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Installation view of "The Incredible World of Photography Ruth and Peter Herzog Collection." Photo: Julian Salinas.
BASEL.- With the exhibition The Incredible World of Photography, the Kunstmuseum Basel celebrates a twofold premiere: the first comprehensive portrait of Ruth and Peter Herzogs photography collection in Switzerland is also the first presentation at the Kunstmuseum dedicated to the history of photography. A serendipitous flea market find in the 1970s led Ruth and Peter Herzog to begin building what has since grown into a singular photography collection encompassing over 500,000 pictures. The holdings range from the mediums early days to the 1970s and reflect all major developments in analog photography. For the nineteenth century, in particular, the two collectors made important discoveries that have deepened our understanding of the eventful history of photography. Ruth and Peter Herzog now rank among the worlds leading photography collectors. What the Herzogs have created is nothing less than a photographic encyclo ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A group of artists and volunteers paint a Black Lives Matter mural on the street outside the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery on July 18, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The mural will be painted by 16 artists, who will each create their own individual artwork on a letter. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images/AFP
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| | McNay Art Museum acquires three new outdoor sculptures for permanent collection | | To buy this Basquiat, swipe right | | 57 works by Edward Hopper on display all summer at Indianapolis Museum of Art |
Willie Cole, The Sole Sitter, 2013. Bronze. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Museum purchase with funds from the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts. © Willie Cole.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The McNay Art Museum adds three new outdoor sculptures to its more than 22,000-piece Permanent Collection this summer, enhancing the richness of the Museums outdoor experience as Phase I of its Landscape Master Plan completes in September. The Sole Sitter by Willie Cole, Hashtag-Orange by Alejandro MartÃn, and Standing Tulip by Tom Wesselmann will be on view throughout the McNays 25-acre grounds beginning this August. When our community is ready to reconnect with the beauty, hope, and inspiration that has defined us for decades, the McNay will be waiting with an experience that is more open, welcoming, and inclusive than ever before, said Richard Aste, McNay Director and CEO. Our new outdoor sculptures and our expanded, more accessible campus reflect our commitment to a mission of engaging and uplifting everyone. The Sole Sitter by Willie Cole is inspired by the traditional ... More | |
The auction veteran Loic Gouzer is selling major works of art on his new app. (Bryan Thomas/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Testing the notion that blue-chip art can be sold with a swipe, former Christies executive Loic Gouzer on Monday will use his new app as the auction block for a large drawing by Jean-Michel Basquiat that is estimated to sell for $8 million to $9 million. The app, called Fair Warning, started as a lark, Gouzer said, a way to keep busy under lockdown and to see whether the art world could pivot to online sales in a meaningful way. (Auction houses have since held their first successful completely online sales.) The first piece he auctioned on the app, Steven Shearers 2018 portrait Synthist, sold to a private European collector for $437,000 an auction high for the artist on an estimate of $180,000 to $250,000. Gouzer said he has sold two works since then: a body print by David Hammons that sold for about $1.3 million ... More | |
Edward Hopper (American, 18821967), Hotel Lobby, 1943 (detail), oil on canvas, 32-1/4 à 40-3/4 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, William Ray Adams Memorial Collection, 47.4 © Edward Hopper.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.- Explore the highly-anticipated exhibition, Edward Hopper and the American Hotel at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields from July 19, 2020 through October 25, 2020. This exhibition is welcoming guests back inside the IMA Galleries for the first time since mid-March. Travel back in time to experience the iconic American painter like never before in this major loan exhibition. Newfields is thrilled to welcome guests back inside the Indianapolis Museum of Art with this major exhibition, said Dr. Charles L. Venable, the Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of Newfields. While Hopper has long been considered one of the most important American masters, interest in his work has soared during this period of anxiousness and isolation. His depictions of individuals alone in their hotel rooms and even completely empty rooms have even more relevance now. The exhibition features 57 of Edward ... More |
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| | Exceptional collection of Post-Impressionist art on view in Canada for the first time | | Ancient mosaic from Roman Dorset at risk of export | | Luther Price, experimental artist and filmmaker, dies at 58 |
Theo Van Rysselberghe (1862-1926), Kalfs Mill in Knokke, or Windmill in Flanders, 1894, oil on canvas. Private collection.
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts invites visitors on a journey to the artistic effervescence of France at the turn of the 20th century with its exhibition Paris in the Days of Post-Impressionism: Signac and the Indépendants. Through over 500 works from an outstanding private collection, including the largest set of works by Paul Signac, the public will discover a magnificent body of paintings and graphic works by Signac and avant-garde artists: Impressionists (Degas, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro), Fauves (Dufy, Friesz, Marquet, Vlaminck), Symbolists (Gauguin, Redon), Nabis (Bonnard, Denis, Lacombe, Sérusier, Ranson, Vallotton), observers of life in Paris (Anquetin, Ibels, Steinlen, Toulouse-Lautrec), Cubists (Picasso, Braque), Expressionists (Feininger, Heckel), and above all, the Neo-Impressionists (Angrand, Cross, Hayet, Lemmen, Luce, Seurat, Van Rysselberghe). Visitors will learn about the social and pictorial ... More | |
The mosaic would have been part of an elaborate pavement in the reception room of a luxurious villa and includes a depiction of a leopard pouncing on the back of an antelope as blood drips from its wounded prey.
LONDON.- Culture Minister Caroline Dinenage has placed a temporary export bar on a panel of mosaic from a Roman villa at Dewlish, Dorset. Thought to date to the 4th century AD, the mosaic is considered by many to be an exceptional piece and is at risk of being lost abroad unless a buyer can be found to match the £135,00 asking price. The mosaic would have been part of an elaborate pavement in the reception room of a luxurious villa and includes a depiction of a leopard pouncing on the back of an antelope as blood drips from its wounded prey. Floor mosaics like this would have been chosen to reflect the values and beliefs of the villas owner and can help modern viewers understand the aspirations and education of country landowners who held power in the final decades of the Roman Era. Apart from one smaller piece in the Dorchester ... More | |
Luther Price, Light Fractures, 201314, handmade slide projection. Courtesy of the artist and Callicoon Fine Arts, NY.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Luther Price, a multimedia artist and prolific experimental filmmaker known for his haunting, often transgressive work as well as for never revealing his real name died June 13 at his home in Revere, Massachusetts. He was 58. His death was announced by Callicoon Fine Arts, his New York representative, which did not give the cause. Prices films were distinguished by his use of found footage and his unusually hands-on approach. His themes were variously domestic, sexual, autobiographical and always visceral, even when his work was abstract. His styles ranged from expressionistic to quasi-documentary. Some of his films explored his childhood and featured members of his family, especially his mother (or, sometimes, the artist himself dressed to resemble her). The throughlines were fragmented ... More |
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| | Aperture announces a time-limited sale of three collectible prints by Joel Meyerowitz | | 2001: A Space Odyssey suit and Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 control stick each sold for $370,000 | | Gerald Peters Gallery opens an exhibition of paintings by Michael Cassidy |
Joel Meyerowitz, St. Louis, Missouri, 1978.
NEW YORK, NY.- Aperture announced a collaboration with Joel Meyerowitz on a very special offer of three limited-edition prints. Each signed 5-by-7-inch print costs $120.20. The set of three is being offered at a special price of $300. The sale will run for ten days, from July 16 through July 26. Proceeds support Apertures not-for-profit educational, public, and online programming, as well as Meyerowitzs studio undertaking the project of scanning 140,000 previously unseen Kodachrome slides from his early years. The sale will also benefit Equal Justice Initiative, an organization that is doing critical work to challenge racial and economic injustice. The corner, back in the 70s, was where I most often liked to work because of the chaotic mix that traversed it. There was always such good nonstop energy up and down the avenue, while the cross streets poured their ... More | |
The spacesuit was estimated to fetch between $200,000 and 300,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions had liftoff of its two-day blockbuster Hollywood and Space exploration memorabilia event Hollywood: Legends & Explorers, Friday, July 17 & Saturday, July 18, 2020 at Juliens Auctions in Beverly Hills and live online at juliensauctions.com. Over 900 items from Hollywood entertainment film lore to televisions past and present golden ages as well as a collection of some of the most significant and historical Space artifacts went under the hammer with fans and collectors from around the world bidding on the floor, online and by telephone. The headline making highlight was the sale of one of the most iconic space suits of all time from the Academy award winning science fiction masterpiece, Stanley Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey. The suit, accompanied by the films famous ... More | |
Far West, Outlaw Valley, oil on linen, 70 x 52 inches.
SANTA FE, NM.- Gerald Peters Gallery is presenting, Far West, an exhibition of paintings by Michael Cassidy inspired by the western pulp fiction and movie posters of the 1920s and 30s. This is Cassidys first solo exhibition at the gallery and a continuation of his Western Pulp Series. The exhibition features 25 paintings including his popular western portraits. The exhibition is available to view online on the gallery's website. In addition, a digital and hard cover catalog is available. The myth of the Old West is solidified into the American psyche and can be traced back to the dime novels of the mid early 19th century. Before there were films about the west, there were sensationalized stories of cowboys, Indians, cattle rustling and danger. The literary quality of these pulp books were not particularly high, but the imagery captured our imagination. In our western history and stories, real an ... More |
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| | H&H Classics to offer wonderful barn-find discovery | | The Met Opera tests pay-per-view model | | Thai metal workshop dazzles tourists with movie-inspired creations |
Sunbeam Alpine as discovered in Staffordshire barn.
LONDON.- Found in a Staffordshire, this wonderful barn-find discovery is going to make a fabulous restoration project for someone lucky enough to secure it at the next H&H Classics Live Auction Online on July 22. It is estimated to sell for £15,000 to £20,000 at the auction. One just like this Sunbeam Alpine found fame at the hands of Works drivers Stirling Moss and Sheila Van Damm and also starred in the 1955 film To Catch A Thief, featuring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. This rare car is one of just 200 known survivors and is offered as a 'barn find. It has been dry stored since retiring from historic rallying. Its engine is in running order and it appears to be substantially complete. Its history file includes the original buff logbook and FIA HVIF papers. According to its original buff logbook, Chassis A303819HRO was first registered as OLR 446 to Rootes Ltd on 10th February 1954. Acquired by Robert Stephenson ... More | |
The tenor Jonas Kaufmann, with the pianist Helmut Deutsch, performed a greatest-hits arias program near Munich. Metropolitan Opera via The New York Times.
by Anthony Tommasini
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- After the coronavirus pandemic forced concert halls and opera houses to close this spring, online performances proliferated. The Metropolitan Opera began streaming nightly operas from its extensive video archive, and in April it presented an At-Home Gala, broadcast over smartphones from the homes of singers around the world. The classical music and opera offerings this spring and summer have mostly been free and tremendously gratifying. But as cancellations continue into the fall, and beyond, organizations have worried that listeners will start taking free performances for granted. So the Met is testing whether audiences will pay ... More | |
This photograph taken on July 18, 2020 shows a tourist posing for photos in front of life-sized sculptures of characters from the "Transformers" film franchise made of scrap metal parts at the Ban Hun Lek museum in Ang Thong. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP.
ANG THONG (AFP).- Towering Transformers, life-sized Marvel superheroes and extraterrestrial lifeforms -- a "House of Steel Robots" in Thailand has made a name for itself by transforming scrap metal into dazzling sculptures inspired by Hollywood blockbusters. Ban Hun Lek, an hour's drive north of Bangkok, has become a popular weekend spot for families eager for Instagram selfies against a backdrop that looks plucked from the the silver screen. Visitors to Phairote Thanomwong's welding workshop gaze up at eight-metre-high (26 feet) sculptures modelled after the robots of the Transformers franchise and a jet-black King Kong hewn together from old car parts. Phairote opened his welding workshop 20 years ago and eventually converted ... More |
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Man questioned in arson probe into French cathedral fire
NANTES (AFP).- French investigators questioned a man Sunday who worked as a volunteer at the gothic cathedral of Nantes which was badly damaged by fire hours after he locked it up for the night. Prosecutors launched an arson investigation after the Saturday morning blaze which they said appeared to have broken out in three different parts of the Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul in Nantes, western France. Sunday's questioning sought to "clarify elements of the schedule" of the man on Friday evening, Nantes prosecutor Pierre Sennes told AFP. He was being held as part of "normal procedure" and it would be "premature" to suggest the man was a suspect in the case, he added. The blaze, which came just 15 months after a devastating fire tore through the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, destroyed the Nantes congregation's famed organ, which dated ... More
Korat will host the next Thailand Biennale 2021
NAKHON RATCHASIMA .- After the huge success of Thailand Biennale, Krabi 2018, in the year of 2021, Office of Contemporary Art and Culture Ministry of Culture (OCAC) has decided to hold the international contemporary Art Biennale again in Korat, Nakhon Ratchasima, the largest province in Thailand. Korat is one of the most prosperous provinces of Thailand that has outstanding historical sites and richness of nature with the second largest population after Bangkok. In addition to serving as the entry point to the Isan region, Korat is also ideally located at the intersection of three cultural spheres: Thai, Khmer, and Lao. Thus, artists from many countries are invited to collaborate with local communities so that integration between history, art and culture are encouraged to create a new format of artworks and projects for the natural sites and public ... More
Turkey's Erdogan visits Hagia Sofia after reconversion to mosque
ISTANBUL (AFP).- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan paid a surprise visit to Hagia Sofia on Sunday just days before the first Muslim prayers are due to be held at the Istanbul landmark since it was reconverted to a mosque last week. In a lightning visit billed as an inspection, Erdogan took stock of the conversion work, the president's office said, providing pictures showing scaffolding inside the building. Diyanet, the country's religious authority, said Christian icons would be curtained off and unlit "through appropriate means during prayer times". "Our goal is to avoid harming the frescoes, icons and the historic architecture of the edifice," Erdogan's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said in a television interview on Sunday. It was unclear whether Erdogan planned to be among some 500 worshippers set to attend Friday prayers. Turkey's top ... More
Heritage Auctions promotes Leon Benrimon to Vice President of Modern & Contemporary Art
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions announced that Leon Benrimon has been promoted to Vice President of Modern & Contemporary Art. Benrimon has been instrumental in building the firms industry-leading Urban Art category, setting world records for a range of artists including KAWS. We are happy to see Leon rise within the company based on his aggressive growth plans for important niches in the Modern & Contemporary Art market, said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions. Benrimon has spent his entire life in the art business. His parents own art galleries and his three siblings all currently work in the art world. Prior to joining Heritage, Benrimon owned Benrimon Contemporary in New York, where he sold blue chip artworks on the secondary market in association with historical exhibitions, while dedicating himself to representing ... More
Exhibition celebrates a reunion of work by the artists Art Below has presented throughout its 15-year history
LONDON.- Every Day is a Miracle is Art Belows first gallery exhibition since January, and is now on view at Ad Lib Gallery. Following months of isolation and global uncertainty, Every Day is a Miracle celebrates a reunion of work by the artists Art Below has presented throughout its fifteen-year history, as well as an optimistic look towards the future. Open to the public for ten days, this exhibition comprises a series of events, each with a limited capacity to comply with guidance as the COVID-19 lockdown measures begin to lift. We live in extraordinary times, and beyond great tragedies, recent years have also seen triumph and pride in moments of adversity, from the Queens Diamond Jubilee to the 50th Anniversary of the first moon landing and the great work of our NHS themes which have been explored in past exhibitions and which are returned ... More
Kohn Gallery opens a solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture by artist Nir Hod
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kohn Gallery is presenting the first West Coast solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture by the Israeli born, New York-based artist Nir Hod. Over the last 20 years, the artist has exhibited internationally in Europe, Asia, Israel, and the United States, and has established a reputation for intrinsically beautiful works, from figuration to abstraction, that belies a deeper, fundamental meaning. By telling the truth through beauty, says Hod, you get away with many things. In the late 19th Century, the famous art dealer Duveen announced that the newly varnished surfaces of the Rembrandts and Raphaels he sold to the industrial titans of the age were so highly reflective that they would see their own reflection in these Old Masters. Nir Hods new work markedly places the viewer within the painting by means of the chromed, reflective surface ... More
Thierry Goldberg opens summer group show
NEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg is presenting And The Sun Left, a group exhibition featuring work by Emily Manwaring, Bony Ramirez, Sydney Vernon, Brandy Wednesday, and Connar Weston. The exhibition will run from July 17th to August 21st, 2020. The gallery space is currently open to the public with summer hours: Tuesday to Friday, 12-5p. Each of the artists in And The Sun Left embrace the figure as a central character in their paintings, using the human form to connect with the viewer on the other side of the canvas. Bouncing between the surreal and the mundane, occasionally multiple times in the same piece, these five artists portray people in unabashedly idiosyncratic styles, sharing an honest, if unsettling, perspective on the human experience. In the exhibitions namesake painting, Bony Ramirez depicts a lone figure holding a shell on a pale ... More
Museum of Graffiti opens "The Fabric of America: Artists in Protest"
MIAMI, FLA.- In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, the Museum of Graffiti opened a new exhibition on Saturday, July 18th titled The Fabric of America: Artists in Protest. Over 30 South Florida graffiti artists and illustrators were invited to create protest themed art on denim jackets in the tradition of the protest signs seen at marches. Providing a platform for artists to contribute to the national discussion is important to the Museum and a way for local artists to join the conversation, states the Museums curator Alan Ket, he adds, These artists work in the streets but we have invited them indoors to engage in a dialogue of resistance with our audience. These wearable artworks articulate what you believe in at all times, without you having to say a word said Allison Freidin, co-founder of the Museum of Graffiti. Included in the show ... More
Southern Europe opens its doors to tourists. Not many are coming.
ADEJE (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Music blared from a beachfront cafe along the normally bustling southwestern coast of Tenerife, the largest of Spains Canary Islands. But several tables sat empty, a month after a COVID-19 lockdown had ended, and the doors to many resorts remained shut. Although tourism is returning to southern Europe stretching from Portugal to Greece its restart has been sluggish amid new outbreaks in some countries. Bookings are down 80% in Italy despite government incentives. Ferries to the Greek islands are carrying well under half the load they once did. While Europeans are starting to travel more within their own countries, far fewer are venturing beyond their borders, particularly the holidaymakers from Britain, Germany and other northern countries who typically journey south each year, spending billions of euros. And ... More
Designers rally to support the East Hampton Historical Society Online Auction
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- Who says you cant teach an old dog new tricks. Not true for the East Hampton Historical Society. Now in its 99th year of preserving and celebrating East Hamptons history, the society has pivoted to reinvented their annual Antiques & Design Show in a virtual format. The newly imagined Virtual Antiques Show Party arrived with an Online Auction running through July 24. Local design luminaries have rallied in support of the East Hampton Historical Society by donating to the Online Auction. When asked, What about the EHHSs place in the community moved you to donate to the Online Auction, the response was of resounding support. Below are just a few quotes from designers who have graciously donated chic home design items or creative experiences to the upcoming Online Auction. All of us who love East Ham ... More
Soho House announces the inaugural Soho House Art Prize with Bombay Sapphire
MIAMI, FLA.- Applications are now open for the inaugural Soho House Art Prize: a new global contemporary art prize to discover, recognise and support artistic talent. Created by Soho House and supported by Bombay Sapphire, the prize winner will receive the funds to realise and present a major solo showcase at Soho Beach House Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2020. Kate Bryan, Soho House Head of Collections has brought together a highly respected international judging panel which includes; Maria Balshaw CBE, Director of Tate and Hebru Brantley, artist and Bombay Sapphire Creator. She says of the award, We are thrilled to be launching the Soho House Art Prize with Bombay Sapphire. I love that we are not judging finished artworks, but rather powerful concepts that we would like to help make a reality. I am so honoured we have ... More
"Finite Rants" presents a visual essay by Bertrand Bonello
MILAN.- Fondazione Prada is presenting the online project Finite Rants, curated by Luigi Alberto Cippini and Niccolò Gravina, on its website and social platforms. Commissioned by Fondazione Prada to filmmakers, artists, intellectuals and scholars, the 8 visual essays comprised in Finite Rants will be published on a monthly basis. The first authors include German director and writer Alexander Kluge, Japanese photographer Satoshi Fujiwara, French director Bertrand Bonello, and Swiss economist Christian Marazzi. As stated by avant-garde director Hans Richter in 1940, the film or video essay is a form of expression capable of creating images for mental notions and of portraying concepts. Starting from Richter's ideas, some later theorists identify specific traits in the video essay, such as creative freedom, complexity, reflexivity, the crossing of film ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, British painter Lucian Freud died July 20, 2011. Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH (8 December 1922 - 20 July 2011) was a German-born British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impastoed portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time. His works are noted for their psychological penetration, and for their often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model. In this image: A Sotheby's employee holds British Artist Lucian Freud's 'Self-Portrait with a Black Eye' during a Sotheby's auction preview in London.
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