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The Winter Show announces programming and special events for 2023 edition
NEW YORK, NY.- The Winter Show announced for its 69th edition, an engaging suite of public programming and special events presented throughout the run of the fair. Open to the public from January 20-29, 2023, the fair returns to the Park Avenue Armory, presenting 68 exhibitors specializing in fine and decorative arts from around the world. To enhance the experience, this years programming offers visitors and collectors special opportunities to deepen their knowledge and engage with current trends and topics, emphasizing the Shows collaborative focus and educational approach. The panel discussions and talks are presented by experts in art, antiques, and design as well as leaders from museums and institutions, and are free with general admission. Highlights of The Winter Shows 2023 public programs include a panel discussion in partnership with Asia Week New York ... More

Lisa Marie Presley was rock 'n' roll royalty. Graceland was her castle.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Elvis Presley died in 1977, Lisa Marie Presley, his only child, inherited Graceland an eight-bedroom, eight-bath Colonial revival house in Memphis, Tennessee, that became one of the most iconic pieces of real estate in American music history. Graceland was the personal home of the King of Rock n Roll from 1957 until his death at the age of 42. For Lisa Marie Presley, rock n roll royalty who died Thursday in Los Angeles, Graceland was the castle where she spent holidays with her father, and notoriously had full daytime reign of its grand, chandelier-lit rooms while her night owl father slept. She was back at Graceland just four days before her death visiting the estate Sunday to celebrate what would have been her fathers 88th birthday. On Thursday, after what her family has described as a medical emergency, she was rushed from her home in Calabasas ... More

When Black characters double-deal to make ends meet, It's never enough
NEW YORK, NY.- In Between Riverside and Crazy, a Black man haggles over the concessions hes being offered by his former employer, the New York Police Department, eight years after he was shot by a white cop. In Topdog/Underdog, two brothers hustle pedestrians on the street and, at home, each other. And in The Piano Lesson, family members bristle at a scheme that would involve hawking a precious heirloom. While these Broadway plays couldnt be more different, they all similarly explore what happens when Black characters arent able to achieve financial stability through traditional, or official, channels. They are left little choice but to create and work in their own separate economies: A hustle is the only way the Black characters can even the playing field. And yet they never manage to do so at least not for long. Even when one profits from a con, its a Faustian bargain ... More

Birmingham Museum of Art welcomes new Deputy Director
BIRMINGHAM, AL.- The Birmingham Museum of Art is pleased to announce the appointment of Chantal Drake as its new James Milton and Sallie R. Johnson Deputy Director. Drake will assume the role on January 17. We are thrilled to welcome Chantal to our leadership team at the Birmingham Museum of Art, says Graham C. Boettcher, R. Hugh Daniel Director of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Chantals extensive fundraising and marketing experience in the visual arts will help propel our ambitious goals and objectives as we work to realize a new strategic plan. In the role of Deputy Director, Drake will work alongside the Director to develop strategies and organizational structures for carrying out the Museums mission, and implementing the vision and strategic plan. Other primary responsibilities include oversight of various Museum departments, management of daily operations ... More

Reuven Rubin Artworks to lead Clarke Auction Gallery January 22, 2023
LARCHMONT, NY.- The pioneering landscapes of Romanian-Israeli painter Reuven Rubin, especially those painted in the 1920s during a time when the international art world was rapidly changing, are highly sought after. Considered Israels most famous artist, Rubin (1893-1974) was Israels first ambassador to Romania and visited New York City often. From an old New York family that befriended the artist in his early days as part of New York Citys art scene in the late 1920s comes four artworks by the artist, starring at Clarke Auction Gallerys Sunday, January 22 auction, at 10 am. While the auction has nearly 400 lots, running the gamut from jewelry and silver to Asian arts and traditional antiques, the highlight will be Rubins artwork. The story of how Rubin met Hope Weil in 1928 and became a constant in her familys life for decades is one that, like many other stories ... More

Acclaimed artist Athena Latocha's installation at Green-Wood to remain on view into 2023
BROOKLYN, NY.- Hailed by Sculpture Magazine as Editors Choice, The Remains of Winter, a series of sculptures made especially for The Green-Wood Cemetery by Athena LaTocha, has been extended into the new year. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public daily, will be on view in the Historic Chapel until January 22nd, 2023 and on Battle Hill until September 2023. LaTocha was inspired by the Cemetery as a site for memory and mourning that is also an oasis with an abundant collection of mature trees, thriving wildlife populations, and steeped in geological history. The three sculptures are made from trees at Green-Wood that are cloaked in sheets of lead, a material historically used in coffins to slow decomposition, in an allusion to the natural decay of all things. The trees themselves were slated for removal by the Cemeterys horticulture department because of age, damage, or disease ... More

"Artist's Portrait", Alberto Garc&Iacutea-Alix, on view at kamel mennour in paris until January 28th
PARIS.- To celebrate twenty years of collaboration, kamel mennour presented Alberto García-Alixs fourth solo show at the gallery, which started on December 8th, 2022, and will end on January 28th, 2023. Alberto García-Alix begins to photograph his life and his surroundings at a historic turning point for Spain: following the death of the dictator Franco, the democratic transition proved to be a time of great political, social and cultural turmoil. Self-taught, he bears witness to his own life and the world around him: an eager youth yearning for freedom. Over a decade, Madrid becomes the birthplace and home to this upheaval. La Movida triggers an outburst. A youthful convulsion takes shape and paves the way towards modernity that will, in time, affect all layers of Spanish society. His compositions, with their striking diagonals and contrasts of light, are orchestrated with patience and skill ... More

American greats Tiffany Studios, Steuben and George Nakashima lead two Heritage decorative art & design events
DALLAS, TEXAS.- With each passing month, a supercharged collecting world seems to fall more deeply in love with American artists and designers. Especially those whose spectacular works recall the creative freedom and innovation of the earlier part of the last century, when the post-industrial impulse exploded before, after and in between shattering world wars and booming economies. The United States beckoned and spotlighted enormous talent from near and far, and the status and value of these artists and their contributions seem to see no ceiling at auction. Americans and collectors the world over, perhaps increasingly nostalgic, long for a piece of what made this hunk of North America for many decades a most exciting and fascinating place to live ... More

Turning trash into poetry
NEW YORK, NY.- Compared with the junk she has found in other cities, Parisian trash is sturdy, Ser Serpas said. She speaks from experience at 27, the itinerant artist and poet is admired in European and North American art circles for precariously poised arrangements of urban discards found near the venues where theyre shown. They become site-specific descriptions of a place, written in its own delaminating school desks and tarnished bathtubs. Serpas belongs to a loose cohort of millennial artists and poets, including Hannah Black, Precious Okoyomon and Rindon Johnson, rethinking found materials through deceptively deadpan sculptures. Like many of her peers, she favors objects that bear the marks of use, as if, having inherited a sorely used world, shes making stanzas from its leftovers. One blustery afternoon in November, I trailed Serpas and Rafik Greiss ... More

Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage
NEW YORK, NY.- New York City Ballet opened in 1948 with a triple bill of ballets choreographed by George Balanchine to music by Bach (Concerto Barocco), Stravinsky (Orpheus) and Bizet (Symphony in C). Ever since, it has had the most distinguished musical repertory of any of the worlds ballet companies. Stravinsky composed and conducted for City Ballet; it regularly presents commissioned scores. Conductor Andrew Litton, 63, has been the music director of City Ballet since 2015; this winter season begins Tuesday and includes the premiere of a new ballet Jan. 26 by Justin Peck, Copland Dance Episodes, to various Aaron Copland scores. Training at Juilliard in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he watched the company while its founding choreographers Balanchine and Jerome Robbins were still active. Thats when I first saw the Balanchine-Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements ... More

Bellmans to sell furniture and works of art from Spencer House Stores
BILLINGSHURST.- Bellmans is announcing the auction of furniture and works of art from the Spencer House stores in a Sussex auction in January. The objects included are mainly a mixture of items once used or on display in the State Rooms and those used in the offices and meeting rooms after the extensive renovation of one of the last London private palaces, which was restored to its former glory by Lord Rothschild after agreeing the lease in 1985. Some of the items were sourced and acquired through David Mlinaric's company, Mlinaric, Henry & Zerduvachi Limited, who was in charge of the record breaking project. When the Economist Intelligence Unit left the building in 1984, the search for a new tenant started and Lord Rothschild happened to have offices opposite and decided to look into how he could use the impressive town house for offices ... More