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Ray Smith, La Dona de Pato, 1988, oil on wood panels, 80in x 89 in., Courtesy of Ray Smith Studio and Ethan Cohen Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ethan Cohen Gallery announces Ray Smith: Nepantla, the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery. At a juncture of polarizing identity politics, Smiths exhibition is particularly poignant not only in its monumentality and virtuosity but also in the sensitivity he brings to each subject. Smiths works are timely and highly personal yet, Smiths paintings address concepts that transcend identity and resonate to the very core of the human condition. Simultaneously Smiths approach to painting subverts the norms of American art history. Organized less as a conventional gallery presentation and more in line with an institutional approach, the exhibitions unique tenor is further compounded by the raw quality of Ethan Cohens cavernous new Chelsea gallery. The works on view are not limited to a current body of work, rather the exhibition was conceived around one of Smiths most seminal painting ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, Jon Serl: No straight lines, David Zwirner, New York, September 19-October 26, 2024. Courtesy David Zwirner.
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| Ultimate copy of classic novel is a sparkling gift at £1 million | | An oil on canvas by French artist Jean Jacques Henner sold for $27,225 at Ahlers & Ogletree | | Milestone's Oct. 5 auction offers fall harvest of premier antique & vintage toys |
The unique binding has been designed and handbound by award-winning master bookbinder Kate Holland, who took inspiration from the original book and designed the full leather binding with the streets of New York in mind.
LONDON.- This year's perfect Christmas present is a one-of-a-kind, most exquisite leather-bound and jewellery encrusted first edition book of the classic novella Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote. The famous book was published in 1958 and became world-famous when it was turned into a movie with Audrey Hepburn in the lead role, which premiered in 1961. The made-to-order gift will only be produced once and also includes the original photomontages that Truman Capote commissioned as well as an ... More | |
Acrylic on paper painting by Herbert Lee Creecy (Ga., 1939-2003), titled Firenze (1973), signed, titled, and dated to verso, 9 ¼ inches by 13 ½ inches (paper, less frame) ($3,328).
ATLANTA, GA.- An oil on canvas figural rendering by French artist Jean Jacques Henner (1829-1905) sold for $27,225 and a pair of French mid-20th century bronze chinoiserie elephant table lamps lit up the room for $7,260 in back-to-back auctions held September 12th and 13th by Ahlers & Ogletree, online and live in the Atlanta gallery located at 1788 Ellsworth Industrial Boulevard NW. The Henner painting was the top lot at the September 13th Fine Estates Auction, one that featured an assortment of unique antiques, including fine silver and ... More | |
Rare American National Packard Roadster pedal car, 30in long. All original with rich red paint and the only known example with electric headlights. Possibly made for exhibition at NY Toy Fair. Battery holder has been replaced but the lot includes the original, as well as a dry cell battery. Estimate: $10,000-$15,000. Image courtesy of Milestone Auctions.
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO .- College football, newly-harvested crops, and the announcement of Milestones Premier Vintage Toy Auction are all sure signs that autumn has arrived. This year, Milestones bounteous fall event is slated for October 5 at the companys suburban-Cleveland gallery, with all forms of remote bidding available, including live online through a choice of Internet platforms. The auction lineup is packed with 715 ... More |
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| Getty apologizes for fireworks display gone awry | | Who's the Dodo now? A famously extinct bird, reconsidered. | | Christie's to present a historic work by Joan Mitchell during its 20th/21st Century Art Auction Week |
The artist Cai Guo-Qiang at his Lower East Side studio in New York. (Clement Pascal/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Getty museum this week found itself having to apologize for the explosion event by artist Cai Guo-Qiang at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum after it left several people injured by falling debris and many others shaken by the sound and smoke. Were aware of a few people who were hit by some kind of falling debris, and it was really loud, and were really sorry there were people who were freaked out by how loud and smoky it was, Katherine E. Fleming, the president of the Getty Trust, said in a telephone ... More | |
A photo provided by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in England shows the only known flesh and bone specimen remaining of the dodo. (Oxford University Museum of Natural History via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an emperor penguin. Its ancestor first appeared on Earth more than 25 million years ago, and by 1662, because of humans, it had vanished from Mauritius, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, the only place it ever existed. The dodo has since become fixed in ... More | |
Joan Mitchell, Untitled, 1960. Oil on canvas, 95 x 90.6 cm. © Christies Images Limited 2024.
PARIS.- Christies announces the auction of an exceptional work by Joan Mitchell estimated at between 3.2 million and 5 million. Appearing on the market for the first time, this Untitled work was painted around 1969 and comes from the collection of the famous French art dealer Jacques Dubourg. It is the latest addition to the already remarkable catalogue of the Avant-Garde(s) including Thinking Italian sale, which will be the highlight of the auction taking place during Art Basel Paris on 18 October. It includes a rare ... More |
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| San Francisco Symphony chorus goes on strike | | Largest-ever international exhibition of Indigenous Australian Art will have global premiere in Washington DC in 2025 | | A trip to the many worlds of Hellboy's creator |
Outside Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, home to the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, on June 7, 2024. Amid the symphonys financial troubles, the orchestras chorus members have gone on strike, forcing a cancellation of the upcoming performances of Verdis Requiem. (Ulysses Ortega/The New York Times)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Amid the San Francisco Symphonys financial troubles, the orchestras chorus members on Thursday went on strike, forcing a cancellation of the upcoming performances of Verdis Requiem. More than 150 musicians and patrons joined the chorus on picket lines, ... More | |
Brook Andrew, Sexy and Dangerous 1996, printed 2005. Computer-generated colour transparency on transparent synthetic polymer resin, artist's proof 1/2 145.9 x 96.0 cm (image and sheet) National Gallery of Victoria © Brook Andrew
MELBOURNE.- The largest exhibition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art ever presented internationally, The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art, will make its global premiere on 18 October 2025 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, and tour venues across the United States and Canada. Featuring the undisputed masterpieces from the NGV ... More | |
Comic book artist and writer Mike Mignola at his exhibition "Hell, Ink and Water" at the Phillippe Labaune Gallery in New York, Sept 16, 2024. (Elias Williams/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Hell, Ink & Water: The Art of Mike Mignola, an exhibition at the Philippe Labaune Gallery in Chelsea, could be a game changer for Mignola, a comic book artist and writer. It does open up my world, he said in a recent telephone interview. Mignola, 64, is best known for Hellboy, a tall, brooding, crimson demon who made his comic book debut in 1993 and had forays in animation and film. He is showing 100 pieces of his ... More |
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| World premiere: Alicia Framis marries AI-hologram Ailex | | Fanny Hauser is new Director of Kunsthalle Zürich | | Elizabeth Catlett: Revolutionary artist, radical inspiration |
Alicia Framis and Ailex: The Hybrid Couple. Image: Studio Framis.
ROTTERDAM.- On Saturday, November 9, 2024, artist Alicia Framis will marry Ailex, an interactive hologram powered by artificial intelligence. Never before neither in The Netherlands nor the rest of the world has a woman married an intelligent hologram. The marriage raises many questions about the future of our relationship with technology. It will be a wedding ceremony with all the bells and whistles you'd expect, including a wedding dress with wow factor designed and worn by Alicia, made for the occasion ... More | |
Fanny Hauser (b. 1988, Vienna) has been Assistant Director at the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen since May 2022.
ZURICH.- Kunsthalle Zürich announced the appointment of Fanny Hauser as its new Director from January 2025. She succeeds Daniel Baumann, who will be taking on new projects as an independent curator after ten very successful years in the role. Michael Ringier, President of the selection committee and the Verein Kunsthalle Zürich, commented on the appointment as follows: Fanny Hauser's career has been characterised by great initiative and enthusiasm for ... More | |
Target Practice, 1970, bronze, on display in Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- They didnt have Zoom back in 1970, so when Elizabeth Catlett was denied entry into the United States to address a conference of the Black Arts Movement for which she was a leading inspiration, a kind of luminary in exile she had to deliver her speech by telephone. The government had stripped Catlett of her citizenship eight years earlier, deeming her an undesirable alien after she became a Mexican ... More |
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When a hardworking tour is a break from wartime stressNEW YORK, NY.- The scene is surprisingly ordinary. A dancer is speaking in a pleasant office at an opera house in a European city as sounds of a performance stream in from the stage. A window opens onto trees whose leaves rustle in a slight breeze. It could be Zurich or Nantes, France, but its not. Its Kyiv, Ukraines capital, a city that in the last few months has been subjected, like much the country, to a steady barrage of Russian missile and drone attacks that have injured and killed scores and left many without electricity for several hours a day. Still, the National Ballet of Ukraine, based in the stately Kyiv Opera House, performs twice a week before the war it was four times as does the opera company, for reduced audiences of about 450 (down from about 1,300). That way if there is an attack, everyone can fit into the shelter below. After ... More 'Forbidden Broadway' review: Let them somewhat entertain youNEW YORK, NY.- At its best, topical satire, which is what the Forbidden Broadway franchise has been slinging for 42 years, is both timely and well targeted. The timeliness means that audience members know the material being ribbed; the targeting makes sure they know why. Admittedly, timeliness is a vague concept when your subject is Broadway, where the targets recur at regular intervals. Its thus not a big problem that many of the songs in the shows latest edition which opened on Thursday at Theater 555 in the far west reaches of Hells Kitchen send up musicals and performers that Gerard Alessandrini, who created, writes and directs the series, has sent up before. But the targeting in this outing, subtitled Merrily We Stole a Song in a nod to the flood of Stephen Sondheim revivals, including Merrily We Roll Along, is too ... More David Zwirner opens an exhibition exploring the art and legacy of self-taught American painter Jon SerlNEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition exploring the art and legacy of self-taught American painter Jon Serl (Joseph Searles, 18941993), which takes place at the gallerys East 69th Street location in New York. Organized in collaboration with the artist Sam Messer, this exhibition features a robust selection of works by Serl as well as those by contemporary paintersincluding Messer, Katherine Bradford, Louis Fratino, Brook Hsu, Andy Robert, Dana Schutz, and Josh Smithwho are inspired by his imaginative compositions. The son of a vaudeville family, Serlwho was also known as Slats, Jerry Palmer, and Ned Palmer at various points in his lifeacted in traveling shows as a child, took on other unconventional roles, and came to painting seriously later, in the 1940s. In 1971, after meandering through the American West, ... More Christie's unveils late masterpiece by Lucian Freud LONDON.- Christies will be presenting a seminal work by Lucian Freud, Ria, Naked Portrait (estimate: £10,000,000 15,000,000). Offered at auction for the first time, the piece will be one of the highlights of the Frieze October 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 9 October 2024. Ria, Naked Portrait is deeply rooted in the art historical tradition of the reclining female nude, drawing from a lineage that includes Giorgione, Titian, and Velázquez, and finds a modern culmination in Ãdouard Manet's Olympia (1863), a work that Lucian Freud greatly admired. The influence of Manet is evident in Freud's portrayal of the female figure in the painting, who also lies over stark-white bedlinen, depicted with warm, flush tones in his signature granular texture and intricate detail. This work stands as a late masterpiece by Lucian Freud, encapsulating ... More Nikita Gale receives The Whitney's 2024 Bucksbaum AwardNEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art announces that Nikita Gale is the recipient of the 2024 Bucksbaum Award. Gale was selected from the 71 intergenerational artists and collectives working across disciplines and mediums in Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing. An interdisciplinary artist, Nikita Gale takes an expansive approach to installation and performance, commanding and directing our attention to the social functions of industrial materials and mechanisms. Currently on view in the Museums sixth-floor galleries, Gales TEMPO RUBATO (STOLEN TIME), 202324, features a modified player piano that has been programmed to silently play a series of performances by various pop musicians, exploring the space between a score and its performance. In this installation, Gale underscores the uncanny ... More New prints by Nalini Malani and Céline Condorelli's artwork for reclining visitors go to Bath and Exeter LONDON.- Striking new prints made from stills from a monumental projected animation chamber and a large, printed rug, on which visitors were invited to recline, have been gifted to museums in Bath and Exeter following National Gallery exhibitions. The first of the Gallerys Bicentenary acquisitions for other museums, the works by the Gallerys first Contemporary Fellow, Nalini Malani, go to the Holburne Museum, Bath, having been funded by Art Fund; while those of its 2023 Artist in Residence, Céline Condorelli, join the collection of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter (RAMM), funded by the Contemporary Art Society. Condorellis works are her first to enter a UK public collection. The acquisitions are either part of, or inspired by, recent residencies and presentations of the artists work, at both the National Gallery and ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was born September 21, 1960. Maurizio Cattelan (born 21 September 1960, Padua, Italy) is an Italian artist. He is known for his satirical sculptures, particularly La Nona Ora (1999) (The Ninth Hour, depicting Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite), Him (2001), and Love Lasts Forever (1997). In this image: The sculpture middle finger by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan during the inauguration in front of the Stock Exchange building in Milan, Italy.
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