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Aaron De Groft, director of the Orlando Museum of Art, with one of the works from the Mumford storage locker said to be by Jean-Michel Basquiat, "Untitled (Industry Insider)," at the museum in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 2, 2022. Vibrant paintings on cardboard said to be by the artist were found in the storage unit of a Hollywood screenwriter. Melanie Metz/The New York Times.
by Brett Sokol
NEW YORK, NY.- It seems like a story too good to be true, and for some in the art world, it is. Last weekend, 25 Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings were publicly unveiled at the Orlando Museum of Art in Florida before several thousand VIPs. All of the paintings were said by the museum to have been created in late 1982 while Basquiat, 22, was living and working out of a studio space beneath Larry Gagosians home in Venice, California, preparing fresh canvases for a show at the art dealers Los Angeles gallery. According to the Orlando Museum of Art director and chief executive, Aaron De Groft, the vibrant artworks layers of mixed media painted and drawn onto slabs of scavenged cardboard ranging in size from a 10-inch square featuring one of the artists iconic crowns to a nearly 5-foot-high disembodied head were sold by Basquiat directly to television screenwriter Thad Mumford. The price? A quick $5,000 in cash about $14,000 today paid without Gagosians kno ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition view of "Role play" Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, Milano. Photo: Delfino Sisto Legnani. Courtesy: Fondazione Prada.
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| Sotheby's to offer 30 works from the Macklowe Collection in dedicated New York auction | | Proyectos Ultravioleta announces representation of Amalia Pica | | Zwirner announces plans for new Los Angeles gallery |
Alberto Giacometti, STÃLE II, 1958. Est. 7,000,000- 10,000,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- The white-glove sale, last November, of 35 works from The Macklowe Collection was nothing less than historic, becoming, at $676.1 million, the most valuable single-owner auction ever staged: its success testament to the art of collecting in its highest form. This spring, Sothebys will offer a further 30 works from this celebrated collection, highlights from which are today unveiled in Sothebys London galleries by Will Gompertz, Artistic Director, Barbican and Eleanor Nairne, Curator, Barbican. Watch them here as they lift the curtain on the masterpieces to be offered in the dedicated evening sale at Sothebys New York on 16 May 2022. May will see a number of leading names from the November sale return, represented this time by artworks from different, but equally important, moments that act as critical counterpoints to their November counterparts. Gerhard Richter is among those reappearing, represented in this sale ... More | |
Amalia Pica, Study for Rearranging the Subtropical Conference Table #1, 2021. 160 x 160 cm. Melamine laminate, plywood, four parts. Photo: Margo Porres. Courtesy of the artist and Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City.
GUATEMALA CITY.- Proyectos Ultravioleta announced the representation of Amalia Pica as an artist in its program. Amalia Pica was born in Neuquén, Argentina, in 1978 and currently lives and works in London. She received a BA from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes P.P. in Buenos Aires in 2003 and attended graduate school at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam in 2005. Central to Picas work is the notion of communication, which she explores by setting everyday objects alongside obsolete technologies such as shutter telegraphs, slide projectors, and 16 mm film. Yet while her interest is in language, and in the mechanisms by which communication is attempted, most of her projects are silent. She compensates for this apparent lack by adding texts ... More | |
David Zwirner at his gallery on West 19th Street in New York, in front of works by Raymond Pettibon, Sept. 26, 2019. James Estrin/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- As the art world descended on this city for the Frieze Art Fair this week and New York galleries continue to announce Los Angeles branches, David Zwirner revealed the details of a new three-building gallery complex he plans to open in East Hollywood in January 2023. In recent years, this has become such fertile ground, Zwirner said, adding that the collector base has deepened and museums in particular The Broad in Los Angeles have become increasingly dynamic. There is a real strong local arts scene, and we want to be part of it. With the new 15,000-square-foot project, Zwirner joins his fellow megagalleries, which have long had a presence in Los Angeles: Gagosian, which opened in 1995 in Beverly Hills, and Hauser & Wirth, which ... More |
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| A city of the dead that inspires the living | | Higher Pictures Generation opens exhibition of color photographs from Susan Meiselas' series Carnival Strippers | | Bonhams announces New York Asia Week sale highlights for March 2022 |
The grave of Patrick Caulfield, a famed British painter most often associated with pop art, at Highgate Cemetery in London, Feb. 5, 2022. Andrew Testa/The New York Times.
by Megan Specia
LONDON.- Vines crawl up headstones, tipping them on their side. Roots overtake tombs as if reclaiming them for the earth. On one toppled cross, a message: Peace, Perfect Peace. This is the final resting place for about 170,000 Londoners, among them George Eliot, Karl Marx and Henry Moore. Perched on a steep hillside peering over the capital city, Highgate Cemetery, a Victorian graveyard that is still in use today, is a tangle of monuments partly engulfed by a forest that has sprung up around it. To stroll through its meandering trails is to experience a catalog of Victorian lives, the great and the small, the rogues and the upstanding citizens, as well as the Victorian way of death. Many in 19th-century Britains burgeoning middle-classes prepared all of their working lives for a magnificent funeral and burial site as a way to prove ... More | |
Susan Meiselas. Gay New Orleans Bally Call, Brockton, Massachusetts, June 1972 (detail). © Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos. Courtesy the artist and Higher Pictures Generation.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Higher Pictures Generation presents the first-ever exhibition of color photographs from Susan Meiselas series Carnival Strippers (197275). From 1972 to 1975 Meiselas followed traveling carnivals in the Midwest and New England each summer, photographing the women who performed striptease and interviewing them, the show managers, and paying customers. Carnival Strippers is praised for its nuanced and honest presentation of the women both on stage and off. The complexity of the series and Meiselas dedication, at the young age of twenty-four, to sharing the womens ambivalent and conflicting feelings about dancing and sex work, their own motivations, and their hopes for their futuresin their own wordsis astonishing. This is Meiselas first full photographic series, which shaped her signature way of working that is rooted in collaboration, contextualization, and re-contextualization. This is th ... More | |
Headlined by A Gilt Copper Alloy Figure of Tara from Nepal, Early Malla Period, 13th century. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- This March, Bonhams New York will present a plethora of fine and rare works from a range of art historical periods throughout Asias past and present. The sales include: Chinese Works of Art Including the Richard Milhender Export Furniture Collection on 21 March, Reverend Richard Fabian Collection of Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy IV on 21 March, Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art on 22 March, and Japanese and Korean Art on 23 March, as well as a series of online sales on Bonhams.com throughout the month. Alongside that, a spectacular assemblage of Himalayan Buddhist masterpieces from the Claude de Marteau Collection will be touring Bonhams New York with associated lectures and reception from 17 and to March. The sale comprises a wide-ranging group of highly appealing media: jades, bronzes, cloisonné, lacquer, porcelains, pottery, sculpture, furniture and classical and modern paintings, across a wide swathe ... More |
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| Fondazione Prada opens the exhibition "Role Play" | | Exhibition traces the evolution of art and design from the 1950s to the 1980s | | Schirn Kunsthalle opens an exhibition dedicated to walking in contemporary art production |
Exhibition view of Role play Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, Milano. Photo: Delfino Sisto Legnani. Courtesy: Fondazione Prada.
MILAN.- The exhibition "Role Play", curated by Melissa Harris, opens to the public from 19 February at the Osservatorio Fondazione Prada in Milan. The project, on view until 27 June 2022, includes a selection of photographic, video and performing works by 11 international image-based artists. "Role Play" explores the notions of the search, projection and invention of possible alternative identities, hovering between authentic, idealized, and universal selves. Playing with gender tropes, stereotypes, sense of place, and future perspectives, the artists who make up Role Play interrogate individuality as we know it and as it might be. Roleplaying, creating alter-egos, and proliferation of selves are possible strategies for understanding each individuals essence and persona. Role Play features works by artists Meriem Bennani, Juno Calypso, Cao Fei, Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Beatrice Marchi, Darius ... More | |
Claes Oldenburg, Soft Ladder, Hammer, Saw, and Bucket, 1967, sculpture.
AMSTERDAM.- The Stedelijks three-part collection presentation has been redesigned with a special focus on theme. Part 2, Everyday, Someday and Other Stories, traces the evolution of art and design from the 1950s to the 1980s. Artists and designers show it was an era of new opportunities and progress, of mass culture, pop culture and consumption, and of critiquing the established order. Featuring well-known and less familiar works from the collection, the presentation tells different stories from diverse perspectives, and shines a new light on the Stedelijk collection. Rein Wolfs, director of the Stedelijk Museum: Our entire curatorial team is working hard to broaden the collection and explore it from a fresh, thematic approach. Guiding this process is the awareness that art history is ultimately a collection of many different histories and narratives. Artworks discovered in the depot and recent work we were able to acquire in this c ... More | |
WALK!, Bouchra Khalili, The Constellation Series, 2011, installation view, © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2022. Photo: Marc Krause.
FRANKFURT.- From February 18 to May 22, 2022, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is dedicating a large international group exhibition to the hitherto rarely considered facets of walking in contemporary art. With photographs, video works, performances, collages, drawings, paintings, and sculptures, the exhibition WALK! presents an overview of the spectrum of contemporary artistic positions that aesthetically intertwine the act of moving on foot with the challenges of our time. The act of walking has gained new significance as a social phenomenon in the twenty-first century. At the core of activities such as strolling or hiking are sensory experiences that enable a connection with nature and the environment as well as a new experience of the self. At the same time, they are related to social issues of global ecological, geopolitical, and economic change. As an artistic practice, walking promotes the idea of a space that is structurally conn ... More |
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| Honolulu Museum of Art hosts 14 artists and collectives as part of the Hawai'i Triennial 2022 | | Miller & Miller announces results of Online-only Canadiana & Folk Art auction | | New exhibition at Hamburger Kunsthalle brings together a group of around thirty international artists |
Ai Iwane, Shosuke Nihei, Kailua Camp, 2016 (detail). Pigment print, 1118 mm x 1647 mm. Courtesy of the artist. © Ai Iwane.
HONOLULU, HI.- This spring, the Honolulu Museum of Art presents the work of 14 artists and collectives in partnership with Hawaii Contemporary as part of Hawaii Triennial 2022 (HT22), Pacific Century E Hoomau no Moananuiākea. The exhibition brings together artists from across the Asia Pacific region to Honolulu for a citywide celebration of contemporary art from Feb. 18 through May 8, 2022. HoMAs presentation includes new installations from 18 emerging and established artists (some working as collectives) in a variety of gallery spaces throughout the museum. Unique to HoMA is a site-specific installation by leading artist and social innovator Theaster Gates (b. 1973), who lives and works in Chicago. Gatess gallery installation for HoMA includes tarred ceramic vessels, a vitrine intervention and film presented in conversation with the museums historic Japanese collection. Gatess work highl ... More | |
Important whirligig in tin of a white ship on blue seas by Quebec artist Ernest Joly, circa 1970, rocks back and forth when the propeller turns, captain at the helm (CA$7,670).
NEW HAMBURG.- Original oil paintings by Canadian Group of Seven artists Alexander Young Jackson (1882-1974) and Franz Johnston (1888-1949) scored top lot honors in an online-only Canadiana & Folk Art auction held February 12th by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd., based in New Hamburg. The 376-lot auction posted a robust gross of $415,714. Prices quoted in this report are in Canadian dollars and include an 18 percent buyers premium. The oil on panel by Alexander Young Jackson, titled St. Lawrence South Shore Village (circa 1945), measuring 10 ½ inches by 13 ½ inches, was the auctions top lot. It sailed past its high estimate of $28,000 to bring $47,200. The painting exhibited wonderful color and detail and still had the gallery labels on the back for Klinkhoff in Montreal and Thielsen in London, Ontario. The oil on board rendering by Franz Johnston, titled The Battlement, ... More | |
Monika Grzymala (*1970), Raumzeichnung (perpetuum mobile), 2022. Ansicht in der Ausstellung Futura in der Galerie der Gegenwart der Hamburger Kunsthalle © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022. Photo: Fred Dott.
HAMBURG.- To kick off 2022, the exhibition Futura brings together a group of around thirty international artists who deal in their work with fundamental questions regarding temporality, sustainability and visions of the future. About 200 artworks on view engage in surprising dialogues across centuries and disciplines and many of them are new, created especially for the exhibition. The show marks the 25th year of the ongoing work Tropfsteinmaschine (Dripstone Machine) (19962496) by Bogomir Ecker (b. 1950). Running right through the building from roof to base storey, the machine commenced operation with the opening of the Galerie der Gegenwart (Gallery for Contemporary Art of the Hamburger KunstÂhalle) and is designed to run for 500 years. Through the interaction of rainwater, a plant biotope in the museÂum foyer, ... More |
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Doron Langberg âAmy in Her Studioâ | London | March 2022
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Exhibition at Compton Verney celebrates nine years of Sky Arts' Portrait Artist of the Year
COMPTON VERNEY.- Compton Verneys spring season begins with a celebration of nine years of Sky Arts most successful TV series, Portrait Artist of the Year. This commemorative exhibition a celebration of making - is curated by one of the programmes judges, independent curator Kathleen Soriano. It features over 120 works, selected from the work of more than 1,000 artists who have taken part in the competition and associated Sky Arts TV programme since it was launched in 2013. Over the years Portrait Artist of the Year has unearthed, encouraged, and nurtured portrait artists from all walks of life teachers, surgeons, and security guards - amateur and professional artists, discovering new talents with many going on to establish successful careers make a living from their art. Showcasing the sheer diversity of the different styles, media and approaches ... More
Gregory Peck's daughter and others keep 'Mockingbird' sequel rights
NEW YORK, NY.- In the years since Harper Lees death in 2016, her 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, has been re-imagined in surprising new ways. It was released as a graphic novel in 2018 and adapted into a hit Broadway production by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin. Now, after a yearslong legal battle, the path has been cleared for another major adaptation: a film remake or sequel. No plans have been announced, or are even being contemplated, according to the successors and heirs of the makers of the original 1962 film adaptation starring Gregory Peck. But unsealed documents filed in an Alabama federal court reveal how those successors and heirs successfully fought Lees estate to preserve the right to make any sequel or derivative movie, which they argued had been originally granted by Lee in 1961 and reaffirmed by her in 2008. The dispute ... More
Albright-Knox Northland presents 'In These Truths'
BUFFALO, NY.- On Saturday, February 19, Albright-Knox Northland will open its new exhibition, titled In These Truths. The exhibition is co-curated by Edreys Wajed and Aitina Fareed-Cooke, two of Buffalos most influential, charismatic, and insightful artists, in collaboration with Albright-Knox Curator of Public Art, Aaron Ott. The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, June 5, 2022. This invitational exhibition focuses on Black artists, emerging and established, who, through a wide range of mediums, provoke and reconsider, defy and embrace, test and talk about our shared reality. Collectively they create enduring and fertile forms that stand to profoundly challenge white Americas preconceived notions and to proudly present a Black America in all the complexity of its grace, struggle, and accomplishment. The title of the exhibition ... More
Gem Mint 10 Pokemon Charizard among highlights in Heritage Auctions' trading card games event
DALLAS, TX.- A spectacular copy of arguably the hottest Pokémon card in the hobby could bring $200,000 or more in Heritage Auctions' Trading Card Games Signature® Auction March 4-5. The Pokémon Charizard No. 4 First Edition Base Set Trading Card (Wizards of the Coast, 1999) PSA GEM MT 10 is in exceedingly high demand, in part because it is from the game's first English print run and carries the highest possible grade. "This is an incredible card," Heritage Auctions Trading Cards Games Consignment Director Jesus Garcia said. "Serious collectors actively pursue cards from the first English print run, but to find one in this grade is exceptionally rare. This card instantly will become a centerpiece in whatever collection it joins." This magnificent card is one of just 121 to have earned the lofty grade GEM MT 10 grade. Also grabbing a share ... More
Sidney Miller, who championed Black music, dies at 89
NEW YORK, NY.- Sidney Miller II, who in 1976 founded the influential trade magazine Black Radio Exclusive after concluding that Black voices were not being sufficiently represented and respected in the music business, died on Jan. 20 in Arlington, Virginia. He was 89. His family said in a statement that the cause was complications of COVID-19. Miller began promoting music acts while he was a student at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, and he had worked in several capacities at Capitol Records when he decided to start the magazine. Although Black artists were having success on the mainstream pop charts at the time, music that appealed mostly to Black listeners and the radio stations that played it were not getting much attention. Millers magazine often known simply as BRE took a close look at the world of Black music, spotlighting ... More
Valerie Boyd, biographer of Zora Neale Hurston, Dies at 58
NEW YORK, NY.- Valerie Boyd, who wrote a landmark biography of novelist Zora Neale Hurston and later, as a creative writing professor at the University of Georgia, helped bring diversity to the world of Southern literature by showing a generation of women of color how to make it as journalists and essayists, died Feb. 12 in Atlanta. She was 58. Her brother Timothy Boyd said the cause was cancer. Boyd was probably best known nationally for her book Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (2003), which took her almost a decade to write and won widespread critical acclaim. But she was already well known around the South, especially in her hometown, Atlanta, as both an electrifying essayist and an energizing mentor. She moved into that role full time in 2004, when she left her job as the arts editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ... More
50 years later, the Rothko Chapel meets a new musical match
NEW YORK, NY.- Before Tyshawn Sorey composed a note of his latest work, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Rothko Chapel in Houston, he spent hours inside its octagonal temple containing more than a dozen dark canvases. Immersing himself in Mark Rothkos fields of seeming black, Sorey noticed that the paintings shifted subtly over time and that time itself appeared to dissolve. The colors changed to match the sun coming through the chapels skylight. When he would go outside and return, his adjusting eyes made it feel as if the works were coming to life. Few people can give Rothko the time or space to perceive what Sorey saw. But Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), something of a sonic distillation of what he experienced, might give them an idea. Written for the chapels 50th anniversary and delayed a year because ... More
Columbus Museum of Art creates endowment to honor legacy of acclaimed artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson
COLUMBUS, OH.- Columbus Museum of Art announced the launch of the Aminah Robinson Legacy Endowment and Resource Fund to preserve and promote the groundbreaking artists vision for future generations. When Robinson died in 2015, she entrusted her estate, including her studio and home, to the Museum. CMA subsequently established the Aminah Robinson Legacy Project to grow awareness of Robinsons life and work, ensuring its place in the pantheon of influential 20th- and 21st-century American art. The new Aminah Robinson Legacy Endowment and Resource Fund ensures the Museums ability to continue the critical work established through the Legacy Project and the expansion of Robinsons ... More
UTA Artist Space opens an exhibition of works by Enrique MartÃnez Celaya
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Artist Space and Unit London announced a new immersive environment by the celebrated Los Angeles-based artist Enrique MartÃnez Celaya. The Rose Garden ambitiously brings together new paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, garments, and writing, inviting viewers to consider the selfboth its promise and its threatthrough the mystical divination of memory. In this exhibition, as in past projects, MartÃnez Celaya again concerns himself with existential hunger, crisis, chaos, order, time, redemption, reality, and lovehere tied together by the thread of Eliots words. As visitors enter UTA Artist Spaces main gallery, they will encounter Eliots poem written at their feet, and a series of large paintings depicting ice, sea, and fire, urging a meditation on the ever-changing, complicated nature of time and memory. ... More
Eisenhower letter to West Point Grad's among President's Day memorabilia sold at auction
BOSTON, MASS.- A rare, early presidential letter signed in full by Dwight D. Eisenhower, addressed to the graduating class of the United States Military Academy, sold for $41,250 according to Boston-based RR Auction. President Eisenhower's exceedingly rare signed in full, sent to the 1953 graduating class of the United States Military Academy at West Point, penned neatly on his personal stationery and dated to January 25, 1953, just five days into his new role as the nation's chief executive. Included with the handwritten letter is a transmittal from Eisenhower dated three days prior on January 22nd, forwarding his dedication to Cadet James G. Donahue, then editor of the USMA yearbook, the Howitzer. Eisenhower's handwritten dedication letter, in full: "To the Class of 1953: As one who has proudly worn the cadet gray and had the privilege, ... More
Goldin brokers record private deal for iconic Batman comic, listed on Rally for $1.8M
RUNNEMEDE, NJ.- An incredibly rare copy of D.C. Comics "Batman" #1, one of the most important comic books of all time, was sold today by Goldin and will be offered on Rally for $1.8 million. The private sale is the second-most expensive ever for a Batman comic. The comic was sold to Rally a platform for buying and selling equity shares in collectible assets ranging from rare comic books to sports memorabilia to NFTs. The rare copy of Batman #1 will be available to purchase shares for $10 on March 11th. Rally is the pioneer investing platform for blue-chip and digital collectibles with nearly 400k users, based in NY. Rallys mission is to make anything in the world a tradable asset, and the platform has paved the way for a new class of investors who want to own a piece of history. In 2022, Rally introduced live trading, providing unprecedented liquidity ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Romanian-French artist Constantin Brâncuși was born February 19, 2022. Constantin Brâncuși (February 19, 1876 - March 16, 1957) was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered a pioneer of modernism, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century, In this image: The 1911 gilded bronze sculpture "Prometheus" by Constantin Brancusi is displayed during a preview of "Brancusi Serra" at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao October 7, 2011. Curator Oliver Wick described the third element of the interaction between the two sculptors as Frank Gehry, architect of the museum.
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