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Nathaniel Currier, The Road Winter (estimate: $12,000-15,000), 1853.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lark Mason Associates announced a single owner collection of American Prints, primarily by Currier and Ives, that is available for bidding online on www.iGavelAuctions.com. The sale consists of two sessions, Session I is from Tuesday, May 18 through Thursday, June 3, and Session II Thursday, May 27 through Tuesday, June 15. The Collection curated here for auction represents the culmination of over 50 years of interest in the history of the United States as preserved by many of the most notable artisans of their time. Over the years, the Collection has expanded and contracted depending on the collectable opportunities. At one point the Collection was in excess of 3,000 prints, representing one of the larger private Collections of lithographs in the United States. Collection management has reduced the sheer size of the Collection ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Employees clean the Marilyn Monroe's wax statue at the Grevin was museum in Paris on May 12, 2021, ahead of its reopening following the closure as part of restrictions to fight the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Thomas SAMSON / AFP
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| Zwirner may disrupt art gallery model with click-to-buy business | | Hong Kong protests, silenced on the streets, surface in artworks | | Scientists find a fossilized ancestor of 'dinosaur food' | 
Marlene Zwirner, Lucas Zwirner, Bettina Huang. Photo: Martyna Szczesna.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The art world is only just beginning to address the questions raised by the pandemic, such as: Are in-person art fairs a thing of the past and virtual viewing rooms the future? Will museums maintain no-touch ticketing and auction houses continue global online salesrooms? One mega-gallerist, David Zwirner, has decided to double down on what he took away from the last year: the need for a click-to-buy marketplace to sell original works of art. As a result, Zwirner has created Platform, a website that debuts Thursday and which each month will offer 100 works presented by about 12 independent galleries around the world with prices ranging from $2,500 to $50,000. We learned there is a real place in the art world for e-commerce, Zwirner said in a recent telephone interview. There is an audience out there we did not know existed. They dont go to galleries necessarily and they dont really go to art fairs. They look at things online. He ... More | | 
The artist Giraffe Leung in his studio in Hong Kong on May 18, 2021. Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times.
by Mike Ives
HONG KONG (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As tear gas and fiery street clashes swirled around her two years ago, Hong Kong painter Bouie Choi wondered how she would eventually render them on canvas. The answer, exhibited at a local gallery about a year later, was borrowed space_borrowed time, her suite of brooding, ethereal landscapes that evoked ancient Chinese scroll paintings and captured a city transformed by civil unrest. Specific visual references to the protests were subtly blended into layer upon layer of washed-out acrylic brush strokes. My previous landscape works were quite peaceful and distanced from what happened in reality; they were more surrealistic, Choi, 33, said in an interview. But this exhibition was quite different because the relationship between me and the city had changed. The antigovernment protests that rocked the financial hub in 2019 brought torrents of anonymous street art and political posters that lionized protesters ... More | | 
A 280-million-year-old fossil plant, a member of a lineage called cycadales. Cycadales, which exist today, have survived two mass extinctions. Spiekermann et al., Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2021 via The New York Times.
by Kenneth Chang
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Before the first mammals, before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, a plant grew in Gondwana, a huge continent in the Southern Hemisphere. Almost 280 million years later, in what is now Brazil, scientists have identified the fossil remains of that plant as an early member of a lineage called cycads, or cycadales, that continues to this day. The discovery expands scientific understanding of the resilience of these plants, which persisted through two mass extinctions. The vegetative anatomy of this plant is remarkably similar to the ones that live today, said Rafael Spiekermann, a graduate student at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Germany and the lead author of a paper describing the fossil in the journal Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. The preserved ... More |
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| Hindman's May Important Jewelry & Timepieces auctions realize over $2.6M & set new company ruby record | | Exhibition retraces over a century and a half of photography | | Exhibition of Louise Bourgeois's art and writings explores her complex relationship with Freudian psychoanalysis | 
An Important Burmese Ruby and Diamond Ring. Price Realized: $287,500.
CHICAGO, IL.- On May 17 and 18, Hindmans spring Timepieces and Fine and Important Jewelry auctions realized over $2.6 million and saw tremendous bidder engagement. Active and competitive bidding across all channels led to top prices and resulted in a strong 96 percent sell through rate for both auctions. Jewelry by designers such as Hemmerle, Tiffany & Co., Harry Winston, Tony Duquette, Evelyn Clothier, and Van Cleef & Arpels saw fantastic interest while watches by Patek Philippe, Rolex, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Audemars Piguet, and Cartier also saw strong results. The May 18 Fine and Important Jewelry auction was led by an important Burmese ruby and diamond ring (lot 53), which shattered its presale estimate of $30,000-50,000 to achieve $287,500, the highest price paid for a ruby at Hindman. Considered the King of Gems, the ring contains one oval mixed cut, unheated Classic Burma ruby, and two triangular ... More | | 
Paul Henrot, Staircase of the IRSID (Iron and Steel Research Institute) in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1953, negative, Don Marcelle Henrot, 1987, Paul Henrot / DR. Photo: © MAD Paris / Christophe Dellière.
PARIS.- The Musée des Arts Décoratifs unveiled, from their own collections, the exhibition Photo Stories, Collections from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs an assemblage of almost never-seen photographs from the worlds of fashion, architecture,landscapes, interior design and advertising. These works, dating from 1840 to the present day, were selected from the exceptional collection of over 350,000 photographs held by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Through 400 original prints and negatives, Photo Stories retraces over a century and a half of photography. The exhibition highlights works that have immortalized the genre, including those by renowned photographers such as Eugène Atget, Laure Albin Guillot, Dora Kallmus (known artistically as Madame dOra), Man Ray, Cecil Beaton, Robert Doisneau, Bettina Rheims and David Seidner. Photo Stories ... More | | 
Louise Bourgeois, Passage Dangereux (detail), 1997. Metal, wood, tapestry, rubber, marble, steel, glass, bronze, bones, flax, and mirrors. Private Collection, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY; Photo: Peter Bellamy.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum presents Louise Bourgeois, Freuds Daughter, an exhibition that explores Bourgeoiss complex and ambivalent relationship with Freudian psychoanalysis. Curated by Philip Larratt-Smith, the exhibition showcases a selection of Bourgeoiss psychoanalytic writings many of them presented to the public for the first time along with nearly 50 works from throughout her career, including the Personages of the late 1940s; the organic forms in plaster and latex of the 1960s; the pivotal installation The Destruction of the Father (1974); Passage Dangereux (1997), the largest of the artists Cell installations; and the fabric sculptures from the last 15 years of her life. The exhibition will be on view at the Jewish Museum from May 21 through September 12, 2021. ... More |
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| Christie's offers five digital works created by Andy Warhol in the mid-1980s | | Exhibition explores the pioneering aesthetics and lasting legacy of The Century Guild | | Gropius Bau opens major Yayoi Kusama retrospective with her most complex immersive exhibition to date | 
Andy Warhol (1928-1987). Untitled (Self-Portrait), non-fungible token (tif). Executed circa 1985 and minted in 2021. © The Andy Warhol Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced Andy Warhol: Machine Made, a ground-breaking sale of five digital works created by Andy Warhol in the mid-1980s and recovered from obsolete floppy disks in 2014. In a first for the nascent market for digital art and NFTs, these original works by the celebrated Pope of Pop Art which previously existed only as digital files have been brought to life again in the form of 1/1 NFTs (non-fungible tokens). They are being offered for sale individually by Christies on behalf of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, with all sale proceeds to benefit the non-profit philanthropic foundation established by Warhol. Christies will accept payment for the entire purchase price in Ether or USD, and the starting bid for each work is $10,000 USD. The online-only sale is now open for bidding and runs to May 27 on Christies website. Created in a paint program on Warhol ... More | | 
Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo, Fretwork chair (c.1882), 96.5 x 48.3 x 49.5 cm. Furniture, mahogany, leather and brass WMG purchase, 1966 © Paul Tucker for William Morris Gallery.
LONDON.- William Morris Gallery is presenting Within The Reach of All: The Century Guild, the first exhibition in 20 years to explore the pioneering aesthetics and lasting legacy of this influential association of artists, designers and craftspeople. The Century Guild was established by the architect and designer Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851 1942), who later helped found the William Morris Gallery, and his assistant, Herbert Percy Horne (1864 1916), in close collaboration with designer Selwyn Image (1849 1930). They aspired to elevate crafts to the status of art, integrate both art and crafts in domestic interiors, and democratise good design. Within The Reach of All: The Century Guild explores the groups key figures, along with its influence on Art Nouveau, 20th-century design and modern publishing, through the William Morris Gallerys ... More | | 
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Installation view, 2021, Gropius Bau Photo: Luca Girardini.
BERLIN.- The Gropius Bau opened Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, a major overview of world-renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b.1929), now open with her most complex immersive project to date. The installation A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe (2021) was realised by Kusama uniquely for the vast historic atrium of the Gropius Bau, which erupts in a sea of large-scale inflatable tentacles for the exhibitions duration. Kusamas first museum retrospective in Germany unfolds across almost 3000 m² and features nearly 300 works from the last 80 years. Subtitled A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe, the exhibition spans gouaches on paper, accumulative sculptures, happenings and fashion work, culminating in her recent paintings and a brand new Infinity Mirror Room. The immersive installation is being shown alongside a reconstruction of the artists first Infinity Mirror Room, presented ... More |
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| 20th century French design leads Phillips' New York auction | | Artists in a post-George Floyd, mid-pandemic world | | Arguably the finest post-war Bank of England note in the public domain to be sold at Dix Noonan Webb | 
François Pompon, "Ours blanc", conceived and executed 1923. Estimate: $180,000 - 220,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced highlights from the New York Design auction, taking place on 9 June. Featuring nearly 100 lots, the sale brings together rare and important works of 20th and 21st century design, appealing to collectors of all backgrounds. Highlights from the sale will be on view at Phillips Park Avenue galleries from 22-25 May, followed by the full sale exhibition in Southampton from 5-8 June. Cordelia Lembo, Head of Design, New York, said, As we host live auctions of Design across New York, Hong Kong, and London this June, we are proud to bring our international community such a breadth of material, spanning geography and taste. The New York sale brings 20th century French Design to the fore with works by Giacometti, Pompon, and Rateau leading the sale, but with American works figuring prominently, as well. Were delighted to offer a wonderful selection of ceramics in the sale, with some remarkable pieces by Doy ... More | | 
Installation view of the exhibition Close to You (MASS MoCA, 2021). Photo: Will McLaughlin.
by Aruna DSouza
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Two shows that recently opened at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art are keyed to our new normal: One came into being during the most restrictive moments of the pandemic; the other, though long planned, shifted its focus as these past, momentous months unfolded. Conceptually, both shows at the museum, known as Mass MoCA, address the questions personal and political on many minds at the moment. This exhibition is a balm after a year in which so many had to learn how to maintain connections with loved ones in new, unfamiliar ways. In the early months of the pandemic, Nolan Jimbo, a graduate student in art history at nearby Williams College, selected six artists of color, many of whom are queer, whose work reflects on bonds of kinship and family, and on ways that those bonds can be created and nurtured across distances of time and space. They are Laura ... More | | 
The Bank of England £5 note is housed in a blue leather presentation wallet dated 21 February 1957. Estimate: £18,000-22,000.
LONDON.- A £5 banknote with serial number A01 000003 that was originally presented to the recently elected Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, in 1957 is expected to fetch £18,000-22,000 at Dix Noonan Webb in their auction of British, Irish and World Banknotes on Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 10am at their Mayfair saleroom (16 Bolton Street, London W1J 8BQ). This is the first time that a serial number three note, for a new design, has ever been offered on the open market. The Bank of England £5 note is housed in a blue leather presentation wallet dated 21 February 1957, and shows Britannia at left, Saint George slaying the dragon at low centre, reverse blue, lion and key at centre. As Thomasina Smith, Head of Numismatics (Associate Director) at Dix Noonan Webb, explained: This important note is the lowest serial number note available to commerce and arguably the finest post-war Bank of England note in the public domain. Serial numbers one and t ... More |
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 De La Warr Pavilion hosts two major new projects by artist Holly HendryBEXHILL ON SEA.- The De La Warr Pavilion hosts two major new projects by artist Holly Hendry addressing subjects that include borders, edges, bodies and machines. Holly Hendrys Invertebrate is a giant composite form that worms its way around the outside of De La Warr Pavilion, stretching from the seafront lawn to the First floor balcony and the roof. Inside, an accompanying exhibition by Hendry titled Indifferent Deep shows the after-effects of the invertebrates actions. Almost 100 years ago, in 1923, the Pavilions architect Erich Mendelsohn spoke about machines and buildings as part of a network of organisms that continue to evolve according to human need. Altering in relation to their surroundings, living organisms grow, consume energy and decay: the Pavilions position on the coastline is vulnerable due to rising sea levels, and rough ... More  Independent Art Fair announces exhibitor listNEW YORK, NY.- Independent announced the participating galleries for the upcoming edition of the fair, taking place for the first time at Cipriani South Street in the historic Battery Maritime Building, New York, from September 9-12, 2021. The 2021 edition of Independent takes its inspiration from Independent Projects, a special edition of the fair at the former Dia Center for the Arts in 2014. Galleries have been invited to present specially commissioned, museum caliber presentations by leading artists that are both relevant and timely to our current moment. From a network of over 250 galleries assembled since its inception, 40 galleries and institutions have been nominated for the 2021 edition, with 11 galleries making their Independent debut (*). The exhibiting galleries are as follows: Adams and Ollman Alexandre Gallery* Nicelle Beauchene Gallery ... More  Never-before-seen drafts of children's classic on view at Ditchling Museum of Art + CraftDITCHLING.- A new exhibition opened at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft this Spring, to mark 50 years of revered illustrator John Vernon Lords life and work in Ditchling. Lord is one of Britain's most recognised and respected illustrators, owing both to his own practice, and his pioneering contribution to education across almost six decades. Lord has illustrated many classics of English literature including the work of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Aesops fables and James Joyce and is regarded as a pillar of the local arts community in Ditchling where he has lived since the 1970s. Also an author in his own right, Lord has written and illustrated a number of childrens books including The Giant Jam Sandwich (1972), which has since become a modern classic. Taking a Line for a Walk features over 100 extraordinary pen ... More  Stefanie Heinze opens an exhibition of new paintings and drawings at Pippy Houldsworth GalleryLONDON.- Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is presenting Stories of the Imaginary (self-portrait of two lemons), a solo exhibition of new paintings and drawings by German artist Stefanie Heinze. The exhibition, running from 13 May to 27 June, is the artist's second at the gallery. 'I travel through a painting process, erasing what I don't want to see in this world.' A playful and introspective body of work, Stories of the Imaginary (self-portrait of two lemons) blurs the boundaries between waking and dreaming. Through expressive arrangements, Heinze draws on recent experience of restricted movement and limited social interaction, using the surface of the canvas as a space for the imagination - a substitute for closeness and touch. Proposing an implausible notion (a self-portrait of two individuals), the artist explores dualities, reflections and doubling ... More  Exhibition transforms Villa Carmignac's galleries into an underwater natural history museumPORQUEROLLES ISLAND.- For its fourth season, the Villa Carmignac on the Mediterranean island of Porquerolles presents The Imaginary Sea (La Mer imaginaire). The exhibition takes place indoors, outdoors and underwater and transforms the galleries into an underwater natural history museum that immerses viewers in the space and questions the interactions between humans and the underwater world. This exhibition was conceived by LA-based curator Chris Sharp, the co-founder of the Lulu experimental art space that is now set to become a satellite of the X Museum in Beijing. For Sharp, The Imaginary Sea was inspired both by the aquarium effect of the Carmignac Villa's architecture its spaces submerged under the villas vast water ceiling and by iconic works from its collection, including Bruce Naumans fountain with a hundred bronze ... More  Actor and collector Julianne Moore previews Sotheby's May Design Auctions in New York and ParisNEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys May auctions of 20th and 21st Century Design, to be held in New York and Paris on 25 and 26 May respectively, will capture the artistic dialogue that unites the two cities, showcasing a superlative selection of Design from the top international masters of the 20th and 21st centuries, led by extraordinary works by the artists Isamu Noguchi and Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne. This season, the conversation will be further enriched by the contribution of Julianne Moore, who will draw on her personal passion for art and design as she selects her favorite pieces from the 350+ works on offer across the sales. Featuring works by Jean-Michel Frank, Alberto and Diego Giacometti, Pierre Jeanneret, Georges Jouve, Isamu Noguchi, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Royère and more, Juliannes chic selection provides a unique ... More  Eleven Surrealist women artists take centre stage for the first time since 1936LONDON.- On a hot summers day in 1936 a woman dressed in a bridal gown paraded around Trafalgar Square, London, her head entirely covered with red roses, in tribute to Salvador DalÃs painting, Woman with the Head of Roses (1935). The mystery woman, who puzzled passers-by and made newspaper headlines, was later revealed to be artist Sheila Legge (19111949), appearing that day as the phantom of Surrealism to launch the London International Surrealist Exhibition, held at the New Burlington Galleries in Mayfair. Whitechapel Gallerys new archive exhibition, Phantoms of Surrealism, brings together artworks, photographic scrapbooks, press cuttings and original correspondence from the London International Surrealist Exhibition (1936), including a new scale model. Coinciding with Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy, ... More  Exhibition of new paintings by Paulina Olowska opens at Simon Lee GalleryHONG KONG.- Simon Lee Gallery Hong Kong is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Paulina Olowska. Olowskas oeuvre has long been informed by her examination of the restrictive stereotypes that underpin representations of womanhood in the history of art. Seeking to depict femininity in all its guises, Olowskas visual language asserts and redefines the capacity of the female gaze in painting, encoding each work with symbols and narrative cues that embolden her subjects physical and psychological presence. For her second solo exhibition in Hong Kong, Olowska has created a body of works depicting muses and heroines in various scenarios at different times of the day and night. The title of the show alludes to John Berendts novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and the subsequent film adaptation. Drawing on the hoodoo ... More  'The Oath of a Freeman,' one of America's most notorious forgeries, comes to auction in JuneDALLAS, TX.- One of the most infamous forgeries in United States history heads to auction for the first time in June at Heritage Auctions. The Oath of a Freeman, a pledge of loyalty and duty demanded of all new members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, is said to be the oldest printed document in English North America, produced in Cambridge, Mass., around 1638 or 1639. But the only known copy of this diminutive broadsheet was made in 1985 by a master forger and convicted murderer who has spent the last 34 years in a Utah prison. That man is Mark Hofmann, subject of the 2021 Netflix true-crime mini-series Murder Among the Mormons. The Oath of a Freeman, says the documentary's co-director Tyler Measom, "is Hofmann's Mona Lisa. It's a remarkable forgery and, in and of itself, a piece of artwork." It was Hofmann who, in 1984, claimed to have ... More  Syracuse University Art Museum announces multifaceted gift from artists Luise and Morton KaishSYRACUSE, NY.- The Syracuse University Art Museum today announced a major gift from artists and Syracuse University alumni Luise '46, G'51 and Morton '49 Kaish. The gift establishes the Luise and Morton Kaish Gallery Endowed Fund and creates the Kaish Fellows program. The new Fellows program will provide funding to enable undergraduate students from every discipline to undertake original research on the permanent art collection and to work with Museum staff on exhibitions, scholarly publications, and public programming. The philanthropic gift to support undergraduate research at Syracuse University is unique as few programs such as this are available for undergraduate level students at peer academic museums. The Fellows program also continues the dedication of the University resources and staff to support research ... More  Aimée Goggins appointed Director of Marketing and Communications at BAMPFABERKELEY, CA.- The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive announced today the appointment of Aimée Goggins to lead the museums Marketing and Communications Department. Goggins brings to the museum more than two decades of experience as a successful marketing professional, most recently in her outgoing role as the Assistant Director of Marketing at University of California Press. Were thrilled to welcome Aimée Goggins to BAMPFAs senior leadership team, where she will be an indispensable partner in shaping the museums public engagement strategies and increasing our visibility among new and diverse audiences, said BAMPFA Director Julie Rodrigues Widholm. Aimée impressed us as a creative thinker with an audience-focused mindset and an outstanding track record of leading successful marketing campaigns ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Henri Rousseau was born May 21, 1844. Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 - September 2, 1910) was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time. In this image: Henri Rousseau, known as The Douanier Rousseau (1844 - 1910) Le Rêve [The Dream], 1910, oil on canvas, 204.5 x 298.5 cm New York, The Museum of Modern Art, gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 252.1954 © 2016. Digital image, The Museum of Modern Art, New York / Scala, Florence.
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