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The traveling exhibition Southern/Modern tells an important story that has been largely absent from American art history.
by Walker Mimms
ATHENS, GA.- Of the many strengths of Southern/Modern, a daring and revisionist show about the American South at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, the one that follows you out to your car is the alternate history of modern art it proposes. Southern art or food or literature, for that matter has long suffered a reputation of isolation. You cant understand it. You would have to be born there, says the tortured Quentin in William Faulkners Absalom, Absalom! Ninety years later, Southern exceptionalism is over (mostly), and the areas artists and curators and chefs now go to great, overcorrective lengths to be global, to be modern. But the artists of Faulkners day they were still responding to an ancient, haunted South. Their audience was stationary, and their language local. They were regionalists. Or so the story goes. Not here. These 100 or so paintings and prints suggest an invigorating direction that was there all along: a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Within the framework of Artissima, the PAV Parco Arte Vivente, opened the exhibition Car Crash. Piero Gilardi e lâarte povera that investigates the production of Piero Gilardi (Turin, 1942-2023) during the 1960s. The exhibition aims to present itself as a homage to the founder of the PAV and to revisit the early years of the artistâs career, exploring the years from 1964 to 1969.
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| Elliott Erwitt, whose photos are famous, and often funny, dies at 95 | | Dylan, Ramones, Beatles, and Doors among Marvels of Modern Music up for auction | | Schoelkopf Gallery announces worldwide representation of The Thomas Hart Benton Trust | 
Che Guevara with his eyes looking up at a dissipating cloud of tobacco smoke.
by Richard B. Woodward
NEW YORK, NY.- Photographers with a comic outlook on life seldom win the acclaim granted to exalters of nature or chroniclers of war and squalor. Elliott Erwitt, who died at 95 on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan, was an exception. For more than six decades he used his camera to tell visual jokes, finding material wherever he strolled. His sharp eye for silly, sometimes telling conjunctions a dog lying on its back in a cemetery, a glowing Coca-Cola machine amid a public display of missiles in Alabama, a mangy potted plant in a tacky Miami Beach ballroom earned him constant assignments as well as the affection of a public that shared his sweet, Chaplin-esque sense of the absurd. He published more than 20 books, and his black-and-white prints are in photography collections throughout the world. His daughter Sasha ... More | | 
Bob Dylan Original Painting 'View from Two Windows' -created in 2007 for his acclaimed Drawn Blank Series'. Now At: $11,000 (3 bids) Estimate: $60,000+.
BOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction's semi-annual Marvels of Modern Music auction features over 250 chart-topping items from renowned rock and rollers, punk pioneers, classic crooners, and great guitarists. An original artwork by the iconic Bob Dylan is highlighted among the exceptional offerings. Entitled 'View from Two Windows,' created in 2007 for his acclaimed 'Drawn Blank Series,' accomplished in gouache and mixed media on artist paper, signed below in paint by Dylan. The work depicts the inside of an upper-story room viewed from the perspective of a standing observer, with the foreground composed of a table, chair, and a television set, and the background featuring a large beige curtain and a pair of multi-paned windows that look down upon a house, greenery, and what appears to be a body of water. Adding a vibrant punk aesthetic to the mix are two artworks by ... More | | 
Thomas Hart Benton, Wyoming Landscape, 1967 (detail) © Thomas Hart Benton Trust, Courtesy of Schoelkopf Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Schoelkopf Gallery announced exclusive worldwide representation of The Thomas Hart Benton Trust. Through this partnership, Schoelkopf Gallery will invite a broader international understanding of Bentons important and lasting impact on the global development of twentieth-century modernism. We look forward to presenting works from The Trust at Art Basel Miami Beach (December 2023). A 2024 exhibition in our Tribeca gallery entitled Thomas Hart Benton and the American West will highlight the artists travels through Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. On behalf of the Trustees of The Thomas Hart Benton Trust, we are thrilled about our new partnership with Schoelkopf Gallery, said Trustee Nick Gray, and are looking forward to working together in the coming years to shine a spotlight on the profound artistry of Thomas Hart Benton, who has so much ... More |
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| Exhibition at Galerie Bene Taschen celebrates iconic moments of boxing legends | | Experience the art of Emily Kam Kngwarray at the National Gallery of Australia | | A wood-carved protagonist, enduring the brutality of war | 
Larry Fink, Mike Tyson, New Paltz, New York, February 1986. © Larry Fink, courtesy Galerie Bene Taschen.
COLOGNE.- Galerie Bene Taschen presents the upcoming exhibition Boxing by renowned American photographer Larry Fink (1941 - 2023) who passed away last week. The photographs draw attention to the transatlantic boxing industry during the late 80s and early 90s and celebrate iconic moments of boxing legends such as Mike Tyson and Jimmy Jacobs. From year one, Fink has been exploring issues relating to social psychology and politics, capturing the relationships, frictions and developments between the working and upper class. Always taking the role of the silent observer, Fink stands on the sidelines and captures hidden glances, secret touches and unfeigned expressions. From Hollywood celebrities attending Oscar parties to the rough energy of the boxing world, Larry Finks famous black-and-white photographs evoke the old Baroque masters: in compositions reminiscent of Caravaggios chiaroscuro ... More | | 
Kelli Cole, Warumungu and Luritja peoples, Curator, Special Projects, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Hetti Perkins, Arrernte and Kalkadoon peoples, Co-curator, in Emily Kam Kngwarray, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, 2023. Photo by: Sam Cooper
CANBERRA.- Starting today, this survey exhibition celebrates the timeless art of Emily Kam Kngwarray pre-eminent Australian artist and one of the worlds most significant contemporary artists to emerge in the early twentieth century.A senior Anmatyerr woman from Utopia (north-east of Mparntwe/Alice Springs), the unprecedented trajectory of Kngwarrays recognition and fame as an artist is well known, way beyond the Country of her origins. Kngwarrays power and cultural authority is outstandingly revealed in the works of art themselves. Co-curated by Kelli Cole, Warumunga and Luritja peoples, and Hetti Perkins, Arrernte and Kalkadoon peoples, Emily Kam Kngwarray brings together important works of Kngwarrays career, from ... More | | 
The puppeteers Markus Schabbing and Carlo Daniels with the Michael K puppet during a stage adaptation of J.M. Coetzees novel Life & Times of Michael K, at St. Anns Warehouse in Brooklyn, Nov. 28, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
by Laura Collins-Hughes
NEW YORK, NY.- Midmorning on Tuesday at St. Anns Warehouse in Brooklyn, a puppet named Michael K had just grabbed a mug when director Lara Foot called a pause to the action onstage. Lets stop here, she said, and he did so instantly. Still clasping the mug in his right hand, he gazed at her with black, glass-bead eyes like someone who had been taken by surprise. Even frozen midgesture, he was subtle, human, uncanny a striking alchemy of art and imagination. In Life & Times of Michael K, based on the 1983 novel of the same name by South African-born Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee, this puppet is the sinewy, carved-wood star, designed and created by Adrian Kohler of Handspring Puppet Co. ... More |
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| Explore the origins of the detective story at the Grolier Club | | Gem Mint 10 Japanese Charizard card breathes fire into Heritage's Trading Card Games Auction | | Larry Fink, whose photographs were 'Political, Not Polemical,' dies at 82 | 
Agatha Christie. Sparkling Cyanide. London: Collins for The Crime Club, 1945. Courtesy of Jeffrey Johnson.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Grolier Club unravels the history of detective literature in the new exhibition Whodunit? Key Books in Detective Fiction, on view from November 30, 2023, through February 10, 2024. Featuring selections from Grolier Club member Jeffrey Johnsons collection of detective novels from the nineteenth and early twentieth century, Whodunit highlights more than 90 early examples dating from 1824 to 1985 of the sources, heavily fictionalized memoirs, and first appearances of now beloved fictional detectives in the works of Francois Vidocq, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Anna Katherine Green, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Agatha Christie. Since its inception, detective fiction has played second fiddle to literature and has been seen as light or non-serious reading, a sort of earthbound cousin to science fiction, said Johnson. It has also been extremely popular. That many of our ... More | | 
Pokémon Charizard 006 Japanese Base Set PSA Trading Card Game GEM MT 10 (The Pokémon Company, 1996) No Rarity Symbol, Holo.
DALLAS, TX.- A Japanese version of the card that introduced the Pokémon game's most iconic character is an unquestioned piece of hobby history, and a trophy-caliber prize for the winning bidder in Heritage's Trading Card Games Signature® AuctionDecember 16-17. The Pokémon Charizard 006 Japanese Base Set PSA Trading Card Game GEM MT 10 (The Pokémon Company, 1996) No Rarity Symbol, Holo is a must-have treasure because of what it has ... and because of what it doesn't have. It is readily apparent why this card earned the Gem Mint 10 grade it is magnificent, says Jesus Garcia, Trading Card Games Consignment Director at Heritage Auctions. But it is made even more attractive because it does not have the rarity' symbol that appears in the lower right corner on most cards. If a card does not have one, it is part of the first print run of the Japanese Base Set. Put ... More | | 
Larry Fink, Boxing, Champs Gym, Philadelphia, PA, 1993, from the book Boxing: Photographs by Larry Fink, silver gelatin print, 14 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches. Museum purchase with funds provided by Stephen and Linda Singer. © Larry Fink.
NEW YORK, NY.- Larry Fink, a kinetic photographer whose intimate black-and-white on-the-fly portraits of rural Pennsylvanians, Manhattan society figures, Hollywood royalty, boxers, musicians, fashion models and many others were both social commentary on class and privilege and an exuberant document of the human condition, died Saturday at his home in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania. He was 82. The cause was complications of kidney disease and Alzheimers disease, said his wife, artist Martha Posner. Fink was a Brooklyn-born lefty whose early work, in the late 1950s, chronicled the second-generation Beats who were his cohort in the East Village, where he lived for a time, along with the jazz musicians he adored (he played the harmonica) and the protagonists of the civil rights and anti-war movements. ... More |
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| John Woo has seen a lot in Hollywood. He's finally back for more. | | A vintage shop to the stars holds its own against new rivals | | Visual artist Mark Bradford wins the 2024 Getty Prize | 
The director John Woo in Santa Monica, Calif., in November 2023. (Ryan Pfluger/The New York Times)
by Brandon Yu
NEW YORK, NY.- When John Woo was a child, living in the dangerous slums of Hong Kong, he had two sanctuaries: the church and the movie theater. Both provided respite from a world of poverty and intense violence. At the local theater, Woo and his mother would watch American Westerns and escapist fantasies like The Wizard of Oz and Singin in the Rain. At night, he would use a Chinese brush to draw storybook images on a piece of glass. He would use a flashlight to illuminate the glass and, shifting the light, project moving images onto the wall. They were, in essence, the first movies he made. Considering the twin forces of his early life, its no surprise that the enduring motif of the revered action filmmakers career became the image of fluttering doves, which originated from an improvised decision he made on the set of The Killer to signify spiritual ... More | | 
Vintage Chanel 3 'CC' backpack rendered in vibrant orange Caviar leather, featuring interlocking 'CC' embroidery and finished with gold-tone hardware.
by Alex Vadukul
NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent afternoon in SoHo, Seth Weisser and Gerard Maione were checking in on their shop, What Goes Around Comes Around, a luxury vintage boutique on West Broadway that has long been a downtown destination for stylists and celebrities. They stepped past Jean Paul Gaultier shirts from the late 1980s and Harley-Davidson biker jackets from the 1960s before entering the area containing their vast Levis collection. Weisser, who was wearing a vintage Hermès jacket, gingerly took hold of a pair of 1950s-era jeans. The price was $3,000. These might look like ordinary Levis, but the denim connoisseur who sees someone wearing these is going to know exactly what they are, he said. This is the beginning of quiet luxury. One of their regular customers, Stefon Diggs, ... More | | 
Mark Bradford. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Sean Shim-Boyle.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Trust announced today it has named Los Angeles based artist Mark Bradford as the recipient of its annual Getty Prize, the institutions highest honor. Established in 2013 and formerly known as the Getty Medal, the award recognizes leaders in the cultural fields whose work expands human understanding and appreciation of arts and culture. Beginning this year, the award will go to a single person who can then recognize the work of a non-profit of their choosing with a $500,000 grant from Getty. We are thrilled that the Getty Prize will now recognize not only personal achievements and contributions to the cultural sector but will also actively support the work of other not-for-profit organizations working in the sector by providing the awardee with the opportunity to pay it forward, says Katherine E. Fleming, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. Mark Bradford is an exceptional ... More |
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 CheMoulding: Futuring - Part II opens in MumbaiMUMBAI.- CheMouldingcreates multiple entry points into six decades of Indian contemporary art. It recognises the art frame moulding company and gallery that continues to mould Indian art history and its contemporary present. The continuous suffix ing makes Chemould a verb the act of creating fearless spaces for artistic freedom since 1963. Such spaces remain threatened in our present and our future. Chemould built its archive to honour its 60 year milestone. From this archive architectural motifs, photographs, Parsi community history, maps, exhibition catalogues, letters, objects, floor plans, frame mouldings, oral histories and personal memories, serve as inspiration to artists. CheMoulding unpacks human needs in the Indian context through showcased artistic responses. In Part 1 Framing we laid open our past selves to an honest ... More  Art Nouveau reexamined by Kapwani Kiwanga's brand-new artwork at BozarBRUSSELS.- To coincide with the exhibition Victor Horta and the Grammar of Art Nouveau, the French and Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga has created a new work at Bozars invitation: a rug with an ornamental floral motif entitled Rootwork. This monumental floor covering of more than 20m2 - with its floral motifs and curves - evokes the visual language of Horta, one of the founders of the Art Nouveau style and the architect of the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels. But beyond these formal references, Kapwani Kiwangas work questions history. The history of plants and power relations. The invitation to Brussels led me to concentrate on plants or their products that were imported into Belgium. I wanted to understand the pharmacological and nutritional uses, but also how Europe was interested in them for their commercial potential. Kiwangas research-led practice often focuse ... More  Gallery Wendi Norris now representing Leo MarzSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gallery Wendi Norris is delighted to announce the representation of Mexican artist Leo Marz (b. 1979, Zapopan, Mexico). Multidisciplinary artist Leo Marz works in traditional and unconventional means of art-making, including drawing, painting, sculpture, video, performance, sound, and installation. Through his art practice, Marz explores the connections between history, technology, objecthood, and subjecthood in modern society. His work examines the fragmentary nature of a world in constant flux and generates environments that encourage viewers to contemplate interconnected and contradictory aspects of life. Leo Marz deftly balances philosophical complexity and wit through his work, making it simultaneously accessible and sophisticated, " states Wendi Norris. "Leo's work knits together the known and the ... More  Uncirculated 1,000 Baht Presentation Proof set headlines Asian rarities in Heritage's World Paper Money AuctionDALLAS, TX.- The only known example of a presentation Proof set of 1,000 Baht Thai banknotes that never got issued into circulation will re-emerge when it is offered December 7 at World Paper Money Signature® Auction. The highest denomination in the post-war series of Thomas de la Rue printer models was 100 Baht, so the Thailand Bank of Thailand 1000 Baht ND (c.1948-53) Pick Unlisted Presentation Proof / Uniface Printer Model Pair Crisp Uncirculated (2 Pieces) that will be up for grabs in this event was never put into production or into circulation. This is a remarkable item so rare that even the Bank of Thailand, which commissioned its printing, doesn't have an example in its collection, says Dustin ... More  When Henry Kissinger became an opera characterNEW YORK, NY.- Henry Kissinger, the polarizing diplomat who died Wednesday at 100, received copious distinctions over his long career. But one of the most unusual an honor that was also damning came in 1987, when he joined Mozarts Figaro and Puccinis Tosca as a character in an opera. Nixon in China, composed by John Adams and directed by Peter Sellars, with a libretto by Alice Goodman, was inspired by President Richard Nixons epoch-making 1972 trip to China. Kissingers secret shuttling had paved the way for the visit, which helped normalize relations between the two countries after a long period without diplomatic ties. When the opera premiered, it was still a fresh notion that this art form, so associated with the mythical, could address recent history and treat it not as satire, but as a strangely moving combination ... More  Artist reception and book signing at PDNB Gallery for Michael Kenna's 'Trees'DALLAS, TX.- Michael Kenna (b. 1953, Widnes, Lancashire, England) is having his fifth solo show at PDNB Gallery. His show coincides with the release of his book, TREES, published by Ãditions Skira, Paris and another stunningly beautiful new book, Photographs and Stories, published by Nazraeli Press. About two years ago, PDNB Gallery Co-Director, Missy Finger, read Richard Powers Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Overstory. In this novel, there are individual stories with characters that find common connection with trees. One of the main characters is a woman who is a botanist that believes that trees talk to another. The biochemical behavior of individual trees may make sense only when we see them as members of a community. This storytelling was quite compelling, and the botanist character helped define the importance ... More  Michel Rein opens 'Isola (curated by Emmanuelle Indekeu)'PARIS.- Isolation, from the Latin isola, island. In the track Bora Vocal by Rone one of the leading artists on the electronic scene you can hear Alain Damasio's call to isolate himself. The great voice of French sci-fi intends to create his own island in order to write his novel La Horde du Contrevent: «Alain, La Horde du Contrevent' will only be a success - only if what - if you isolate yourself. If you isolate yourself damn it. Do you understand what isolated' means? Isola, the island damn. You create your island, and you avoid it as much as possible, you know. People have to be extremely far away from you, but far away, because your universe will be vast, what, it'll be immense, it'll be huge, it'll be an enormous universe, what. Enormous universe power.» - extract from the track Bora vocal. Born in 1977 in Brussels (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels (Belgium). ... More  Holabird Western Americana Collections announces 'Christmas Chronicles Auction', live and online December 7-10RENO, NEV.- Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC is saving the best for last in 2023 as it gears up for what is expected to be their biggest sale of the year a Christmas Chronicles auction, a four-day mega-event packed with over 2,500 lots in a variety of collecting categories, online and live in the Reno gallery at 3555 Airway Drive, starting at 8 am Pacific time each day. The Christmas Chronicles auction is our grand finale event of 2023 and we've included every collecting category as a Christmas thank-you for our valued customers, said Fred Holabird of Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC. The categories include saloon, bottles, brewery, mining, numismatics, philatelic, general Americana, stocks ... More  Springfield Art Museum announces three collection focus exhibitionsSPRINGFIELD, MO.- The Springfield Art Museum presents three collection focus exhibitions all opening on Saturday, December 2, 2023. Collection focus exhibitions are pulled from the Museums permanent collection of over 10,000 objects and aim to create a deeper understanding and connection with select artists, artistic media, genre, or art period. Collection Focus: Lithography - Printmaking comprises the largest media in the Museums permanent collection. It was made a collection focus by the Museums first full-time paid director, Winslow Ames, in 1947, as a way to affordably collect examples of work by European Old Masters. Every subsequent director has continued to support this endeavor, expanding to contemporary printmaking and beyond. This exhibition focuses on the medium of lithography through a cross-section of work, including ... More  Public Art Fund announces leadership and board of directors appointmentsNEW YORK, NY.- Public Art Fund announces the appointments of Stephanie Adams as Deputy Director for External Affairs and Karyn Olivier and Allison Wiener as Members of its Board of Directors. With breadth and depth of experience, they each play essential roles in advancing Public Art Funds mission of free and open access to exceptional contemporary art in New York City and beyond. Stephanie Adams brings extensive development leadership in the arts and culture sector to her new role as Deputy Director for External Affairs. She will serve as a key institutional leader, strategist, and advocate for the Development and Communications departments, playing a critical position within the organizations senior leadership as Public Art Fund enters its next growth phase guided by strategic goals and commitment to artists and diverse ... More  Mick Herron has made a blockbuster career writing about foul-ups and has-beensOXFORD.- In 2013, Mick Herrons rickety literary career looked to be falling apart. None of his novels had sold more than a few hundred copies, and Slow Horses, the first book in his acidly funny series about a band of misfits in the British intelligence services, had performed so badly that its sequel, Dead Lions, could not find a British publisher. Ineptitude has always been a big part of my career, Herron, who will turn 60 in January, said recently. Not anymore. Thanks to a series of fortunate events, and to the irresistible allure of the failures and has-beens who populate his books, Herron has become a literary superstar, with total sales surpassing 3 million copies. On Wednesday, the third season of the TV adaptation of his Slow Horses books, starring Gary Oldman as the slovenly Jackson Lamb, began airing on Apple TV+. Is Mick Herron ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Georges Seurat was born December 02, 1859. Georges-Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 - 29 March 1891) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising a technique of painting known as pointillism. His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884â1886), Seurat's most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting. In this image: A staff member holds the artwork titled 'La Tour Eiffel' (The Eiffel Tower) by French painter Georges Seurat at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, 01 February 2010.
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