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Henrietta Gates & Heaton Robertson. Image Courtesy of the Cape Ann Museum.
GLOUCESTER, MASS.- Just four months after publicly launching its CAM-150 capital campaign with $18 million raised, the Cape Ann Museum recently announced a new gift, one that will result in its first named staff position as an institution. This transformative gift is a result of the generosity of Henrietta Gates and Heaton Robertson. Henrietta, the Museums Chair of the Board of Trustees, and Heaton are keen to see the proceeds of their gift be used to endow the Chief Curator's position, a leadership role currently held by Martha Oaks. As Henrietta said, We are inspired to recognize the excellent work that Martha Oaks has done and continues to do for the Museum and ensure that CAM will be able to attract and retain top talent for this critical role in the future. Marthas commitment to the Muse ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day At Roland Auctions NY December 14th auction - 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner Convertible. Near mint. Approx. 57,000 miles. Est. $15-20,000.
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| Book review: Day Jobs, edited by Veronica Roberts | | Mark Dion takes a critical look at children's toys | | Museum in Bonn showcases comprehensive Bruno Goller retrospective |
Day Jobs. Hardcover, 8.75 x 11.6 inches. 340 pages / 188 images ISBN: 9798890180834
AUSTIN, TX.- In a world that often valorizes the myth of the solitary artist toiling away in a secluded studio, Day Jobs offers a refreshingly nuanced perspective on what it means to make art while navigating the pressures of everyday employment. Edited by Veronica Roberts and featuring a foreword by renowned art critic Lucy R. Lippard, this richly illustrated and thoughtfully assembled volume examines the less-visible aspects of creative production: the jobs that pay the bills, the mundane routines that keep the lights on, and the delicate balancing act that so many artists maintain. Co-published with the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Day Jobs challenges traditional narratives of artistic success and redefines our understanding of what it means to sustain a creative practice. The books central premise revolves around a pressing question: ... More | |
Mark Dion in the exhibition, Mark Dion: Delirious Toys © Stadtmuseum Berlin | photo Michael Setzpfandt.
BONN.- In the Delirious Toys exhibition, US artist Mark Dion, internationally renowned for his contemporary cabinets of curiosities, stages the world of play and fantasy and, with hundreds of exhibits, not only transcends space and time, but also takes a critical look at children's toys themselves. For the exhibition, he spent months researching the Berlin Stadtmuseum's collection of around 70,000 objects, one of the largest in Germany. On this basis, he created a labyrinth of board games, a procession of animals, a circuit with an imaginary race between vehicles of all kinds, a giant chest full of teddy bears, a doll's cave and a war landscape. Historical doll's houses and a "poison cabinet" with borderline and cross- border toys can also be seen. Mark Dion has been working intensively since the late 1980s with the question of how knowledge is generated and passed on in ... More | |
Bruno Goller, Frauenkopf, 1957.
BONN.- The Kunstmuseum Bonn is currently hosting one of the most extensive solo presentations of Bruno Gollers work to date, featuring 75 paintings and a curated selection of drawings. Goller, born in Gummersbach in 1901 and deceased in Düsseldorf in 1998, holds a unique place in 20th-century German and international art. Rejecting contemporary trends, Goller remained steadfastly figurative throughout his career. His works evoke an enigmatic, almost magical quality, transforming everyday objects and scenes into symbols with new meanings. Childhood memories, particularly of his mothers millinery shop, heavily influenced his distinct iconography. Common motifs in his work include mannequin-like female figures, hats, ribbons, and wardrobes. After moving to Düsseldorf in 1927, Goller became a central figure in the citys art scene. He was associated with Johanna Ey's gallery, a member of the artists' ... More |
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| Dorothy's Ruby Slippers from 'The Wizard of Oz' sell for $32.5 million | | MoMA announces Light: Rafaël Rozendaal, an immersive digital artwork | | Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge opens new permanent exhibition |
The Wizard of Oz (MGM, 1939), Judy Garland "Dorothy Gale" Screen Matched Ruby Slippers.
DALLAS, TX.- Dorothys Ruby Slippers sold Saturday at Heritage Auctions for a price somewhere over the rainbow, way up high: $32.5 million. One of four surviving pairs worn by Judy Garland in 1939s The Wizard of Oz, the slippers that sold Saturday are now the most famous and, by far, the most valuable movie memorabilia ever sold at auction. That single pair of shoes also helped Heritages December 7 Hollywood/Entertainment Signature® Auction set the record for an entertainment auction: $38,615,188. That shatters the $22.8 million realized during the 2011 Debbie Reynolds auction held by Heritage Auctions Executive Vice President Joe Maddalena. There is simply no comparison between Judy Garlands Ruby Slippers and any other piece of Hollywood memorabi ... More | |
Rafaël Rozendaal. Photomontage of the Gund Lobby featuring Flood, 2023. Digital animation using generative algorithm. Private collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces Light: Rafaël Rozendaal, an immersive digital artwork, on view from November 16, 2024 through Spring 2025 on the Hyundai Card Digital Wall in MoMAs Agnes Gund Garden Lobby. This installation presents a selection of Rozendaals vibrant animated works, each sampled for two to three minutes. Each work originates as a storyboard sketched on paper, which is then translated into code of only a few kilobytes (the exhibition's total file size is 135 KB). The resulting final form is an autonomous website powered by that algorithm, generating the animation in real time. Light: Rafaël Rozendaal is organized by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, ... More | |
The Open Storage. Photo: © JF.
BERLIN.- The Werkbundarchiv Museum der Dinge opened its new permanent exhibition on the Deutscher Werkbund and the product and design culture of the 20th and 21st centuries at its new location at Leipziger StraÃe 54 in Berlin-Mitte. The new permanent exhibition of the Werkbundarchiv Museum der Dinge in the form of an Open Storage has been updated in terms of content and design. On display are 15.000 objects from the 20th century to the present day that have been invented and designed, produced and traded, bought and used, repaired and thrown away. Their quantity and diversity allow us to explore questions relating to the character of objects, the relationship between people and objects, and how everyday life is shaped by these objects. The Deutscher Werkbund is the focus of the museum and therefore a ... More |
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| Paula Cooper Gallery exhibits works by Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen at Lever House | | Museum Schloss Moyland celebrates the work of iconic photographer Alice Springs | | White Cube dedicates exhibition to the relationship between Takis and the city of Paris |
Installation view of Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen at Lever House. © Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Courtesy of the Estate of Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo credit: Timothy Schenck.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paula Cooper Gallery, in partnership with Brookfield Properties and WatermanClark, is presenting Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen at Lever House. This marks the first major presentation of the artists work since Oldenburgs passing in 2022 and showcases important, career-spanning artworks throughout the landmark building and its outdoor spaces. The exhibition is free and open to the public through Fall 2025. The works on view include two monumental sculptures for which Oldenburg and van Bruggen are widely known, installed on the outdoor plazas and highly visible from Park Avenue. Additionally, the exhibition features plaster sculptures first shown in the East Village in 1961, iconic fabric soft sculptures from the 1960s and 1970s, ... More | |
Alice Springs, Catherine Deneuve, Paris 1984, © Helmut Newton Foundation.
BEDBURG-HAU.- Museum Schloss Moyland is honoring the legacy of Alice Springs (June Newton, 19232021) with a major retrospective featuring works displayed for the first time. The renowned photographer, who would have turned 100 last year, began her career under extraordinary circumstances in 1970 when she stepped in for her husband, Helmut Newton, due to his illness. Her debut assignment, a cigarette advertisement for Gitanes, launched her journey to becoming a leading figure in fashion and portrait photography. In collaboration with the Helmut Newton Foundation and Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, the exhibition showcases 200 vintage prints and exhibition proofs. Visitors will explore a range of works, from intimate portraits to iconic fashion images, highlighting Springs' transformative impact on photography. A key highlight of the exhibition is a collection of previously unseen works discovered in 2023 ... More | |
Installation view.
PARIS.- White Cube is presenting The Void, an exhibition dedicated to the relationship between the late Greek artist Takis (19252019) and the city of Paris. Born Panayiotis Vassilakis in Athens in 1925, Takis migrated to Paris in 1954, drawn by the citys intellectual vibrancy. Here, he became acquainted with Alberto Giacometti already a major influence and fellow innovators of the then-nascent kinetic art movement including Alexander Calder and Jean Tinguely. Paris was where several of Takis most important artistic explorations began, spurred by two epiphanies that would lay the foundation for his lifelong obsession with non-verbal forms of communication and extra-physical realms. The first of these took place in 1955, when the artist first saw the signalling lights at a train station in Calais, an encounter that would develop into his Signals series. Then, in 1958, Takis began to experiment with magnetism in his work as a means of manife ... More |
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| New permanent work by Giulio Paolini at the Teatro Franco Parenti in Milan | | Leon Höllhumer presents a multi-layered multimedia project at Halle für Kunst Steiermark | | Retrospective exhibition on the work and life of Anna Andreeva opens in Greece |
Installation View, Giulio Paolini, A.R.S. scaenica, at Teatro Franco Parenti in Milan. Photo Agostino Osio Alto Piano.
MILAN.- To conclude the celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of the Teatro Franco Parenti, Giulio Paolini was invited to create a permanent work for the building of the Bagni Misteriosi, adjacent to the historic seat of the Milanese theater. At the center of the installation titled A.R.S. scaenica is a white plinth, surmounted by a miniature cardboard theater hosting a plaster sphere. Two stretchers leaning up against the plinth hold a globe in precarious balance. A red stage curtain that falls from the plinth to the floor holds nine photographic panels having to do with the history of the Teatro Franco Parenti, scattered among several gilt frames. A photographic reproduction of the nymph Echo hangs upside-down from the ceiling, as if in the act of falling upon the center of the representation. Three other gilt frames hang from the ceiling at various heights. The key to interpretation lies in the enigmatic white sphere inside the theater, which ... More | |
Leon Höllhumer, insalata di sentimenti, 2024. Fruit bowl with ceramic heart. Variable dimension.
GRAZ.- The practice of Styrian artist, choreographer and filmmaker Leon Höllhumer encompasses performative live events, films and exhibition projects. Exploring issues relating to identity, the body and power, he plays with elements of the performative and the theatrical. In intricate settings, Höllhumer develops situational plots and scenic images that allow him to interact with protagonists, such as the choreographer Florentina Holzinger, the band PUKE PUDDLE and the writer Ferdinand Schmalz. Aesthetically, his works refer to punk and horror films as well as various analogue and digital DIY practices. Above all, his works are daring, bold, and strikingly direct. At Halle für Kunst Steiermark, similar to his previous works, Höllhumer presents The Feast: a multi-layered multimedia project which offers an immersive experience incorporating scnenic narratives, film and installation. It is precisely this relationship between object and action that can be found in many facets of ... More | |
Anna Andreeva, 1/2. of the Moon, c. 1974. Mixed media on paper. © Anna Andreeva Estate (Basel).
THESSALONIKI.- MOMusMuseum of Modern ArtCostakis Collection in Thessaloniki, Greece presents a retrospective exhibition on the work and life of Anna Andreeva (19172008), the Soviet textile designer who worked in the design collective at the Red Rose Silk Factory in Moscow from the 1940s to the 1980s, under the title Collective Threads: Anna Andreeva at the Red Rose Silk Factory. Named after the German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, the Red Rose Silk Factory was a site of collective female design labor that shaped the fashion and material culture of late Socialism. The exhibition showcases the abstract, geometric, cosmic, space-age, and cybernetic patterns of Andreeva, highlighting her as an individual talent whose inventiveness often soared above the work of her comrades, and who sometimes had to find ways to elude the censoring glare of Party authorities. At the same time, the exhibition spotlights Andreeva as a successful and enthusiastic participant in the planned economy of Sovie ... More |
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Water Walks: Taey Iohe in Walthamstow Wetlands
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Heritage's Dec. 5 Fine Jewelry Auction led by a $162,500 Yellow DiamondDALLAS, TX.- Colored stones stole the show in Heritage's Holiday Fine Jewelry Signature® Auction on Thursday, leading the event to a total of $5,302,578. Shining brightest was a 10.03-carat fancy yellow diamond ring that sold for $162,500. While the rectangular brilliant-cut yellow diamond is certainly the ring's star, it is followed up by stunning triangular-cut diamonds weighing a total of 3.26 carats. According to the Gemological Institute of America, only about 1 in 10,000 diamonds displays a fancy color, making this gem one of the rarest treasures on Earth. GIA has also graded the vibrant yellow diamond as internally flawless, meaning the stone is near the pinnacle of diamond clarity. The colorful standouts continued with a beautiful Tiffany & Co. Art Deco Kashmir sapphire, diamond and platinum ring that realized $150,000, three ... More New numismatic rarities on view in "The Value of Money"WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of American History marks the upcoming 10-year anniversary of the opening of its signature exhibition, The Value of Money, by featuring several updates and showcasing extensive new content and acquisitions. This long-term exhibition in the museums Innovation Wing explores the National Numismatic Collectionone of the Smithsonians oldest and most treasured collections. Beginning Dec. 6, behind the massive vault door entrance, the new entryway features diverse objects spanning more than 4,000 years from ancient cuneiform tablets to modern money. Throughout the gallery, visitors will see some of the collections most recent acquisitions, including an IRS agents laptop that helped the U.S. government confiscate $3.6 billion of stolen cryptocurrency in 2022, resulting in the largest ... More Solo exhibition of new works by Lauren Luloff on view at the Center for Maine Contemporary ArtROCKLAND, ME.- The CMCA is presenting Paint the Air, a solo exhibition of new works by Lauren Luloff in CMCAs Guy D. Hughes Gallery. Luloffs expansive paintings reflect her continued fascination with textiles, pattern, repetition, form, and color as means of expression. Her new works are deeply personal and cross multiple disciplines. She uses colored dye, textile design, collage, and the mechanics of quilting, all mediums and modalities within the artists practice and visual vocabulary. Luloff is known for her innovative approach to painting, employing richly colored dyes on silk. At various stages of her process she cuts and sews together pieces of silk, either blank or previously painted, to create her larger works. The silk is steamed to allow the dye to set permanently and then stretched onto a frame. The stretching of the loose ... More Winter 2024 exhibition program at National Museum of Contemporary Art, BucharestBUDAPEST.- The National Museum of Contemporary ArtMNAC Bucharest announces the winter 2024 exhibition season, a part of the MNAC20bis anniversary, marking 20 years in the Palace of the Parliament. THE TWIST. Failing Empires, Triumphant Provinces (curators Călin Dan & Celia Ghyka) continues in the two spaces of the ground floor: a journey through the history of the TWIST as a conceptual mediator for morphological and symbolical exchanges between spiritual and material cultures. The show tracks the trajectories-in-time of the different regions belonging to present day Romania that have been contact zones between the margins of various empires, thus developing a resilient identity of intersection that gives the notion of provincial a dignified significance. The original exhibition design allows for an unconventional assemblage ... More Exhibition includes different kinds of works, from photographs to video art by Rinko KawauchiBERLIN.- In a world of change and chaos, where the pace of life often feels relentless, there is a quiet revolution in the art of simply being present. Its in the often-overlooked everyday moments that we find a serene kind of power. This presence becomes an act of defiance, grounding us in a time when the world seems to be moving too fast. When Rinko Kawauchi visited Iceland in the summer of 2019, she felt this desire to slow down and reflect. Surrounded by humbling geysers and glaciers, her wish was fulfilled: As I gazed at this sight, I had the sense of being a fetus enveloped by the earth, and I felt a connection to this planet I have never felt before. Later that year, she planned to go back to Iceland, but the COVID-19 pandemic stopped her. Instead, she visited the Japanese island of Hokkaido many times during winter. These experiences led to the creation ... More KANG Contemporary presents "Orchestrating Empathy: Annette Cords, Vemo Hang & Moritz Jekat"BERLIN.- We live in a world in which our perception is constantly challenged by an extreme frequency of highly complex information. The task of finding our way in the world often becomes overwhelming. With everything seemingly in a state of flux, its necessary to constantly adapt in order to remain in dialogue with the world. The typical symptoms of modern existence: lack of sleep, overstimulation, depression & apathy, are leading more and more people to engage with their sensitive side. In addition to the physical and sensuous aspects of the world- and self-perception, the emotionality of individuals is highlighted. At the center lies the question: How do I feel? Emphasis is placed on training the perception of inner sensitivities and stress limits. The sensitive exchange with our surroundings, which are permanently present both physically ... More Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile announces ANTEPRIMA x CHAT Contemporary Textile Art Prize 2024 finalistsHONG KONG.- CHAT announced the culmination of its 5th anniversary celebration with a seasonal programme that explores the future of textile art across two fascinating spectrums: innovation on an international level and historical transformation through inspired community collaboration. The programme features the illustrious ANTEPRIMA x CHAT Contemporary Textile Art Prize 2024 in collaboration with esteemed fashion brand ANTEPRIMA, alongside an exhibition by CHATs 2024 artist-in-residence, BOLOHO. On November 29, 2024, CHAT announced Yee I-Lann, Roziah Binti Jalalid and Julitah Kulinting as the winner of the inaugural ANTEPRIMA x CHAT Contemporary Textile Art Prize 2024. The international ... More Exhibition offers a snapshot of drawing todayTOULON.- In 2024, the villa Noailles, in partnership with the Toulon Provence Méditerranée Metropolis and The Drawer magazine, is launching an event dedicated to the emerging young drawing scene. For this first edition, the exhibition at the Hôtel des Arts TPM showcases a selection of works, most of which were published last June in The Drawer magazine, Vol. 24, Under 25, featuring the work of about thirty fourth- and fifth-year art school students from France and abroad. Curated by Barbara Soyer and Sophie Toulouse, and set by designer Joachim Jirou Najou, the exhibition presents an overview, offering a snapshot of drawing today, as it is thought and practiced in 2024. How are students drawing today? With what tools? To what ends? What world(s) are they depicting? ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Berenice Abbott was born December 09, 1991. Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 - December 9, 1991) was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s. In this image: Bowery restaurant photograph for Changing New York, 1935.
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