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An installation by the artist Stephan Goldrajch at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, known as EMST, in Athens, Greece, Jan. 5, 2022. Many associate culture in Athens with ruins and ancient artifacts. But the Greek government and several big philanthropic foundations want to put the city on the international contemporary art map. Maria Mavropoulou/The New York Times.
by Roslyn Sulcas
ATHENS.- Sea, sun and sex, with some Greek columns in the background, said Poka Yio, artistic director of the Athens Biennale. He was summing up the Greek governments tourism campaigns in the 2000s as he led a visitor around a rambling former department store that was one of the sites of the 2021 edition. Part of the motivation for starting the biennale in 2007, he said, was to change that stereotype: We wanted to put Athens on the contemporary art cultural map. Fifteen years later, Athens is certainly on the international art crowd radar, though more as a curiosity than a major hub. Despite the pandemic, 40,000 visitors attended the monthlong Athens Biennale, which ran through November. According to the organizers, 10,000 of those came from abroad, and the Greek capital also teemed with world-class exhibitions, including the Neon Foundations 59-artist group show, Portals, in a newly renovated former tobacco factory. If the political powers ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation View, Wes Lang "Pink and Blue", Almine Rech New York, Courtesy of Almine Rech, Photo Credit: Dan Bradica.
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| Cracker Jack collection of historic cards goes up for bid at Heritage Auctions | | Christie's New York to offer the Collection of Pierre Durand | | James Cohan opens an exhibition of new paintings by Byron Kim | 
1914 Cracker Jack Ty Cobb #30 PSA NM-MT 8.
DALLAS, TX.- The baseball cards produced by Cracker Jack in 1914 are among the most beautiful and identifiable baseball cards ever made and, more than a century after their debut, among the rarest. No less an authority than the Society for American Baseball Research once noted that they are the most impressive baseball cards issued during the Deadball Era, even when considering the 1909-11 tobacco cards that continue to make a household name of a long-gone legend such as Honus Wagner. These radiant-red surprise inside renderings of Ty Cobb, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson and, yes, Wagner, too, had the most eye-appeal of any card issued to date, wrote John McMurray, chair of SABRs Deadball Era Committee. There were myriad reasons for this, he wrote, among them: The Cracker Jack cards were nearly twice as large as the tobacco-card offerings, and they provided fans with brief, pointed biographies, while ... More | | 
A stunning George II over-mantel mirror. Estimate: $100,000-200,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will present The Collection of Pierre Durand on January 27, a live sale featuring the fine and decorative arts of the late philanthropist and collector who co-founded The Chinese Porcelain Company. The auction is comprised of 243 lots from the contents of Pierre Durands New York apartment on Fifth Avenue, which artistically combined walls of gallery-hung Old Master Drawings with contemporary glass by Yoichi Ohira, and contrasted Chinese paintings by Liu Dan with fine French and English decorative arts. Other highlights include important Old Master paintings, Chinese works of art and Chinese export porcelain, as well as entertaining porcelain and silver. Viewing is open to the public by appointment beginning January 22 at Christies Rockefeller Center Galleries. Margaret Gristina, Senior Specialist, Chinese Works of Art, Christies, remarks: The Collection of Pierre Durand ... More | | 
Byron Kim, B.Q.O. 13 (Tobey Pond), 2021, acrylic on canvas mounted on panel, 104 x 72 in. (264.2 x 182.9 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting Berton, Queequeg, Odysseus, an exhibition of new paintings by Byron Kim, on view from January 7 through February 19, 2022 at the gallerys 48 Walker Street location. This is Kims fourth solo exhibition with James Cohan. Since the early 1990s, Byron Kim has painted in the space between abstraction and representation, creating expansive fields of color that express both personal and larger realities. Kim often explores perception by drawing upon the natural world or the human body as primary subjects. The works in Drawn to Water belong to a new series titled B.Q.O., an abbreviation for Berton, Queequeg, and Odysseus, three key characters from famous oceanic tales: Stanisław Lems Solaris, Herman Melvilles Moby Dick, and Homers The Odyssey. Kim first began this new series of paintings during a Rauschenberg ... More |
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| Sidney Poitier, who paved the way for Black actors in film, dies at 94 | | A Sherlock Holmes mystery at the Grolier Club | | The Estate of Maryan now represented by Kamel Mennour | 
The actor Sidney Poitier on West 125th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of New York on Jan. 14, 1959. Sam Falk/The New York Times.
by William Grimes
NEW YORK, NY.- Sidney Poitier, whose portrayal of resolute heroes in films like To Sir, With Love, In the Heat of the Night and Guess Whos Coming to Dinner established him as Hollywoods first Black matinee idol and helped open the door for Black actors in the film industry, died Thursday night at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94. His death was confirmed by Eugene Torchon-Newry, acting director general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Bahamas, where Poitier grew up. No cause was given. Poitier, whose Academy Award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field made him the first Black performer to win in the best-actor category, rose to prominence when the civil rights movement was beginning to make headway in the United States. His roles tended to reflect the peaceful integrationist goals of the struggle. Although ... More | | 
A provided image shows a pirate edition of The Sign of the Four, a Sherlock Holmes book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Collection of Glen S. Miranker, via Grolier Club via The New York Times.
by James Barron
NEW YORK, NY.- This has the makings of a detective story with hints of history: Why did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sign a pirate edition of The Sign of the Four, the second of the four Sherlock Holmes novels? Conan Doyle hated pirate editions. He was as famous for denouncing pirate publishers as they were infamous for grinding out cheap editions and not paying royalties to authors such as him. Consider the plot possibilities here. Did someone force Conan Doyle to write words above his name that he could not have meant Yours cordially? Sherlock Holmes and Watson are not available to tackle this one, but Glen Miranker is on the case. He acquired the evidence years ago. Miranker is a former Apple executive who collects Holmesiana items about Holmes, Watson and ... More | | 
© Maryan. Photo. Bernard Gotfryd; DR, Chelsea Hotel, New York (USA), 1969. Courtesy The Estate of Maryan and kamel mennour, Paris.
PARIS.- Kamel Mennour announced exclusive global representation of the Estate of Maryan. Radical and provocative, compelling and vibrant, his unclassifiable work unfolds at the crossroads of expressionism and figuration. With hope, derision, sarcasm and bite, the artist, whose sensitivity is rooted in traumatic personal experience, became, throughout his career, a singular witness of his time. I don't force anyone to like my painting, but I don't want it to be labeled anything, for example: denunciatory painting, unbridled aggressiveness... [...] As far as my painting is concerned, I officially declare that I would rather have it called truth‑painting. (MARYAN, excerpt from the catalogue Ariel42, from Ariel gallery, Paris, February 1977) Following the opening of the major retrospective exhibition My Name Is Maryan at MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, the gallery wishes in turn ... More |
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| Exhibition of mixed media works on canvas by Amber Robles-Gordon opens at Derek Eller Gallery | | The Institute of Contemporary Arts announces Bengi Ãnsal as new director | | Oolite Arts reveals recipients of 2022 Studio and Cinematic Arts Residency Programs | 
Amber Robles-Gordon, Reclamando quien soy (Reclaiming who I am), 2020. Mixed media collage on canvas, 18 x 24 in. 45.7 x 61 cm
NEW YORK, NY.- Derek Eller Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of mixed media works on canvas by Amber Robles-Gordon. With an array of materials including acrylic paint, fabric, beads, magazine images, photographs, and ink drawings, Robles-Gordon assembles patchwork compositions which interweave her personal narrative within the fraught political, socioeconomic, and environmental threads that define the colonialist relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico. Born in San Juan, with familial roots throughout the Caribbean including the U.S. Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and Antigua, Robles-Gordon was raised in Arlington, VA, a Washington, DC suburb. Fueled by her need to forge a relationship with her birth place and concerns about the mistreatment of Puerto Ricans in general and Afro-Puerto Ricans in particular both subjectively and on a ... More | | 
The first director appointed under the chairmanship of Wolfgang Tillmans, Bengi joins the ICA as it prepares to celebrate its landmark 75th anniversary. Photo: Muhsin Akgün.
LONDON.- The Institute of Contemporary Arts has appointed Bengi Ãnsal as its new director. In March 2022, she will become the first woman to serve as the organisations director in 55 years. The first director appointed under the chairmanship of Wolfgang Tillmans, Bengi joins the ICA as it prepares to celebrate its landmark 75th anniversary. Ãnsals arrival heralds a new era for the organisation, and a rebalancing of its multidisciplinary programme across all arts, all media and all spaces of the ICAs building on The Mall. Alongside the ICAs thriving visual arts, film and education programmes, Bengi will look to commission, produce and present a broader range of live performances; to build on the success of the ICAs recent night-time programming; and to further expand the digital arts programme that grew during the COVID-19 pandemic with the launch of the Cinema 3 digital platform. During Bengis ... More | | 
Rose Marie Cromwell is a photographer whose work explores the effects of globalization on our intimate lives, and the tenuous space between the political and the spiritual.
MIAMI, FLA.- Oolite Arts reinforces its commitment to supporting Miami-based visual artists with the selection of its 2022 Studio Residency and Cinematic Arts Residency recipients. These vital programs provide exceptional visual artists with a working space, funding, professional development, and other resources in addition to connecting them with opportunities to showcase their work and engage with the community. The public can meet the 14 new and returning visual artists and one cinematic artist during a Resident Night from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thurs., February 10, which will coincide with the opening of artist Roscoè B. Thické IIIs first solo exhibit at Oolite Arts. First established by the late Ellie Schneiderman in 1984 as ArtCenter/South Florida to provide affordable workspaces for Miamis visual artists, Oolite Arts rich history now spans nearly four decades ... More |
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| Sealed, graded copy of 1990 John Madden Football, once owned by the Hall of Famer, hits auction block | | George Adams Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Amer Kobaslija | | 'Syd Solomon: Concealed and Revealed' opens at Berry Campbell Gallery | 
John Madden Football - Wata 9.2 A+ Sealed [Cardboard Box], Genesis Electronic Arts 1990 USA.
DALLAS, TX.- The December 28 death of John Madden left a void felt far and wide throughout professional football and sports broadcasting, and for many who had never seen him on the field or in the booth, video gaming. Indeed, Madden's passion for doing things right, no matter the venue, was so all-encompassing that he's easily among the most significant pioneers in sports video games. His fame grew initially from his success on the field and in the broadcast booth. But there is an entire generation that knows him only as an iconic pioneer in video games. Madden was a football coaching legend, author of more than 100 NFL victories during his 10-year tenure at the helm of the Oakland Raiders, who won Super Bowl XI at the end of the 1976 season and never had a losing record. After he finished his coaching career, he spent 30 years as the most famous color commentator on NFL broadcasts. Many consider Madden to be the godfather of sports video games. ... More | | 
Amer Kobaslija, Pumpkin Heads, 2021. Oil on unstretched canvas with grommets, 71 x 60 inches. Courtesy George Adams Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- George Adams Gallery is presenting In Passing, Amer Kobaslijas eighth solo exhibition with the gallery since 2006. The exhibition, featuring paintings ranging in scale from three inches to seven feet, expands on his series first shown at the gallery in 2019, of intimate portraits set in the landscape of Central Florida. These new paintings, dating from the past year and a half, reflect a shift in Kobaslijas perspective stemming from his experience under lockdown. In many cases, the central figures have been replaced: by scarecrows, costumed trick-or-treaters, circus and street performers and even his daughters toys. Many of these images derive from Kobaslijas impression of scenes he witnessed while driving through his neighborhood in Jacksonville, or to and from Orlando. Rather than the allegorical intensity of the earlier portraits, these paintings have a level of ambiguity, a reflection of these ... More | | 
Syd Solomon, Fifty-Fifty, 1974 (detail), acrylic and aerosol enamel on canvas, 50 x 50 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell is the final venue of the Syd Solomon traveling museum exhibition, Syd Solomon: Concealed and Revealed. After opening at the Deland Museum, Florida, in 2016, the retrospective traveled to the Greenville County Museum, South Carolina (2017), and then to Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York (2018). The exhibition opened in December of 2019 at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, and was on view through January 2021. This special exhibition opened at Berry Campbell on January 6, 2022 and continues through February 5, 2022. Syd Solomon: Concealed and Revealed consists of 16 paintings and works on paper sourced from the Estate of Syd Solomon. Newly discovered materials from the Solomon Archive detail how Syd Solomon's World War II camouflage designs and other early graphic arts skills were foundational to his unique approach to Abstract Expressionism. This new information ... More |
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 Raven Chacon is the inaugural Ree Kaneko Award winnerOMAHA, NEB.- Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts announced that Raven Chacon is its first Ree Kaneko Award winner. As part of Bemis Centers 40th anniversary, the organization increased and renamed its annual Alumni Award in honor of Ree Kaneko, Bemis Center co-founder, first Executive Director and Board Member Emerita. Her vision and passion embody the spirit of this unrestricted annual award designed to provide financial support to increase the capacity of a Bemis alums practice. Established in 2019 at $5,000, the Ree Kaneko Award is $25,000 thanks to individual donors. The annual award is by nomination only and is selected by a panel of renowned curators and art historians. "I am very honored and humbled to receive the inaugural Ree Kaneko Award. The months I spent at the Bemis residency were highly productive for me, ... More  Almine Rech Paris presents a dozen pieces produced in late 2021 by Brent WaddenPARIS.- From January 8 to March 5, 2022, Almine Rech Paris will present Brent Waddens fourth exhibition at the gallery. The artist will show a dozen pieces produced in late 2021. In its apparent simplicity and elegance, Brent Waddens work embraces its decorative purpose. This absence of preconceived ideas is closely linked to the artists background and his points of reference. When asked about the foundations of his work, Wadden mentions growing up and studying in Nova Scotia, where folk art is an integral part of the social fabric and plays an important role in local museums. His early absorption of folk art and his exposure to crafts explain his interest in local traditions. Wadden lists as influences the quilts of Gees Bend, Alabama (which fascinated him early on), Japanese boro, and Moroccan Boucherouite rugs. Although their origins ... More  Last chance to see David Bowie show at Brighton MuseumBRIGHTON.- Fans of Bowie have been given extra time to catch up with a highly acclaimed exhibition of intimate portraits of the star who died six years ago on 10 January 2016. The show was due to end this summer but has been extended until 23 January 2022 to allow fans to see the amazing collection of images by photographer Geoff MacCormack. Brighton Museum & Art Gallery will also open on Mondays during January to allow visitors to see the show before it closes. The show has been hugely successful. Over 60% of visitors to Brighton Museum & Art Gallery had made a special trip to see the show and we've welcomed over 27,000 visitors last year. Visitors comments include The Bowie exhibition is EXCELLENT. I have already taken two friends to see it and will almost certainly come again. Loved the Bowie exhibition. ... More  F. Sionil Jose, novelist who saw heroism in ordinary Filipinos, dies at 97NEW YORK, NY.- F. Sionil Jose, author of a dozen socially engaged novels and countless short stories and essays who was sometimes called the grand old man of Philippine letters, and even the conscience of his nation, died Thursday in Manila. He was 97. Joses family said he died at Makati Medical Center, where he had been awaiting an angioplasty operation. Passionately committed to social justice, Jose often wrote of his anguish over what he saw as his countrys failure to overcome centuries of Spanish colonization, followed by further domination by the United States. His novels, rich in themes and scenes drawn from his own peasant beginnings, amounted to a continuing morality play about the poverty and class divisions of the Philippines, a nation seemingly in thrall to fiefs, oligarchies and political dynasties. He said his heroes ... More  The Dwek Gallery at Mishkenot Sha'ananim opens a solo exhibition of works by Ilan BaruchJERUSALEM.- A Painter Facing the Land, a solo exhibition by artist Ilan Baruch, is a celebration of landscape, still life, and portraits. Baruchs works speak a classic figurative language alongside a contemporary one, and the artist challenges contextual boundaries even in his use of local light and scenery. These seemingly ordinary, commonplace scenes and vistas appear to be decidedly Israeli, yet despite the fact that they were created through observation, an ancient mythological touch is evident in them. Baruch draws inspiration from the views in the area around him. They include the natural scenery of Jerusalem and the wild fields of Judea and Samaria, near his hometown of Modiin. In the urban scenery collection, Rooftops (2020), Baruch revisits the views of his childhood in the Geula neighborhood in Jerusalem, which borders on Mea Shearim. ... More  Outsider Art Fair announces new dates for 30th anniversary editionNEW YORK, NY.- Yesterday, the Outsider Art Fairthe only fair dedicated to showcasing self-taught art, art brut and outsider art from around the worldannounced that it will delay its 30th Anniversary edition by one month. The fair will now be held March 3-6, 2022 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan and feature 62 exhibitors from around the world. The 10th anniversary edition of OAF Paris is scheduled to take place in May 2022. Commented fair owner, Andrew Edlin: Last year in response to the pandemic, we presented a citywide edition of the fair with seven exhibitions across five locations around New York. Returning to our traditional fair venue for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, the health and safety of our dealers and our audience remains paramount. Delaying the fair by a month was a difficult but sensible decision. As ... More  'Michael Dressel: Los(t) Angeles' features a portrait journey through LA's urban jungleNEW YORK, NY.- If one lingers a beat longer than usual while looking at Michael Dressel's photographs of people in Los Angeles, California, something beneath the surface, easy to miss at first glance, will be revealed. It may be a gesture or glance, a detail of content within the frame lingering to the side of or behind the first visual plane. Los Angeles as a place is like this, too, with struggle and perseverance and defeat and beautiful ordinariness beyond the shiny surface. Built on dreams and stories, the movie industry and all it represents is iconic worldwide. However, there is more to the streets of LA, and the chasm between the idealized and the actual daily life of many Angelenos is vast. Taken between 2014 and 2020, Los(t) Angeles is a collection of black and white images holding classic street photography elements, while also revealing complex ... More  Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski presents two large-scale works on paper at the Aldrich Contemporary Art MuseumRIDGEFIELD, CONN.- Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski: Portal Pieces is the third installment of Aldrich Projects, a single artist series that features a singular work or a focused body of work by an artist every four months on the Museums campus. Sited in the Leir Atrium, Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski presents two large-scale works on paper: Graduation Day, 2021, and The Guardians, 2015. Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski: Portal Pieces is on view at The Aldrich January 6 to May 29, 2022. DeJesus Moleskis practice is informed by her Puerto Rican American heritage and a peripatetic upbringing spent crisscrossing the United States. Probing motifs of intersectionality, mythmaking, and queerness, she says her visual worldbuilding ... More  A season to savor a cherished musical again and again (and again)NEW YORK, NY.- Settling into my seat at Studio 54, I let the sound design begin to transport me like a musical overture the chittering of creatures and the bubbling of water, echoing from tall grasses and low haze on the edge of a Southern swamp. At each performance of Caroline, or Change, I look forward to this calming bit of preshow acclimation, even as a Confederate statue stands imposingly at center stage. And I keep my eyes peeled for the theaters COVID safety enforcer patrolling the orchestra, arms crossed, scanning the audience for any unmasked faces. Spotting him calms me, too. When the lights dim, the statue is wheeled off, and in its place when they come up again is Caroline Thibodeaux, in the person of astonishing British actor Sharon D. Clarke, doing laundry in a Louisiana basement in 1963. I didnt set out to see this musical ... More  Scrambling but undaunted, the Met Opera sings through omicronNEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Opera had to scramble to find a replacement for its Magic Flute conductor after she tested positive for the coronavirus last month. When a wicked stepsister in Cinderella tested positive shortly before a performance in late December, the Met enlisted a soprano from another production to sing the role from the wings while a dancer acted it onstage. And earlier this week, when the star of its new production of Rigoletto, baritone Quinn Kelsey, exhibited cold symptoms, the Met insisted on using an understudy, even though Kelsey had not yet tested positive for the virus and had just received some of the best reviews of his career. The Mets prudence paid off. Kelsey later tested positive, and the rest of the cast had been spared a close contact. The omicron variant has toppled a slew of Broadway shows, disrupted ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch-English painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema was born January 08, 1836. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (born Lourens Alma Tadema Dutch; 8 January 1836 - 25 June 1912) was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. In this image: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tademaâs The Finding of Moses.
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