| 'His pictures rather put me off meat': Animal experts on Francis Bacon | | NFTs of "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt now available for Valentine's Day | | New book reveals the other side of Muhammad Ali | 
Installation view of the Francis Bacon: Man and Beast exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (29 January 17 April 2022). Photo: © Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry. © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS 2022.
by Alex Marshall
LONDON.- The painter Francis Bacon was never particularly fond of animals, Michael Peppiatt, one of his biographers, recalled in a recent telephone interview. Bacon largely grew up on a stud farm in Ireland, but he shied away from horses and dogs because they triggered his asthma, Peppiatt said. As an adult, Bacon didnt have pets either, partly because they would have put limits on his bachelor lifestyle, much of which involved frequenting the drinking dens of London. Yet even if Bacon avoided the companionship of animals in his daily life, they were vital to his art. Now, they are the heart of a major exhibition of Bacons work that opened Saturday at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Called Man and Beast, ... More | | 
NFT presentation The Kiss by Gustav Klimt at the Upper Belvedere. Photo: Ouriel Morgensztern / Belvedere, Wien.
VIENNA.- In collaboration with artèQ, the Belvedere is launching a NFT drop of a historical masterpiece. Just in time for Valentines Day, the most famous depiction of a pair of lovers will be offered for sale in a limited number of digital excerpts. Gustav Klimts The Kiss (Lovers) one of the worlds most famous works of art and the centerpiece of the Belvederes collection will be specially implemented as an NFT project. A high-resolution digital copy will be divided into a 100 x 100 grid, resulting in 10,000 inimitable individual pieces that will be offered as non-fungible tokens, or NFTs for short. In addition to purchasing the NFT, buyers can register as owners of their piece on the platform thekiss.art, where the picture can be viewed in its entirety. This entry can also serve as a declaration of love just in time for Valentines Day. What does it mean to own ... More | | 
Muhammad Ali The Untold Story: Painter, Poet & Prophet by Rodney Hilton Brown with Foreword by Muhammad Ali, Jr. Glossy Coffee-table Hardback & Softback. Size: 8 ½ x 11. Printed in the USA.
FAIRHAVEN, MASS.- At 200+ pages and with hundreds of photos and illustrations, this definitive work fills a void in the life story of one of the greatest figures of the 20th century! The other side of Muhammad Ali is revealed in a new book published just in time to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of Alis birthday in January 2022. Alis son says: I am proud to write this foreword for brother Rodney's book about my father, Muhammad Ali's Other Side. For decades this has been an untold story. This book fills a gap in my dad's legacy - a legacy that still continues to grow over time. This book does honor to me, my father, my entire family, the African-American community, and the world. Many powerful men who left their mark on history had another side-- often little known, often sensitive, and often artistic. During World War II, Churchill and Eisenhower ... More |
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| Jim Drake, who captured Joe Namath on Broadway, dies at 89 | | Exhibition revisits groundbreaking music through visual art | | Peter Blum Gallery opens an exhibition of new sculptures, works on paper, and installations by Esther Kläs | 
Jim Drakes image of Joe Namath, then a rookie quarterback, in full uniform in Times Square became one of his best-known photographs. Photo: James Drake.
by Richard Sandomir
NEW YORK, NY.- Jim Drake, a top photographer for Sports Illustrated whose pictures of Muhammad Ali, Joe Namath, Arnold Palmer and others, both in action and away from their fields of play, were among the magazines most indelible images from the 1960s to the 80s, died Jan. 10 at his home in Philadelphia. He was 89. His son Chris said the cause was lung cancer. Drake arrived at Sports Illustrated in the pre-internet, pre-cable age, when the magazines weekly articles were a welcome source of illumination for fans craving more than their local newspapers provided and its photography was part of a tradition of excellence nurtured by its parent company, Time Inc. Jim was the best golf photographer I ever saw he just had a feel for the sport but he was simply a great photographer, said Neil Leifer, who started working ... More | | 
Rashid Johnson, Good Kid, 2021 (detail), ceramic tile, mirror, red oak, oil stick, spray enamel, 37 à 37 à 3 in., courtesy of artist and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, © Rashid Johnson, photo by Martin Parsekian, courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined, an exhibition that revisits groundbreaking music through visual art. Artists often cite music as a source of inspiration, capturing the sonic experience through color and form, or translating musical innovations into their own practices. In this exhibition, a diverse, intergenerational group of contemporary visual artists are in creative dialogue with iconic musical artists. These artists responded to songs and albums released by Interscope Records over the last three decades with works of their own in a range of media. The exhibition will present over 50 artworks by 46 visual artists; a majority of the works are newly commissioned pieces and will be presented for the first time to the public. Featured visual artists include ... More | | 
Esther Kläs, About, 2019-2021. Aluminum, concrete, and pigment, 74 x 48 x 135 inches (188 x 122 x 343 cm), overall.
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum Gallery is presenting an exhibition by Esther Kläs of new sculptures, works on paper, and installations entitled, Come again. This is the artists fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. There will be an artist's reception on Tuesday, February 1, 2022 from 3 - 6pm. The exhibition runs through March 12, 2022. With the exhibition Come again, Esther Kläs converges disparate media and forms in sensitive spatial relationships, bringing a distinctive energy and perspective onto their surroundings. The installations comprised of reduced sculptures and works on paper underscore physical presence and manners of viewing through a relationship of scales, positionings, and materials. The ways in which environment and form are navigated begins with a consideration of her low-elevation, floor-based sculptures, that confront from below. Inviting repeated observation, Come again, continues with a bridge to the wall-based wo ... More |
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| Christie's Winter edition of The Collector now open for bidding | | Xavier Hufkens presents an exhibition of works by Rachel Eulena Williams | | New exhibition is first to fully examine impact of southern European sites on Picasso's towering achievements | 
Interior 2: A large enamel and lacquer vase on stand, 20th century (a pair, estimate: £15,000-25,000). A French giltwood console table, Louis XV style, second half 19th century (estimate: £7,000-10,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- Christies Winter edition of The Collector is open for bidding from 27 January until 10 February. Celebrating the works offered, Christies Head of Creative Leon St-Amour collaborated with Stylist Olly Mason, Interior Designer Charlotte Taylor and Architectural Designer Alin T. Stoica to create three innovative and visually engaging digital environments for the sale. They used cutting edge 3D modelling techniques to present an expertly edited selection of highlights rendered in a revitalised and unexpected context, to illustrate the potential for these works to look stunning in elegant interiors that also combine a contemporary approach. Estimates range from £1,000 to £50,000. Comprising over 250 lots, The Collector highlights the timeless beauty and endurance of exceptional works of art crafted over the last 500 years, showcasing important European and English furniture, silver, ceramics, glass, clocks ... More | | 
Rachel Eulena Williams, Strange Woman, American Fruit, 2021. Acrylic paint on canvas, vinyl, cotton rope and wood panel, 190.5 Ã 121.9 Ã 12.7 cm. 75 Ã 48 Ã 5 in. Courtesy the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. Photo: HV-studio.
BRUSSELS.- For Joy & Rain, American artist Rachel Eulena Williams (b. 1991, Miami) presents a body of work that showcases the range and depth of her lyrical and hybrid practice. Operating on the threshold of painting and sculpture, Williams has developed a unique visual language. Hers is a quiet yet powerful subversion of long-held artistic conventions. Understanding Williams artistic processes is a key to unlocking the multiple potential readings of her work. Regardless of format, everything begins with one basic material: rolls of untreated canvas and cotton. Williams handcolours the textiles using paints and fabric dyes before cutting them into disparate pieces. Through this action, the canvas is transformed from support to painterly medium. She then assembles the fragments into compositions that are glued, stitched and lashed together but also overpainted, with the final layer of pigment functioning ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Homme au chapeau de paille et au cornet de glace (Man with a Straw Hat and an Ice Cream, Cone), Mougins, 30 August 1938. Oil on canvas, 61 x 46 cm. Musée national Picasso-Paris, Acceptance in lieu Pablo Picasso, 1979, MP 174. © 2021 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- This winter The Dalà Museum offers a celebration of Pablo Picassos flourishing creativity in the south of France and northern Spain. Organized by The Dalà Museum in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris, Picasso and the Allure of the South offers a fascinating new avenue for understanding Picassos artistic spirit through the lens of this unique geographical zone. Some of Pablo Picasso's most creative periods took place during summer sojourns in the mountain and coastal communities of the Spanish and French border, including Céret, Sorgues, Vallauris, Horta de Ebro and Cadaqués. The exhibition presents paintings, drawings and collages approximately half of which have never been seen in the U.S. from the Musée national Picasso-Paris, as well as the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist ... More |
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| Sotheby's Masters Week sales close in on $100 million, propelled by $45.4 million Botticelli | | Requiem for party dresses lost | | Sleeping beauty barn find - 1965 E-Type beauty for sale with H&H Classics | 
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, The Virgin and Child. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christopher Apostle, Head of Sothebys Old Masters Painting Department, New York, said: As the first major sale of 2022, todays auction result is a resounding vote of confidence for the international art market and the market for Old Masters. The sale was sourced globally, and sold globally to a broad international spread of buyers, with collectors hailing from across the United States, Europe, Russia, and Asia. Altogether, there was very strong bidding across the sale and at every price point, led of course by Botticellis Man of Sorrows, but with excellent results throughout. George Wachter, Sothebys Co-Chairman of Old Master Paintings Worldwide, added: The exceptional results for todays sale showcased the depth of the Old Master market: from Italian Renaissance masterworks, to an extraordinary group of works by leading female artists, including a record-setting price ... More | | 
A look from the Schiaparelli spring summer 2022 couture show, in Paris, Jan. 24, 2022. The roost-pandemic eturn never quite happened. So what do we wear now? Schiaparelli, Chanel and Dior grapple gorgeously with the question. Valerio Mezzanotti/The New York Times.
by Vanessa Friedman
PARIS.- The last time the couture collections took place was the first time most of the fashion world, that traveling circus that reunites only during shows, had seen one another after more than a year of pandemic trauma. That was in July 2021, and the streets of Paris were afizz with excitement; air kisses were exchanged for full-body hugs and there was talk that a corner had been turned. Vaccines were here. Restaurants were reopening; festivals were taking place. Everyone would need something to wear! Designers would give it to them. Fashion capital-F was back, baby. All that promise evaporated under the ... More | | 
This particular example has been in the current family ownership since 1971.
LONDON.- One of just 1,584 right-hand drive Jaguar E-Type Series 1 4.2 Fixed Head Coupes made before the introduction of the so-called Series 1.5 cars, this particular example has been in the current family ownership since 1971 and off the road for the past forty-nine years! Still retaining traces of its original paint and what is thought to be its original factory-fitted interior, the Jaguar has spent its entire life in East Anglia. As such, it is highly appropriate that the two-seater will be going under the hammer with H&H Classics Ltd on March 16th 2022 at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford. Enzo Ferrari famously described the E-Type as the most beautiful car in the world and even five decades of dust have failed to lessen this Fixed Head Coupes allure. Understood to be substantially complete, the car even boasts its original matching numbers engine. Series 1 4.2 litre machines are particularly ... More |
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 New exhibition celebrates the creative collaboration of two contemporary Indigenous artistsSALEM, MASS.- The Peabody Essex Museum presents an exhibition of two internationally-renowned contemporary Indigenous artists who view creativity as a boundless process that connects each of us. Marie Watt, an enrolled citizen of the Seneca Nation with German-Scots heritage, and Cannupa Hanska Luger, an enrolled citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation with Lakota and European heritage, collaborate to create artwork that fosters empathy and understanding among individuals, neighbors, and communities and seeks to connect us to the world around us. Their art practice comes from and aims to produce activism and social engagement. Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger is organized by the Denver Art Museum and is on view at PEM from January 29, 2022 through May 8, 2022. For Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska ... More  Galerie Ron Mandos opens an exhibition of works by Marcin DudekAMSTERDAM.- Galerie Ron Mandos is presenting Trans Hooligans, an exhibition of works by Marcin Dudek (1979). Through his experiences of being part of a hooligan group in Krakow during his adolescence, the Polish artist explores the subculture of fanatical support groups and the dynamics of crowds in and around the football stadium. These explorations help us to understand the functioning of the human psyche, our insatiable need to belong to a community, and our thirst for recognition and hierarchy. A main component of the exhibition is the installation Trans Hooligans (2020). This work explores the radical nature of the ultra communities through the autobiographical account of the failed attempt to attend a football match in 1995, which led to a violent clash between two rival fan groups. The main body of the installation consists of a sliced-up ... More  Skanska selected to oversee construction advisory services of Southeast Los Angeles Cultural CenterSOUTH GATE, CA.- Skanska announces that its program management and consulting group, Skanska Integrated Solutions (SIS), has been selected as the construction management advisor for the Southeast Los Angeles Cultural Centera multi-arts facility located in South Gate along the Los Angeles River. SIS will oversee the management of planning, scheduling, preconstruction, coordination and procurement during the initial phases of the project. Designed by Gehry Partners, SELA Cultural Center is the first of its kind in Southern California, and will bring together world-class design, high-caliber arts programming from across Los Angeles County and the vibrant culture of the surrounding community. "The SELA Cultural Center will provide a unique opportunity to introduce Arts and Culture with the significance of landscapes, open ... More  Southern Utah Museum of Art welcomes the work of Indigenous artist Patrick Dean HubbellCEDAR CITY, UTAH.- Southern Utah Museum of Art is presenting the work of regional artist Patrick Dean Hubbell. Hubbell's work is featured alongside Contemporary Western Pop artist Billy Schenck and Pop Art titan Andy Warhol. Hubbells work is on display now through February 12, 2022 in the Rocki Alice Gallery. Raised in a small rural town in the Navajo Nation on the Arizona-New Mexico border, Hubbell is considered one of the fastest-rising artists in the region. He was featured in Southwest Arts list of 21 under 31 and in the past four years, his work has been featured in over twenty exhibitions, including representation by the Modern West Fine Art Gallery in Salt Lake City. Hubbell's work pulls inspiration from his own life as well as cultural mythologies and traditional Indigenous art. His pattern-driven, atmospheric paintings reflect the exploration ... More  QUAD showcases the work of 25 emerging artistsDERBY.- A new exhibition in QUAD, called Future Focus, part of FORMAT International Photography Festival and QUADs artist support and mentoring schemes, showcases the work of 25 emerging artists selected from an international open call in January. The Future Focus Open Call was aimed at graduates from UK based BA Degree courses who graduated in 2020 and 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemic but were unable to exhibit their final work or who were limited in opportunities to show their work. Submissions to the Open Call featured a range of artistic disciplines, including photography, painting, illustration, graphic design, animation, performance, installation, sculpture, and moving image. Seven Future Focus artists have their work in QUAD Gallery, work by the other 18 shortlisted artists is being displayed in a slideshow on an interactive ... More  Frist Art Museum presents debut solo museum exhibition by Nashville-based artist LeXander BryantNASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents Nashville-based artist LeXander Bryants debut solo museum exhibition Forget Me Nots. Featuring multimedia worksincluding a sculpture, photographs, murals, and a new videothe exhibition addresses themes of perseverance amid adversity, family strucÂtures and bonds, economic inequality, community activism, and more. Organized by the Frist Art Museum, Forget Me Nots is on view in the Frists Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery from January 28 through May 1, 2022. In his community-focused practice, Bryant (b. 1989) uses different mediums to inspire, challenge, and uplift his audiences. A prolific and in-demand photographer and filmmaker, Bryant has collaborated with local creatives and establishments ranging from rapper Mike Floss, visual artists MarÃa Magdalena ... More  McMullen Museum of Art opens most comprehensive US museum survey of Martin Parr's work to dateCHESTNUT HILL, MASS.- The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College is presenting a career-spanning exhibition of the work of acclaimed British documentary photographer Martin Parr. Covering nearly a half a century, this innovative survey explores and examine series of works by the artist that are rarely displayed together. Martin Parr: Time and Place is Parrs first wide-ranging, and most comprehensive, museum exhibition in the United States, comprising more than 135 photographs and an extensive selection of photobooks. It is on display from January 31 through June 5, 2022, in the McMullens Daley Family and Monan Galleries. Works by Parr, born in 1952 in the United Kingdom, evince a global sensibility presented with the closely observed, precise detail of the local. His images underscore how global continuities diminish ... More  Gasworks opens the first UK solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Gala Porras-KimLONDON.- Gasworks presents Out of an instance of expiration comes a perennial showing, the first UK solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Gala Porras-Kim. The exhibition features newly-commissioned drawings, sculptures, and sound work that respond to items in the British Museum and other encyclopaedic collections, questioning the ethical principles of museum conservation and assigning new meanings to artefacts extracted from their original sites and stored in museums across the western world. Porras-Kims new body of work was created in response to research she undertook during a residency at Delfina Foundation, London, in 2021. Focussing on the British Museums collection of funerary art from ancient Egypt, she examines the institutional afterlife of ritual objects and human remains, thinking through ways of compromising ... More  Mugler, remembered by his crowdNEW YORK, NY.- Manfred Thierry Mugler, the French designer who died last Sunday at the age of 73, was nothing if not exacting. A complete perfectionist, said model Naomi Campbell. You couldnt be one centimeter off. This wasnt because he was a terror, said Joey Arias, a torch-singing drag artist who appeared in Zumanity, the Cirque du Soleil spectacular Mugler helped conceive and design costumes for after retiring from his company in 2002. Had that been the case, Mugler probably would not have amassed one of the most loyal tribes in fashion a group that included Campbell, Arias, hairstylist Danilo, nightlife empress Susanne Bartsch and full-figured model Stella Ellis, who said in an interview that if his favorite shape was the hourglass, she was the hour-and-a-half glass. According to Arias, Mugler simply knew what he wanted, ... More  Reawakening the antichrist (and other lost opera gems)BERLIN.- The Whore of Babylon, in a grotesque fat suit, belts out a hymn to hedonism midway through the Deutsche Opers new production of Antikrist here. Ersan Mondtags riotously colorful, boldly stylized staging of what this works Danish composer, Rued Langgaard, called a church opera is a near-breathless swirl. Nodding to various early-20th-century art movements, including symbolism, expressionism and the Bauhaus, it is only the third full staging of the work, which was written and revised between 1921 and 1930, but which remained unperformed at the time of Langgaards death, in 1952. Inspired by the Book of Revelation, Antikrist premieres Sunday and runs through Feb. 11. It is the latest in a series of operatic rediscoveries at the Deutsche Oper, which, in recent decades, has made a point of highlighting works from outside ... More  Unknown tapestry design discovered and realised for major new exhibition at Towner EastbourneEASTBOURNE.- A rare and previously unseen tapestry found by chance has been made into a new large scale textile work for a major exhibition opening this season at Towner Eastbourne, England. To coincide with the first ever UK solo exhibition of multi-skilled painter, printmaker, illustrator and tapestry designer Eileen Mayo DBE (1906-1994) a tapestry cartoon by the artist which was found by chance by her great niece will be the centrepiece of the exhibition. The exhibition takes place from 12 February to 3 July 2022. The drawing was found via an internet search by Mayos great niece, Dr Lucie Stanford, who is based in Australia and then purchased at auction. The work has been realised in collaboration with The Tapestry Studio at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation, one of the only professional studios in the UK and is the only tapestry ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning died January 31, 2012. Dorothea Margaret Tanning (August 25, 1910 - January 31, 2012) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet. Her early work was influenced by Surrealism. Tanning's work has been recognized in numerous one-person exhibitions, both in the United States and in Europe, including major retrospectives in 1974 at the Centre National dâArt Contemporain in Paris (which became the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1977), and in 1993 at the Malmö Konsthall in Sweden and the at the Camden Arts Centre in London. In this image: Dorothea Tanning, Untitled (Set Design for The Night Shadow or an Unrealized Ballet), c. 1950. Graphite, ink, and gouache on paper, 25.4 x 35.6 cm, 10 x 14 ins © ADAGP. Courtesy of The Destina Foundation, New York, and Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
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