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An undated photo provided by the Smithsonian Institution shows âThe Middle Passage â African Holocaust Brooch,â 1993-96, by Phyllis Bowdwin as part of the installation, âDuro Olowu Selects: Works From the Permanent Collectionâ at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in New York. Olowu, the Nigerian-born British fashion designer examines the many ways and meanings of pattern in everything from wallpaper to ceremonial hats. Smithsonian Institution via The New York Times.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- Good things almost always happen when museums invite outsiders to organize exhibitions from their permanent collections. This has certainly been true with the annual Selects exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Recent guest curators in the series, now in its 20th iteration, have included architect David Adjaye, artist Maira Kalman and musician Esperanza Spalding. This years guest is Duro Olowu, a Nigerian British lawyer-turned-fashion designer, self-taught curator and exemplar of global cosmopolitanism. For his excellent, fine-grained Duro Olowu Selects: Works From the Permanent Collection, Olowu chose the theme of patterns and repetition as well he might. As a designer, Olowu favors flowing dresses and gowns made from the contrasting patterns of variously floral or geometric fabrics. His curatorial skills first surfaced in his namesake shop in London, which became known for its dense, enticing cabinet-of-wonders arrangements. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Tony Feher, on view June 4 through July 22, 2022.
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| Vivian Maier: Secretive star of 20th century street photography exhibited in UK for the first time | | Richter, Picasso and Hodler headline Koller's summer modern & contemporary auctions | | Christie's to offer Monet's 'Nymphéas, Temps Gris (1907)' | 
Vivian Maier, New York, September 3, 1954 Copyright Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy of Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY.
MILTON KEYNES.- MK Gallery presents the first exhibition in the UK of acclaimed photographer Vivian Maier (1926 2009) uncovering the remarkable story of the mysterious Chicago nanny who led a double life as one of the greatest street photographers of the 20th Century, amassing hundreds of thousands of images which were hidden in a storage locker and remained undiscovered until 2007. The exhibition at MK Gallery features over 140 black and white and colour photographs, as well as film and audio, which reveal the breadth of Maiers work and her fascination for observing and recording everyday life. For over 40 years, Maier worked as a nanny in New York and Chicago, known to the children she looked after as a real-life Mary Poppins. Endlessly curious but intensely private, her anonymity became her disguise. Always with her Rolleiflex camera, Maier captured daily life ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Buste d'homme. 1965. Oil on canvas. Signed upper right: Picasso. Dated on the reverse of the canvas: 17.2.65. 65 Ã 50 cm. CHF 2 000 000 / 3 000 000 | ( 1 869 160 / 2 803 740).
ZURICH.- A captivating work by Pablo Picasso, Buste dhomme, dates from the artists extremely productive period of the mid-1960s, when he was living in the mountains above Cannes with his last spouse and muse, Jacqueline Roque. It is not only an archetypal image of an artist but also a sort of self-portrait with piercing regard (lot 3247, CHF 2/3 million). Two important furniture creations by Diego Giacometti are also among the highlights of the 30 June sale: Banquette (lot 3315, CHF 450 000/500 000) and Table à tête de chien, dite Table de chasseur (lot 3318, CHF 200 000/350 000). Both were acquired directly from Giacometti by the current owner shortly after their creation in 1983/84. A portrait of a Spanish woman by Edouard Manet, La femme aux chiens, 1862, presents not only many of the artists signature elements but ... More | | 
Claude Monet, Nymphéas, temps gris (1907, estimate: £20,000,000-30,000,000) © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- Claude Monets Nymphéas, temps gris (1907, estimate: £20,000,000-30,000,000) will be a highlight of Christies 20/21 London to Paris sale series, and is the second major painting by the artist to be offered in London this season, presented within the 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale on 28 June. Claude Monets depictions of the horticultural paradise that he designed and cultivated in Giverny stand among the greatest works of his career. Nymphéas, temps gris is one of a small series of Nymphéas that Monet painted in a moment of intense creativity in 1907. Here, Monet has employed a vertical format to capture the spectacular effects of late afternoon light upon his water lily pond. A long stream of light streaks through the height of the canvas, overlaid in places by clusters of lily pads. Using a variety of painterly techniques, including gestural brushstrokes, rich impasto for the flowers, and myriad layers o ... More |
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| The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates one hundred years of James Joyce's Ulysses | | Rauschenberg & Johns: Significant Others opens at the National Gallery | | FBI returns two paintings stolen 50 years ago to historic Huguenot Street | 
James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. Gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018; PML 197791.
NEW YORK, NY.- To mark the centenary of the groundbreaking novels first edition, the Morgan Library & Museum presents One Hundred Years of James Joyces Ulysses, open now and running through October 2, 2022. Curated by the noted Irish author Colm TóibÃn, the exhibition explores the trajectory of Joyces life and career from lyric poet to modernist genius and illuminates the authors creative process through rare publications, portraits, correspondence, manuscripts, plans, and proofsmany of which are reunited for the first time in a century. It considers key figures from Joyces biography that inform the creation of Ulysses, such as Joyces father, John Stanislaus Joyce, and his wife, Nora Barnacle, as well as those instrumental in realizing its publication: Harriet Shaw Weaver, Margaret Anderson, Ezra Pound, and Sylvia Beach. The exhibition also looks at artists and writers who responded to the no ... More | | 
Jasper Johns, Gemini G.E.L., Figure 1; from Color numeral series, 1969, colour lithograph printed from one stone and two aluminium plates, 69.6 h cm, 55.6 w cm, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, Purchased 1973. © Jasper Johns. VAGA/Copyright Agency.
CANBERRA.- A new exhibition depicting one of North Americas most important artistic dialogues opens this weekend at the National Gallery. Rauschenberg & Johns: Significant Others reveals how at the height of the Abstract expressionist movement a new avant-garde began to materialise from the same-sex relationship between two young artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. During the homophobic 1950s, from their run-down New York studios, Rauschenberg and Johns began a private creative dialogue that introduced everyday signs, objects, and media into their work, collapsing the distinction between art and life. Together from 1953 to 1961, when same-sex relationships were illegal in the United States, the couple was forced to navigate their ... More | | 
Portrait by Ammi Phillips (1788-1865) of Dirck D. Wynkoop, ca. 1821. Oil on canvas. Historic Huguenot Street Permanent Collection, gift of Marie J. Wiersum.
NEW PALTZ, NY.- The New York Art Crime Team of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently returned two paintings by 19th-century portrait artist Ammi Phillips to Historic Huguenot Street. The two portraits, depicting prominent New Paltz residents Dirck D. Wynkoop (1738-1827) and his wife Annatje Eltinge (1748-1827), were missing for fifty years, after they were stolen on February 16, 1972 while on display at the 1799 Ezekiel Elting (aka LeFevre) House on Huguenot Street. Few in the New Paltz community remembered the theft since it had happened decades ago, but, in 1972, the burglary was widely publicized. Dozens of items were stolen, including silver, ceramic pieces, swords, and guns. Many items were recovered a few months later, but the location of the paintings remained a mystery. Then, in 2020, Carol Johnson, HHS Trustree and Coordinator of the Haviland- ... More |
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| SFA Advisory opens a solo presentation of works by Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury | | Exhibition of new paintings by Amanda Williams opens at Gagosian | | John Waters, an auteur of trash, would like to thank the Academy | 
Sylvie Fleury, Pink Explosion, 2018. Acrylic on canvas on wood, 15 kgs. 120 x 120 x 12,2 cm (47,24 x 47,24 x 4,8 in)
NEW YORK, NY.- SFA Advisory is presenting Palette of Shadows, a presentation of seven shaped canvases from the monumental makeup palettes by contemporary Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury, in collaboration with Thaddaeus Ropac gallery. Fleurys work is a call for further contemplation into the ritualistic habits and gendered stereotypes that underpin contemporary society. Her practice includes sculpture, performance, installation, and painting, at times using and repurposing mass-produced objects such as cars, neons, or makeup palettes. The everyday items are transformed by their inclusion in an artistic context, allowing viewers to see them in a new way, while questioning the value we assign to consumer goods and artworks in turn. In her seminal makeup palette series, Fleury faithfully replicates the look of famous makeup products, enlarging them while removing ... More | | 
Amanda Williams © Jacob Hand Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting CANDYLADYBLACK, an exhibition of new paintings by Amanda Williams from the series What Black Is This, You Say? (2020). Williamss painting What black is this you say?Although rarely recognized as such, The Candy Lady and her Candy Store provided one of your earliest examples of black enterprise, cooperative economics, black women CEOs and good customer serviceblack (07.24.20) (2021) was included, along with earlier works in the series, in Social Works II at Gagosian London in 2021. CANDYLADYBLACK is her first solo exhibition at the gallery. In her paintings, sculptures, installations, and photographs, Williams uses color as a tool to examine the complex ways in which race informs our assignment of value to physical, social, and conceptual spaces. She often begins projects by meditating on a specific color or set of colors, which she relates to an everyday sp ... More | | 
John Waters holds the rubber leg of lamb that Kathleen Turner used as a murder weapon in his movie Serial Mom, at his home in Baltimore, May 25, 2022. Curators from the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures recently rummaged through Waters home of 32 years, cluttered with film artifacts and kitschy curios, to plan an exhibition on his cult films. Sinna Nasseri/The New York Times.
by Adam Nagourney
BALTIMORE, MD.- John Waters was leading a delegation from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in for the week from Los Angeles on a tour of his home of 32 years, cluttered with film artifacts and kitschy curios and tucked behind trees on a quiet corner 5 miles from this citys waterfront. There was much to see: the electric chair from his 1974 dark comedy, Female Trouble in the entryway. A birth certificate for Divine, the 300-pound cross-dresser who played the filthiest person alive in Pink Flamingos, hanging in a basement room piled with mementos. The mimeographed poster for the 1966 ... More |
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| The Art Institute of Chicago presents: Floating Museum: A Lion for Every House | | Christie's Jewels Online totals $3,502,674 | | Anna Zorina Gallery opens Los Angeles gallery and Alina Bliumis exhibition | 
Assembling the sculptural installation at the center of A Lion for Every House, in the Floating Museum studio, May 2022. Photograph courtesy of Floating Museum.
CHICAGO, IL.- In collaboration with the Chicago art collective Floating Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago presenting Floating Museum: A Lion for Every House . On view from June 11 through October 17, 2022, this project explores the Art Institutes photography collection as the starting point for a new site-specific installationone that further connects the museum to the communities it serves and shows how barriers separating institutional, civic, domestic, and community spaces can be made more porous. The exhibition takes its title from Sonia Sanchezs epic poem, Does Your House Have Lions? In Sanchezs telling, lions stand in for the people and things that protect a family and a home; at the Art Institute, they famously stand at the entrance to a vast repository of artworks held for public benefit. By creating a circuit in which copies ... More | | 
Cartier, Coral, Diamond and Lacquer Ladybug Brooch. Price realized: $12,600. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies Jewels Online (31 May 10 June) totaled $3,502,674, with 123% hammer above low estimate and 97% sold by lot. The sale saw global participation with bidders from 32 countries and first-time registrants accounted for 11% of bidders. The top lot of the sale was a fancy intense pink diamond ring of 0.84 carat, which sold for $126,000. The sale also achieved strong results for colorless diamonds, including a marquise-cut diamond ring of 3.61 carats, which realized $63,000 and an emerald-cut diamond ring of 3.84 carats from the Estate of Sondra Gilman, which achieved $56,700. Also featured within the sale were notable private collections, including Property from the Collection of Claire Y. Holland, which was highlighted by: a Strauss, Allard & Meyer Art Deco diamond and multi-gem vanity case, which sold for $56,700, more than four times its high estimate; ... More | | 
Anna Zorina Gallery, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Anna Zorina Gallery inaugurated its new Los Angeles Gallery space with the solo exhibition of Alina Bliumis, Borders and Bruises. This is Bliumis first show with the Gallery. The exhibition will feature three bodies of work including the watercolor maps of Nations Unleashed, the abstract paintings series Bruises and text-based sculptural works Concrete Poems. A percentage of proceeds from the exhibition will be donated to Direct Help For Ukraine and BYSOL, an organization supporting politically repressed Belarusians. Bears, eagles and octopi have been active role-players in satirical maps since the 16th century. With her watercolor series, Nations Unleashed, Bliumis pays homage to cartographic curiosities by employing animal symbolism to convey biting political critique. In Bear vs. Nightingale, European countries become a battleground of zoomorphic shapes. Here the national animals are seen in mid-clash as the Ukrain ... More |
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Restoration of J. Pierpont Morganâs Library: Lionesses
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 'Peter Koch: The Book as a Work of Art' opens at the Paris Gibson Square Museum of ArtGREAT FALLS, MT.- Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art presents with great enthusiasm, Peter Koch: The Book as a Work of Art, June 10, 2022 through October 5, 2022. This special exhibition in Great Falls, Montana highlights a select collection of Peter Rutledge Kochs work that spans his career since 1974. Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the museum, explains that Kochs radical zeal for the history of books and fine art printing has awarded him the title of expert within the world of bookish arts. It was his unyielding pursuit of historical, artistic, and technical expertise that made way for him to enter a world of printing giants and specialized knowledge. The Grolier Club, Americas oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic arts, has described Koch as one of his generations most distinguished and celebrated printer ... More  The many faces of the 2022 Tony nomineesNEW YORK, NY.- The Broadway season that just ended, the first since the pandemic shutdown, will be remembered for many reasons the persistence of COVID, the death of Stephen Sondheim, the dwindled tourism and the indispensable understudies. It was a season for renewed appreciation: of song and storytelling and shared experiences, of a beloved art form and a rebounding industry. And it was a season that featured an extraordinary volume of work by Black artists, catalyzed by the social unrest of 2020. The 2022 Tony Awards, which take place Sunday, offer an opportunity to honor some of Broadways best work; in anticipation of that event, we photographed and interviewed many of the performers, and a few of the writers, directors and choreographers, nominated for awards. Ruth Negga: Ive always wanted to be an actress, since I was a really ... More  Chris Blackwell is music's quietest 'record man.' his artists speak loudly.NEW YORK, NY.- Most music industry memoirs are front-loaded with celebrity name-dropping. The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond by Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records whose success with Bob Marley, U2, Steve Winwood and Grace Jones would offer plenty to boast about instead opens with a parable. In 1955, Blackwell was a wealthy, 18-year-old Englishman whose family was part of Jamaicas colonial elite. Lost and thirsty after his motorboat ran out of gas, Blackwell came across a Rastafari man a member of what was then still an outcast group feared by Anglo-Jamaicans as menacing black heart men. But this Samaritan in dreads took Blackwell into his community, offering him food, water and a place to rest; the young visitor awoke to find his hosts softly reading from the Bible. That encounter set Blackwell on a remarkable path through ... More  Is it finally twilight for the theater's sacred monsters?NEW YORK, NY.- Despotic. Agonizing. Crippling. Sadistic. Those are just some of the adjectives victims use to describe their tormentors in Isaac Butlers jaw-dropping book The Method. But the method theyre talking about isnt a blueprint for a fascist takeover or CIA interrogation. Its a blueprint for the American theater. The Method, which bears the subtitle How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act, is the story of how the precepts of Konstantin Stanislavski, a Russian actor, director and theorist born in 1863, were interpreted in the United States by some very vicious teachers mostly men whose behavior now looks outrageous to us. By comparison, Stanislavski himself was a pussycat, even though he berated his longtime leading actress, Olga Knipper, the wife of Chekhov, so cruelly she came to call him a monster. But Stanislavskis New York ... More  Christie's Important Watches of Exceptional Provenance totals $21.7MNEW YORK, NY.- Important Watches of Exceptional Provenance, Featuring The Kairos Collection Part III, presented across two evening sales on 8-9 June, totaled $21,743,070, setting a new record for the highest total ever for a watches auction at Christies New York. The auction was sold 97% by lot, 141% hammer above value, and attracted global participation from 30 countries and 19% new registrants. 58% of all lots surpassed pre-sale high estimates. The sale was highlighted by the grand finale of The Kairos Collection, which achieved $13,895,160. The collection of 128 extraordinary modern Patek Philippe timepieces totaled $21,885,101 globally from auctions across Geneva, Hong Kong and New York. The New York session was led by Patek Philippe Ref. 5531R-012, an exceptional 18k rose gold Grande Complication watch, which sold for $2,220,000. ... More  Christie's Handbags Online: The New York Edit including partnership with FASHIONPHILE totals $3,299,562NEW YORK, NY.- Handbags Online: The New York Edit, an online-only sale showcasing the most sought-after styles and timeless classics of handbags and accessories, totaled $3,299,562. The auction was sold 96% by lot and 123% hammer above low estimate. The sale attracted 30% new registrants. The auction featured a partnership with FASHIONPHILE, which included the top lot of the sale, a Hermès Himalaya Niloticus Crocodile Kelly 25, which sold for $239,000. The sale also achieved notable results for Hermès Birkin bags, including: a Custom Matte Pink 5P & Gris Perle Alligator Birkin 25, which realized $189,000; a Matte White Himalaya Niloticus Crocodile Birkin 30, which achieved $107,100; a Matte Black Alligator Birkin 25, which sold for $100,800; and a Shiny Jade Porosus Crocodile Birkin 25, which realized $81,900. The auction season continues ... More  Rare Posters Auction #87 presents 520 important worksNEW YORK, NY.- The 87th Rare Posters Auction from Poster Auctions International on Tuesday, July 12 features rare and iconic images from a century of poster design. The collection includes Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern, and Contemporary lithographs, decorative panels, and maquettes. All 520 lots will be on view to the public June 21 to July 11. The auction will be held live in PAIs gallery at 26 West 17th Street in New York City, as well as online at posterauctions.com, beginning promptly at 11am EDT. Jack Rennert, president of Poster Auctions International, Inc., said, What makes this auction special is the high quality and rarity of this collection. Collectors have the opportunity to bid on seminal works that have not been available at our auctions for many years. The auction will begin with 50 historic designs for automobiles, starting with OGalops ... More  Jacques Villeglé passes away at age 96SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- It is with immense sadness that Modernism Inc. announced the passing away of Jacques Villeglé, one of Frances most important contemporary artists, on June 6th in Paris at age 96. For over seventy years, Jacques Villeglés work has played an important role in redefining what constitutes a work of art. He is an artist who was instrumental in bringing the streetscape into the space of the exhibition. Jacques Villeglé spent most of his life wandering the streets of Paris, pulling torn advertising posters off the ancient walls and pronouncing them Art. In seizing a poster, I seize history, he says. What I gather is the reflection of an era. Born in Brittany in 1926, Villeglé was a seventeen-year-old architectural apprentice in Nantes during the bleak days of the German Occupation. After the Liberation in 1944, he moved to the City of Light, where he was ... More  Tiffany Masterworks from the Garden Museum totals: $6.6 millionNEW YORK, NY.- Christies concluded its series of live Design auctions at Rockefeller Center on Friday, June 10 with Tiffany Masterworks from the Garden Museum: A Private Collection. Celebrating the artistic mastery of Louis Comfort Tiffany, the sale consisted of 44 lots from one of the greatest Tiffany collections in existence assembled by Japanese businessman Mr. Takeo Horiuchi in the 1990s. In total, the sale realized $6,662,124 selling 95% by lot, 90% by value, and 131% hammer above low estimate. Combined with the live Design sales on Monday, June 6 and Tuesday, June 7, the weeks series of three Design auctions in New York totaled $ 35,839,410. The sale was led by An Important and Rare Hanging Head Dragonfly Chandelier, circa 1905. Estimated at $600,000800,000, the lot surpassed its high estimate to achieve $1,008,000. ... More  Sikkema Jenkins & Co. opens a solo exhibition of work by Martin d'OrgevalNEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is presenting a solo exhibition of work by Martin dOrgeval, on view in the back galleries June 4 through July 22, 2022. Organized with Olivier RenaudClement, this exhibition is dOrgevals first solo show in New York. Martin dOrgevals practice realizes the ethereal, illusory threads of perception that link visions of the everyday to distinct moments of photographic witnessing. His dreamlike, cerebral images inhabit an ambiguous realm between the intimate and the universal, favoring the enigma of questioning over definite resolution. The works in this exhibition present subjects ranging from the deeply personal to the collectively experienced; drawing on senses of touch, memory, and intuition, his photographs center viewers within the crystallized present of our own existence. D'Orgevals newest daguerreotypes were conceived from the fingerprint impression of ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter John Constable was born June 11, 1776. John Constable, RA (11 June 1776 - 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the naturalistic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home --- now known as "Constable Country" --- which he invested with an intensity of affection. In this image: A Sea Beach - Brighton estimated at £400,000 - 600,000. Photo: Bonhams.
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