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Lena Takamori, Bending with Backpack, 2021. Stoneware, 13.50h x 7w x 11d in.
CONCORD, MASS.- Lucy Lacoste Gallery presents Introducing Lena Takamori: In Hand, On Foot August 28 September 25, 2021, in Concord MA. This is the artists first US solo exhibition. This body of work explores through sculpture the carrying of belongings and the idea of a ground level journey. The work examines the act of being in-between as both a physical experience with its own logistical challenges, but also as a state of being in the world. Lena Takamori (b.1990 in Seattle, Washington) is an artist with a background in sculpture. She received her BFA from the Cooper Union in New York and has also studied at Kyoko Seika University in Japan. Takamori currently resides in Bristol, England where she maintains her studio practice. She has shown with Kunstforum Solothurn in Switzerland since 2017. Her work can be seen in the collection of the Musée Ariana (Ariana Museum), Geneva, Switzerland. In the sculpture Bending w ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A person takes a photo during a media preview of "Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition" in Los Angeles, California, August 27, 2021. VALERIE MACON / AFP.
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| DNA from skeleton found in Indonesia reveals unknown group of humans | | New York art fairs are returning, eyes open and fingers crossed | | The Bavarian State Painting Collections restitute nazi-looted art to the heirs of former owner Sigmund Waldes |
The Leang Panninge cave on the southern peninsula of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Credit: Leang Panninge Research Project.
JAKARTA (AFP).- Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 7,200-year-old skeleton from a female hunter-gatherer in Indonesia that has a "distinct human lineage" never found anywhere in the world, according to research published this week. The relatively intact fossil, which belonged to a teenager aged 17 or 18, was buried in the foetal position inside Leang Panninge, a limestone cave in South Sulawesi. It was found among artefacts from the Toalean people, an early culture of hunter-gatherers in the region. The remains are the first known skeleton of a Toalean. The study, which was published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, was a collaboration between Indonesian and international researchers. Excavation began in 2015. "This is the first time anyone has reported the discovery of ancient human DNA from the vast island region between mainland Asia and Australia," Adam Brumm, archaeologist at the Australian ... More | |
Sonia Boyce, Sade / The Sweetest Taboo, 2021. Carbon transfer, Acrylic gel pen and Acrylic on acid free paper, in two parts, 32.5 x 22.5 cm (12 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.) Courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Artworks are being flown in from overseas, the showroom has been spruced up and ticket sales have started for the Armory Show, which is readying to become the first major American art fair to come back amid the pandemic, when it opens Sept. 9 at its new location at the Javits Convention Center. We have to be ready for anything, the fairs executive director, Nicole Berry, said in a phone interview. We are putting on this event and have a Plan A, B, C, D and E. When plans for the Armory Show came together earlier this year, Berry envisioned the fair as an anchor of the fall arts season, symbolizing the art worlds triumphant return to in-person selling and schmoozing. She planned on opening her event near full capacity, ... More | |
Johann Sperl, Frühlingslandschaft, c. 1880. Oil on wood, 36,1 x 15,5 cm, Inv.-Nr. 12572. Photo: Sibylle Forster.
MUNICH.- The Bavarian State Painting Collections have restituted the painting "Frühlingslandschaft" by Johann Sperl (1840-1914, inv. no. 12572) to the heirs of the entrepreneur and art collector Sigmund Waldes (1877-1961), following a restitution application by the heirs. As part of broader research into its art holdings of National Socialist origin, the Bavarian State Painting Collections conducted intensive research into the provenance of the painting in question. This confirmed the results of research by representatives of the heirs (report by Dr. Irena Strelow), namely that the work was seized from its owner Sigmund Waldes in 1939/41 as a result of Nazi persecution. This 22nd restitution by the Bavarian State Painting Collections following the Washington Declaration of 1998 is not being marked with a ceremonial handover due to the pandemic. This is both at the request of and in agreement with Sigmund Waldess heirs. The legal repre ... More |
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| Picture Cave, called "The most important rock art site in North America", offered at auction | | Marieluise Hessel Foundation donates $25 million to Bard College supporting pioneering Curatorial Studies Program | | Digital dissent: Hong Kongers race to archive democracy movement |
Picture Caves subterranean system is nestled within 43 acres of undeveloped land in Warrenton, MO.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- In a remote area of eastern Missouri, roughly 50 miles outside of the bustling urban center of Saint Louis, the prairies meet the Ozark plateau, and a mystical plat of land richly packed with natural resources conceals a well-known subterranean masterpiece that has come to be known as Picture Cave. Housing what some scholars believe to be the greatest assemblage of indigenous American polychrome paintings ever discovered in the ancient cultural area known as Meso-America, the two-cave system was once an important ritual site for early Mississippian culture. Today it functions as a vital ecosystem for one of the densest populations of the endangered Indiana gray bat. With an eye on the important, future stewardship of this land and the caves nestled within it, Picture Cave will be offered at auction September 14, 2021 by Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers of St. Louis on behalf of its current owne ... More | |
Marieluise Hessel. Photo: Kristine Larsen.
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY.- The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College today announced the creation of a $50-million endowment, comprising a $25-million gift from the Marieluise Hessel Foundation and a matching commitment of $25 million from George Soros as part of Bard College's transformational $1-billion endowment drive. Established in 1990, CCS Bard is the first institution of its kind in the United States dedicated exclusively to curatorial studies, an interdisciplinary field exploring the historical, intellectual, and social conditions that inform contemporary art exhibition-making and practice. This unprecedented donation, initiated by the Hessel Foundation in honor of CCS Bard's 30th anniversary year, enables CCS Bard to continue its pathbreaking work in perpetuity. The Hessel Foundation gift builds on over three decades of visionary support from CCS Bard Co-Founder Marieluise Hessel. In the late 1980s, the Foundation entrusted its growing collecti ... More | |
This photo taken on August 24, 2021 shows Chinese author Chang Ping, a former student leader back in 1989, posing for a photographer in the western German city of Duesseldorf. Ina FASSBENDER / AFP.
by Su Xinqi
HONG KONG (AFP).- Hong Kong activists are working in the shadows to preserve digital backups of their democracy movement as the physical symbols of their resistance, including an opposition newspaper and a museum, are purged from the city's streets. In the end, it was food safety inspectors that finished Hong Kong's museum to those killed in the Tiananmen Square protests -- the only memorial of its kind within China to victims of the 1989 crackdown. Its exhibitions documented Beijing's decision to use tanks to quell democracy protests in the Chinese capital and Hong Kong's three-decade history of holding annual candlelight vigils for those killed. But officials from the city's Food and Environmental Hygiene Department visited in early June ... More |
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| Pace Publishing announces fall 2021 release of five new titles | | 54 years late, Dorothy Parker finally gets a tombstone | | Dallas Art Fair returns November 11-14, 2021 |
Mark Rothko 1968: Clearing Away (2021).
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Publishing is pleased to announce the release of five new titles in fall 2021: Agnes Martin: The Distillation of Color, in which writers Durga Chew-Bose, Bruce Hainley, and Olivia Laing offer personal and literary responses to Martins work; Thomas Nozkowski: The Last Paintings, A Tribute, which includes remembrances from Martin Puryear, Peter Schjeldahl, and other members of the artists circle; Adrian Ghenie: The Hooligans, featuring essays by curator Apsara DiQuinzio and writer, critic, and multimedia artist Masha Tupitsyn; Mark Rothko 1968: Clearing Away, a publication designed by Kellenberger-White and featuring an essay by Barbican Art Gallery Curator Eleanor Nairne; and a limited-edition dubplate issued as part of Torkwase Dysons upcoming performances and multimedia installation Liquid a Place and including contributions by the DJ and producer Ron Trent as well as artists Gaika ... More | |
The ceremony was conducted under uncertain skies on Monday morning, beginning with music and recitations of Parkers work at the cemeterys Woolworth Chapel and ending with sips from gin-filled flasks and roses cascading around a granite monument carved from a quarry in Vermont. Photo: Courtesy Dorothy Parker Society.
by Robert Simonson
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Dorothy Parker was born during a hurricane. So the poet, known for her mordant wit, might have gotten a dark chuckle that Hurricane Henri derailed plans for the long-in-coming unveiling of her headstone at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx last Sunday. The ceremony was instead conducted under uncertain skies on Monday morning, beginning with music and recitations of Parkers work at the cemeterys Woolworth Chapel and ending with sips from gin-filled flasks and roses cascading around a granite ... More | |
Detail of The House Our Families Built by Swoon. Courtesy the artist and Turner Carroll Gallery.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Art Fair announced that its 13th annual edition will take place November 11-14, when it will once again host the best international and local contemporary art dealers at the Fashion Industry Gallery (f.i.g.). Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the 2021 fair will operate at a reduced capacityallowing for a more open, spacious floor plan and safer experience for visitors and dealers. After more than 18 months of uncertainty, we cannot stress enough how happy we are to finally reopen our doors in the fall. People are eager to see art in person and revitalize the creative economy, so we will do everything possible to make that experience safe for our collectors, dealers, and visitors this November, said Dallas Art Fair Director Kelly Cornell. This years fair will feature a major off-site public art installation by Brooklyn-based social practice artist Caledonia Curry, better known ... More |
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| Museum Frieder Burda unveils a major exhibition of reputed German artist Katharina Sieverding | | Miller & Miller will hold back-to-back auctions the weekend of Sept. 11 & 12 | | Kunstmuseum Den Haag opens an exhibition of paintings by Caroline Walker |
Exhibition view - Katharina Sieverding Watching the sun at midnight - Museum Frieder Burda © Katharina Sieverding / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021.
BADEN-BADEN.- The internationally renowned art museum Museum Frieder Burda, designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Richard Meier, and widely acclaimed for its significant private collection of Classical Modernism and Contemporary Art of over 1,000 works, unveils a major exhibition of reputed German artist Katharina Sieverding. Curated by Udo Kittelmann in cooperation with Katharina Sieverding, Watching the Sun at Midnight pays homage to Sieverdings persistent treatment of contemporary German and global matters, one that has ensured the ongoing relevance of her work over the past 60 years. In conjunction with the exhibition in Baden-Baden, Salon Berlin presents Headlines, a thematically focused selection of large-scale photographs referring to the darkest chapter in Germanys history, the National Socialist era, in the Former Jewish Girls School in Auguststrasse in Berlin. Organized in collaboration with Deichtor ... More | |
1930s Miller High Life Beer two-sided porcelain hanging sign, originally designed to accommodate bands of neon surrounding the perimeter (estimate: CA$3,000-$5,000).
NEW HAMBURG.- Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. will hold back-to-back auctions the weekend of September 11th -12th. The Saturday, September 11th event will be a Toys & Nostalgia sale, featuring the Bryan Beatty collection. The Sunday, September 12th sale will be an Advertising & Historic Objects auction, featuring the Scott Vanner breweriana collection. Both auctions are online-only and will have a start time of 9 am Eastern time. The Bryan Beatty collection of toys and communication-related memorabilia includes a well-rounded offering of cast iron and tin litho toys from the Victorian to the Atomic era. Mr. Beattys collection also includes many radios, microphones and typewriters, with examples spanning the 20th century. The Bryan Beatty collection is a brand that will outlive this auction, predicted Ethan Miller of Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. His guiding principle can be summed up in these three words ... More | |
Caroline Walker, Joy, 10.30am, Hackney, 2019, oil on board, 43 x 35 cm. Copyright of Caroline Walker. Courtesy of the artist and GRIMM Amsterdam | New York. Photo: Peter Mallet Photography.
THE HAGUE.- Caroline Walker records the daily lives of women around her on large canvases and small panels, zooming in on fleeting moments that are neither entirely private nor public, with a refined sense of light and colour. Her subjects range from her own young daughter in the living room at home to a maid in an anonymous hotel suite, portrayed in filmic scenes that we observe through windows, passageways or in reflections. In Windows at KM21, Walkers first solo museum show, she explores themes like privacy and voyeurism from an engaged perspective. Snapshots, often taken in secret, provide the basis for Walkers oil paintings. Although her paintings suggest all kinds of scenarios, they are never fully revealed. We are left to guess as to what happens before and after the carefully captured moment, what the atmosphere is like, and what the body language of a character is telling us. The scenes are remote in ... More |
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Alex Ross' original covers for oversized Batman, Superman books soar to Heritage Auctions in September
DALLAS, TX.- Alex Ross creates heroes you believe really exist, who truly walk among us or fly above us, anyway. For decades the artist's painted heroes have popped off the page. They strike with awe, tickle with delight, maybe even induce a little fear. Comics have always been pop art, but the way Ross painted our lifelong super friends made you think it possible for a superhero to breathe, blink, be. There's a reason his works are displayed in museums, once alongside those of his inspiration Norman Rockwell. Even when rendered postage-stamp small, Ross' photorealistic heroes are larger-than-life. Look no further than the covers Ross painted for the prestige-format graphic novels Superman: Peace on Earth and Batman: War on Crimein the late 1990s, each of which is available in Heritage Auctions' Sept. 8-12 Comics and Comic Art Signature Auction. They're intimate, wounded ... More
Sadé Ayorinde joins the American Folk Art Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- The American Folk Art Museum announced today that Sadé Ayorinde is the inaugural appointee of the Warren Family Curatorial Fellowship. For a two-year period beginning in September 2021, Ayorinde will contribute to a range of projects relating to the Museums collection, publications, and exhibitions. Commented Jason T. Busch, AFAM Director and CEO: Sadé Ayroindes appointment and the support of Irwin and Liz Warren combine to further the Museums commitment to advancing research. Through collaboration with scholars like Sadé, AFAM can continue its efforts to be an innovative and inclusive forum for art and ideas. In both her scholarship and curatorial projects, Ayorinde contextualizes the production and reception of images, putting art in conversation with mass media output to broaden understandings of current and historical events. As a ... More
Boca Raton Center for Arts & Innovation announces $1M additional donation
BOCA RATON, FLA.- The Boca Raton Arts District Exploratory Corporation announced a new capital gift of $1M from a Director of the BRADEC Board, Elizabeth Dudley. Dudleys contribution will help build the Boca Raton Center for Arts & Innovation at the north end of Mizner Park in downtown Boca Raton. This pledge comes just one week after another generous donor announced the projects first seven-figure capital pledge of $5 million. The donors lounge of this new world-class Center will be named after Elizabeth Dudley and her late husband, Richard. Dick would be very happy and supportive in his quiet manner, Dudley says. He recognized good, cultural entertainment and would appreciate that this will now have a place right here in the Boca Raton area. Dudley, a frequent and lifelong patron of the arts, adds, In addition to providing a home for the local organizations, this ... More
Inge Ginsberg, Holocaust survivor with a heavy metal coda, dies at 99
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Inge Ginsberg, who fled the Holocaust, helped U.S. spies in Switzerland during World War II, wrote songs in Hollywood and, in a final assertion of her presence on Earth, made a foray into heavy metal music as a nonagenarian, died July 20 in a care home in Zurich. She was 99. The cause was heart failure, said Pedro da Silva, a friend and bandmate. In a picaresque life, Ginsberg lived in New York City, Switzerland, Israel and Ecuador. She wrote songs and poetry, worked as a journalist and refused to fade into the background as she aged, launching herself, improbably, into her heavy metal career. She was the frontwoman for the band Inge and the Tritone Kings, which competed on television in Switzerlands Got Talent, entered the Eurovision Song Contest and made music videos. Whatever the venue, Ginsberg would typically appear in ... More
'Ni Mi Madre' review: A son's stinging tribute to his mother
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Enter the playwright, bare-chested and barefoot in a white skirt that skims the floor. Then the skirt becomes an off-the-shoulder dress, and he becomes his mother, in an exuberant dance. Its a simple transformation into the character, and utterly theatrical. Suddenly there she is, regaling us: Bete, an irresistibly charming, no-nonsense, twice-divorced Brazilian immigrant who, its fair to guess, has never won an award for parent of the year. There was, for example, the joke she used to play on her son Arturo when he was small. He would ring the doorbell, and she would answer as if he were a stranger: Im sorry, honey, but are you looking for your mother? Then she would tell him to try next door. Arturo LuÃs Sorias autobiographical solo show Ni Mi Madre, directed by Danilo Gambini at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in Manhattan, is remarkably ... More
Celebrated string quartet will disband, ending 47-year run
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Emerson String Quartet, a renowned chamber ensemble known for its lively, nuanced playing, announced Thursday that it would disband in 2023, after nearly a half-century. The quartets members said they had decided it was time to move on so they could focus on teaching and solo work. Its not in any way that were tired of playing the music or being with each other, said Philip Setzer, 70, a violinist and a founding member of the quartet. At a certain point you think, Lets end when were all really playing our best and the group sounds good. And when people are going to be surprised were stopping and not, Oh, youre still playing? The quartet, which began as a student group at the Juilliard School before turning professional in 1976, is one of best-known in the world. Its members have made more than 30 recordings together and ... More
'This Is Broadway' campaign aims to attract wary theatergoers
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Broadway producers and theater owners, concerned about whether fans are ready to return as dozens of shows prepare to start or resume performances, have banded together for an industrywide marketing campaign aimed at persuading Broadways core audience to purchase tickets. Gone are the days when the booming industry was focused on expanding its reach to tourists from China and Brazil. Now, as the longest shutdown in history nears an uncertain end, an anxious industry is more focused on bringing back fans from New Jersey and Connecticut. On Monday, the Broadway League will begin a This Is Broadway campaign that it plans to roll out on screens not only across the five boroughs at subway and bus stations, in taxis and Wi-Fi kiosks, and on a giant electronic cube in Times Square but also through social and news media platforms ... More
When 'Y Tu Mamá También' changed everything
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Mexican cinema was just emerging from decades of obscurity when Alfonso Cuaróns Y Tu Mamá También, a voyage of self-discovery and the study of a country in flux, was released there in 2001, instantly achieving landmark status. The film, structured as a road trip from Mexico City to a paradisiacal beach in Oaxaca, revolves around a love triangle involving the upper-class teenager Tenoch (Diego Luna), his humbler best friend, Julio (Gael GarcÃa Bernal), and a Spanish visitor, Luisa (Maribel Verdú). She challenges the boys nascent notions of manhood against the backdrop of a society getting its first taste of democracy after seven decades under the rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as the PRI. The movie, which smashed box office records in Mexico before debuting at the Venice Film Festival that August, represented a return ... More
'1, 2, 3 ... exhale together': Broadway families, reunited at last
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Waitress cast and crew hugged. They embraced. They squeezed. They swayed. And at their first in-person rehearsal, on Aug. 4, they also paid tribute to Nick Cordero, an actor who died of complications of the coronavirus last summer. He was in the original Broadway production, and the shows book writer, Jessie Nelson, had an idea: On opening night, they should put a pie in Corderos honor on the menu board of the diner in the show. They settled on a slice of Live Your Life, named after a song he had written. When the Hadestown cast first met for rehearsals, they formed a ring around their ghost light, which had illuminated the empty Walter Kerr Theater for over a year. Im so glad to be here with you all, said Anaïs Mitchell, who wrote the Tony-winning shows music, lyrics and book. Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the writer, star and director ... More
Black Cube unveils a permanent, bronze artwork in Pittsburgh's historic Troy Hill
DENVER, CO.- The nomadic art museum, Black Cube, announced Historic Site, an 8-foot-tall cast bronze plaque in Pittsburgh, PA by artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. Installed on the façade of a 120-year-old building, the large plaque is a contemporary companion to a small existing bronze plaque on the buildings exterior that commemorates its first use as an incline train station. The plaque will be unveiled on September 18 and will remain on view indefinitely. During their Sabrina Merage Foundation Artist Fellowship with Black Cube, Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis spent a year researching archives and speaking to experts, including anthropologists, architects, historians, amongst others, to learn of everything that could be documented as having occurred on the site from 600 million years ago, through to the present day and beyond. The ... More
From textiles to stone: Artists and makers reconnecting society and the natural world
GREENLAW.- Vividly-coloured textiles, exquisite stone carvings, woodland landscape paintings, ceramics made using Scottish earth and traditional handmade Art & Crafts chairs are among the high-quality work on show at Marchmont House this weekend (Saturday 28th to Sunday 29th August 2021). The mid 18th-century Grade A listed stately home, near Greenlaw, Scottish Borders, is establishing itself as a centre of excellence for emerging and established artists and craft makers with an emphasis on reconnecting society to the natural world. The Open Studios weekend provides a superb opportunity to meet short and long-term residents of Marchmonts beautiful Creative Spaces studios and of the nearby Fogo Cottage (former studio of the great botanical artist and musician Rory McEwen). Among those taking part are the sculptor Frippy Jameson, textile artists Laura Derby ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English photographer Mary McCartney was born August 28, 1969. Mary Anna McCartney (previously McCartney-Donald) is a photographer. The first biological child of rock photographer Linda Eastman McCartney and Paul McCartney of The Beatles, Mary was named after her paternal grandmother, Mary McCartney. In this image: British photographer Mary McCartney, daughter of Linda Eastman McCartney and Paul McCartney poses for a photograph next to her photographs during the opening of the exhibition 'From where I stood' in the gallery Contributed in Berlin, Germany.
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