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Greek Chalcidian hammered bronze helmet, circa 500-300 BC, contoured double curve above brow; hinged, articulated cheek guards. By the time of the Peloponnesian War (434-402 BC), the Chalcidian design was the most widely used type of helmet within Greek ranks. Provenance: London private collection; acquired in European art market pre-2000. Estimate £15,000-£20,000 ($19,380-$25,840).
LONDON.- Apollo Art Auctions, internationally known as the most-trusted source for authentic, expertly vetted ancient art and antiquities, will present a July 23rd online auction whose quality would please even the most discerning and sophisticated collector. In addition to highly important cultural art and artifacts, the 535-lot sale is enhanced by precious coins, and fine gold and gems from a sumptuous selection of wearable ancient jewelry. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available online through LiveAuctioneers. Many forms of historical heavy metal will weigh in, starting with an incredible Greek Chalcidian hammered bronze helmet dating to circa 500-300 BC. Its unusual design incorporates a contoured double curve above the brow, and hinged, articulated cheek guards. By the time of the Peloponnesian War (434-402 BC), the Chalcidian helmet was the most widely distributed head protection seen in Greek military ranks. The auction exam ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation View, A World In Common: Contemporary African Photography at Tate Modern 2023 © Tate Photography, Lucy Green.
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| Their Majesties The King and Queen visit the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden | | Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University conserves renowned 19th century campus painting | | MoMA PS1 presents first US museum solo show of Finnish artist Iiu Susiraja | 
Their Majesties The King and Queen with Barbara Hepworths Four-Square (Walk Through) at the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives, Cornwall. Photo © Guy Martin / Tate.
ST IVES.- To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Tate St Ives, Their Majesties The King and Queen visited the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden today. They were given a tour of Hepworths studio and garden, which is cared for by Tate St Ives, and were introduced to several people who have played important roles in Tate St Ivess success over the past 30 years. The visit was hosted by Anne Barlow (Director of Tate St Ives) and Roland Rudd (Chair of Tate). Their Majesties began their visit in Hepworths beautiful studio space, filled with some of the artists most famous works in wood, bronze, marble and plaster. Dr Sophie Bowness (Barbara Hepworths granddaughter) introduced the history of the building, alongside Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia (Trustee of Tate) and Sir Anthony Salz (Chair of Tate St Ives Advisory Council). The King and Queen then had a tour of Hepworths garden and the ... More | | 
Joachim Ferdinand Richardt, Niagara University, 1873, oil on canvas. Collection of Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, 1979.
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY, NY.- In 1979, Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University acquired a severely damaged painting, Niagara University, by renowned Danish artist Joachim Ferdinand Richardt (18191895). It depicts the NU Campus in 1873, at 17 years old, then known as the College and Seminary of Our Lady of Angels. In 2021, CAM was awarded a Greater Hudson Heritage Network (GHHN) conservation treatment grant to repair this important work. The painting debuted during the summer opening of CAMs exhibition Northward: Niagara River Views, curated by CAM Registrar Mary Helen Miskuly, on display through March 31, 2024. This painting is one of the few images that depict the university in the 19th century and is one of over 1000 Niagara River artworks in our collection, said Miskuly. NU was gifted this work from the Diocese of Buffalo, most likely because it features NUs Clet Hall and a northward view of Niagara ... More | | 
Iiu Susiraja. Sausage cupid. 2019. Chromogenic print. 30 ½ x 30 ½ (77.5 x 77.5 cm) (framed). Courtesy the artist, Makasiini Contemporary, and Nino Mier Gallery.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 is presenting the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of photographer Iiu Susiraja (b. 1975, Turku, Finland). On view from April 20 through September 4, 2023, the presentation brings together over fifty photographs and videos that highlight the trajectory of Susirajas practice since 2008, when she was beginning to photograph and film herself in interior spaces. Most often, her images are shot in her apartment in Turku, Finlandthe city where she has lived nearly her entire life. Susiraja selects and stages objects to accompany her that are both familiar and farcical, including tablecloths, umbrellas, hotdogs, bananas, treadmills, rubber duckies, and dead fish, amongst many others. Iiu Susiraja: A style called a dead fish highlights Susirajas unique manner of navigating between the slapstick and the deadpan, as she explores self-representation amidst physical and psychological interiors. Susiraja wa ... More |
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| Hebru Brantley's past and future collide in Heritage's Urban Art event | | MTA Arts & Design unveils new mosaic by Diana Cooper on Roosevelt Island | | When Spider-Man met Jeff Koons | 
Hebru Brantley (b. 1981), Scarlet Letter to the Rescue, 2010. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 inches.
DALLAS, TX.- Right now, in unusual balance, people are as interested in the past as they are the unknowable future, and it's reflected in our determination to hold on to what shaped us as the world becomes less recognizable. The key words here are "nostalgia" and "hope." When collectors are lucky, an artist comes along who deftly combines our youthful obsessions with an eye on the next era, and in that artist's work we see ourselves: Through agile narratives and memorable characters, an artwork can remind us of the sparks that shaped us, and in turn we reconsider the future we'd dreamed about. Chicago-based artist Hebru Brantley epitomizes the deftness necessary to pull off such a trick. Brantley's main characters, two kids named Fly Boy and Lil Mama, often reenact and reimagine the heroics of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African-American military pilots who fought in World War II. Fly Boy and Lil Mama turn to an older narrative to explore their own new one: The history of the war fighters groun ... More | | 
Diana Cooper, Double Take. Photo: P Takeuchi.
NEW YORK, NY.- MTA Arts & Design today announced the installation of a new permanent artwork on Roosevelt Island by Diana Cooper, Double Take. It is located across from the F train subway stop and is part of the East Side Access project that brought Long Island Rail Road service to Grand Central Madison. Cooper was initially inspired by the visual experience of traveling through the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel and moving from an artificial underground environment into a world of steel, glass, and stone in Manhattan, with buildings set at different angles and punctuated by blue skies and waterways and the greens and browns of New Jersey. When she visited the MTA site, Cooper was struck by how similar her experience was to the one subway riders have when they arrive on Roosevelt Island. Riders leave the reflected light of the subway tunnel to scale long metallic escalators and emerge into a building with large glass windows and views of the island greenery and the blue of the East River. Coopers designs ... More | | 
Our critic spots references to Hilma af Klint and Lichtenstein in Across the Spider-Verse. Koons, who inspired the films creative team, gets top billing with an animated survey (before his work is destroyed).
NEW YORK, NY.- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the sequel to the 2018 reimagining of the arachnid-adolescent superhero, doubles down on the first installment with an inventive and magpie visual style. The result is, at least in part, a crash course in art history (literally so, as characters frequently crash into works of art). Although the film is largely rendered in computer-generated animation that speeds by at a dizzying clip, there are moments of slowed, even stunning beauty: backgrounds dissolving with painterly effect, shifting into emotive abstraction reminiscent of, at turns, the work of Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Hilma af Klint. New Yorks cityscape is softened into brushy, impressionistic swaths. Ben-Day dots stutter across the screen, a nod to the storys comic book source material, but also calling up Roy Lichtensteins appropriations ... More |
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| 'Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky's Back Door', new and recent work by acclaimed New Mexico–based artist | | A 1907 Ultra High Relief Double Eagle takes flight at Heritage in August | | Banana Republic wants to outfit your home, too | 
Paula Wilson, Elders, 2021. Ink, watercolor, colored pencil, acrylic, and oil on paper, muslin, and canvas, 91 x 83 inches, collection of Chris and Catherine Clifford.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY.- The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College is opening today Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky's Back Door, a new exhibition featuring the work of renowned multimedia artist Paula Wilson. Wilson, who was born in Chicago and lives and works in Carrizozo, New Mexico (population: 971), has gained international recognition for work that spans painting, printmaking, collage, and video. Art critic Barry Schwabsky has called her an artist with a decidedly unconventional mind. The New Yorker says, her everyday artistic existence is inextricable from the rhythms of the natural world. Artsy hailed her for figurative paintings [that] unpack the legacy of the Black diaspora. Her majestic, brightly colored paintings feature a variety of textures via ink, fabric, and paper that are collaged together on unstretched canvas. Wilson ... More | | 
1907 $20 Ultra High Relief, Inverted Edge Lettering, PR69 PCGS. Judd-1909, Pollock-2003, JD-4, High R.7.
DALLAS, TX.- One of the highest-graded examples of a 1907 Ultra High Relief Double Eagle, PR69, tied for the finest known, will be up for grabs Aug. 10 when it is offered through Heritage Auctions, an Event Auctioneer Partner of the ANA's World Fair of Money, in The Harry W. Bass Jr. Core Collection, Part IV US Coins Signature® Auction. As was the case with the first three auctions of coins from the Bass Core Collection, proceeds from this event will benefit the dozens of Dallas-based nonprofits supported by the Harry W. Bass Jr. Foundation, with a particular emphasis on early childhood education and literacy in Dallas. "Harry Bass Jr. spent nearly his entire life in Dallas, after his family moved there when he was very young," says Todd Imhof, Executive Vice President at Heritage Auctions. "He spent much of his adult life assembling one of the most extraordinary numismatic collections anywhere at the time of his death, it was easily one of the ... More | | 
CEO of Banana Republic Sandra Stangl at the Banana Republic studio in San Francisco, on June 30, 2023. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
by Jordyn Holman
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- Inside Banana Republics design studio in San Francisco, Sandra Stangl, the companys chief executive, pointed to an item that had been creating buzz in stores. It was not a shirt or dress draped on a mannequin. Instead, Stangl walked toward a king-size bed with a parchment-colored backboard. The company has started putting these bed frames, which sell for around $5,000, near the front of its stores in Los Angeles and New York. Enough shoppers have asked if they were for sale the answer: Not yet, but Stangl and her team are taking a limited number of pre-orders for the fall. Shoppers usually think about outfitting themselves, not their homes, when they walk into Banana Republic. But the brand is trying to change that. In March, the retailer announced it would begin selling ... More |
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| Distant Conversations: a new exhibition series at the Currier Museum of Art | | Video games at MoMA: Do they belong there? | | "Don't Cry! Feminist Perspectives in Latvian Art: 1965–2023", LNMA main building; Riga, Latvia | 
Ella Walker, Bedroom Scene, 2022 Acrylic dispersion, pigment, chalk, and pencil on linen 82.68 x 55.12 x 7.87 / 210 x 140 x 20cm © Ella Walker Courtesy the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York Photo: Jason Wyche.
MANCHESTER, NH.- The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH, has announced a new series of exhibitions titled Distant Conversations. The series explores intergenerational dialogues and artistic conversations between practitioners who have not necessarily met in real life but whose work similarly resonates despite their differences. The cycle is curated by the museum's Chief Curator, Lorenzo Fusi. The first installment of the series, Distant Conversations: Ella Walker and Betty Woodman, runs from July 15 to October 22, 2023. The exhibition combines the work of British artist Ella Walker (b. 1993, lives and works in London, UK) and American artist Betty Woodman (1930- 2018), who use art-historical references in their work to revisit a male-dominated history of Western art and subvert its dominant narrative. Betty Woodman's art is ambiguously positioned ... More | | 
Toru Iwatani. Pac-Man. 1980. Video game software. Published by NAMCO LTD. (currently BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. PAC-MAN TM & © 1980 BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- When the Museum of Modern Art began collecting video games a decade ago, curators boldly asserted that games were an artistic medium. Now contemporary culture is dominated by them. The MoMA exhibition Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design, which runs through Sunday, represents the museums cautious advance into the gaming world at a time when digital culture has overtaken its galleries. Refik Anadols algorithmic homage to art history still twinkles in the museum lobby, an exhibition about the importance of video swallowed the sixth floor until July 8, and galleries for its permanent collection include contemporary artifacts like the Google Maps pin and a massive ... More | | 
In the past decade, museums and exhibition halls across the world have been paying more attention to women-artists than ever.
RIGA.- From 15 July to 15 October 2023, the exhibition Dont Cry! Feminist Perspectives in Latvian Art: 19652023 is on view in the Great Hall of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (Jaņa Rozentāla laukums 1). In the past decade, museums and exhibition halls across the world have been paying more attention to women-artists than ever. The idea of womens absence from the art history of previous centuries and the necessity to re-evaluate the established and canonised art history was put forward by the 1972 article Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by American art critic Linda Nochlin. Feminism took the courage to set off on a critical relationship with the contemporary art world and the art history that had created a cult of art by male geniuses, marginalising women. Following the emergence of the #MeToo movement in 2017, feministic activism has gained new energy, creating the ... More |
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 Hammer Museum presents 'Becoming Van Leo' featuring Armenian Egyptian photographer Van LeoLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum is opening Becoming Van Leo, the first survey of the Armenian Egyptian photographer known as Van Leo (19212002), who rose to prominence as one of the Arab worlds most celebrated studio photographers from the 1940s to the 1960s. Known for his meticulous use of light and shadow, and informed by his longstanding fascination with Hollywood glamor, Van Leo became known for his striking black and white portraits that captured the mystery and magic of stars and everyday people alike. The exhibition charts his earliest encounters with the camera in the 1930s through his studio work up until the 1990s. It includes a selection of revelatory self- portraits, in which Van Leo portrayed himself by turns as Zorro, a prisoner, a beggar, Jesus Christ, or a generously ... More  'Palace Life Unfolds: Conserving a Chinese Lacquer Screen' opens at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian ArtWASHINGTON, DC .- On display for the first time at Smithsonians National Museum of Asian Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery after a major conservation project, this Chinese lacquer screen dated to 1672 is a delight, featuring newly revealed intricate details that had been obscured by centuries of wear and use. Titled Spring Morning in the Han Palace, the composition presents an idealized, ahistorical view of the lives of women in an imperial palace of the Han dynasty (206 BCE220 CE). This exhibition examines the screens meaning and use in China, the techniques of its manufacture, and the efforts of museum staff to research and conserve this work of art. It also explo ... More  Roberts Projects opens 'Suchitra Mattai: In the absence of power. In the presence of love.'LOS ANGELES, CA.- Roberts Projects is now presenting Suchitra Mattai: In the absence of power. In the presence of love, the gallerys first exhibition with the artist. The show presents new mixed-media paintings, tapestries, and a soft-sculpture installation that evoke the artists Indo-Caribbean heritage. Mattais work engages with the subject and form of European pastoral landscapes and figuration as well as Indian miniature paintings. Linking craft-based processes, sumptuous weavings and traditional techniques, the artist portrays resolute brown heroines, replacing heroes and colonizers and reclaiming a patriarchal past. The artists ancestral history informs her dialogue with European painting. Mattais great-grandparents were brought from the state of Uttar Pradesh, India to Guyana, South Ameri ... More  Portland Art Museum hires Assistant Curator of Native American ArtPORTLAND, OR.- The Portland Art Museum announces the creation of a permanent Assistant Curator of Native American Art position thanks to a major grant from the Leadership in Art Museums Initiative. Erin Grant was hired to fill this role and began her work in this position on July 3, 2023. The Leadership in Art Museums (LAM) initiative comprises four national funding partners: Alice L. Walton Foundation, Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and Pilot House Philanthropy. Over the next five years, the LAM funders will commit over $11 million in funding to museums to increase racial equity in leadership roles such as curators, conservators, collections managers, community engagement staff, educators, and other senior leaders in a manner designed to advance racial equity. The Portland Art Museum was ... More  Morphy Auctions collaboration with Brian Lebel's Old West Events off to a roaring start at Cody Old West Show & AuctionSANTA FE, NM.- An affinity for the lore and history of the American West was the common denominator that connected premier dealers with enthusiastic collectors at Brian Lebels 33rd annual Cody Old West Show & Auction held June 23-25 at the Community Convention Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A much-anticipated highlight of the long weekend was the June 24 onsite auction of Western and Native American relics, produced in association with Morphy Auctions. The lively specialty auction corralled many of the top collector categories, including cowboy antiques and collectibles, Native American artifacts, silver saddles, horse tack, antique and historic firearms; Hollywoo ... More  Wanda Czełkowska first international retrospective opens on 15 July at Muzeum Susch, SwitzerlandSUSCH.- Running from 15 July to 26 November 2023, Muzeum Susch presents Wanda Czełkowska: Art is not Rest the first institutional retrospective dedicated to the post-war contemporary Polish artist Wanda Czełkowska (1930-2021) outside her native country. The exhibition brings together a selection of her most monumental and never before seen artworks created throughout her practice, featuring sculpture, photography, drawing and painting that have been restored in close collaboration with the artists estate. The exhibitions ambition reflects Muzeum Suschs founding mission to spotlight women artists and rigorously establish a matrilineage in art history. Czełkowska was first and foremost a sculptor. She used the simplest of materials in her work - plaster, wood, bare canvas or rusty steel and ... More  Maggie Siff and Erica Schmidt on a Williams play 'Shot Through With Desire'NEW YORK, NY.- After Maggie Siffs husband died of brain cancer in 2021, the last thing she wanted to do was a play about a woman with a husband dying of cancer. But then, after initially pondering whether to commit to the show in 2019, she reread the script and reconsidered her hesitation. I was like, Oh, no, I have to do it, Siff, 49, said of starring in the Theater for a New Audiences revival of Tennessee Williams Orpheus Descending. Now in previews, the play is scheduled to open Tuesday at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn. Williams play a modern retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, in which a man has the opportunity to get the woman he loves back if he can just follow one simple rule is set at a small-town dry goods store in the Deep South. The writing was reve ... More  Mary Ann Hoberman, who tantalized young readers with rhymes, dies at 92NEW YORK, NY.- Mary Ann Hoberman, whose dozens of rhyme-filled books for children sought to encourage them to read especially to read aloud and to commit poems to memory, died July 7 at her home in Greenwich, Connecticut. She was 92. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, which published many of her books, announced her death, from a long illness that was not specified. Hoberman wrote poems about animals (The Llama Who Had No Pajama was one of her classics), clothes, friendship, families, finicky eaters and assorted other subjects of interest to youngsters. She had a gift for finding the extraordinary in everyday things buttons and pennies, butter and jam, Megan Tingley, president of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, who had worked with her for more than 35 yea ... More  Minnie Bruce Pratt, celebrated poet of lesbian life, dies at 76NEW YORK, NY.- Minnie Bruce Pratt, a feminist poet and essayist whose collection Crime Against Nature, which mapped her despair, anger and resilience after losing custody of her children when she came out as a lesbian, earned one of poetrys highest honors and made her a target of hard-right conservatives, died on July 2 near her home in Syracuse, New York. She was 76. Her death, at a hospice facility for LGBTQ+ people, was caused by glioblastoma, her son Benjamin Weaver said. It was 1975 when Pratt walked into her first gay bar, the Other Side, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Same-sex relationships were still considered a crime in that state a crime against nature, as the statute was described so patrons parked around the corner in hopes that their license plates wouldnt be photograph ... More  A Finnish official plays the cello to support Ukraine, irking RussiaNEW YORK, NY.- Anders Adlercreutz, Finlands minister for European affairs, has long been a critic of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, denouncing Russian President Vladimir Putin for leading a crazy war and calling on Western governments to send tanks to Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. On Sunday, Adlercreutz tried a different tactic: He posted a video of himself on social media playing a patriotic Ukrainian song on the cello to mark the conflicts 500th day. The video also shows images of bombed buildings, juxtaposed with phrases such as unspeakable aggression, as well as hopeful symbols such as sunflower fields and a dove in flight. I wanted to provide comfort to Ukrainians here in Finland and in other countries, Adlercreutz said in an interview, and to make clear that they are not ignored, and their culture, th ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter and etcher Rembrandt was born July 15, 1606. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 - 4 October 1669) was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history. In this image: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69), The Mill, 1645/1648 (detail). Oil on canvas, 87.6 x 105.6 cm. Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA. Widener Collection.
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