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In an image provided by The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Indian Blanket, center, a 1968 painting by Alfred Young Man (Eagle Chief), on display at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pa., one stop on a six-city tour of an exhibition about modern Native American art. A combination of the Covid pandemic and changing demographics has led museums to expand their visions and horizons. (The Westmoreland Museum of American Art via The New York Times)
by Michael Janofsky
TEMPE, ARIZ.- A cigar store Indian princess stands alone in a corner here at the Arizona State University Art Museum, gazing toward gallery walls, not the viewer. Ten miles away, the Phoenix Art Museum is preparing a rare show of Cuban contemporary artist Juan Francisco Elso. The Baltimore Museum of Art recently opened an expansive multimedia exhibit celebrating 50 years of hip-hop. The Plains Art Museum in North Dakota is honoring an Indigenous tribe. While these shows would appear unrelated, they all reflect a realization among museums around the country that visitors want to see more than just paintings by American and European artists, most of them white, most of them male and many of them dead. As metropolitan areas grow in racial, ethnic and cultural diversity, museums are increasingly adding exhibitions to attract a wider audience by showing a broader array of artists and explaining why their work is worth appreciating. There is a widespread effort by museums of all types, p ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The highly-anticipated exhibition, If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future, made its worldwide debut at the African American Museum, Dallas in historic Fair Park.
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| Forgotten Gilded Age reformer-author Zoe Anderson Norris celebrated at the Grolier Club NYC | | Albert Einstein & Stephen Hawking among major figures of science and technology up for auction | | National Portrait Gallery presents "1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions" | 
To Fight for the Poor with My Pen documents Norriss astonishing productivity in a career that lasted less than two decadesher mantra was work, damn you, work!
NEW YORK, NY.- Zoe Anderson Norris (1860-1914), although little remembered today, was a foremother of modern-day social-justice advocates and confessional bloggers baring souls in print. In millions of published words of fiction and journalismincluding in her own bimonthly magazine, The East Side (1909-1914)she documented desperate immigrant poverty in New York and called for the world to heed and help. The Grolier Club in New York City, Americas oldest and largest society for bibliophiles, is celebrating Norriss legacy with an exhibition curated by independent scholar Eve M. Kahn, on view in the Clubs second-floor gallery until May 13, 2023. A Kentuckian belle turned restless Kansan housewife turned Queen of Bohemia in Manhattan, Norris covered issues that still resonate: corrupt policemen harassing street peddlers, powerful male editors going unpunished for plagiarism ... More | | 
Albert Einstein Handwritten Manuscript: "The Essence of the Theory of Relativity". Now At: $85,000 (6 bids). Estimate: $350,000+
BOSTON, MASS.- RRAuction's May Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction presents a specially curated selection of major figures in science and technologya remarkable variety of handwritten manuscripts, autograph letters, and signed photos are featured in the sale. Highlights include Albert Einstein's manuscript on "The Essence of the Theory of Relativity," an article published in English within volume XVI of 'The American Peoples Encyclopedia' in 1948. The six-page unsigned handwritten manuscript by Einstein, circa 1947-48. After a general introduction, Einstein discusses the "Special Theory of Relativity" and "General Theory of Relativity," writing several equations and sketching a small graph. A significant scientific manuscript by Einstein discussing the history, meaning, and influence of his theory of relativity. This manuscript provides insight into one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 20th century. (Estimate: $350,000 ... More | | 
John Singer Sargent, Theodore Roosevelt. Oil on canvas, 1903. White House Collection / White House Historical Association.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery has opened 1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions, marking the 125th anniversary of the year that the United States acquired overseas territories and emerged as a world power. 1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions is the first major Smithsonian museum exhibition to examine the War of 1898 (often called the Spanish-American War), the Congressional Joint Resolution to annex Hawaii (July 1898), the Philippine-American War (18991913) and the legacy of this controversial chapter in history. Through the lens of portraiture and visual culture, this exhibition of more than 90 objects presents the perspectives of those who advocated for overseas expansion, those who opposed it and those who tried to have agency over their political futures when the United States brought Cuba, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines into its sphere of power. ... More |
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| 'Amy Sillman: Temporary Object' now on view at Thomas Dane Gallery | | Maureen Paley opens Fulcrum, a new exhibition by Maaike Schoorel | | French artist JR brightens the Montauk Highway | 
Installation view. © Amy Sillman. Courtesy the artist, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Roberto Salomone.
NAPLES.- In April, for her second exhibition with Thomas Dane Gallery and her first in Naples, Amy Sillman (b. 1955, Detroit MI) is presenting Temporary Object: a body of work that includes recent paintings, works on paper, and a new series of 40 sequential diagrams printed on aluminium, which will continue until July 29th. The title Temporary Object serves as a primordial (and almost metaphysical) questioning on the nature of Painting. Sillmans sense of painting is as a kind of container, an object that develops within time. In computer terminology, a temporary object is an unnamed object created by the compiler to store a temporary value. Though resolutely handmade, her work also deals with a transitive and speculative kind of fullness and emptiness. The exhibition Temporary Object continues to expand upon the methods and systems she has explored over the years, and the idea of Painting as a continuously-altered and ... More | | 
Maaike Schoorel, viering (celebration), 2023. Oil on linen, in three parts: 1: 170 x 95 cm, 2: 170 x 95 cm, 3: 170 x 55 cm © Maaike Schoorel, courtesy Maureen Paley, London. Photo: Stephen Bishop.
LONDON.- Maureen Paley opened Fulcrum, a new exhibition by Maaike Schoorel. This is her fifth exhibition with the gallery and follows on from her recent solo exhibition at the Willet-Holthuysen House that is part of the Amsterdam Museum. The new work is being presented both at the gallery in Bethnal Green and at Studio M in Shoreditch. Maaike Schoorel is widely known for her paintings that traverse an indefinable space between abstraction and figuration. The artist aims to reveal unseen moments and overlooked experiences in everyday life and her approach to painting is informed by a nuanced understanding of how colour and form are interpreted by the human mind. Her paintings have continuously oscillated between converging historical genres such as still lives, portraits and landscapes and her subject matter simultaneously references contemporary life and traditions. Formally her ... More | | 
The artist JR, in New York, Nov. 10, 2019. JRs photographic installation will illuminate the exterior of the Parrish Art Museum with an image of playful innocence. (Pari Dukovic/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- As warmer weather draws more people to the East End of Long Island, a joyful vision will beckon across the long horizontal facade of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, that will be visible from the Montauk Highway. To be installed by Memorial Day, a giant photographic composition depicting larger-than-life silhouettes of nearly 40 children, running as if to converge on a soccer ball, will radiate a kind of white light against a black expanse stretching more than 200 feet. It is an instantly recognizable image of play, printed as a black-and-white negative with inverted tones onto reinforced fabric affixed to the concrete exterior of the museum. Titled Les Enfants dOuranos, the piece is the work of Paris-based artist JR, known for his site-specific photo-based installations in public spaces globally that show the humanity of individuals and communities that are ... More |
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| On May 20th, 'Ghosts, Demons and Monsters' visit Turner Auctions | | Anthony Meier now represents Jesse Schlesinger | | Nazi cloud hangs over one of the largest jewelry sales in history | 
Tsukioka Kinzaburo YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892). Series: The new forms of the thirty-six ghosts, 1890. Woodblock. 14-1/2 x 9-1/2 in. Estimate $400-$600.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals presents Ghosts, Demons and Monsters, the Collection of Japanese Prints from the Estate of Edward S. Stephenson on Saturday, May 20, 2023. With a focus on the supernatural, this online auction features over 110 Japanese woodblock prints collected in post-war Japan by an award-winning Hollywood production designer. Never exhibited before, these works are by famed 19th- and early-20th-century woodblock artists, including Yoshitoshi, Kuniyoshi, Yoshitsuya, Kunisada, Kunichika, Yoshiku, Toyohara, and others. Two 19th-century Japanese watercolors complete the sale. Turner Auctions + Appraisals begins its online auction on Saturday, May 20, 2023, at 10:30 am PDT; sale items are available for preview and bidding now. The online auction will be featured live on multiple platforms: LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, Bidsquare, the Sale Room, Lot-issimmo and Turner Auctions + Appraisals free mobile app ... More | | 
Jesse Schlesinger, Not geologic time, nor arboreal time, but its own time scale (C. O. for MP), 2022, Redwood (salvaged, 32 x 24 inches diameter (81.3 x 61 cm diameter).
MILL VALLEY, CA.- Anthony Meier announced the representation of San Francisco-based artist Jesse Schlesinger (b. 1979, Kentucky), who works across sculpture, installation, drawing, and photography to investigate notions of place and the ways in which both natural and architectural environments engender experience and understanding. We are honored to have Jesse join our stellar group of artists, comments Anthony Meier. He is an incredible artist and craftsperson who is deeply in tune with his materials as well as the environments in which they are sourced and exhibited. We are excited to present Jesses work at Frieze Los Angeles in 2024, and here in Mill Valley for our community in San Francisco, and beyond. Trained in a wide array of traditional crafts and material processes including woodworking, bronze casting, glassblowing, ceramics, and stone carving, Schlesingers wo ... More | | 
In an image provided by Christies, Heidi Horten wearing the Briolette of India, part of an upcoming auction of the late Austrian heiresss major jewelry collection. While proceeds will go to philanthropic causes, the auction has drawn criticism because the Horten familys fortune came from businesses bought from Jews pressured into selling by the Nazis. (The Heidi Horten Foundation and Christie's via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Blazing sapphires and lush emeralds drip from the necklaces, brooches and bracelets. One standout piece, the Briolette of India, includes a 90-carat diamond and carries a high estimate of $7.8 million. They are among the 700 jewels from the estate of an Austrian heiress that will go on sale starting Wednesday at Christies as part of one of the largest jewelry sales in history. The auction house is predicting that jewels from the estate of Heidi Horten, the heiress who died last year, will bring in more than $150 million, surpassing the $137 million taken in during the 2011 sale of Elizabeth Taylors collection. The proceeds are to benefit a charitable foundation established by Horten, whose husband, Helmut, was a German retailing billionaire whose ... More |
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| Folger Shakespeare Library announces Fall 2023 reopening date | | A Florida garden brings Louis Comfort Tiffany'swork to life, in bloom | | The Ukranian Museum announces the first solo exhibition of Ukrainian-American artist Janet Sobel | 
Folger reopening on November 17, 2023, after a transformative three-year building renovation.
WASHINGTON, DC .- The Folger Shakespeare Library announced today that it is reopening its historic home on Capitol Hill to the public on Friday, November 17, 2023, after a major three-year building renovation that will allow the Folger to share more of its collection and resources than ever before. The transformed Folger will welcome visitors to new and reimagined spaces including new exhibition halls, a learning lab, lush gardens, and expanded amenities such as a new café and gift shop. After much planning and dedicated work, the Folger is opening to a wider world and an even more expansive vision of what Shakespeare, the humanities, and the arts can contribute, says Folger Director Michael Witmore. This is a golden opportunity for us to reintroduce ourselves and welcome local, national, and international communities to the new Folger. ... More | | 
Pink, yellow, orange, and red bromeliads, planted between the roots of a fig tree to form colorful panes, at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, which designers transformed with a series of stained-glass panes as part of a garden-wide installation inspired by Louis Comfort Tiffanys work, in Sarasota, Fla. on April 5, 2023. Forty-two works by Tiffany serve as the reference point for the botanical interpretations, which are sprinkled throughout Selby Gardens, a 15-acre oasis on a peninsula jutting into Sarasota Bay. (Michael Adno/The New York Times)
SARASOTA, FLA.- Theyve turned a big gazebo into a huge Tiffany lamp that you can walk through, created Tiffany-style patterns on the ground out of crushed tinted glass, and hung colorful plexiglass-like windows and cutouts of Tiffany flowers among the tropical and subtropical plants. This is not your grandfathers artist in the garden, not the usual sculptures and paintings simply set among the plants. At the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens here on Floridas Gulf Coast, you see a selection of an artists work and then, throughout the gardens ... More | | 
Photo credit: Luis Corzo. Courtesy of The Ukrainian Museum, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Ukrainian Museum opened the first solo exhibition of Ukrainian-American artist Janet Sobels work, entitled Janet Sobel: Wartime, which runs from the 27th April - 2nd September 2023. The exhibition, which focuses on the Second World War, is a showcase of Sobels early work, spanning from the time she began painting in 1937 to her inclusion in Peggy Guggenheims group show The Women in 1945. Images of American soldiers, European battlefronts and works that channel the artists thoughts and fears about distant relatives living through the war in Dnipro, Ukraine, are rich with the folk art motifs of her homeland. Peter Doroshenko, Director at the The Ukrainian Museum New York, and curator of the exhibition has stated, Janet Sobel embraced New York City as her new home, but never forgot formative years in Dnipro. The focus on Sobels war ima ... More |
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 Reframing the Landscapes of Hawai'i now openHONOLULU, HAWAII.- The Honolulu Museum of Art unveiled the latest iteration of the John Dominis and Patches Damon Holt Gallery of the Arts of Hawaii in a dramatic installation opening. Reframing the Landscapes of Hawaii features 47 works drawn from HoMAs permanent collection and strategic loans across a variety of media and expressions. It immerses visitors in a rich and nuanced sense of place that reveals layered meanings behind each artwork, emphasizing the diverse and complex history of Hawaii. The reinstallation is co-curated by Tory Laitila, HoMAs curator of textiles and historic arts of Hawaii, and Oahu-raised guest curator Rory Padeken, the Vicki and Kent Logan Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Denver Art Museum. The collection of works on view features select Indigenous ... More  Toledo Museum of Art receives significant gift to support accessibility initiatives TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art has received a $2 million gift from Joseph, Judith and Susan Conda to fund the Conda Family manager of access initiatives, a position that advances TMAs goal to be the model for belonging among art museums. The gift will support the operating expenses of the role through 2028 and simultaneously fund an endowment that will sustain the position thereafter. The role to date has been partially funded by the Conda family as well as by The Ability Center of Greater Toledo (ACT) an organization committed to fostering the most disability-friendly community in the country. Philanthropy at its best is a partnership between donors and organizations to maximize impact, and in the Conda family the Toledo Museum of Art has found an unmatched partner in advancing our agenda to ... More  The Huntington commissions artist Betye Saar to create site-specific, immersive installationSAN MARINO, CA.- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has commissioned artist Betye Saar to create a large-scale, immersive installation for the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art. Provisionally titled Drifting Toward Twilight, the site-specific work will feature a 17-foot-long wooden canoe that incorporates found objects, paint, neon, natural materials, and plant matter harvested by Saar from the Huntington grounds. The installation will open on Nov. 11, 2023, and will remain on view for two years, becoming a permanent part of The Huntingtons American art collection. The project is co-curated by Yinshi Lerman-Tan, Bradford and Christine Mishler Associate Curator of American Art, and Sóla Agustsson, Saars granddaughter and the Huntington Art Museums sp ... More  Diamond ring and a collection of Rolex watches highlight Moran's Fine Jewelry & Timepieces sale!LOS ANGELES, CA.- As we say goodbye to April and hello to May, John Moran Auctioneers is blooming with excitement to present their Spring rendition of the Fine Jewelry & Timepieces auction, Wednesday, May 24, 2023. The sale, starting at 10:00am, will feature over 90 lots of stunning jewelry pieces and an impressive selection of watches. For fine jewelry, the offerings will include gold and fine gemstones, specifically diamonds (and a lot of them!), emeralds, aquamarine, and rubies and feature designers such as Tiffany & Co., Cartier, Georgio Armani, John Hardy, Carimati, Bulgari, Jason of Beverly Hills, and Ivana Cella. Collectors are sure to watch out for the spectacular collection of watches, including examples from Patek Philippe, Cartier, Boucheron, and Tiffany & Co., but especially the multiple lots of Rolex! ... More  Crescent City Auction Gallery announces May 12-13 Estates AuctionNEW ORLEANS, LA.- Original oil paintings by Gustave Courbet, Emilio Sanchez, Clementine Hunter and Sir Edwin Henry Landseer; two spectacular Rolex watches (one mans, one ladys); and gorgeous vases by Newcomb College potters Maria de Hoa Leblanc and Anna Francis Simpson are just a few of the expected highlights in Crescent City Auction Gallerys Important Two-Day Estates auction slated for May 12th and 13th, online and live at the New Orleans gallery. The auction, starting at 10 am Central time both days, is loaded with nearly 700 choice lots in a wide variety of collecting categories. In-person gallery previews will be held Wednesday, May 3rd, thru Thursday, May 11th (except Saturday and Sunday) from 10 am to 5 pm, in the Crescent City gallery located at 1330 St. Charles Avenue ... More  Charles Hull, who brought theater to young audiences, dies at 92NEW YORK, NY.- Charles Hull, who co-founded Theaterworks USA, a touring theater company that has brought professional performances to tens of millions of young people across the country, died April 14 at his home in Manhattan. He was 92. The death was confirmed by his daughter Hilary Hull Gupta. Hull, who had been an off-Broadway, summer stock and commercial actor, founded the company that became Theaterworks in 1961 with director Jay Harnick. For decades, Hull was the companys managing director and Harnick its artistic director. The idea was to bring affordable, exceptional musicals and drama to children who might never get to see a Broadway or an off-Broadway show. By the late 1990s, Hull and Harnick were staging as many as 20 made-to-move productions in nearly 500 cities a year ... More  Venus Over Manhattan expands with second Downtown spaceNEW YORK, NY.- Venus Over Manhattan announced today that it will open its newest location at 39 Great Jones Street. The Downtown expansion comes almost exactly a year after opening its current home just steps away at 55 Great Jones Street. The new 3,000 square foot space will complement the gallerys ongoing programing, and will be inaugurated on May 6, 2023 with a solo exhibition of work by Richard Mayhew. Now located at both 39 and 55 Great Jones Street, the gallery expands upon its downtown presence in the NoHo neighborhood. This move will allow the gallery to centralize operations and simultaneously present multiple aspects of its wide-ranging program in a cohesive viewing experience. The inaugural exhibition, Natural Order, marks the gallerys debut showing of Richard Mayhew. Fe ... More  Honoring Ellsworth Kelly's work by giving it awaySPENCERTOWN, NY.- Ellsworth Kelly became one of the 20th centurys most influential artists in part because of the economical quality he brought to his pared-down, hard-edge paintings. Using minimal means, he made something as simple as a plain red wedge against a white background seem monumental. The artist, who died in 2015, was thrifty in the rest of his life, too. In every relationship, theres a saver and a spender, said Kellys widower, Jack Shear. Guess which one I am? In March, Shear and a colleague were pulling out sliding racks full of drawings here at the art-filled compound he runs in the northern reaches of the Hudson Valley, part of which used to be Kellys studio. Many of the works were earmarked as donations part of a huge wave of giving by Shear and would not remain on the ... More  Soviet pop art duo reunites for first U.S. retrospective since their breakupNEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid saw their creative lives flash before their eyes in March as they walked through the first retrospective of their art in the United States in decades. The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, which has the largest collection of Soviet nonconformist art in the world, created the exhibition, Komar and Melamid: A Lesson in History, which runs through July 16. It features the artists pioneering work of Soviet pop art or sots art, a term they coined for the movement they created that contracts the words socialism and art. Their partnership, which used art to challenge even ridicule the fundamental tenets of socialist realism, began in the Soviet Union in 1972 and continued after they immigrated to the United States in 1978, but ended ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Ãdouard Manet died April 30, 1883. Ãdouard Manet (23 January 1832 - 30 April 1883) was a French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. In this image: Ms Vicky Hirsh, Mara Talbot and Dr Christopher Brown standing in front of Portrait of Mlle Claus by Manet.
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