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Kyungmin Lee, director of Whistle, stands amidst a show of work by Min ha Park called Tunnels, at the gallery in Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 21, 2022. (At left: Enter Namsan (midnight) 2022.) New museums are opening, foreign galleries are alighting and corporations are plowing money into Seouls ascending contemporary art scene. (Jun Michael Park/The New York Times)
by Jun Michael Park
SEOUL.- One recent afternoon in the vibrant Itaewon neighborhood, art types trickled into a four-story building that Berlin and Paris gallery Esther Schipper had just unveiled as a showroom to catch an interactive performance by artist Tino Sehgal. It involved a girl, in character, delivering a short monologue and addressing questions to her audience. At one point, she turned to an artist and asked, Would you rather feel too busy or not busy enough? Not a fair question: Anyone trying to keep up with art in this art-mad city hardly has a choice. New museums are opening, foreign galleries are alighting and corporations are plowing money into contemporary art. Frieze opened a fair here in September, some 120 exhibitors strong, and the international art world flew in. At Samsungs palatial Leeum Museum of Art, Squid Game stars and visiting museum curators watched the K-pop girl group Kep1er. At a club in the industrial ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE Ancient, Ethno, Fine Art auction on Jan 08, 2023 11:00 AM CST. Part 2 of their annual Warehouse clear out! Featuring discounted pricing on authentic antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, plus Viking, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Tribal, Russian Icons, Spanish Colonial, Fine Art, Fossils, jewelry, more. Costa Rican Chiriqui Stone Jaguar Metate. Estimate $7,000 - $10,500.
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| U.S. officials repatriate a looted relic to the Palestinian authority | | At Columbia's $600 million business school, time to rethink capitalism | | Al Capone's 'Scarface' inmate record cards, medical records among gangsters, outlaws & lawmen memorabilia up for auction |
A photo courtesy of the Manhattan District Attorneys Office shows the cosmetic spoon carved from ivory, which officials said had been looted. As the object was handed back at a ceremony in Bethlehem, officials said it was the first time the United States had repatriated an antiquity to the Palestinian government. (Courtesy of the Manhattan District Attorneys Office via The New York Times)
by Tom Mashberg
NEW YORK, NY.- U.S. officials met with representatives of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank on Thursday and handed back a 2,700-year-old looted item in what officials said was the first time the United States had repatriated a stolen relic to the Palestinian government. The object, described as a cosmetic spoon, was a tool carved from ivory and dating to between 800 and 700 B.C. It was used to ladle incense onto fires and braziers at rites venerating the gods and the dead. A winged figure was etched into its front side. The Palestinian minister of tourism and antiquities, Rula Maayah, who met with the U.S. delegation in Bethlehem, said, This artifact is important as it acquires its real scientific and archaeological value in its authentic location. ... More | |
David Geffen Hall, left, and Henry R. Kravis Hall, which bracket a circle of green space, at Columbia Business School in Manhattan, Nov. 14, 2022. (Zack DeZon/The New York Times)
by James S. Russell
NEW YORK, NY.- One zigs, the other zags. One teases the passerby with bands of translucent glass wrapping a core of clear windows; the other, with floors angled in and out a gentle architectural mambo. The pair of buildings that comprise Columbia Universitys new business school, on its growing Manhattanville campus, exude a nervous off-kilter energy. The 11-story Henry R. Kravis Hall, named for the co-founder of the private equity firm KKR, rises in front of the delicate steel-arched viaduct carrying Riverside Drive. It is separated from an eight-story structure named for entertainment mogul David Geffen by a circle of grass, trees and benches embedded in a plaza. The ensemble joins a sleek new campus that so far includes a neuroscience research center, an arts center, and a think-tank-style building, called The Forum, devoted to academic discourse ... More | |
Remarkable private medical archive from Capone's doctor, offering unseen insight into the gangster's battle with neurosyphilis: "He is still silly, childish, and mentally deteriorated". Now At: $5,000 (1 bid). Estimate: $50,000+ Ends on 01/11. © RR Auction.
BOSTON, MD.- RR Auction's first sale of 2023 brings the 'golden age' of the American gangster to the forefront, featuring remarkable items chronicling the lives and times of notorious figures like Al Capone, John Dillinger, Bonnie Parker, and Clyde Barrow. Highlights include Al Capone's signed Cook County Jail inmate recorda rare file from his 1931 tax evasion conviction, with graphic evidence of his 'Scarface' moniker. The card lists his personal and physical data, including height (5' 11"), weight ("255"), age ("32"), descent ("Italian"), religion ("Cath."), education ("8th Grade"), and occupation ("Garage Bus."perhaps a clever nod to his reported involvement in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Even more significantly, the card boasts a physical chart that identifies the scar on his facethe inspiration for his iconic nickname, 'Scarface'and a wound on his right hand. Even more significantly, the card boasts ... More |
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| David Zwirner opens an exhibition of works by Yun Hyong-keun | | Christie's to present a non-selling exhibition of works by six talented artists | | George Adams Gallery unveils Arnaldo Roche-Rabell survey |
Yun Hyong-keun, Burnt Umber & Ultramarine, 1981. Image © Fun Seong-ryeol. Courtesy David Zwirner and PKM Gallery, Seoul.
PARIS.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of works by Yun Hyong-keun, on view at the gallerys Paris location. The paintings and never-before-exhibited works on hanji (Korean mulberry paper) in this presentation date from 1979 to 1984, encompassing the years immediately before and after Yuns residence in Paris from 1980 to 1982. A transformative period for the artist, Yuns brief but illuminating stay in the city became the locus of his freedom of expression, which resulted from the political repression he had experienced in his home country. During this time, Yun and other artists were affected by, and responded to, years of Japanese colonial rule, the Korean War, and postwar authoritarian regimes in South Korea. Yun himself was punished for participating in the student movement at Seoul National University in the late 1940s ... More | |
Kate Burling, Ribbon, oil and acrylic on canvas, 100 x 70cm, 2022. © Christie's Images Ltd 2023.
LONDON.- Christies presents Christies NEXT x Good Eye Projects, a non-selling exhibition of works by six talented artists, on view and open to the public from 12 to 20 January at Christies London. For this second iteration of Christies NEXT, a platform for showcasing and supporting rising talent, Christies has partnered with Good Eye Projects. Founded in 2022 by Anna Woodward (Artist), Scott Franklin (Founder, Property Guardian Protection) and Sam Senchal (Collector & Patron), Good Eye Projects is a new London-based artist residency programme supporting emerging and early-career artists. Good Eye Projects provides six artists with free studio space in Hammersmith, West London, for a period of three months, allowing them the freedom to advance their practice as part of a supportive peer group. The first cohort of artists, Kate Burling, Eva Dixon, Vilte Fuller, Henry Gibbs, Choon Mi Kim and Abi Ola ... More | |
Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, The Subconscious Knows how to Kill his Son, 1993, 84 x 60 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- The George Adams Gallery began 2023 with an exhibition of paintings by the late Puerto Rican artist Arnaldo Roche Rabell (1955-2018), whom the gallery represented for many years, beginning in 1990. The current exhibition, Dualidades, which began on Janury 6th and will end on February 18th, is a survey of Roche's paintings dating from the late 1980s through the mid 1990s. These monumental works showcase an artist at the height of his abilities, grappling with existential questions about identity. Whether the uneasy relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico, his own mixed-race heritage or personal connections to mental illness, Roche parses these facets of his self through densely layered canvases. Roche Rabell was born and raised in Puerto Rico but went on to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, earning his MFA in 1984. After graduating ... More |
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| Revelatory new insights unveiled in new Vermeer biography | | Activist who removed Banksy mural from Kyiv suburb could face prison, police say | | Phillips' celebrates 10th anniversary of the Editions Department in London with auctions |
Johannes Vermeer The Lacemaker c. 16661668 Paris, Musée du Louvre Inv. no. MI 1448 Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre)/Gérard Blot.
AMSTERDAM.- In the lead up to the opening of Rijksmuseums landmark Vermeer exhibition on 10 February 2023, a new biography published by Rijksmuseum reveals for the first time the full influence the Jesuit order of the Catholic church exerted on Johannes Vermeer who had been raised a Protestant. Johannes Vermeer. Faith, Light, and Reflection is written by Gregor J.M. Weber, Head of the Department of Fine Arts at the Rijksmuseum and one of the curators of the upcoming exhibition.
The biographys new findings overturn conventional understanding of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) and his work: ... More | |
The mural, showing a woman in a bathrobe wearing a gas mask and holding a fire extinguisher, was one of seven artworks painted by Banksy on war-ravaged buildings in and around Kyiv.
by Javier C. Hernández
NEW YORK, NY.- An activist who removed a mural painted by the reclusive British street artist Banksy from a war-ravaged building in a suburb of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, could face up to a dozen years in prison for theft, Ukrainian authorities said in a statement released on Facebook. The mural, showing a woman in a bathrobe wearing a gas mask and holding a fire extinguisher, garnered widespread attention when it appeared in the Kyiv suburb of Hostomel in November. It was one of seven artworks painted by Banksy on war-ravaged buildings in and around Kyiv. On Dec. 2, activists removed the mural, police said in a statement. The authorities arrested several people in connection with the removal. The statement from the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Monday said that the mural was valued at more than 9 million Ukrainian hryvnia ... More | |
David Hockney, The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) - 31 May, No. 2, 2011. Estimate £100,000 - 150,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips will celebrate ten years of Editions auctions in London and to announce the January auction highlights. The Evening Sale will be led by David Hockney and Andy Warhol and feature a selection of works from Contemporary British artists Banksy, Cecily Brown, Grayson Perry, and Rachel Whiteread, as well as a group of important Modern works by Pablo Picasso. Comprised of 310 lots, the rich selection will be offered across two days, in two sessions, with 102 lots in the Evening Sale on 18 January and 208 lots in the Day Sale on 19 January. The sales are now live online on Phillips.com and the preview exhibition will be on view to the public from 11 to 18 January in Phillips galleries on Berkeley Square. Rebecca Tooby-Desmond, Specialist, Head of Sale, and Auctioneer, said, Following the success of our Global Editions auctions in 2022 which realised $40 million, the highest annual total in company history ... More |
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| A Black composer's legacy flourishes 500 years after his birth | | Farewell and new beginning: Renate Flagmeier retires and Florentine Nadolni takes over | | V&A to open Phase Two of the museum's Photography Centre in May 2023 |
In an undated image provided by IMSLP.org, the title page of the 1553 first edition of Vicente Lusitanos Introduttione Facilissima, a short manual on counterpoint and composition that he used in his teaching throughout Italy. (IMSLP.org via The New York Times)
by Garrett Schumann
NEW YORK, NY.- On a day in June 2020, Alice Jones was in her New York City apartment getting ready to attend a Black Lives Matter rally. Jones, a flutist and composer who serves as an assistant dean and faculty member at the Juilliard School, was adamant about expressing herself as a Black classical musician. I felt like it was my obligation to make sure in this moment, when were talking about Black lives mattering, that we also talk about Black art and music, she said. So Jones designed a sign that listed Black composers throughout history. After adding Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the 18th-century subject of the upcoming film Chevalier, she faintly remembered another ... More | |
Renate Flagmeier.
BERLIN.- With the new year, the Werkbundarchiv Museum der Dinge is bidding farewell to its long-time head curator Renate Flagmeier, who is retiring. For more than 30 years, the art historian has shaped the now almost 50-year-old cultural institution for product and industrial culture of the 20th and 21st centuries and has led it since 2007 with great commitment and museologically reflexive passion. Since the first major collection presentation "ohne Titel. Sichern unter. Unbeständige Ausstellung der Bestände des Werkbundarchiv" at the end of the 1990s, through the 2007 restaging of the collection in OranienstraÃe under the title "Battle of Things", as well as various special exhibitions such as "Made in Germany - Politics with Things. The German Werkbund in 1914" and most recently "ORGANIZING THINGS", she has linked fundamental questions of Werkbund philosophy and modern design with economic and socio-political aspects ... More | |
Liz Johnson Artur, Untitled, from the Black Balloon Archive, no date, Museum no. PH.1209-2022 © Liz Johnson Artur.jpg
LONDON.- Today the V&A announced that the second and final phase of the V&As Photography Centre will open 25 May 2023. Once open, the Photography Centre will become the largest space in the UK for a permanent photography collection, and the seven galleries four of which will be new additions will showcase the museums world-leading holdings and enable visitors to experience photography and its diverse histories in new ways. The V&A has collected and exhibited photography since the founding of the museum in the 1850s, and today its collection is one of the largest and most varied in the world. Phase One of the museums Photography Centre opened in 2018, with three galleries designed by David Kohn. May 2023 sees the completion of the second and final phase of the Photography Centre with an additional four galleries, with base-build designed by Purcell, and fit-out designed by ... More |
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Gabriel Madan opens exhibition "Severance" at François Ghebaly
LOS ANGELES.- By some lights, the best pages of Marcel Prousts serpentine seven-volume meditation on memory, love, lust, art and other things are the very first, when the protagonist reminisces about Combray, the fictional French seaside town of his youth, revisits his evenings at home, his pining for his mothers kiss, the drama of being shattered every time said kiss doesnt come. These delicious and confused gusts of memory offer up an amuse-bouche for the sensual adventures to come. Place and childhood function in equally powerful ways in Severance, Gabriel Madans new suite of paintings on view starting today at François Ghebaly. The Cuban-American Miami of the artists youth, and by extension, its seaside, are his omphalos, his own Combray, suggestive settings which inflect and inform his adamantly affecting art ... More
Henry Grossman, photographer of celebrities and Beatles, dies at 86
NEW YORK, NY.- Henry Grossman, a photographer who was best known for his formal portraits of celebrities and other public figures but who also, less famously, immortalized the Beatles on film in thousands of unscripted antics while juggling a side career as a Metropolitan Opera tenor and a Broadway bit player died on Nov. 27 in Englewood, New Jersey. He was 86. His son, David, said he died in a hospital several months after sustaining injuries in a fall. Grossman produced paradigmatic portraits of Eleanor Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Elizabeth Taylor, Martha Graham, Leontyne Price, Leonard Bernstein and Nelson Mandela. He photographed new Metropolitan Opera productions for Time magazine and was the official photographer for many Broadway shows. His portraits of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson ... More
When the writing demands talent and discretion, call the ghostwriter
NEW YORK, NY.- The cover of Prince Harrys new memoir has a simple design: a close-up of his familiar face, looking calm and resolute behind a ginger beard. His name is at the top of the frame, and the title, Spare, is at the bottom. What the cover does not include is the name of the books ghostwriter, J.R. Moehringer. Perhaps the most exalted practitioner of a little-understood craft, Moehringer aims, ultimately, to disappear. Ghostwriters channel someone elses voice often, someone elses very recognizable voice and construct with it a book that has shape and texture, narrative arc and memorable characters, all without leaving fingerprints. Doing it well requires a tremendous amount of technical skill and an ego that is, at a minimum, flexible. If Im a great collaborative writer, I am a vessel, said Michelle Burford ... More
Within himself, an African photographer finds multitudes
NEW YORK, NY.- In the aftermath of the civil war in Nigeria that devastated his Igbo community, Samuel Fosso was sent in 1972 to live with an uncle who was a shoemaker in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. Dissatisfied with cobbling, Fosso apprenticed with an Igbo photographer down the street. Three years after his arrival, he opened his own portrait studio. He was 13. At the end of the workday, he would finish off a roll of black-and-white film with self-portraits for his grandmother back home, to demonstrate that despite having been a sickly child, he was in robust health. Showing off in front of the painted backdrops he used for his clients, he would put on a tank top and briefs, oversized sunglasses, a jiujitsu costume or fashionably fringed white pants adopting the attire and attitudes of African and African American pop stars ... More
British comedy 'Peter Pan Goes Wrong' plans spring Broadway bow
NEW YORK, NY.- Six years ago, Mischief Theatre arrived on Broadway from Britain with The Play That Goes Wrong, a madcap comedy about a hapless amateur theater company attempting to stage a whodunit. That farce was a success, with outlandish physical comedy that led to a Tony Award for best set. A national tour was also successful, and a production has since been running off-Broadway. Now, Mischief is planning a return to Broadway with Peter Pan Goes Wrong, a sort of sequel in which the same theater company attempts to stage J.M. Barries beloved play about a boy who doesnt grow up. Peter Pan Goes Wrong is scheduled to start performances March 17 and to open April 19 at Broadways Ethel Barrymore Theater. The play is planning a limited run of 16.5 weeks (the unorthodox run length reflects the companys off-kilter brand) ... More
Exhibition brings together an impressive corpus of Lebbeus Woods' drawings
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Friedman Benda is presenting Lebbeus Woods, Ecologies, 1984-1990. Curated by Jennifer Olshin, the exhibition brings together an impressive corpus of Woods drawings, focusing on three building projects created between 1984-1990. Together, these drawings represent a cache of ideas so radical and prescient that even today, works that are over 30 years old, offer students, architects, and thinkers all over the world, a never-ending springboard for architectural imagination. Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012) was one of the most pre-eminent visionary architects of the late 20th / early 21st centuries. A theorist, educator, poet, master draftsman, and architect, it is his extraordinary drawings that are fundamental to his sweeping and radical vision of what architecture could be. Central to that vision was an indomitable ... More
Revisiting a composer's psychedelic Lewis Carroll music
NEW YORK, NY.- Lewis Carrolls influence is all over contemporary culture. Theres the surreal image of going through the looking glass; the look of a Tim Burton movie, including his version of Alice in Wonderland; the skewed angles of Tom Pettys video for Dont Come Around Here No More; the use of a word like galumphing. And, as a new album from New Yorks Albany Symphony demonstrates, there are the Carroll-inspired musical works of composer David Del Tredici, some of which have been captured on two world premiere recordings from the ensemble, led by David Allen Miller. These long-awaited performances of Pop-Pourri (from 1968, and revised in 1973) and Adventures Underground (written in 1971 and revised in 1977) are a booming, psychedelic marvel. In the initial seconds of the first movement of Pop-Pourri, ... More
First CGC-graded video games hit the block in Heritage's January event
DALLAS, TX.- How do you figure the value of a vintage home video game? Given the category's meteoric rise in collectability, it's a serious question for collectors and consigners alike. Children of the 80s and 90s, now grown up and leaning into nostalgia, are at the leading edge of a collectibles market that includes video games, comic books and trading cards, and they rely on certification and grading services to set that universal measure of quality. The service CGC (Certified Guaranty Company), long dominant in comics and more recently trading cards, announced last year that it would launch a video-game division. Video-game collectors and sellers (who also often trade in comics and cards) duly rejoiced. Up until now this burgeoning category was led only by grading services Wata and VGA. Already the leader in the video game market ... More
For critics and fans, nearly 29 years of 'Stomp' memories
NEW YORK, NY.- Stomp, the long-running off-Broadway show, will close in New York on Sunday after nearly 29 years onstage. We asked our critics and New York Times readers to share what the show has meant to them. Below are edited and condensed selections of their responses. Our first sons first show was Stomp, but when he showed up to see it on Labor Day weekend of 1994, management tried to turn him away. Perhaps thats because he was 6 months old. Stomp, an usher explained, less to the child than to his father, was a very loud, in-your-face experience, inappropriate for an infant in a BabyBjörn and Crayola-colored shoes. Nevertheless, father and son were grudgingly seated, in one seat. I was not there, but I can report with some confidence, based on family lore and my subsequent experience of their theater habits ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter and educator Thomas Lawrence died January 07, 1830. Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS (13 April 1769 - 7 January 1830) was a leading English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. In this image: Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830) Portrait of the Hon. Emily Mary Lamb (1787-1869), 1803. ©The National Gallery.
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