings and Frames today (Thursday, May 13, 2021) in Farnham, Surrey. The framed painting, which measured 13.75 x 9.75 (35 x 24.7cm) had come from a private collection and was bought by a member of the trade bidding on the phone. Auctioneer Buffy Parker commented: What a great start to the sale this is a house record for us. Although the painting was damaged, the main areas werent affected and obviously that didnt put people off bidding. It received 87 bids in total. The second highest price of the sale, comprising 600 lots, was a large painting of Capel Soar in Gwynedd - believed to be the most remote chapel in Wales - by Iconic Welsh artist Sir ... More
Tomaso De Luca wins the second edition of MAXXI BVLGARI Prize
ROME.- Tomaso De Luca (Verona, born in 1988, living and working in Berlin) is the winner of the second edition of the MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE, the project that brings together MAXXI the National Museum of 21st Century Arts and Bvlgari, which has been a symbol of Italian excellence for over 130 years, to support and promote young artists. His work A Week's Notice renders all diversity a wealth for humanity and has been selected by the international jury for its subtle poetics, maturity and ethical, social and political involvement. A Weeks notice has also received a special mention from the audience. The winner was announced today, Thursday 13 May, during a ceremony streamed at 7pm CET on www.maxxi.art and attended by Giulia Cenci, Renato Leotta and Tomaso De Luca, the three finalists, Jean-Christophe Babin, CEO of Bulgari, Giovanna ... More
Romanian ex-dictator Ceausescu's plane set for auction
BUCHAREST (AFP).- The presidential plane used by Romania's former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu is to go under the hammer later this month, the Artmark auction house announced on Wednesday. "The Rombac Super One-Eleven plane, seen by Nicolae Ceausescu as a crowning achievement of Romanian industry, will have a starting price of 25,000 euros," Artmark said ahead of the May 27 sale. Ceausescu used the plane between 1986 and December 1989, including on his last trip abroad to Iran. That visit came shortly before the revolution which overthrew him and ended in his execution on Christmas Day 1989. Since then the plane has been in a hangar belonging to the Romavia state aviation company, which went bankrupt in 2014 and whose assets are being sold. The plane was made under licence from the British Aircraft Corporation ... More
Met Opera announces its first live concerts since shutdown
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Metropolitan Opera will perform again for a live audience, 430 days after the coronavirus shut down its theater. Members of the companys orchestra and chorus, joined by prominent soloists and led by its music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will give two concerts at the Knockdown Center in Queens on Sunday, the Met announced Wednesday. The concerts will go on despite continuing labor tensions at the Met, which have threatened the intended reopening of its Lincoln Center home in September. Scheduled for 6 and 8:30 p.m. Sunday, the program, called A Concert for New York, includes selections by Mozart, Verdi and Terence Blanchard, whose Fire Shut Up in My Bones is planned to reopen the Met on Sept. 27 and will be the companys first opera by a Black composer. The soloists ... More
New York is reawakening. It just needs its tourists back.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For 10 straight years leading up to the coronavirus pandemic, a torrent of tourists from around the world poured into New York City, with their numbers rising to a record level in 2019. They crowded sidewalks, jammed museums, packed theaters and delighted merchants, spending billions of dollars that created hundreds of thousands of tourism-related jobs and fueled an economic boom. Then they were gone. When the city went into lockdown in March 2020, all that tourist trade the vacationers, business travelers, day-trippers and honeymooners disappeared. Now, New York needs those tourists and their disposable income back, if it is to fully recover. Before the pandemic, tourism accounted for more than 280,000 jobs more than 7% of all private-sector employment and generated $46 billion in ... More
For West End's return, cleansing spirits and an aching for change
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- At 7:30 p.m. Monday, Maureen Lyon will be murdered at St. Martins Theater in London, her screams piercing the air. Her death is a moment many in Londons theater industry will welcome for one simple reason: Its the opening of The Mousetrap, Agatha Christies long-running whodunit, and it will signal that the West End is finally back. For the past 427 days, the coronavirus pandemic has effectively shut Londons theaters. Some tried to reopen in the fall, only for England to plunge into a new lockdown before they even got to rehearsals. They tried again in December, and several musicals, including Six, about the wives of Henry VIII, reopened to ecstatic audiences. But just days later, the shows were forced closed once more. This time, the comeback is meant to be for good. Prime Minister Boris ... More
When COVID dropped the curtain on Broadway actors, TV kept the lights on
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Back in March, actress Kelli OHara arrived on Rhode Islands Gold Coast. A company of theater heroes, with enough combined Tonys to crowd a mansions mantels, met her there. It was almost like Broadway said, Were shutting down, OHara recalled during a recent telephone interview. So 20 of us got together and said, Lets go do a play in a seaside town. But OHara and colleagues like Christine Baranski, Nathan Lane, Debra Monk and Cynthia Nixon hadnt come to Newport for a summer stock job. Or even for the clam cakes. They were on location for The Gilded Age, a robber baron costume drama from Julian Fellowes that will premiere on HBO in 2022. With Broadway theaters closed since last April, The Gilded Age joins current series like The Good Fight, Younger and Billions and upcoming ones like The Bite and a Gos ... More
Can's live shows will be heard at last, thanks to a bootlegger in big pants
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In February 1972, following the surprise success of the single Spoon, the experimental rock group Can staged a massive free concert in its Cologne, West Germany, hometown. To better entertain the crowd, it punctuated the music with a slapdash circus, including a juggler, a singing saw player and a team of acrobats. The band planned to document the event with a live recording, as well as a concert film directed by Peter Przygodda, who became Wim Wenderss editor. The film footage turned out fine shot in part by the renowned cinematographer Robby Müller but there was a glitch with the audio. Something went wrong and the equipment didnt record, Irmin Schmidt, one of the groups founders, recalled ruefully in a phone interview last month. Schmidts keyboards and Michael Karolis guitar ... More
How will California's arts institutions recover?
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As California emerges from the pandemic, were beginning to get hints of the ways that life will be different permanently. Arts institutions of all shapes and sizes are in particular flux right now as they contend with the collision of long-brewing funding challenges and lingering effects of prolonged shutdowns. My colleague Adam Nagourney, who recently started a new beat covering West Coast cultural affairs, wrote about how thats playing out in Los Angeles, especially after the death last month of Eli Broad, the towering philanthropist who, before his retirement three years ago, had done so much to shape the arts landscape. I asked Adam about his new role and about the article. Heres our conversation: Tell us a little about your new beat. What will you be covering? I am going to be covering West ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Thomas Gainsborough was baptised May 14, 1727. Thomas Gainsborough FRSA (14 May 1727 (baptised) - 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. In this image: Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), Holywells Park, um 1748-1750. Öl auf Leinwand, 50,8 x 66 cm. Ipswich Museum and Gallery © Ipswich Museum and Gallery.
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