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Fumei Chōja and the nine-tailed spirit fox. Fumei Chōja appears as a character in kabuki and bunraku plays which also feature the shape-shifting nine-tailed fox and its adventures in India, China and Japan.
LONDON (AFP).- Over 100 newly-rediscovered drawings by Japanese artist Hokusai have been acquired by the British Museum. Created in 1829 as illustrations for an unpublished book, they came to light in 2019 and have now been purchased by the Museum. The acquisition was made possible thanks to a grant from Art Fund. The existence of these exquisite small drawings 103 in total had been forgotten for the past 70 years. Formerly owned by the collector and Art Nouveau jeweller Henri Vever (1854-1842), they resurfaced in Paris last year, the same city where they were last publicly recorded: at an auction in 1948. The drawings which were made for a book called Great Picture Book of Everything are thought to have been in a private collection in France in the intervening years and unknown to the wider world. The drawings are a major discovery of Hokusais life and works. They are especially significant as they come fro ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Hampton's Virtual Art Fair hosted by Christofle, opened featuring 90 international galleries, and 105 booth displays from 11 countries around the world and 30 cities across the US. Over 2,000 pieces of artwork are being displayed in the virtual reality booths in 2D and 3D, and available for purchase on the website directly from the galleries.
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 | | Kehinde Wiley on protests' results: 'I'm not impressed yet' | | Christie's offers Jackson Pollock's "Red Composition" in October evening sale | | First you clean the dinosaur's teeth. Then you open the museum. | 
Artist Kehinde Wiley at his studio in Dakar, Senegal, Aug. 27, 2020. Abdoulaye N'dao/The New York Times.
by Dionne Searcey
NEW YORK, NY (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When COVID-19 started spreading across the globe in late winter and some nations began sealing their borders, American artist Kehinde Wiley was abroad and quickly had to decide where he wanted to ride out the coming viral storm. He chose Dakar, Senegal, site of his spacious, magnificently windswept Black Rock studio complex on the sea. For the past year, the West African studio has been home to a revolving cast of painters, photographers, authors and others who were selected in Wileys first round of his residency program, designed to offer artists the time and space to pursue their craft. Watching from across the Atlantic as America roils, deaths from the coronavirus mount, protests swell over police killings and Confederate statues fall has felt like a bit of a freak show, Wiley said. The 43-year-old artist, whose father is Nigerian and mother is African American, is best known for his portrait of President Barack Obama. His timely Rumors of War statue of ... More | | 
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Red Composition (detail) signed 'Jackson Pollock' (lower right); signed again and dated 'Pollock 46' (on the reverse) oil on Masonite, 19 ¼ x 23 ¼ in. (48.9 x 59.1 cm.) Painted in 1946. Estimate: $12-18 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will offer Jackson Pollocks Red Composition as a highlight of its newly-announced Evening Sale of 20th and 21st Century Art on October 6, 2020. Estimated at $12-18 million, Red Composition is an important early work by the celebrated American artist whose drip painting technique would come to revolutionize 20th Century art. Painted directly after his seminal Sounds in Grass series, this intricate and multi-faceted work stands among the first paintings in which Pollock freed paint from the interference of his brush, allowing it to take on its own form and in the process become a manifestation of true abstraction. Barrett White, Christies Executive Deputy Chairman comments, Christies is thrilled to be entrusted with the sale of this early and seminal painting Red Composition from the collection of the Everson Museum. The last painting the artist completed in 1946, Red Composition is an exceedin ... More | | 
The T. Rex is cleaned at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Aug, 27, 2020. Amy Lombard/The New York Times.
by Melena Ryzik
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Dont expect to put your arm around Teddy Roosevelt for a selfie. Or poke a finger in a moon crater, or scrape the mighty jaw of a T. rex. When the American Museum of Natural History reopens on Sept. 9, it will like all cultural institutions that have been retrofitted for the COVID era look and feel a little different. The sculpture of Roosevelt, seated on a bench just inside a lower entryway and formerly a popular spot for photos, has been cordoned off with stanchions. Ditto the model of the moon in the Rose Center for Earth and Space, where once you could stand and learn your lunar weight. Touch screens are off, and so are the films at the Hayden Planetarium. The hall of meteorites will stay unexplored, and the small theater tucked underneath the long, long tail of the Titanosaur will remain empty. Under the behemoths outstretched neck last week, a museum staff member was testing an army of automatic hand sanitizer machines. ... More |
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| | Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center now on display | | Hindman's fall fine art auctions to feature significant works by Calder, Warhol and Moore | | Washington mayor moves to quell anger over statue proposals | 
Thaddeus Mosley (Karma): Three monumental freestanding sculptural editions, all specifically fabricated for Frieze Sculpture, entitled Illusory Progression, True to Myth, and Rhizogenic Rhythms have been sited on 5th Avenue in front of the Channel Gardens.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rockefeller Center has been transformed into a free public sculpture park for the second iteration of Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center, a large-scale public art installation - presented by Frieze New York and Tishman Speyer - featuring site-specific works from leading international artists Ghada Amer, Beatriz Cortez, Andy Goldsworthy, Lena Henke, Camille Henrot, and Thaddeus Mosley. Usually held in the spring as part of the wider programming of Frieze New York, Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center was postponed and readapted this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This iteration is inspired by the sites and the citys natural materials of earth, rock, and plants, and by the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the original date when Frieze Sculpture at ... More | | 
Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976), Triple Cross, 1947. Sheet metal, wire and paint, 31 1/2 x 37 x 11 3/4 inches. Estimate: $600,000 - $800,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman will offer over 500 works of art across four separate auctions. The three days of Fine Art sales kick-off on Wednesday, September 30th with American and European Art, followed by Post War and Contemporary Art and American and European Art Online taking place on Thursday, October 1, and ending with Prints and Multiples on October 2nd. The upcoming fall sales follow a spectacular spring auction season that, despite the economic climate, soared past presale estimates and continued the departments record setting trend. Exciting collections and premier works will be offered over the course of the three days, including important works by blue-chip artists such as Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Pablo Picasso. One of the finest collections Hindman is proud to present this fall, is the estate of Joan Conway Crancer, the beloved St. Louis art collector. Born ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on July 21, 2007, the Washington Monument as shown from the steps of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. Saul LOEB / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- The mayor of US capital Washington on Wednesday asked a committee studying the fate of its monuments to figures linked to slavery and racism to focus on "contextualizing, not removing" federal memorials, after the White House slammed its recommendations as "ludicrous." The "DC Faces" group had recommended that seven monuments, including the Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial and a statue of Christopher Columbus, should be "removed, renamed or contextualized." It also wants a change in the names of some 50 city schools and parks named after controversial historical figures who "encouraged the oppression of African Americans and other communities of color or contributed to our long history of systemic racism." The committee was established during a nationwide debate over what to do with controversial ... More |
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| | Phillips announces highlights ahead of the London Photographs Sale | | Arab artists boycott UAE after Israel deal | | MFA Boston appoints Rosa Rodriguez-Williams as Senior Director of Belonging & Inclusion | 
Ruud van Empel, World #1, 2005. Dye destruction print, face-mounted and mounted. 150 x 105.5 cm. Estimate £30,000-50,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips announced highlights ahead of the upcoming London Photographs auction. Comprising 173 lots, the sale offers classic 20th century photographs by Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Helmut Newton alongside this edition of ULTIMATE with exclusive works by Herb Ritts, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Zanele Muholi. Artists debuting at Phillips this season include Jan Banning and Ayana V. Jackson. This sale will take place at 2pm BST on Friday 25 September at 30 Berkeley Square, London. Yuka Yamaji, Head of Photographs, Europe, said, We are thrilled to present the 12th edition of ULTIMATE this autumn with an exciting selection of fresh-to-market works, ranging from 1970s Japanese photographs by Issei Suda and Ishiuchi Miyako to our cover lot, Zodwa, 2014, by Zanele Muholi, whom we are featuring ahead of the visual activists first major UK survey which is set to open at Tate Modern ... More | | 
An Emirati man wearing a face mask against the Covid-19 coronavirus stands at the Sharjah Art Museum on August 24, 2020 in the United Arab Emirates. Karim SAHIB / AFP.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- The United Arab Emirates' move to pursue normalisation with Israel has prompted a backlash from Arab artists and intellectuals, who are boycotting Emirati-backed cultural awards and events to support the Palestinian cause. "I announce that I am withdrawing from your exhibition," Palestinian photographer Mohamed Badarne wrote to the Sharjah Art Foundation, based in one of the seven emirates that make up the UAE. "As a people under occupation, we must take a stand against anything to do with reconciliation with the (Israeli) occupier," Berlin-based Badarne told AFP. The UAE agreed last month to establish full diplomatic ties with Israel in a US-brokered deal, making it the first Gulf state and only the third Arab country to do so. The agreement was denounced by Palestinians as "a stab in the back", and sparked widespread protests. Many ... More | | 
Rosa Rodriguez-Williams, the MFAs new Senior Director of Belonging and Inclusion.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has announced that Rosa Rodriguez-Williams has been appointed as the MFAs first-ever Senior Director of Belonging and Inclusion. The newly established position will play a critical role in delivering on the MFAs promise to be a Museum for all of Boston. In her role, Rodriguez-Williams will empower others within the MFA to prioritize inclusion as a key practice in their own work, creating an internal culture that places a priority on visitor experience. She will begin at the Museum on September 9 and will report to Makeeba McCreary, Patti and Jonathan Kraft Chief of Learning and Community Engagement. "Rosas deep experience and passion for equity and inclusion will be invaluable as we continue our important work in ensuring a true sense of belonging at the MFA, said Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director. She will be integral in reimagining how we welcome and engage h ... More |
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| | Cape Ann Museum Green campus taking shape with landscaping, solar panels, and final touches | | Miller & Miller Auctions will hold a music machines, coin-op and advertising auction | | Historic fine arts museum at New York University will temporarily convert to study center | 
This pivotal Museum initiative has been in development since 2017. Photo: Steve Rosenthal 2020.
GLOUCESTER, MASS.- Preparations for Cape Ann Museum Green, the Museums new campus off Grant Circle and Route 128 in Gloucester, have continued over the summer with further grass and new trees planted as part of an overall landscape design that will aesthetically combine three historic buildings on the property with a new contemporary archival collections storage and public exhibition space called the Janet & William Ellery James Center. The campus plans to open to the public by Sept. 17. Designed to dramatically expand the Museums community, contemporary art and educational offerings, the almost four-acre campus is home to the three historic structures, the White Ellery House (1710), an adjacent Barn (c. 1740), and the Babson-Alling House (c.1740), all located on the site at the intersection of Washington and Poplar Streets in Gloucester. The new 12,000-square foot James Center ... More | | 
Shell Tokheim 300 double gas pump, a beacon of prosperity from the golden age of the motorist, 58 inches tall by 34 inches wide, great man cave item (est. CA$8,000-$10,000).
NEW HAMBURG, ON.- An online-only auction dedicated in large part to music machines, coin-ops and advertising featuring the outstanding lifetime collections of Ken Vinen and Jack Winkler will be held on Saturday, September 19th by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd., based in New Hamburg, Ontario. The 632-lot auction will start promptly at 9 am Eastern time. Other categories include signs, petroliana (gas station collectibles), automobilia, breweriana, historical objects, general store and toys. Many of the items are Canadian in origin. Internet bidding will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com and the Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. website (www.MillerandMillerAuctions.com). Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. A few expected top lots include an early 1900s Seeburg Style G orchestrion, a coin-operated mechanical masterpiece (est. ... More | | 
Grey Art Gallery at NYU will remain closed until fall 2021, serving as a study center for University students in the interim.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Grey Art Gallery at New York University, which has been closed to the public since March 14, 2020, in accordance with NYUs plan to limit the spread of COVID-19, will remain closed until fall of 2021. The exhibition Taking Shape: Abstraction in the Arab World, 1950s1980s, which opened January 9, 2020, and was on view when the museum closed, will not reopen to the public. Rather, this fall, the upper level of the Grey Art Gallery will be transformed into a temporary study center for NYU students. Fortuitously, the Grey had previously decided to cancel all exhibitions for the 202021 academic year in order to implement infrastructure updates. This is not the first time that this corner of the Silver Center for Arts and Science at NYU has functioned as study hall and art institution. From 1927 to 1943, the space housed both NYUs South Study Hall and A. E. Gallatins Gallery (later Museum) of Livin ... More |
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 Dubuque Museum of Art appoints new Executive DirectorDUBUQUE, IA .- Julie Steffen, President of the Board of Trustees at the Dubuque Museum of Art, announced today that Gary Stoppelman has been named the Museums Executive Director following an extensive search. Stoppelman succeeds David Schmitz who took the Administrator position with the Iowa Arts Council. Julie Steffen served as interim-Executive Director during the transition. Gary Stoppelman is an experienced museum leader recognized for increasing and diversifying engagement and support of the arts. Over a 25-year career, Stoppelman has led teams through periods of strategic change and transformative growth at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. Recently, as the Deputy Director for Marketing and External Affairs at Newfields, ... More James Cohan now represents Gauri GillNEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan announced its representation of Delhi-based artist Gauri Gill. Concurrently, the gallery shared an online viewing room with a selection of works spanning several photographic series. For nearly two decades, Gauri Gill has investigated the interplay between obscurity and power through her images of daily life in rural India. Initially trained in painting and applied arts in New Delhi, Gill shifted her focus in the early-1990s to study photography in the United States. Since then, Gill has established herself as a force in the photography field, shaping a new image of life in India. Her photographs unearth acts of resilience by honoring her subjects in vernacular moments and moving the spotlight away from the medias one-dimensional portrayal of oppression, the struggle for education, healthcare and land issues ... More Saatchi Gallery is back, with London Grads Now.LONDON.- Saatchi Gallery announced it reopened to the public on Thursday September 3rd, 2020 with London Grads Now.. This thought-provoking exhibition showcases works by graduating students from Londons leading fine art schools including; Royal College of Art, UCL: Slade School of Art, Goldsmiths: University of London, UAL: Chelsea College of Arts, UAL: Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL: Camberwell College of Arts and UAL: Central Saint Martins. Following the unprecedented cancellation of graduation shows across London due to COVID-19 restrictions, Saatchi Gallery with the generous support of Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, invited students and lecturers to organise an exhibition that would enable graduating students to showcase their works safely within international-quality gallery spaces. Through an incredibly collaborative effort London ... More Bowl by rising star potter expected to deliver a handsome return on investmentSTANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- A vendor who bought a piece of studio pottery simply because she liked it is expected to receive a handsome return on her investment when the piece comes to auction in October. The 18cm high hand-built black and white stepped rim bowl by John Ward (b.1939), bought two decades ago for £595, has a guide of £8000-12,000 at Sworders on October 13. The vendor is a friend of dealer Ian Courcoux whose gallery Courcoux & Courcoux Contemporary Art in the picturesque village of Nether Wallop in Hampshire represented then rising star potter John Ward. In April 2001, having been hankering after one of his black and white a pots for sometime, they finally purchased one. It retains its original receipt for £595. In the intervening years the market for contemporary British ceramics, often referred to as studio pottery ... More Freeman's welcomes new Head of Trusts & Estates and Collections, Kimberly MillerPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans announced Kim Miller as its new head of the Trust & Estates and Collections Departments. Kim will be the central contact for those seeking assistance with the valuation and disposition of art and collectibles. Fiduciaries, family offices, law firms, executors, beneficiaries, corporate curators, private collectors, and others will benefit from her insight. Kim has fifteen years of experience in the museum and auction industry. For the last decade, she has served as a specialist in 20th-Century Design at auction houses in New York and London. Kim is passionate about assisting both novice and seasoned collectors in the buying and selling of art. She has extensive experience in devising sales strategy and marketing plans for multi and single-category collections. The Freemans team invites you to contact Kim at ... More Exhibition at BorzoGallery brings together works by Jaap Wagemaker and Jan SchoonhovenAMSTERDAM.- In 1959 Hans Sonnenberg organized the ZERO exhibition in the Rotterdamse Kunstkring, with work by Manzoni, Van Bohemen, Tajiri, Wagemaker and Schoonhoven among others. A year before this, Hans Sonnenberg, who went on to become a legendary gallery owner and art promoter, had brought Piero Manzoni to the Netherlands and shown his work in Rotterdam. He had exhibited Jaap Wagemaker earlier, and in any case at that time Wagemaker was already a well-known international artist. The same could not yet be said for Jan Schoonhoven, who was then still part of the Informele Groep, together with affiliated artists Kees van Bohemen, Armando, Jan Henderikse and Henk Peeters. Sonnenberg had to drop the title ZERO at the request of the Dusseldorf artists Mack, Piene and Uecker, who had actually claimed ZERO for their group ... More Major collections highlight September numismatic events at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- Special collections from legendary collectors will set the gold standard in Heritage Auctions Dallas numismatic events spanning U.S. Coins, World & Ancient Coins and Paper Money and U.S. Currency Sept. 16-22 in Dallas. Finest-known specimens from the highly esteemed James Dines "Original Goldbug" Collection to the first offering of the momentous U.S. Coin collection amassed by the legendary Bob. R. Simpson are just two of the private collections driving the three-day event, beginning Sept. 17. We are honored to be entrusted with these collections from some of the most important collectors in our hobby, said James Halperin, Co-founder of Heritage Auctions. Its no exaggeration to say this sale is truly a once in a lifetime opportunity for numismatists around the world. Included in the first event, which begins at ... More Everard Read London opens a major exhibition of sculptures and new paintings by Deborah BellLONDON.- Everard Read London is presenting Sentinels (2020), a major exhibition of monumental sculptures and more than 30 new paintings, created over the past two years by Deborah Bell, one of South Africas most eminent and critically acclaimed artists. At the heart of the exhibition are eight towering, 2.5-metre-high sculptures, Sentinels (2020). Cast in bronze, their origins trace back to the series of nine sentinels the artist made in 2003. Those sentinels drew some of their inspiration from the columnar figures and statuary which Bell was looking at during this period; they became like guardians, observers occupying a place of stillness and reflection. Created using techniques evolved by Bell, these commanding figures became part of a journey of discovery for the artist, she explains; In 2003 at a time when I found myself between ... More The utopian world of Belgian artist Ben Sledsens at Tim Van Laere GalleryANTWERP.- From 3 September to 10 October, Tim Van Laere Gallery presents Morning Moon, the third solo exhibition of the Belgian artist Ben Sledsens (°1991, lives and works in Antwerp). In recent years Ben Sledsens has made a blitz career in the visual arts. The young Antwerp artist was picked up by Tim Van Laere Gallery during his studies at the Royal Academy and received his first solo exhibition with the gallery in 2016. Since then, he has been embraced by the international art world. Sledsens is known for his large-scale canvases in which he transforms daily life, literary figures, animal portraits and elements from (art) history into his own personal utopia. Sledsens continually reuses motifs, themes, objects and poses from his works. In this way he creates an intriguing puzzle of references and continues to build on his recognisable, ... More Haus der Kulturen der Welt exhibits 'Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne'BERLIN.- Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne - the Original, curated by Roberto Ohrt and Axel Heil in collaboration with the Warburg Institute, is on view at HKW from September 4 November 30, 2020. The accompanying exhibition at the Gemäldegalerie Between Cosmos and Pathos. Berlin Works from Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas runs from August 8 November 1, 2020. In parallel, HKW shows Errata, with work by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, New Red Order and others. In the 1920s, the scholar of art and culture Aby Warburg (1866-1929) created his Bilderatlas Mnemosyne tracing recurring visual themes, gestures and patterns across time, from antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond to contemporary culture. At HKW all 63 panels of the Atlas will be reconstituted for the first time from Warburgs original, multi-colored images. Parallel to the exhibition at ... More Spanish director Almodovar to make westernVENICE (AFP).- We have had spaghetti westerns, now the world must brace itself for an Almodovar paella western. Legendary Spanish director Pedro Almodovar said Thursday that he is working on a western, a surprising career turn for the master of female-friendly melodrama who made his name with "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown". The Oscar winner told reporters at the Venice film festival that he has written the cowboy flick, but that it was "a different kind of western, which will be very colourful... very theatrical." Spaghetti westerns made by Italian directors like the late Sergio Leone became a phenomenon in the 1960s, with many shot in Spain's dry southeastern Almeria region. Almodovar premiered his latest film, "The Human Voice" at Venice Thursday, with British actress Tilda Swinton in the lead as a desperate and vengeful ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German artist Oskar Schlemmer was born September 04, 1888. Oskar Schlemmer (4 September 1888 - 13 April 1943) was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923, he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working at the workshop of sculpture. His most famous work is Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet), which saw costumed actors transformed into geometrical representations of the human body in what he described as a "party of form and colour". In this image: Costumes from Schlemmer's Triadisches Ballett (1922).
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