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Swann Galleries to hold two-day sale featuring selections from Letterform Archive
NEW YORK, NY.- In a two-day sale event, Swann Galleries will offer a special offering of deaccessioned duplicates from the rich collection of Letterform Archive on Wednesday, May 12, alongside the spring offering of Graphic Design on Thursday, May 13. Selections from Letterform Archive will include 153 lots of graphics, books, posters and examples of typography. Within the trove of inspirational material are type specimens from around the world spanning decades of typographical innovation. Highlights from prominent type foundries include Schelter & Giesecke is Proben J. G. Schelter & Giesecke, Erster Brand, Leipzig, 1899 ($800-1,200); Berthold is featured with Garnituren Berthold-Grotesk, Probendruck Nr. 262, Berlin, 1928 ($400-600); Peignot & Fils with Album dApplications des Nouvelles CrÃ©ations FranÃ§aises, Paris, 1901 ($1,200 ... More

BAFTA suspends award for actor Noel Clarke amid harassment allegations
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The body that awards Britains equivalent of the Oscars has suspended a prominent actor and director weeks after he received one of its top awards, following accusations of sexual assault, sexual harassment and bullying from 20 women. Producers, actresses and production assistants said the actor, Noel Clarke, secretly filmed auditions in which they were naked, groped or forcibly kissed them, and sent unsolicited intimate pictures. The testimonies were detailed in a lengthy exposÃ© published by The Guardian on Thursday evening. Clarke, 45, grew up in London and established himself as an actor in the 2000s with the television series Doctor Who. He is well-known in Britain as a filmmaker and performer for his trilogy The Hood, about the lives of teenagers in West London, and for the TV police dramas Bulletproof ... More

Al Schmitt, maestro of recorded sound, is dead at 91
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Al Schmitt, who as a boy watched Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters record music in his uncles studio and who went on to become a Grammy Award-winning engineer for a long roster of artists, including Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and Diana Krall, died Monday at his home in Bell Canyon, California. He was 91. His death was confirmed by his wife, Lisa. For more than 60 years, Schmitt brought deft engineering skills and a sixth sense about what made a song great to his collaborations with dozens of musicians and singers. He was renowned for his ability to make subtle but critical changes during a recording session. Schmitts gentle, informed guidance from behind the recording console was an essential, if unseen, element in 15 of Kralls studio albums. Its how he heard things, ... More

Edinburgh Castle reopens as Scottish Covid rules ease
EDINBURGH (AFP).- Heritage sites reopen across Scotland for the first time this year on Friday and after the longest closure since World War II, as coronavirus restrictions are gradually eased. Edinburgh Castle is one of more than 20 ticketed venues and over 200 free attractions run by Historic Environment Scotland (HES) to welcome back visitors. HES chief executive Alex Paterson said daily visitor numbers to the ancient stronghold and former royal residence will be well below pre-pandemic highs of 10,000. But he hopes up to 1,200 people will come every day. "We are delighted to reopen Edinburgh Castle and clearly we are not anticipating the same number of visitors that used to come pre-Covid, at least not in the short term," he told AFP. "We haven't had to close our sites for this length of time since the Second World War, so by any measure this has ... More

Watts Contemporary Gallery opens an exhibition of work by Anita Klein
COMPTON.- Watts Contemporary Gallery in partnership with Eames Fine Art presents a new exhibition of work by Anita Klein, widely regarded as one of Britains finest contemporary artists and printmakers. Marking the first exhibition following the reopening of Watts Contemporary Gallery on 1 May, Together brings together more than 60 works by Anita Klein, spanning painting, prints and works on paper, including a number of works exhibited for the first time. As the title reflects, this exhibition explores Kleins response to the last year and the joy of coming together again with family and friends. Klein states, The pandemic changed all of our lives, making my obsession with capturing what I would miss if my ordinary life were somehow taken away, relevant to everyone. My work is a visual diary and a way of counting my blessings, especially for family, friends and intimate ... More

Exhibition at the Aga Khan Centre Gallery explores the concept of Eden through Islamic garden design
LONDON.- The Aga Khan Centre Gallery is presenting Making Paradise, a major new exhibition that explores the concept of Eden through art and Islamic garden design. Realised in collaboration with all three institutions at the Aga Khan Centre, the show brings together twenty two international multimedia artists each of whom presents an interpretation of the concept of Al-Jannah the Garden of Eden, or Paradise in Islam. Alongside their work, the gallery displays digital reproductions of specific works from Aga Khan Museums permanent collection, many of which are being made accessible to UK audiences for the first time. At the centre of the exhibition is a film produced by the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). This not only highlights the many garden restoration and development projects achieved by the AKDN, but also powerfully ... More

Wild Life: Exhibition of works by Francis Bacon and Peter Beard on view at Ordovas
LONDON.- Wild Life: Francis Bacon and Peter Beard, explores the friendship between Francis Bacon (19091992) and his longtime friend and muse, the artist Peter Beard (19382020) who, despite working on di!erent sides of the world, shared deeply similar personal and creative passions. Organised in collaboration with Peter Beards Estate, the exhibition is intended as a celebration of Beards life. Works from the period of the two artists friendship will be shown side by side for the first time, along with unseen materials from Beards archives including letters and photographs gifted to Bacon, and, most importantly, Beards diaries, which served as the genesis for his art. Francis Bacon and Peter Beard first met in 1967. Beard recalled, I was at one of his openings at the Marlborough Gallery in London where he was standing in some ... More

Charleston's Gibbes Museum celebrates Japanese art with two special exhibitions
CHARLESTON, SC.- The Gibbes Museum of Art, home to one of the most significant collections of Japanese woodblock prints in the Southeast, is presenting two new exhibitions that reveal the complexity and importance of Japanese art and how its history collides with Charleston. The exhibitions, Lasting Impressions: Japanese Prints from the Read-Simms Collection and Japonisme in Charleston: Alice Smith and Her Circle, are on view in galleries eight and nine through Sunday, October 3. We are thrilled to present two new special exhibitions that demonstrate the global significance of Japanese art, says Angela Mack, executive director at the Gibbes Museum of Art. Our visitors will have the opportunity to see world-class examples of Japanese woodblock prints from a collection that was formed in Charleston in the early decades of the 20th ... More

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen opens major exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary
COPENHAGEN.- Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen has created the timely exhibition I am not what you see specifically for Copenhagen Contemporary, examining nomadic life, ethnicity, and identity. Four monumental sculptures, each bearing a different name and, in their various ways, hybrids of architecture, costumes, and dwellings. They are activated by the performance, Cocktails, where performers both populate and wear the sculptures. Cuenca Rasmussen's exhibition zooms in on the ability of nomads to carry their home wherever they go, crossing boundaries, parts of the world, cultures, and social conditions. The artist has been working with these themes since the beginning of her artistic practice and I am not what you see, one of her largest exhibitions to date, manifests this examination using the leverage offered by both installation and performance. ... More

RISD Museum announces staff changes
PROVIDENCE, RI.- The RISD Museum welcomes several new staff members as well as announces the expanded roles of currently-held positions. Ahmari Benton has joined the RISD Museum as the 2021-2022 Nancy Prophet Fellow. Ahmari is a mixed media visual artist committed to exploring the convergence of museum interpretation and social activism. She obtained an interdisciplinary BFA from Howard University in 2019 with coursework integrating painting, garment construction, and textile science. Presently, she is pursuing her MA in Museum Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Ahmari acquired museum education and community engagement experience through internships at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Met Cloisters, and the Phillips Collection. Jen Bose joined the RISD ... More

Bust of Elie Wiesel is added to Washington National Cathedral
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the western section of the Washington National Cathedral, cathedral leaders have long commemorated human rights figures. Stone carvings of Rosa Parks, Mother Teresa and other celebrated leaders grace the walls of the so-called human rights porch. Now, for the first time at the cathedral, a modern-day Jewish figure has joined them: Holocaust survivor, author and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. Wiesel and his family were sent to camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, where his father, mother and sister were killed. After the camps were liberated, Wiesel went on to become an author of 57 books, including Night, about his experiences during the Holocaust. In a phone interview Wednesday, the Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, dean of the cathedral, said that the new bust reminds us of the reality ... More