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A group of dolls against a backdrop of 19th-century tintypes and photographs in the exhibit Black Dolls at the New-York Historical Society, a collection of more than 100 Black dolls mostly made between the 1850s and 1940s, in Manhattan, Feb. 18, 2022. The exhibition is drawn largely from the private collection of Deborah Neff, who has for decades acquired dolls mostly produced by African American women for their own children and those that they cared for both Black and white. Nate Palmer/The New York Times.
by Aruna DSouza
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2009, sensitive to the ways that Black girls are under particular duress in American culture, Austin, Texas-based artist Deborah Roberts began creating intricate collages of innocence and joy very Black Norman Rockwell, as she described them in a recent interview. When she decided to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in 2014 at age 48, hoping to discover ways to move her work forward, she was struck by how little research there was to draw upon to understand the lives of Black girls and the challenges they faced. There was scholarship on Black women, she explained, but not on how we become Black women. Six years later, a lot has changed. Roberts own career has exploded: Her mixed-media of found photographs on paper and canvas have been lately acquired by SFMOMA, the Whitney and the Guggenheim; purchased by celebrity collectors including the Carters (Beyoncé and Jay-Z) and Spike Lee; and even featured in a recent episode of And Just L ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, âKeith Tyson. Drawings & Paintings,â Hauser & Wirth New York 22nd Street, 2022. 3 February â 2 April 2022 © Hauser & Wirth. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Thomas Barratt
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| Van Gogh masterpiece 'Champs près des Alpilles' to lead Christie's New York 20th Century Evening Sale | | Christie's 20th Century Evening Sale presents Georgia O'Keeffe's 'A Sunflower from Maggie' | | Museum of Fine Arts Boston acquires Surrealist masterpiece by Remedios Varo | 
Vincent van Gogh, Champs près des Alpilles (detail), oil on canvas, 17.3/4 x 21.5/8 in. (45 x 55 cm.) Painted in November 1889. Estimate on request. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced Vincent van Goghs Champs près des Alpilles, 1889 (estimate on request; region of $45,000,000) as a leading highlight of the 20th Century Art Evening Sale taking place this May at Rockefeller Center in New York City. This rare work was one of two canvases sent from the artist while living in an asylum in Saint-Rémy to his close friend Joseph Roulin in Marseille at the beginning of 1890. A closely related view, painted from the same field, is now held in the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo. Vanessa Fusco, Co-Head of Christies New York 20th Century Evening Sale, remarked: With its gestural, expressive handling and bold, vibrant color, Champs près des Alpilles exemplifies the key characteristics of Van Goghs trademark style a style which is beloved and admired all ... More | | 
Georgia O'Keeffe, A Sunflower from Maggie (detail). Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.) Painted in 1937. Estimate: $6,000,000-8,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announces Georgia OKeeffes A Sunflower from Maggie (1937) will be a featured highlight in the 20th Century Art Evening Sale taking place this May in New York. The painting was deaccessioned from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA); it will be sold to benefit acquisitions for the Museum (estimate: $6 million - $8 million). Emily Kaplan, Christies Specialist and Co-Head of 20th Century Evening Sale, remarks, It is an honor to partner with the MFA on the sale of Georgia OKeeffes A Sunflower from Maggie to benefit acquisitions for the Museum. A truly iconic image from one of the finest 20th century American modernists, this work is a leading example of American painting of the pre-war era. While flowers are a classic signature of the artists oeuvre, sunflower canvases ... More | | 
Detail of Tailleur pour dames (1957) by Remedios Varo.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has acquired the painting Tailleur pour dames (1957), a major work by Remedios Varo (19081963), a leader of the Surrealist movement in the Americas. Varo made fewer than 200 oil paintings during her life, and Tailleur pour dames is one of her very rare, large-scale works, the majority of which remain in private collections. It is the first painting by Varo to enter the MFAs collection, the only work by the artist in New England, and an acquisition that will transform the Museums presentation of modern art in an international context. The Varo will go on public view alongside additional recent acquisitions in the Carol Vance Wall Rotunda beginning March 17, after which it will be featured in the late spring 2022 reinstallation of the MFAs 20th-century Art of the Americas collection. As part of a broader project that presents modern art beyond the standard boundaries ... More |
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| Gallery Michael Janssen opens Louis Cameron's first solo exhibition with the gallery | | New photography exhibition features recent acquisitions from the Joy of Giving Something | | Sally Kellerman, Oscar-nominated 'MASH' actress, is dead at 84 | 
Louis Cameron, BRLN 28, 2021, paper on canvas, collage, 40 x 30 cm (15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in).
BERLIN.- Gallery Michael Janssen is presenting the first solo exhibition of Louis Cameron with the gallery. The self-titled exhibition presents the most recent works from the series "Collage Paintings and "Last words. The exhibition opened on Friday February 18th and will be on view until April 16th. In the interview with Dr. Tiffany E. Barber the artist gives insights about the upcoming show. Your art practice spans a range of mediapainting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, assemblage, video, and poster artand you've spent the bulk of your career making abstract, conceptually driven objects. In the U.S., you are well known for hard-edge abstract paintings and video work that appropriate colors and commodities that circulate in the public sphere, namely Heineken beer, Tide laundry detergent, and Hershey chocolate bars. More recently, your work has turned to issues of surveillance and digital activism. How h ... More | | 
Inge Morath, A Llama in Times Square, 1957, Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc., 2020.10.277. Courtesy of the Estate of Inge Morath.
NEW YORK, NY.- A llama in Times Square
fireworks over the Brooklyn Bridge
polar bears playing in a pool at the zoo
subways, skylines, shadows, and stolen moments... all these things and more tell the varied story of New York City, captured by the lenses of many of the mediums greatest photographers. Now, these images are on view as part of Celebrating the City: Recent Acquisitions from the Joy of Giving Something, on view now at Museum of the City of New York. The exhibition features approximately 100 photographs selected from the more than 1,000 images recently gifted to the Museum by the Joy of Giving Something, a non-profit organization dedicated to the photographic arts. Photographs of New York are instantly recognizable and help us celebrate and elevate the many stories of our vibrant ... More | | 
The actress, who broke through as Margaret (Hot Lips) Houlihan in MASH, was known for her self-effacing comedy, a velvety voice and an ability to toggle between sultry and silly.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sally Kellerman, the willowy, sultry-voiced actress and singer whose portrayal of Maj. Margaret (Hot Lips) Houlihan in the 1970 dark comedy MASH earned her an Oscar nomination, died on Thursday at an assisted-living facility in Los Angeles. She was 84. Her son, Jack Krane, said the cause was heart failure. In her decadeslong career in film and television, she was best known for her role as the strait-laced but alluring Army nurse in MASH, which also landed Kellerman rave reviews and a Golden Globe Award. The film, directed by Robert Altman, broke ground with its irreverence and graphic depiction of a group of hotshot surgeons struggling to save horribly wounded soldiers at an Army surgical unit during the Korean War. (When MASH was adapted into a TV series, Kellermans character was played by Loretta Swit.) ... More |
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| Exhibition features a recent gift of six paintings and drawings from the Friday Foundation | | Exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg premieres large-scale photographic work by Zoe Leonard | | Christie's presents series of two live sales of Post-War & Contemporary Art | 
Willem de Kooning, Collage No. 2, ca. 195765. Collage; oil paint, paper towels, and a cigarette butt, on newspaper on prepared paperboard. Yale University Art Gallery, Katharine Ordway Collection. © 2022 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- The Yale University Art Gallery is presenting Midcentury Abstraction: A Closer Look, an exhibition inspired by a recent gift of six paintings and drawings from the Seattle-based Friday Foundation honoring the legacy of Jane Lang Davis and Richard E. Lang. This important gift includes revelatory works by the celebrated painters Franz Kline (19101962) and Mark Rothko (19031970, hon. 1969). On view from February 25 through June 26, 2022, the exhibition highlights the breadth and variety of practices in abstract art that took place around the middle of the 20th century and provides a nuanced perspective on abstraction by looking beyond long-standing narratives about this moment in art history. The six works by Kline and Rothko represent different phases of each artists career, highlighting both familiar and surprising aspects of their artistic ... More | | 
Al rÃo / To the River (detail), 2016-2022. Approximately 500 gelatin silver prints, 40 C-prints and 40 inkjet prints.
LUXEMBOURG.- Over three decades Zoe Leonard (b. 1961, Liberty, New York) has gained critical acclaim for her work. Rooted in photography, Leonards practice extends to spatial installation and sculpture. Her art is above all the result of a finely honed observation, in which the documentary approach of photography combines with the physical and bodily act of looking. Migration and displacement, gender and sexuality, mourning and loss, cultural history and the tensions between the natural world and human-built environments are recurring themes in her work. This exhibition premieres Al rÃo / To the River, a large-scale photographic work begun in 2016 which takes the Rio Grande, as it is named in the United States, or RÃo Bravo, as it is named in Mexico, as its subject. Leonard photographed along the 2,000 kilometres where the river is used to demarcate the boundary between the United Mexican States and the United States of America, following the river from the border cities ... More | | 
David Hockney (B. 1937), The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) - 11 May 2011. iPad drawing in colors, on wove paper, 2011. Estimate: $70,000-100,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- This March, Christies announced two live auctions of Post-War and Contemporary Art taking place at Rockefeller Center in New York. On Wednesday, March 9, Contemporary Edition will offer a selection of works from leaders in printmaking, including David Hockney, Andy Warhol, and Keith Haring, as well as coveted contemporary artists including Carmen Herrera and Damien Hirst. On Thursday, March 10, Christies will present Post-War to Present. which will be the highest estimated live sale to take place in New York thus far in 2022. Post-War to Present features a fantastic group of post-war and contemporary artworks by 20th and 21st century masters including Ed Ruscha, Jeff Koons, Helen Frankenthaler, Felix Gonzales-Torres, and Tauba Auerbach. These back-to-back sales will offer collectors an opportunity to acquire exquisite artworks by a range of leading names spanning from the post-war era ... More |
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| Rare political history collection of J. Doyle DeWitt heads to Heritage Auctions | | Fotomuseum Winterthur opens an exhibition of works by Frida Orupabo | | Karl Marx, Nikola Tesla among fine autographs and artifacts up for auction | 
Abraham Lincoln: Legendary George Clark Ambrotype Badge From the 1860 Campaign.
DALLAS, TX.- J. Doyle DeWitt is remembered best for two things: as a titan in the insurance industry, and as a history afficionado who assembled one of the finest collections of American presidential campaign items, a portion of which will be offered March 19-20 in Heritage Auctions Inaugural J. Doyle Dewitt Collection Americana & Political Signature® Auction. All items in the auction are being offered without reserve. "The DeWitt is one of the major national political history collections in the country, in both its scope and quality of material," Harry Rubenstein, chairman of the Smithsonian's division of political history at the National Museum of American History said in the Hartford Courant in 2016. "There are many unique objects, but especially it is in its 19th century holdings that make the DeWitt Collection a valued resource for scholars and the public interested in American political life and culture." DeWitts collection ... More | | 
Frida Orupabo, Closed Fists, 2021 © Frida Orupabo and Galerie Nordenhake Berlin | Stockholm | Mexico City.
WINTERTHUR.- Norwegian Nigerian artist and sociologist Frida Orupabo (*1986) creates analogue and digital black-and-white collages and video installations from visual material circulating online. From photographs from the colonial era as well as from contemporary imagery, from ethnography, medicine and science to art and pop culture, Orupabo dissects representations of the Black, mostly female body as a means to negotiate themes of colonial violence, racism, sexuality, identity and belonging. In rearranging and newly reassembling the dissected fragments, Orupabo creates figures of resistance that challenge how and what we see in a present-day reality that remains permeated by colonialism. Orupabos exploration of personal and cultural belonging is the starting point for her delicate, sculptural collages and video works. In order to write herself ... More | | 
Karl Marx Autograph Letter Signed. Now At: $31,000 (3 bids)Estimate: $300,000+.
BOSTON, MASS.- Among the important autographs in the sale is a letter by Karl Marx about the French edition of Das Kapital. The rare and important three-page letter in French, dated March 7, 1872. Handwritten letter to the publisher Maurice Lachâtre. In 1872, Lachâtre published the first book of Marx's Das Kapital in French-Le Capital, translated by Joseph Roy but edited by Marx himself. Marx's letters are incredibly scarce, and as this example is associated with the publication of his most important work, it is of the utmost desirability. (Estimate: $300,000+) A letter by Nikola Tesla about the possibility of extraterrestrial life and his detection of "feeble impulses emanating from Mars. The fascinating one-page handwritten letter on vellum parchment to Universal Pictures co-founder Carl Laemmle. A unique and important autograph letter by the celebrated inventor, whose eccentric ways and marvelous mind doubtlessly ... More |
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David Hockneys Hymn to the Hills
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 New-York Historical Society's 2022 Book Prize in American History to be awarded to Alan TaylorNEW YORK, NY.- Dr. Agnes Hsu-Tang, chair of New-York Historical Societys Board of Trustees, and Dr. Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of New-York Historical, announced today that Alan Taylor will be honored with New-York Historicals annual Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History for American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 (W.W. Norton & Company, 2021). The award recognizes the best book of the year in the field of American history or biography. Alan Taylor will receive a $50,000 cash award, an engraved medal, and the title of American Historian Laureate, which will be presented at New-York Historicals annual Chairmans Council Weekend with History on April 8. Alan Taylors American Republics richly illustrates how the difficulties surrounding our nations birth were as complicated and vexing ... More  An Iranian director's rule: 'Always focus on ordinary people.'NEW YORK, NY.- Asghar Farhadi made his first film at age 13, shot with an 8 mm camera, about two boys who agree to share an abandoned radio on alternate days but who then discard it because neither can listen to their favorite nightly program. The film which won him a new bicycle as a prize is a story of children grappling with trivial challenges. But like all stories Farhadi has scripted and directed to wide acclaim as one of Irans preeminent filmmakers, it deployed the mundane to convey the profound. It is very valuable for me to always focus on ordinary people, Farhadi, who at 49 is a two-time Oscar winner, said in an interview from Los Angeles, where he was visiting from his home base in Tehran, Iran. I dont think my work will ever be about people who are special or famous because they are not part of my emotional bank. For the characters ... More  Musical comedy 'Kimberly Akimbo' to open on Broadway next fallNEW YORK, NY.- Kimberly Akimbo, a musical comedy about a young girl with a medical condition that causes rapid aging, will transfer to Broadway next fall. The show, based on a play by David Lindsay-Abaire, had an initial off-Broadway run that opened late last year at the Atlantic Theater Company, where it ran through the peak of the omicron surge of the coronavirus and was greeted with strong reviews. Jesse Green, in The New York Times, called it funny and moving. The musical stars Victoria Clark, a 62-year-old actress playing a 15-year-old girl who is managing not only her affliction a condition that limits her life expectancy but also life with a ludicrous family. Its a coming-of-age story, but an unusual one because the clock is ticking from the get-go, Clark said in an interview. She has a limited amount of time left, and what draws me to her ... More  Leonard Kessler, colorful children's book author, dies at 101NEW YORK, NY.- Leonard Kessler, the author and illustrator of hundreds of childrens books for early readers that celebrated the ordinary (I Have Twenty Teeth Do You?) and the not-so-ordinary (Mr. Pines Purple House), died Feb. 16 at his home in Sarasota, Florida. He was 101. His daughter, Kim Kessler, confirmed his death but did not specify a cause. A white house is fine, declared Mr. Pine, the doughty hero of Kesslers beloved Mr. Pines Purple House. But there are FIFTY white houses all in a line on Vine Street. How can I tell which one is mine? Mr. Pine then set out to distinguish his house with purple paint, soldiering on despite mishaps and upsets, in a paean to the maverick spirit and perseverance. Squish, squish, went the brush. Squish, squish, squish. When Mr. Pines Purple House was first published in 1965, the book ... More  Sterling Associates leaves winter behind with auction of estate art, antiques and mid-century modern furnitureNORWOOD, NJ.- On Wednesday, March 2nd, Sterling Associates will bid farewell to winter with a 171-lot auction of fine and decorative art, antiques and mid-century modern furnishings from estates in the NY/NJ/CT tri-state area. Bidders may participate absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers. The auctions long list of highlights includes a stunning Dahlov Ipcar oil painting of an African animal scene, a Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Kang Tao bronze coffee table, a 1926 Steinway baby grand piano, and a Franz Bergmann cold-painted Austrian bronze and glass lamp. A specialty collection of 15 mid-Victorian portrait miniatures is included, as well. From the first hour of its appearance in Sterlings online catalog, ... More  With 'Cyrano,' James McAvoy is savoring a 'purer form of storytelling'NEW YORK, NY.- In a cozy upstairs bar at the Harold Pinter Theater here, actor James McAvoy was talking about ritual sacrifice. The offering in question was him. Night after night, on the stark set of Jamie Lloyds Olivier Award-winning production of Cyrano de Bergerac, McAvoy has no period plumes or prosthetics to hide behind as he plays the title role. Hes even shaved off his floppy hair, buzzed close to the scalp in a sculptural fade a sleeker look than the smooth bald pate of his X-Men character Charles Xavier, and a lot more military. Ive always felt like theater is slightly sacrificial, McAvoy, 42, said in his Scottish burr. I think the first plays were probably some kind of sacrifice, be it animal or food-based or human even. The community coming together to watch somebody give of themselves I feel like theater has its roots in that somewhere. ... More  Longwood Gardens to open its restored Orchid HouseKENNETT SQUARE, PA.- Longwood Gardens will reopen its beloved, historic Orchid House on February 26, revealing stunning new floral displays within a hundred-year-old structure that has been thoroughly restored and revitalized. The completion of the Orchid House restoration marks the first milestone achieved in Longwood Reimagined, a sweeping yet deeply sensitive transformation of 17 acres of the Gardens central visitor area. Now returned to its original configuration, but with a gracious new vestibule seamlessly integrated into the building to welcome visitors and keep temperatures steady, the Orchid House will now be able to exhibit up to 50 percent more orchids throughout the year from Longwoods collection, recognized as one of the most important in the world. Paul Redman, Director and CEO of Longwood Gardens, ... More  kamel mennour now represents Eugène CarrièrePARIS.- kamel mennour announced the exclusive international representation of the work of Eugène Carrière. With Véronique Dumesnil‑Nora, Eugène Carrière's great‑granddaughter, kamel mennour follows in the steps of the Galerie Bernheim‑Jeune his historical dealer who presented a first solo exhibition in February 1903 to pay tribute and take part in the recognition of this major artist, whose work finds multiple echoes in our contemporary context. A celebrated artist during his lifetime, equally at home among the Symbolists and the Naturalists, Eugène Carrière (1849‑1906) never ceased to elude the stylistic categories of his time, without claiming to belong to a specific movement. Resisting all classification, this painter, engraver and draughtsman who was the contemporary of Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon and Paul Gauguin, among ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French illustrator and painter Honoré Daumier was born February 26, 1808. Honoré-Victorin Daumier (February 26, 1808 - February 10, 1879) was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century. In this image: Honore Daumier, Lunch in the Country, c. 1867-1868. Oil on panel, 26 x 34 cm. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Photo © National Museum of Wales.
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