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â1% de désordre,â a work by Vera Molnar from 1977 that was made with the help of a computer. Courtesy Sotheby's.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- When digital artworks started selling for millions of dollars last year, the shock of pixelated punks and computerized graphics turned some traditional collectors into crypto skeptics. The argument that NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, represented the art markets future was unappealing to the bulk of these buyers, leaving gallerists and auctioneers to focus their attention on a new class of millennial connoisseurs from the tech world. The arrangement left auction houses prioritizing Pak cubes and Bored Apes collectibles that are the closest one can get to brand-names in the crypto world in sales that further alienated the skeptics. But one year later, Sothebys has started using the more genteel language of art history to entice traditional collectors toward blockchain-based collectibles for a sale, Natively Digital NFT. It is running April 18-25 and is designed to unite early pioneers of computer art with their crypto counterparts. Traditional collectors are often ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Radio Ballads, Installation view, 31 March - 29 May 2022, Serpentine North Rory Pilgrim, RAFTS, 2022 Photo: George Darrell.
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| The Dalà Museum and Grande Experiences announce Dalà Alive - A new multi-sensory, immersive traveling experience | | Christie's to offer Photographs & Fashion Photographs from the Susanne von Meiss Collection | | Sotheby's presents first ever auction dedicated to Generative Art, spanning early 1960s computer art to NFTs of today | 
Dalà Alive © 2022 by The Salvador Dalà Museum, Inc. St. Petersburg, FL and Grande Experiences, Port Melbourne, Australia. The materials from the Museums collection in the USA © Salvador Dalà Museum, Inc., St. Petersburg, FL. Worldwide rights © Salvador DalÃ, Fundacio Gala-Salvador DalÃ. The materials from third parties © by their respective owners.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- The Dalà Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, which holds an unparalleled collection of Salvador Dalà works, announced today its exclusive collaboration with Grande Experiences, a world leader in the creation and display of multi-sensory, immersive experiences, to develop Dalà Alive: a large-scale, captivating experience celebrating the creative genius of one of the most influential and inventive artists of the modern era, Salvador DalÃ. From the creators of Van Gogh Alive the most visited multi-sensory experience in the world Dalà Alive will further redefine the way U.S. audiences connect with art and culture, engaging and inspiring guests ... More | | 
Irving Penn (1917-2009) Station Sweeper, New York, 1951. Platinum-palladium print, 25 5/8 x 17 ¾ in. Estimate : 70,000-90,000 © Irving Penn, Vogue ©Condé Nast.
PARIS.- Christies will present Photographs, an auction taking place in Paris on 24 May. The 124 works by leading photographers from the 20th and 21st century such as Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, Candida Hofer, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Marina Abramovic are estimated between 1,3 and 1,9 million. Fashion Photographs from the Susanne von Meiss Collection will be a key part of the auction with works by established fashion photographers such as Richard Avedon, Sarah Moon and Edward Steichen; as well as lesser known artists like Tomio Seike, Franck Christen and Len Prince. This well informed collection, covers the history of this specific genre over the past 80 years. Eiffel Tower (1974) an iconic print by Helmut Newton will be the top lot of the sale. The work contains all the artists ... More | | 
Sofia Crespo, [transmutation of species] (Still).
NEW YORK, NY.- In the 1960s, a new avant-garde emerged, one that was developed alongside the rise of early computer technology, which disrupted the established artistic order: Generative Art. More than 50 years later, the prescient and pioneering work by those artists, chiefly Vera Molnár, Chuck Csuri, and Roman Verostko, has provided the foundation for the digital artists at the forefront of the digital art and NFT movement. In the latest iteration the Natively Digital NFT sale series, Sothebys will present the first ever auction dedicated to Generative Art, showcasing the history of the generative art movement from its founding in the 1960s to the artists pushing the movement forward today through a curated selection of works celebrating the revival of generative art in new forms on the blockchain. The sale was curated by Anne and Michael Spalter, Sofia Garcia, and Itzel Yard, and spotlights the many women artists associated ... More |
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| Shin Gallery charms and surprises with a motley collection | | Exhibition of new sculptures by Mia Westerlund Roosen opens at Betty Cuningham Gallery | | Anne-Claire Duprat appointed Director of Fondation d'entreprise Martell | 
Joshua Johnsons Portrait of a Woman, circa 1763. Photo: Shin Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- You may wonder whether youve found a curiosities shop upon entering Shin Gallerys 10th anniversary exhibition. The show charts the gallerys history in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and its namesake collectors wild but slyly judicious tendencies, with nearly 100 items filling three rooms. The show, fittingly titled Amalgamation, creates groupings at times brilliantly intuitive, including a drawing of a reclining onanistic female figure by Egon Schiele paired with a monoprint on a pillow by Tracey Emin (who exhibited her own disheveled bed in 1999 at the Tate in London). Elsewhere, the connections are delightfully weird, as in Henry Moores sketch of huddled biomorphic fragments, Ideas for Wood Sculpture (1932), sandwiched between James Castles childlike composition of a figure in front of a house and French master François Bouchers Death of Meleager (circa 1720), in black chalk, ink and ... More | | 
Betty Cuningham Gallery installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- Betty Cuningham Gallery is presenting Aftermath, an exhibition of new sculptures by Mia Westerlund Roosen. This is the artists fifth exhibition with the Gallery, located at 15 Rivington Street, New York, NY. Since 2016, I have been addicted to the news, horrified by the unbelievable march towards the destruction of our political, social, and natural world. And yet, the times seem more luxurious than ever.Mia Westerlund Roosen So inspires Mia Westerlund Roosens sculpture in Aftermath. The works convey vulnerability and a body element that starkly contrast the world in which she constructed them. Mia Westerlund Roosen emerged as a sculptor in the late 1960s, when Minimalism was the dominant artistic movement. She chose the organic over the industrial and geometric, engaging with the language of the human body both physically and emotionally. Todays current events have brought a new, chilling ... More | | 
An art historian and specialist in cultural policy, Anne-Claire Duprat boasts 15 years of experience in the contemporary art world.
COGNAC.- Fondation dentreprise Martell announces the appointment of Anne-Claire Duprat as Director. She succeeds Nathalie Viot and reports to César Giron, CEO of Martell Mumm Perrier-Jouët and President of the Foundation. Anne-Claire Duprat's mission is to increase the Foundation's global influence by developing a series of innovative initiatives focused on art, design and craft, the foundations mission since its beginning in 2016. Another key focus for the foundation will be to serve as a springboard and catalyst for social change, in particular by fostering research and cross-collaboration on the ecological transition, in line with public and private cultural institutions social and environmental responsibilities. Transdisciplinary, the Martell Foundation's action will be anchored in cooperation of excellence on a national and ... More |
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| Christopher Coover, auction expert in the printed word, dies at 72 | | London Design Biennale appoints Het Nieuwe Instituut as Artistic Director for the fourth edition | | Cooper Hewitt announces new board appointments | 
Christopher Coover, a senior specialist in rare books and manuscripts at Christies Auction House, with a letter from Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, in New York, March 7, 2004. Ruby Washington/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christopher Coover, who made a career out of reading other peoples mail as an expert in rare books and manuscripts at Christies Auction House, where he oversaw the authentication, appraisal and sale of documents ranging from the original texts of Jack Kerouacs On the Road to George Washingtons annotated copy of the Constitution, died in Livingston, New Jersey, on April 3, his 72nd birthday. The immediate cause was pneumonia complicated by Parkinsons disease, said his son, Timothy. As a connoisseur of curios, Coover was enlisted as an appraiser for the PBS program Antiques Roadshow, where at a single glance he could transform an all-but-forgotten autographed book or letter, retrieved from a starry-eyed guests ... More | | 
Aric Chen, 2021. Photo Marwan Magroun.
LONDON.- London Design Biennale today announces the appointment of Het Nieuwe Instituut, the Dutch national museum and institute for architecture, design and digital culture, as Artistic Director of the fourth edition of London Design Biennale, taking place from 1-25 June 2023 at Somerset House. Led by its General and Artistic Director, Aric Chen, Het Nieuwe Instituut aims to explore the biennales format of national and territorial pavilions by Remapping Collaborations, a theme which will be further developed on the journey to June 2023. Participants from across the globe will be invited to imagine and enact new forms of international cooperation and participationincluding with each otherthrough the medium of design. At a time of growing global complexity, countries, territories and cities are invited to interpret and examine the topic in their own way. However, Het Nieuwe Instituut will be launching a ... More | | 
Jennifer Deason is the chairwoman and CEO of Belong Capital, which is focused on digital media, ecommerce, software and consumer technology.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum today announced four appointments to its board of trustees: Jennifer Deason, Paul Leinwand, Natalie Nixon and Ivy Ross. I am thrilled to welcome this dynamic group to Cooper Hewitts board of trustees, said Maria Nicanor, director of Cooper Hewitt. Jennifer, Paul, Natalie and Ivy couldnt be better suited to help push forward our new vision for Cooper Hewitt in the years to come. We are truly honored to have them join an already stellar board of trustees with their profound design expertise and exemplary track record as caring leaders in their fields. On behalf of my fellow trustees, I extend a warm welcome to an outstanding group of new board members, said Jon Iwata, chairman of Cooper Hewitts board of trustees. Each has demonstrated a strong commitment to design ... More |
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| Ellen Gallagher has first major exhibition in Spain with Edgar Cleijne at Centro BotÃn | | Museum of Russian Icons Founding Director Kent dur Russel to retire in May | | Kavi Gupta now representing Suchitra Mattai | 
Installation view.
SANTANDER.- This spring, Centro BotÃn art centre in Santander, is presenting the first exhibition in Spain by the internationally acclaimed American artist Ellen Gallagher. Spanning two decades of the artist´s career, it includes paintings, works on paper as well as three film installations created in collaboration with Dutch artist Edgar Cleijne. Gallagher (b.1965, Rhode Island) builds intricate, multi-layered works that pivot between the natural world, mythology and history. Through an immersive itinerary, the exhibition will explore issues of race, identity and transformation, with reference to themes such as Modernist abstraction and marine biology. It proposes a dialogue with the Atlantic Ocean, whose waters are intrinsically, connected to Gallagher´s fluid aesthetics, her archaeological impulse to excavate subaquatic narratives of colonial violence and her ongoing fascination with processes of transformation of all life forms. The ... More | | 
Before working with Lankton to open the Museum, Russell served as executive director of the Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester, MA from 1996 to 2007.
CLINTON, MASS.- Museum of Russian Icons Founding Director Kent dur Russell has announced that he plans to retire in May of 2022 after more than sixteen years of committed leadership at the Clinton-based museum. Founded in 2006, the Museum of Russian Icons is the only museum in the USA dedicated to Russian icons, holding the largest collection of icons outside of Russia. Russell was integral to the founding, building, and expansion of the Museum, and guided the institution through years of dynamic growth. Thanks to the vision of our founder Gordon Lankton and the exceptional efforts of our staff and supporters, our team created an American Alliance of Museums accredited organization in record time. Establishing this organization has been the capstone of my forty-five-year career in the museum field, which started in 1977 as a ... More | | 
Suchitra Mattai. Photo: Kendra Custer.
CHICAGO, IL.- Kavi Gupta announces representation of Denver-based, Guyana-born artist Suchitra Mattai. Mattais highly conceptual studio practice is rooted in the telling of visual stories related to her Indo-Caribbean heritage. Her inaugural solo exhibition with Kavi Gupta will open in November 2022. Mattai has lived in Guyana, Canada, the United States, India, and Europe. Her work addresses the disorientation of not really having a single homea feeling that informs much of how Mattai thinks about identity. Found objects, as well as craft-based processes and materials, play an essential role in her practice, in part because of the potentialities that arise from materials with forgotten or erased histories. Im inspired by the mystery of the objects I find, Mattai says. When I combine multiple objects and mediums in a work, the collective aura translates into a space of new myth and new folktale. It's no longer abo ... More |
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 'Cyrano de Bergerac,' now noseless and drunk on wordsNEW YORK, NY.- Ah, good my lords, what a nose is his! When one sees it, one is fain to cry aloud, Nay! tis too much! At any rate, one is fain to cry because thats unfortunately how the title character of Cyrano de Bergerac is usually introduced, both in the plays first English translation, a year after its 1897 Paris premiere, and more or less ever since. But in the version that opened at the BAM Harvey Theater on Thursday, freely adapted by Martin Crimp so freely it almost amounts to a new play the flowery phrases and antique diction of Edmond Rostands Belle Ãpoque verse drama, at least as typically rendered in English, are finally fully swept away. Cyrano is now introduced rather differently: They say when he came through his mothers vagina/the nose poked out first as a painful reminder. This is not your grand- ... More  In 'American Buffalo,' grift is the coin of the realmNEW YORK, NY.- On Sundays edition of the Fox News show Life, Liberty & Levin, David Mamet, the playwright turned Trumpite culture warrior, made an incendiary comment. Teachers are inclined, particularly men because men are predators, to pedophilia, he said, citing no evidence. If theres no community control of the schools, what we have is kids being not only indoctrinated but groomed. It was not a traditional way of publicizing the Broadway revival of one of your best plays, but perhaps Mamet was thinking not of teachers per se but of a character called Teach. In American Buffalo, Teach is a thug prone to crackpot theories, bordering on paranoia, about his friends and associates and human nature in general. In the electric revival that opened Thursday at Circle in the Square, Teach is embodied with coiled and ... More  Brazilian artist Rafael Barons first solo show with albertz benda on view in L.A.LOS ANGELES, CA.- albertz benda is presenting Rafael Baron: Portraits, the Brazilian artist's first solo show with the gallery. With this exhibition, the artist presents a series of paintings showcasing his signature style of portraiture; enigmatic figures with large, exaggerated lips and dark, deep eyes, nearly shut but not quite. Vibrant textiles, patterned with thick swatches of oil paint, emphasize the figures individuality. Monumental in scale, these works celebrate his subjects with bold, dynamic color and rhythmic compositions. In Maria LuÃsa, 2022, a woman, her dark hair swirling around her head, dominates the composition. Her expression is ambiguous, and the purple-pink background reveals little of her surroundings. The subjects personality is legible only through her expressive attire the colorful, patterned frock and gold earrings ... More  John Zaritsky, unflinching Oscar-winning documentarian, dies at 78NEW YORK, NY.- John Zaritsky, a documentary filmmaker known for his unflinching looks at uncomfortable subjects such as rape, assisted suicide and prostate cancer and an Oscar winner for Just Another Missing Kid, a gripping account of a college students murder on a road trip, died March 30 in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was 78. His wife, Annie Clutton, said the cause was heart failure. Zaritsky was a young director for The Fifth Estate, a Canadian TV newsmagazine modeled after 60 Minutes, when he came across the story of Eric Wilson, a college student from Ontario who had disappeared along with his Volkswagen van in 1978 somewhere along his journey to Colorado, where he was to take summer classes. As Zaritsky recounted in engrossing detail, family members spent months looking for Eric, ... More  Liz Sheridan, who played Jerry Seinfeld's mom, dies at 93NEW YORK, NY.- Liz Sheridan, a stage, film and television actress best known for playing Helen Seinfeld, Jerrys mother on the acclaimed sitcom Seinfeld, died Friday at her home in New York City. She was 93. Her manager, Amanda Hendon, confirmed the death. Sheridan started her career as a dancer in the 1950s. Her acting career blossomed in the 1970s, when she appeared in seven Broadway shows (one, Happy End in 1977, also featured Meryl Streep, still early in her career) and on an episode of the TV series Kojak. The 1980s brought dozens of roles in made-for-TV movies and on series like Hill Street Blues and Remington Steele, including a prominent one as a nosy neighbor on the comedy ALF, which ran from 1986 to 1990. She first appeared on Seinfeld in the second episode, in May 1990, and turned up ... More  Many Broadway theaters will drop vaccine checks, but not mask mandateNEW YORK, NY.- Most Broadway theaters have decided to stop checking the vaccination status of ticket holders after April 30, but all will continue to require that audience members wear masks inside theaters through at least May 31. The Broadway League, a trade association, announced the change Friday. The decision was made by the owners and operators of Broadways 41 theaters, who had initially decided to require vaccines and masks in the summer, before the city imposed its own mandates. The theater owners six commercial and four nonprofit entities have been periodically reconsidering the protocols ever since. They announced the decision as many governments and businesses nationwide have been loosening restrictions but with cases rising in New York City and the virus forcing several Broadway shows to cancel ... More  A new horror film finds solace, and identity, in terrorNEW YORK, NY.- Its not often that an experimental horror film generates buzz outside of horror geekdom, especially one made by a transgender writer-director-editor, with a newcomer whos not yet 20 as its star. But critics have been foregrounding Jane Schoenbruns new indie, Were All Going to the Worlds Fair, since its debut last year at the Sundance Film Festival. The movie is currently in theaters and set for an April 22 digital release. Shot mostly in Ellenville, New York, in Ulster County, the film stars Anna Cobb as Casey, a teenager who lives with her father in a rural home, where she binges creepypasta videos (or web scares) in her attic bedroom and awkwardly tries to connect with other lovers of the macabre, including an anonymous older man who goes by JLB (Michael J. Rogers). The films title comes from its opening ... More  14 top galleries join the Art Dealers Association of AmericaNEW YORK, NY.- The Art Dealers Association of America today announced the addition of 14 new members from across the country: Peg Alston Fine Arts (New York), Chapter NY (New York), CONNERSMITH (Washington, D.C.), Derek Eller Gallery (New York), GAVLAK (Los Angeles and Palm Beach), Nathalie Karg Gallery (New York), Shulamit Nazarian (Los Angeles), Parrasch Heijnen (Los Angeles), Almine Rech (New York), Rosenberg & Co. (New York), SAPAR Contemporary (New York), Two Palms (New York), Von Lintel Gallery (Santa Monica), and YOSHII (New York). They join nearly 190 members, from more than 30 cities across the U.S., in the nations leading nonprofit organization of fine art dealers, which this year marks its 60th anniversary. Membership in the Association signifies an established standing ... More  Regent Collection of Australian gold to shimmer at Heritage Auctions' World & Ancient Coins eventDALLAS, TX.- The Regent Collection, one of the finest selections of early Australian gold ever assembled, will bring collectors from around the globe to Heritage Auctions May 5-7 for its Central States World Coins & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction. "The Regent Collection represents the finest group of Australian rarities to come to market in years, if not ever," Heritage Auctions Executive Vice President of International Numismatics Cristiano Bierrenbach said. "This group represents the cross-section of high-end collectors of Australia, British Commonwealth Sovereigns and World Gold Trophy Hunters, so we anticipate serious bidding activity on them." Among the top attractions is the finest of just six known examples of the George V gold Sovereign 1920-S MS64+ NGC ($400,000-500,000), which ... More  Major solo exhibition of African diaspora artist Everlyn Nicodemus opens at Richard SaltounLONDON.- Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a major solo exhibition of African diaspora artist Everlyn Nicodemus (b. 1954), her first with the gallery. The exhibition marks Nicodemus' first solo show in London in over 15 years and brings together a selection of works spanning 40 years, including unseen paintings from The Wedding series. Everlyn Nicodemus is one of the strongest feminist voices to emerge from Eastern Africa in the past 30 years. Drawing on personal experience and her battle with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Nicodemus' work explores the universal issues of racism, cultural trauma, human suffering and the marginalisation of women throughout history. Born in Kilimanjaro, Nicodemus spent many years moving across Europe - to Sweden, France, Belgium and finally Scotland, where she currently lives ... More  London's Eye of the Collector fair announces galleries for second editionLONDON.- Eye of the Collector's second edition will kick off the London art and design season this May. Building on the format initiated in the inaugural edition last year, the fair will take collectors on a journey of artistic discovery in an extraordinary historic building in the heart of London. A celebration of connoisseurship, Eye of the Collector presents works carefully chosen in collaboration with the 24 participating galleries in a curated dialogue with the striking surroundings of a gothic renaissance mansion. Participating Exhibitors: Addis Fine Art Alan Wheatley Art Alice Black Gallery Alon Zakaim Fine Art Ana Escarzaga Gallery Ariadne A.I. Gallery Charles Burnand Gallery Cooke Latham Gallery Cynthia Corbett Gallery Gallery FUMI Gillian Jason Gallery Kallos Gallery Kate MacGarry Katie Jones MTArt Opera Gallery ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Ukrainian-American sculptor Louise Nevelson died April 17, 1988. Louise Nevelson (September 23, 1899 - April 17, 1988) was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. In this image: Installation view.of an exhibition at McCabe Fine Art that presented a diverse selection of Louise Nevelsonâs late career works.
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