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The Age of Roe, an exhibition at Harvards Schlesinger Library for the History of Women, in Cambridge, Mass. on Oct. 28, 2022. At left, a pamphlet in support of abortion rights signed by prominent Black women and at right front, a button from Black Americans for Life. (Vanessa Leroy/The New York Times)
by Jennifer Schuessler
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- In the corner of a ground-floor gallery at Harvards Schlesinger Library for the History of Women sits a small plexiglass case, holding two cowboy hats. One was the signature headgear of Flo Kennedy, the firebrand feminist lawyer and activist. The other belonged to Mildred Jefferson, a onetime president of the National Right to Life Committee. One is brown suede, the other is white straw a color contrast that might seem to symbolize the stark polarities of the abortion debate. But The Age of Roe, a new exhibition here, aims to break down any simple understanding of how the Supreme Courts 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade has shaped America. The show, in the works since 2020, was originally going to be called Roe at 50. But then the Supreme Courts decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization in June struck down the constitutional right to abortion, and Roe was dead at 49. It was a weird time to be curating an exhibit ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience, a new exhibition created in partnership with the National Geographic Society, will soon bring the magic and mystery of Ancient Egypt to New York City. Beyond King Tut opened at Pier 36 for a limited run beginning Oct. 28, leading to the 100th anniversary of King Tutâs tomb discovery (Nov. 4, 1922).
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| Sotheby's to auction the only other first printing of U.S. Constitution remaining in private hands | | National Gallery of Art acquires works by Grit Kallin-Fischer, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and Rosalind Fox Solomon | | Vermeer show will include one recently disputed work | 
One of just 13 copies known to exist, The Adrian Van Sinderen Constitution is estimated to achieve $20/30 million in dedicated December live auction. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- 235 years ago, Americas Founding Fathers signed the United States Constitution at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, marking the formation of the countrys most significant and lasting documentas well as the longest continuing charter of government in the world. Today, Sothebys unveiled one of only two known copies of The Official Edition of the Constitution, the First Printing of the Final Text of the Constitution that are in private hands, which will come to auction for the first time in more than 125 years in a dedicated live sale in New York on 13 December. The announcement follows the historic November 2021 sale at Sothebys of the Goldman Constitution, the other privately owned copy of the official first printing of the Constitution, which sold for a milestone $43.2 million and established a new record for any book, manuscript, or printed text sold at auction. The present copy of the Constitution ha ... More | | 
Rosalind Fox Solomon, New York, 1987. Gelatin silver print. Image: 80.01 x 80.01 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Courtesy of Annie and Paul Mahon 2022.55.83
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has recently acquired a photograph by Grit Kallin-Fischer (18971973)an example of the pioneering contributions of women to the photographic innovation taking place in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. Untitled (Freddo Bortoluzzi as Angel) (c. 19281930) is the first work by Kallin-Fischer to enter the collection and depicts her friend, the artist Alfredo "Freddo" Bortoluzzi (19051995), who went on to become a dancer and choreographer. The two met as students at the Bauhaus, an experimental art school in Dessau. Kallin-Fischer was an established painter when she enrolled in the Bauhaus in 1926. She took courses with many noteworthy artists, including Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee. She also worked in László Moholy-Nagy's metal workshop alongside Marianne Brandt. Kallin-Fischer and Bortoluzzi both participated in Oskar Schlemmer's radical theater ... More | | 
A handout photo shows Girl With a Flute, which will be displayed at the Rijksmuseum as an authentic Vermeer. (Via National Gallery of Art, Washington via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam announced Tuesday that among the treasured works to be featured in its expansive exhibition on Johannes Vermeer next year would be a painting, Girl With a Flute, that has for years been embraced as one of the rare surviving works by a painter considered one of historys finest. But the inclusion has stirred up a bit of a debate because the museum that is loaning the work, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, announced last month that after long and careful scientific and artistic study, it had decided the painting was not, in truth, by Vermeer. Instead, its curators, conservators and scientists concluded that the work was most likely created by a studio associate of Vermeer a pupil or apprentice, even a member of his family, but not the great artist himself. It lacked the precision for which the 17th-century Dutch artist is famous, it said. The brushwork was awkward. ... More |
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| "Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience" now in New York City to commemorte Centennial | | Lawrie Shabibi now representing Timo Nasseri | | Monumental Cy Twombly "Bacchus" painting to lead Phillips' NY evening sale of 20th-Century & Contemporary Art | 
Kenneth Garrett. "Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience".
NEW YORK, NY.- For the 100th anniversary of King Tuts tomb discovery on November 4, 1922, Beyond King Tut brings the magic and mystery of Ancient Egypt to New York City. Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience, a new exhibition created in partnership with the National Geographic Society, opened October 28th at Pier 36 for a limited run. Bringing to life the storied archives of the National Geographic Society, the much-anticipated exhibition combines the power of cinematic storytelling and soaring imagery to invite visitors into the golden kings world like never before. The multi-gallery, multi-sensory exhibition whisks guests on a time-traveling adventure to Ancient Egypt. With nine galleries to explore, Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience unlocks the 3,300-year-old story of King Tut his rule as a child pharaoh, his family, the discovery of his tomb and the mysteries surrounding his early death, and his journey to ... More | | 
Timo Nasseri, Parsec #3, 2010.
DUBAI.- Lawrie Shabibi announced the representation of Berlin-based artist Timo Nasseri (b. 1972, Germany). His first solo at the gallery opens in March 2023. Nasseri explores themes such as geometry, mathematics, architecture, calligraphy, and most recently, camouflage. Combining Islamic and Western cultural heritages, his work is inspired as much by specific memories and religious references as by universal archetypes described by mathematics and language, and the inner truths of form and rhythm. His work uses the means of natural science to open up a perspective for the poetic and fantastic. Nasseri takes his inspiration from mathematics, geometry and patterns and underlines their interconnectedness in terms of repetition and aesthetics in his drawings and sculptures. His practice is one that tackles the subject of infinity and that aims to solve puzzles, whether they are historical mysteries or the explorations via mathematical the ... More | | 
Untitled, 2005, Cy Twombly. Estimate: $35,000,000 45,000,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 15 November, Phillips Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art in New York will be led by Cy Twomblys monumental Untitled, 2005. With exceptional provenance and estimated at $35-45 million, Untitled is a masterpiece from one of Twomblys last epic series that found its inception in his blackboards and crystallized in the three discrete suites of paintings collectively known as the Bacchus series. The Bacchus paintings began in 2003 amidst the US invasion of Iraq and culminated in 2008 when the artist donated three of the monumental works to the Tate Modern, London. The present work is the second-largest canvas from the 2005 series which were exhibited under the collective title Bacchus Psilax Mainomenos. Recalling the artists earlier Blackboard paintings from the late 1960s with its continuous looping forms, the Bacchus series revisits this earlier motif with a renewed vigor and energy ... More |
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| 'Fast furniture' is cheap, stylish and clogging American landfills | | "If Only These Walls Could Talk: An Exhibition of New Work" by Maryam Eisler at Alon Zakaim Fine Art | | Gagosian announces the representation of photographer Deana Lawson | 
Doug Greene at home in Philadelphia, Sept. 27, 2022. (Steve Legato/The New York Times)
by Debra Kamin
NEW YORK, NY.- Americans bought piles of furniture during the pandemic, with sales on desks, chairs and patio equipment jumping by more than $4 billion from 2019 to 2021, according to a market data company. And a lot of it wont survive the decade. Fast furniture, which is mass-produced and relatively inexpensive, is easy to obtain and then abandon. Like fast fashion, in which retailers such as Shein and Zara produce loads of cheap, trendy clothing thats made to be discarded after only a few wears, fast furniture is for those looking to hookup but not settle down. Its the one-season fling of furnishings. Many of the Ikea beds and Wayfair desks bought during the COVID-19 lockdown were designed to last about five years, said Deana McDonagh, a professor of ... More | | 
La Lionne, le Nord-Pinus, © Maryam Eisler.
LONDON.- Alon Zakaim Fine Art, 27 Cork Street, has begun the solo exhibition If Only These Walls Could Talk a new body of work from London-based Persian artist Maryam Eisler, shot at the fabled Hôtel Nord-Pinus in Arles. It began on November 2nd, and will continue to the 24th of this month. Photographed at the legendary hostelry amid the ghostly presence of Picasso, Cocteau, Callas, Chaplin, Hemingway, and Van Gogh, Eislers work explores the masculine and feminine tensions that the city has seen and lived over centuries. During her stay at the hotel in 2021 between lockdowns, Eisler was drawn in particular to Suite 10 - the location of Helmut Newtons iconic 1973 Vogue shoot with Charlotte Rampling. Not in replication or imitation, but rather to explore and to expand on the subject of La Femme in the Now. Eisler continues in her new series to pursue definitions of the various ... More | | 
© Deana Lawson. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian announced the representation of Deana Lawson in New York, Europe, and Asia. To inaugurate the relationship, the gallery will exhibit her photographs in a joint presentation with Sally Mann at Paris Photo, from November 10 to 13, 2022. A major survey of Lawsons work is currently on view at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. A leading photo-based artist of her generation, Lawson is renowned for images that explore how communities and individuals hold space within shifting terrains of social, capital, and ecological orders. Lawson projects her own contemporary Black experience onto an expanded view of human history and cosmologies. Her gaze is both local and global, focusing on Brooklyn, the Americas, and countries connected to the African diaspora. Lawson uses an expansive range of photographic technologies and practices, including large-, medium-format, ... More |
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| The voyeur in repose | | Hawai'i artist Noah Harders transforms found materials into fantasy | | Year-long Wren300 celebration announced | 
Photographer Steven Klein in his stable at home in Bridgehampton, N.Y., on Oct. 23, 2022. (Victor Llorente/The New York Times)
by Jacob Bernstein
NEW YORK, NY.- A few weeks ago, on a quiet street in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, a woman raced out of a church to tell the people taking photographs outside that what they were doing was not OK. Im going to call the diocese, she said. We have active parishioners in this community that would be very, very upset if they ever saw this in a magazine. One could understand her concern. The male model standing in front of a statue that depicted the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary was not exactly pledging fealty to it. He was decked in Balenciaga black, his hair was dyed peroxide blond, and the black makeup around his eyes and white pancaked around the rest of his face was starting to drip in the late-day sun. The look was punk-rock ghoul, and the magazine for which it was being shot was The Face. The photographer ... More | | 
Noah Harders (Hawaii, b. 1994). Modern Warrior, 2022. Koa Leaves (Acacia koa). Courtesy of the artist (photo by Noah Harders).
HONOLULU.- This fall, the Honolulu Museum of Art presents Noah Harders: Moemoeā, meaning to dream or fantasy in Hawaiian. Based on Maui, the Native Hawaiian artist creates wearable art made of found organic and manmade materials, and his debut museum exhibition will be on view Nov. 3, 2022July 27, 2023. As the title of the exhibition suggests, the artist draws inspiration from his love of nature, reimagined through fantasy. Moemoeā embodies Harders approach to his practice of constructing and photographing masks and wearable garments made from discarded natural and manmade materials, such as flowers, molted crustacean shells, fish bones and beach glass. He has recently garnered acclaim as an emerging artist with provocative photographic self-portraits in which he dons these unique masks and headdresses. Each one shot in his home studio, the photographs draw ... More | | 
Christopher Wren by Godfrey Kneller, 1711.
LONDON.- 2023 marks three hundred years since the death of Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) - mathematician, astronomer, physicist, anatomist and one of the United Kingdoms greatest architects. Wren was given responsibility for rebuilding 51 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including what is regarded as his masterpiece, St Pauls Cathedral, where today he is buried under a gravestone with the Latin inscription which in part translates: 'If you seek his memorial, look about you.' From centres of learning in Greenwich, Oxford and Cambridge, churches and palaces fit for a king, Wrens influence spans the centuries. His tercentenary will be marked in the Square Mile Churches by a year-long education and conservation programme for children and adults which has been awarded a £241,000 grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Throughout 2023, Wrens remaining churches in The City will host a variety of school and community initiatives, marking the ... More |
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 How her ancestors reignited her return to theaterNEW YORK, NY.- In 2018, playwright Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes announced that she would be taking a pause from the theater. The art form she loved so much had become a source of heartbreak: She was tired of the industrys lack of cultural diversity, the disinterest those in power had in changing the status quo and the anxiety she felt leading up to opening night (the unexpected hiccups, the uncertainty of how a work would be received by critics and audience members). When it came to producing works by playwrights of color, she began to feel as if her Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Water by the Spoonful, about a Puerto Rican war veteran recently returned from Iraq, and In the Heights, her Tony-winning musical with Lin-Manuel Miranda, were exceptions more often than the rule. During the 2018-2019 season, for example, only three writers of color had their work produced on ... More  Day of the Dead in high styleMEXICO CITY.- The formula was familiar. It included invitations from Vogue, a carpet filled with celebrities, fashion designers and models dressed to the nines, and even a theme. Last Thursday night, these elements came together not on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, but at a museum in Mexicos capital city, where Vogue Mexico held its third gala celebrating DÃa de Muertos. One of the countrys most important holidays, Day of the Dead, as it is also known, has arguably become one of its most commercial, too. Absent from this gala was Anna Wintour, the top editor at Vogue in the United States and the global chief content officer at the publications parent company, Condé Nast. Instead, presiding over the event were Karla MartÃnez de Salas, Vogue Mexicos head editor, and Javier Esteban Carrascón, the chief executive and general director of Condé Nast Mexico ... More  Review: 'The Year of Magical Thinking' gets Joan Didion's intention just rightNEW YORK, NY.- The timeline of loss was mercilessly fast. On Dec. 30, 2003, Joan Didions husband, John Gregory Dunne, died mid-conversation at the dinner table in their apartment on Manhattans Upper East Side. In late August 2005, their grown-up only child, Quintana, died, less suddenly. Even mid-devastation, Didion did what writers do: observe and chronicle. First came her crystalline memoir of grief for Dunne, The Year of Magical Thinking, a bestseller when it was published in October 2005, only weeks after their long-ailing daughters death. Blue Nights, Didions memoir of mourning Quintana, was that books counterpart, released in 2011. In between, with a rapidity thats startling, Didions stage adaptation of The Year of Magical Thinking arrived on Broadway, in March 2007. A monologue directed by David Hare and produced by Scott Rudin, among others, ... More  Aspen Art Museum presents "Jeffrey Gibson: The Spirits are Laughing"ASPEN, COLO.- The Aspen Art Museum presents Jeffrey Gibson: THE SPIRITS ARE LAUGHING, a major exhibition of new work by the artist whose practice mixes Indigenous aesthetic histories with the visual language of Modernism to explore culture, history, and identity. Opening November 4, 2022, and on view through fall 2023, Jeffrey Gibson: THE SPIRITS ARE LAUGHING will span the museums galleries and rooftop. On the Aspen Art Museum rooftop, the artist presents an assemblage of anthropomorphized sculptural heads that incorporate stones, fossils, and other natural materials, representing the passage of geologic and natural time. These are shown in dialogue with a grouping of Gibsons signature bright flags, each with a different pattern, text, lyric ... More  Page & Turnbull announce strategic promotions and expanded experienced teamSAN FRANCISCO.- The award-winning architecture, planning, and historic preservation firm Page & Turnbull is building on its prominent success nationwide and in Californias largest markets with the elevation of senior-level personnel and newly added team members. On the heels of the firms opening of its fourth office, in San Jose, the promotions include director-level appointments for regional offices and specialized studios. Among those, Page & Turnbull is adding new team members to its notable Cultural Resources Planning Studio. In the advancement of the firms senior team, architect James McLane, AIA, joins the company as director of technology, with top-level experience in a wide range of complex projects in California and internationally. As well, a senior expert in preservation technology, Lex F. Campbell, comes to Page & Turnbull ... More  "Mike Tyson: Photographs by Lori Grinker" exhibition opens at CLAMP art galleryNEW YORK, NY.- Yesterday, CLAMP began Mike Tyson, an exhibition of photographs by Lori Grinker. The exhibition coincides with the release of Grinkers monograph titled Mike Tyson (powerHouse Books, New York: 2022) $49.95 + shipping. The exhibition will continue through January 7, 2023. Grinker first met Mike Tyson in the early 1980s, when he was 13 years old training with legendary manager Cus Damato in Catskill, New York. Initially photographing Damato and his young fighters, including Tyson, for a term assignment at Parsons, Grinker continued to work with the young prodigy, and their photographic relationship continued to flourish as Tysons star rose. Eventually, Grinker was traveling the globe with Tyson as he racked up championships, rubbing elbows with celebrities like Madonna, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Jesse Jackson, and Donald Trump, ... More  Sakshi Gallery presents "Desi Boys" by Soham Gupta COLABA, MUMBAI.- On November 4th, 2022, the exhibition Desi Boys will be on view at the Sakshi Gallery. Soham Gupta was one of the participating artists in the 58th Venice Biennale curated by Ralph Rugoff in 2019. In 2018, Soham was selected by The British Journal of Photography as one of sixteen emerging photographers. His book, Angst published by Akina Books was shortlisted for the Les Prix du Livre: Photo and Text Book Award at Les Rencontres d'Arles and the Paris Photo - Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award. Based in Calcutta, Soham Guptas work constantly moves between the realm of documentary photography, art and the written word. 'Desi Boys' an exhibition of photographs will be on view till 2 December 2022 at Sakshi Gallery. The series, Desi Boys is about the unique phenomenon of sartorial choices and grassroots hip-hop ... More  Parco Arte Vivente announces the opening of "Regina José Galindo: Tierra" TORINO, ITALY.- As part of Artissima, on Friday November 4th 2022, the PAV is announcing the opening of Tierra, the solo exhibition of the artist Regina José Galindo, a Guatemalan artist who, for over twenty years, has been investigating the subject of social justice through the lens of performative practices whose expressive focal point is the relationship between the body and the environment. The exhibition, curated by Marco Scotini, follows on from those by the Indian artist, Navjot Altaf, and the Indonesian artist Arahmaiani in the investigation of the specific relationships that exist between environmental exploitation and oppressed peoples, women and minorities, decentralising the gaze as it goes beyond the geographical and cultural boundaries of the so-called West. The exhibition curated by Marco Scotini covers Galindos twenty year long career ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Guido Reni was born November 04, 1575. Guido Reni (4 November 1575 - 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style. He painted primarily religious works, as well as mythological and allegorical subjects. Active in Rome, Naples, and his native Bologna, he became the dominant figure in the Bolognese School, and his eclectic classicism was widely influential.
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