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Skawennati, xox Takes a Break, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and ELLEPHANT.
TORONTO.- Today, the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival announced the full program for its 25th edition of the city-wide event. Every year, CONTACT enlivens greater Toronto with photo-based exhibitions and outdoor installations by Canadian and international artists. CONTACT is presenting a diverse slate of powerful projects and virtual features that dynamically engage viewers during these challenging times. This years Festival extends beyond its customary month-long event in May to roll out programming throughout the year, as it responds to fluctuating public health guidelines. Full details are now available on CONTACTs redesigned website, including insightful photo essays for each of the 41 projects in its Core Program. All indoor exhibitions planned for May will open later in the year, as government guidelines related to the COVID-19 pandemic permit. Artists featured in Core Program exhibitions at artist-run-cen ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Robert Rauschenberg, Night Shades and Phantoms Thaddaeus Ropac London 2021. All images: Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London • Paris • Salzburg.
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| Doyle to auction American paintings, furniture & decorative arts on May 5 | | The National Gallery's "The Triumph of Silenus" reattributed to Poussin | | Rare rugby painting by L.S. Lowry to make auction debut |
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Cherry Tree, Charcoal on paper, 10 x 14 inches. Est. $60,000-90,000. Lot 97.
NEW YORK.- Doyle will hold an auction of American Paintings, Furniture and Decorative Arts on Wednesday, May 5 at 10am. Featured will be 19th and 20th centuries, including fine examples of portraiture; Hudson River, Western and regional landscapes; marine paintings and still lifes. The sale also showcases fine American furniture and decorative arts, including silver, ceramics, mirrors, folk art, samplers and rugs. One of Americas great Realist painters, Edward Hopper studied under Ash Can School great Robert Henri at the New York School of Art. The exquisite charcoal drawing on paper, Cherry Tree, was owned by the Reverend and Mrs. Arthayer R. Sanborn, who resided in Hoppers birthplace of Nyack, New York (est. $60,000-90,000). Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius A Cowboys Mount is a prime example of the artists anatomically accurate depictions of wildlife in the American West. Rungius highly romanticized ... More | |
Nicolas Poussin, The Triumph of Silenus, about 1636. Oil on canvas, 142.9 x 120.5 cm © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- The Triumph of Silenus (about 1636) was one of the first paintings to enter the National Gallery in 1824. Once considered autograph, that is by the hand of Nicolas Poussin (15941665), the painting has long been plagued by questions of authenticity but, following recent conservation treatment and in-depth technical analysis, it can be fully reattributed to Poussin, the leading French painter of the 17th century. This means that the National Gallery now holds 14 autograph works by Poussin, making it one of the worlds leading collections of paintings by the artist. This autumn, this picture will feature in Poussin and the Dance, the first exhibition ever dedicated to dance in the artists work (the National Gallery, 9 October 2021 2 January 2022). This riotous scene celebrates Silenus, companion to Bacchus, god of wine and drunkenness. Silenus, a naked old man with ... More | |
L.S. Lowry, Going to the Match, 1928 (detail), oil on canvas 17 by 21in. Est. £2,000,000 - 3,000,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Painted in 1928, Going to the Match is among the earliest known, if not the earliest, depiction of one of L.S. Lowrys most iconic and timeless subjects that of spectators thronging to a sporting occasion. Famed for his images of football, it is significant that it is a rugby match he chose to paint first, no doubt testament to the importance of the Rugby League to Northern communities. One of only a small handful of paintings of the sport known to have been painted by Lowry, the extremely rare work is an exceptional example of the beloved artists unique visual language. In this painting, the red flag seen flying by the ground, as well as the red scarves worn by several of the crowd members, hints at the Salford Red Devils Lowrys local team. Having remained in the same family collection since 1972, and only exhibited once before now in 1966, Going to the Match will ... More |
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| Sotheby's unveils further highlights from its Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | | Rome Forum theft tops 500,000 works recovered by Italy | | Storm collapses roof over famed Aztec temple in Mexico |
Amedeo Modigliani's Jeune Fille Assise, Les Cheveux Dénoués. Estimate: $15/20 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Unveiled today, Amedeo Modiglianis enchanting portrait of a young woman (estimate $15/20 million) and a richly symbolic abstraction by Joan Miró (estimate $12/18 million), which remained the personal collection of Alberto Giacometti for decades, will further highlight Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Auction on 12 May in New York, in addition to newly announced works by Childe Hassam, Frantiek Kupka, Leonor Fini, Pablo Picasso, Egon Schiele, and many more. The outstanding group of works will be offered alongside many of the most well-known and beloved artists of Impressionist & Modern art, including: Claude Monets Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas (estimate in excess of $40 million), Paul Cézanne's Nature Morte: Pommes Et Poires (estimate $25/35 million), Pablo Picassos Femme Assise En Costume Vert (estimate $14/18 million), and Edgar Degas's Danseuse (estimate $10/15 million), among others. The full sa ... More | |
In this file photo singers and musicians from the Santa Cecilia academy perform on February 1, 2021 at Rome's landmark Colosseum. Vincenzo PINTO / AFP.
ROME (AFP).- Italian authorities said Thursday they had recovered more than half a million items of stolen or counterfeit works of art in 2020, both at home and abroad. They included the head of a Roman female deity dating to the first century AD, which stood at the entrance to the Roman Forum until 1977 when it was detached from its bust and stolen. Many recoveries were made through collaboration with foreign police forces, Europol and Interpol. One of the works repatriated was a Titian, "Portrait of a Gentleman", valued at six million euros ($7.3 million) and illegally taken to Switzerland. The vast majority of the 501,574 items were antiquities, archives or books, but the total also included 17,596 archaeological and palaeontological works taken from illicit digs. More than 1,500 counterfeit artworks were also seized, which if placed on the market could have raised some 415 million euros, according to a statement by specialist police. "The meticulous work of the command ... More | |
A Mexican soldier stands guard next to the Aztec archaeological site Templo Mayor, affected by heavy rains, in Mexico City, April 28, 2021. PEDRO PARDO / AFP.
MEXICO CITY (AFP).- A roof over Mexico City's Templo Mayor has partially collapsed in a hailstorm, causing minor damage to the capital's most important Aztec temple, officials said Thursday. The metal and acrylic roof over part of the site came crashing down on Wednesday night, just a day after the city's archaeological zone reopened from pandemic closures. "Despite the spectacular nature of the accident, the damage to the archaeological heritage is not great," said Leonardo Lopez Lujan, director of the Templo Mayor Project. The culture ministry said that in addition to the roof structure, the perimeter fence was damaged. "The impact on pre-Hispanic structures is minor, recoverable and restorable and specialists will take care of this," the ministry said in a statement. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters that experts were assessing the damage and a new roof was expected to be installed ... More |
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| Alison Jacques Gallery presents landmark paintings and rarely shown drawings by Carol Rhodes | | Hosfelt Gallery announces the death of artist William T. Wiley | | 'No more sacred places': Heritage sites under siege in Tigray conflict |
Carol Rhodes, Forest and Road, 1998 (detail). Oil on board, 50.7 x 43.8 cm, 20 x 17 1/4 in. Courtesy: Alison Jacques Gallery, London © Carol Rhodes Estate.
LONDON.- Alison Jacques Gallery is presenting its first exhibition of work by Carol Rhodes (19592018). Organised in partnership with the Carol Rhodes Estate, whose curator Andrew Mummery worked closely with the artist for much of her career, the exhibition includes landmark paintings and rarely shown drawings dating between 1995 and 2016. The exhibition anticipates the first posthumous survey of Rhodess work in an institution, scheduled to take place in June 2021 at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, as part of Glasgow International Festival. Throughout her career, Rhodes produced a highly individual body of paintings describing the encroachment of human activity and occupation upon natural landscapes. Primarily adopting aerial viewpoints, Rhodes favoured what she called hidden areas or left-over land: industrial estates, airports, motorways and ... More | |
William T. Wiley, For Leaner Times, 2012. Watercolor and ink on paper, 30 x 20 inches/76.2 x 50.8 cm. Image courtesy of Hosfelt Gallery.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Iconic California artist William T. Wiley died on April 25th at age 83. He had long battled Parkinsons disease. Joann Moser, curator of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, wrote in a 2009 retrospective catalogue, Wiley has created a body of work that anticipated such important developments as installation art, audience participation, a revival of interest in drawing, as well as the use of humor and language as significant aspects of contemporary art. For nearly sixty years, Wiley (who was referred to by this single-word moniker by his family, friends and professionally) distinguished himself as a renegade American artist whose interests were rooted in liberal social, political and environmental concerns as well as philosophy and spirituality. Though frequently political, his work adamantly resists classification into movements or stylistic trends. Wileys practice ranged from ... More | |
An Ethiopian Muslim stands in a damaged building at the al-Nejashi Mosque, one of the oldest in Africa and allegedly damaged by Eritrean forces shelling, in Negash, north of Wukro, on March 1, 2021. EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP.
by Robbie Corey-Boulet
NEGASH (AFP).- Hajj Siraj Mohammed has spent five decades managing the famed al-Nejashi Mosque in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region, welcoming worshippers even during periods of conflict and famine. But when war broke out last year in Tigray, he witnessed something he once thought impossible: The mosque itself, part of one of the oldest Muslim settlements in Africa, had become a target. In late November Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers marched on the town of Negash, where the mosque is located, heading south towards the regional capital Mekele. Cowering in a washroom, Siraj listened in horror as shells crashed into the mosque's dome and meeting hall, leaving the compound strewn with dust and rubble. "Not only us, but ... More |
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| UK's museums invited to apply for world's leading museum prize | | Tim Van Laere Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by Friedrich Kunath | | Exhibition features many never-before-exhibited collages and drawings by Ray Johnson |
South London Gallery. © Marc Atkins / Art Fund 2020.
LONDON.- Art Fund Museum of the Year, the worlds largest museum prize, is a celebration of the UKs museums and galleries. This year it promises to reflect the resilience and imagination of museums throughout the pandemic. At this moment of museums re-opening and starting their recovery, the 2021 prize will highlight and reward the extraordinary ways in which museums have, over the past year, served and connected with their communities. It will showcase their spirit and determination, even when most have been forced to close their doors, some for the entire year. Jenny Waldman, Art Fund director and Art Fund Museum of the Year chair of judges, said, The pandemic has seen museums, galleries and historic houses face their greatest challenge in living memory. The doors had to close for much of the last year, but so many museums have found imaginative ways to serve their local communities, connect with new audiences and share the ... More | |
Friedrich Kunath, If You Leave Me, Can I come Too?, 2020-2021. Oil on canvas, 213,5 x 183,5 cm (84,06 x 72,24 inch).
ANTWERP.- Tim Van Laere Gallery is presenting its second solo exhibition of Friedrich Kunath, titled New Ballads. Friedrich Kunaths work is permeated with ambiguity. His personal journey from East to West Berlin, towards his newfound home in Los Angeles, presented Kunath with a wide variety of source material ranging from the canon of art history and German philosophy to the idiom of kitsch and the make-believe world of Hollywood and LA. Many of which are impacted by two polesthe culture of wisdom and popular cultureto the point of obsession and even, at times, systematization. Dealing with the universal themes of human existence, such as love, loss, optimism, vulnerability, and melancholy, he serves a variety of media, ranging from painting, sculpture, drawing, video and photography, to expansive installations, all provided with a tragicomic ... More | |
Ray Johnson, Untitled (Liza Minnelli with Pink Paint), n.d. © Ray Johnson Estate. Courtesy of the Ray Johnson Estate.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition focused on American artist Ray Johnson curated by Jarrett Earnest at the gallerys West 19th Street location in New York. Organized in collaboration with The Ray Johnson Estate, the presentation features many never-before-exhibited collages and drawings from the 1950s through the 1990s, focusing on Johnson as a seminal and influentially queer artist as well as on his recurring fandoms and obsessionsfrom Arthur Rimbaud, Yoko Ono, and Shelley Duvall to false eyelashessituated within an array of archival materials from his friends and collaborators, including Jimmy DeSana, General Idea, David Wojnarowicz, John Giorno, and Peter Hujar, among others. Viewed together, these works upend our notion of Ray Johnson as a solitary figure working ... More |
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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 Créations Françaises, 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 exposé 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
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Sally Mann was born May 01, 1951. Sally Mann (born May 1, 1951) is an American photographer, best known for her large-format, black-and-white photographs---at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death. In this image: Sally Mann, Emmett, Jessie and Virginia, 1994. From the Immediate Family series. Gelatin silver enlargement print. © Sally Mann.
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