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Ãdouard Manets The Execution of Maximilian, 186768, on display in Manet/Degas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Aug. 18, 2023. It was cut up into pieces after Manets death, but the fragments were saved by Degas and later partly restored. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Arts galleries for 19th- and early-20th-century European paintings and sculpture are among the museums buzziest places. Packed, always. Why? Because we like what we know. Here, were in a secular world of relatable narratives about work, play, sex, fashion set in smoke-gray cities and landscapes as lush but tame as those of Central Park. No halos here, no hellfire, few kings or queens, pretty much no suffering or death. Or so it would seem at a glance. And so it might seem on a quick trot through Manet/Degas, a powerhouse exhibition of 160 oil paintings, prints, pastels and drawings installed immediately adjacent to those permanent galleries, and guaranteed to bring in its own heavy-to-overwhelming foot traffic. Imported from Paris, where it debuted at the Musee dOrsay this year, and opening here Sunday, its the major tee-off event of the Met season. And overall, its about as good as exhibitions get ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition view of "Wes Anderson - Asteroid City: Exhibition". Photo: Delfino Sisto Legnani - DSL Studio.
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| Why Miró's yellows have lost their brilliance | | Marvin Newman, sports and street photographer, dies at 95 | | Heading upstairs with Roy Lichtenstein | 
Researchers discovered that a particular brand of paint favored by the Spanish artist had an atomic structure that predisposed it to degradation. © Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona. Photo: Pep Herrero
by Katherine Kornei
NEW YORK, NY.- From Vincent Van Goghs sunflowers to Edvard Munchs The Scream, theres no shortage of seminal artwork that was made with a striking hue known as cadmium yellow. But that riot of color that artists squeezed from their paint tubes isnt necessarily what museumgoers see today: cadmium yellows brilliance often diminishes over time, as the paint fades and turns chalky. And its not only centuries-old artworks that are affected. A team of art conservators and scientists recently analyzed bits of degraded cadmium yellow paint taken from pieces painted by Spanish artist Joan Miró in the 1970s. One particular brand of paint was likely most responsible for the degradation observed in the Miró pieces, the team concluded in a study published in July in the journal Heritage Science. Cadmium yellow paint is an amalgam primarily of cadmium and ... More | | 
Sunbather, Ruppert Knickerbocher, Winter Boardwalk, Coney Island, N.Y., 1953. Archival pigment print; printed later, 13 x 19 inches. From an edition of 10. ©Marvin Newman, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
by Richard Sandomir
NEW YORK, NY.- Marvin Newman, a renowned photographer who brought a quirky, artistic eye to capturing shadows on a Chicago main street, people in front of shuttered storefronts on Coney Island in New York City, and athletes in competition, including Pittsburgh Pirate Bill Mazeroski smashing the 1960 World Series-winning home run, died Sept. 13 at his home in Jersey City, New Jersey. He was 95. His son, Harrison, confirmed the death. Newman, whose pictures were published in magazines such as Sports Illustrated, Life, Look, Smithsonian, Esquire and Newsweek, was adept in many ways, as a street photographer, a portraitist, an expert at capturing sports action and a creator of inventive images. In 1951, while he was studying for his masters degree in photography at the Institute of ... More | | 
Roy Lichtenstein, Bauhaus Stairway Mural, 1989 © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein.
by Deborah Solomon
NEW YORK, NY.- With the 100th birthday of Roy Lichtenstein approaching on Oct. 27, can we please turn our attention to the meaning of the word forever? Art is long and life is short, the maxim goes, but now even the new Lichtenstein stamps issued by the U.S. Postal Service for the artists centennial come with the promise of Forever. Conversely, one of the artists best-known works, the jumbo-size Bauhaus Stairway Mural: The Large Version, has been removed from its supposedly permanent digs in Beverly Hills, California. Bauhaus Stairway Mural, a marvelously witty and lucid painting that stands about 26 feet tall and 18 feet wide, was initially commissioned for the skylit atrium of the landmark I.M. Pei building that housed Creative Artists Agency. That was in 1989. The artist was then 66 years old, and celebrated for a style of painting that derived a surprising charisma from the anonymity of dot-pattern commercial printing. He favored primary ... More |
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| Book bans are rising sharply in public libraries | | Fondazione Prada, Milan opens "Wes Anderson - Asteroid City: Exhibition" | | Hindman names Reginald Brack Senior Vice President, Director of Jewelry & Watches | 
Books that are among a ban list at a rally in Tallahassee, Fla., March 21, 2023. (Agnes Lopez/The New York Times)
by Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter
NEW YORK, NY.- More than two years into a sharp rise in book challenges across the United States, restrictions are increasingly targeting public libraries, where they could affect not only the childrens section but also the books available to everyone in a community. The shift comes amid a dramatic increase in efforts to remove books from libraries, according to a pair of new reports released this week from the American Library Association and PEN America, a free speech organization. The ALA found that nearly half the book challenges it tracked between January and August of this year took place in public libraries, up from 16% during the same period the year before. The association reported nearly 700 attempts to censor library materials, which targeted more than 1,900 individual titles ... More | | 
Exhibition view of Wes Anderson Asteroid City: Exhibition. Photo: Delfino Sisto Legnani - DSL Studio.
MILAN.- Fondazione Prada presents Wes Anderson Asteroid City: Exhibition in Milan from 23 September 2023 to 7 January 2024, in collaboration with Universal Pictures International Italy. The show anticipates the Italian theatrical release on 28 September 2023 of Asteroid City, the latest film by Wes Anderson. On view at Fondazione Pradas Nord gallery, the project includes a selection of original sets, props, miniatures, costumes, and artworks featured in this movie, which premiered in the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. These immersive installations transport audiences into the creative universe of Andersons eleventh feature film. Asteroid City takes place in 1955 in a fictional American desert town famous for its meteor crater and celestial observatory. It narrates a convention of young astronomers and space cadets, bringing together students and parents from across the country and ... More | | 
Reginald Brack, Hindmans new Senior Vice President, Director, Jewelry & Watches.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman announced the appointment of industry veteran Reginald Brack as Senior Vice President, Director of Jewelry & Watches. An avid collector and entrepreneur, Brack has held several pioneering positions in the luxury sector, including Senior Vice President, International Head of Retail, Watches at Christie's, where he successfully launched and managed both the private sales program and the e-commerce business. His tenure as the Founding General Manager of Watches at StockX played a pivotal role in transforming the platform into a multi-billion-dollar luxury marketplace. Prior to joining Hindman, Brack served as the Executive Director, Industry Analyst Watches & Luxury at The NPD Group (now Circana) where he provided data and market insight to luxury C-suite brand and retail executives. "Reginald Brack's appointment signifies a pivotal moment for Hindman Auctions, ... More |
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| Bellevue Arts Museum exhibition by Satpreet Kahlon presents compelling exploration of memory and body | | Mendes Wood DM New York presents 'Daniel Steegmann Mangrané: La Pensée Férale' for the first time in New York City | | Hélio Oiticica's exhibition 'Waiting for the internal sun' opens today at De La Warr Pavilion | 
Satpreet Kahlon, (detail) from all of us, 2023; Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
BELLEVUE, WA.- Bellevue Arts Museum welcomes the exhibition, Satpreet Kahlon: the inscrutable shape of longing. This exhibition is organized by the Bellevue Arts Museum and guest curated by David Strand. In a compelling exploration of memory and the body, artist Satpreet Kahlon unveils a deeply personal and thought-provoking, site-specific, multi-sensory installation. In her work, Satpreet Kahlon explores the messiness, contradictions, and nuances of inhabiting a body shaped by ones lived experience as well as ones cultural and ancestral history. Kahlon was born in Bhagowal near the Pakistani border and raised in the United States. As a child of the Panjabi diaspora, Kahlons familial history is deeply intertwined with the precarious aftermath of colonization and geographic displacement. As writer and academic Saidiya Hartman writes, "the loss of stories sharpens the hunger for them." To explore these ... More | | 
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Hologram (Mask), 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brussels, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mendes Wood DM is presenting La Pensée Férale, Daniel Steegmann Mangranés inaugural exhibition in New York City. Mangranés work traces the boundary where nature meets artifice, encompassing a range of media including installations, films, sound-based works, photographs, holograms and sculptures. Organic elements often serve as integral components and include branches, leaves, insects and most recently, dogs. Mangrané creates environments that undermine the traditional divides between nature and human aesthetics. Such intertwined environments question prevailing binary thinking, in terms of nature and culture as well as subjects and objects. The titular work, La Pensée Férale (2020), was conceived in collaboration with the Brazilian philosopher Juliana Fausto, who contributed texts presented ... More | | 
Hélio Oiticica with Bólides and Parangolés at his atelier at Engenheiro Alfredo Duarte Street, Rio de Janeiro, 1965. Photo: Claudio Oiticica. Courtesy of César and Claudio Oiticica.
EAST SUSSEX.- Today, De La Warr Pavilion opens Hélio Oiticica: Waiting for the internal sun, the first major presentation of the artists work in a UK public institution for over 15 years. Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980) is widely regarded as one of Brazil's most prominent artists of the twentieth century and a touchstone for much contemporary art made since the 1960s. Through freewheeling, participatory artworks - cinematic installations, immersive environments, interactive objects and abstract paintings - Oiticica challenges us to engage with our surroundings in new and unexpected ways, stimulating our senses, emotions and physical bodies. This landmark exhibition, presented across DLWP's gallery spaces, will centre on the artists life and work throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, during which he spent brief stints in London ... More |
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| Summers Place Auctions to sell private collection of contemporary British sculptures | | Ahlers & Ogletree announces two-day, two-session auction planned for October 13th and 14th | | Booker Prize shortlist reflects the 'Unease of Our Moment' | 
The collectors have now decided to downsize and have made the difficult decision to sell part of their collection.
BILLINGSHURST.- Summers Place Auctions announced the sale of an exceptional private collection of Contemporary British sculpture on 26th September 2023. The 72 lots include small sculptures for the home as well as monumental sculptures. All of the sculptures depict animals and are by such well-known sculptors as Geoffrey Dashwood (born 1947), Mark Coreth (born 1958), Nic Fiddian-Green (born 1963), Dylan Lewis (born 1964) and Hamish Mackie (born 1973). Inspired by the landscape of their country home, the collectors took a keen interest in Contemporary wildlife sculpture. They patronised the leading British sculptors with their own inimitable style, but also started collecting some of the lesser known, up-and-coming artists like Adam Binder, Julieanne Worrall Hood, Sophie Dickens and Michael Simpson. The collectors ... More | | 
Conte crayon on paper by the renowned American illustrator Alberto Vargas (1896-1982), titled Helen Mulleda (1927), signed and dated and inscribed en verso (est. $5,000-$10,000).
ATLANTA, GA.- A monumental figural sculpture of dancers by David Wynne, a mixed media on canvas portrait painting by Lita Cabellut, and a post-modern color screenprint portrait of a female by Alex Katz are expected headliners in Ahlers & Ogletrees two-day, two-session auction planned for October 13th and 14th, online and live in the Atlanta gallery at 1788 Ellsworth Industrial Boulevard. The Friday, October 13th session is titled Modernism, Art Glass, Folk Art & Jewish Art and contains 428 lots. The Saturday, October 14th session is titled European, American & Asian Art & Antiques and has 473 lots for 901 lots total. More than thirty lots have been deaccessioned by the Morris Museum in Augusta, Georgia and will be sold to benefit the Museum's acquisitions fund. ... More | | 
Jonathan Escoffery in Oakland, Calif., Aug. 10, 2022. (Marissa Leshnov/The New York Times)
LONDON.- Paul Murrays The Bee Sting, a tragicomedy about a family on the brink of financial ruin, and Jonathan Escofferys If I Survive You, which explores an American of Jamaican descents struggles with identity, are among six titles shortlisted for this years Booker Prize one of the highest profile awards in literature. The shortlist, announced during an event at the National Portrait Gallery in London on Thursday, also includes Chetna Maroos Western Lane, about a squash prodigy coping with grief, and Paul Hardings This Other Eden, about an isolated mixed-race community that is troubled by outsiders. Sarah Bernsteins Study for Obedience, about a woman who travels to her brothers home only to find that the local population is scared of her, and Paul Lynchs Prophet Song, in which Ireland is reimagined as a totalitarian state, are the other ... More |
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Yoshitomo Nara: âNo Means Noâ | Hong Kong | October 2023
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 Sonia Romero's survey exhibition opens at Loyola Marymount UniversityPLAYA VISTA, CA.- Loyola Marymount Universitys Laband Art Gallery this fall features Sonia Romero in a twenty-plus-year survey exhibition that celebrates her enduring and boundary-pushing art practice that addresses issues of social, cultural and political significance, and her important contributions to the Los Angeles art landscape as the creator of multiple permanent public artworks. Sonia Romero: Taken Root includes more than 50 pieces spanning the early 2000s to the present, celebrating the artists signature visual language that has always and already expanded the possibilities of the mediums of printmaking, painting and papercutting. Romero, born in Los Angeles in 1980, exemplifies the identity and lived experience of a both/and artist. Describing herself as half Hispanic/Mexican American and half German/Russian ... More  'Dig' review: At this shop, nurturing plants and weary soulsNEW YORK, NY.- Amid the thriving greenery of an indie plant shop called Dig, two living organisms are only tenuously clinging to survival. One is a neglected wreck of withering vegetation brought in for emergency care. The other is a woman huddled in the corner, her hood up to block out the world. Shes here with her father, Lou, who nearly killed that plant. But as he bickers amusingly with his old friend Roger, the kindly grump who owns the store, she is too bone-weary to engage. Her name is Megan, and one of the worst misfortunes has blanketed her in grief: the death of her little boy in a notorious accident, which the whole country knows was all her fault. Total strangers despise her for it, yet no one is blaming Megan more mercilessly than she is herself. After a suicide attempt, she is living with her father in the Ohio town where she grew ... More  Woody Auction sale features art glass, Wave Crest and moreDOUGLASS, KAN.- An antique auction representing the culmination of numerous collections from around the country and featuring art glass, Wave Crest and more will be held Saturday, October 14th, by Woody Auction, online and live in the Douglass auction hall located at 130 East Third Street, starting at 9:30 am Central time. All of the 363 lots will be sold to the highest bidder, absolute, with no reserves. Highlights in this auction include a great selection of lamps, French and English cameo glass, the finest pietre dure panel, some incredible Steuben dragon cameo vases, and a continuation of quality throughout the catalog, said Jason Woody of Woody Auction. Please note that there are a few items that must be picked up in person or shipped via a professional shipper within 14 days of the event. An automated online auction ... More  Sixth solo exhibition by Meiro Koizumi at Annet Gelink Gallery on view through OctoberAMSTERDAM.- Annet Gelink Gallery opened Meiro Koizumis sixth solo exhibition in the gallery: Good Machine Bad Machine. Named after its prominent video installation, the show raises questions around hypnosis, authority, consciousness, and mechanics. The title Good Machine Bad Machine (2022) is a direct reference to Bruce Naumans video Good Boy Bad Boy (1985), in which two actors repeat the same sentences (I am a bad boy/I am a good boy) with increasing emotional intensity. In his work, Nauman creates a system of speech based on acting and questions the authenticity of speech and inner emotions. In the video installation, Koizumi brings this premise into the mechanical realm by using hypnosis, instead of acting, to change the actors emotions. The sentences that are repeated reflect on notions of authority, free ... More  Phillips unveils the most important group of works by Lucie Rie and Hans CoperLONDON.- Phillips is proud to announce what is undoubtedly the most exceptional and significant group of works by Lucie Rie and Hans Coper to ever come to auction. Originating from two major collections: the Estate of Jane Coper and the former Collection of Cyril Frankel, these pieces stand as the definitive ceramics that mark the artistic partnership and life-long friendship between these titans of British Studio Ceramics. Featuring a curated selection of 106 standout lots, Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, Exceptional Ceramics: Selections from the Estate of Jane Coper and the former Collection of Cyril Frankel will take place at Phillips Berkeley Square on 1 November 2023. A preview of highlights will be open to the public from 4 to 13 October, coinciding with Frieze Week and PAD, followed by the full auction preview from 25 ... More  Book challenge censorship and repression in Grolier Club New York city exhibitionNEW YORK, NY.- The Grolier Club in New York City presents an exhibition this fall about the power of books and ideas at a time of censorship and repression. On view from September 27 through December 30, 2023 in the Grolier Clubs ground floor gallery, The Best-Read Army in the World tells the story of how the U.S. military fought against propaganda and promoted free thought by disseminating more than one billion books, magazines, and newspapers to 16 million American troops worldwide, partnering with the U.S. publishing industry to create pocket-sized paperback books called Armed Services Editions, as well as petite issues of newspapers and popular magazines. The exhibition features approximately 225 pieces from the collection of Molly Guptill Manning (best-selling author and associate professor of law, New York Law School), ... More  Art, Design & Architecture Museum presents two new exhibitions for fall 2023 opening todaySANTA BARBARA, CA.- The Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is presenting two new exhibitions for the fall 2023 season. The lead exhibition, From Within: The Architecture of Helena Arahuete, is the first retrospective survey dedicated to the life and work of Argentinian, Los Angeles-based architect, Helena Arahuete. Presented in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Museums Architecture and Design Collection (ADC), the show meticulously traces Arahuetes significant contributions to organic architecture by focusing primarily on her domestic projects. The Museum will also open the exhibition, Please, Come In
, which offers a critical intervention into conventional museum period rooms through a selection of works from the AD&A Museums permanent collection and loaned objects. ... More  Work by American glass, textile, and installation artist Rob Wynne currently on view at Craig Starr GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Craig Starr Gallery is exhibiting AFTERGLOW, a selection of works by American glass, textile, and installation artist Rob Wynne (b. 1948), upon the publication of Obstacle Illusion. This major new monograph collects five decades of Wynnes explorations of language, material, and history and is forthcoming in October 2023 from Gregory R. Miller & Co. The solo exhibition is a collaboration between Craig Starr Gallery and GAVLAK. Opened since September 5th, and continuing through October 14, the exhibition AFTERGLOW features four of the artists iconic poured glass pieces (20222023), alongside a selection of archival photograms and text-based works from the 1970s and 1980s. The opening reception included early-release copies of the monograph. Obstacle Illusion is the first comprehensive and fully ... More  Writers, actors and others struggle to pay the rent as strikes continueNEW YORK, NY.- Faye Lauren, a celebrity makeup artist, loved the Williamsburg, Brooklyn, apartment she shared with two roommates for eight years. She strung fairy lights in the backyard, drank her morning coffee on the front balcony and furnished the place with West Elm pieces. But in July, when Hollywood actors called a strike, celebrity red carpet events, and, in turn, Laurens career, evaporated. Without income, Lauren could not pay the rent. When the actors strike happened, I knew that I had to leave, she said. I was so beyond stressed out, I couldnt even breathe. I didnt really see a way out. So Lauren, 37, sublet her room, sold what furniture she could and flew to South Florida with her cat, Bowie, to live with her parents in a community for people who are 55 and older. Two months into the actors strike, and almost five months into a writers strike against the same ... More  'Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler: Flora' opens today at Bechtler Museum of Modern ArtCHARLOTTE, NC.- The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, is presenting Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler: Flora. The site responsive installation is based on Hubbard / Birchlers discoveries about the unknown American artist Flora Mayo, with whom the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti had a love affair in Paris in the 1920s. The work, first shown in the Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennial, probes how bias, social, economic and political structures have contributed to the historical marginalization of women artists. Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler: Flora features the Swiss American duos multimedia project based on their discoveries about the previously unknown American artist Flora Mayo. Hubbard / Birchler have been working collaboratively since 1990, employing video, sound, photography, and other mediums ... More  British artist Lucy Stein joins Hales and will soon present at Frieze London with 'La Muñeca'LONDON.- Hales has announced their representation of British artist Lucy Stein in collaboration with Galerie Gregor Staiger. Steins work will be included in Hales upcoming presentation at Frieze London, with her solo show, La Muñeca, opening at Hales London in November. Stein was recently included in exhibitions at RAMM, Exeter and at the Eden Project, Cornwall. Her solo exhibition Wet Room toured from Spike Island, Bristol to De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill UK (2021/22). In 2024, Stein will have a solo exhibition and performance at Museo Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland and a residency at CCA Andratx, Mallorca. Lucy Stein (b.1979, Oxford, UK) lives and works in St Just, West Cornwall, UK. She received a BA in Painting from The Glasgow School of Art in 2004, Scotland and went on to study at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American sculptor Louise Nevelson was born September 23, 1899. Louise Nevelson (September 23, 1899 - April 17, 1988) was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. Born in Czarist Russia, she emigrated with her family to the United States in the early 20th century when she was three years old. Nevelson learned English at school, as she spoke Yiddish at home. In this image: Playwright Edward Albee, center, joins his star, Iree Worth, left, backstage at the Morosco Theater in New York City Thursday, Jan 31, 1980 . After the opening performance of his " The Lady From Dubuque." The two were greeting well -wishers, who included Louise Nevelson, at right.
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