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A Punu mask from Gabon exhibited by the Tambaran Gallery at the Winter Show in New York, March 31, 2022. The show, a browsers delight with one-of-a-kind art, antiques and modern design, has moved from the Armory to a new Spring Palace, the former Barneys on Madison Avenue. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Will Heinrich
NEW YORK, NY.- For 70 years the Winter Show formerly the Winter Antiques Show has been raising money for the East Side House Settlement in the Bronx. This year, a late COVID surge pushed it from January to April and knocked it out of its usual home in the Park Avenue Armory (where it will return next year) to a one-time-only residence at the former Barneys building on Madison Avenue. This new location couldnt be more appropriate, since visiting the Winter Show, despite its broader new focus, still feels more like browsing a luxury department store than it does like attending a conventional art fair. Individual dealers have their specialties, but on the whole the event is a crazy quilt of offerings from Tiffany lamps to 15th-century crossbows; photographs of Frida Kahlo (Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., 3-04) and books about Bob Marley (Thomas Heneage Art Books, 4-11) to 19th-century water squirt rings (Les Enluminures, 1-11); from a memorable tapestry by Sonia Delau ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors enjoying WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from 25 March to 21 August 2022. Photo: Getty.
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| Yale Museum surrenders items as part of art looting investigation | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of new paintings and a sculpture by Adam McEwen | | 'Canaletto's Venice Revisited' opens at the National Maritime Museum | 
Part of the Yale University campus in downtown New Haven, Conn., May 24, 2021. Christopher Capozziello/The New York Times.
by Tom Mashberg
NEW YORK, NY.- Law enforcement officials have seized 13 artifacts from the Yale University Art Gallery that they say were looted. Many of those, authorities said, are part of an ongoing investigation into Subhash Kapoor, a former Madison Avenue art dealer accused of being one of the worlds most prolific antiquities smugglers. Yale acknowledged the seizure Thursday with a posting on the museums website that said it had delivered the items on Wednesday to the Manhattan District Attorneys Office, which is conducting the investigation in tandem with U.S. Homeland Security Investigations. Yale was glad to work cooperatively with the D.A.s Office in this important matter, the universitys statement said. Kapoor, who once ran a respected Manhattan gallery known as Art of the Past, has been incarcerated ... More | | 
Adam McEwen, Air Conditioner, 2022. © Adam McEwen. Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting Execute, an exhibition of new paintings and a sculpture by Adam McEwen. This is the gallerys first solo exhibition of his work in New York. The thrust of the exhibition hinges on the divergent meanings of its title: to carry out or act, on the one hand, and to extinguish or erase, on the other. McEwens work establishes a tension between these two countervailing forces: the optimistic impulse to act and grow, and the threat of oblivion. The nexus of this tension lies in a sculpture installed at the exhibitions center. Titled Execution Block (2022), it is a slightly larger-than-life-size depiction of a medieval chopping block, complete with a worn slab on which to place the victims neck, an almost comically threatening axe, and the cobblestones of ye olde torture chamberall made with fiberglass, in the style of plastic childrens toys. Playful in kelly green and tree-house brow ... More | | 
The Piazzo San Marco towards Basilica San Marco (detail).
LONDON.- On 1 April 2022, the major exhibition Canalettos Venice Revisited opened at the National Maritime Museum, London, exploring some of the most iconic view paintings of Venice and how the tourism that helped establish Canalettos career, today threatens his citys future. At the heart of the exhibition is the complete set of twenty-four Venetian views from Woburn Abbey, painted by Canaletto for Lord John Russell, the 4th Duke of Bedford, in the 1730s. This is the first time the paintings, thought to be Canalettos largest single commission, are on display in their entirety outside of their ancestral home at Woburn Abbey. The collection includes twenty-two smaller views of Venice, depicting different aspects of the citys urban fabric, including iconic landmarks such as Piazza San Marco and the Grand Canal, as well as campi, palazzi and churches. Bookmarking the exhibition are Woburn Abbeys two monumental v ... More |
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| 'Rana Begum: Dappled Light' opens at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery | | Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais presents an exhibition of works by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm | | The library ends late fees, and the treasures roll in | 
Rana Begum, No. 1081 Mesh (detail). © Begum Studio. Photo: Angus Mill.
LONDON.- Pitzhangers new solo exhibition by Rana Begum RA explores the perception of light, colour and form within sculpture, painting and installation. Visitors immediately encounter a newly-created, ethereal cloud installation of diffused light and veils of colour dramatically suspended within the Gallery. Dappled Light blurs the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, design and painting. It is Begum's first solo show in a public gallery in London in six years. Dappled Light sets up a dynamic dialogue with the architecture of Sir John Soane at Pitzhanger. The works respond to the Manors architecture, sightlines, and intricate interior decorative schemes, including his play of light through tinted glass. Panes of coloured glass rise from the ground in Pitzhanger's front garden, their vibrant shadows shifting the sun. Several works are displayed beyond the Gallery around the Manor including a bright neon ... More | | 
Two dimensionality, three dimensionality, mass, skin, surface, volume are important parts of my research on sculpture.
PARIS.- Throughout his career, Wurm has sought to deconstruct sculpture, expanding its spatial and temporal dimensions as well as exploring questions of weight and volume. In Skins, the artist takes a new approach, focusing on the notion of surface and its function in holding and defining volume. Featuring his most recent series of sculptures titled Skin, the exhibition also offers an exclusive look at the Flat Sculptures, which represent the artists first foray into painting. Two dimensionality, three dimensionality, mass, skin, surface, volume are important parts of my research on sculpture. Squeezed and flattened or reduced to a very thin form, my new works have a certain fragility, which I like: they become almost abstract. Erwin Wurm, 2022 As a sculptor, Im interested in the idea of skin as a boundary, declared Wurm in a 2014 interview with ... More | | 
Dominique Gomillion and her daughter, Ariel, 8, who recently began visiting libraries again, at the South Hollis Public Library in Queens, on Feb. 1, 2022. They had stopped after accruing more than $50 in late fees. An Rong Xu/The New York Times.
by Gina Cherelus
NEW YORK, NY.- Some items, checked out decades ago, arrived with apologetic notes. Enclosed are books I have borrowed and kept in my house for 28-50 years! I am 75 years old now and these books have helped me through motherhood and my teaching career, one patron wrote in an unsigned letter that accompanied a box of books dropped off at the New York Public Librarys main branch last fall. Im sorry for living with these books so long. They became family. Three DVD copies of The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, a 2009 action film about Irish Catholic vigilantes in Boston that has a 23% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, were returned to three libraries in three different boroughs. ... More |
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| Exhibition sheds light on Miró's most personal side by reviewing the collections he created for his family | | kamel mennour opens an exhibition of works by Maryan | | National Gallery of Victoria opens the most comprehensive explorations of portraiture ever mounted in Australia | 
Bosc de Bellver, 1910. Joan Miró. Successió Miró, 2022.
BARCELONA.- Over the years, Joan Miró preserved works, drawings and sketches that enabled him to maintain an emotional link with his work and which also served as a tool for him to look back over his career and his evolution as an artist. As Miró wove his life project and his human bonds, he extended this habit to his wife, Pilar Juncosa, and his daughter, Dolors Miró, carefully setting aside key works that he produced for them and transforming them in turn into collectors. Mirós love and generosity towards these two women continued as time passed in his grandsons, David, Emili, Joan and Teo, to whom the artist also dedicated a number of notable paintings. Miró. His Most Intimate Legacy reveals an aspect of Joan Miró that remains largely unknown, that of a collector of his own work, which translated into the creation of three family collections of outstanding magnitude: his own, that of his wife and that of his daughter. The exhibition considers the creation and ... More | | 
Maryan. Personnage, 1973. Huile sur toile Oil on canvas. 130 x 97 cm © Maryan. Photo. archives kamel mennour. Courtesy The Estate of Maryan and kamel mennour, Paris.
PARIS.- Born in 1927 to Polish Jewish parents in South-East Kraków, Pinchas Burstein was bound for a rough passage through the deadliest conflict of the twentieth century, which he was the only one of his family to survive. The artist who would later be known as Maryan S. Maryan left behind him a body of work whose chromatic and stylistic power were often seen to be a reflection of his own personal history in a sort of funhouse mirror. His artworks were not however a form of revenge on the events he had experienced, and he always refused to be seen through the unique prism of his time in the concentration camps. Most of what people write about me is bogus, he wrote in the year he died. From his first exhibition in Jerusalem in 1949 to the moment of his sudden disappearance in 1977 in New York, Maryan used art as a vital cathartic tool. His work was without hatred but it was also not unperspicacious. ... More | | 
Joy Hester, Pauline McCarthy 1945. Oil on cardboard, 45.7 x 26 cm. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, June Sherwood Bequest, 2021 © Joy Hester Estate/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia.
MELBOURNE.- WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture is one of the most comprehensive explorations of portraiture ever mounted in Australia and the first exhibition to bring together the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. The exhibition is on display in Melbourne from 25 March to 21 August 2022 and Canberra from 1 October 2022 to 29 January 2023. Revealing the rich artistic synergies and contrasts between the two institutions collections, this co-curated exhibition considers portraiture in Australia across time and media, as well as the role of the portraiture genre in the development of a sense of Australian national identity. Featuring more than two-hundred works by Australian artists including Patricia Piccinini, Atong Atem, Howard Arkley, Vincent Namatjira and Tracey Moffatt, and featuring sitters including Cate Blanchett, Albert ... More |
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| Exhibition "The War of the Mushrooms" opens at the Ukrainian Museum | | Exhibition about women sculptors opens at Nationalmuseum | | Thomas F. Staley, dogged pursuer of literary archives, dies at 86 | 
Artist Nikita Kravtsov working on the series The War of the Mushrooms Photo by Alex Neprel / Courtesy of The Ukrainian Museum.
NEW YORK, NY.- The War of the Mushrooms is a group of ten original illustrations by Ukrainian artist Nikita Kravtsov on view at The Ukrainian Museum. Drawing inspiration from the eponymous folk tale, a popular classic in Slavic cultures and the subject of a 1909 publication of the tale featuring illustrations by the prominent Ukrainian graphic artist, Heorhii Narbut, Kravtsov's contemporary interpretation reimagines the tale with paintings of scenes from Russia's current war on Ukraine. Mr. Kravtsov will be in New York City for the exhibition opening event on Sunday, April 3, 2022 at The Ukrainian Museum. Mushroom soldiers shoot mushroom missiles at projectiles fired from Russia onto Ukrainian soil, cities, and innocent civilians. The creative pictures drawn by Kravtsov in pencil and painted in vivid colors should not be misunderstood as simple cartoons and illustrations one finds in comic books. The subject matter is serious ... More | | 
Alice Nordin, Baroness Märtha Cederström (18731925), designed 1907, made 1910. Marble. Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- The exhibition "What joy to be a sculptor!" presents Swedish women sculptors between 1880 to 1920. As part of a pan-Nordic project between museums and researchers, the exhibition brings some of these sculptors back into the spotlight. Visitors will have the opportunity to recognise and rediscover some hundred sculptures from public and private settings by artists such as Ida Matton, Ruth Milles, Alice Nordin, Agnes de Frumerie and Sigrid Fridman. What joy to be a sculptor! Artist. Hooray! wrote the artist Ida Matton in her diary on 10 August 1923, in spite of the tribulations she sometimes experienced in her chosen profession. That day, work on her sculpture of Gustav Vasa had gone particularly well. The turn of the 20th century saw the emergence of the womens movement and the fight for equal rights, and women were starting to make their presence felt in various areas of society. Traditionally, the heavy and dirty work of a sculptor was seen as a male occupation. Scul ... More | | 
As head of the Harry Ransom Center in Texas, he enhanced its holdings by acquiring the papers of a host of literary lions, and of Woodward and Bernstein to boot. Photo: Larry D. Moore.
by Richard Sandomir
NEW YORK, NY.- Thomas F. Staley, who as the director of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin elevated its standing as a go-to home for the literary archives of major writers like Norman Mailer, David Foster Wallace and Don DeLillo, died on Tuesday at his home in Austin. He was 86. His son Tim said the cause was bladder cancer. Staley, a scholar of James Joyce, arrived at the university in 1988. Over the next 25 years, he brought a literary sensibility and a competitive zeal to acquiring collections and keeping them from going to universities like Harvard and Yale. Stephen Enniss, who succeeded him as the Ransom Centers director, said Staley had been adept at persuading university administrators, donors and the public at large to preserve literature that he saw as of lasting value. Toms enthusiasms became everyones ... More |
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 'Macbeth' performances on Broadway pause after Daniel Craig tests positive for coronavirusNEW YORK, NY.- Daniel Craig, who is starring in the title role of a new Broadway production of Macbeth, tested positive for the coronavirus Saturday, forcing the show to cancel most of next weeks performances. The show, which just began previews Tuesday and is scheduled to open April 28, had already canceled Friday nights performance, citing another positive coronavirus test among cast members, when on Saturday it canceled both the matinee and an evening performance, citing Craigs positive test. Then, late Saturday night, the production said that it was canceling all performances until April 8 due to the detection of a limited number of positive covid test results within the company. Coronavirus cases have recently been rising in New York City, and several Broadway performers have tested positive. In most instances, shows ... More  A playwright makes the scene in New York's living roomsNEW YORK, NY.- In the fall of 2020, a young playwright named Matthew Gasda decided to entertain some friends by staging a one-act drama on a grassy hilltop of Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn. The masked audience quickly realized that what they were watching was conspicuously relatable: Performed on a picnic blanket by seven actors, Circles presented a group of pandemic-weary friends who gather over wine one night in a city park to catch up on their lives. After the applause, Gasda, 33, passed around a hat for donations. Then he began plotting his next play. A few months later he unveiled Winter Journey, a drama loosely based on Shakespeares The Winters Tale, in a chilly backyard in Bushwick. Then came Quartet, a comedy about two couples who swap partners, which he put on in a TriBeCa apartment. He staged ... More  British Library acquires archive of writer, teacher and ethno-psychotherapist Beryl GilroyLONDON.- The British Library has acquired the archive of Beryl Agatha Gilroy (1924-2001), a pioneering writer, teacher and ethno-psychotherapist who was born in Guyana (then British Guiana) and immigrated to Britain in 1952. Gilroys work explores the lives of families, particularly of women and children, the impact of 20th century migration and societal change that came as a result. Comprising working drafts of fiction and non-fiction, letters from publishers and literary agents, a selection of books and born-digital drafts, highlights of the archive include: Annotated autograph and typescript drafts of In Praise of Love and Children, a rare fictional account of a womans experience of migration from the Caribbean, which remained unpublished for 37 years An early handwritten, autobiographical manuscript that would become Sunlight ... More  TJ Boulting presents Blob by Eddy FrankelLONDON.- BLOB is a book and exhibition project by Eddy Frankel. It's a vile, miserable little short story about a man whose bones disintegrate, published alongside newly commissioned artwork by Rachel Howard, Olivia Sterling, Mary Ramsden, Shadi Al-Atallah, Glen Pudvine, France-Lise McGurn, Emma Cousin, Gareth Cadwallader and Luke Burton. Eddy, Time Out's art and culture editor, approached a bunch of artists he loves and asked them if they'd be up for making work in reaction to this story he'd written. Was he nervous about sending all these amazing painters what is essentially an incredibly depressing wank joke? Yes. But somehow, they all said yes, and produced stunning paintings and drawings to go along with the story. The works in the show track the physical transformation and emotional degradation of the blob. ... More  The Art & Antiques Olympia returns reinvigorated in June 2022LONDON.- The organisers of The Art & Antiques Fair Olympia are delighted to announce the return of the 49th edition of its flagship fair after a two year break. The dates for this year's event are June 23-26th with a preview on the 22nd. With fewer London art and antique fairs following the pandemic, Olympia offers one of the few remaining opportunities for art and antique collectors and connoisseurs to explore a treasure trove of items. Prices range from £100 to hundreds of thousands. Brought to life by 120 of the finest specialist dealers selling art, antiques and all periods and designs of furniture, ceramics, lighting, jewellery, contemporary art and collectors pieces. The Fair will take place entirely on the ground level in Olympia Grand - the largest of the famous halls with the iconic domed roof, which floods the venue with sunlight. ... More  Exhibition of new paintings by Mehdi Ghadyanloo on view at GagosianNEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian opened an exhibition of new paintings by Mehdi Ghadyanloo in New York. Opening on March 17, this is the gallerys first solo presentation of his work. Ghadyanloos works envision a fictive architecture of playground slides, tubes, and ladders situated in shallow, walled spaces and lit from above by ocular skylights. Meticulously painted in acrylic and oil, their rounded forms are defined by dramatic chiaroscuro that represents the reflectivity, translucency, and opacity of polished steel, plastic, and other materials. The enigmatic paintings convey Ghadyanloos fascination with perspectival construction and illumination, and prompt metaphysical interpretations. From Iran, Ghadyanloo established a public art practice by completing more than a hundred expansive trompe loeil murals on buildings throughout ... More  The New York Studio School presents a research-based group of works on paper by Lourdes Bernard NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Studio School presents The Women of April, a research-based group of works on paper by Lourdes Bernard that commemorate the 57th anniversary of the April 1965 revolution and US invasion of the Dominican Republic, on view March 14 April 10, 2022. The narrative images celebrate and highlight the role of The Women of April, untrained civilian resistance fighters who fought against the 42,000 US Marines ordered by LBJ to invade the small Caribbean nation. In 2017, shortly after attending the DC Womens March and as the previous administration rolled out controversial immigration policies, artist Lourdes Bernard began to research her familys migration journey from the Dominican Republic in 1965. It was through this research that she discovered Las Mujeres de Abril (The Women ... More  Fondazione Furla and GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan announce a multi-year partnershipMILAN.- Fondazione Furla and GAM Galleria dArte Moderna of Milan announce the beginning of a long-term partnership in which the two institutions will work together on the upcoming events in the Furla Series cycleannual exhibition projects in which contemporary art interfaces with the museums spaces and collection. This partnership, which consolidates the path first undertaken in 2021 with the Nairy Baghramian exhibition, confirms the desire to promote a form of public-private collaboration based on institutional synergies and shared planning. The next event in this renewed collaboration will be a solo exhibition by Andrea Bowers curated by Bruna Roccasalva. The exhibitionthe first to be dedicated to the American artist by an Italian institutionwill offer the chance to celebrate feminism and bodily autonomy, ... More  Michelle Materre, champion of Black independent film, dies at 67NEW YORK, NY.- Michelle Materre, a distributor and educator who promoted Black womens voices in film and released influential independent movies by Black creators, died March 11 in White Plains, New York. She was 67. A friend, Kathryn Bowser, said the cause was oral cancer. Materre was an early proponent of independently released works by Black female directors, beginning at a time when diversity in independent film was far from the forefront of the cultural conversation. Her company, KJM3 Entertainment Group, worked on distribution for major films; one of its first projects was the marketing of Julie Dashs Daughters of the Dust. Widely viewed as a masterpiece of Black independent cinema and said to have been the first feature film by a Black woman to have a wide release, Daughters of the Dust ... More  Estelle Harris, George's mother on 'Seinfeld,' dies at 93NEW YORK, NY.- Estelle Harris, who hyperventilated her way into the hearts of millions of Seinfeld fans as Georges mother, Estelle Costanza, died Saturday in Palm Desert, California. She was 93. Her son Glen Harris announced the death in a statement sent by Estelle Harris' agent. In 27 episodes starting in 1992 during the fourth season of Seinfeld, around the time that the show became a pop culture sensation, and continuing until its final episode in 1998 Harris embarrassed and harangued her son, one of the shows four main characters, George Costanza (Jason Alexander), and his father, Frank (Jerry Stiller). During her characters meltdowns, often in response to slights and offenses to propriety, Harris deployed a screech that had the urgency of a hyena in its death throes. When she whined about waiting ... More  Bill Fries, singer known for 1970s trucking ballad 'Convoy,' dies at 93NEW YORK, NY.- Bill Fries, the deep-voiced country singer known as C.W. McCall, who turned an ad campaign for an Iowa bread company into the outlaw trucker anthem, Convoy, which reached No. 1 on the charts in 1976 and inspired a Sam Peckinpah movie, died Friday at his home in Ouray, Colorado. He was 93. His death was confirmed by his son, Bill Fries III, who said his father had been in hospice care for about six months. Bill Fries was working as an ad executive at Bozell & Jacobs in Omaha, Nebraska, in the 1970s, when he helped to create a series of television commercials for Metz Baking Co. about a trucker named C.W. McCall hauling Old Home bread in an eighteen-wheeler and a gum-snapping waitress named Mavis at the Old Home Filler-Up an Keep On A-Truckin Cafe. The ads including ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and poet Maurice de Vlaminck was born April 04, 1876. Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 - 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense colour. In this image: CaixaForum Barcelona, âla Caixaâ Community Projects exhibited in 2009 "Maurice de Vlaminck, a Fauve Instinct: Paintings from 1900 to 1915".
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