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NEW YORK, NY.- Vallarino Fine Arts Recent Acquisitions video focuses on their obsession in regards to purchasing art. In the past year VFA has purchased 195 works of art and 65 since the first of October making their obsession much more an addiction of passion! VFA owns everything they sell and purchases something almost daily. The process of their buying habits consists of numerous points but first and foremost is quality. Their purchases fall into categories of specific artists, dates and a variety of Post War movements that are of interest to them. As you are viewing their video you will see examples by artists such as Arshile Gorky, Hans Hofmann, Jean Dubuffet, Alexander Calder, Robert Motherwell, Michael Goldberg, Jack Tworkov, Ernest Briggs, Theodoros Stamos, Byron Browne and Suzy Frelinghuysen. The addictive aspect to their purchasing is in the CHASE and DETECTION for uncovering works that have been hidden away forever and when purchased from an auction they trust themselves ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This photograph shows the empty Corridor of the Denon wing, Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, at the Louvre Museum in Paris, on January 8, 2021. The devastating impact on tourism and culture was once again underscored on January 8 with the Louvre in Paris, the world's biggest museum, announcing its visitor numbers had fallen by 70 percent last year. Martin BUREAU / AFP
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| In 177 portraits, an artist's homage to his Bed-Stuy muse | | Rauschenberg exhibition available as virtual tour during lockdown | | 'My Rembrandt' review: Seeing a Dutch master everywhere |
The artist Kambui Olujimi at his Long Island City studio with new works, called North Star, that combine painting and collage and conjure Black figures in a state of weightlessness, Oct. 1, 2020. Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times.
by Siddhartha Mitter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Growing up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in the 1980s, artist Kambui Olujimi had a fulfilled childhood in the span of a single block, on Quincy Street. Families shared cultural roots in the South and the Caribbean. The children played together, clustering by age, using the biggest tree on the block as home base for games of hot-peas-and-butter and freeze tag. Parents kept an eye on all the kids. Bed-Stuy in those days was a patchwork, Olujimi recalled. Some blocks were derelict and dangerous. But Quincy Street between Patchen Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard was the other kind: vibrant with family and community life. This block was tight, Olujimi said. This was a block. ... More | |
Robert Rauschenberg, Flue, 1980. Solvent transfer, acrylic and collage on paper, 80.6 x 62.2 cm © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation licensed by DACS London.
LONDON.- In line with new restrictions in the UK, Metal, Ink & Dye: Late Works from Captiva Island, BASTIANs first London exhibition of works by Robert Rauschenberg (1928-2008), can now be experienced as a virtual tour for online visitors. A narrated video will guide visitors round the physical London gallery which has been fully installed to create a sense of permanence despite actual viewing being online at present. Detail shots and videos will allow visitors to experience each work up close and in depth. No other artist in the 20th Century has celebrated the social and economic trajectory of the United States in such efficient terms as Robert Rauschenberg and, in the same breath, enabled the viewer to take part in the journey, rather than being mere spectators. This exhibition will focus on Rauschenbergs metal assemblages from the Glut series (1986-89 and 1991-94) and a selection of innovative dye-transfer ... More | |
My Rembrandt is set in the world of the Old Masters and offers a mosaic of gripping stories in which unrestrained passion for Rembrandts paintings leads to dramatic developments and unexpected plot turns.
by Ben Kenigsberg
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For the documentary My Rembrandt, director Oeke Hoogendijk assembles an assortment of Rembrandt owners and experts whose interests in the Dutch master have, for different reasons, taken on faintly obsessive dimensions. The Duke of Buccleuch in Scotland speaks of the subject of Old Woman Reading (1655) as if she were alive (she is the most powerful presence in this house) and strives to find the ideal viewing angle and lighting for the painting in a new room. Billionaire investor Thomas S. Kaplan, who has to pause when tallying how many Rembrandts he owns, recalls kissing one as soon as he had the legal right to do so. The competition between the Louvre in Paris and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to purchase a pair of Rembrandts becomes a ... More |
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| Kayne Griffin Corcoran opens a solo exhibition of sculptural works by Robert Irwin | | Eli Wilner & Company on the framing of a painting by Frederic Leighton | | Exhibition comprises a mix of both studio paintings as well as self portraits dating to the 80s and 90s Peri Schwartz |
Installation view.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kayne Griffin Corcoran is presenting Unlights, a solo exhibition of sculptural works by Southern California based artist Robert Irwin. This will be Irwins inaugural exhibition with the gallery and the first time this body of work is being exhibited on the West Coast. This exhibition will be on view through February 27th 2021. Irwins new works are composed from unlit six-foot fluorescent lights mounted to fixtures and installed in vertical rows directly on the wall. The glass tubes are covered in layers of opulently colored translucent gels and thin strips of electrical tape, allowing the reflective surfaces of unlit glass and anodized aluminum to interact with ambient illumination in the surrounding space and produce shifting patterns of shadow and chromatic tonality. Reflecting his recent turn toward the perceptual possibilities of unlit bulbs, Irwins new body of work expands the range of possibilities ... More | |
Frederic Leighton's Venus Disrobing for the Bath, oil on canvas, 80 ⅛ x 35 ⅞ inches (203 x 91 cm) in a replica frame by Eli Wilner & Company for for a Sotheby's New York auction.
NEW YORK, NY.- The master framers at Eli Wilner & Company have been proud to have created period-appropriate replica frames for many masterpieces by the Pre-Raphaelite artists including Frederic Leighton (1830-1896), Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), and John William Godward (1861-1922), among many others. One of the most notable of these undertakings, was the creation of a gilded tabernacle frame for Leightons Venus Disrobing for the Bath, oil on canvas, 80 ⅛ x 35 ⅞ inches (203 x 91 cm). The replica frame, with a price of $65,000, was created for an auction at Sothebys New York and featured in the exhibition. A recent article published by The Frame Blog, titled: Olympian frames: Frederic, Lord Leighton, gives an in-depth and comprehensive view ... More | |
Peri Schwartz, Self portrait, 1989. Oil on board, 17 x 14.
BOSTON, MASS.- Gallery NAGA welcomes a new year with an exhibition of paintings by Peri Schwartz. Peri Schwartz: Self Portraits & Studio Paintings opened to the public on Friday, January 8. Gallery NAGAs hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 to 5, no appointment necessary. The exhibition comprises a mix of both studio paintings as well as self portraits dating to the 80s and 90s. The studio paintings reflect Schwartzs long history of using her space as her subject matter. In the studio, where she creates stage sets using books, bottles, and the architecture of the space, she is constantly arranging, re-arranging, adding, and subtracting objects in each painting. Schwartz plays with the scale of her space using bottles and jars set against the backdrop of large blocks of color, which is then set against a window to the exterior of her studio in New Rochelle, NY. Her palette is filled with both pastel and vibrant tones and ... More |
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| DC Moore Gallery now reprsents New York-based artist Theresa Daddezio | | Friedman Benda opens its seventh annual guest-curated exhibition Split Personality | | Paula Cooper Gallery opens an exhibition of recent work by Justin Matherly |
Theresa Daddezio, Blue Slip, 2019. Oil on linen, 50 x 35 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery announced its representation of New York-based artist Theresa Daddezio with her debut inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery, Altum Corpus, featuring new paintings on view from January 7 30. Daddezio explores optics, nature, and movement within a language of painting, as she considers the histories of Color Field painting and biomorphic abstraction. Drawing from a background in dance and music, she creates organic shapes referencing movements of the body rendered within systematized applications of color and linework. A vibratory, sonic quality of expanding and compressing tubular entities shift with various interactions of movement. Altum Corpus, which translates from Latin as both sea/tide and high/body, evokes a semantic ambiguity between the words and their associations to the organic and illusionary. Embodying time and place, Daddezio creates optical ... More | |
Toomas Toomepuu [American, b. 1995], Dreamer and Dream, 2020. Wood, glass, copper, stainless steel, mild steel, aluminum, plywood, paint, silicone, varnish, gold leaf, suede, velvet, 55 x 93 x 50 in. Courtesy of Friedman Benda and Toomas Toomepuu.
NEW YORK, NY.- Friedman Benda presents its seventh annual guest-curated exhibition Split Personality. Curated by Alice Stori Liechtenstein, independent curator and founder of Schloss Hollenegg for Design, the exhibition explores how functional objects undergo a process of mutation to acquire symbolic value, and thus develop split personalities that oscillate between their different identities. The works on display at Friedman Benda, ambiguously classifiable as chairs, tables, rugs, are meant as furniture of practical and comfortable nature. And yet, as the curator Alice Stori Liechtenstein puts it, the personality and implicit meaning of these pieces are so assertive that they appear to be at odds with the function. In the course of history, objects (and furniture ... More | |
Installation view, Justin Matherly: Compost, Paula Cooper Gallery, 524 W 26th Street, New York, January 7 February 20, 2021. Photo: Steven Probert. © Justin Matherly. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- A presentation of recent work by Justin Matherly, the artists fifth one-person show with Paula Cooper Gallery, opened Thursday, January 7 at 524 West 26th Street. Building from his previous exhibitions in both Zurich and New York, Compost references the sculpture of Greek and Roman antiquity to examine the human figure and convalescence as major tropes throughout art history. Matherlys rough-hewn objectscast in concrete, gypsum, fiberglass resin, and other contemporary materialsallude to corporeal and historical decay and entropy, eternal regeneration and continuity. Juxtaposing classical elements with anachronistic and humorous details, Matherly explores psychological and bodily trauma, and the often oblique or recursive path of convalescence. Two towering sculptures both ... More |
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| "Collectors Edition": The 50 most iconic works by famous photographer David Drebin in 1 spectacular publication | | New book explores the friendship between Pablo Picasso and the French poet André Salmon | | George W. Bush's childhood home eyed for National Park Service inclusion |
David Drebin, Swept Away, 2018 © David Drebin / teNeues.
BERLIN.- The Canadian-born, New York-based David Drebin (*1970) ranks among the most renowned contemporary artists today. After graduating from Parsons School of Design in 1996, he began his career in commercial photography and advertising, creating images of movie stars, sports personalities, and entertainers, in addition to countless high-profile campaigns around the world. Drebins art career initially took off with an exhibition in 2004 at the Los Angeles-based gallery, Fahey Klein. Not only did Elton John purchase his work and become a frequent collector, David Drebin was also introduced to CAMERA WORK Berlin, where he had his first of five exhibitions in 2005. Since then, the artist has worked with a host of A-list celebrities while his work has been shown in numerous exhibitions over the last decade, including in Vienna, Amsterdam, Brussels, to Paris, Berlin and Istanbul, and been featured at many of the most prestigious art fairs. Today, more than ever, his images continue to capti ... More | |
Jacqueline Gojard, Pablo Picasso and André Salmon: The Painter, the Poet and the Portraits, bi-lingual edition. Available on Amazon.
NEW YORK, NY.- Za Mir Press announced the first book dedicated exclusively to the 64 years of friendship between the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and the French poet André Salmon, a member of Picassos Gang (la bande à Picasso), along with poets Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob. Salmon expert Jacqueline Gojard, Professor of Literature, University of Paris III (Sorbonne nouvelle), explains their encoded humor and affection which nurtured their mutual understanding and aesthetic goals. Art historian Beth S. Gersh-Neić translated Professor Gojard's essay from French to English. Both Salmon scholars created the first chronology of the Picasso-Salmon relationship for this publication. André Salmon is best known for the Anecdotal History of Cubism, in his book La Jeune Peinture française (Young French Painting), published in 1912. This chapter on Cubism was a beginners guide to a radically innovative movement which revolutionized ... More | |
The breakfast table in the kitchen of George W. Bushs childhood home in Midland, Texas on Feb. 14, 2012. Jim Wilson/The New York Times.
by Maria Cramer
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The 1,400-square-foot house in Midland, Texas, where former President George W. Bush spent part of his childhood is under consideration to become part of the national park system, the National Park Service said. The park service said it had started a special resource study, as directed by Congress in 2019, to examine the eligibility of the home on West Ohio Avenue as a new unit of the national park system. The study will gather information about the house, and the findings will be reported to Congress, according to the park service. The agency also said in an announcement last month that it would hold a virtual meeting for the public on Jan. 26 to learn more about Bushs former home, which has already been turned into a museum. The homes precise designation in the park system was not immediately clear, and a park ... More |
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Denny Dimin Gallery opens a solo exhibition of works by Amir H. Fallah
NEW YORK, NY.- Denny Dimin Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition by Amir H. Fallah, Better a Cruel Truth Than a Comfortable Delusion, running from January 8 to February 20, 2021, at its New York location. This is the artists second solo exhibition with the gallery. An Iranian-American artist based in Los Angeles, Amir H. Fallah and his parents came to the United States in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. Fallah is best known for richly detailed portraits of people whose families and identities were similarly formed by immigration, assimilation, and otherness. In his past work, the artist explored the traditional conventions of portraiture while masking his subjects physical characteristics with fabrics and a standardized skin tone. Instead of physically representing his subjects, he allowed them to narrate their own stories through the objects they ... More
Thomas Erben Gallery presents Newsha Tavakolian's For the Sake of Calmness
NEW YORK, NY.- Thomas Erben Gallery is presenting Tehran based Newsha Tavakolian's For the Sake of Calmness (19min, 2020). The film depicts a bifurcated state of mind, removed from the real world while being hyper sensitively affected by it. Usually, Tavakolian's camera is directed towards other people's struggles - the artist is a member of Magnum Photos since 2019 - but here she directs the lens inwardly, taking her recurring experience with PMS as a point of departure. Tavakolian's inner monologue leads us through a labyrinthine set of scenes, each hauntingly speaking of painful stasis. Unable to express their emotions, the films protagonists instead transpire their interior tensions. With redemption seemingly out of reach, For The Sake of Calmness offers an apt metaphor mirroring our current uncertainties. This is Tavakolian's third solo ... More
Exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery looks at paintings from the final decade of Wolf Kahn's life
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery is presenting an exhibition by Wolf Kahn. The Last Decade: 2010 - 2020 opened on 7 January at 520 West 21st Street and will remain on view through 13 February 2021. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring an essay by Assistant Professor Alex J. Taylor. Looking at paintings from the final decade of Wolf Kahns life, it is easy to find an aesthetic pleasure that makes it effortless to focus on the relations of color and form. While these relationships are carefully ordered, for Kahn they are never merely restful. The paintings vivid color palettes are engaged by the experiences and sensations of the natural world. Kahns landscapes are also connected to a social imagination. I want people to participate freely in my paintings...to connect my paintings as directly as possible ... More
More than the girl next door: 8 actors on Emily in 'Our Town'
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Life is a quiet affair in Grovers Corners, New Hampshire. Its citizens dont do drama or fuss. But Thornton Wilders Our Town, set amid the mountains there, is no folksy paean to simplicity. Its a boldly experimental play about the beauty of the every day and humans tragic propensity to look right past that. When that realization lands, late and joltingly, it arrives by way of a character we may have underestimated: Emily Webb, the brainy daughter of the towns newspaper editor. She vows that shell make speeches all her life, then falls in love with George Gibbs, the boy next door. If the storytelling Stage Manager is the plays marquee role, Emily is its beating heart and a rare complex canonical part for young actresses just starting out. After Our Town made its premiere Jan. 22, 1938, at McCarter Theater ... More
The song is you ... for the rest of your life
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- There are some songs that have lyrics so saturating of our psyche that they seem almost innate; that have crowds raising their drinks and bellowing along to the chorus in a dive bar at 2 a.m. well, maybe not that, at least not now. But what if that song that seems to be playing everywhere has an uncanny resonance? What if that song is actually about you? Songs named for people have long been part of the pop culture landscape: Dolly Partons Jolene, the elusive Lola name-dropped by the Kinks, the mysterious Roxanne (Sting, Arizona Zervas). Taylor Swifts new album, Evermore, has two tracks named for women; Marjorie appears to be inspired by Swifts grandmother. The other one, Dorothea, has set the internet alive with debate about its inspiration. All this is very familiar to Valerie Star, a ... More
Sunil Kothari, eminent scholar of Indian dance, dies at 87
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Few critics or historians have been so central to the performing arts as Sunil Kothari was to the world of Indian traditional dance. As a critic, scholar and teacher of youthful energy, he explored Indias rich dance spectrum in at least a dozen books, with choreographers and dancers all over the nation coming to know him as both an authority and a friend. He died Dec. 27 at 87 in the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in Delhi. Three weeks earlier he had announced on social media that he was ill from COVID-19 but was recovering. Soon after he was released, he suffered cardiac arrest and was taken to the hospital. Kothari, who frequently lectured in the United States, studied the traditions and techniques of dance forms from the north of India to the south, and from the east to the west, interviewing hundreds of gurus, ... More
Bryan Sykes, who saw the ancient past in genes, dies at 73
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Bryan Sykes, an Oxford geneticist, made his name as a swashbuckling public intellectual by studying the DNA of an alpine iceman, taking on ethnographer Thor Heyerdahls theory about the peopling of Polynesia, and analyzing samples said to come from yetis, almas and sasquatches but which, he showed, actually came from bears, pigs and people a disappointing result for Bigfoot hunters that didnt keep one of them from naming him cryptozoologist of the year in 2013. And it all started with a visit to the National Hamster Council. A researcher specializing in inherited bone diseases who was drawn into the burgeoning field of ancient DNA in the late 1980s, Sykes had a hunch that mitochondrial DNA, which passes largely intact from mother to child, could be used to trace the deep origins of human ... More
Stefanie Hauger's 'Stone Stacks' exhibition on view at Miaja Art Collections
SINGAPORE.- In her 5th solo exhibition, Miaja Art Collections presents Stefanie Haugers solo exhibition titled Stone Stacks This series is a departure from the use of acrylic paint, which was Stefanies medium of choice, back into oil and a more painterly, narrative approach. This series is a reflection on and purging of 10 years in Stefanies life during which she had to confront and process many raw emotional challenges. It all began with a game: choose one word to describe each year in the last decade, an honest summary of the overriding emotions of each of those 12 months. Each painting represents one of these years when the artist was struggling and battling for a way out of the darkness. Every canvas is a landmark of soul-searching, burying unwanted emotions and remnants of pain, and collectively these paintings become ... More
Marie-Laure Fleisch exhibits works by Bernardi Roig in dialogue with works by Nastasya F. Baraskhova
BRUSSELS.- MLF l Marie-Laure Fleisch is presenting Bernardi Roig's second exhibition in its space in Brussels, in dialogue with the works by Nastasya F. Baraskhova. Nastasya F. Baraskhova is the pseudonym of a Russian actress and painter, of undetermined age, closely linked to the underground scene of the so-called Moscow chamber theatre in the 90s. With an indolent but vigorous appearance, engulfed gaze and monomaniac character, she specialised in the interpretation of the monologues of a single character from Russian literature: the great tragic, vicious and virtuous figure, from Dostoevsky's The Idiot, Nastasya Filippovna. This single character actress is also a single theme painter; a reiterative and obstinate abstraction of vertical stripes, similar thickness, proportions and self-absorbed dimensions, always painted on ... More
The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art exhibits silkscreen color studies by Josef Albers
CHARLOTTE, NC.- The Bechtler Museum of Modern Arts newest exhibition, Josef Albers: The Interaction of Color is inspired by the Bechtler Museums rare German edition of The Interaction of Color, featuring 81 silkscreen color studies that serve as a record of Albers experiential way of studying and teaching color. Born in Germany in 1888, Josef Albers was one of the most influential artist-educators of the 20th century. Best known for his iconic color square paintings, his exploration and expansion of complex color theory principles and dedication to experiential education based on observation and experimentation, radically altered the trajectory of arts education in the United States. Forty-five years after the artists death, this exhibition presents a selection of works from The Interaction of Color, which was originally conceived of as a handbook and ... More
Virus curbs dampen Benin's voodoo festival
GRAND-POPO (AFP).- Benin held its annual voodoo festival Sunday without the usual grand processions after authorities of the West African country banned large gatherings because of the coronavirus pandemic. Voodoo, more often called "vodun" in the region, originated in the Kingdom of Dahomey, now Benin and neighbouring Togo. With a hierarchy of deities and tribal spirits of nature, the ancestral religion uses fetishes, magical practices and healing remedies, believed to be divine, and revered ancestors are believed to live alongside the living. The traditional processions staged in villages and cities across the country normally attract large crowds of believers as well as onlookers and tourists. But this year only small groups of faithful took part in observances mostly held at voodoo convents. On the beach of Grand-Popo, a coastal ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Parmigianino was born January 11, 1503. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (11 January 1503 - 24 August 1540) was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. His work is characterized by a "refined sensuality" and often elongation of forms and includes Vision of Saint Jerome (1527) and the iconic if somewhat untypical Madonna with the Long Neck (1534), and he remains the best known artist of the first generation whose whole careers fall into the Mannerist period. In this image: Virgin with Child, St. John the Baptist, and Mary Magdalene (about 1530-40).
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