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Chris Guest, Bubblegum, 24 x 18 inches. Oil on canvas. Signed.
NEW YORK, NY.- While the art world is ever-changing, certain art forms and subject matter have long been overlooked by the fine art community. This Fall, New York gallery Rehs Contemporary embraces these underrepresented forms of artistic expression, challenging the traditional notions of fine art. With their first-of-its-kind exhibition, The Art of Subversion, Rehs features a provocative blend of tattoo-inspired art, street art, and functional glass art. Curated by gallery director Lance Rehs, The Art of Subversion is a deliberate departure from the conventional art gallery landscape. The term subversion is defined as the undermining of the power and authority of an established system or institution. With that, the exhibition is a celebration of artistic rebellion in an effort to redefine what constitutes fine art. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of works by Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) at the galleryâs 537 West 20th Street location in New York. Installation view, Ad Reinhardt: Print—Painting—Maquette, David Zwirner, New York, September 12—October 19, 2024. © Anna Reinhardt/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2024. Courtesy David Zwirner.
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| 20 million cards: A sports memorabilia gold mine uncovered in Virginia | | Lark Mason Associates announces a trio of blockbuster auctions on iGavelAuctions.com | | A famous Churchill portrait, stolen in Canada and found in Italy |
Tim Banazek inside of his trading card storehouse in Moseley, Va., on July 18, 2024. (Brian Palmer/The New York Times)
MOSELEY, VA.- In a former antique shop off a four-lane highway in rural Virginia, Tim Banazek knelt before a white bankers box labeled Autographed Baseballs that was stashed at the bottom of a steel bookcase. He pulled the first ball out and examined the signature in the fluorescent light. It was Willie Mays. Look at this! Banazek shouted. Look at this! He pulled out another ... More | |
Chinese Famille Rose Peony Commemorative Cups, expected to fetch between $40,000-50,000.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX.- In one of its most extensive sales to date, Lark Mason Associates is delighted to present the Estate of Ida Bess Howesa conservationist rancher, world traveler, art collector, and arts advocate who resided in the Round Top, Texas community. The first of three online auctions now open for bidding on the iGavel Auctions platform during Asia Week New York. The specialized 106-lot auction features a rare collection ... More | |
A forgery delayed the discovery of the theft of the photograph long enough for it to be sold at an auction in London.
OTTAWA.- For three decades, a fierce-looking Winston Churchill, a hand on his hip, stared down guests in a lounge at the Fairmont Château Laurier hotel in Ottawa. It was a legacy of Yousuf Karsh, the portrait photographer of royalty, politicians, artists, actors and authors who long lived in the hotel and operated his studio there. Just over two years ago, however, a ... More |
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| Kunsthaus Zürich presents 'Matthew Wong - Vincent van Gogh: Painting as a Last Resort' | | Capitain Petzel opens Mikołaj Sobczak's first solo exhibition with the gallery | | The Hayward Gallery announces 'Mickalene Thomas: All About Love' |
Matthew Wong, The Space between Trees, 2019. Oil on canvas, 61 x 50.8 cm. Collection of Judith and Danny Tobey, © 2024, ProLitteris, Zurich.
ZURICH.- From 20 September 2024 to 26 January 2025, the Kunsthaus explores the artistic and biographical parallels between the Chinese-Canadian painter Matthew Wong and Vincent van Gogh. For the first time in Switzerland, the presentation focuses on some 35 imaginary landscapes and interiors by Matthew Wong, complemented by around a dozen selected van Gogh masterpieces. I see myself in him. The impossibility of belonging in this world. Chinese- Canadian painter Matthew Wong (19842019), who said ... More | |
Mikołaj Sobczak, Eva Kotchever, 2024. Oil, print on wood, disassembled metal stand, 250 x 122 cm. 98.4 x 48 inches. © Mikołaj Sobczak. Courtesy the artist and Capitain Petzel, Berlin. Ph: GRAYSC.
BERLIN.- Capitain Petzel opened Mikołaj Sobczaks first solo exhibition with the gallery, on view as part of Berlin Art Week. Mikołaj Sobczaks work focuses on the creation of alternative historical images, blending video and painting with performance, often in collaboration with German artist Nicholas Grafia. Sobczaks surreal, collaged narratives feature protagonists from queer and transgender activism, as well as countercultural emancipatory movements ... More | |
Mickalene Thomas, Mama Bush: (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher, 2009, Rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel on wood panel, 82 x 72 in (208.3 x 182.9 cm) © Mickalene Thomas.
LONDON.- The Hayward Gallery will present Mickalene Thomas: All About Love as the pioneering artists first solo presentation in a UK public art gallery from 11 February to 5 May 2025. Thomas is a trailblazer of portraiture and collage, widely renowned for her large-scale paintings of Black women posed against boldly patterned backgrounds embellished with rhinestones. As an artist who fearlessly transcends creative boundaries, her artworks have also adorned album ... More |
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| Why can't I get this song out of my head? | | National Museum of the American Latino reveals new brand | | Hauser & Wirth opens Gustav Metzger's second major presentation in the United States |
An illustrative image of a music record on a turntable in New York, Sept. 9, 2024. Scientists dont fully understand why earworms are so hard to shake, but certain songs are more likely than others to set up shop in our heads. (Eric Helgas/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Q: I have had a Kacey Musgraves song stuck in my head for two weeks, and its making me crazy. Why is this happening? First, some reassurance: Youre not alone. Research suggests that catchy songs that get lodged in your head colloquially known as earworms are common and can happen to people weekly or even daily. Some people wander around with music in their head kind of constantly, ... More | |
The Smithsonians National Museum of the American was established by Congress in 2020 to advance the representation, understanding and appreciation of Latino history and culture in the United States.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of the American Latino has revealed its next step in bringing to life the new museuma new logo. This announcement is a pivotal milestone for the new museum, one of many more firsts over the next decade, leading to breaking ground for the museum building in the nations capital. The National Museum of the American Latinos new logo, known as The Iris/El Iris, is a powerful visual representation of the museums mission. Resembling ... More | |
Gustav Metzger, Liquid Crystal Environment, 1966/2021. 7 Kodak SAV 2050 slide projectors, control units, rotating polarized filters, liquid crystals. Dimension variable © The Estate of Gustav Metzger and The Gustav Metzger Foundation. Courtesy the Estate of Gustav Metzger and Hauser & Wirth.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On view in conjunction with the Gettys PST ART initiative, Art & Science Collide, Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles presents Gustav Metzger. And Then Came the Environment, the pathbreaking late artists first solo exhibition in LA and his second major presentation in the United States. And Then Came the Environment presents a range of Metzgers scientific works ... More |
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| Mark Jury, whose photography captured war and death, dies at 80 | | Phoenix Art Museum mounts major exhibition highlighting the history and strengths of the PhxArt fashion collection | | Paraguay loves Mickey, its cartoon mouse. Disney doesn't. |
He produced an early photo book about what he called the first rock n roll war, documented his grandfathers dementia and became a filmmaker.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mark Jury, a photographer whose searing, intimate images from the battlefields of South Vietnam and the deathbed of his coal miner grandfather filled the pages of two critically acclaimed books in the 1970s, died Aug. 27 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He was 80. His daughter Hillary Jury said the cause of death, in a hospital, was heart failure. Jurys first photo collection, The Vietnam Photo Book (1971), was one ... More | |
(Left to right) Bill Blass, Coat and Belt, 1960s. Cotton and patent leather. Gift of Joyce Harrison; Bonnie Cashin, Tangerine suede hot pants, 1973. Suede. Gift of Mr. Philip Stills; Greatcoat, 1960s. Suede. Gift of Barbara D. Shear; Diane von Fürstenberg, Leopard print jumpsuit, c.1977. Printed cotton knit. Gift of Mrs. Kelly Ellman.
PHOENIX, AZ.- On October 9, 2024, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) presents its newest major fashion exhibition and the largest collections-based endeavor in the history of the Museum with Greatest Fits (Vol. 1): The Art of Archiving Fashion. The momentous ... More | |
Mickey, company mascot and namesake of Mickey Paraguay, takes a photo with patrons at a grocery store in Luque, Paraguay, on Aug. 24, 2024.
ASUNCION.- One is a colossus that spans theme parks, merchandise and movies, with 150 Academy Awards, 225,000 employees and annual revenue of nearly $90 billion. The other is a third-generation family firm with 280 workers that packages hot sauce, soy beans, multicolored sprinkles, an herb called horsetail, six varieties of panettone and seven kinds of salt for sale in Paraguayan supermarkets. Yet, Mickey (pronounced MEE-kay) ... More |
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Inside the funeral home for New York's luminariesNEW YORK, NY.- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. John Lennon. Greta Garbo. Jean-Michel Basquiat. Mae West. Arthur Ashe. Ivana Trump. Luther Vandross. Heath Ledger. George Balanchine. George Gershwin. Mario Cuomo. Biggie Smalls. Nikola Tesla. Celia Cruz. Joan Rivers. Aaliyah. Ayn Rand. Lena Horne. Norman Mailer. Philip Seymour Hoffman. Logan Roy. What do these people have in common? The answer is that, shortly after their deaths, they passed through the Frank E. Campbell funeral home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. For more than a century, Frank E. Campbell has been the mortuary of choice for New Yorks power brokers and celebrities. In some circles, to end up anywhere else would be a fate even worse than death. Writer Gay Talese, a longtime Upper East Sider, has lost count of how many services he has attended there. ... More Margaret Qualley is getting the hang of being a movie starNEW YORK, NY.- Margaret Qualley could finally breathe again. Ive been working a lot, she said over iced tea at Clarks, a Brooklyn Heights diner near where she lives with her husband, music producer Jack Antonoff. Im relishing these little lull moments. Qualley, 29, has more than earned a break. After making a striking debut 10 years ago in the HBO series The Leftovers, she appeared in Once Upon a Time
in Hollywood, followed by Emmy-nominated performances in Fosse/Verdon and the Netflix miniseries Maid. In the past year, she starred in Poor Things, Drive-Away Dolls and Kinds of Kindness, and when we met, she had just returned from shooting three back-to-back movies Ethan Coen and Tricia Cookes Honey Dont!; John Patton Fords Huntington; and Richard Linklaters Blue Moon. Moviegoers will next see her in ... More Smithsonian launches biggest fundraising campaign in its 178-year historyWASHINGTON, DC.- Today, the Smithsonian announced a major fundraising campaignthe Smithsonian Campaign for Our Shared Future. With a goal of $2.5 billion, it is the largest campaign in Smithsonian history and represents the largest amount to be raised in a campaign by a cultural organization. It will culminate in 2026 with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The Smithsonian Institution was founded by a single philanthropic donation. It was established by Congress in 1846 with more than $500,000 from British scientist James Smithson to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge. The Smithsonian began raising its own funds, supplemented by an annual federal appropriation, in the decades that followed. ... More Megan A. Smetzer awarded the 36th annual Eldredge Prize WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 36th annual Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Megan A. Smetzer for her book Painful Beauty: Tlingit Women, Beadwork and the Art of Resilience (University of Washington Press, 2021). Through extensive archival and museum research, Smetzer shows how beaders countered repressive colonial systems and sustained cultural practices through innovative artistic visions deeply connected to the environment, clan histories and Tlingit worldviews. This is the first academic monograph that centers contemporary Indigenous community-based knowledge about Tlingit beadwork. Smetzers research for Painful Beauty was supported by many Tlingit artists, scholars and knowledge keepers. ... More Mary McFadden, celebrated designer of shimmering dresses, dies at 85NEW YORK, NY.- Mary McFadden, a fashion designer who was famous not just for her shimmering, pleated dresses, which cascaded freely to the floor, but for her visage stark white Kabuki-style makeup and bluntly cut ebony hair died Friday at her home in Southampton, New York. She was 85. Her brother John McFadden said the cause was myeloma dysplasia. McFadden took symbols from ancient cultures the phoenix from China, shadow puppets from Indonesia and translated them into intricate embroideries, beadings and paintings on her clothes. At Mary McFadden Inc., the company she ran from 1976 to 2002, she designed pleated dresses that she said she wanted to fall like liquid gold down a womans body. They were similar to those made by Mariano Fortuny and Henriette Negrin early in the 20th century, but they were ... More James Darren, actor, singer and 'Gidget' heartthrob, dies at 88NEW YORK, NY.- James Darren, an actor and singer whose starring role as a California surfer in the Gidget movies made him one of the most popular heartthrobs of the late 1950s and early 60s, died in Los Angeles. He was 88. His son Jim Moret said the cause of his death, in a hospital, was congestive heart failure. Darren, a Philadelphia native who didnt surf and wasnt even a particularly strong swimmer, had been a contract player with Columbia Pictures when he was cast as an aspiring surf bum in Gidget, which also starred Sandra Dee in the title role and Cliff Robertson as the Big Kahuna, the leader of a surfing gang. Released in 1959, the movie told the story of a high school girl who befriends that gang in Malibu and develops a crush on Darrens character, Moondoggie. It was a hit, and it became one of the first signs ... More At Toronto, transcendent movies cut through the industry's gloomNEW YORK, NY.- Each year at the Toronto International Film Festival, I travel the world virtually, moving through space and time in vivid color and in black and white. On the first day alone of this years event, which wraps Sunday, movies took me from Mexico to France, Benin, South Africa, the United States, England and Japan. One gift of an expansive, border-crossing festival like Toronto is that it reminds you there is far more to films than those that come out of that provincial town called Hollywood. Its been a few rough years in the festival world, which continues to struggle with the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the back-to-back 2023 actors and writers strikes, which left Toronto and other events with near-empty red carpets. Toronto endured another sizable hit when it lost a longtime major backer (Bell Canada). Since then, ... More Exhibition at David Zwirner explores Ad Reinhardt's screenprintsNEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of works by Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) at the gallerys 537 West 20th Street location in New York. Curated by Jeffrey Weiss and organized in collaboration with the Ad Reinhardt Foundation, the exhibition explores Reinhardts screenprintsa group of works that the artist created toward the end of his lifeand his interest in translating the subtleties of his painted work into the print medium. By the time Reinhardt made his first screenprint in 1964for X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters), a portfolio of prints produced by the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticuthe had already spent more than two decades developing the matte surfaces and subtle chromatic compositions characteristic of his late paintings, including monochromes in red and blue as well as the so-called black paintings, ... More Worcester Art Museum announces traveling exhibition: Twentieth-century nudes from TateWORCESTER, MASS.- The Worcester Art Museum announced the upcoming presentation of Twentieth-Century Nudes from Tate, a special exhibition of iconic paintings on loan from Tate, which holds the United Kingdoms national collection of British art from 1500 onward and international modern and contemporary art. This show explores how the nudea central subject in Western art since the Renaissancewas used by artists in the 20th century to explore formal concepts as well as challenge viewers preconceptions about age, race, gender, and sexuality. Included will be major works by some of the most recognized artists of the 20th century, such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Vanessa Bell, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Alice Neel, Barkley L. Hendricks, and many more. Twentieth-Century Nudes from Tate will provide visitors ... More The Lijadu Sisters, Nigeria's twin musical pioneers, are celebrated anewNEW YORK, NY.- High above Harlem in early August, Yeye Taiwo Lijadu sat surrounded by her collection of sacred objects. Shelves displaying statues and icons of some of the 401 deities associated with the Yoruba traditional religion Ifá in which shes an ordained priestess stretched nearly to her apartments ceiling. Lijadu, 75, called this room a museum of the ancestors. Less prominent were artifacts from her past as one of Nigerias biggest 1970s pop stars, when she was half of the vocal duo the Lijadu Sisters, with her identical twin, Kehinde. Beginning in 1963, when they were schoolgirls in a talent competition, the pair became fixtures on Nigerian television. They began releasing records in 1968, and by the mid-1970s they were larger than life; the cover illustration of their 1976 album Danger depicted them as superheroes, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Alsatian sculptor and painter Jean Arp was born September 16, 1886. Jean Arp / Hans Arp (16 September 1886 - 7 June 1966) was a German-French, or Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper. In this image: Visitors look at Jean Arp's painting "Femme" (woman), right, exhibited at Drouot Gallery in Paris, France Tuesday, April 1, 2003. The painting is one among hundreds of art pieces from French surrealist writer Andre Breton's art collection which is being auctioned.
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