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RISK Shark mixed metal sculpture from the Face Your Fears series. Estimate: $100-150,000.
GLEN COVE, NY.- A monumental outdoor Shark sculpture, measuring 18 Ft. in length, by contemporary artist RISK (Kelly Graval) will take center stage at Roland Auctions NY first auction of the New Year on Saturday, January 7th. RISK rose to prominence in the late 1980s on the West Coast, as one of the first Graffiti artists to break into the mainstream art world. Several years back, he debuted a series of sculptures called Face Your Fears which included a limited number of variations on Shark and Dolphin sculptures made of various metals. This Shark (2018) made from found metal objects, is one of the artists first Shark sculptures, was first exhibited on the collectors Long Island property where it still stands and will be auctioned directly from the property, through Roland Auctions NY in Glen Cove on the North Shore of Long Island. The piece is estimated at $100,000 - $150,000. RISK's sculpt ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Takashi Murakami Views of the exhibition at Perrotin Dubai, ICD Brookfield Place, from November 25, 2022 to January 28, 2023. ©2022 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy Perrotin Photo: Altamash Urooj.
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| Philip Pearlstein, whose realist nudes revived portraiture, dies at 98 | | New digital art commission by Amelia Winger-Bearskin launches on whitney.org | | In Chicago, a battle over a religious statue is about much more than religion | 
The realist painter Philip Pearlstein in his studio in Manhattan on May 16, 2002. Pearlstein, an artist whose coolly observed nudes reclaimed the naked human body for painting, and who found a persuasive modern idiom for the portrait genre, died in Manhattan on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. He was 98. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Philip Pearlstein, an artist whose coolly observed nudes reclaimed the naked human body for painting, and who found a persuasive modern idiom for the portrait genre, died Saturday morning in the New York City borough of Manhattan. He was 98. His death, in a hospital, was announced by Betty Cuningham of the Betty Cuningham Gallery in Manhattan. In the early 1960s, Pearlstein turned from landscapes executed in a brushy abstract expressionist style and began painting nude models from life. In an era dominated by color-field abstraction, and still heavily influenced by the emotional extravagance of artists such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, his icily lit nudes, presented ... More | | 
Paolo Cirio, still from Criminal Data, 2022. Web project: whitney.org/artport. Courtesy the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Today, the Whitney Museum of American Art launches Sky/World Death/World, a new digital art project by artist Amelia Winger-Bearskin, on whitney.org. The project was commissioned as part of artport, the Museums resource for Internet art and an online gallery space for net art commissions. Winger-Bearskins work is part of the ongoing Sunrise/Sunset series that activates across the Museums website twice a day at sunrise and sunset in New York City. Winger-Bearskins project connects the sunrise and sunset to Indigenous myths about creation and is presented in two parts: Sky/World at sunrise and Death/World at sunset. Combining abstract animation and poetic text, the work prompts viewers to consider the questions Who benefits from your burnout? and What is made bright by the loss of your light? The questions were originally written for a billboard ... More | | 
Chicagos Pilsen neighborhood on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)
by Julie Bosman
CHICAGO, IL.- On a cold Tuesday morning in Chicago, police officers lined an alley on the West Side. Across a chain-link fence, a group of people in parkas paced nervously in a backyard. Then the officers stepped aside. A 3-ton statue wrapped in blue cloths was loaded from the vacant St. Adalbert Church onto the bed of a truck, beginning its slow journey down the alley. Even shrouded in blankets, the statue had a lifelike quality: It was a replica, still visible in silhouette, of Michelangelos Pietà , the marbled figure of Mary cradling the body of Jesus. Dont take her away! Judy Vazquez, one of the people in the backyard, shouted as the statue passed by. Alleluia! said another protester, Bronislawa Stekala, clutching a rosary of brown wooden beads and raising her fist in anger. For more than five years ... More |
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| Reclaiming a place in animation history for a female pioneer | | Adrienne Mancia, influential film curator, dies at 95 | | London Art Fair announces galleries and curated sections for its 35th edition | 
Bessie Mae Kelley, an early animator and director. Photo: Manitou Productions.
NEW YORK, NY.- The pioneers of hand-drawn animation were all men or at least that is what historians (men, almost exclusively) have long told us. Winsor McCay made the influential short Gertie the Dinosaur in 1914. Paul Terry (Farmer Al Falfa), Max and Dave Fleischer (Koko the Clown, Betty Boop) and Walter Lantz (Woody Woodpecker) each made well-documented early contributions. Walt Disney hired a team that became mythologized as the Nine Old Men. Earlier this year, however, the animation scholar Mindy Johnson came across an illustration an old class photo, of a sort, depicting the usual male animators from the early 1920s. In a corner was an unidentified woman with dark hair. Who was she? The owner of the image, another animation historian, presumed she was a cleaning lady or possibly a secretary, Johnson said. I said to him, Did it ever cross your mind that she might also be an animator? Johnson recalled ... More | | 
An undated photo provided by Stefan Johansson of the influential film curator Adrienne Mancia. (Stefan Johansson via The New York Times)
by Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK, NY.- Adrienne Mancia, who scoured the world for significant films and brought them to New York City as a longtime curator at the Museum of Modern Art and later at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, died last Sunday in Teaneck, New Jersey. She was 95. Her niece Francine Pozner Ehrenberg confirmed the death, in a care center. Mancia was instrumental in giving audiences some of their earliest looks at work by Wim Wenders of Germany, Manoel de Oliveira of Portugal and other notable directors, and helped rediscover archival gems and introduce subgenres such as European animation and Cinema Novo from Brazil. She joined MoMA in 1964 as secretary to Richard Griffith, curator of the museums film department. Soon she was given the title of curatorial assistant ... More | | 
London Art Fair, Sandra Kantanen 'Bishops weed', 2022, pigment print, 132 x 75 cm or 54.5 x 31.8 cm. Courtesy of Purdy Hicks.
LONDON.- London Art Fair returns to its traditional January slot from 18-22 January 2023, launching the international art collecting calendar once again with an exceptional collection of modern and contemporary art. The Fair will offer both seasoned and aspiring collectors a diverse presentation of modern and contemporary art, alongside curated displays, and an inspiring programme of talks, panel discussions and artists insights. In addition, London Art Fair continues to champion and support regional museums through its annual Museum Partnership, which this year invites the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum who will present key highlights from their preeminent collection to the Fair showcasing the rich contribution to British art made by Jewish, immigrant, and refugee artists. 2023 GALLERIES This year will see the participation of over 100 galleries from around the world, including Iceland, Belgium, America and Sweden ... More |
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| Phoenix Art Museum acquires works by Jacob van Ruisdael, Eduardo Carrillo, and more | | Auction world record for Corneille and Stephen Gilbert at Bruun Rasmussen in Copenhagen | | Heather Gaudio Fine Art Projects opens an exhibition featuring new works by Clara Nartey | 
Eduardo Carrillo, The Flight of Sor Juana, 1982. Oil on canvas. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Gift of Ruben and Juliette Carrillo. Courtesy of Phoenix Art Museum, Photo: Mike Lundgren.
PHOENIX, ARIZ.- Phoenix Art Museum has recently added more than 170 works to its collection of more than 20,000 objects of Asian, American, Latin American, European, modern, and contemporary art and fashion design. Notable acquisitions include A River Landscape with a Waterfall (c. 1660) by renowned Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael and The Flight of Sor Juana (1982) by Eduardo Carrillo. In addition, the Museum acquired Dress (1996) by James Sterling Paper Fashions and Daisy Mae Shift (1960s) by Mist Modes, both of which strengthen the Museums holdings of fashion designs made from paper and disposable materials. Acquisition Highlights A River Landscape with a Waterfall (c. 1660) by Jacob van Ruisdael, gifted by Dr. Meryl H. and Mrs. Jeanne Haber, depicts a turbulent waterfall cascading into a pond ... More | | 
Stephen Gilbert, Sans titre, 1948. Oil on canvas. 89Ã116 cm sold for 81 600. Photo courtesy of Bonhams.
COPENHAGEN.- The CoBrA Sale at Bruun Rasmussen achieved a total result of more than 6 million euros (Tuesday 6 December). Auction world record prices were achieved for works by Corneille and Stephen Gilbert. One of the highlights of the evening was the sale of a painting by the Dutch artist Corneille. After a long bidding battle followed by thunderous applause, LOrchestre de Jazz Be Bop (Hommage à Charlie Parker) achieved 532,401, more than three times its low estimate (estimate: 150,000 to 200,000), making it a world record for a work by the artist sold at auction. Another painting by Corneille entitled Peinture dated 1952 achieved 354,934, the second highest price for a work by the artist. Another world record was achieved for a work sold at auction with a 1948 oil on canvas by Scottish artist Stephen Gilbert which achieved 81,600 against an estimate of 10,000 to 13,500 ... More | | 
Clara Nartey, Queen Sissieretta, 2021. Inks, thread on cotton, 40 x 30 inches.
NEW CANAAN, CONN.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art Projects is presenting The Joy of Living, an exhibition featuring new works by Clara Nartey. This is the artists first show with the gallery which will be on view December 1, 2022 January 21, 2023. Nartey uses stitching and embroidery thread to create richly colorful and symbolic portraits of African American women. Born and raised in Ghana, Narety moved to the United States with her husband, her artistic practice arriving in a circuitous manner. After earning her MBA, she worked in finance for several years. As a break from crunching numbers, Nartey explored her creativity with embroidery and stitching, skills she learned from her mother. The economic downturn of 2008 led to a shift in her career, which fortuitously allowed Nartey to delve deep into her artistic investigations with the sewing machine. What began as a creative pastime developed into an original artistic ... More |
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| Carpenters Workshop Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Michele Lamy and Danny Minnick | | National Gallery of Victoria announces Indigenous Fashion Commission | | Where romantic poetry in a fading language draws stadium crowds | 
Lamyland, Street Object #3 (trash Can) / 2022. Limited edition of 20 + 4 ap. Steel, bronze. CM H: 81.28 W: 60 L: 60.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Michele Lamy and Danny Minnick reimagine some of Southern Californias most iconic skate locations in a 2-month exhibition at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Los Angeles. From subcultural streets to the Olympic Games, skateboarding is more than an activity done with the body, its a developing movement. Legendary icons have risen from what started as a cult of outcasts and underdogs. Today, skateboarding has evolved into a globally established phenomenon and an energizing emblem for uplifting developing communities. Turning Tricks has its roots in Southern Californian culture. Well-known as the birthplace of skateboarding, Los Angeles is ground zero to some of the most iconic skate spots in the world. While still an illegal activity or nuisance in public space, the subculture continues to evolve and turn certain locations into their arena, many of which no longer exist, namely, the Venice Sand Pit ... More | | 
Evonne Munuyngu at Bula'bula Arts, Ramingining, Northern Territory. Photo: Renae Saxby.
VICTORIA.- In a brand-new initiative, the NGV will present the inaugural Indigenous Fashion Commission, celebrating extraordinary fashion and design in Australia by commissioning a designer to produce an ambitious new work for the NGV Collection. Debuting at the NGV Gala in December 2022, the Commission celebrates the innovation, diversity and creativity of First Nations design practices. This years commission is a collaboration between Yuwaalaraay woman Julie Shaw, Founder and Creative Director of MAARA Collective, and master Yolŋu weavers Evonne Munuyngu, Lisa Gurrulpa, Serena Gubuyani, Mary Dhapalany and Margaret Malibirr from Bulabula Arts. In June 2022, Shaw travelled to Ramingining in Northeast Arnhem Land, where the artists together created the bodice for the gown using hand-dyed and woven pandanus fibres. Artists from Ramingining have been working with natural fibres to create conical mats, mindirr (dilly bags) and ... More | | 
Pages from one of the many books at the Rekhta Foundation, which staged the Jashn-e-Rekhta festival and is working to preserve the Urdu language, in Noida, India on Nov. 30, 2022. (Saumya Khandelwal/The New York Times)
by Mujib Mashal
NEW DELHI.- The four designated stages inside the crowded stadium complex in the heart of the busy capital werent enough. So poetry lovers also took to the footpaths and the spaces in between, turning them into impromptu open-mic platforms for Indias embattled language of love. In one corner of the festival grounds, which had been draped in vibrant colors and calligraphy, a group of university students alternated between singing popular romantic songs, backed by a young man on guitar, and jostling to recite verses of their own. In your love, one young poet began, leaning into the huddle with confidence, before forgetting the rest of his verse. In your love
he repeated, unable to recall. Dont worry, someone from the crowd encouraged him as the others chuckled. In love, we all forget ... More |
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 Unleash the song in your heart without leaving the buildingNEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesdays at 5 p.m., the Singh brothers, Vikram, 8, and Sidarth, 11, have a standing lesson with their piano teacher, who meets them in the Sound Lounge, a 775-square-foot recording studio. The lounge is decked out with leather couches, wallpaper with a design that resembles stacks of speakers, huge TVs, a state-of-the-art audio/visual system, microphones and an array of instruments piano, keyboard, guitars, drum set and even maracas. The professional-grade experience was designed by famed musician Lenny Kravitz, who fashioned the space after his own recording studio, and is situated in the lower level of the Singhs Upper East Side building, The Kent. The good news: The boys are pretty good. Even better news: They are not playing the instruments in their apartment, something that is truly appreciated by their parents ... More  Milton Viorst, writer who chronicled the Middle East, dies at 92NEW YORK, NY.- Milton Viorst, who melded journalism and history to presage the chaotic consequences of an American invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the improbability of peace in the Middle East unless Israel agreed to a separate Palestinian state, died Dec. 9 in Washington, D.C. He was 92. His wife, author Judith Viorst, said the cause of his death, in a hospital, was complications of COVID-19. An American Jew and a self-described liberal Democrat, Viorst warned that the American invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein would empower Iranian militants in the region. He also argued that by granting almost every request for advanced weaponry, America was killing Israel with kindness by subverting its original Zionist goals and transforming it into a regional superpower. Over seven decades, in 10 books, regular columns for The New Yorker and many essays ... More  Dino Danelli, whose drums drove the Rascals, is dead at 78NEW YORK, NY.- Dino Danelli, whose hard-charging, high-energy drumming powered the Rascals to a string of hits in the late 1960s, including the No. 1 records Good Lovin, Groovin and People Got to Be Free, died Thursday in New Yorks Manhattan borough. He was 78. Joe Russo, a close friend and the bands historian, confirmed the death, at a rehabilitation center. He said Danelli had been in declining health for several years. The Rascals (billed on their first three albums as the Young Rascals) were among the first American bands to emerge in response to the so-called British Invasion of 1964. Formed in New Jersey in 1965, the quartet featuring Felix Cavaliere on organ and vocals, Eddie Brigati on vocals, Gene Cornish on guitar and Danelli on drums drew on a range of influences, including doo-wop, jazz and soul ... More  Photography's road from edgy to excessNEW YORK, NY.- Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin revolutionized fashion photography from the late 1960s through the 70s with sexy pictures that were kinky and edgy. They rejected genteel proprieties and posed women with full-frontal nudity, in lesbian seductions, as victims of murder, in bondage restraints and as killers of hapless men. They were implying narratives, much as Richard Avedon had done earlier, but the new back stories were far more transgressive. The photographs shocked and scandalized. In 1975, Times art critic Hilton Kramer found Newtons pictures to be so clamorous and unsavory that the interest in fashion is indistinguishable from an interest in murder, pornography and terror. Compared to what followed, however, these provocative photographs seem mild. Although they traffic in imagery of death and lust ... More  'The Little Mermaid' and 'Iron Man' join National Film RegistryNEW YORK, NY.- Ariel is officially part of the human world. The Little Mermaid, the 1989 Disney animated movie that revolves around a rebellious teenage mermaid fascinated by life on land, is among the motion pictures that have been selected for preservation this year on the Library of Congress National Film Registry. Also being added are Iron Man (2008), the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and When Harry Met Sally, the beloved 1989 romantic comedy that begins with a pair of college graduates embarking on a cross-country drive from Chicago to New York. On Wednesday, the library plans to announce that a total of 25 more films, dating from 1898 to 2011, will be honored for their historical and cultural significance and added to the registry, helping to preserve them for future generations. The library also allows the public to nominate movies at its website ... More  Over the Influence currently presenting Erik Parker: Good Luck LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- Over the Influence is currently presenting Good Luck, a solo presentation of new works by Brooklyn- based artist Erik Parker. The exhibition has been on view since December 9, 2022, and will continue through January 15, 2023. This marks the artists return to Los Angeles after nearly a decade and the second showing with the gallery. Good Luck encapsulates the breadth of Parkers artist practice, showcasing planks, tondos, landscapes, and the pyramidal paintings he is celebrated for. Totems remain the earliest known work of ritual art; artisans created tondi since Greek Antiquity and become popular as round tondo paintings during the 15th century; pyramids are architectural marvels of impressive astronomical and geometrical expertise. Variously sacred, spiritual, and didactic, each is universally recognized and rich with symbolism ... More  Orlando Museum of Art celebrated the opening of "Don't Ask Me Where I'm From"ORLANDO, FLA.- Over 400 guests attended the Orlando Museum of Arts opening reception for its new exhibition, Dont Ask Me Where Im From. The exhibition, jointly created by Luciano Benetton's Fondazione Imago Mundi and the Aga Khan Museum, explores the impact of migration on second-generation immigrant artists. The museum worked closely with the Ismaili Council of Florida for over three years to bring this collection of vibrant works to Orlando. The project features work by 15 artists, representing 25 countries. Florida State House Representative for District 42, Anna V. Eskamani acknowledged the exhibitions important message: Exhibits like this tell the world who we are as Orlando. It tells the world who we are as people. That we belong. That our stories matter and that the diversity that defines where we are from is for us to define ourselves ... More  Nottingham Contemporary announces new director, Salma TuquanNOTTINGHAM.- Salma Tuqan has been appointed as the new Director of Nottingham Contemporary. Salma will join Nottingham Contemporary in March 2023 from her current role as Deputy Director of Delfina Foundation, London where she has been developing the strategic vision of the organisation, growing its collaborative work and partnerships and shaping the foundations engagement with Latin America & the Caribbean, the African continent and MENASA regions. Salma is a contemporary art and design curator and cultural strategist. Prior to joining Delfina Foundation she worked as the Contemporary Middle East Curator at the V&A for eight years, where she was responsible for Middle Eastern art and design programming at the museum, co-curated the biennial international Jameel Prize exhibition, and co-founded the Culture in Crisis programme ... More  Contemplating a canon of Jewish American filmsNEW YORK, NY.- In James Grays recent drama Armageddon Time, a Jewish family from Queens goes to see Private Benjamin. That 1980 comedy stars Goldie Hawn as a woman whose husband dies during coitus on their wedding night. To deal with her grief, she joins the Army. Hilarity ensues when she realizes shes going to have to get her perfectly manicured nails dirty. Private Benjamin (directed by Howard Zieff) is not primarily thought of as a Jewish movie, but the characters in Armageddon Time immediately identify it as such, marking Judy Benjamin, who married in a ceremony complete with a rabbi and glass-stomping, as a Jewish American Princess. She was a JAP, but she grew up, the Graff matriarch says as they leave the theater. Still, its not as if Private Benjamin really wrestles with what its like to be a Jew in America ... More  New exhibition by South African photographer & activist Sir Zanele Muholi opens at the Uitstalling Gallery GENK, BELGIUM.- The newest exhibition by South African photographer and activist Sir Zanele Muholi 'Hail the Dark Lioness' is currently on view since October 29th at the Uitstalling Gallery in Genk, Belgium. In this show, that ends on January 29th, 2023, Muholi shows 30 self-portraits that repeatedly feature different characters and archetypes that refer to specific events in South Africa's political history. Known for documenting the LGBTQIA+ community from South African townships, Muholi becomes both the participant and the image-maker in this series. By exaggerating the darkness of her complexion, Muholi is reclaiming their blackness and offsetting the culturally dominant images of black women in today's media. In Somnyama Ngonyama, which translates from isiZulu to Hail The Dark Lioness, Muholi playfully employs the conventions of classical painting ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner died December 19, 1851. Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 - 19 December 1851), known as J. M. W. Turner and contemporarily as William Turner,[a] was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist, known for his expressive colourisation, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. In this image: Joseph Mallord William Turner, "The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834," 1834 - 1835. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art. The John Howard McFadden Collection.
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