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Selected pieces from Leslie & Ramon Pinas glass collection. The Dino Martens Oriente vase debuted on the cover of Fifties Glass, one of Dr. Pinas most noteworthy publications. Photo: Palm Beach Modern Auctions staff.
LAKE WORTH BEACH, FLA.- Hundreds of specimens of Murano glass fill the display cases at Palm Beach Modern Auctions, awaiting what is expected to be competitive bidding from art glass enthusiasts. Well-known for their passion for the topic, glass collectors look for documented, flawless pieces and complicated techniques from important artists, made before the time of reproductions. This collection from the archives of Cleveland-area author Dr. Leslie Pina checks all those boxes. If this sale had happened when I was opening my gallery 30 years ago, Id have absolutely jumped on it, says Wade Terwilliger, co-owner at Palm Beach Modern Auctions. This is an opportunity for someone to own a substantial, vetted collection in one swoop, or to obtain specific pieces featuring sought-after forms or techniques. I put a lot of thought ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of David Rabinowitch: Works from 1962 - 2018, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, 2024.
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| Almine Rech London presents an exhibition of works by Karachi-born artist Hiba Schahbaz | | Desert racers demolish art carved by ancient people in Chile | | Jhumpa Lahiri declines a Noguchi Museum award over a ban on kaffiyehs |
Hiba Schahbaz Metamorphosis, 2020. Tea, gouache and watercolor on paper, 33 x 25.4 cm. 13 x 10 in.
LONDON.- Dragons are found in the collective imaginary of most cultures. While they may have different significationsbeing evil or affectionate, shy, aggressive or wilythese creatures have exerted an enduring fascination over many civilizations because of their enthralling appearance and otherworldliness. Dragons crop up in the Persian epic poem the Shahnameh, Mughal miniature paintings, European medieval courtly romances, and in modern ... More | |
An image provided by Luis Pérez Reyes, director of the Regional Museum of Iquique, shows damage to a geoglyph at Alto Barranco in the Tarapacá region of Chile. (Luis Pérez Reyes via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Every year, hundreds of racers from around the world gather in northern Chile with their all-terrain motorcycles, jeeps, quads and buggies. They race in circuits for hundreds of miles around the Atacama Desert, carving tire tracks into one of the driest places on Earth. What many of those racers potentially ignore is that the Atacama was once a canvas for ancient Indigenous ... More | |
The Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri in Princeton, N.J., April 15, 2021. (Celeste Sloman/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer Jhumpa Lahiri has declined to accept an award from the Noguchi Museum in Queens next month in disapproval of its new ban on political dress for its staff, which led to the firings of three employees who had worn kaffiyehs to signal solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Jhumpa Lahiri has chosen to withdraw her acceptance of the 2024 Isamu Noguchi Award in response ... More |
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| Richard Pettibone, master of the artistic miniature, dies at 86 | | A recently discovered 17th century silk Safavid 'Polonaise' carpet leads Christie's sale | | A slippery devil finally gets his moment at MoMA |
A photo provided by Castelli Gallery shows the artist Richard Pettibone in his studio in December 2021. (Richard Walker, via Castelli Gallery via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When painter and sculptor Richard Pettibone was in art school in Los Angeles in the early 1960s, he was taught that there were two things he should never do. One, he said, was copy other peoples work. The other was repeat myself. He soon changed his mind about both and became a prankish virtuoso of appropriation ... More | |
A rare and impressive silk Safavid 'Polonaise' carpet probably Isfahan, Central Persia, early 17th century, £1,000,000 2,000,000 I US$1,300,000-2,600,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
LONDON.- Christies announces Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Rugs and Carpets, a live auction at Christies headquarters in London, on 24 October. The auction offers a curated selection of carpets, ceramics, manuscripts, textiles, works on paper and metalwork from across the Islamic world, with objects spanning over ... More | |
The German artist Thomas Schütte at a workshop in Cologne, Germany, Sept. 6, 2024. (Felix Schmitt/The New York Times)
DÃSSELDORF.- On a recent morning in a tidy workshop a half-hour from his home here, Thomas Schütte, one of Europes most celebrated artists, was face to face with a devil. It was deep blue, stout as a gnome, with phallic horns, grasping arms and gaping eyeholes. Soon to be cast in bronze, the sculpture was up on a forklift so its maker could look it in the eyes. Was Schütte confronting ... More |
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| How artist Liza Lou 'messes with your mind' | | A chronicler of the American elite in the spotlight, in Paris | | Rubin Museum's Tibetan shrine will move to Brooklyn Museum |
Liza Lou, inside her beaded installation, Trailer, a 35-foot mobile home that visitors can step inside at the Brooklyn Museum in New York on Sept. 11, 2024. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A gun, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a splatter, a million beads. With these details, California artist Liza Lou tells you stories. And just a minuscule bead, she explains, is like an underlined word: It can focus your attention and slow you down. Beads highlight what is ordinary and make you look at it, said Lou, known for her ... More | |
This fall, the Jeu de Paume will showcase Tina Barneys intimate, keenly observed images in her largest European retrospective.
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, the Jeu de Paume, Frances national photography museum, is honoring American photographer Tina Barney, a chronicler of social mores both in the United States and overseas, with her largest European retrospective to date. Family Ties, on display at the Paris museum from Saturday through Jan. 19, will feature 55 large-scale images from over 40 ... More | |
The Rubin announced in January that it would close its building in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room at the Rubin Museum, a centerpiece of its extensive collection of art from Himalayan Asia, will move to the Brooklyn Museum for six years starting next June as the Rubin closes its building and prepares to become a museum without walls. The Rubin announced in January that it would close its building in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan and focus on ... More |
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| Sicily's new hot spot? A 300-year-old palazzo turned museum. | | For an Italian curator, Colombia is a place to make a difference | | Reexamining the Cold War, through British eyes |
Francesca Frau de Angeli and her husband, Massimo Valsecchi, owners of Palazzo Butera, in Palermo, Italy, Sept. 10, 2024. (Leandro Colantoni/The New York Times)
PALERMO.- For more than 40 years, the Palazzo Butera stood unloved and unsellable above the Gulf of Palermo, a painful reminder of a grand aristocratic way of life in Sicily that had long disappeared. Then two outsiders with big plans swept in. Massimo Valsecchi was born in Genoa, Italy; his wife, Francesca Frua de Angeli, in Milan. They had long lived in an elegant apartment in London. He had ... More | |
Eugenio Viola, chief curator of the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá, Colombia, in front of a work by Colombian artist Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Sept. 11, 2024. (Nadège Mazars/The New York Times)
BOGOTA.- Even some of his closest colleagues told Eugenio Viola that he was making a mistake when he took the job as chief curator of the Museum of Modern Art Bogotá in 2019. His career was soaring at the time, with a resume that included organizing exhibitions at major European venues, including the Venice Biennale. That same year, the Rome-based magazine Artribune named him, for a second time, as Italys best curator. ... More | |
A protest badges dating from the late 1970s to the 1980s on display at the Scotland museum exhibition. (National Museum of Scotland via The New York Times)
LONDON.- Even the safest room in your home is not safe enough. This grave warning was issued in Protect and Survive, a pamphlet produced by the British government during the Cold War to advise civilians on what to do in the event of a nuclear attack. About 30 pages long and part of a broader information campaign of the same name, the pamphlet was made publicly available in 1980. It advised on how to prepare a home fallout ... More |
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Look Again: European Paintings—Americans in London
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Yvette Mayorga's family history is baked into her workGUADALAJARA.- Yvette Mayorgas exhibition at the Museo de Arte de Zapopan in Guadalajara takes her back to the place she always talks about leaving. Throughout her career, she has made art about her familys journey from the Mexican state of Jalisco to Chicago, exploring her immigrant parents struggle to gain an economic foothold in the United States, starting in the 1970s. Mayorga, who is 33, also examines how first-generation Americans like herself sort out their cultural identities. Mayorgas signature approach is to apply acrylic paint to canvas, using pastry tubes, piping out thick, frilly lines that resemble frosting on the fancy wedding and birthday cakes that are popular in Mexico and within Mexican American communities. The technique recognizes cross-border connections while also honoring the physical labor by many ... More Lloyd Macklowe, leading purveyor of Art Nouveau, is dead at 90NEW YORK, NY.- Lloyd Macklowe and his wife, Barbara, had so little cash when they began furnishing their Manhattan apartment in 1965 that they paid for a $55 ceramic Tiffany vase in $5 weekly installments. But that modest purchase was just the beginning: It inspired a collecting frenzy that transformed the couple into dominant dealers in Art Nouveau decorative arts and antique jewelry through their Macklowe Gallery, which became an East Side mecca for deep-pocketed buyers. Macklowe, who founded the gallery in 1971 and retired in 2019, died on Sept. 7 at his home in Bridgehampton, New York. He was 90. His son, Benjamin Macklowe, the president of the gallery since 2012, said the cause was complications of cancer. The Macklowes gallery specializes in French Art Nouveau furniture and objects; Tiffany lamps ... More In Milan, a vast - and unlikely - home for contemporary artNEW YORK, NY.- A half-hour drive from central Milan and its high-fashion boutiques is a vast compound where locomotives and farm machinery were once manufactured, and which today is dedicated to a single activity: the display of contemporary art. Pirelli HangarBicocca has been up and running for 20 years: It was established in September 2004 as a nonprofit contemporary-art foundation by the Italian tire maker Pirelli, which supplies tires for Formula One. It was inspired by Tate Modern, the power station turned museum in London, and at first glance, the two spaces have much in common: the postindustrial architecture, the soaring ceilings, the vast exhibition spaces. And not coincidentally, a onetime director of Tate Modern, Vicente TodolÃ, was hired in 2012 to run the Milan foundations artistic program. Yet Pirelli HangarBicocca is no Tate ... More The Adventures of Tintin continue at Heritage Auctions as an original 1939 Hergé cover Tops comic art eventDALLAS, TX.- Heritages October 12-13 International Comic Art Signature® Auction, now open for bidding, counts among its hefty highlights an original work featuring comicdoms most cherished and celebrated world traveler: perennial teen titan Tintin as rendered by his creator, the Belgian artist Georges Rémi, better known as Hergé. This clever, colorful work is among the most desirable Tintin illustrations ever offered at auction, hailing from the cover of the Feb. 16, 1939, Le Petit Vingtième, long ago a Belgian newspaper supplement aimed at children. Now, 85 years on, grown-ups will wrangle over this landmark artwork considered among the most prized pieces in Hergés portfolio. Iconic images of superheroes abound in this event alongside strips and sketches whose makers impacted generations of creators to come. Here, you will find ... More Museum of Fine Arts Houston opens 'Navigating the Waves: Contemporary Cuban Photography'HOUSTON, TX.- Celebrating the acquisition of some 300 Cuban photographs from the Chicago-based collectors Madeleine and Harvey Plonsker, Navigating the Waves: Contemporary Cuban Photography traces the mediums evolution in Cuba over nearly six decades -- from promoting the Revolution following Fidel Castros 1959 overthrow of the Batista government, to engaging in social and political critique in more recent times as the triumph of the Revolution increasingly gave way to economic hardship and political repression. Particularly in the years after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuban photographers created powerful personal expressions by exploring individual identity, the body and spirit, Afro-Cuban heritage, and the margins of society, all while navigating the fluctuating prescriptions and proscriptions of official cultural policy. ... More Maggie Smith was imperious in the most delightful wayNEW YORK, NY.- Oh, for heavens sake! Maggie Smith said in a 2015 interview, waving her hands vigorously in front of her face at the suggestion that she was a national treasure. But Smith, who died Friday at 89, was that very thing, an actor who embodied a quintessentially British character: the imperious, commanding woman, be it an aristocrat or a schoolteacher, who smites the less certain or socially secure with her arrow-sharp wit and finely honed disdain, though delivered in suitably plummy tones. While she worked steadily in theater from the start of her acting career in the 1950s, Smith didnt become famous until she won an Oscar for her performance in the 1969 film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Early on, she later recalled, she had signed a contract with a film company and received a message from the studio ... More Andrew Scott will perform one-man 'Vanya' Off-Broadway next springNEW YORK, NY.- Andrew Scott, the Irish actor who has parlayed his Fleabag hot-priest-ness into a thriving stage and screen career, will perform a one-man version of Uncle Vanya off-Broadway in the spring. This will not be Scotts first go at the Anton Chekhov classic: He previously performed all the plays parts in Londons West End last year; critic Houman Barekat, writing in The New York Times, was underwhelmed, but critics for British outlets were far more positive, and the production won this years Olivier Award for best revival. The New York production is scheduled to begin previews March 11 and to open March 18 at the Lucille Lortel Theater in the West Village. It is a commercial production, led by Wessex Grove, Gavin Kalin Productions and Kater Gordon. The original play was first staged in 1899 and is oft-revived; the most ... More Luhring Augustine exhibits Reinhard Mucha's Before the Wall came down / Lennep [2013] 2008 / 2009NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine is presenting Reinhard Muchas Before the Wall came down / Lennep [2013] 2008 / 2009 in the Chelsea gallery concurrently with the Joanne Leonard & Brittany Nelson exhibition from September 7 through October 19, 2024. For decades, Muchas celebrated multifaceted practice has delved into themes of collective memory, history-making, and structures of power. His insightful examinations of cultural systems, particularly those related to the complex history of his native Germany, call forth critical conversations surrounding institutions and politics of display. Composited by Mucha with a formal rigor that nods to Minimalism, his assemblages of raw materials and found objects wood, aluminum, flooring, footstools, carpenter rulers elude explicit reading or meaning. The arrangement is the beginning: abstracted ... More Belvedere opens Austria's first monographic exhibition showcasing the work of Akseli Gallen-KallelaVIENNA.- Akseli Gallen-Kallelas art was shaped by a lifelong dialogue between Finnish and transnational sources of inspiration. The exhibition in the Orangery of the Lower Belvedere invites visitors to explore the fascinating interplays in Gallen-Kallelas art as he engaged with the land and people of his native Finland, the Finnish national epic Kalevala, the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art), and the Nordic landscape. Furthermore, the international dimension of his art is showcased by shining a spotlight on Gallen-Kallelas contributions to the Vienna Secession exhibitions of 1901/02 and 1904. General Director Stella Rollig: Akseli Gallen-Kallela was part of the international network of the Vienna Secession and his work was admired by the avant-garde of Vienna 1900. This exhibition represents an in-depth rediscovery ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Tintoretto was born September 29, 1518. Tintoretto (September 29, 1518 - May 31, 1594), real name Jacopo Comin, was a Venetian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso. His work is characterized by its muscular figures, dramatic gestures and bold use of perspective in the Mannerist style, while maintaining color and light typical of the Venetian School. In this image: A man looks at 'The Coronation of the Virgin, The Paradise' a painting by 16th century Venetian artist Tintoretto, on display at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Wednesday, June 7, 2006.
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