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Items included in the Forge Project collection are Raven Halfmoonâs âCaddo Dancing in Binger Oklahomaâ (2020), center, and Christine Howard Sandovalâs âPillars â An Act of Decompression & Arch â A Passage Formed By A Curveâ (2020), at the non-profitâs home in Ancram, N.Y., Feb. 16, 2022. The Forge Project, based in the Hudson Valley, is Becky Gochmanâs initiative to raise the profile of the artists and find homes for their work in collections and museums. Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times.
by Ted Loos
ANCRAM, NY.- Some major art collectors begin in the domestic sphere, buying work for themselves to enjoy at home and only later sharing their bounty with the wider world. But philanthropist Becky Gochman, 58, skipped right to the second step. She has been on an art-buying spree, but not for herself or her homes in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida. Her purchases are for an initiative she founded in 2021, the Forge Project, which supports Indigenous art and artists by buying works and then lending and donating them to institutions and making them available for scholarly study. Forge also sponsors a fellowship and residency program, with grants of $25,000 each to six artists a year. By getting such work into circulation and capturing the attention of museums, dealers, other collectors and the public, the Forge Project intends to elevate the artists and Indigenous issues. Loan recipients include the Venice Biennale, the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston and the Tucson Museum of Art. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The exhibition DRESSED. 7 WOMEN 200 YEARS OF FASHION presents seven fashion-conscious women and their wardrobes, ranging from the nineteenth century to the present day. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. Photo: Anne Schönhartin.
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| An urgent mission for literary translators: Bringing Ukrainian voices to the west | | Christie's Latin American Art sale totals $27.7M, sets 8 artist records including Fernando Botero | | Exhibition presents contemporary works in conversation with Matisse's Jazz | 
Daisy Gibbons, a specialist in Ukrainian literature who has seen a sudden influx of translation requests, in London, March 6, 2022. Tom Jamieson/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- As Russian forces breached the border with Ukraine late last month, Kate Tsurkan issued an urgent call for help on social media. Tsurkan, a translator who lives in Chernivtsi, a city in western Ukraine, wanted to give international readers a glimpse of what ordinary Ukrainians are experiencing and to counter President Vladimir Putins claim that Ukraine and Russia are one people by highlighting Ukraines distinct literary and linguistic heritage. What she needed, she said, was to get Ukrainian writers published in English. She needed translators. The response was swift and overwhelming: Messages poured in from translators and writers like Jennifer Croft, Uilleam Blacker and Tetyana Denford, and from editors who wanted to polish and publish their work. As the war escalated, so did their effort. Soon, they had a dedicated group of literary translators who often spend years working on books for small ... More | | 
Antonio Bandeira Untitled, oil on canvas, 46¾ x 47¾ in. Painted in 1965. Price realized: $504,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies live sale of Latin American Art totaled $27,741,240, with 82% sold by lot and 138% hammer above low estimate. The top lot of the sale was Fernando Boteros monumental bronze sculpture Man on a Horse, which achieved $4,320,000 and set a new auction record for the artist. Another notable highlight of the sale was Diego Riveras rediscovered masterpiece La bordadora, which realized $4,140,000 and has been acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Additional top lots of the sale include Tomás Sánchezs Llegada del caminante a la laguna, which sold for $1,800,000 and achieved a new record for the artist, and Rufino Tamayos Personajes en la sombra, which achieved $882,000. The auction also achieved strong results and auction records for a range of contemporary works, including: Antonio Bandeiras rediscovered work, Untitled, which sold for $504,000; Beatriz Gonzálezs Vermeeriana I, whic ... More | | 
Paul Kremer (American, b. 1971), Cradle 01, 2022. Acrylic on hemp canvas, 67 x 52 inches (170.2 x 132.1 cm).
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Drawing with Scissors: Contemporary Works in Conversation with Matisses Jazz recognizes Matisses 1947 groundbreaking series Jazz and its formal and spirited connection to works by contemporary artists. During the post-war era, while battling personal illness, Matisse turned his isolation into creative liberation. While limited in mobility and struggling to paint and sculpt, he began exploring collage and the stencil process, pochoir. Using gouache, Matisse coated sheets of paper with paint, allowed them to dry for tactile texture, then cut and arranged the sheet into intricate shapes and forms. Matisse famously described this process as drawing with scissors linking line with color, contour with the surface. His chromatic collage series, Jazz, later made into a print series, is full of songful figuration, themes of performance, and a lively blend of hopefulness and unease. Through collage, Jazz combines a vibrant array of colors and forms and has b ... More |
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| Modern Collector: Design and Tiffany Studios totals $2M | | The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visit Tate Britain to mark its 125th anniversary | | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has acquired a rediscovered painting by Diego Rivera | 
Victoria Tudor, Head of Sale, Design, Christies, commented: The market is clearly robust with these results, with competitive bidding for private collections including prolonged duals for lots such as the Claude Lalanne 'Dahlia' necklace and the Olaf Hult fire screen. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies Modern Collector: Design and Tiffany Studios online sale totaled $2,000,628. The inaugural series of online sales was 93% sold by lot and 177% hammer above low estimate, and achieved the highest total of any online Design sale at Christies. The sale attracted global participation with bidders from 21 countries. The sale achieved strong results for Tiffany Studios, including the top lot of the sale, the Laburnum Table Lamp, circa 1918, which achieved $214,200, and Daffodil Table Lamp, circa 1903, which sold for $81,900. Additional exceptional prices were achieved for Claude Lalannes Dahlia necklace, which realized $113,400, over 18 times its high estimate and set a new record for a necklace ... More | | 
Ahead of the forthcoming Platinum Jubilee celebrations, Her Royal Highness viewed a group of archive photographs by Nigel Henderson documenting street parties in celebration of Her Majesty the Queens coronation in 1953.
LONDON.- Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall made a special visit to Tate Britain, to mark the 125th anniversary of the gallerys founding. The visit comprised a tour of its current exhibitions and displays, and a meet-and-greet with staff from across the gallery. Their Royal Highnesses were greeted by Maria Balshaw CBE, Director of Tate; Roland Rudd, Chair of Tates Board of Trustees; Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia, Senior Independent Trustee; Alex Farquharson; Director of Tate Britain; and Vicky Cheetham, Managing Director. Ahead of the forthcoming Platinum Jubilee celebrations, Her Royal Highness viewed a group of archive photographs by Nigel Henderson documenting street parties in celebration of Her Majesty the Queens coronation in 1953. ... More | | 
Diego Rivera, La Bordadora, 928, oil on canvas, © 2022 Christies Images Limited/
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has acquired a major, rediscovered painting by the great Mexican muralist Diego Rivera (1886-1957). The 1928 painting, La Bordadora (The Embroiderer) had been in the collection of a New Orleans family since they acquired it, shortly after the work was completed. It has not previously been on public view. Commented Gary Tinterow, Director, Margaret Alkek Williams Chair, of the MFAH. I am thrilled to announce the acquisition of this remarkable painting. La Bordadora relates thematically and stylistically to a beautiful Rivera cartoon already in the MFAH collection, from his iconic mural cycle at the Ministry of Education in Mexico City. Both La Bordadora and the ministry murals herald a fundamental theme of Riveras lifes work, to capture the dignity of the everyday. With this acquisition, we will be able to build on the foundations of our extraordinary holdings of 20th- ... More |
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| Major acquisition of 500 works by Bascove celebrated with highlight exhibition at Norman Rockwell Museum | | Real photo postcard phenomenon explored in exhibition | | Yorkshire Sculpture Park opens the first major UK exhibition of sculpture by American artist Robe | 
Bascove, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, 1979. Cover illustration for The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker, Harcourt Brace Javanovich, 1977. Ink on paper. Norman Rockwell Museum Collection, NRM.2017.03.252 © Bascove. All rights reserved.
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- Norman Rockwell Museum has been collecting American illustration art for almost two decades, adding to Rockwells own collection of artworks by prominent illustrators. In 2017, more than 500 original illustrations and studies were generously donated to the Museums Permanent Collection of Illustration Art by noted American illustrator Bascove. Celebrating this important acquisition, a special collection highlight exhibition will be on view from March 12 through June 5, 2022 entitled Bascove: The Time We Spend with Words. Known by the mononym, Bascove, Anne Bascove, is a master printmaker, illustrator,painter, and collagist best known for her striking woodcut book jacket and magazine illustrations as well as for her series of paintings and drawings of the bridges of New York City. Inspired by the written word throughout her life, she has ... More | | 
Unidentified artist, American, 20th century. Woman with Flowers, about 1914. Gelatin‑silver print on card stock. Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive. Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- Featuring more than 300 works drawn from the Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive, a promised gift to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Real Photo Postcards: Pictures from a Changing Nation takes an in-depth look at the innovative early-20th-century medium that enabled both professional and amateur photographers to capture everyday life in U.S. towns big and small. The photographs on these cards, which range from the dramatic and tragic to the inexplicable and funny, show this moment in history with striking immediacyrevealing truths about a country experiencing rapid industrialization, mass immigration, technological change, and social and economic uncertainty. The exhibition is on view from March 17 through July 25, 2022 in the Herb Ritts Gallery and Clementine Brown Gallery. It is accompanied by an illustrated volume, Real Photo Postcards: Pictures from a Changing Nation, produced by MFA Publications and authored by Lynda Klich and ... More | | 
Robert Indiana, Ash, 1985, cast 2017, installation view at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2022. Photo: © Jonty Wilde, courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Artwork: © 2022 Morgan Art Foundation Ltd./ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/DACS, London.
WAKEFIELD.- Yorkshire Sculpture Park opened the first major UK exhibition of sculpture by American artist Robert Indiana (1928-2018). Spanning 60 years of the artists career, the exhibition will include a dynamic display of outdoor and indoor sculpture, along with significant paintings and prints, many of which have not been previously shown in the UK. Exhibited in the Underground Gallery and open air, Robert Indiana: Sculpture 1958-2018 will further the contextual understanding and public appreciation of this exceptional American artist. Robert Indiana: Sculpture 1958-2018 traces the development of the artists sculpture across six decades of significant social and political change. Through the selection of fifty-six works, six of which will be shown in the landscape, the exhibition explores the nuanced character of Indianas practice and his perception of the darker side of the American dream. Unity, acceptance, and love ... More |
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| Emilio Delgado, Luis on 'Sesame Street' for four decades, dies at 81 | | With 'The Godfather,' art imitated mafia life. And vice versa. | | Cristin Tierney Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings and animations by Claudia Bitrán | 
The actor was a fixture on the groundbreaking educational program. His characters wedding to Maria on the show in 1988 captivated children and their parents.
NEW YORK, NY.- Emilio Delgado, the actor who for more than four decades played Luis the handyman on the beloved childrens television show Sesame Street, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 81. The cause was multiple myeloma, which Delgado had been battling since December 2020, his wife, Carole Delgado, said. Over a span of 44 years on Sesame Street, Delgados character was the owner of The Fix-It Shop, where he repaired any objects that needed fixing, such as picture frames or giant toasters. Luis was joined in the shop by Maria, played by Sonia Manzano. After an on-screen courtship, the characters married in a widely viewed episode of the program in 1988. The marriage of Maria and Luis was cause for celebration among the children who were learning numbers and letters ... More | | 
Federal wiretaps and Mob insiders suggest that many real-life wiseguys turned to The Godfather for inspiration, validation and cues on how to speak and act and dress. Justin Metz/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- A table for five at CaSa Bella in Little Italy in the late 1970s included a few mobsters, a girlfriend and the man they knew as Donnie Brasco, actually an undercover FBI agent. There was business to discuss, but then the mood lightened. The restaurants strolling guitarist came to our table, the agent, Joseph Pistone, wrote years later in a memoir. The girlfriend spoke up: Louise requested the theme from The Godfather. The guitarist obliged, and even knew the version with words. Years later, in 2005, two New York mobsters were heard in a recording talking about a third man, Anthony Ace Aiello, who was under investigation in a criminal case. Ace Aiello is like a Luca Brasi, one mobster told the other, according to a court document. An agent seeking Aiellos arrest helpfully added in a footnote: ... More | | 
Claudia Bitrán, Britney Portraits 7, 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cristin Tierney Gallery announced Stereotypies, an exhibition of new paintings and animations by Claudia Bitrán. This is Bitráns first solo exhibition with the gallery and her first solo gallery show in New York. A stereotypy is an involuntary repetitive action found in human and animal behavior. Exacerbated by stress, fatigue and anxiety, these actions often present themselves as persistent and uncontrollable movements or language executed as a self-soothing mechanism. Bitrán adopts the term for this abnormal phenomenon to connect her three new bodies of work in the exhibition. Drawing from mediated images of people and animals sourced from the internet, Bitráns paintings and animations explore the intersection of pop culture and contemporary art. Featured in the exhibition is a watercolor animation of Gus the polar bear who lived in captivity at the Central Park Zoo from 1988-2013. In ... More |
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 An exiled theater with a warning for EuropeLONDON.- When the players of the Belarus Free Theater began working on Dogs of Europe three years ago, they thought it was a play about a dystopia. Set in 2049, it imagines the continent cut in half by a wall. On one side sits a Russian superstate, where a dictator has eliminated almost all opposition, and where people cannot speak their native languages or even perform folk dances. On the other side sits a Europe that failed to realize the Russian threat, or stop it from absorbing Belarus, Ukraine, the Baltic States and beyond. Yet at a rehearsal in London last month, the day before Russia invaded Ukraine, the plays nightmare world didnt feel so far-fetched. Maryna Yakubovich, an actor in the production, which opens Thursday at the Barbican theater in London, said that rehearsing the play had sometimes felt like a premonition. Its, like, ... More  A labor movement for the artists who make popular culture moveNEW YORK, NY.- The entertainment industry is in the midst of a dance boom. Steven Spielbergs West Side Story and HBOs Euphoria are using dance to drive storytelling; TikTok dance challenges are propelling songs up the Billboard charts. Everywhere you turn on TV, in film and on the internet theres dance everywhere, said veteran choreographer and director Vincent Paterson. So what is owed to the creators of the choreography thats helping movies, television shows, music videos, and social media campaigns earn millions of dollars? About a year ago, during the lull of pandemic shutdowns, more than 100 entertainment-industry choreographers began meeting to consider this question on the audio app Clubhouse. The gatherings offered a chance for generations of artists to take stock of their profession and speak candidly ... More  Elsa Klensch, face of fashion on CNN, dies at 89NEW YORK, NY.- Elsa Klensch, who for two decades produced and hosted the fashion news program Style With Elsa Klensch on CNN, becoming one of the cable channels early stars, died on March 5 at her home in Manhattan. She was 89. The death was confirmed by her friend and lawyer Jayne Kurzman. Klenschs weekly show made its debut in 1980 on the same day the Cable News Network first went on the air offering pioneering coverage of designers, models and haute couture runway shows for a mass television audience. With her signature bob and distinctive native-born Australian accent, she became a familiar figure, reporting from London, Paris, New York and Milan with interviews and video of runway collections. She attended thousands of shows for CNN, and designers like Marc Jacobs, Carolina Herrera, Anna Sui, Karl Lagerfeld ... More  MASI Lugano opens the largest retrospective ever devoted to the photographer James Barnor LUGANO.- MASI Lugano presents the largest retrospective ever devoted to the photographer James Barnor (Accra, Ghana, 1929, lives and works in London). Throughout his lengthy career, spanning six decades and two continents, Barnor has been an extraordinary visual witness to the social and political changes of his timefrom the independence of Ghana to the African diaspora and the lives of London's African community. Easily navigating different places, cultures and genresfrom photojournalism to social documentary, studio portraiture and fashion and lifestyle workthe British-Ghanaian photographer has always stood out for his resolutely modern outlook and pioneering approach. Although he has influenced generations of photographers in Africa and the rest of the world, his work has only recently been rediscovered and celebrated. James ... More  The CAC opens #fail, an exhibition of works by 25 artists exposing systemic failures facing our worldNEW ORLEANS, LA.- Today the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans announced #fail, its Spring exhibition curated by Anthony Spinello. On view at the CAC March 12 June 19, 2022, the multimedia group exhibition brings together works by twenty five artists from across the U.S. that expose the systemic failures facing our world. Featured artists include: Nathalie Alfonso, Eddie Arroyo, Abdul Aziz, Gregory Coates, Joseph Cuillier, Cara Despain, Dawn DeDeaux, Rahehleh Filsoofi, Leon Ford, Nash Glynn, Shana M. griffin, Micol Hebron, Sinisa Kukec, Susan Lee-Chun, Justin H. Long, Emilio Rojas, Sherrill Roland, Naama Tsabar, Frances Trombly, Juana Valdes, Elizabeth M. Webb, Agustina Woodgate, Derrick Woods-Morrow, Antonia Wright, and Octavia Yearwood. The exhibition explores a world in crisis and it is treated as social and poetic ... More  'My Cousin Vinny' at 30: An unlikely Oscar winnerNEW YORK, NY.- When the culture-clash courtroom comedy My Cousin Vinny landed in theaters March 13, 1992, the critical response was mostly positive. The New York Times Vincent Canby found it inventive and enjoyable, The Los Angeles Times Peter Rainer called it often funny, and The Hollywood Reporter deemed it a terrific variation on the fish-out-of-water/man-from-Mars story formula. One phrase you wont find in any of those reviews is Oscar-worthy. Yet Vinny proved just that, landing an Academy Award for best supporting actress a full year after its original theatrical release one of the biggest upsets in Oscar history and a trophy that would prove both a blessing and a curse for its recipient, Marisa Tomei. Her performance as Mona Lisa Vito, the long-suffering fiancee and legal secret weapon of Joe Pescis title character, ... More  Dressed. 7 women - 200 years of fashionHAMBURG.- Our wardrobe is among our most personal possessions. Nothing is closer to our bodies. Alongside its purely practical function, clothing is also a nuanced means of communication and self-expression. The exhibition DRESSED. 7 WOMEN 200 YEARS OF FASHION presents seven fashion-conscious women and their wardrobes, ranging from the nineteenth century to the present day. The spotlight is on the personalities and biographies of the wearers, who reveal themselves to be both performers and consumers of fashion. Whether haute couture, daywear, protest gear or avant-garde trends what they choose to wear is every bit as diverse as their lifestyles. Their wardrobes tell of the status-consciousness of high-society wives, of an existence marked by illness, of power dressing for projecting confidence in the executive suite, of Hamburgs punk scene, and of the aesthetics of resistive aesthetics embraced by an art and design collector. 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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter and sculptor Alberto Burri was born March 12, 1915. Alberto Burri (12 March 1915 - 13 February 1995) was an Italian painter and sculptor considered a key figure in Post-War art and such artistic movements as Neo-Dada, Nouveau réalisme, postminimalism and Arte Povera. In this image: Alberto Burri, Multiplex 8, 1981. Courtesy Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini, Collezione Burri, Città di Castello, Italy, and Luxembourg & Dayan.
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