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Clothing from the Les Atlantes collection from 1989 at Thierry Mugler: Couturissime at the Brooklyn Museum, Nov. 12, 2022. At the museum, a tribute to fashions showman who built temples out of curves and proved clothing had metamorphic properties. (Lila Barth/The New York Times)
by Vanessa Friedman
NEW YORK, NY.- Manfred Thierry Mugler, a boundary-pushing French couturier whose glamazons and fembots helped define fashion in the 1980s and 90s and who died this year, famously hated retrospectives. In the museum world, everyone knew he was against the idea, said Thierry-Maxime Loriot, curator at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the institution that finally persuaded Mugler to reconsider. They changed his mind, Loriot said, by promising that any exhibition wouldnt be a boring chronological tour of clothes. Instead, it would look at the big themes, and put his work in the context of what his clothes represent in the world of now: creativity and the importance of being different. That was in 2016; the exhibition, Thierry Mugler: Couturissime, opened in Quebec in 2019. Now, after stops in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Munich and Paris, it has finally landed at the Brooklyn Museum, the latest in that institutions series of traveling costume megashows ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Museo Jumex is presenting Lo que se ve, se pregunta, a survey exhibition of the Colombian American contemporary artist Lari Pittman (USA, 1952), that spans four decades. On view from November 4, 2022, through February 26, 2023, the exhibition showcases Pittmanâs colorful practice of creating multi-layered paintings that have challenged formal pictorial space, cultural representation, and visual culture since the 1980s.
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| No ordinary Joe | | Lark Mason Associates Sale of Asian, Ancient and Ethnographic Works of Art achieves $932,045 | | As NYC swipes out MetroCards, one artist honors the yellow and blue | 
An undated photo provided by Artworks, the Estate of Joe Brainard, via Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York; Photographs by Alan Wiener, shows Untitled (Toothbrushes), 1973-74, the showstopper in the exhibition Joe Brainard: A Box of Hearts and Other Works, at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York. (Artworks, the Estate of Joe Brainard, via Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York; Photographs by Alan Wiener via The New York Times)
by Deborah Solomon
NEW YORK, NY.- Joe Brainard sought to take up as little space as possible. He specialized in small-scale works collages, drawings, and occasional paintings that relate more to the proportions of a writers desk than an artists looming studio. There is something I lack as a painter that de Kooning and Alex Katz have, he jotted in his diary in 1967. I wish I had that. Id tell you what it was except that I dont know. However much he may have lamented his perceived shortcomings, Brainard was ahead of his time in acknowledging his feelings of marginalization. Unable or unwilling to advance the grand tradition of painting, he created a major body of work by questioning the prevalent belief that artists ... More | | 
A Chinese Peking Amber Glass Octagonal Bottle Vase eagerly pursued by 38 bidders and snapped up for $17,500; an ink-on-silk Korean Four Panel Ink Screen by Kim K-Chang (1913-2001) sold for $18,125, exceeding its estimate three-fold, with 26 bids.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX.- The three-session online sale of rare works of Asian art presented by Lark Mason Associates, on iGavelAuctions.com, concluded on November 3rd, and rang up $932,045.00 in sales including buyers premium. The series of sales exceeded expectations and showed the market to be remarkably resilient, boding well for the 2023 spring sales of Asian art in March, says Lark Mason. It included nearly 500 lots with a mix of works ranging from ancient works of art to furniture, resulting in a significant number of bidders pursuing works across a variety of categories. According to Mason the strong response was due to the variety of material and reasonable estimates, and took into consideration the costs incurred by bidders who were incurring packing and shipping costs, in addition to the hammer price at auction. Forty-eight bidders from Hong Kong, China, Canada, and the United States competed for a Chinese I ... More | | 
The artist Thomas McKean holds a piece from his show at Fishs Eddy, a home goods store, in New York, Nov. 3, 2022. (Audrey Melton/The New York Times)
by Remy Tumin
NEW YORK, NY.- Thomas McKean has noticed a number of things New Yorkers dont do anymore: leaving business cards on windshields, using plastic Thank You bags and hailing yellow cabs. Soon, McKean, an artist, will add another ubiquitous piece of New York history to that list: swiping MetroCards to ride the subway or bus. For more than 20 years, McKean has used MetroCards, along with gloves, business cards and other found objects, to make art. Using small scissors and glue, McKean cuts, stacks and arranges the thin plastic cards into yellow taxis, New York City streetscapes, abstract designs, miniature buildings and, of course, reconstituted MetroCards. I was amazed how, from this one little flimsy piece of material, there really is a universe, he said. McKean declined to give his age but said he was born in New York City and has lived in the East Village for more than 30 years. An exhibition of his work, Off the Rails: MetroCard Art (and More ... More |
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| Almine Rech now presenting "Gioele Amaro: Just a painting" at Paris, Front Space | | Pangolin London announces the passing of sculptor Charlotte Mayer | | McArthur Binion Visual: Ear Paper: Work, exhibition at Xavier Hufkens | 
Gioele Amaro, "SwipeWipe", 2022, ink and vernish on canvas, 158 x 140 cm 62 x 55 inches. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech. Photo: Nicolas Brasseur.
PARIS.- Almine Rech is presenting Gioele Amaro's third solo show with the gallery, on view since November 17, and will continue to December 10, 2022. Gioele Amaro usually defines himself as a digital painter, and he handles pixels with a painters skill, although he does not actually paint. His digital artworks are intended to leave the virtual realm and become physical objects paintings. This movement from a transcendent form with fluid properties to an immanent form is at the heart of the artist's approach. Printed on canvas and varnished, his artworks question the history of painting, foregrounding a new history, that of a reproducible digital image. In this uninhibited back-and-forth between the real and the virtual, the artist steps into a meta-world where time and space are elements of a world in continuous construction. These blurred images, which can be dismantled ... More | | 
Charlotte Mayer, Thornflower, 2006, Bronze and stainless steel. Photo: Steve Russell Studios LTD.
LONDON.- It is with our greatest sadness that we report the passing of the inspirational sculptor Charlotte Mayer on the 9th November aged 93. Born in Prague in 1929 Charlotte Mayer (nee Fanta-Stutz) was captivated by natural forms and sculpture from a young age thanks to the influence of her grandparents who were important cultural figures in 1930s Prague and regularly held informal salons for writers, artists and musicians at their home Das Rosel Haus. In April, 1939 a month after the German Army had entered Prague and with tensions mounting, Charlotte aged just ten left on a train bound for Holland with her mother, on the precarious pretence of a wedding. Spending a week in Amsterdam, they travelled to England to begin their new lives as refugees. With little English to communicate and the looming spectre of war these early years were not without their challenges thanks to bullies at school and a ... More | | 
McArthur Binion, Visual:Ear, 2022. Photo Courtesy of Xavier Hufkens.
BRUSSELS.- For his debut solo exhibition with the gallery, Xavier Hufkens, McArthur Binion (b. 1946, Macon, Mississippi), presents a new body of work created in Chicago, where he primarily lives and works. Large format oil-stick paintings are assembled in the Van Eyck gallery under the title Visual:Ear, a reference to Binions abiding interest in the visual translation of music into colour and form. Paper:Work, on show in the Rivoli gallery, presents a corpus of recent drawings. The exhibition on view since November 17th, and ending on December 23rd, 2022, provides a comprehensive overview of the artists oeuvre across a wide range of scales and showcase the latest developments in his decades-long practice. The paintings in Visual:Ear draw a decisive loop in Binions work and hark back to an idea that first crystalised over fifty years ago, while he was studying for his MFA in painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfi ... More |
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| Philadelphia art dealers, Sara McCorriston and Jason Chen, purchase historic building in Old City | | Nan Goldin and Laura Poitras: Two artists, one devastating film | | A price on history? Aaron Judge's 62nd home run ball to be auctioned. | 
12 N. 3rd St. Image courtesy of MPN Realty.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Paradigm Gallery + Studio co-founders Jason Chen and Sara McCorriston are pleased to announce the purchase of a 7,000 sq. ft., 5-story building in Old City and the relocation of Paradigm Gallery + Studio. In addition to serving as the gallerys new, permanent home, the mixed-use commercial space will actualize Chen and McCorristons mission to further grow and contribute to the arts and culture landscape of Philadelphia. The public will be invited to visit Paradigm Gallery + Studio in its new location in Spring 2023. Located at 12 N. 3rd St., the buildings ground and second floors will serve as the new, permanent home of Paradigm Gallery + Studio. The first two floors boast over 2,500 square feet of exhibition space, maximizing the gallerys potential for mounting innovative and immersive installations. Concurrently, Chen and McCorriston are launching an expanded vision for a new community arts enterprise ... More | | 
The artist Nan Goldin in New York, Nov. 8, 2022. (Thea Traff/The New York Times)
by Esther Zuckerman
NEW YORK, NY.- Artist Nan Goldin didnt think she was worthy enough for director Laura Poitras to make a documentary about her. Poitras had won an Academy Award in 2015 for Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden, and had been placed on a federal watchlist after her 2006 Iraq War film, My Country, My Country. Goldin recalled thinking, I dont have any state secrets and Im not fighting against the machine in the same way as everyone else that shes worked on. Poitras was equally intimidated by Goldin. The photographer, who published her first radical collection, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, in 1986, has been chronicling her own life for decades in daringly intimate portraits of her friends, her lovers and herself. I was kind of like, I dont know if Im cut out, Poitras said. What can I contribute here? Together, ... More | | 
New York Yankees' Aaron Judge hits his 62nd home run of the 2022 season in Arlington, Texas, on Oct. 4, 2022. (Nathan Hunsinger/The New York Times)
by David Waldstein
NEW YORK, NY.- Late in the summer, while Aaron Judge was swatting balls over fences and closing in on his historic 62nd home run of the season, a parallel fascination centered on the potential value of the record-setting ball. That value will soon be known because the fan from Texas who caught the ball is putting it up for auction, and he wants to set a record, too. Ken Goldin, the auctioneer in charge of selling the ball on behalf of Cory Youmans, the lucky spectator, thinks the ball will sell for more than $3 million. Depending on how much more, the sale could set a new bench mark for a game-used baseball. The ball has the potential to become the highest-priced baseball ever sold, Goldin said in a telephone interview. Three million plus would be my estimate. The record was set with the auction ... More |
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| Hales opens a solo exhibition of paintings by British artist Mali Morris RA | | Rolex and Patek Phillipe lead Heritage's Watches & Fine Timepieces event past $2.8 million | | Art on the Underground presents Endurance at Brixton Underground Station by Shanti Panchal | 
Images courtesy the artist and Hales, London and New York. Copyright the artist and Hales Gallery. Photo by JSP Art Photography.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hales announced Three Ghosts, a solo exhibition of paintings by British artist Mali Morris RA. This debut exhibition at Hales celebrates the consolidation of five decades of immense inventiveness in exploring the language of painting. Morris (b. 1945 Caernarfon, North Wales) received a BA in Fine Art from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1968, studying the Basic Course under Richard Hamilton. She went on to study the MFA at the University of Reading, run by Terry Frost. Arriving in London in the 1970s, Morris met many artists, who in turn introduced her to the American post painterly abstraction of Helen Frankenthaler and Kenneth Noland. Today Morris's practice resonates with the history of painting - of all periods, including abstract expressionism and modernism, and now has ties to a younger generation of painters in both Britain and the US. Her first major exhibitions were at the ... More | | 
A Rolex, Very Rare Oyster Cosmograph With Tropical Sub Dials, Ref. 6265/6263, circa 1973, prompted 24 bids before it more than doubled its pre-auction estimate to finish at $125,000. Launched in 1962, the Rolex reference 6265 and 6263 were manufactured in steel, 18k and 14k gold.
DALLAS, TX.- Riding a surge of demand for elite timepieces from some of the worlds top watch makers, Heritage Auctions Watches & Fine Timepieces Signature® Auction, held Nov. 16, was a near-sellout event that realized $2,820,849. This auction drew nearly 1,800 global bidders and generated near-perfect sell-through rates, says Jim Wolf, Director of Watches & Fine Timepieces at Heritage Auctions. That only underscores the fact demand for elite watches such as Rolex, Patek Philippe, Daniel Roth and Audemars Piquet is as high as ever. A Rolex, Very Rare Oyster Cosmograph With Tropical Sub Dials, Ref. 6265/6263, circa 1973, prompted 24 bids before it more than doubled its pre-auction estimate to finish at $125,000. Launched in 1962, the Rolex reference 6265 ... More | | 
Shanti Panchal, 'Grenfell Pyre and the Rescued Family', 2017.
LONDON.- Art on the Underground is now presenting Endurance, a new large-scale public commission at Brixton Underground station by Shanti Panchal that launched 17 November 2022 and is on view for one year. Endurance is the sixth in a series of commissions at Brixton station, following on from Joy Labinjo, Helen Johnson, Denzil Forrester, Aliza Nisenbaum and Njideka Akunyili Crosby. The programme invites artists to respond to the diverse narratives of the local murals painted in the 1980s, the rapid development of the area and the wider social and political history of mural making. Endurance is a reproduction of a large-scale watercolour artwork in which Panchal has painted a community portrait that observes our continued resilience and interdependency. Shown in the image are three scenes of Londoners the people include an artist, an NHS worker, a waiter, people at work and at leisure. In the background ... More |
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 Rarely-seen portrait by Balthus on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of ArtHARTFORD, CONN.- A rarely-seen portrait by Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, 1908-2001) joins two related paintings by the artist at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut. The Spell of the Studio: Balthus Portrait of Mrs. Cooley explores a crucial phase of the artists careerone that the Wadsworth and its patrons in Hartford played a significant role in supporting. The exhibition will be on view at the Wadsworth through February 26, 2023. Portrait of Mrs. Cooley is a remarkable and deeply moving work. It brilliantly captures the American sitters forlornness and unease in a foreign environment. This strong sense of alienationrendered through techniques reminiscent of older French artists such as Courbet and Milletallows this painting to speak to us in a truly timeless manner, said Oliver Tostmann, ... More  James Hyman Gallery, Centre for British Photography, announces special fundraising saleLONDON.- James Hyman Gallery, Centre for British Photography, has shared news of a separate charitable project by the Hyman Foundation. A new home for British photography will open in London in late January 2023. The Centre for British Photography will build on the world-renowned Hyman Collection of British photography and the work of the Hyman Foundation. Three floors of exhibitions will present the diverse landscape of British photography today, as well as an historical overview. The 8000 sq. ft. Centre will be FREE to visit year-round and will offer exhibitions, events and talks, a shop and an archive and library. The Centre will feature photographs from 1900 to the present, work by photographers living and working in the UK today, and images taken by those who immigrated to the UK. It will present self-generated exhibitions ... More  "Embrace" by Rohina Hoffman, a homage to family and foodNEW YORK, NY.- "The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live. The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it has been since creation, and it will go on. We chase chickens or dogs away from it. Babies teethe at the corners. They scrape their knees under it. It is here that children are given instructions on what it means to be human. We make men at it. We make women." Joy Harjo, 23rd United States Poet Laureate. Isolated in the confinement of her Los Angeles home during the covid lockdown, Indian-born American artist Rohina Hoffman takes us on a metaphorical journey connecting her roots to food through the rituals of daily meals. In Embrace, Rohina combines two photographic projects. In Gratitude is an homage to food and family. Created during the early days of the pandemic, it is a series ... More  Delfts Blauw museum through new eyesAMSTERDAM.- Founded in 1653, the Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles (Royal Delft) officially became a museum in 2021. Though this sole remaining original factory for Delftware welcomed more than 140,000 visitors each year, much had to be done to bring the factory museum up to a high and contemporary standard. Accessibility, routing, signposting and lighting were in dire need of revision after a series of renovations produced a confusing labyrinth. In cooperation with the architectural firm Braaksma & Roos, the museum modernised Royal Delfts visitor experience. The museum established a renewed visitor route that clearly explains the delftware production process and the history of Royal Delft and its collection. To bring the factory and its history to life, it made the buildings hidden qualities visible again. ... More  Flying medal awarded to young Lancaster rear gunner to be sold at NoonansLONDON.- Lancaster Rear Gunner Warrant Officer Victor Arthur Roe who was born at Old Barge Yard, Norwich in May 1923, was killed in action on a raid to Chemnitz, carrying out his 98th operational sortie on 5-6 March 1945. He was just 21 years old. His outstanding and rare Second War C.G.M (Conspicuous Gallantry Medal) and Immediate D.F.M. (Distinguished Flying Medal) group of five will be offered by Noonans in their sale of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Wednesday, December 7, 2022. They are being sold by Roes family and are estimated at £30,000-40,000. Roe was in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and "flew in 14 operational sorties in Wellingtons and Halifaxes with 466 Squadron, prior to "flying the remainder of his operational service with 35 Squadron - which amounted to a remarkable 84 operational sorties with ... More  AGO expands Department of Indigenous art by appointing Taqralik Partridge as Associate Curator of Indigenous ArtTORONTO.- The Art Gallery of Ontario today announces the appointment of Taqralik Partridge to the newly-created position of Associate Curator of Indigenous Art Inuit Art Focus. Partridge is a curator, artist, performer, writer and spoken-word poet originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik. In her new role within the AGOs Department of Indigenous Art, Partridge will develop exhibitions, lead acquisitions, and champion new and diverse voices from across the circumpolar north. Inuit art and artists are at the forefront of conversations about climate change and community, belonging, beauty and sovereignty, says Julian Cox, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, AGO. The AGOs extensive collection of Inuit Art is already world- ... More  Woody Auction announces 400+-lot Antique Sale, December 3rdDOUGLASS, KAN.- Woody Auctions final antique sale of 2022, on Saturday, December 3rd, promises to have something for everyone, with a catalog brimming with more than 400 lots in a wide array of categories. The last in-person event of the year is as eclectic as any auction weve ever done, and is a combination of numerous collections from around the world, said Jason Woody of Woody Auction. Highlights include quality jewelry, art glass, Gone with the Wind lamps, furniture, Limoges, Pickard, bronzes, plated Amberina, English cameo, clocks, Tiffany, Stevens & Williams, carousel horses, folk art, and one of the largest artwork collections Woody Auction has sold in decades. As with past Woody auctions, all items will be offered to the public without reserves. Offerings from the New England Glass Company include an extremely rare plated ... More  How 'The Lion King' got to Broadway and ruled for 25 years (so far)NEW YORK, NY.- A quarter-century is about twice as long as the life span of your average wild lion. But theres nothing average about The Lion King. In the years since it opened on Broadway, the musical, thanks to 27 productions that have filled 112 million seats and have played on every continent but Antarctica, has grossed nearly $10 billion, more than any other stage show and more than any film. It is still going strong on Broadway, where it is currently the third-longest running show in history (behind The Phantom of the Opera and Chicago) and is consistently among the best-attended and highest-grossing shows each week. And New York, where The Lion King had been performed 9,812 times as of Nov. 13, is home to just one of the nine Lion King productions running around the planet; this week, an international tour settled ... More  A rising conductor who's 'not just a pair of hands'BOSTON, MASS.- A sobering thought: The founders of the period-instrument movement, who from the 1960s or so wielded their new performance practices and their forgotten scores to shake up the staid traditions of the classical music world, are starting to pass from the scene. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gustav Leonhardt and Christopher Hogwood are dead. Roger Norrington has retired. Jordi Savall is 81. And John Eliot Gardiner, William Christie, Philippe Herreweghe and Trevor Pinnock are well into their 70s. Their influence has been incalculable, if inescapable. But where is the movement they led going next? Enter Raphaël Pichon founder of the Pygmalion ensemble in Paris, a period-instrument orchestra and choir that has quickly risen to prominence in Europe who comes here to lead the Handel and Haydn Society in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts ... More  A genre-spanning choreographer who says yes to the unknownNEW YORK, NY.- Among the movement challenges that choreographer Jennifer Weber has been facing lately: dodging tourists on the sidewalks around Times Square as she runs between theaters. Her first Broadway show opened Thursday. Her second opens Sunday. Weber is the choreographer of & Juliet, a retelling of Romeo and Juliet through the catalog of pop hitmaker Max Martin. She is also the choreographer of KPOP, a behind-the-scenes musical about the Korean pop music industry. Squeezing in an interview between rehearsals, she said that having a show on Broadway never seemed like something that would be possible, like ever. Having two at once? I honestly dont believe it. And thats not even everything. This month, The Hip-Hop Nutcracker, an updating of the Tchaikovsky holiday ballet that she choreographed and helped ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Calvin Klein was born November 19, 1942. Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc., in 1968. In addition to clothing, he also has given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewelry. In this image: Calvin Klein at the Vanity Fair party celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Tribeca Film Festival. Photo: David Shankbone.
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