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Hayden Bassett, director of the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab, at a hotel in Ithaca, N.Y., Feb. 22, 2022. More than two years after the U.S, Army, with some fanfare, announced a new effort to be styled after the old monuments men program, its is still not up and running. Heather Ainsworth/The New York Times.
by Graham Bowley
NEW YORK, NY.- For months before the bombs started falling, Hayden Bassett watched over the cultural riches of Ukraine the cathedrals of Kyiv, the historic buildings of Lviv, museums across the country and the ancient burial sites that dot its steppes. Using satellite imagery, Bassett, 32, an archaeologist and director of the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab at the Virginia Museum of Natural History, has monitored and mapped much of the countrys national heritage as part of a civilian effort to mark the sites that could be devastated by war. This is the kind of job envisioned for a cadre of U.S. Army specialists being hired to succeed the storied Monuments Men of World War II, who recovered millions of European treasures looted by the Nazis. But more than two years after the Army, with some fanfare, announced the new effort, styled after the old, of dedicated art experts working in a military capacity to preserve the treasures of the past, the program is still not up and running. T ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of the âWhistlerâs Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernanâ exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (26 February - 22 May 2022) showing James McNeill Whistler, Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks, 1864. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Photo: © Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry. This exhibition is organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London and by the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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| Matthias Bitzer's first exhibition in China opens at Almine Rech Shanghai | | Michael Stipe, another outsider at the art fair | | Royal Academy of Arts brings together nearly all of James Abbott McNeill Whistler's depictions of Joanna Hiffernan | 
Matthias Bitzer, you in the space; the space in you, 2021 - Ink, acrylic and pins on canvas, artist frame - 244 x 214 x 7 cm, 96 1/4 x 84 1/4 x 2 3/4 in / © Matthias Bitzer - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech. Photo: Nick Ash.
SHANGHAI.- Almine Rech Shanghai opened you in the Space; the space in you, Matthias Bitzers sixth solo exhibition with the gallery and his first exhibition in China. The works in you in the space; the space in you evince a turn inwardsa subtle contemplation of how time, memory, and perception can be captured as a complex, relational space. Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli argues that there is nothing intrinsic about the flowing of time, describing its movements instead as a blurred reflection of a mysterious improbability of the universe at a point in the past. The secret of time, Rovelli claims, lies in this slippage that we feel on our pulse, viscerally, in the enigma of memory, in anxiety about the future. Drawing upon memory, the visual legacy of modernist abstraction, hermetic allusions to literature, and personal symbology, the recent works of German artist Matthias Bitzer echo Rovellis assertio ... More | | 
Michael Stipe, the musician, artist and collector, with some some of his collections, at his home in Athens, Ga., Feb. 14, 2022. Irina Rozovsky/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the video for R.E.M.s first single, Radio Free Europe, the bands members can be seen walking in slow-motion through the Summerville, Georgia, home and yard of self-taught artist and Baptist minister Howard Finster. A landscape of lush foliage packed with folk art sculptures and salvaged objects, Finsters Paradise Garden combined the regional traditions of evangelism and do-it-yourself object-making and had become a popular pilgrimage spot for South Georgia artists, musicians and other creative types. The garden gave R.E.M.s 1983 video a dreamlike quality and a recognizably Southern sense of place, setting it apart from the other hits on MTV at the time. Finster, whose art was also featured on the cover of R.E.M.s second album, Reckoning, was one of several Southern outsider artists championed by the band and its frontman Michael Stipe during their early years in the vibrant indie-rock music scene of Athens, Georgia. A ... More | | 
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks, 1864. Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 61.3 cm. The John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
LONDON.- Whistlers Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan is the first exhibition to examine the important role played by the Irish-born model Joanna Hiffernan (1839?1886) in establishing the reputation of the American artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) as one of the most influential artists of the late 19th century. Consisting of over 70 works, the exhibition brings together nearly all of Whistlers depictions of Hiffernan, and includes paintings, prints, drawings, and related art works and ephemera. Whistlers Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan explores the pairs professional and personal relationship over more than 20 years and examines how the artwork resulting from their collaboration has influenced and resonated with artists into the 20th century. The exhibition is arranged thematically in six sections. London in the 1860s features depictions of London including Whistlers Wapping, 1860-64 (National Gallery of Art, Washington) and other ... More |
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| The Mediterranean will be at the heart of ARCOmadrid 2023 | | Ticket from Jackie Robinson's pro debut, jersey from Mickey Mantle's final game set records at Heritage Auctions | | Nathalie Herschdorferne appointed director of Photo Elysée, Musée Cantonal pour la Photographie | 
ARCOmadrid will celebrate its 42nd edition from February 22nd to 26th, 2023.
MADRID.- The 42nd edition of ARCOmadrid, the fair organised by IFEMA MADRID, will be held from February 22nd to 26th, 2023 with the Mediterranean as its core project. `The Mediterranean: A Round Sea´, the programme curated by Marina Fokidis with the advice of Bouchra Khalili and Hila Peleg will revolve around the art scenes of the countries surrounding it, from south to north and coast to coast. The curatorial team will present a series of artists and galleries from the countries of this rich and complex geography. In addition to the selection of galleries, there will also be a forum dedicated to research into the shared culture of the Mediterranean countries, to take place on the Friday and Saturday of the fair, in which collectors and curators will be joined by theorists, writers and performers who will generate a conceptual context that will accompany galleries and artists. Along with this programme Mediterranean: A Round S ... More | | 
1947 Brooklyn Dodgers Debut of Jackie Robinson Ticket Stub, PSA Good 2.
DALLAS, TX.- One of seven known ticket stubs from Jackie Robinsons big-league debut in the spring of 1947 sold Sunday morning for $480,000, making it the most expensive sporting-event ticket ever sold at auction. But Robinson wasnt the lone baseball hero to hit a major milestone during Heritage Auctions two-day Winter Platinum Night Sports Auction, which concludes Sunday night. The jersey worn by Mickey Mantle when he played his final game as a New York Yankee on Sept. 28, 1968, sold for $2,190,000. Thats the highest price ever paid at auction for a Mantle jersey, shattering the previous record of $1,320,000 set at Heritage Auctions in August 2018. Weve always known this was an incredibly special jersey, as The Mick wore it when he hit his 535th home run and then signed it for a dear friend, says Chris Ivy, founder and president of Heritage Sports. But when it was confirmed to be the very jersey he wore ... More | | 
Nathalie Herschdorfer is a curator, art historian and photo historian, and currently directs the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Le Locle, Switzerland.
LAUSANNE.- The Plateforme 10 Foundation, which brings together three Vaud cantonal museums on the site of the new Quartier des Arts in Lausanne, announced the appointment of Nathalie Herschdorfer as the new director of Photo Elysée, Musée Cantonal pour la Photographie. Nathalie Herschdorfer is a curator, art historian and photo historian, and currently directs the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Le Locle, Switzerland, whose reputation she has steadily increased since taking up her post in 2014. Her appointment as director of Photo Elysée marks a return to her roots for the Lausanne native, having already worked for the museum for over ten years as curator and exhibition director (from 1998 to 2010). Nathalie Herschdorfer convinced the selection jury with her in depth knowledge of photography and her experience in museum management as well as her national ... More |
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| signs and symbols opens an exhibition of works by Carol Szymanski | | On March 12, The Armond Conti Collection of Model Trains, Part 1, goes up for bid | | Slow Burn: Exhibition at The Phillips Museum of Art explores East Asian gardens and transformation | 
Installation view of You Pair How.
NEW YORK, NY.- signs and symbols is presenting You Pair How, a new exhibition by Carol Szymanski, which continues the artists ongoing investigation into the transmutability of language. Szymanskis longstanding interest in translating language and speech visually beginning with her first solo show The Broken Phoneme in 1987, which broke down words to their basic and distinct parts, their phonemes extends itself now to the analysis and translation of gesture, crediting it as the natural visual action of expression. The Go-Between, a match-making project in which Szymanski plays the artist-matchmaker to anonymous participants, gives her the material to isolate and watch gesture in action. The go-arounds (or dates), captured in video and transmuted into Polaroid photography, sound, and a wall painting incorporating neon, speak aesthetically to the underlying properties and patterns of gesture itself. Speaki ... More | | 
Right of Way Industries O Gauge 0-4-0 Saddle Tanker #5201. Southern Pacific #9911 in original packaging. 3 Rail AC operation. Estimate $300-$500.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present The Armond Conti Collection of Model Trains, Part 1, on Saturday, March 12, 2022, at 10:30 am PST. Featuring over 250 lots from the estate of a Northern Californian who collected trains for over 75 years, the sale presents a variety of fine, distinctive, and desirable pre-war and post-war train offerings some new old stock, some limited editions, some unused, and some with original boxes. These include diesel and steam locomotives, numerous sets and groupings, and a wide selection of train cars and related lots, such as copter, crane, ore, and fire cars; and a coal loader, snowplow, and ballast tamper. Some accessories are also available, including track, switches, turntables, a transformer, and platforms. Among the manufacturers are Lionel, MTH, ... More | | 
Installation view.
LANCASTER, PA.- Sandra Eula Lee is a multidisciplinary artist who transforms familiar objects and materials, sometimes reframing them and at other times altering their chemistry through the application of heat, fire, or fermentation. Slow Burn is Lees new solo exhibition at The Phillips Museum of Art. In the exhibition catalog, Curator Karen Patterson observes, Certain treatments can render a seemingly dormant object into something more intimate. Whether through endless hours drawing, instinctive and playful assemblage, or firing terra-cotta tiles in the kiln, Sandra pushes objects and materials into the realm of the unexpected, the unexplored. Thoughtful about how different surfaces can trigger emotions and unearth memories, Sandra first unhinges our ties to previous contexts and then instinctively proposes new connections, possibilities, and new narratives. Lee often uses industrial materials in her ... More |
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| Lenbachhaus extends "Group Dynamics: Collectives of the Modernist Period" until June 12 | | Family Reunion: Portraits by Timothy J. Clark now on view at Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts Gallery | | Museum der Moderne Salzburg opens an exhibition of photographs by Marion Kalter | 
Emilio Pettoruti (18921971), The Blind Flutist / El flautista ciego, 1920. Private Collection, Buenos Aires and New York © Fundación Pettoruti. Photo: Sotheby's, Maya Mehta.
MUNICH.- Beijing, Buenos Aires, Bombay (todays Mumbai), Casablanca, Khartoum, Kyoto, Lahore, ŁÃ³dź, Nsukka, São Paulo, Tokyo: in the twentieth century, artists all over the world banded together in collectives. The tendency of like-minded individuals to work in groups and support each other is universal; yet the concerns pursued by these groups, their aesthetic methods, political objectives, and utopian visions, express themselves in widely diverse ways depending on the time and place. The exhibition "Group DynamicsCollectives of the Modernist Period" examines selected examples to shed a light on the emergence and evolution of collectives and their engagement with the societies and cultures around them. The period under consideration in the presentationfrom around 1910 to the 1980sspans international modernization movements and anticolonial ... More | | 
Timothy J. Clark, Faith Ringold with Die, 2020. Charcoal on laid paper, 24 ½ x 19.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Family Reunion: Portraits by Timothy J. Clark is currently on view at Howard Universitys Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts Gallery. Continuing in the tradition of John Singer Sargent that celebrates the relationship between drawing and painting, Clark hailed for his still lifes, architectural interiors and exteriors, and portraitsis among Americas foremost watercolor artists. At the invitation of Dr. Lisa Farrington, director of the Howard University Gallery of Art, who curated the exhibition, Clark was asked to create new works for his one-man shownamely portraits of the family of friends with whom he has maintained close personal relationships throughout his life. Among them are the painters Gaye Ellington, the granddaughter of Duke Ellington, Faith Ringgold and James Little; musicians Jack McVea, Teddy Buckner, Art Davis, Michael White, and others from the world of jazz. Created over the past year, this suite of stunning portraits s ... More | | 
James Baldwin, Ted Joans, Paris, 1976, gelatin silver print, courtesy of the artist, © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2022.
SALZBURG.- The photographs of Marion Kalter (Salzburg, AT, 1951) are always about people. As a young journalist, she was already interested in human subjects, such as the authors Anaïs Nin and Susan Sontag and the artists Joan Mitchell and Meret Oppenheim. Kalters encounter with the artist, musician, and performer Ted Joans proved to be decisive for her life and career as a photographer Joans was an important figure in the American Beat Generation, which was centered around Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and was a charismatic jazz poet. Kalter got to know Joans in Paris in 1974, where she was attending courses at the Académie des Beaux-Arts after having studied painting and art history in the United States. Kalter became close friends with Joans and accompanied him through Paris with her camera, going to the American Cultural Center and to galleries and readings at the bookshop Shakespeare and Company. She also went with him on trips to North ... More |
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Gallery Tour: 20th Century & Contemporary Art | London | March 2022
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 Michelle Poonawalla displays her tiger sculpture at Supertree Grove, Gardens by the BaySINGAPORE.- Michelle Poonawalla is showcasing her sculpture Striped Tiger as a part of WWF-Singapores AR-mazing Tiger Trail at Supertree Grove, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore. The 6-week (26 February - 9 April 2022) island-wide installation of life-sized tiger art sculptures and tiger inspired art pieces, designed and decorated by international and local artists. In partnership with WWF-Singapore, an online auction will be held by Sothebys to auction off 33 life size tiger sculptures. Bidding will open on 12 April and close on 26 April 2022. WWF-Singapores AR-mazing Tiger Trail features paintings, prints, sculptures and ceramics by internationally acclaimed artists, raising awareness of the importance of the tigers role in mitigating climate change and protecting biodiversity. The 6-week trail will also include programming such as curated art tours ... More  Urban infrastructure, security, retail, and gentrification feaatured in new exhibition at Abrons Art CenterNEW YORK, NY.- Return Sale, a new in-person exhibition featuring the work of artists Christian Hincapié, Emily Jacir, and Rose Salane, documents the entwined relationship between consumerism and securitization within retail spaces in Lower Manhattan. Through an examination of defunct, destroyed, and rebuilt malls and department stores, the exhibition traces the mall-ification of Lower Manhattan parallel to cycles of crisis in the city. Return Sale is commissioned by Abrons Arts Center with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, and the Center for Human Rights and the Arts, Open Society University Network. Curated by Camila Palomino, a 2021-2022 Curatorial Resident at Abrons, the exhibition is on view through April 3, at Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand Street, NYC) by appointment. ... More  Discovery of silver stashed away since the 1920sLONDON.- A private collection of silver stashed away in boxes by an English gentleman in the 1920s, has been found by his family years later. The fascinating treasure trove was found to contain forty exceptionally rare early spoons, some from as far back as the 1400s. Such a large collection of early spoons is rarely seen on the market and as well as being highly decorative, are of the highest quality silver and rare examples in their own right. The spoons range in estimate from £100-£8,000 (and hold a collective conservative estimate total of £55,000). They will be offered in Dreweatts upcoming Fine Jewellery, Silver, Watches and Luxury Accessories on March 8th, 2022, while the entire stash (90 lots) carries an estimate of over £150,000. James Nicholson, Deputy Chairman, International Head of Jewellery, Silver and Watches at Dreweatts ... More  Alexei Ratmansky, with family in Kyiv, leaves his ballet in MoscowNEW YORK, NY.- Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, the former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet who is now artist in residence at American Ballet Theatre, was preparing a new ballet at the Bolshoi in Moscow when President Vladimir Putin of Russia made his announcement, early Thursday morning, that he had launched an invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Ratmansky, who grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine, and danced there early in his career, immediately decided to leave Moscow, and with the help of the Bolshoi, made arrangements to travel home to New York via Warsaw, Poland, along with the rest of his international creative team. It was as if we were on a fast-moving train, rushing toward the finish, Ratmansky said of the rehearsal period, in an interview Saturday. The news was bad, but I was absolutely torn between creation, love and desperation ... More  FRAMED 2022: A new outdoor gallery for BatterseaLONDON.- Throughout 2021, Wandsworth Councils FRAMED projects turned the boroughs streets into vibrant outdoor art galleries, with works by local artists displayed on lamppost banners. Livening up the high streets, and encouraging people discover the work of artists living in their neighbourhoods, FRAMED has also provided a platform for artists to exhibit their work safely during the pandemic. For 2022, FRAMED presents a new cohort of 32 lamppost banner artworks, taking over Falcon Road and Grant Road in Clapham Junction, featuring 14 new artists as well as displaying 18 who took part in 2021. Artworks have been selected from the artists and makers featured on Wandsworth Art, a digital project launched in 2020 after the pandemic cancelled all exhibitions and events, including the annual Wandsworth Artist Open House. ... More  Younès Rahmoun's fourth solo exhibition at Imane Farès opens in ParisPARIS.- Imane Farès is presenting the fourth solo exhibition of Younès Rahmoun at the gallery. A journal with a text by Sandrine Wymann, director of the Kunsthalle Mulhouse, accompanies the exhibition. It would be tempting to say that Younès Rahmouns art is about traveling, that he is a pilgrim in a quest for the absolute who wanders with his feet on the ground and wisdom in his mind. Ever since the first drawings he made while living with his older brother in the family home of Tétouan, in Morocco, up until the new artworks and installations of this latest exhibition, he has been traveling in an infinite space, seeking transcendence. He patiently progresses through a mystical and artistic practice, keen to attain moments of grace and to foster such moments within the viewer. Each of Younès Rahmouns artworks and exhibitions is a new spiritual experience. ... More  Photo London lines up a strong seventh edition: Nick Knight announced as this year's Master of PhotographyLONDON.- The pioneering photographer and filmmaker will present an exhibition of his work at Somerset House for Photo Londons seventh edition, 1215 May 2022. This years public programme also includes a homage to the legendary photographer Frank Horvat, who died in 2020. As it prepares for its seventh edition, Photo London has announced British photographer Nick Knight will be the seventh recipient of the Photo London Master of Photography Award that will take place at Somerset House in May 2022. The award is presented every year to a living artist who has made an exceptional contribution to photography. Commenting on the emerging seventh edition, Photo Londons Founders, Michael ... More  Para Site appoints new Executive DirectorHONG KONG.- Para Site, Hong Kongs leading contemporary art centre and one of the oldest and most active independent art institutions in Asia, is thrilled to announce Billy Tang as its new executive director and curator. Tang will assume the role in May 2022, succeeding Cosmin Costinas, executive director and curator since 2011, who will depart to join a German institution, after also serving as the artistic director of Kathmandu Triennale 2022 and co-curator of the Romanian Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale. During his eleven-year tenure, Costinas oversaw profound institutional transformations, with Para Site becoming a leading platform in Asia for curatorial experimentation, critical discourse, publications, and institutional responsibility. Under his directorship, Para Site has gone through a major relocation and expansion, established ... More  Exhibition marks New York debut of large-scale immersive work by Kim FalerNEW YORK, NY.- PALO Gallery is presenting Kim Faler: Double Bubble, the artists first New York solo exhibition, featuring the celebrated immersive installation of the same name most recently exhibited at MASS MoCA as part of the Fall 2021 exhibition Kissing Through A Curtain. This is the artists largest gallery installation to date and marks an integral step for the artist contemplating sound as sculpture. At first approach seemingly whimsical and ethereal, Double Bubble seeks to explore recent latent collective anxiety and the weight and manifestations of resulting unconscious emotional struggles, a central theme of Falers across interdisciplinary practice spanning sculpture, painting and photography. Faler is known for sourcing content from the quotidien, and questioning the value placed on memories, routines and the passage of time ... More  The writer who brought real-life Brooklyn to soap operasNEW YORK, NY.- Growing up in the 1970s and early 1980s, that great period of parental absenteeism, I spent most weekday afternoons on the floor of my grandmothers bedroom in front of a small television that sat next to the door to her veranda, a sunlit space covered in wisteria that still could not compete with the pleasures of ABCs daytime lineup. Home by 3, I could join my grandmother for General Hospital and, later, The Edge of Night, whose storylines bent toward crime and courtroom drama but nevertheless accommodated the absurdist narrative mandates of soap opera. A chilly and practical immigrant who spent her evenings writing poetry in her native Sicilian dialect, my grandmother was an unlikely candidate for addiction to the Amnesia Plot, but there we were, picking at butter cookies, enthralled every time another ... More  Heidi Hahn presents a new body of work at Kohn GalleryLOS ANGELES, CA.- Kohn Gallery opened Soft Joy, Heidi Hahns second solo presentation with the gallery. Known for her lushly evocative compositions of melancholic figures, Hahn wholly prioritizes the female experience. This new body of work, comprised of large-scale paintings, examines bodily autonomy through the creation of personal space in the context of paint, ownership over imagery and materiality, and the representation of privacy in the midst of vulnerability. Hahn writes, I paint my own experiences, which happens to come from a female perspective. I think these paintings try to contend with the way women have usually been represented, which is through an erotic lens even while masqurading as liberation and freedom. I dont feel free from the violence imposed on my body. I dont feel free displaying the erotic of my body for the pleasure ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English illustrator John Tenniel was born February 28, 1820. Sir John Tenniel (28 February 1820 - 25 February 1914) was an English illustrator, graphic humorist, and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century. He was knighted for his artistic achievements in 1893. Tenniel is remembered especially as the principal political cartoonist for Punch magazine for over 50 years, and for his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871).In this image: John Tenniel, A Conspiracy, oil on panel, August 1850. Private collection, UK.
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