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The painting series known as The Five Senses as displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Nov. 21, 2022. The work of Michaelina Wautier, a 17th century artist, was long overlooked. She is belatedly gaining recognition as an old master, as the first U.S. show of her work opens in Boston. (Simon Simard/The New York Times)
by Milton Esterow
NEW YORK, NY.- Katlijne Van der Stighelen, a professor of art history at the University of Leuven in Belgium, first encountered the work of Michaelina Wautier, a 17th-century painter, in 1993 in the storage area of a Vienna museum. Wautier had been largely forgotten for more than 300 years when Van der Stighelen came across one of her paintings while rummaging around in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, where she was trying to hunt down a portrait attributed to Anthony van Dyck. A curator took me along corridors that had second-class Flemish paintings, she recalled in an interview. When I was leaving, I saw a monumental painting about 9 feet high and 12 feet wide. I didnt recognize it. He said, Not much is known about it, but it is painted by a woman. The painting was Triumph of Bacchus, Wautiers sprawling canvas of a crowd including near-naked men surrounding the god of wine. He lounges, head back as the juice of grapes drip ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Margarita Azurdia. Margarita Rita Rica Dinamita is the first monographic exhibition in Europe of Margarita Azurdia, one of the key Central American artists of the 20th century. The exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofia surveys her career by way of an extensive body of work that includes painting, sculpture, and non-object art, as well as artistâs books made from drawings, collages, and poems.
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| Pace presents a solo exhibition of new work by Nigel Cooke | | The Reina Sofia Museum presents Sylvie, one of Öyvind Fahlsträm's iconic work | | Monica Bonvicini presents "I do You" in Berlin | 
Nigel Cooke, Sula, 2022 © Nigel Cooke.
LONDON.- Pace is presenting a solo exhibition of new work by the British painter, spanning the entirety of the Hanover Square gallery. Marking the artists first exhibition with the London gallery in six years, this new body of work signals a significant moment for Cooke as he brings his expansive abstract paintings to London for the first time since his practice shifted in 2019. The exhibitions title refers both to a world map synonymous with travel and adventure and the Ancient Greek Titan, condemned to carry the heavens on his shoulders for eternity, at once colossal and immaterial. Cooke reimagines the icon with a delicate, diaphanous creature, reflecting his own interrogation of the immense and microscopic systems that govern the natural world. Inspired by Cookes travels and encounters with wildlife at home and overseas, this new body of work layers dynamic forms with a mutating array of animal ... More | | 
In Sylvie's case, nine pieces were missing, including the main piece of the work, which have been recrafted by the Museum's Restoration Department.
MADRID.- After several years of research and work, and thanks to the collaboration of Fundación Mapfre, the Reina SofÃa Museum has completed the complex process of restoring Sylvie, an emblematic work by Ãyvind Fahlström (São Paulo, 1928-Stockholm, 1976). This work comprises a set consisting of two wooden and metal plates lined with paper and fabric painted with tempera, vinyl and different magnetized elements, some of which had disappeared. Fahlström - a creator hardly classifiable within the history of art - developed a particular conceptual method for both the artist and the viewer to participate in an operation of construction and deconstruction of the work. The variable paintings were one of the distinctive creations of Fahlström's oeuvre, with independent elements ... More | | 
Monica Bonvicini, Chainswing Leather Round, 2022, Ausstellungsansicht Neue Nationalgalerie, 25.11.2022-30.4.2023. Courtesy the artist, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Galerie Krinzinger. Copyright the artist, VG-Bild Kunst, Bonn, 2022 / Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Jens Ziehe.
BERLIN.- I do You by the artist Monica Bonvicini is a sculptural appropriation of the Neue Nationalgaleries architecture: a huge mirrored wall on the façade and a large-scale pedestal in the exhibition hall defy the transparent, expansive nature of the space and open up unfamiliar perspectives for visitors. In addition to these specially developed, site-specific installations, visitors will also see sculptural objects, performative and sound pieces by the Berlin-based artist from the 1990s to the present. I do You turns Mies van der Rohes iconic museum space into a reflection on the traditionally masculine ... More |
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| Henry Moore Institute explores 'The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality, and Disorder in Victorian Sculpture' | | The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München presents Swiss stained-glass window designs | | Did someone with a trust fund paint this? | 
Sir George Frampton RA, 'Lamia' 1899-1900. Ivory, bronze, opals, glass. © Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photo: Paul Highnam.
LEEDS.- This winter the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds presents The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder in Victorian Sculpture, bringing into focus sculpture exhibited and collected in Britain between 1850 and 1900, a rich yet largely overlooked body of work. The exhibition examines objects that introduced colour and new materials into the sculptural process, situating them within the context of the anxiety which often weighed upon Victorian society in the face of social change and scientific advances. In the second half of the nineteenth century, British sculptors began to move away from the whiteness of Neoclassical marble and started to incorporate colour into their work, using bronze, silver, gold, ivory and porcelain as well as semi-precious stones, tinted waxes, enamels and paint. The adoption of these materials has typically been attributed to the renewed interest in medieval history and craftsmanship, discoveries about ... More | | 
Hans Brand, (Basel 1552 - 1577/78 Basel), Stained-glass design for an unknown coat of arms with a lady serving as a sign-holder; for the skylight of an inn. Pen and ink drawing in black with brown wash; 390 x 305 mm; SGSM Inv. 52 Z © Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München.
MUNICH.- The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München is home to an exceptional collection of approximately 300 Swiss stained-glass window designs. Around 150 of them were part of the museums founding collection. They came from the Mannheim collection of Carl Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, and were probably originally acquired from the stock of working drawings of a Basel workshop. Added in 1921 through transfers from the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum were a number of designs from central Switzerland. Outstanding works from the workshops of the Holbeins, Tobias Stimmer, Jost Amman, Christoph Murer, and many others provide a multifaceted and high-calibre survey of this singular branch of Swiss art. The Munich collection contains the most important German collection ... More | | 
Vlad Brăteanu, an artist who cannot get funding is no artist, nach Mladen Stilinović und Anca Benera und Arnold Estefan, 2021, © Vlad Brăteanu.
BERLIN.- Artist name, date of birth, nationality. The typical biographical information on wall labels in museums and galleries across the world. But in a new exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie here, visitors will find more revealing facts: Parents professions, Hours of unpaid labor or Largest number of freelance jobs juggled at the same time. (In the case of artist Norbert Witzgall, the answer to the last one is 11.) In the show, called Class Issues and running through Jan. 9, many artworks, both contemporary and historical, are about financial and social inequality. Some are funny, such as a film by Margit Czenki documenting a satirical 1998 performance in which protesters marched through downtown Hamburg chanting Help the Rich! and polishing the hoods of fancy cars. Elsewhere are more heart-wrenching documentary exhibits. Lining the wall at the entrance is a series of anonymized letters from artists over age 60, requesting ... More |
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| Widow parts with rare emerald from 1622 shipwreck to help Ukraine | | The Jerome J Platt Collection of 17th century Medallions sells for £187,200 | | Offer Waterman and Karsten Schubert exhibit works by Kirsten Glass | 
Mitzi Perdue in New York, Oct. 31, 2017. (Stephen Speranza/The New York Times)
by April Rubin
NEW YORK, NY.- For years, Mitzi Perdue looked down at her hand and saw history. The emerald on her ring finger told a story stretching back nearly four centuries, to the sinking of a Spanish galleon near the Florida Keys in 1622 and a decadeslong effort of a colorful undersea treasure hunter named Mel Fisher to retrieve its payload of gold and silver coins, gold nuggets and jewelry. It reminded her, too, of her late husband, chicken magnate Frank Perdue, who received a share of the bounty in return for his investment in Fishers search. He donated most of it but kept the emerald and presented it to her when he proposed marriage in 1988. She wore it until his death in 2005, when she put it away for safekeeping. Now, 400 years after the Nuestra Señora de Atocha sank in a hurricane, Perdue, 81, is putting the emerald up for auction Wednesday at Sothebys ... More | | 
Gold Royalist badge from the reign of Charles I.
LONDON.- The Jerome J Platt Collection of 17th century Medallions was sold for a hammer price of £187,200, which was more than double the lower pre-sale estimate at Mayfair Auctioneers Noonans on Wednesday, November 23, 2022. Comprising 173 lots, the collection was expected to fetch upwards of £100,000 and 169 of the 173 lots were sold. Dr Jerome J Platt, a professor of psychiatry and an Associate Dean at medical schools in the Philadelphia area, who with his wife Arleen Kay Platt R.N. have been avid students of the English Civil War since the 1970s. Together they have spent decades researching the medals and those behind them, sharing their findings with an eager audience via books and articles. Their collection comprised Tudor, Stuart and early Civil War medals together with badges and military awards, as well as examples from the Commonwealth and Cromwell, followed by others from the Restoration and later. The highest price of the ... More | | 
Kirsten Glass (British, b. 1975), Painting with Hekate, 2022. Oil, wax pencil, glitter, sand, embroidery thread on canvas, 94 1/2 x 74 3/4 in. 240 x 190 cm.
LONDON.- An exhibition of new paintings across two sites at Offer Waterman, 17 St George Street, Mayfair and Karsten Schubert, Room 2, 44 Lexington Street, Soho. Continuing for two weeks after Christmas from 9 - 20 January 2023. Kirsten Glass conjures images and gestures into layers of synchronicity. Circling between up to six paintings at a time, Glass allows the images to gradually come into their own, with their distinct shapes shifting through fields of colour. Each painting is an adventure, says Glass. And while their formation is dependent on distinct painterly processes, Glass leaves room for ideas to change along the way. Incorporating materials such as glitter and thread, sewn through the back of the canvas, the paintings often veer into abstraction, their surfaces allowing for multiple readings. Certain patterns and images reappear throughout. On the use ... More |
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| Worcester Art Museum debuts works from America's first Japanese print collection of its kind | | Aline Kominsky-Crumb, pioneering comics memoirist, dies at 74 | | LGDR opens the first gallery exhibition in Paris dedicated to the work of Gego | 
48 of the 50 Japanese Prints Featured in The Floating World: Japanese Prints from the Bancroft Collection Have Never Been Seen Before
WORCESTER, MASS.- The Worcester Art Museum is presenting The Floating World: Japanese Prints from the Bancroft Collection, an exhibition of 50 Japanese prints from the Museums collection, 48 of which are being displayed for the first time. On view November 26, 2022-March 5, 2023, the exhibition takes a comprehensive look at the diverse ukiyo-e genre through the lens of John Chandler Bancroft (1835-1901), one of the earliest and most significant collectors of Japanese prints in the United States. Bancrofts collection of over 3,700 Japanese woodblock prints was bequeathed to WAM in 1901 and is considered the Museums first major collection. Illustrating the breadth of this transformative gift, The Floating World features works ranging in size, material, date, and subject matter, including works by renowned artists ... More | | 
Her autobiographical cartoons confessional, sexualized and self-deprecating were considered the first by a woman in underground comics.
by Richard Sandomir
NEW YORK, NY.- Aline Kominsky-Crumb, who in the early 1970s used a self-deprecating and sexualized confessional style to create what is believed to be the first autobiographical work by a woman in underground comics and who continued to explore her life after her marriage to Robert Crumb, a giant of the genre died Wednesday at her home in the small French village of Sauve. She was 74. Her family said the cause was pancreatic cancer. In her raw, sometimes crudely drawn work, Kominsky-Crumb unabashedly described her abusive childhood, her cosmetic surgery and her hypochondria, as well as her sex life and her long open marriage to Crumb, with whom she occasionally collaborated. She called her magnified, zaftig alter ego ... More | | 
Gego. Sin tÃtulo, 1961. Ink on paper, 24 ¾ à 19 ¼ inches (62.9 à 48.9 cm) © Fundación Gego. Courtesy LGDR.
PARIS.- LGDR is presenting Lines in Space, the first gallery exhibition in Paris dedicated to the work of Gego (19121994). A leading figure of Venezuelan abstraction in the 1960s and 70s, Gego created multidimensional works that radically engage the properties of line and space. Presented in collaboration with Fundación Gego, Lines in Space will offer a concentrated survey of the artists works across media, including the constellated wire structure Chorro (1979/86), the six-part steel- and-bronze sculpture Cornisa I (1967), and her luminous watercolors, collages, and drawings. This presentation follows those organized by Lévy Gorvy in New York (2015) and London (2016), continuing a long-standing relationship with the artists estate. Best known for her net-like wire structures, Gego rejected stylistic categories and historical trajectories of influence, wedding the intuition of expressionism ... More |
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âLife in Our Minds: Mother Flockâ by Random International and Danil Krivoruchko
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 Christopher Grimes Projects welcomes Marco BrambillaSANTA MONICA, CA.- Christopher Grimes Projects announced their representation of Marco Brambilla. Marco Brambilla is a London-based artist known for his elaborate re-contextualizations of popular and found imagery, as well as his pioneering use of digital imaging technologies in video installation and art. The artist's work explores the emotional and cultural dislocation that has been enabled and accelerated in our media-centric society. Brambilla's use of scale and familiar imagery found throughout his site-specific digital collages immerse the viewer in captivating dreamscapes. Much of his work uses found film footage that is edited, layered, and spliced to create compelling new narratives and stunning visual mosaics. With exquisite technical production and seamless editing, Brambillas multi-layered tableaux of interconnecting images and looped video blend ... More  How do designers decorate for the holidays? We invited ourselves over to see.NEW YORK, NY.- Its that time of year again. Go ahead and get a little carried away with decorating your home. No one is likely to accuse you of bad taste. Thats one of the gifts of the holiday season: the opportunity to go all out with color, lights, greenery and flowers. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the changing of seasons or some combination of traditions, theres no right or wrong way to go about decorating. But a little inspiration is sometimes helpful. So we asked a few top interior designers Ken Fulk; Stephen Alesch and Robin Standefer, founding partners of Roman and Williams; and Rayman Boozer, founder of interior design firm Apartment 48 to show us how they create holiday magic in their own homes in Manhattan. Fulk got his start in interior design at a young age, when he took over decorating his family home on the outskirts of Charlottesville ... More  Where veteran rockers go to reinvent themselvesNEW YORK, NY.- Melissa Auf der Maur spent 15 years as a rocker on the road, playing bass in alternative bands such as Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins, dating Dave Grohl, and at times taking up residence in Janis Joplins old room at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City. But in 2006, when she met and fell in love with filmmaker Tony Stone, she knew it was time to settle down away from the city, become a mother and raise a child in a cozy little town with a cool kindergarten and plenty of nature. She was 34 and in the middle of making her second solo album, she said, when Stone took her to Hudson, New York, to visit friends and family who had moved to the area. I had a tingling feeling, she said. I said to Tony: If were going to live anywhere in the U.S., its going to be here. The couple moved to Hudson in 2008 and started a family soon thereafter ... More  Playing Neil Diamond: A dream role, and a 'crazy privilege'NEW YORK, NY.- Back in the era of the eight-track tape, actor Will Swensons father played Neil Diamond albums practically on a loop. A poster of Diamond, a Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter most famous for the singalong behemoth Sweet Caroline, hung on a wall in the familys garage. So, when Swenson was in eighth grade, looking to woo girls around the campfire with his guitar, it was obvious to him that a few Diamond tunes belonged in his repertoire. My go-to was Play Me, he said, which is the most sexual song ever, and I dont think that it dawned on my innocent little Mormon brain that I was singing just lascivious lyrics to these innocent little Mormon girls. In early November in his dressing room at the Broadhurst Theater in New York City, Swenson laughed at that memory in what he called his post-show morning voice: extra deep with a touch of sandpaper ... More  A versatile director brings powerful imagery to Wagner and filmMUNICH.- On a recent morning, the atmosphere on the rehearsal stage of the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munichs main opera house, was charged with anticipation. Director Kornel Mundruczo was supervising Act I of Lohengrin, Richard Wagners romantic opera about a mysterious knight sent by the Holy Grail to save a damsel in distress. As they waited for the title character to appear, the vocal soloists and extras milled about in street clothes among rocks and grass scattered on the stage. Mundruczo made adjustments to the performers positions and gestures, ensuring that they conveyed nervous excitement. When Lohengrin, played by Klaus Florian Vogt, casually appeared midway through the act, Mundruczo surveyed the scene. Thats super good, he said with satisfaction. When the opera opens here Saturday, it will close an uncommonly busy and varied year for the prolific Hungarian ... More  Guns and rifles belonging to Dukes, Lords and Princes highlight Gavin Gardiner Ltd.'s end of year saleLONDON.- Guns and Rifles belonging to Dukes, Lords and Princes will be offered in Gavin Gardiner Ltds live/ online auction of Modern & Vintage Sporting Guns on Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 10am. The sale will take place online and bidding is available via invaluable.com. A fine hammer rifle built for Lord Algernon Gordon-Lennox by James Purdey & Son is estimated at £14,000-18,000. The maker confirms that the rifle was built in 1876 for Lord Algernon Gordon-Lennox as the No.1 of a pair of rifles. Colonel Lord Algernon Gordon-Lennox (1847-1921) was the second son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, and was educated at Eton. He served with the Royal Navy between 1863 and 1865 before joining the 1st Regiment of Life Guards and transferring to the Grenadier Guards in 1867. He served during the Anglo Egyptian war of 1882 ... More  New installation by Nina Chanel Abney on view at ICA MiamiMIAMI, FLA.- Big Butch Energy features a new installation by Nina Chanel Abney, whose works in painting and collage use dynamic color and form to draw viewers into complex narratives. Through stylized, cubistic, and highly charged painterly symbols, Abney references radical traditions of graphic design and street art to communicate urgent political and cultural realities with immediacy to the largest possible audience. In these latest works, Abney explores how gender perception and performance is inspired by the legacies of social ritual and visual culture. Inspired by her experience as a masculine-of-center woman, with this body of work Abney asks how viewers gender a figure in a work of art. Abney mines cinematic and media representations of Greek student life in this series to trouble norms of racist systems and sexual desire in the United States ... More  Winners announced for both "Jimei x Arles" Discovery Award and Curatorial Award 2022XIAMEN.- Kicked off in Xiamen on 25 November 2022, the 8th Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival announced that Malaysian artist Tan Chui Mui wins the Jimei x Arles Discovery Award 2022, and the Chinese curator Wang Shuman wins the Jimei x Arles Curatorial Award for Photography and Moving Image. Tan Chui Mui (b.1978, Kinmen, Malaysia) with her exhibition Just Because You Pressed the Shutter? nominated by curator Wang Yiquan, wins the 8th Jimei x Arles Discovery Award this year. "A photo captures a certain landscape. But the landscape is always there. You didnt make the camera. So why is the photo yours? Is it because of your composition? Just because you pressed the shutter?"  Tan Chui Mui The curator Wang Yiquan mentioned: "In Just Because You Pressed the Shutter? a map is an image, a film is an image, and the sun, the air, the rain, the soil, potatoes ... More  Yoko Ikeda's poetic, fragile images are presented at IBASHO Gallery in Antwerp and in a new bookANTWERP.- IBASHO is presenting the second solo exhibition at the gallery of the female Japanese photographer Yoko Ikeda. The exhibition coincides with the launch of her new book Contrepoint, which is a coproduction of IBASHO & the(M) éditions. Like the book, the exhibition is a showcase of Ikedas body of work. Cheap transparent plastic umbrellas lying on the grey concrete; rather simple, mundane objects in one of Yoko Ikedas photographs. The image Ikeda has created of this scene, however, is poetic, fragile, almost ephemeral. She has the extraordinary ability to see the beauty in seemingly meaningless objects and to elevate them to beautiful precious subjects in her photographs. Her images show respect for every little element that forms our big world. Ikeda plays with shadows, colours, lines and textures that she comes across while moving through and observing everyday life. ... More  At 26, the conductor Klaus Mäkelä's star keeps rising and risingAMSTERDAM.- Its impossible for an artist to avoid making an entrance at the Concertgebouw, one of the worlds most storied spaces for classical music. Double doors behind the stage are flung open, making way for a soloist or conductor to descend a flight of steps leading to the spotlight. When Klaus Mäkelä, a sharply dressed young Finnish maestro, did so on a Friday night in August, he was greeted with the kind of applause typically reserved for the end of a concert. With each stride, the ovation became stronger until, as he stood at the podium, the audience let out a sustained cheer. That was amazing, Mäkelä said in an interview later. It feels like an eternity, to walk down to the stage, but I dont think Ive ever felt the warmth of an audience in that way. You could understand the enthusiasm. The house band, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, had been without a chief conductor since Daniele Gatti ... More  MoMI receives $5 million in state funding to enhance educational programmingASTORIA, NY.- Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris joined Museum of the Moving Images (MoMI) annual gala Thursday night to announce $5 million in state funding he secured to advance the Museums educational work in film, television, and digital media. View video of his remarks. This year's esteemed Gala honorees, including acclaimed filmmaker Sarah Polley (Women Talking), renowned storyteller Kazuo Ishiguro (Living), Academy Awardwinning documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras (All the Beauty and the Bloodshed), and two-time Emmy-nominated composer Michael Abels (Nope), were celebrated by friends and collaborators with a special program in the Museum's grand Sumner M. Redstone Theater. The evening also included a tribute to late filmmaker and visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull (2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French impressionist painter Claude Monet died December 05, 1926. Claude Monet (14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). In this image: A visitor looks on a painting by French artist Claude Monet (1840-1926) entitled Nympheas during a press preview in Hong Kong, China, 27 May 2011. The painting was expected to fetch in excess of 17 to 24 million GBP (19 to 27 million Euro), at auction at Christies London Impressionist Modern Paintings on 21 June 2011.
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