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The Womens Speed-Skating Race on the Westersingel in Leeuwarden, January 21, 1809 by Nicolaus Baur (17671820), 1810. Signed and dated N. Baur 1810 at lower right. Oil on canvas, 23 ½ by 29 ½ inches. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
by Carolin C. Young
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1989 Lawrence Steigrad and his wife and business partner, Peggy Stone, began dealing in Old Master paintings backed only by a thousand dollars and a few credit cards. For the first year, in case things didnt work out, Stone continued to work as a cataloguer at William Doyle, returning home to help with researching and cataloguing late into the night. Their astonishing gamble paid off. Three decades and many art fairs later, they have a firmly established reputation with leading museum curators and collectors for rediscovering works of art especially Dutch portraiture of the seventeenth century that hold aesthetic merit yet challenge longstanding scholarship. In January 2020, they inaugurated the start of their fourth decade in business with the private sale of Cornelia Toe Boecops Portrait of Ott van Bronckhorst of 1606 to the Rijksmuseum ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An exhibition "Countryside, The Future," at the Guggenheim at the Guggenheim in Manhattan on May 13, 2020. The exhibition is closed, but the greenhouse can still be viewed from the sidewalk. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
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 | | Ed Ruscha's pivotal canvas Annie, 1962 to highlight One: A Global Sale of the 20th Century | | First virtual New York art fair brings low energy but solid prices | | The museum is closed, but its tomato man soldiers on | 
Ed Ruscha, Annie (detail), oil and graphite on canvas, Executed in 1962. Estimate: $20,000,000-30,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- On July 11, ONE: A Global Sale of the 20th Century will be highlighted by Ed Ruschas groundbreaking early painting, Annie, 1962 (estimate: $20-30 million). Measuring nearly six feet tall, this large-scale canvas is an early example of what would become his signature style, and demonstrates the unique and pioneering approach to art that would make him one of the most celebrated artists of his generation. His seemingly simple aesthetic presents a completely novel way of looking at art and understanding its iconography. Kat Widing, Specialist, Post-War and Contemporary Art, New York, remarked: "Christie's is thrilled to present Ed Ruscha's Annie as a top highlight of our new global 20th century sale. This spectacular painting has remained in the same private collection since 1987. Initially exhibited at the famed Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, Annie is an icon of 20th century art and a hallmark of ... More | | 
Black and White (Anne Waterhouse) by Charles DuBack was sold by the Eric Firestone Gallery, and Mr. Firestone praised features of the online sales. Charles DuBack and Eric Firestone Gallery.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- There were no air kisses. No celebrity sightings. No Champagne flutes in the VIP lounge in fact, no VIP lounge at all. But Frieze New York, the citys first test of whether a virtual art gathering forced by the pandemic could survive online, wound down Friday with surprisingly strong results, suggesting that the schmooze-centric art market may never be the same. Reported sales from the fair were solid, compared with those of last year, when the event took place under a large white tent on Randalls Island at least for mega galleries, defying conventional wisdom that online prices cant match those in person. Dealers said that George Condos Distanced Figures 3, for example, sold for $2 million at Hauser & Wirth; El Anatsuis Metas III, for $1.5 ... More | | 
David Litvin, an indoor crop specialist, checks the tomatoes growing outside the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan on May 13, 2020. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Elizabeth A. Harris
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The halls of the Guggenheim Museum are pretty quiet these days, with mostly just its ghosts and some security guards as company for the art. Oh, and theres the guy who takes care of the tomatoes. David Litvin, an indoor-crop specialist, tends the plants in a temporarily shuttered exhibition, Countryside, The Future. He moved to New York from Tel Aviv in February, along with his wife, Stefanie, and their Dutch shepherd, Ester, with a plan to stay six months harvesting the Guggenheim tomatoes that are growing in a greenhouse outside. He was going to see the city, too. I went out once to a comedy bar, but thats it, he said. The museum has been closed since March 13, but Litvin still walks across Central Park every day around noon ... More |
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| | Christie's to offer Roy Lichtenstein's 'Nude with Joyous Painting' | | Sotheby's sets new Auction record with $560,000 Pair of Michael Jordan's game-worn Air Jordan 1s from 1985 | | Paintings that demolish the myths of what a home should be | 
Roy Lichtenstein, Nude with Joyous Painting, 1994. Estimate in the region of $30 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- On July 10, ONE: A Global Sale of the 20th Century will be highlighted by Roy Lichtensteins monumentally scaled, Nude with Joyous Painting (estimate in the region of $30 million). Painted in 1994 and belonging to an important private American collection, Nude with Joyous Painting is a tour-de-force of Lichtensteins consummate series of nudes that are acclaimed as the summation of his late career. The Nudes mark Lichtensteins return to the comic-book heroines that propelled him to fame in the early 1960s and together, they rank among his most significant bodies of work. Culled from his prodigious archive of vintage comics, the Nudes marry Lichtensteins Pop Art sensibility with the most storied subject in the history of Western artthe female nude. The later women paintings and nudes that Roy did are just absolutely gorgeous, the artist Jeff Koons has affirmed, in terms ... More | | 
Michael Jordan's Game-Worn, Autographed Nike Air Jordan 1s, 1985. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that Michael Jordans Game-Worn Autographed Nike Air Jordan 1s from 1985 sold for $560,000 this afternoon in an online auction the new world auction record for any pair of sneakers, surpassing the previous record set at Sothebys for the Nike 1972 Nike Waffle Racing Flat Moon Shoe sold for $437,500 in July 2019. Following a bidding war which drove the value up by $300,000 within the final twenty minutes of the sale, the pair achieved more than 3.5x their $150,000 high estimate. Bidders ranging from age 19 to 50+ participated across 4 continents, with 70% of bidders new to Sothebys. The pair was sold coinciding with the final episode of the popular ESPN documentary The Last Dance, spotlighting the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordans legendary career. Brahm Wachter, Sothebys Director of eCommerce Development, commented: We are extremely excited abo ... More | | 
Naomi Safran-Hon, a visual artist, at the Slag Gallery in New York, April 26, 2020. Safran-Hons textured paintings of abandoned houses hint at our entangled and contradictory relationships to the places we live. Celeste Sloman/The New York Times.
by Seph Rodney
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Were someone to ask me for an image that clearly represents nostalgia the definition drawn from Greek of the feeling of ache or pain associated with homecoming I might point them to the work of artist Naomi Safran-Hon, who makes paintings of (among other things) lost and abandoned homes. Really, they are assemblages that incorporate photographic images, cement and lace. The images document where she grew up: Haifa, a coastal town on the Mediterranean in Israel where Palestinian and Arab citizens of the town were forced to leave or escaped during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Safran-Hons maternal grandparents came to Israel ... More |
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| | Daniel Templon opens an exhibition of works by German painter Norbert Bisky | | Digital offerings from The Museum of Modern Art | | Tate appoints Neil McConnon as Director of International Partnerships | 
Norbert Bisky, Emdi, 2020. Oil on canvas on mirror, 100 x 80 cm ; 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in. Courtesy Galerie Templon, Paris Bruxelles © Adagp, Paris, 2020.
PARIS.- On his first return to Paris since 2014, German painter Norbert Bisky plunges us into the heart of his native capital city: the wild Desmadre Berlin of the inter-war period, a world of hedonism and anarchy whose traces are still to be found on the capital's walls today. In this new series, Bisky has chosen to swap the pastel blue of his skies for darker hues and the luminous smiles of his models for more serious expressions. His baroque scenes feature bronzed models who bring to mind the communist propaganda which marked the artist's youth in GDR. Alongside them are the night birds, hipsters and outsiders who populate the streets of Berlin Friedrichshain every evening, drifting among the post-industrial facades that characterise the district, a favourite haunt of the city's denizens of the night. Channelling the artist's traumas and obsessive questioning of the ... More | | 
Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. March 1936. Gelatin silver print, 11 1/8 x 8 9/16″ (28.3 x 21.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Arts digital content expands the essential mission of the Museumto bring art and artists closer to audiences, offer entry points to MoMA and its collection wherever peoples knowledge of art lies, and foster curiosity and exploration. For decades, MoMA has embraced digital strategy as an incredible opportunity to open up its unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary art to the world. Between the Museums website, YouTube, and social media channels, MoMA has the largest digital audience of any museum, reaching 30+ million people worldwide. The Museums evolving collection contains almost 200,000 works of modern and contemporary art with more than 84,000 works currently available online. Similarly, MoMAs Exhibition History includes individual pages that contain ... More | | 
Neil McConnon. Image courtesy Linda Nyland.
LONDON.- Tate announced the appointment of Neil McConnon as Director of International Partnerships. He will take up his appointment on 18 May 2020. This senior role will enhance Tates collaboration and exchange internationally, and his responsibilities will include shaping and implementing the touring collection programme and working on international consultancy projects such as that with the Pudong Museum of Art. Neil McConnon is currently Head of International Enterprises at the Barbican. For the last nine years he has been conceiving, developing and curating the touring and management of international exhibitions, principally focused on contemporary culture, emerging technology and digital creativity. Prior to his role at the Barbican, he worked freelance, as well as with the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, co-curating and producing two large scale projects: ICA in China and Imaginaria, digital media commissions. He was ... More |
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| | Mythical monster goes viral as Japan prays for end of pandemic | | Kyle Meyer pairs digital photography with traditional Swazi crafts to portray the oppressed LGBT community in eSwatini | | US comedian Fred Willard passes away aged 86 | 
This photo taken on May 14, 2020 shows an employee applying a stamp known as hanko on a rendition of Amabie. CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP.
by Harumi Ozawa / Natsuko Fukue
TOKYO (AFP).- Move over Pokemon and Hello Kitty, in coronavirus-hit Japan, a new character has captured hearts and hopes: Amabie, a beak-nosed, long-locked mythical mermaid monster said to repel plagues. In recent weeks, the mash-up monster has become the unlikely mascot of hopes for an end to the pandemic, emerging from relative obscurity to become a trending Twitter hashtag, as well as the inspiration for everything from cakes to nail art. Her revival in fortunes was sparked in early March, when the Kyoto University Library tweeted an 1846 drawing of the creature floating above the sea, accompanied by a text explaining her apparent infection-fighting powers. The scaly social media star is supposed to have appeared to a samurai in southern Kumamoto prefecture, warning of the spread of an infectious disease and instructing him to draw a picture of her and show it to people to protect ... More | | 
Kyle Meyer: Interwoven. Co-published with Yossi Milo. Hardcover / 11 x 12.75 inches / 80 images / 192 pages. ISBN: 9781942185680 / Publication Date: June 9, 2020
Trade: $65 Signed: $70.
SANTA FE, NM.- Kyle Meyer has worked between eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) and New York City since 2009, creating richly tactile artworks as conceptually layered and complicated as they are visually lush and intricate. In this debut monograph, Meyers portraits from his Interwoven series reflect an interest in infusing digital photography with traditional Swazi crafts and in giving voice to silenced members of the LGBTQ community, who are marginalized in eSwatini. Tension between the necessity of the individuals to hide their queerness for basic survival and their desire to express themselves openly inform both the subject and the means of fabricating Meyers unique works. Each piece from the Interwoven series is labor-intensive, taking days or sometimes weeks to complete. Meyer often photographs his subjects wearing a traditional head wrap made from a vibrantly colored textile. He then produces ... More | | 
Willard died May 15, 2020, of natural causes media reported on May 16, quoting a representative of the actor and his daughter. Willard was 86. Robyn BECK / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Four-time Emmy award-winning comedian Fred Willard, who appeared in films including "Anchorman" and "This is Spinal Tap" and television shows such as "Modern Family," has died aged 86, his agent announced Saturday. Tributes poured in for the actor, with long-time friend and fellow showbiz veteran Jamie Lee Curtis tweeting "Thanks for the deep belly laughs Mr. Willard." "Fred Willard was the funniest person that I've ever worked with. He was a sweet, wonderful man," tweeted actor Steve Carrell. Willard himself had just paid homage to two other showbiz legends, singer Little Richard and fellow comedian Jerry Stiller, who also passed away this month. "A bad time! Just getting over the loss of Little Richard, and now I learn my old friend Jerry Stiller has passed away. He was a good friend and a very funny man," he wrote on May 11, in the last thread on his Twitter account. "I met him in the 60s when we played in the same clubs in The Village ... More |
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 Jordan memorabilia soars in value amid 'Last Dance' nostalgiaNEW YORK (AFP).- The immense global success of the documentary "The Last Dance" amid the coronavirus lockdown has boosted sales of collectibles related to NBA icon Michael Jordan, some of which are trading in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. "Timing is everything," says Jordan Geller, a collector who on Sunday will be richer by at least $240,000 thanks to the sale at Sotheby's of a pair of Air Jordan 1 sneakers -- the first model created especially by Nike for Michael Jordan, who made his NBA debut in 1984. The game-worn pair could set an auction record for sneakers set last year by Nike's Moon Shoe, a pair of which sold for $437,500. The various Air Jordans have been popular with collectors for 30 years, along with jerseys and trading cards featuring Jordan -- who won six NBA titles with the Chicago Bulls and is widely considered the greatest ... More Albania protesters clash with police over theatre demolitionTIRANA (AFP).- Albanian police on Sunday clashed with protesters including opposition supporters angry over the demolition of the national theatre and detained nearly 40 people. Workers at dawn began tearing down the theatre in the capital's main square, constructed in 1939 by Italians occupying Albania at the time. Dozens of opposition supporters, activists and actors battled with police as they tried to break through a security cordon, an AFP correspondent said. They hurled stones leaving two officers injured, according to police. "Down with the dictatorships", the demonstrators chanted. A total of 37 people were briefly detained, a police statement said. They were fined around 80 euros ($97) each for violating the novel coronavirus lockdown. Tensions were running high at the square where hundreds of ... More Lynn Shelton, director of intimate comic-dramas, dies at 54NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Lynn Shelton, the acclaimed director of Humpday, Sword of Trust and numerous other films, died Friday at Keck Medical Center in Los Angeles. She was 54. She suffered from a previously unidentified blood disorder, said a spokesman, Adam Kersh. Shelton was best known for her work as a writer and director of independent films, intimate seriocomic dramas focused on relationships and family, often with complicated women at their centers. She worked in a shaggy, freewheeling style, encouraging actors to improvise and contribute, drawing freely from their own experiences to craft their characters and tell her stories. Lynn Shelton was born on Aug. 27, 1965, in Oberlin, Ohio, and grew up in Seattle, the daughter of Wendy Roedell, a developmental psychologist specializing in early childhood education, ... More At the drive-in: Thrills, chills, popcorn and hand sanitizerWARWICK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the end, it was the rain, not the virus, that drove some moviegoers to leave the drive-in theater here Friday as a storm interrupted the seasons first shows. Hours before, SUVs, sedans and pickup trucks had crunched along the gravel road leading to the Warwick Drive-Ins three screens, and then were directed to a grassy mound where they parked for the evening to watch the double features. It was this or tennis, said Ivonisa Tesoriero, who works in human resources at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and was celebrating her 39th birthday. A pile of empty pizza boxes sat on the ground as she chatted with family and friends. As the sun set, masked ticket holders lined up at the snack bar to order candy and buttered popcorn, dutifully planting themselves six feet behind the person in front of them. Children ... More The Museum of Craft and Design announces Let's Face It: A mask-making design competitionSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Museum of Craft and Design (MCD) announces the launch of Let's Face It, a nationwide mask-making design competition. Artists, designers, and creatives of all types and ages have been passionately responding to the current need to cover our faces. From the practical to the avant-garde, MCD wants to see what people are creating and share it with the world. Juried by Marcel Wilson, the Founder and Design Director of Bionic, and JoAnn Edwards, the Museum of Craft and Designs Co-founder and Executive Director, the winning design will receive $500, the runner-up will receive $250 and third place will receive $100. Additional non-monetary awards will be given for Best in Show, Best Student Design, and Most Unique Design. The call for entries is open through May 31, 2020. All ages are welcome to enter and participation ... More The Ravestijn Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Mariken WesselsAMSTERDAM.- Comprising of sculpture, photography and film, and inspired by a series of Eadweard Muybridge collotypes, Wessels most recent work explores the motion of obese bodies and the animalistic aspects of the human form. Nude - Arising From The Ground was partly premiered at Art Rotterdam 2019, but this exhibition aims to give time and space for the entire work to be seen. In autumn 2020, the project will be part of a group show entitled Human After All: Ceramic Reflections in Contemporary Art at Museum Princessehof in Leeuwarden. Other participating artists are Geng Xue, William Cobbing, Klara Kristalova, Kris Lemsalu, Leiko Ikemura, Liliana Porter, Sharon Overmeieren, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg. Curated by Tanya Rumpff. Amsterdam-based artist Mariken Wessels (NL, 1963) creates artists books, sculptures, installations, photo ... More Kam Wa Magus Yuen wins the Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize 2020HONG KONG.- Hong Kong Symposium 2019 by Hong Kong artist Kam Wa Magus Yuen has won the Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize 2020. Presented by Justice Centre Hong Kong for his depiction of the citys ongoing civil unrest, Yuens winning piece was selected from a shortlist of 33 works by an international judging panel made up of Christy Chow, Jeremy Deller, Peter Augustus Owen, Katie Vajda, Chantal Wong, and Dr. Kacey Wong. Yuen received the prestigious award and a cash prize of HKD35,000, Benson Koo was awarded the First Runner-up prize of HKD7,500 for his video work Dream Criminal and Mo Soeng by Chan Kiu Hong received the Second Runner-up Prize of HKD5,000. Since its inception in 2013, the Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize has played a pivotal role in unearthing new creative talent and encouraging meaningful ... More Exhibition marking the culmination of year long project for Sir Quentin Blake moves online LONDON.- An exhibition marking the culmination of a mammoth, 12-month project for legendary artist and illustrator Sir Quentin Blake has moved online due to the coronavirus lockdown, meaning people all over the world can now enjoy it. In August 2019, the 87-year old published the first five editions of The QB Papers - a series of 20 large format, hand sewn paperback books of drawings. Five more titles followed in November 2019 and again in February 2020, with the final ones being published in May 2020. Quentin explains where the idea for The QB Papers came from, I exhibit regularly at what used to be called the Jerwood Gallery and is now Hastings Contemporary. These exhibitions each have a theme; one, of fantasy headgear, became a book called The World of Hats. In due course I found myself producing thematic sequences of drawings ... More Australasia's premier art fair Sydney Contemporary to return in 2021SYDNEY.- Sydney Contemporary, Australasias premier international contemporary art fair, today announced it will return in September 2021. First presented in 2013 and presented annually since 2017, Sydney Contemporary will not present an edition in 2020 due to uncertainty around the COVID-19 pandemic. Tim Etchells, Founder and co-owner of Sydney Contemporary, said: In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, given the uncertainty surrounding public gatherings and restrictions on travel, we have made the decision that Sydney Contemporary will return in 2021. Sydney Contemporary is the largest and most diverse gathering of local and international galleries in Australia and represents the highest short-term concentration of art sales in Australia annually. Each iteration of Sydney Contemporary attracts more than 25,000 visitors, and the last ... More Denny Dimin Gallery opens an online exhibition of works by Scott AndersonNEW YORK, NY.- Denny Dimin Gallery opened Biotech, a solo exhibition by Scott Anderson, running online from May 8th to June 13th, 2020. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog, now available online with an essay by Sarah Diver. Scott Anderson is a painter whose work addresses memory, technology, and visual culture. The artists process begins with an extensive drawing practice, which provides preparatory materials that the artist develops and deconstructs on the canvas. Andersons approach is psychologically provocative and intellectually rigorous. He uses humor in his titling and figuration to efface a deeper disquiet, resulting in ambivalent, enigmatic works. His style is uniquely formally complex, challenging the viewer to delineate between passages of abstraction and figuration. Biotech includes new paintings (2019-2020) ... More A jazz pianist flips Bach upside downNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In March, jazz pianist and composer Dan Tepfer found himself confined to his Brooklyn, New York, apartment with all his bookings canceled for the foreseeable future. So he decided to work seriously on an idea he had long been toying with. Tepfer, 38, who also excels in classical music and has an undergraduate degree in astrophysics as well as sophisticated technology skills, wrote a computer program. He recorded himself playing Bachs Goldberg Variations, beautifully, on a Yamaha Disklavier, a full grand piano with a high-tech player piano function; his program then played back each variation, but flipped. Let me explain. The plucky title Tepfer chose for his bold experiment, #BachUpsideDown, suggests that this project is some kind of gimmick. Not at all. The process of turning music upside down has a long ... More With movie theaters closed, marquees go viralNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Youre still here? Its over. Go home. Go. The final words of Ferris Buellers Day Off (1986) loom over the empty streets of Minneapolis. A quote from Back to the Future (1985) reminds Vancouver, Washington, that leaving the house could cause serious repercussions. A marquee in Lake Oswego, Oregon, encourages the community to stream a film that the theater never had a chance to show. In mid-March, as Broadway went dark and nonessential businesses began to close their doors, the gravity and uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States grew. When movie theaters closed and owners buckled down for an indefinite hiatus, some chose to leave their own messages on the way out. Some left lighthearted jokes, warping titles to create The Social Distancing Network, No Close Encounters ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American architect Walter Gropius was born May 18, 1883. Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 - 5 July 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. In this image: Walter/Ise Gropius, 1928. Blick auf Lower Manhattan von der Brooklyn Bridge, New York. Bildnachweis: Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin/ © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2008.
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