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An undated photo provided by Sothebys shows a Tyrannosaurus rex skull that sold at auction for $6.1 million on Friday, Dec. 9, 2022. The skull, which weighs more than 200 pounds, was expected to fetch between $15 million and $20 million. (Sotheby's via The New York Times)
by Julia Jacobs and Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- This year, one tail vertebra from a long-necked dinosaur was auctioned off for more than $8,000. A single spike from a Stegosaurus tail sold for more than $20,000. A Tyrannosaurus rex tooth? More than $100,000. In a booming market for dinosaur fossils, Sothebys estimated that a T. rex skull it was auctioning would fetch $15 million to $20 million. But at its sale Friday, the specimen was sold for $6.1 million, including fees, to an anonymous buyer. The auction raised questions about whether the gold rush moment for dinosaurs which has upset many academic paleontologists who fear that their research is being turned into trophies was showing signs of ebbing. The sale in New York comes after the planned auction of a larger T. rex specimen, estimated to sell for $15 million to $25 million, was scrapped by Christies in Hong Kong after questions were raised about how much real dinosaur bone was included. Todd Levin, a veteran art adviser, said the collapse of ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day From left foreground, a mask created by the Nigerian sculptor Moshood Olusomo Bamigboye depicting a war general; another mask attributed to Bamigboye, depicting a ruler, and a third mask, by Bamigboye, depicting a war general, on display at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Conn., Oct. 13, 2022. This was a year whose high points included an adult-feeling Whitney Biennial, a major survey of contemporary Puerto Rican art, and one of the great big-little exhibitions of all time. (Christopher Capozziello/The New York Times)
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| That mysterious object on a Florida beach? It's a shipwreck. | | Exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac presents new works by German artist Imi Knoebel | | Stadiums as high art in a World Cup fantasyland |
An aerial photo provided by Volusia County shows the wood and metal structure found in the sand in Daytona Beach Shores, Fla. on Dec. 9, 2022. (Volusia County via The New York Times)
by Christine Hauser and Jesus Jiménez
NEW YORK, NY.- After the discovery last month of a strange 80-foot-long, wood-and-metal object that had emerged from the sand at Daytona Beach Shores in Volusia County, Florida, theories about what it could be ran rampant. Some thought it could be part of a shipwreck. There was a suggestion that it could be bleachers set up decades ago, when NASCAR ran races on the beach. Others wondered if it could be the remnants of a bygone pier. This week, the mystery was solved. A team of archaeologists excavated a 60-foot trench along the row of timbers Monday and Tuesday. From its burial ground, the object revealed itself as a seafaring vessel, with curved wood, ribs and sand-logged joints. It is definitely a ship, Chuck Meide, a maritime archaeologist, said Friday. There is no way it is not a ship. The buried secrets of Floridas maritime past are regularly revealed by shifting sands, ebbing and flowing tides, and violent disru ... More | |
Imi Knoebel, Standing Painting E, 2020. Acrylic on aluminium, 309,3 x 198,9 x 4,5 cm (121,77 x 78,31 x 1,77 in) 2020/092-14 (IK 1501) Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg · Seoul © Imi Knoebel / VG Bildkunst, Bonn 2022. Photo: Ivo Faber.
SALZBURG.- The exhibition love child brings together a group of new paintings of varying sizes that are characterised by a striking colourfulness and unique, irregular shapes. Continuing the artists exploration of the fundamentals of painting and sculpture, the works veer between the two artistic categories, combining aspects of both. Defined by their abstract forms and unconventional hues they reflect on the legacies of Suprematism, Minimal Art and Colour Field painting. Furthering Knoebels preoccupation with form, the Love Child works are mounted flat on the wall with a single nail that protrudes through a small, round opening in the copper panels surface. Simple! explains the artist: I wanted to make it as simple as possible. These new works continue to reflect what Martin Schulz wrote about Imi Knoebels works at the end of the 1990s: The viewer, who is not given any instructions, has to rely on his own sensual abilities ... More | |
Huge cutouts of Neymar and Lionel Messi, installed outside of homes in the Indian state of Kerala, Dec. 5, 2022. (Priyadarshini Ravichandran/The New York Times)
by Sarah Lyall
AL KHOR, QATAR.- Its hard to convey how strange it is to come upon Al Bayt Stadium, an enormous stylized tent decorated with black stripes, for the first time. Designed for the World Cup as an homage to traditional nomadic dwellings, Al Bayt, the centerpiece of a manicured park 22 miles north of Doha, rises as if from nowhere and seems at once apt and incongruous, spectacular and otherworldly an oasis in the desert, or maybe just a mirage. Completed just last year, Al Bayt is one of seven new stadiums built for the World Cup in and around Doha, the capital of Qatar. (An eighth is a spruced-up version of an old stadium.) Each is more spectacular, more unexpected than the next. Each contributes to the relentless sense of cognitive dissonance that pervades this World Cup. Qatar spent a reported $220 billion preparing for the tournament, conjuring new buildings, new neighborhoods and even an entirely new city. To be here now is to exist in a bubble of high unreality: ... More |
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| Solo exhibition of new paintings by Dave McDermott on view at GRIMM | | Rijksmuseum shows four centuries of women artists | | 'Peter Sacks: Resistance' on view at the Rose Art Museum |
The Red Blanket, 2022. Oil, graphite, 23k gold, linen board, yarn on panel, framed, 65.4 x 55.6 cm | 25 3/4 x 21 7/8 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- GRIMM is presenting The Varieties of Religious Experience, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Dave McDermott, on view in New York opening on November 18, 2022. This will be McDermott's fifth exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition is titled after the book of lectures by psychologist and philosopher William James that contains descriptions of private experiences of theology and mysticism to explore human nature. McDermott's painting practice aims to examine our collective history and experience through allegorical, or rather meta-allegorical1, depictions. Representations and symbols coalesce in the artist's compositions in ways that are pluralistic and usurp singular interpretations, prompting unforeseen ... More | |
Butterflies, Cornelia de Rijck, c. 1700. Purchased with the support of I.Q van Regteren Altena Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds.
AMSTERDAM.- This past December 3rd marked the opening at the Rijksmuseum shows four centuries of women artists Rijksmuseum of Women on Paper, an exhibition about women who have made their mark on art history. Work by a selection of women artists from the Rijksmuseum collection has been brought together in five rooms in different parts of the museum. The works include drawings, prints and photographs by Gesina ter Borch, Berthe Morisot, Käthe Kollwitz and Julia Margaret Cameron. There are also recent acquisitions by Cornelia de Rijck and Thérèse Schwartze. Women on Paper is the result of a long-term study to take stock of work by women artists in the Rijksmuseum collection and create a more balanced representation ... More | |
Peter Sacks, Paul Cézanne, 20202022. Mixed media on paper. Courtesy of artist and Sperone Westwater, New York. Photography: Gary Mirando.
WALTHAM, MASS.- Peter Sacks: Resistance, the artists first solo museum show, is currently bieng presented by the Rose Art Museum since August 25, and will end at the end of this month on December 30th, 2022. An expatriate of South Africa, Sacks gained stature as a visual artist for his intricately layered and textural mixed-media compositions. Expanding the two-dimensional conventions of canvas paintings, Sacks has developed a personal language of heightened dimensionality and tactile delicacy through his particular material choices. Peter Sacks: Resistance presents over eighty never-before-seen portraits of individuals who have resisted political, racial, or cultural oppression over the past two ... More |
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| National Museum of Asian Art opens "Unstill Waters: Contemporary Photography from India" | | Pamela Rosenkranz installs "Old Tree" as the third High Line Plinth commission in spring 2023 | | Kojin Karatani wins $1 million Berggruen Prize |
Piaus I (1 of 20 prints), Atul Bhalla (b.1964), India, 2006, Inkjet prints on archival Hahnemüle paper, H x W (each unframed): 30.5 à 40.6 cm (12 à 16 in), Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Gift of Drs. Umesh and Sunanda Gaur, S2019.6.7.1-20
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of Asian Art will present Unstill Waters: Contemporary Photography from India, an exhibition that features 29 works by some of the most prominent artists working in India. Through photography and video, these artists forefront the landscape of India, both real and imagined, as a powerful means to examine contemporary environmental and social issues of broader global concern. The exhibition will be on view in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Dec. 10June 11, 2023during the museums centennialand celebrates Umesh and Sunanda Gaurs gift to the museums growing collection of contemporary Asian photography. Visually dynamic in scale and format, the works in Unstill Waters offer vivid perspectives on the human relationship to place. Artists Ketaki Sheth and Gigi Scaria ... More | |
Pamela Rosenkranz, Old Tree (rendering). A High Line Plinth commission. Rendering courtesy of the artist and the High Line.
NEW YORK, N.Y..- High Line Art announces the third High Line Plinth commission: Old Tree, a 25-foot-tall sculpture in vivid pink and red, by artist Pamela Rosenkranz. Located on the park at West 30th Street and 10th Avenue, the Plinth, as a landmark destination for major public art, features a rotating program of new monumental commissions. Rosenkranzs artwork will be installed on the High Line in Spring 2023 and will be on view through September 2024. For the third High Line Plinth commission, Rosenkranz presents Old Tree, a bright red-and-pink sculpture that animates myriad historical archetypes wherein the tree of life connects heaven and earth. The tree's sanguine color resembles the branching systems of human organs, blood vessels, and tissue, inviting viewers to contemplate the indivisible connection between human and plant life. Old Tree evokes metaphors for the ancient wisdom of human evolution as well as a future in which the synth ... More | |
The Japanese philosopher is the recipient of this years award, which is given to thinkers whose ideas have provided wisdom and self-understanding in a rapidly changing world.
NEW YORK, NY.- Over his long paradigm-busting career, philosopher Kojin Karatani has recast Immanuel Kant and Karl Marx for a new generation. He has offered a trenchant critique of the limits of global capitalism. And he has engaged with other leading thinkers like Jacques Derrida, becoming one of the most important literary critics and philosophers in his native Japan. Now, Karatani has been named the recipient of the 2022 Berggruen Prize, a $1 million award given annually to a thinker whose ideas have provided wisdom and self-understanding in a rapidly changing world, according to the Berggruen Institute, the Los Angeles-based foundation that funds the prize. Karatani has been a visiting professor at Columbia University and Yale University, where he was a contemporary of eminent critics and theorists Paul de Man and Fredric Jameson. He is the first Asian laureate of the prize, which was first awarded in 2016 ... More |
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| Sealed 1st-edition Pokémon Booster Box leads Heritage Trading Card Games Auction above $2 Million | | New sculptural works by Vince Skelly on view at Adams and Oldman | | Galerie Bene Taschen opens a solo exhibition featuring works by Miron Zownir |
Magic: The Gathering Black Lotus Limited Edition (Alpha) BGS Trading Card Game MINT 9 (Wizards of the Coast, 1993) Rare.
DALLAS, TEXAS.- A sealed Pokémon booster box sold for $264,000 to lead Heritage Auctions' Trading Card Games Signature® Auction to $2,026,326 Dec. 2-3. Nearly 1,200 global bidders joined in on the event, which generated perfect sell-through rates of 100% by value and by lots sold. "The Pokémon market has been on a downward trend for most of 2022, so it was pleasurable to see a rebound," says Jesus Garcia, Consignment Director of Trading Card Games at Heritage Auctions. "First Edition booster boxes like this are becoming increasingly rare, especially those that are still sealed and in such good condition, and the $60,000 increase from since ... More | |
Vince Skelly, Bay Stool, 2022. Bay22h x 17w in. 55.88h x 43.18w cm.
PORTLAND, ORE.- Adams and Ollmans final exhibition of 2022 brings together new sculptural works by Vince Skelly (b. 1987, Claremont, CA; lives and works in Claremont, CA) with recent two-dimensional works by Lynne Woods Turner (b. 1951, Dallas, TX; lives and works in Portland, OR ). The exhibition, on view from December 10, 2022, through January 14, 2023, explores form through juxtapositions of scale, material, dimension and the playful interplay of positive and negative space. Vince Skelly uses a chainsaw and traditional hand tools to reductively carve sculptural design pieces from large blocks of wood from a variety of trees from the West Coast of the United States. Following grain patterns, knots ... More | |
Miron Zownir, Istanbul, November 2019 © Miron Zownir courtesy Galerie Bene Taschen.
COLOGNE.- Bene Taschen Gallery presents a solo exhibition featuring works by Miron Zownir that were realised in Istanbul in 2019 and 2021. The Berlin photographer has been documenting the zeitgeist of world-famous cities such as New York, Moscow or his adopted city of Berlin for 40 years. On the streets of Istanbul, he captures portraits of passers-by, of which there are thousands in the hustle and bustle of the city. The black and white photographs reflect Zownirs interest in the desolate and the bizarre. Driven by curiosity, he adapts to his surroundings, capturing fleeting moments on Tri-X film the same analogue film he has used since the 1970s. Through exposure and cropping ... More |
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The Frye Art Museum opens three new exhibitions
SEATTLE, WA.- The Frye Art Museum announced the opening of three new exhibitions, Srijon Chowdhury: Same Old Song, THE THIRD, MEANING: ESTAR(SER) Installs the Frye Collection, and Door to the Atmosphere, as well as the newest iteration of our Boren Banner series by Molly Jae Vaughan.
Portland-based artist Srijon Chowdhury creates dreamlike oil paintings that consider the present moment as part of a larger mythology. Moving between a highly stylized approach and startling realism, he brings an uncanny contemporary twist to genres like family portraiture, biblical scenes, and vanitas still lifes. The artists first museum solo exhibition, Same Old Song stages a dramatic climax of Chowdhurys practice to date ... More
Jim Stewart, unlikely entrepreneur of soul music, dies at 92
NEW YORK, NY.- Jim Stewart, who with his sister founded Stax Records, home to R&B luminaries like Otis Redding and Sam & Dave and, after Motown, the bestselling soul music label of the 1960s and 70s died on Monday in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 92. His death, at a hospital after a brief illness, was confirmed by Tim Sampson, communications director for the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis. A former banker, Stewart first ventured into the music business in 1957, when he and his sister Estelle Axton established Satellite Records in a relatives garage. Intending to release recordings of country and rockabilly music, Stewart and his sister, who died in 2004, never suspected that three years later their label would be producing some of the most enduring Black popular music of the era ... More
Smithsonian American Women's History Museum announced $1 million gift from Deloitte
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Womens History Museum has announced a $1 million gift from Deloitte to support the development of the new museum. The donation establishes Deloitte as a founding donor of the museum, which will recognize American womens accomplishments, the history they have made and the communities they represent. Americas most defining moments included change-making women whose stories have often gone untold, said Lisa Sasaki, interim director of the Smithsonian American Womens History Museum. Deloitte, as a founding donor, has created a pathway for the Smithsonian to tell the heroic and untold stories of women, and we thank them for their investment. The legislation creating the museum passed in December 2020. Deloittes contribution will support the initial planning of the museums building ... More
Review: Who committed the 'Ohio State Murders'? Who didn't?
NEW YORK, NY.- Two 91-year-old titans made belated Broadway debuts this fall. In the case of actor James Earl Jones, it was not in a play but on a marquee. In September, the Cort Theater, on West 48th Street, where he had first performed in 1958, was renamed in his honor. And Thursday, with the opening of a revival of Ohio State Murders on the same stage, Adrienne Kennedy finally had one of her works appear in what is, for better or worse, the center of American theatrical culture. Why it took so long in either case is a question you can answer in one word or many. In Ohio State Murders, Kennedy, an avant-gardist who deserves a place among our most honored and produced playwrights, does it in many, each of them a bullet. Not that the 75-minute play, first performed in 1991, is coldblooded or didactic. Rather, in Kenny Leons piercing production, starring Audra McDonald ... More
Fotomuseum in Maastricht presents the exhibition 'Back Home'
MAASTRICHT.- Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, the Netherlands, presents the exhibition Back Home until 29 January 2023. The museum shows new works by eight professional photographers nominated for the Somfy Photography Award 2022. The photographers include Jérémy De Backer (FR), Popel Coumou (NL), Nathalie Daoust (CAN), Chantal Heijnen (NL), Viktor Hübner (DE), Bas Losekoot (NL), Petra Noordkamp (NL) and Fab Rideti (FR). The finalists have visualized the current theme of BACK HOME in an individual photo series and are each given their own space in the museum to present the series. The global pandemic in 2020 and 2021 forced everyone to focus on 'home'. Suddenly, much more time was spent there than ever before. Sleeping, eating, working, leisure and even spending holidays ... More
Loyola Marymount University's latest SOM-Designed buildings provide dynamic spaces for media production and performance
WESTCHESTER.- With a cutting-edge new facility for the School of Film and Television and an innovative outdoor performance stage, LMU continues its growth as a leading center for arts and media education. Two new structures designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill are now complete on Loyola Marymount Universitys Westchester campus: the Howard B. Fitzpatrick Pavilion, which is the new home of the undergraduate School of Film and Television, and the open-air Drollinger Family Stage, an outdoor lecture and performance space in the heart of campus. Encompassing best-in-class undergraduate learning and collaboration spaces as well as two new theaters open to the broader LMU community ... More
Skoto Gallery extends its third solo exhibition by African-American artist Noah Jemisin until January
NEW YORK, N.Y..- Skoto Gallery has extended "Then and Now: 1974-Present", the exhibition of selected works by the African-American artist Noah Jemisin. This is his third solo show at the gallery. The exhibition will now continue on through January 8th, 2023. Noah Jemisin was born in Birmingham, AL and obtained an MFA degree from University of Iowa in 1974. His extensive travels in Africa, Europe and Asia over the years have helped him to develop an approach to life and art that enables him to synthesize into a distinct and dynamic whole the various components of his identity and create work that strive to make meaning of his personal history as well as the ambiguities and contradictions of contemporary culture. There is a great deal of critical experience, of knowledge and intuition in his work as well as an ever sensitive deftly balanced interaction between ... More
"Rythms of the Deep: By Her Highness Sheikha Maytha Bint Obaid Al Maktoum" at Firetti Contemporary
DUBAI.- Firetti Contemporary has announced a one-of-a-kind multi-sensory solo exhibition by Her Highness Sheikha Maytha Bint Obaid Al Maktoum that began on December 7th and will continue through January 4th, 2023. Titled Rhythms of the Deep, this unique exhibition is inspired by the Ancient Greek Myth of Aphrodite & Psyche and tells the story of human flaws with an emphasis on destruction bolstered by envy. In collaboration with Connectopia Technologies, Rhythms of the Deep will unveil the first-ever NFTs by the artist. The exhibition will also include augmented reality and take place in the metaverse, which viewers can access through VR headsets. This further elevates the unique experience provided to viewers as it blurs the boundaries between the physical and digital. According to classical Greek myth, Aphrodite - the Goddess of love and beauty ... More
"Hans Op de Beeck: Works on Paper" solo exhibition at Galerie Ron Mandos
AMSTERDAM.- In 2009, Hans Op de Beeck exhibited at Romes historic Galleria Borghese. In dialogue with the old masters from the collection, he developed six expansive monochrome watercolours. Today, these paintings exist as part of the MAXXI (Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome) permanent collection. Since then, Op de Beeck has worked prolifically on this steadily growing series of watercolours. Though fully matured and autonomous works in their own right, they have evolved into a kind of picture-book, an ever-expanding universe of images that can be seen in a solo exhibition at Galerie Ron Mandos since November 26th, and will continue through December 31st, 2022 ... More
Exhibition "Aidan Koch:Tides and Trees" at 14a Gallery
HAMBURG.- 14a14a has shared an overview of Aidan Kochs exhibition "Tides and Trees", which opened at the gallery November 29th. The exhibition will be on view through January 28th, 2023. The profound desire for friendship and identification with wild animals and the craving to touch them and to share their aliveness is eventually lost, but at the imprinting stage it is experienced with almost painful intensity. "Tides and Trees" explores childhood encounters with the natural world and how they shape our perception of the environment. Koch, who lives and works in Landers, California, in the Mojave Desert, pulls from images and memories of Olympia, Washington, where she grew up. Through the lenses of conservation and wilding, including shifting baseline theory (Frans Vera), the exhibition considers our changing sense of the landscapes natural or wild state. Koch writes: ... More
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Frances Macdonald
Terms of Belonging
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The seduction of beauty
Flashback On a day like today, Scottish architect and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh died December 10, 1928. Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 June 1868 - 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. His artistic approach had much in common with European Symbolism. His work, alongside that of his wife Margaret Macdonald, was influential on European design movements such as Art Nouveau and Secessionism. He was born in Glasgow and died in London. In this image: Design for a house for an art lover, 1901 © RIBA Library
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