| Christie's announces Post-War to Present sale | | Serge Poliakoff's first solo exhibition with Almine Rech on view in Paris | | Bellmans to sell works from the Chelsea studio of Arthur Croft Mitchell |
Cynthia Hawkins, Currency of Meaning #9. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced Post-War to Present, a live auction beginning the morning of October 1st at Christies storied Rockefeller Center saleroom. The sale is taking place over the course of three sessions, which comprise more than 290 post-war and contemporary artworks. The offerings include the most important names in the past seven decades of art history highlighted by exemplary works by Ed ... More | |
Portrait of Serge Poliakoff, 1968 © Alexis Poliakoff. Courtesy of the Estate and Almine Rech.
PARIS.- Almine Rech Paris, Matignon is presenting Image Divine, Serge Poliakoff's first solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from September 7 to October 5, 2024. Poliakoff conceived of art as a world of God. He moved to France 100 years ago, in 1923, and lived most of his life there. The artist once reflected, If I hadnt come to Paris, perhaps I would not be a painter. Kandinsky, who was also from Russia, recognized Poliakoffs ... More | |
At the age of 52, Arthur met his future wife Molly, at the Chelsea Arts Ball. She quickly became his muse, and he painted her portrait many times.
LONDON.- Bellmans announced the sale of works from the Chelsea studio of Arthur Croft Mitchell (1872-1956). He studied under Henry Tonks, Frederic Brown and Philip Steer at the Slade and spent time in Paris before returning to London. In 1913 he built a house with his studio at 32 Mallord Street in Chelsea, later Augustus John moved next door and Arthur lived there until his death. ... More |
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| Let the bidding on her great taste begin | | How to own something by the punk poet Jun Takahashi | | Solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco on view at White Cube Seoul |
Mica Ertegun in New York in 1979. (D. Gorton/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- On a steamy afternoon last week, a team of movers from Christies padded quietly about a town house on a side street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, yanking strips of packing tape from spools as they began bundling up thousands of artworks and objects for auction. The ripping sound the tape made resembled, in a way, screams of protest. Cant we get them to stop? asked Linda Wachner, an American entrepreneur and friend of Mica Ertegun, the woman whose house, until her death in ... More | |
Apples are a consistent, if enigmatic, theme in Jun Takahashis work, as in this GU x Undercover tee. (GU via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Uniqlo, the Japanese retail behemoth owned by Fast Retailing, takes in roughly $2.5 billion in annual profits and has more than 2,500 stores globally, including 61 in the United States. It is known for its smart, affordable basics cashmere and merino sweaters, Ultra Light Down jackets and tailoring that are conservative and classic, yet hip to the times. The same description applies to Uniqlos robust fashion collaboration machine. The practice of mass brands ... More | |
Gabriel Orozco, Handsome Lion Fish, 2024. Tempera and watercolour on gold shikishi board, 49 x 38 cm | 19 5/16 x 14 15/16 in. © Gabriel Orozco. Photo © White Cube (Gerardo Landa Rojano).
SEOUL.- White Cube Seoul is presenting a solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco (b.1962). Living and working in Tokyo, Mexico City and Paris, Orozcos diverse conceptual practice draws from his surroundings, spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, architecture and design. Currently the artistic director of the regeneration project of Mexico Citys Chapultepec Park ... More |
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| MoMA announces Designer's Choice: Norman Teague-Jam Sessions, the inaugural exhibition in a new series | | Xavier Huflens will open 'Cassi Namoda: The Equator's Forfeit' | | Meet the Birkin bag of the book world: Collectible, covetable and priced to match |
Norman Teague (American, born 1968). Dizzie. 2024. Digital image file, 40 Ã 30″ (101.6 Ã 76.2 cm). Courtesy of Norman Teague Design Studios.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces Designers Choice: Norman TeagueJam Sessions, an exhibition on view in the Museum's street-level galleries from October 10, 2024, through May 11, 2025, that will juxtapose historic design icons from MoMAs collection with Teagues unique reinterpretations of many of those objects. For Norman TeagueJam Sessions, the Chicago-based designer Norman Teague (b. 1968) draws inspiration from the ... More | |
Marias Zenith, 2024. Oil on canvas, 122.2 Ã 91.5 cm, 48 1⁄8 Ã 36 in. Courtesy the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels.
BRUSSELS.- The works in The Equators Forfeit, Cassi Namodas second exhibition with the gallery, were painted in two locations, Europe and America. Informed by Namodas frequent and long visits to her country of birth, Mozambique, the works are rooted in personal experience, while reflecting broader historical and contemporary truths. Namodas dream-like paintings unfurl across time, continents, traditions and cultures, depicting pictures of enchantment and disenchantment, ... More | |
A stack of titles produced by Assouline, a high-end publisher for 30 years that specializes in limited edition photography and art books, in Paris. (Hugues Laurent/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Two decades ago, when Assouline, a leading purveyor of high-end coffee table books and fancy library accouterments, opened its first branded outpost on the seventh floor of Bergdorf Goodman in New York, Prosper Assouline, a founder of the company, experienced a kind of epiphany. I noticed that luxury consumers were willing to spend $650 on shoes, he said in a recent interview conducted ... More |
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| Eddie Martinez's third solo exhibition with BLUM opens in Los Angeles | | Exhibition features a wide range of new and recent works by Germane Barnes | | After Apple, Jony Ive is building an empire of his own |
Eddie Martinez, HW#11, 2022. Acrylic paint and gesso on cardboard in handmade artist's frame, 12 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches framed. Photo: JSP Art Photography.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- BLUM is presenting Homework, Brooklyn-based artist Eddie Martinezs third solo exhibition with the gallery. Completed at a compact and intimate scale, the paintings on cardboard that comprise Homework function for Martinez as visual journal entries from recent years. Beginning to work in this fashion in 2017, the artist started creating these diaristic vignettes as an alternative to the large-scale canvases he had become most known for. As this ... More | |
Germane Barnes, Labor Column II, 2024. Fabricated by Endicott (American, founded 1920). Brick and mortar. Construction was generously provided by skilled union masons with the Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Administrative District Council 1 of Illinois with support from the International Masonry Institute. Courtesy of the artist.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago is presenting Germane Barnes: Columnar Disorder, on view from September 21, 2024 through January 27, 2025. For his first solo museum show, the Chicago-born architect recasts the canonical foundations of architecture through the lens ... More | |
Jony Ive, the former head of design for Apple, in San Francisco, June 28, 2024. (Carolyn Fong/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Five years to the week after he walked away from the top job designing the iPhone, Jony Ive leaned over a hulking model of a San Francisco city block. The dozen buildings, with each brick carved to scale in Alder wood, had become a prototype for his future. Were standing right now, here, Ive said, pointing with his black Maison Bonnet reading glasses at a 115-year-old two-story building in Jackson Square, a gold rush-era neighborhood wedged between ... More |
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Nelson DeMille, blockbuster author who thrilled millions, dies at 81NEW YORK, NY.- Nelson DeMille, a beloved and prolific author whose propulsive thrillers featuring terrorist hijackings, Russian spy schools, gruesome murders, Mafia kingpins, wartime crimes and military malfeasance made him a publishing juggernaut, died Tuesday in Mineola, New York. He was 81. His death, at a Long Island hospital near his home in Garden City, was from complications of esophageal cancer, his son, Alex said. DeMilles writing brought you into wonderful worlds, said Sally Richardson, publisher at large for Macmillan, who knew him for decades. His books were fun and literate, she added, in an interview. He had a grasp of human nature and a sense of humor, and he got all kinds of people the down-and-outs and the sophisticates. He defied category. Everyone wanted to publish Nelson. ... More Unlocking the Orange Dream: Handbags from an Important Private Collection at Christie'sPARIS.- Christies will present an exciting and exceptional online single owner sale, running from October 30 to November 13, 2024: Unlocking the Orange Dream: Handbags from an Important Private Collection. Following the success of earlier sales in April and July, including Handbags Online : The Paris Edit and Legendary Trunks, a European Private Collection, this auction showcases the passion of one collector, bringing true treasures for fashion enthusiasts and collectors to market. Unlocking the Orange Dream: Handbags from an Important Private Collection highlights a rare European private collection, carefully assembled over more than two decades. This collection, featuring nearly 200 luxury handbags, includes a diverse range of colors and models, with a strong emphasis on Hermès creations. Spanning from the late 1990s to the ... More New exhibitions at the Migros Museum für GegenwartskunstZÃRICH.- For the first time, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst has commissioned an artist who works in the field of Socially Engaged Art an artistic practice where artists collaborate with different groups of people to develop a project together to address contemporary concerns. Jeanne van Heeswijk, the initiator of the project, and Sophie Mak-Schram have been in our museum, in the neighbourhood, and throughout the district (Zurich, Districts 5 and 4) since the beginning of the year. They first spent time with the museum and museum staff, as well as with collaborative practices and alternative / independent organisations in our surroundings. This led to the question about the museums thresholds: what and how could people, ideas and objects enter or exit the museum? The project conceptualises this movement as streams t ... More  Schwamendingen has taken up residence in the centre of the city at Kunsthalle ZürichZURICH.- Schwamendingen in Zürich, like Genevaâs Meyrin or Bernâs Bümpliz-Bethlehem, is one of Switzerland's legendary suburbs. Located at the northern end of Zürich, it was incorporated into the city of Zürich in 1934 and designated âDistrict 12â (K12) in 1971. This is why this exhibition is named K12 Schwamendingen. Schwamendingen lies under the southern flight path of Zürichâs nearby Kloten Airport and is bisected by the A1 motorway, on which 120,000 vehicles travel every day. Schwamendingenâs Chilbi fair is famous throughout Switzerland, as are the rapper Bligg, TV presenter and actress Viola Tami and national footballer Ricardo RodrÃguez, all of whom come from the district. When she moved to Schwamendingen in the early 1990s, Ruth Erdt began to photograph her neighbourhood. As she recounts, it was a strange place for her at first, almost beyond the city, not really respected â many looked at it askance. âIn my photos, I always tried to make Schw ... More Billy Edd Wheeler, songwriter who celebrated rural life, dies at 91NEW YORK, NY.- Billy Edd Wheeler, an Appalachian folk singer who wrote vividly about rural life and culture in songs like Jackson, a barn-burning duet that was a hit in 1967 for June Carter and Johnny Cash as well as for Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, died Monday at his home in Swannanoa, North Carolina, east of Asheville. He was 91. His death was announced on social media by his daughter, Lucy Wheeler. Plain-spoken and colloquial, Wheelers songs have been recorded by some 200 artists, among them Neil Young, Hank Snow, Elvis Presley, and Florence & the Machine. Jackson a series of spirited exchanges between a quarrelsome husband and wife opens with one of the most evocative couplets in popular music: We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout/Weve been talkin about Jackson, ever since ... More Sacred sites and sun-dappled canals: Kyoto from the waterNEW YORK, NY.- For more than a millennium, Kyoto flourished as the imperial capital of Japan. But in a seismic upheaval known as the Meiji Restoration, in which feudal shogunates gave way to a modern nation-state, the capital was moved to Tokyo in 1868. And Kyoto fell into decline. The governor of Kyoto prefecture looked to giant Lake Biwa to the east for a revival. Building a canal from the lake some 8 miles into Kyoto would irrigate land for farms, generate hydro power for factories, and ramp up traffic of goods and people. The first canal was finished in 1890, and as a display at the Lake Biwa Canal Museum explains, strongly led a depressed Kyoto into recovery. Its a safe bet that the governor, Kunimichi Kitagaki, had no idea that 134 years later his sepia portrait would be sharing that narrative with tourists barreling through ... More Pat Field: Do what you love, and you will make things happenNEW YORK, NY.- Age means nothing to me. In my mind, Im probably 40. Ive always gotten my energy by associating with people who are younger. I still do. Its a habit I formed early in life. Young energy is optimistic. That pattern continues in my store/art gallery on East Broadway in Manhattan and in my projects. I did a book last year. I dont like to call it a memoir because memoir suggests some kind of an ending, and I wasnt feeling an ending. The book was more a trip through a series of experiences. I had the opportunity to speak my words, so I did. I had a great time on Happy Clothes, the documentary I worked on with director Michael Selditch. Part of the fun was being filmed tooling around Brooklyn in my T-Bird with the top down. The documentary opens with me swimming in a pool. Ive been swimming since I was a kid. I feel spontaneous in the water. ... More Michel Siffre, 85, dies; Descended into caves to study the human mindNEW YORK, NY.- On the morning of Sept. 14, 1962, reporters and onlookers began to gather around a hole in the ground, far up in the Maritime Alps between France and Italy. A few hours later, workers rigged a rope down into the darkness; soon they pulled out a small, sturdily built man named Michel Siffre. He had been inside the cave, 375 feet down, for 63 days, with only a 4-volt lamp for illumination. He wore dark goggles to limit the glare of the sun, and he had to be carried to a waiting helicopter. This was no rescue: Siffre, a geologist, was conducting an experiment on himself, to see what would happen to his sense of time if he cut himself off from the normal day-night flow of life on the surface. It turns out that a lot could happen: Time as he experienced had telescoped, he said. His circadian rhythm of wakefulness and sleep stretched from 24 to about 25 hours. And what felt to him like one month was in fact two on the surface. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Alessandro Allori died September 22, 1607. Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (31 May 1535 - 22 September 1607) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school. In this image: Portrait of Grand Duchess Bianca Capello de Medici, by Allori, Dallas Museum of Art.
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