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NEW YORK, NY.- Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art is presenting an exhibition of ten circular prints from Frank Stellas celebrated Imaginary Places series. The selected works on view are from 1996 - 1998 and are rendered in vivid - often fluorescent - colors. The labor intensive, complex prints have creative titles relating to The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi. Stella incorporates a variety of techniques in this series, including engraving, aquatint, relief, lithography, screenprint, etching, and computer design. Frank Stellas Imaginary Places is on view from May 20 - June 30, 2021. Frank Stella was born in Malden, Massachusetts in 1936. Since his first solo gallery exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1960, Stella has exhibited widely throughout the U.S. and abroad. Stellas work was included in a number of significant exhibitions that defined art in the postwar era ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of History in the Making at NGV International from 22 May - 24 October 2021. Photo: Sean Fennessy.
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| The art of the sneaker | | Venice Architecture Biennale explores post-pandemic living | | "Hands and Earth" exhibition celebrates Japanese ceramics |
A sample created by the Adidas Futurecraft Strung 3D-knitting robot, part of the Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street exhibition at the Design Museum in London. Ed Reeve via The New York Times.
by Elizabeth Paton
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Do you know your SMU from your player exclusive, or the most traded pair of sneakers in history? The top 10 sneaker consumers by country? The answers lie in Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street, an ambitious new exhibition that opened at the Design Museum in London this past week. It offers proof positive, if any were needed, that we are living in the age of the sneaker. Driven by a mix of consumer demand, savvy brand marketing, manufacturing innovation and internet-propelled hype, sneakers are both a dominant fashion sector worth around $115 billion a year, according to estimates by the market research group NPD, and an increasingly valuable collectors asset class. Kanye Wests first sample pair of Yeezys black leather high-tops he wore to the 2008 Grammys sold for $1.8 million at Sothebys in April. They became the most ... More | |
A man crosses the Piazza San Marco, heading to St Mark's Basilica, in Venice on May 20, 2021. Marco Bertorello / AFP.
by Kelly Velasquez
VENICE (AFP).- The world's most prestigious architecture event, the Venice Architecture Biennale, opens Saturday for a six-month show exploring the question of coexistence in a post-pandemic world. Postponed from last year, the 17th International Architecture Exhibition is titled "How will we live together?", with curator Hashim Sarkis asking architects to reflect on the future and its challenges. "The hardest question is how to resolve the problems that led us to the pandemic. How are we going to solve climate change, poverty, the huge political differences between right and left," he told AFP. Sarkis, a Lebanese architect and dean of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, believes the city of the future will be born from the need to share collective spaces, consume less and create -- or encourage -- new forms of solidarity. There would be "spaces to assemble, where people pass by, seeing the daily life of others... places where economic, ... More | |
KOIKE Shōko (Japanese, b. 1943), Shell, 1995. Glazed stoneware and porcelain,18 1/2 Ã 23 Ã 19 1/4 inches. Collection of Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz, JC2017.010.
ATHENS, GA.- How much do you think about the bowls, cups and vases that you use every day? A new exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia examines both functional and artistic perspectives on Japanese ceramics. Hands and Earth: Perspectives on Japanese Contemporary Ceramics is on display from May 22 to August 15, 2021. This exhibition, drawn from the collection of Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz, has also traveled to the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, the Crow Museum of Asian Art at the University of Texas in Dallas and the Katonah Museum of Art in New York. It focuses on some of Japans most prominent ceramicists from the 20th and 21st centuries and is sponsored by the Jeffrey Horvitz Foundation. Ceramics have not always been important, both functionally and decoratively, but that changed as tea became a central aspect of Chinese culture, starting in the 7th century CE. From there, both t ... More |
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| Institut, the first art world-led platform for NFTs, launches in July 2021 | | Miles McEnery Gallery now represents artist Trudy Benson | | How plywood from last year's protests became art |
Larva Labs, CryptoPunk #8146. Courtesy Institut.
LONDON.- Institut - the first art world-led platform for NFTs - launches internationally this July. Committed to showcasing high quality, curated artworks, the platform is founded by Joe Kennedy and Jonny Burt of Unit London, in collaboration with an international consortium of artists and collectors and BTSE, one of the premier cryptocurrency trading platforms. Revolutionising a marketplace previously led by tech entrepreneurs, Institut boasts a dedicated global team of artworld professionals from galleries, auction houses and institutions, offering over a decade of expertise in the contemporary art market. The platform brings together galleries, curators, artists, institutions and auction houses to participate in specific drops, alongside an ambitious exhibition programme hosted on Arium, a new virtual exhibition metaverse. Institut is a hub for top artists, collectors and curators ... More | |
Trudy Benson in her studio, New York, NY. Image by Christopher Burke Studios. Image courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery announced its representation of Trudy Benson. A solo exhibition will open in Winter 2021. Benson received her Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Virginia Commonwealth University. Recent solo exhibitions include / Z / Z /, Ceysson & Bénétière, Saint-Ãtienne, France; Cuts, Paints, team(bungalow), Los Angeles, CA; Closer Than They Appear, Lyles & King, New York, NY; Infinite Spiral, Dio Horia, Mykonos, Greece; Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva Switzerland and Garden in Motion, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris, France. Recent group exhibitions include Light, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Path of the Storm, SUNNY NY, New York, NY; Group Show, RIBORDY ... More | |
Leesa Kelly, founder of Memorialize the Movement, in Minneapolis, May 9, 2021. Ike Edeani/The New York Times.
by Maya Salam
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The morning in April before a Minneapolis jury found the former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd, Leesa Kelly woke up from a nightmare. As she had done many times over the past year, she cried out feelings of anger and hopelessness. Kelly, who runs a self-help blog for women of color, had marched and helped fund-raise in the city since last May, when demonstrations erupted after Chauvin was captured on film pressing his knee into Floyds neck, a deadly act that moved millions of people to march in what would be the biggest racial justice protests in decades. But nothing seemed to quell this feeling inside me: just deep ... More |
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| Indiana Jones hat and Star Wars droid for sale in Hollywood | | Exhibition at Museum der Moderne Salzburg features around sixty works by Yinka Shonibare | | Museum of Arts and Design invites visitors into miniature world created by collector Joanna Fisher |
An C3PO mask from the movie "Star Wars" is exhibited during a press preview of Prop Store's Iconic Film & TV Memorabilia on May 14, 2021, in Valencia, California. VALERIE MACON / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Fans who can't wait to see the next "Indiana Jones" film can bid to own his iconic fedora next month -- if they have perhaps a cool quarter-of-a-million dollars to spare. The custom-made hat worn by Harrison Ford in 1984 action classic "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" will go on sale in Hollywood from June 29, with an estimate of $150,000-$250,000. Filmmakers commissioned the archaeologist's fedora from London hatter Herbert Johnson a year before the film was shot, said "Prop Store" auction house COO Brandon Alinger. "They didn't just walk in and buy a hat off the shelf... they combined attributes from a few different hats to make what became the Indiana Jones Fedora, which is probably now today, one of the most recognizable hats in all movies," he said. Ford, 78, is set to appear in his final film as the hero archaeologist next summer. Over ... More | |
Nelsons Ship in a Bottle, 2009, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, © Yinka Shonibare CBE, courtesy of the artist, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, and James Cohan Gallery, New York.
SALZBURG.- One of the most distinguished and versatile artists working in Great Britain today, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA (London, GB, 1962) has emerged as a prominent voice in the critical engagement with colonialism and postcolonialism in the global context. He has grappled with these questions since the 1990s, studying the legacy of the world spanning British Empire in light of the interdependencies between Africa and Europe. His works analyze contemporary mindsets and bring phenomena such as racism, xenophobia, and the construction of national and cultural identities into focus. The sprawling solo exhibition at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg celebrates his diverse oeuvre and features around sixty works from the past three decades, including expansive installations, sculptures, photographs, graphic art, and films. Given his multicultural roots, Yinka ... More | |
The Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo. Photo: Jenna Bascom.
NEW YORK, NY.- Inspired by Venices glamorous Gritti Palace, The Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo in Miniature is making its public debut at the Museum of Arts and Design. With a fifteenth-century classical exterior and ten rooms filled with an eclectic range of historical and contemporary craft, art, and design rendered in miniature, The Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo in Miniature displays an impressive collection of contemporary art created by more than ten international artists, many of whom are working in miniature for the first time. New York collector, maker, and arts patron Joanna Fisher conceived of the dollhouse in response to the lockdown required by the COVID-19 pandemic. Like so many, she was housebound and felt her world shrink and embraced it, literally. The dollhouse project offered Fisher a form of therapy: it provided a safe haven and, with ever-inward retreat during quarantine, an escape. The Hou ... More |
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| Dale Chihuly launches a unique garden experience of breathtaking, majestic glass artworks in Singapore | | Kathleen Andrews dies at 84; Helped give Ziggy and others their start | | Caravane Earth Foundation presents a bamboo Majlis to the gardens of the Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore |
Dale Chihuly, Turquoise Reeds, 2020. Gardens by the Bay, Singapore, installed 2021 © Chihuly Studio. Photo by Nathaniel Willson © Chihuly Studio. All Rights Reserved.
SINGAPORE.- Singapore has officially launched a major garden exhibition by Dale Chihuly, one of the worlds most-renowned glass artists from Seattle. A first of its kind in Asia, the Dale Chihuly: Glass in Bloom exhibition takes place amidst the verdant tropical setting of Singapores iconic Gardens by the Bay. The exhibition offers a unique experience that takes visitors across the expanse of Gardens by the Bays various landscapes, including the vast greenery of its Outdoor Gardens and the cooled environment of its Conservatories. Here, visitors are able to experience landmark installations such as Moon - which has not been exhibited since its debut in Jerusalem in 2000, and Setting Sun - an artwork designed specially for Singapore. The two installations are being presented in view of one another for the ... More | |
Ziggy was one of the characters Kathleen Andrews helped bring to light through her work with Andrews McMeel Publishing.
by Penelope Green
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Kathleen Andrews was missing her husband, Jim, who had been on the road for weeks trying to drum up interest in his new company, a fledgling syndication business, when she came across a little gift book titled When Youre Not Around. It featured a hapless, hairless, pantless and as yet unnamed character a hard-luck antihero whose wan exploits fit her blue mood. That character would ultimately become the downtrodden but appealing Ziggy, of newspaper cartoon fame, and Andrews serendipitous find would help keep her husbands company afloat. Andrews, who would later become the chief executive of the company and help grow the careers of Garry Trudeau, Cathy Guisewite and Tom Wilson, Ziggys creator, died on April 16 ... More | |
The Majlis undergoing construction at San Giorgio Maggiore.
VENICE.- Caravane Earth Foundation presents a unique bamboo Majlis to the gardens of the Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice for the 2021 Architecture Biennale from 22 May 21 November 2021. The project is one of the official Collateral Events that reflect the 2021 Architecture Biennales theme of How will we live together? Majlis is a word that originated in Pre-Islamic Arabia, meaning council or gathering place. Traditionally, a majlis is a place where people come together to discuss local events and issues, exchange news, socialise, and deepen their connection with each other. Inspired by nomadic architecture, the Majlis is designed by the internationally acclaimed bamboo architects Simón Vélez and Stefana Simic. It is wrapped in textiles handwoven in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco by a womens collective from Ain Leuh, and the Boujad Tribe of Morocco. The Majlis structure has been inst ... More |
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Extraordinary Beethoven, and an adventurous streak
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear never knew his father, who died of cancer a month before he was born. But Stewart Sr., an aspiring writer, left his only child a rich musical legacy in the form of a large, eclectic collection of LP recordings. Even when he was just 3 or 4, Goodyear was enthralled by Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Ravi Shankar, Joe Cocker and Carlos Santana. But it was two boxes containing the complete symphonies of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky that made him want to become a musician. Somehow I sensed that there was never a limit to the emotions expressed in this music, Goodyear, 43, said in a recent interview. This was the world I wanted to be a part of. Beethoven wound up occupying a central place in his diverse career. Goodyear has recorded the Diabelli Variations; the five ... More
The Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair to be held 18-20 June
PETWORTH.- The Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair is opening in just a few weeks in the grounds of Petworth House in Petworth, West Sussex from Friday 18 to Sunday 20 June 2021, since lockdown delayed its usual slot in May this year. This is the second time the event has had to be rescheduled due to the pandemic - last September the fair was successfully and safely held in its purpose-built marquee in the National Trusts 700 acre deer park to much acclaim. One of the main highlights for sale at the fair has an impressive provenance, as it was owned for many years by HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon and comes complete with a folder of documentation from Kensington Palace. The 19th century Qing dynasty Chinese export Dehua porcelain blanc-de-Chine figure seated on a Buddhist lion, probably Manjusri bodhisattva of wisdom, ... More
Mary Ahern, who produced early TV and then preserved it, dies at 98
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Mary V. Ahern, who was an important behind-the-scenes figure on the cultural magazine show Omnibus and other early television programs, then helped preserve those and similar touchstones of television history as the Paley Center for Medias first curator, died May 1 at a care center in Peabody, Massachusetts. She was 98. Her niece Joan Curry said the cause was cancer. Ahern spent much of her career working with Robert Saudek, an Emmy Award-winning producer whom The New York Times once described as alchemist in chief of what is often recalled as the golden age of television. Saudek, who died in 1997, created Omnibus in 1952, when television was new. Ahern was his valued right hand, as she had been earlier when he worked in radio. Omnibus was hosted by Alistair Cooke, who at the time was ... More
Roger Hawkins, drummer heard on numerous hits, is dead at 75
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Roger Hawkins, who played drums on numerous pop and soul hits of the 1960s and 70s and was among the architects of the funky sound that became identified with Muscle Shoals, Alabama, died Thursday at his home in Sheffield, Alabama. He was 75. His death was confirmed by his friend and frequent musical collaborator David Hood, who said Hawkins had been suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other conditions. An innately soulful musician, Hawkins initially distinguished himself in the mid-60s as a member of the house band at producer Rick Halls FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals. (The initials stand for Florence Alabama Music Enterprises.) His colleagues were keyboardist Barry Beckett, guitarist Jimmy Johnson and Hood, who played bass. Hood is the last surviving member of that rhythm ... More
Three dramas explore the margins of the digital form
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Puppets cant cry. But they can make people cry. Or at least exceptionally well-made and well-voiced ones, like those in Vancouver, by Ralph B. Peña, can. They create a new path for emotion by blocking access to paths that have become too familiar. Vancouver is among the many productions that, at this late date in the era of remote playgoing, are still exploring the ways artists can engage audiences theatrically even when what theyre offering is basically film. The gorgeously carved humanoids (and canines) in Vancouver like the uncanny green screens in the workplace drama Data and the deliberately funky video in The Sprezzaturameron are just some of the de-cinematizing strategies Ive recently experienced online. As audiences creep out of their shells, these three got me thinking about ... More
'We always rise.' A Black-owned bookstore navigates the pandemic
NEWARK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Dexter George, owner of Source of Knowledge, a bookstore on Broad Street here, wore a tool belt as he walked through aisles dotted with djembe drums and past walls lined with Ghanaian masks. Smoke coiled upward from a bowl of burning sage. George, 56, has kept his business operating partly by practicing caution during the pandemic. Even when he opened his front door to start the workday, he kept the key in the inside lock; all customers who were allowed in were quickly directed to have their temperature taken and take a squirt of hand sanitizer. George eyed them through a hard plastic face shield. Theres a lot of people we arent seeing again, he said. This virus is going around in a circle until it gets everybody. George counted 30 customers killed by the coronavirus. Almost 1,000 people have ... More
Federer serves up memorabilia treasure trove
ZURICH (AFP).- Roger Federer is auctioning t-shirts, racquets, and shoes from his trophy-laden tennis career after delving into the vast memorabilia archive stored up for years by his wife and family. The sports legend is hoping to raise £1 million ($1.4 million, 1.15 million euros) for the Roger Federer Foundation, which supports educational projects in southern Africa and his native Switzerland. "The Roger Federer collection is the most important single-owner collection of sporting memorabilia that has ever come to the market," said Bertold Mueller, the continental Europe managing director of the British auction house Christie's. The items cover 21 years of Federer's career, Mueller told AFP at a pre-sale exhibition of the auction lots in Zurich. The collection is on show in Hong Kong until Tuesday. The 39-year-old has won 20 Grand Slam titles, a record ... More
Thierry Goldberg opens an online exhibition of works by Francisco G. Pinzón
NEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg is presenting De la mano al zodíaco an online exhibition of works by Francisco G. Pinzón Samper. The exhibition is on view from May 21 to June 19, 2021. When Francisco G. Pinzón Samper describes his works, the first thing he mentions is range. A range from high to low, a range from design to artistry, from elegance to camp. Pinzón Samper plays with these dualities in his work, drawing technicolored portraits and trippy fantasies that mix design tropes of hippie psychedelia, with Art Deco design, and Gen Z fashion. What develops are technicolor works that are bursts of expression and concentrated love. Pinzón Sampers primary series in the exhibition, a set of portraits, experiments with design, color, and ritual. Pinzón Samper borrows design tropes from Art Deco, Emilio Pucci, and 1960s long flower skirts ... More
Asya Geisberg Gallery opens its fifth solo exhibition of work by Melanie Daniel
NEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is presenting No Mans Land, the fifth solo exhibition of Melanie Daniel. As Robin Laurence states in her Border Crossings article, Daniel takes on the dismaying subject of global climate change in a strangely oblique and highly imaginative fashion. Daniel has created futuristic narratives in which human beings struggle to reclaim their lives in the aftermath of environmental disasters; their efforts however, appear to be doomed by the benighted optimism or sheer absurdity of their undertakings. In her newest series, the artist is still plunging into her idiosyncratic vision of these potential after-effects on people not unlike herself, but the pandemic has provoked a wider net of anxiety about the unplannable. Daniels itinerancy has girded her approach to painting: with roots in western Canada, she ... More
Magnificent Victorian East End butcher's shop display model to be offered at auction
LONDON.- An impressive Victorian Folk Art butcher's shop display model of Butchers, that was originally in Limehouse (East London) will be offered by Catherine Southon Auctioneers & Valuers in an online auction on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 11am via www.the-saleroom.com. It is estimated to fetch £12,000-18,000. The polychrome decorated wood and plaster model is finely detailed and depicts the shop front on one side decked with meat cuts, carcasses and produce with a butcher holding a steel knife. Whilst on the other side, the model depicts an abattoir showing figures engaged in butchery including the slaughtering of a bull, above the sign inscribed 'Fernley Family Butchers'. The model which measures 78 cm high and 94.5 cm wide dates from 1880 is being offered on behalf of the Worshipful Company of Butchers, who bought ... More
Important 'Batte of Britain' medals awarded to spitfire ace fetch £110,000 at Dix Noonan Webb
LONDON.- Spitfire Ace, Group Captain C. B. F. Kingcome of the Royal Air Force was one of the outstanding characters of the Battle of Britain and his group of seven medals including a 1942 D.S.O and 1940 D.F.C. was sold by Dix Noonan Webb for £110,000 in their auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria Wednesday, May 19, 2021. It was bought by an UK collector of outstanding gallantry awards. Charles Brian Fabris Kingcome was born in Calcutta, India in 1917 and educated at Bedford School. He was one of the outstanding characters of the Battle of Britain, who, during its height, led 92 Squadron with great success from Biggin Hill. Shot down and hospitalised in October 1940, he returned to fly with the squadron until appointed to the command of 72 Squadron in February 1942, leading them as the fighter escort of Esmonde V.C.s ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Pontormo was born May 24, 1494. Jacopo Carucci (May 24, 1494 - January 2, 1557), usually known as Jacopo da Pontormo, Jacopo Pontormo or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School. His work represents a profound stylistic shift from the calm perspectival regularity that characterized the art of the Florentine Renaissance. In this image: Jacopo Carrucci, known as Pontormo (1494 - 1557), Portrait of a Bishop (Monsignor Niccolò Ardinghelli?), c. 1541 - 1542. Oil on panel; 102 x 78.9 cm. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.83.
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