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Researchers say Jacob van Ruysdaels romantic 17th-century landscape with a ruin, taken from a Jewish publisher in Berlin, is one of the works in the Gdansk museum that should be restituted. Photo: National Museum in Gdansk.
by Nina Siegal
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The systemic looting of Poland by the Nazis during World War II still resonates today in that country, where officials continue to seek the return of more than 63,000 works of art and cultural properties, many of which were stolen from Jews there. But experts say Poland has done a poor job of providing the same justice to Dutch Jews and others whose art works were stolen during the war and ended up in German-occupied Poland and now are part of official museum collections. Seven Dutch works that researchers have identified as missing are held by one museum in Gdansk. Scholars say they suspect dozens more are in art institutions in other Polish cities where the Nazis stored cultural artifacts they had looted, or bought under dubious circumstances, from the Netherlands. The Polish government wants to have as much as possible back, said Kamil Zeidler, a law professor at the University of Gdansk who has studied the issue, but they dont want to give anything back to o ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day On the occasion of Jonathan Monk's solo exhibition at CCA Tel Aviv, the artist is presenting the latest, sixth, iteration of a project called "Exhibit Model" that he has been showing in modified forms since 2016. Jonathan Monk, Exhibit Model Six - The Tel Aviv Version, Installation view with a work by Lisa Großkopf, Photo by Eyal Agivayev.
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 | | Anish Kapoor exhibit brings together a selection of new mirror works | | Britain moves to regulate its art trade. Bring your id | | £20 million David Hockney to make a splash at Sotheby's London | 
Installation view of Anish Kapoor at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, January 11 - February 16, 2020. Photo: Joshua White, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects opened an exhibition by renowned artist Anish Kapoor. Since the 1980s Kapoors ambitious practice has continuously expanded the limits of sculptural form by investigating scale, volume, color, and materiality. With this exhibition, the artists sixth solo presentation following his gallery debut in 1992, Kapoor brings together a selection of new mirror works that challenge optical perception and phenomenological experience through experiments in shape and form. The cornerstone of the exhibition is a monumental stainless-steel Double S-Curve. Expanding upon a singular work originally exhibited at Regen Projects in 2006, the sculpture's alternating concave and convex structure snakes through the center of the gallery. Simultaneously appearing both solid and liquid, its highly polished mirrored surfaces ... More | | 
Visitors sit near a work by Georg Baselitz, at the Frieze art fair in London. Andrew Testa/The New York Times.
by Scott Reyburn
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Britains embattled art trade, already rattled by the potential fallout from Brexit, is bracing for new rules intended to tackle money laundering and terrorism financing that some fear could further hamstring dealers in the country. As of Friday, art market participants in Britain are subject to the regulations when conducting transactions worth more than 10,000 euros, or about $11,100. Under the rules, they have to register with the governments tax agency, and dealers and auctioneers must establish the identity of the ultimate beneficial owner meaning both seller and buyer before entering into a transaction. The legislation, ratified last month by the British Parliament, introduces largely without modification a European Union directive that is at various stages of implementation in other ... More | | 
David Hockney, The Splash, 1966, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 72 inches. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- A breath-taking realisation of David Hockneys Californian fantasy, The Splash is set to make waves in London this February when it stars in Sothebys Contemporary Art Evening Auction. The painting will be offered with an estimate of £20-30 million over six times the price achieved when the work last sold at auction for £2.9 million ($5.4 million) at Sothebys London in 2006, where it made a record for the artist at auction at the time. Painted in 1966, The Splash immortalises a fleeting moment just seconds after a diver has broken the calm surface of a swimming pool. The paintings protagonist is present, yet absent, masked by a torrent of displaced water. The work is a quintessential example of Hockneys lifelong fascination with the texture, appearance and depth of water - a fascination which culminated in one of the most celebrated and instantly recognisable bodies of work ... More |
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| | Galerie Templon opens an exhibition of works by James Casebere | | David Reed's first exhibition of new work with Gagosian opens in New York | | Nicky Haslam's House of Commons | 
Bright Yellow House on Water, 2019. Framed archival pigment print mounted to dibond, 152,7 x 118,7 cm. Courtesy Galerie Templon, Paris - Bruxelles © James Casebere
PARIS.- For this new exhibition, James Casebere once again displays his mastery of staged photography with an original series that accurately lays bare major contemporary questions around climate change and the threat of environmental disaster. In 2016, in response to the alarming rise of populism in society, Casebere presented an exhibition in homage to Luis Barragán: an architectural ensemble paying tribute to a sense of spirituality. With this new work, On the Waters Edge, he sets his sights on the future with a series of novel hybrid structures, skilfully combining public spaces and private sanctuaries in coastal regions as he adopts a critical yet optimistic approach to the current disasters caused by rising sea levels. For the new show, the artist chose not to work with existing structures but to create new composite ensembles from scratch, their unfinished appearance turning them into sanctuaries of peace where every refugee ... More | | 
#710, 200509/201819. Acrylic, oil, and alkyd on polyester, 121 x 55 in. 307.3 x 139.7 cm © 2020 David Reed/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting David Reeds first exhibition of new work with the gallery, following Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975, a presentation of his early brushmark paintings curated by Katy Siegel and Christopher Wool at Gagosian New York in 2017. Since the outset of his career, Reeds central preoccupation has been to challenge and reinvent how to make a painting. Consistently, his paintings present a compelling tension between the gestural and the impersonal; in recent times this has been characterized by fluid, torquing, extended marks that reveal the viscosity of paint and the speed of color and light in a flattened manner that looks photographic or filmic. When Reed came to New York from Southern California in the 1960s, he entered an art scene skeptical about paintings ability to be progressive. The young artist sympathized with the humanist, even metaphysical impulse in the work of painters such as his te ... More | | 
Nicky Haslam, now 80, at his flat in London, Dec. 30, 2019. Gioncarlo Valentine/The New York Times.
by Guy Trebay
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Lunch, or perhaps late breakfast, for Nicky Haslam was eggs Benedict and two coffee martinis. The setting was the Wolseley, the Piccadilly institution that has lost little of its luster since restaurateurs Chris Corbin and Jeremy King transformed what had been an auto showroom and later a chop suey joint into a high-style brasserie in 2003. Perched at an adjacent table were billionaire Henry Kravis and his wife, Marie-Josée, a matte black crocodile Hermès Birkin beside her on a banquette. In 2018, an all but identical handbag was hammered down at a Hong Kong auction for $175,000, but never mind that. Wealth displays are, in Haslams view, vulgar or common, a term whose deployment he has parlayed into a personal franchise. At semiregular intervals, Haslam issues lists of things he disapproves of on the entirely arbitrary grounds of taste. The lists include although are not limited to scented candles, celebrity chefs, ... More |
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| | Shin Gallery opens exhibition of works by Joseph Cornell and Stephen Antonakos | | Fossil reveals Earth's oldest known animal guts | | New work by Teresa Margolles on view at James Cohan | 
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- Shin Gallery is presenting together ten works of emotion and precision from master of enigma Joseph Cornell and lifelong com-poser of forms Stephen Antonakos. Both artists arrange found objects and art materials succinctly, in highly specific placements that define each works meanings or at least its questions. Both worked mainly in New York: Cornell in his mothers house on Utopia Parkway in Queens and Antonakos in Soho. Both had work in Martha Jacksons brilliant 1960 exhibition New Forms New Media I and in the Byron Gallerys important 1965 show Boxes. Cornells boxes, and here his frames, have such a tight grip on their enclosed images they seem to exist outside time. In the 1930s engraving, the young legs pedal urgently, but the bicycles wheels are slashed by the etchings left and right edges. The central, slightly tinted ... More | | 
Illustrated views of Cloudina, a worm that lived about 550 million years ago. Stacy Turpin Cheavens, University of Missouri via The New York Times.
by Lucas Joel
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- They say you should trust your gut, which is what Emmy Smith did when she went hunting for fossils in 2016. Smith, a field geologist, had a hunch she would find something interesting at a site north of Pahrump, Nevada, and she did. But what her gut hadnt told her was that some of those fossils would turn out to contain the oldest known animal guts on the planet. It was just really lucky, said Smith, who works at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and is part of the team that reported the find Friday in Nature Communications. The guts are those of an extinct animal called Cloudina, which looked like a worm made of a stack of ice cream cones and lived about 550 million years ... More | | 
Teresa Margolles, Super Speed, El Paso, Texas, 2020. © Teresa Margolles 2020. Image courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting an exhibition of new work by Teresa Margolles, on view from January 10 to March 1 at 48 Walker Street. This is the artists debut solo exhibition at James Cohan. Teresa Margolles investigates the social and aesthetic dimensions of conflict by infusing artwork with material traces of violence and loss. For this exhibition, she has created a new body of sculpture, photography, and installation that contends with the underlying causes of death and ongoing trauma on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border. Assembled in collaboration with communities affected by violence, the objects on view examine shared experience to underscore mutual accountability within a context of commemoration and collective mourning. Central to the exhibition ... More |
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| | Littlejohn Contemporary presents a group show at Bedford Playhouse | | Group exhibition explores the idea of still life | | Chemould Prescott Road exhibits works by N.S. Harsha | 
Tracy Fauver and Jacquie Littlejohn.
BEDFORD, NY.- Littlejohn Contemporary is presenting a group show of artworks by several of its gallery artists at Bedford Playhouse, Bedford, New York, January 6th through March 1st, 2020. A wine and cheese reception will be held on Thursday, January 16th, from 6pm until 8pm. A portion of the proceeds from sales of artwork in this exhibition will benefit future programming at the newly renovated Bedford Playhouse. Bedford Playhouse, home of the Clive Davis Arts Center, is an exciting resource for the community
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Karen Lederer, Popcorn, 2019. Acrylic and oil on panel, 40h x 30w in (101.60h x 76.20w cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Morgan Lehman is presenting Stilleven, a group exhibition that explores the idea of still life and features the works of five artists working in an array of disciplines and conceptual modes. One might define still life, (or stilleven in Dutch), as the artistic depiction of an arrangement of objects generally inanimate, commonplace, and personal in nature. Traditionally, these objects are rendered within a shallow spatial field that mimics the way we might encounter objects in our daily lives. Still life has ancient origins, developing into a highly refined art-historical genre in the Netherlands by the 16th Century, and continues to be a format full of possibilities for artists working today. Adriana Farmigas intimate views of everyday items reveal her ongoing interest in issues of monumentality, scale, and interstitial spaces. In these recent oil-on-panel paintings, bits of ... More | | 
N. S. Harsha, Donkeys giving birth here and there, 2018. Acrylic and gold foil on canvas, 190 X 150 cms.
MUMBAI.- N.S. Harsha's work has a rarity; his gallery exhibitions are few and far between. Indeed his work is laboured, his process slow. The fact is that Harsha has a rigorous practice. Recent museum exhibitions, biennales have left a footprint from 2016 to 2019 from the Kochi Biennale, Japan, Sydney Biennale in Sydney, Wales, and more recently in Hong Kong. In 2017 Mami Katoka chief curator from the Mori Museum in Tokyo curated 7 to 8 rooms filled with paintings, installations and sculptures of the last 25 years by the artist. This in itself is testimony to the tremendous repertoire of the artist. Harsha comes back to his gallery, to Bombay, after a gap of 13 years! His last exhibition, Charming Nation was one of the last to be held in the old space of Chemould at Jehangir in 2006. This exhibition therefore is much awaited by those who hold his work close to their heart. His band of followers ... More |
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 Tintype unveils the sixth edition of its celebrated Essex Road film projectLONDON.- Tintype opened the sixth edition of its Essex Road program. Once more, it sees eight artists invited to make a short film in response to the eponymous, mile-long North London thoroughfare that snakes through Islington from Angel to Balls Pond Road, and where the gallery is also located. The annual commission is recognised for its significance within the ecology of moving image arts in the UK, enabling eight artists each year to create new work. Since its inception six years ago, Tintype has commissioned 48 artists films, including works by Benedict Drew, Melanie Manchot and John Smith. These are back-projected into the gallerys window and viewed from the street as a form of public art. The driving force behind the project is the desire to work with outstanding artists, producing new work that is shown in an unusual context. Whilst the brief is very ... 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More New book 'Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words' reveals Parks through her private manuscripts and notesWASHINGTON, DC.- A new book from the Library of Congress reveals the civil rights icon, Rosa Parks, for the first time in print through her private manuscripts and handwritten notes. The publication with University of Georgia Press is a companion to the new exhibition of the same title, Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words. For years, Parks personal papers were not available to the public. Her personal writings, reflections, photographs, records and memorabilia were placed on loan with the Library in 2014 and became a permanent gift in 2016 through the generosity of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. The new book, written by Susan Reyburn of the Library of Congress, explores a variety of objects from the Rosa Parks Collection that bring to light Parks inner thoughts and struggles throughout her life and activism. At the height of the Montgomery Bus Boycott ... More Zegna's Indian ambitionsNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Raghavendra Rathore, the Indian designer known for his ability to translate his countrys traditional menswear for a global elite, was on top of a mountain in his native state of Rajasthan when his phone rang. Ermenegildo Zegna, the Italian menswear and manufacturing behemoth, wanted to purchase a minority stake in the business. You could say its a metaphor, Rathore said during an interview in November at his store in New Delhi. He was referring to the mountain (which also happened to have the best cellphone reception in the area) and his dreams for his company. But you could also say it was a sign of where, exactly, Zegnas ambitions lie. Almost 1 1/2 years ago, when the Italian group bought a majority stake in Thom Browne, the disruptive American mens brand, it also expanded its global footprint further ... 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More Vintage Mustang from movie 'Bullitt' auctioned for $3.7 mnMIAMI (AFP).- The 1968 Ford Mustang GT that Steve McQueen drove in the movie "Bullitt" sold Friday for $3.7 million, the auction house said. The late actor drove the car in several scenes of the film including an iconic, harrowing 10-minute chase through the streets of San Francisco. The whereabouts of the dark green roadster were unknown for decades but it resurfaced, in good condition and driveable, for the 50th anniversary of the movie in 2018. The car had been in the hands of one Sean Kiernan, age 38, whose father had bought it in 1974 for $3,500. The family drove it daily until 1980, when the clutch broke. It remained parked in a garage until Kiernan restored it and began exhibiting it after the death of his father in 2014. David Morton, a spokesman for Mecum Auctions, told AFP the car sold for $3.74 million. The opening bid was set ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Belarusian-French painter Chaim Soutine was born January 13, 1893. Chaïm Soutine (13 January 1893 - 9 August 1943) was a Russian-French painter of Jewish origin. Soutine made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living in Paris. Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin and Courbet, Soutine developed an individual style more concerned with shape, color, and texture over representation, which served as a bridge between more traditional approaches and the developing form of Abstract Expressionism. In this image: Chaim Soutine, Two Pheasants.
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