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Roger Shimomura (American, b. 1939), American Guardian, 2007, lithograph, 31-1/2 x 41 inches. Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer. © Roger Shimomura, courtesy of the artist.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State opened Global Asias: Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. This major exhibition features the cosmopolitan, exuberant and subtly subversive work of 15 artists of Asian heritage who are adept at crossing borders not only physical ones but also those in media, styles, genre and materials. Global Asias is the first large-scale exhibition to highlight the impressive scope and diversity of the Jordan Schnitzer Foundations collection of contemporary Asian and Asian American art. The exhibition premieres at the Palmer Aug. 28 through Dec. 12, 2021, before embarking on a national tour. The artists included in this exhibition open our eyes to what it is like to cross boundaries both real and cultural, shared Jordan Schnitzer, whose family has a longstanding history of championing Asian art and cultu ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its August Timed Marketplace Auction on Tue, Aug 31, 2021 11:00 AM GMT-5. Join them for their August Timed Marketplace Auction featuring fabulously priced clearance items and newly listed items at pricing perfect for dealers or collectors. Shop the Marketplace with Artemis Gallery nearly every month - you never know what you'll find next. In this image: Group of Chinese Ming Dynasty Shipwreck Porcelains. Estimate $3,400 - $5,400.
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| New display at Tate Modern brings together a selection of Phyllida Barlow's works | | Gun that killed Billy the Kid fetches $6 mn at auction | | Christie's announces the Collection of Lois B. Torf | 
Installation view. Photo: © Tate / Jaiwana Monaghan.
LONDON.- ARTIST ROOMS: Phyllida Barlow, the latest in this series of free displays at Tate Modern, opened to the public this week. It brings together a selection of Barlows celebrated large-scale sculptures as well as over 30 works on paper made across her sixty-year career. British artist Phyllida Barlow (b.1944) is renowned for constructing unwieldy, sprawling installations out of simple DIY materials. Some of her sculptures are loosely based on everyday household objects and familiar structures such as houses, stages and shelters, turned into strange and abstract versions of themselves. These interrupt the exhibition space, encouraging visitors to discover hidden details and unexpected viewpoints as they navigate their way around each construction. Devised in close collaboration with the artist, Tate Moderns new display brings together Barlows sculptures, installations and drawings. Highlights include Object for the telev ... More | | 
The gun used to Kill Billy the Kid achieves US$6 million at Bonhams. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- The pistol used to kill the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid in the days of the American Wild West has been auctioned for $6.03 million, a world record for a firearm. The Colt single-action revolver owned by sheriff Pat Garrett had been estimated at $2-3 million and saw "lively bidding" on the phone, online and in the room in Friday's sale, the auction house Bonhams said. "It stands as a relic of one of the most important and well-known stories of the Wild West," Bonhams said. It said the gun was in "very good" condition with "well worn grips." Garrett used the .44-caliber gun to shoot Billy the Kid -- who was born Henry McCarty but also went by William Bonney -- in the chest on July 14, 1881 in New Mexico. The gunfighter died at the age of 21. The previous record for a firearm was $1.98 million, set by Christie's in 2002 for a pair of flintlock saddle pistols carried by George Washington during the Revolutionary War, Bonhams ... More | | 
Jasper Johns (b. 1930), False Start II, 1962. Lithograph in colours, on A. Millbourn and Co. paper. Image: 17⅝ x 13¾ in (448 x 349 mm). Sheet: 30½ x 22⅝ in (775 x 575 mm). Estimate: $80,000-120,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will present the collection of Lois B. Torf, one of the most significant collections of Prints and Multiples to come to market in the United States. This autumn, more than 350 prints she amassed during her lifetime will be offered in a series of single-owner auctions at Christies: A Graphic Dialogue: Prints from the Collection of Lois B. Torf on 15 September in New York and A Graphic Dialogue: Prints from the Collection of Lois B. Torf Online, an online-only sale open for bidding between 2-16 September. The collection comprises important works in the print medium from every decade of the 20th century, including a rare impression of Cy Twomblys Untitled I, a major selection of German Expressionist Prints, Robert Rauschenbergs Booster, significant ... More |
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| Very personal computing: In artist's new work, AI meets fatherhood | | Christie's offers property from India House Club in Asian Art and Americana Week sales | | Ed Asner, star of 'Lou Grant' and 'Up,' is dead at 91 | 
Ian Cheng, an artist whose animations comment on AI and cognitive science, at his home in New York, Aug. 13, 2021. Lucka Ngô/The New York Times.
by Frank Rose
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ian Cheng was feeling adrift. It was the start of 2013; he was nearly 30, with an art degree from University of California, Berkeley, and another from Columbia University, but he needed an idea, something to build a career on. Pondering the question one wintry afternoon in the balcony cafe at the Whole Foods Market on Houston Street in New York City, a place that promises people-watching and you time, he found himself gazing absently at the shoppers below. He grew increasingly transfixed. The market was its own little ecosystem, with clear-cut rules but elements of chance thrown in. Somebodys dog that wouldnt behave. A guy sneaking food from the salad bar. People doubling back to get a plate. An idea began to form in Chengs head, an idea that drew on his other major at Berkeley, in cognitive science. His thoughts ran to complex systems. Emergent behavior. And what if a video game engine ... More | | 
A Group of Three Bronze 'Pala Revival'-Style Buddhist Figures Tibeto-Chinese, 18th century. Tara 7 in. (17.8 cm.) high Amitayus 6⅞ in. (17.5 cm.) high Ushnishavijaya 7⅛ in. (18.1 cm.) high. Estimate: $12,000-18,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces property from India House, a private club that has been a fixture of downtown Manhattan since the early 20th century, will be offered in the September Asian Art Week and January Americana Week sales in New York. The collection encompasses over 60 lots of maritime paintings, books and manuscripts, and Chinese, Indian & Southeast Asian works of art. Tina Zonars, Christies Co-Chairman, Asian Art comments, With its rich, distinguished history, the property from the India House Club is sure to excite collectors. The variety and quality of the works speak to the sophisticated and eclectic taste of the Clubs founding members as well as to the Clubs stately atmosphere that was enjoyed by generations of New Yorkers. Founded in 1914 by James A. Farrell and Willard Straight, India House was conceived as a meeting place in lower Manhattan for the interests of foreign trade, and its name p ... More | | 
In this file photo actor Ed Asner arrives at the 82nd Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California on March 7, 2010. Valerie MACON / AFP.
by Anita Gates
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ed Asner, the burly character actor who won seven Emmy Awards five of them for playing the same character, the gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, introduced on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and later starred in film hits like Up and Elf died Sunday at his home in Tarzana, California. He was 91. His death was confirmed by his family via Twitter. No cause was specified. Asner also served as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1981 to 1985 and was active in political causes both within and beyond the entertainment industry. The issues he supported over the years included unionism (in particular the air traffic controllers strike of 1981) and animal rights; those he protested against included the U.S. military presence in El Salvador. Asner was 40 when he was approached for the role of Lou Grant, the irascible but idealistic head of the fictional WJM television newsroom in Minneapolis and the boss of ... More |
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| Exhibition explores how women have used art to create change in the world | | JHB Gallery presents Amanda Means at Jetsam Studio | | When Europe offered Black composers an ear | 
Mona Hatoum, Silence, 1994, Laboratory glass tubes, 127 x 92,7 x 59 cm. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Donation: The Friends of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, Inc., USA © Mona Hatoum / VISDA. Courtesy Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk. Photo: Poul Buchard / Brøndum & Co.
COPENHAGEN.- In this years major autumn exhibition, Statens Museum for Kunst turns the spotlight onto some of art historys prominent women artists. Taking the womens liberation movement in the 1970s as its springboard, the show explores how women have used art to create change in the world over the last hundred years. In the 1970s, an entire generation of women made a strong mark on art history after many years of silence. They made art that engaged directly with topical issues and the public debate. They created new narratives and new political agendas. They spoke out and they made things happen. We are only now beginning to fully realise what this movement has meant for the following generations and which artists set the scene and did the groundwork that sowed the seeds for it. With the exhibition After ... More | | 
Amanda Means, Light Bulb (008BYs), 2007, 20 X 24 Polaroid print, 31 x 22 inches (print). Unique. Image courtesy JHB Gallery, New York.
SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- JHB Gallery is presenting a selection of work by artist Amanda Means at Jetsam Studio, Southampton, Long Island. The exhibition includes examples of Means iconic Water Glass and Light Bulb series, alongside early photographic Flower pieces and recent Abstracts produced using the artists characteristic innovative darkroom processes. Amanda Means has been at the forefront of experimental photographic practice for over thirty years. The artists breakthrough monumental Water Glass prints came with her conversion of a nineteenth century wooden camera into a darkroom enlarger, which allowed her to photograph whole objects directly, without the use of a camera or negative; the water glass itself becomes its own light source, at once recalling the photographic pioneers, while striking a tone of singular minimalist directness that Means has made all her own. The artist develops this focus on inner radiance with her Light ... More | | 
Composer William Dawson, circa 1930. W.E.B. Du Bois Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries via The New York Times.
by Kira Thurman
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In early September 1945, amid the rubble of a bombed-out Berlin, Afro Caribbean conductor Rudolph Dunbar stepped onto a podium and bowed to an enthusiastic audience of German citizens and American military personnel. It was the first Berlin Philharmonic concert to be led by a foreign musician since before World War II. The orchestra had gathered in an old movie theater functioning as a makeshift concert hall in the newly designated American zone of the city. First on the program was The Star-Spangled Banner. Then came a fairly standard set of orchestral pieces, with Carl Maria von Webers Oberon Overture followed by Tchaikovskys Pathétique Symphony. But one piece stood out from the rest: William Grant Stills Afro-American Symphony. When it premiered in 1931 in Rochester, ... More |
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| Simon de Pury announces new artist studio exhibition with works by Vanessa Beecroft | | Jane Austen comes to Bath after more than 200 years | | Largest personal contribution to the Meadows Museum establishes Custard Institute for Spanish Art and Culture | 
Vanessa Beecroft shows recent sculptures and paintings in her LA-based studio.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Swiss art dealer and renowned auctioneer Simon de Pury recently announced his latest venture, a new exhibition series titled de PURY presents
collaborating with international artists to stage exhibitions from their own studios. The second exhibition de PURY presents... Vanessa Beecroft launched on 25th August 2021 with the Anglo-Italian artist Vanessa Beecroft in her Los Angeles-based studio. Beecroft presents recent sculptures and paintings, started in 2016, of female figures and nudes. Beecroft, largely known for her performances and large-scale photographs of them, has been working for over 30 years across performance, sculpture and paintings. Inspired by her upbringing in Italy, her practice has been informed by classical art and sculpture, and at the same time interrogates the male gaze and the societal pressures of being a woman. For this exhibition, Beecroft has produced a series of figurative sculptures of women which ... More | | 
Jane Austen, by Cassandra Austen, circa 1810 © National Portrait Gallery, London.
BATH.- There is a unique chance to see the only widely accepted depiction of Jane Austen (17751718) outside London, when the sketch of the novelist by her sister Cassandra is generously lent to the Holburne Museum by the National Portrait Gallery. Jane Austen is one of the most beloved writers in English literature, responsible for classics such as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. A resident of Bath between 1801 and 1806, she lived across the road from the Holburne at 4 Sydney Place from 1801 until 1804. During this time, she frequently visited Sydney Gardens and attended the public breakfasts and evening galas. This sketch by her sister Cassandra is the only surviving memento of Austens features and the sole widely accepted depiction of her appearance. Although the drawing is undated and unrecorded in the correspondence between the sisters, the sitters age and attire suggest a date of around 1810. As the n ... More | | 
Linda P. Custard at the Meadows Museum for the announcement of the Custard Institute for Spanish Art and Culture. Photo courtesy of Southern Methodist University, Kim Leeson.
DALLAS, TX.- Linda P. and William A. Custard committed $3 million today, matched by an additional $3 million from the Meadows Foundation, to establish a new cultural institute within the Meadows Museum. The gift from Linda P. Custard 60, 99 and William A. Custard 57 is the largest personal contribution in the history of the Meadows Museum. With matching funds from the Meadows Foundation, it will establish the Custard Institute for Spanish Art and Culture at the Meadows Museum. This commitment marks an exciting new chapter at SMU, said SMU President R. Gerald Turner. The Custard Institute for Spanish Art and Culture at the Meadows Museum illustrates the critical role that institutions like museums play in the study of art and culture and their lasting impact on the world. Through their gift, the Custards and The Meadows Foundation will foster profound partnerships ... More |
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 Serbian film wins top prize at Czech festivalPRAGUE (AFP).- 'As Far As I Can Walk', a film by Serbian director Stefan Arsenjevic, won the Crystal Globe award at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic ending late Saturday, organisers said. The film co-produced by Serbia, France, Luxembourg, Bulgaria and Lithuania tells the story of two African migrants in Serbia. English actor Michael Caine received the Crystal Globe for his outstanding contribution to world cinema at the beginning of the festival, the most influential in Central and Eastern Europe. American actor Ethan Hawke and Czech director Jan Sverak, known for his Oscar-winning film 'Kolya' from 1996, also received a prize for their contribution to cinema. American actor Johnny Depp was another special guest at the festival held on August 20-28. Postponed from July because of Covid-19 restrictions, the festival registered ... More  Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel opens an exhibition of works by Mauro RestiffeSAO PAULO.- Fortes DAloia & Gabriel is presenting Laço rastro dashes, a solo show by Mauro Restiffe at Galpão, in São Paulo. The exhibition takes the portrait genre as its starting point and features 33 small and medium format works between color and black & white, between historical and recent photographs. Selected from the archive compiled by the artist over the last 30 years, the exhibition explores a broad concept of the genre, comprising a set of characters that go beyond the human face and recognize the landscape itself as a figure. Turning his lens to the corners, to what would be the backstage of the scene, Restiffe captures some extraordinary links in ordinary human experience. These are images of a daily practice of photography, of being present with the camera and recording everyday scenes, says the artist. The exhibition, reflecting ... More  Tokyo Photographic Art Museum presents 'Reversible Destiny: Australian and Japanese Contemporary Photography'TOKYO.- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum is presenting Reversible Destiny: Australian and Japanese contemporary photography, as part of the Tokyo Tokyo Festival for the 2020 Olympics Cultural Olympiad. What does it mean to make photography now, in a time of global upheaval, human fragility and uncertain futures? Reversible Destiny is a group exhibition of Australian and Japanese photo-based artists who contemplate our destiny while reflecting on our shared past. How is contemporary photography entangled with the past, halted in the present and imagining the future? Eight artists from Australia and Japan explore the uncanny ability of photography to collapse time and delve into the experience of the individual within ... More  White Columns opens an exhibition of works by Nicole StormNEW YORK, NY.- Creative Growth announced Nicole Storms exhibition at White Columns, New York. It is the first site-specific installation by a Creative Growth artist in another gallery, which Storm completed in person the week prior to the opening. Nicole Storm (b. 1967) has been developing her practice at Creative Growth for 25 years. For Storm, the process of creation is paramount to a finished piece, and her work usually has several stages of finality. While painting, Storm walks the building, rides the elevator, and ducks into corners, carrying the piece around as she adds layers and detail. This is a key component of her process, and it functions as a way for her to harvest visual information and process ideas. Storm favors vibrant hues and likes to incorporate many layers of washes under and over her notes, composed of free-associative thoughts ... More  Will the curse of 'Dune' be lifted in Venice?VENICE (AFP).- With a $165-million budget and a cast to rival the star system of Arrakis, hopes are high for "Dune" as it prepares to land in Venice next Friday for its world premiere. The cast list is exciting enough, including Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Oscar Isaac and Javier Bardem. But what has sci-fi fans really feverish is the man behind the camera: Canadian Denis Villeneuve. Through hits like "Sicario" and "Arrival", Villeneuve has put himself alongside Christopher Nolan as one of the rare directors who can deliver deadly serious cinema that also packs theatres. Crucially, he has also proved a safe pair of hands when handling totems of 20th-century geekdom, after his critically adored "Blade Runner 2049", a sequel to the sci-fi classic. Set many millennia in the future, "Dune" follows the tribal battles for control of "spice", ... More  Al Capone's possessions, now for sale, show two sides of the gangsterNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The first items listed for sale on the auction site listing the possessions of Al Capone portray a loving family man. There is a black-and-white picture of him and his mother beaming at each other. Then there is a gilt-framed picture of the mobster with his arm around his only child, Albert Francis, both of them nattily dressed in fedoras and crisp suit jackets. Keep scrolling through the possessions for sale on the Witherells Auction House website, however, and more sinister items appear, reminding potential buyers that while Capone might have been known as Papa to his grandchildren, he was also a violent mob boss, the man believed to have ordered the St. Valentines Day Massacre, in which seven men were killed in a Chicago garage by gangsters posing as police officers. The collection, called A Century ... More  'It was like I'd never done it before': How Sally Rooney wrote againNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Every day I wonder why my life has turned out this way, a millionaire novelist named Alice writes to her friend Eileen in Beautiful World, Where Are You, out from Farrar, Straus & Giroux on Sept. 7. I never advertised myself as a psychologically robust person, capable of withstanding extensive public inquiries into my personality and upbringing. Neither did the novels author, Sally Rooney. This sounds terrible, but Im trying not to have a meltdown about doing more publicity, she said during a video interview in July from a hotel room in Dublin. Shed taken the train in that morning from Castlebar, a town on the other side of Ireland where she lives with her husband, John Prasifka. I like my controlled life, she said. I live in the countryside, and I like to be kind of secluded, and to have my work as the main ... More  Bob Diamond, the 'tunnel king' of Brooklyn, dies at 61NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Bob Diamond, an engineering school dropout who discovered a long-forgotten rail tunnel beneath downtown Brooklyn and later spent more than 20 years trying to revive the boroughs trolley system, only to be stymied by bureaucratic wrangling and his own eccentricities, died Aug. 21 at his home in New York. He was 61. His girlfriend and only immediate survivor, Sharon Rozsay, said the cause was a stroke followed by a brief illness. Diamond had just withdrawn from the electrical engineering program at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1979 when he overheard a radio interview with an author who claimed that John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Abraham Lincoln, had not been captured and killed but had in fact escaped and managed to stash his diary in a secret rail tunnel in Brooklyn. The outlandish story ... More  He's still fighting developers for the park his father foundedNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On a warm July evening, Sam Pesin stooped to fetch a plastic bag and a tangled Mylar balloon as he wandered through Liberty State Park in New Jersey, stuffing both in his back pocket. When he saw the driver of an ice cream truck, he asked him to arrive early to that nights free concert because the empanada truck couldnt make it. Eid Mubarak, he told a group of teenage girls dressed in matching T-shirts as they headed toward a picnic area by the water that looks out on the Statue of Liberty. Have a good time! During the pandemic, millions of visitors have found refuge in the sprawling Jersey City state park, which features stunning views of the Manhattan skyline, ferries to Ellis and Liberty islands, open lawns and a waterfront walkway. Part maitre d, part watchdog, Pesin, 71, is a restless defender of the vision ... More  The uniform cool of Charlie WattsNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Style is the answer to everything, Charles Bukowski, of all people, once said in a lecture thats still afloat in the ether of YouTube. Swigging Schlitz from a bottle, the pockmarked laureate of the underground discoursed on one of the few traits that, as is well known, one may possess though never acquire. Bullfighters have style and so do boxers, Bukowski said. He had seen more men with style inside prison than outside its walls, he also somewhat questionably asserted. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it, he then added and that much, at least, seems indisputable. Nobody ever accused Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, who died Tuesday at 80, of dullness. Yet so granitic and unshowy was he relative to his preening bandmates in their face paint, ... More  Smithsonian to display Emmett Till historical markerWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of American History will open Reckoning with Remembrance: History, Injustice and the Murder of Emmett Till as a monthlong display of the bullet-ridden sign that was placed by the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi in remembrance of Emmett Till. Beginning Sept. 3, the exhibit will be in the museums most prominent location, across from the Star-Spangled Banner exhibition at the buildings center. The Till sign works to preserve the memory of an African American boys murder while demonstrating the ongoing nature of anti-Black violence in America. A companion webpage will be available Sept. 3. During a visit to see his great-uncle in Mississippi, 14-year-old Till of Chicago was brutally lynched Aug. 28, 1955. When his mutilated body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River, his mother, Mamie ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely died August 30, 1991. Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 in Fribourg, Switzerland - 30 August 1991 in Bern) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. Tinguely's art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society. In this image: Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely poses next to one of his sculptural machines at a retrospective exhibition of his kinetic art works on December 6, 1988 at the Centre Beaubourg (Centre Georges Pompidou) in Paris, France.
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