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A gallery room at the Museo Kaluz, housed in an 18th-century building and one of the few privately run museums in Mexico City, on Oct. 29 2022. One of the worldâs richest men says he hopes his extensive collection can be a gift to his country long after he is gone. Jackie Russo/The New York Times.
MEXICO CITY.- It would be easy to think of Museo Kaluz as the very expensive hobby of an extraordinarily rich man. After all, the downtown Mexico City museum was founded, and is funded, by Antonio del Valle Ruiz, who ranks No. 7 on Forbes magazines list of wealthiest Mexicans. But focusing on the benefactor might distract from the benefit Museo Kaluz has provided since it opened in 2020, serving as a public showplace for the 1,800-piece art collection del Valle spent five decades assembling. The billionaires tastes fall on the more traditional side. The holdings are nearly all paintings and overwhelmingly figurative and include well-known names including José MarÃa Velasco, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco. A tour through the three-story museum, located along the citys beloved Alameda Central park, reveals the collections intimate portrait galleries, brimming with faces of Mexicans rich, poor, white, brown, aristocratic and Indigenous, and documen ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day View of the exhibition Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music. © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York. Photo MMFA, Denis Farley.
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| Exhibition, the first of its kind, focuses on pairings of paintings by Alice Neel of the same sitter | | In long-contested move, Paris makes Sacré-Coeur a historical monument | | In Qatar, a museum looks back at the breadth of Islam | 
Alice Neel, Ellie Poindexter, 1961. Oil on canvas, 99.7 x 66.5 cm. 39 1/4 x 26 1/4 in © The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy the Estate of Alice Neel and Victoria Miro.
LONDON.- Victoria Miro is presenting Alice Neel: Theres Still Another I See, an exhibition that focuses for the first time on pairings of Neels paintings of the same sitter. Among the foremost painters of the twentieth century, Alice Neels reputation has only ascended further during recent years, with landmark exhibitions such as the acclaimed 20212022 touring survey Alice Neel: People Come First, organised by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Throughout her life, Neel (19001984) developed a unique talent for identifying particular gestures and mannerisms that reveal the singular identities of her sitters. Yet, she was also acutely aware of changes within an individual in spirit and in flesh, and how these changes might reveal themselves over minutes, days or decades. The above quote, in which Neel describes her exp ... More | | 
The Sacré-Coeur Basilica in Paris on May 13, 2020. Pariss City Council voted on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022 to classify the Sacré-Coeur as a historical monument. Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times.
by Constant Méheut
PARIS.- For more than a century, the Sacré-Coeur Basilica has been towering over Paris, welcoming millions of visitors every year, but even with its undeniable popularity, it has not been afforded the substantial funding and protection normally given to such a landmark. On Tuesday, Paris City Council finally voted to classify Sacré-Coeur as a historical monument, giving it the highest level of protection long granted to other sites such as the Louvre Museum and Notre-Dame Cathedral. Although it might seem to be an easy decision, it was not. The classification had long been delayed partly because of Sacré-Coeurs history. The building was erected in the late 19th century at the behest of conservative political forces, on the spot where they had previously crushed in blood ... More | | 
Museum of Islamic Art, reflected in the waters of the Arabian Gulf.Courtesy of the Museum of Islamic Art.
DOHA.- As the worlds attention shifts to present-day Qatar for the World Cup in late November, the countrys preeminent museum is hoping to direct interest to the regions past. Besides the addition of eight brand-new soccer stadiums, the reopening of the history-steeped Museum of Islamic Art represents a bit of national moxie as Qatar, the first Arab state to host the World Cup, prepares for the global spotlight. The museum, known as MIA, is poised to emerge again after a major reassessment of its focus. MIA is the main museum of Islamic art outside of the West, and we cover all of the Islamic world, so we were conscious of that when we looked at our storyline, Julia Gonnella, director of the museum, said during an early summer tour as dozens of construction workers tromped through, moving display cases and installation walls. The sound of hand drills and hammers echoed through the five-story atrium, and the balconies, where visitors can ... More |
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| How did a World War II 'ghost boat' end up in a shallow lake in California? | | The Higgins Bedford opens "Changing Times: A Century of Modern British Art" | | François Ghebaly now represents Farah Al Qasimi | 
In an image provided by the U.S. Forest Service, the remains of a World War II-era military landing craft that were exposed as Lake Shasta in Northern California receded. Shasta-Trinity National Forest via The New York Times.
by Michael Levenson
NEW YORK, NY.- If the rumors were true, the remains of a World War II-era boat were partially submerged somewhere in the shallow waters of Lake Shasta in Northern California. James Dunsdon, a volunteer firefighter who collects military vehicles, was determined to find it. One day last fall, he hiked for miles along the lakes receding shoreline. Then he spotted it, plainly visible and partly exposed: a remarkably preserved 36-foot military landing craft. It just came over the horizon like a ghost, he said. There it was with original World War II paint and timbers and steel and in the position with the ramp down. It was as if the boat had sunk while making a beach landing, he said. The Higgins boat had once carried American troops into battle during the Allied invasion of Sicily in the ... More | | 
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, Loading Timbers at Southampton Docks, pen and ink, 1917. Image courtesy The Trustees of The Cecil Higgins Art Gallery (The Higgins Bedford) [P.261]
BEDFORD.- From Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden and Paul Nash to Elisabeth Frink, David Hockney and Lucian Freud some of the biggest names in British art have come together in a vibrant, wide-ranging exhibition at The Higgins Bedford that explores the history of British art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Changing Times: A Century of Modern British Art brings together more than 80 works from the Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art and The Higgins own collection, with paintings, works on paper and sculpture from some of the biggest names in British art. From The Higgins also come a dozen works on paper by major European artists. Changing Times: A Century of Modern British Art is the first large-scale exhibition since the reopening of The Higgins, and is supported by The Friends of The Higgins Bedford. Among the highlights are several powerful monumental sculptures, ... More | | 
Farah Al Qasimi, Blue Woman, 2022. Archival inkjet print in aluminum artist's frame, Edition of 5, 2AP, 50 x 33 inches (127 x 84 cm.)
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- For Paris+ par Art Basel 2022, François Ghebaly is presenting an excerpt from her first solo exhibition at the gallery. Showcasing Al Qasimis distinctive multidimensional display method, the booth will feature her video work Surge (2022) and a selection of her photographs installed atop a floor-to-ceiling vinyl backdrop. For nearly a decade, Farah Al Qasimi has sharpened a multifaceted practice that illuminates the complexities of a globalized, hyperlinked culture. Rooted in photography but spanning performance, video, installation, and music, her work documents and conjures a world of disquieting visual metaphor. Al Qasimi packs her images with hypersaturated textiles, familiar commercial products, and landscapes so sublime they teeter between the real and the imagined. Beauty and tragedy, risk and allure, intimacy and distanceAl Qasimi skillfully captures these paradoxes through a distinctly lush visual language. ... More |
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| Auction of historic vintage space photographs celebrates 50th anniversary of Project Apollo | | 2022 edition of the Boston Rare Book and Ephemera Fair presents "Satelllite Show" | | Exhibition at the Montclair Art Museum highlights the work of Abelardo Morell | 
Harrison Schmitt, the Earth and the US flag, Eugene Cernan [Apollo 17], 7-19 December 1972, EVA 1, $4,000-6,000.
CHICAGO, ILL.- Marking the 50th anniversary of the last human voyage to the moon, Wright and LAMA are pleased to present One Giant Leap for Mankind: Vintage Photographs from the Victor Martin-Malburet Collection, Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Project Apollo (19611972), an auction to take place in Chicago on October 28th, 2022. This stunning collection comprises more than 300 original historic photographs from Project Apollo, the NASA program responsible for placing the first humans on the surface of the moon. Meticulously researched and collected over the course of 25 years by Victor Martin-Malburet, each image represents extraordinary feats of human exploration, imagination, and collaboration, and many of those being offered have never been published. ... More | | 
Bay Psalm Book, 1640. The Bay Psalm Book was the first book printed in British North America. The book is a metrical Psalter, first printed in 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
BOSTON, MASS.- Three times each year, book collectors gather to attend major antiquarian book fairs, sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America in California (February), New York City (April), and Boston , this year November 6-13, will delight booklovers with fairs, special events, tours, exhibits, and more, available to all who would like to join in the fun. Rare Books Boston: The 2022 edition of the Boston Rare Book and Ephemera Fair, the Satellite Show, will be held on Saturday, November 12 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116, this is, four walkable blocks from the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Hynes Convention Center. ... More | | 
Abelardo Morell, Camera Obscura: View of Florence from Hotel Excelsior, Italy, 2017 (detail), 30 x 40 inches, Archival pigment print.
MONTCLAIR, NJ.- The Montclair Art Museum is presenting the exhibition, Abelardo Morell: Projecting Italy. Boston-based and world-renowned photographer Abelardo Morell has been using the camera obscura since the early 1990s, creating a body of work defined by the contemporary use of a technology that predates the camera. By creating a dark room with no light entering other than through a small pinhole, Morell brings the world outside into the room, projected upside down and in reverse on the opposite wall. The result is a complex layering of interior and exterior views. This exhibition highlights twelve tent camera and camera obscura photographs of sites in Italy in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the Center for Italian Culture at Fitchburg State University. Morells exhibition ... More |
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| Andrew Jackson's Hermitage welcomes Pamela A. Miner as new vice president of collections | | Almine Rech announces the representation of Zio Ziegler, in New York, Europe, and United Kingdom | | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Music as means, muse and medium | 
Pamela A. Miner, new Vice President of Collections at Andrew Jackson's Hermitage. Award-winning author with 20-year background in historic site preservation joins the home of the 7th president.
NASHVILLE, TENN.- Andrew Jacksons Hermitage has welcomed Pamela A. Miner as its new Vice President of Collections, whose primary role will be to oversee the collections, archaeology, reference services and exhibitions at the National Historic Landmark. Miner joins the organization with a career spanning more than 20 years in historic sites, museum and history education. She is the recipient of the 2017 Florida Book Award Gold Medal in Visual Arts for her River & Road: Fort Myers Architecture from Craftsman to Modern. We are delighted to have Pam as part of our team. She comes to us with a wealth of experience at historic sites, including preservation and restoration, as well as conceptualizing and overseeing the design and installation of exhibits, said Amy L. Williams, Chief of Museum Operations at Andrew Jacksons Hermitage. Her background ... More | | 
Zio Ziegler, Essential Figure I, 2021, oil and pumice canvas, 182.9 x 152.4 cm, 72 x 60 in. © Zio Ziegler - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech - Photo: Dan Bradica.
On the occasion of The Art Show 2022, Almine Rech will present a solo booth of works by Zio Ziegler. Zieglers large-format Essential Figures paintings feature primitive patterns, improvised linework, and layers of amorphous forms that appear both solid and porous, oscillating between the visible and invisible. Ziegler paints from a meditative state, drawing from his subconscious a personal interpretation of the world around him. For him, painting is an act of self-exploration and a radical expression of vulnerability. Painting is my attempt at self-understanding - rather than finding a concept and executing it in a linear fashion, I react to my questions, life, and awareness, he claims. The focus of Zieglers practice aims to illuminate the process of creating instead of isolating the final result. His images of monumental figures set in motion serve as a portal of sorts for the viewer, ... More | | 
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), Untitled, 1984. Private collection. © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.
MONTREAL.- To fully appreciate Jean-Michel Basquiats art is to understand the outsize role that music played in his life and work. Understanding the art of Jean-Michel depends in part on understanding his lifelong involvement with music literally his working ambient, wrote Robert Farris Thompson in Royalty, Heroism, and the Streets: The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The New York-born-and-bred artist was a regular in the citys nightclubs and music venues and reportedly amassed roughly 3,000 records during his short life, which ended at 27 in 1988. That connection forms the foundation of Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music, an exhibition showing from Oct. 15 through Feb. 19 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The show will then travel to the Musée de la Musiques Philharmonie de Paris in France from April 6 through July 30. The museums also worked with Dieter Buchhart, a frequent ... More |
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 Yes, Burt Bacharach wrote that. And you can dance to it.NEW YORK, NY.- For a moment, I had no idea what I was listening to. It was the last of day of September, and I was attending a rehearsal of The Look of Love, Mark Morris new evening-length dance set to songs by Burt Bacharach. But the vocals that the dancers were moving to in precise patterns sounded like modernist opera, not the meticulous 1960s pop that Bacharach is mainly known for. Then I caught a lyric: Be careful of the blob. It was Bacharach, after all: the theme song he wrote for the 1958 sci-fi horror movie The Blob. And the next songs were immediately recognizable: (Theres) Always Something There to Remind Me, I Say a Little Prayer and, of course, The Look of Love. These are the hits, and there are more of them in Morris dance, which his company debuts Thursday at the BroadStage in Santa Monica, California, before taking ... More  'The Piano Lesson' review: August Wilson's phantom notesNEW YORK, NY.- Four Black men gathered around a kitchen table exuberantly sing a work song (When you marry, dont marry no farming man, hoh-ah, they holler, clapping and stomping their feet), a Black woman girds herself with her grief for the husband and father she lost to the anger of white men, and siblings fight over a seemingly haunted family heirloom that tells a story of generational trauma and loss. These circumstances are more than enough to raise the dead. Or at least they are in the Charles household, in the Broadway revival of August Wilsons The Piano Lesson, which opened Thursday at the Ethel Barrymore Theater. First staged in 1987 at the Yale Repertory Theater, The Piano Lesson made its Broadway debut at the Walter Kerr three years later. That year it won the Pulitzer Prize for drama one of two Wilson ... More  A bluegrass pioneer still has stories to tellNEW YORK, NY.- For almost 60 years, death has rarely spurned Alice Gerrard. Instead, it has spurred the work of the consummate folk singer and inveterate archivist. During a series of discursive phone calls last month from her home in Durham, North Carolina, she was eager to remember the people shes lost. First there was her father, Jerry, a British sailor who settled in Seattle and died from heart disease when Gerrard was 7. Then there was her first husband, Jeremy Foster, an avid old-time musician who was killed in a car crash in 1964, just before Gerrard recorded her debut. Suddenly a single mother of four, she made an album that became a bluegrass landmark. And then there was Hazel Dickens, the sharp tenor to Gerrards keening lead for nearly two decades, who died in 2011 from pneumonia after years of ailments. ... More  "Prima Materia" an exhibition of new works by Jimi Gleason opens at the William Turner GallerySANTA MONIA, CALIF.- The William Turner Gallery began the solo exhibition, Jimi Gleason: Prima Materia on October 15th, where it will run through December 3, 2022. In Wildes version of Narcissus, the beautiful boy who falls in love with his reflection and drowns in it, is himself, a vehicle for the Lake to realize its own beauty. The two were parts of a whole, completing the other in a oneness of synergism. This too was the objective pursued by medieval alchemists. In their quest to transform base metals into silver and gold, these proto-chemists were ultimately exploring a transcendental state of universal symbiosis. The idea was to ascertain the metaphoric principle of an omnipresent oneness performed and exhibited in the material world through this transmutative process. Jimi Gleasons experimentations in painting run tandem ... More  Still life oil painting by Janet Fish headlines Ahlers & Ogletree's Fall Fine Estates & Collections AuctionATLANTA, GA.- A vibrant oil on canvas picnic still life painting by Janet Fish (American, b. 1938), a Tiffany movement tall case clock in the Renaissance Revival manner of R. J. Horner, and an unpublished manuscript draft of Woodie (Woody) Guthries (American, 1912-1967) book I Spin You Spin (1946) are a few of the expected highlights in Ahlers & Ogletrees two-session, online-only Fall Fine Estates & Collections Auction planned for the weekend of October 28-29. Session 1, on Friday, October 28th, will feature more than 400 lots of Asian arts, Mid-Century Modern, jewelry and silver. Session 2, the following day, will contain over 500 lots of period antiques and fine art from prominent estates in Europe and America, plus Native American objects. In total, over 900 lots will come up for bid, starting at 10 am Eastern time both days. ... More  Affordable Art Fair announces 16th edition in AmsterdamAMSTERDAM.- Affordable Art Fair will take place at de Kromhouthal in Amsterdam from Wednesday 26 October to Sunday 30 October. With thousands of contemporary artworks from over 70 local, national and international galleries and multiple live drawings and book signings, this 16th edition promises to be a dynamic and artistic adventure. Affordable Art Fair offers new and experienced collectors the chance to meet established and emerging artists, discover new perspectives and acquire fascinating, affordable works of art. Affordable Art Fair takes shape and color in three special projects. The Dutch duo We are out of office, formed by Winneke de Groot and Felix van Dam, will be presenting a large still life installation. They are known for their bold and colorful paintings, ceramics and sculptures. Secondly, the Brussels duo, L'Atelier ... More  High design: The revolution taking over cannabis dispensariesNEW YORK, NY.- Grateful Dead tapestries. Lava lamps. The distinctive orange inspired by Flamin Hot Cheetos dust painted indiscriminately on walls. Until now, these were the markings of marijuana dispensaries, dripping with 1960s hippie nostalgia and the musings of the stereotypical stoner, and its high time for the cannabis aesthetic to get a refresh, cannabis entrepreneurs say. Dispensaries and design studios are playing a game of catch-up, as cannabis legalization has become more widespread across the United States in recent years. Many entrepreneurs want to strip the plant of any past negative associations, opening the door to reach new types of customers. This moment creates an opportunity to tell a brands story from scratch, and its leading to a revolution in how spaces for cannabis consumption and retail are being presented. Think ... More  St. Mary Le Strand presents CONEXIÃN by LiLeón curated by Roberta SemeraroLONDON.- CONEXIÃN at St. Mary Le Strand is a concrete example of dialogue between the Anglican Church, the Dominican Republic and the art of Lidia León to encourage coexistence of the individuals by integrating the language of art into architecture and the natural material into the sacred geometry of the space. With this installation made of tobacco leaves, Lidia León Cabral has transformed St. Mary Le Strand - a beautiful example of the Baroque architecture in London- into a sort of agorà where diverse cultures can meet and live together. The tobacco plants, which situate the work in a Caribbean landscape and are a crucial part of the socioeconomic development of the Dominican Republic, are a recurring theme in LiLeóns imagery: she was born and raised in a prominent family of tobacco farmers. In the hands of the artist-architect, these large leaves ... More  James Cohan opens an exhibition of new work by Teresa MargollesNEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting Lo que hemos perdido / What we lost, an exhibition of new work by Teresa Margolles, on view from October 15 to November 12 at 52 Walker Street. This is the artists second solo exhibition at James Cohan. In her ongoing investigation of the social and aesthetic dimensions of conflict, Teresa Margolles visualizes the enduring weight of violence. By infusing artwork with material traces of loss, she shares the stories of the disenfranchised in ways that are acutely visceral, confronting viewers physically and emotionally. For this exhibition, Margolles presents a series of painted ceramic vessels from her continued collaboration with artisans in the Northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, near the U.S./Mexico border. Located in the region near the prehistoric Paquimé archaeological zone or Casas Grandes (the place ... More  Exhibition features close to 300 paintings by ground-breaking artist Marian ChristyWESTPORT, CONN.- MoCA [Museum of Contemporary Art] Westport announces the premiere showing of the From The Pen To The Knife exhibition, featuring close to 300 watercolor paintings by the ground-breaking artist Marian Christy. Christy was a pioneer of the Knifed Watercolors® style, a process that shatters the traditional method of creating watercolors by using only palette knives and puddles of paint. From The Pen To The Knife is on view at MoCA Westport from October 15 - November 27, 2022. The exhibition was curated by Ruth Mannes, Executive Director of MoCA Westport; Liz Leggett, MoCA Westports Director of Exhibitions; and visual artist Tom Berntsen. Christy was an award-winning journalist for the first chapter of her life. She was an accomplished writer for The Boston Globe at a time when women had limited journalistic opportunities. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Cristofano Allori was born October 17, 1577. Cristofano Allori (17 October 1577 - 1 April 1621) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school. Allori was born at Florence and received his first lessons in painting from his father, Alessandro Allori, but becoming dissatisfied with the hard anatomical drawing and cold coloring of the latter, he entered the studio of Gregorio Pagani, who was one of the leaders of the late Florentine school, which sought to unite the rich coloring of the Venetians with the Florentine attention to drawing. Allori also appears to have worked under Cigoli. In this image: Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1613). Oil on canvas, 139 x 116 cm. Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence.
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