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Lot 27 Northern Wei Dynasty, A Very Rare Stone Bodhisattva with Crossed Ankles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gianguan Auctions, known for two decades for offering Chinese religious art at accessible estimates, is poised to present an outstanding collection of devotional art, bronze, jade and ceramic statues in its Saturday, August 29 sale. With devotional art an integral part of the Chinese ethic and highly popular among western practitioners of Buddhism and yoga, Lot 27 is an exceptional offering. A Rare Northern Wei Dynasty seated Bodhisattva, with Crossed Ankles. The face with elongated eyes and serene expression, wearing a long flowing robe cascading over the pedestal-tiered base, leaving the feet exposed and crossed at the ankles, backed by a mandorla incorporating an ovoid aureole carved with lotus petals, the base flanked by two ferocious lions. This powerful figure captures the sculptural style of the Wei period: the serene expression of the delicately featured face, hands adopting the gestures (mudrās) fear-not& ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People visit the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki on August 8, 2020. Japan on August 9, 2020 will mark 75 years since the world's second and last nuclear weapon used in wartime was dropped over Nagasaki, killing 74,000 people. Philip FONG / AFP
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 | | Exhibition explores the multifaceted and eccentric universe that is Takashi Murakami's Superflat | | What is a museum? A dispute erupts over a new definition | | Complicated watches for complicated times | 
Takashi Murakami, I stare into your eye, 2020. à : 150 cm | 59 1/16 inch. Acrylic on canvas ©2020 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy Perrotin.
SEOUL.- Perrotin Seoul is presenting Healing, an exhibition of works old and new by Kaikai Kiki artists Takashi Murakami, Mr., MADSAKI, TENGAone, Kasing Lung, Aya Takano, Chiho Aoshima, Emi Kuraya, ob, Otani Workshop, Yuji Ueda and Shin Murata. The exhibition explores the multifaceted and eccentric universe that is Takashi Murakamis Superflat and the far-reaching and deep influence of Japanese ceramic arts in the context of Bubblewrap 1. Where in the West art is predicated on the differences between highbrow and lowbrow culture, original and derivative, art and commodity, Superflat establishes itself as an independent lineage of Japanese contemporary art that roots itself in anime and manga. Takashi Murakami first coined the term in his examination of postwar Japanese society, where the boundary between traditional and contemporary culture was perceive ... More | | 
Jette Sandahl in Copenhagen, on Aug. 6, 2020. Sandahl says that things like environmental matters and racial inequality are the issues we need to address if we want to stay relevant. Carsten Snejbjerg/The New York Times.
by Alex Marshall
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Museums are having an identity crisis. Answering the question of What is a museum? might seem easy to anyone whos visited one, but it has provoked a furor at the International Council of Museums, a Paris-based nonprofit that aims to represent the interests of museums worldwide. In recent months, several people working on the committee to revise the bodys definition of what a museum is have resigned, and there have been accusations of back-alley political games. The councils president has also quit her post. For some, these disagreements reflect a wider split in the museum world about whether such institutions should be places that exhibit and research artifacts, ... More | | 
Rolex Cosmograph Daytona Paul Newman, c 1970, reference 6265/6262 sold for £237,563. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The touchstone of Rolex watches, a c 1970 Cosmograph Daytona Paul Newman, was the top lot in yesterdays Bonhams Fine Watches Sale at New Bond Street, London, selling for £237,563, double its pre-sale estimate. The Rolex led a trio of ultra-desirable, rare and complicated watches which sold for more than £200,000 each in the sale, including a recent Vacheron Constantin Traditionelleref. 80172 and a very rare and factory sealed 2017 Patek Philippe 40th Anniversary Nautilus, ref. 5951P, that showcased the watchmakers exquisite craftsmanship and engineering. Complicated models from these three horological powerhouses dominated the top ten in the sale, which achieved a total of over £2.6 million, with 80 per cent of the 74 lots sold. Global Head of Bonhams Watch Department, Jonathan Darracott, said: It is good to see, in these challenging times, that the market is still robust, active and buoya ... More |
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| | Centre Pompidou exhibits works by the winner of the 21st Prix Fondation d'entreprise Pernord Ricard | | Shipwrecked gold coin sells for $312,000 | | Serbian musicians battle the coronavirus blues | 
Marcos Ãvila Forero, Zuratoque Sandals, Costal #3, Castellanos Family, 2013. Installation, Photograph on RC paper, handwoven sandals, yarn from jute sacks, 100 x 150 cm (photograph), shoes of variable dimensions © Aurélien Mole.
PARIS.- Every year since 2000, the Centre Pompidou has hosted the Prix Fondation dentreprise Ricard which became the Prix Fondation dentreprise Pernod Ricard on 1st July to reward an emerging artist on the young French scene. The works of the winners have been gifted to the Musée National dArt Moderne by the Foundation, thus enriching its collections in a unique manner. A jury of collectors, professionals and artists awarded the 21st Prix Fondation dentreprise Pernord Ricard 2019 to artist Marcos Ãvila Forero for his installation Theory on the Flight of Wild Geese, Notes on Worker Movements. The prize was presented on the occasion of the Le Fil dalerte exhibition, designed by Claire Le Restif at the Ricard Foundation in 2019. For this prize, the Centre Pompidou ... More | | 
Popular opinion is that this style was minted for Spanish dignitaries.
SANTA ANA, CA.- Stacks Bowers Galleries sold an historic and very rare 1714 Mexican gold coin for $312,000 at auction on August 6th in Las Vegas. Known as the Presentation 8 Escudos, popular opinion is that this style was minted for Spanish dignitaries, most likely the king, as a symbol of Spains success in expanding into the New World. This coin and others like it were recovered from shipwrecks found over the last 50 years. They were once loaded aboard a fleet of galleons headed from the New World to Spain in 1715. When the ships neared what is today known as the Florida Keys, they were all sunk in a hurricane. Today, any items recovered from them are considered treasure coins and these Royal types are the finds most coveted treasure. Part of the D. Brent Pogue Collection, this specimen is the single finest graded example of the date. Royal 8 Escudos of Mexico are only known for 13 dates: 1695, 1698, 170 ... More | | 
Members of the "Dingospo Dali" band rehearse at their studio in Belgrade on July 26, 2020. Vladimir Zivojinovic / AFP.
by Jovan Matic
BELGRADE (AFP).- In a studio embedded deep inside an old Belgrade printing factory turned artists' space, the rock group Dingospo Dali rehearses for a show they are not sure will come to pass. Like musicians around the world, the group's plans have been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, which has silenced the concert scene in Serbia and thrown Balkan artists into an even more precarious existence. "I lost a lot of work, as a musician and also as a sound engineer," Nikola Vidojevic, the band's 33-year-old drummer, told AFP. "The pandemic stopped everything." The six rockers still jam in their studio in the former BIGZ printing and publishing house on the Sava river which has become a mecca for independent musicians and artists in the Serbian capital. Built in the 1930s, the building housed one ... More |
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| | Exhibition of new works by Anne Katrine Senstad on view at Yi Gallery | | Gallery Wendi Norris now represents modern artist Alice Rahon | | Special exhibition celebrates the 2020 women's vote centennial | 
Senstad uses text, installation and color interactions to cast light on the resurgent tribalism of our times.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Yi Gallery reopened the Project Room with an exhibition of new works by Anne Katrine Senstad. How We Live Together , on view from July 17 through August 15, examines the value systems and ethics that define citizenry and our common history, as well as speculates on how future generations will work together to shape our common destiny. Senstad uses text, installation and color interactions to cast light on the resurgent tribalism of our times. The titular artwork, How We Live Together (2018), is a staple of the artists decades long preoccupation with text displacement and the re-authoring of philosophical statements. The brushed gold, aluminium signage piece evokes public and private postmodern aesthetics of corporatism and the politics of financial power and wealth distribution. How We Live Together is the latest work from Senstads research project - Capitalism in the Public Realm - that she began in 2015 with a commis ... More | | 
Alice Rahon, Untitled, n/d, assemblage with wood, feathers, shells, and oil, 22 x 6 x 7 inches (55.9 x 15.2 x 17.8 cm). Image courtesy of Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gallery Wendi Norris announced representation of distinguished visual artist and poet Alice Rahon (1904-1987). Rahon worked among European Surrealists both in Paris and Mexico City from the 1930s through 1975. Gallery Wendi Norris will present a solo exhibition of Rahons work in early 2021, her first solo gallery show since 1965 in conjunction with the Getty Research Institutes acquisition of the artists archive, and the New York Review of Books publication of her entire oeuvre of poetry. I have known and admired the work of Alice Rahon for many years, said Norris. It fits seamlessly into the gallery program, given our 18-year experience working with Rahons friend, Leonora Carrington, her ex-husband Wolfgang Paalen and her contemporaries Dorothea Tanning and Remedios Varo. Although she is considered one of the most important and ... More | | 
Votes for Women: The Spirit of 76, 1915. Facsimile postcard.
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- Rose ONeill: Artist & Suffragette is a special installation created with recently acquired artwork, generously donated by The Rose ONeill Foundation to Norman Rockwell Museums permanent collection of illustration art. This exhibition is especially meaningful as August 18, 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women's constitutional right to vote. Rose ONeill (1874-1944) was strongly devoted to the cause, taking part in protests, public speaking, creating protest signs, magazine illustrations, and postcards advocating for women. This historic milestone offers the opportunity to explore the relevance of contemporary equal rights issues. At a moment of national focus on the urgency of fair and equitable access to the right to vote, ONeils grassroots efforts for women a century ago remind us of the importance of citizen and governmental coo ... More |
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| | Brent Carver, versatile Tony-winning actor, dies at 68 | | The Arts Council Collection appoints Deborah Smith as its new Director | | John Michael Kohler Arts Center reopens | 
Brent Carver in the play Parade, with music by Jason Robert Brown and directed by Harold Prince, at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York, Nov. 8, 1998. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Anita Gates
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Brent Carver, a sensitive, soft-spoken yet nakedly emotional Canadian actor and singer who won a Tony Award for his starring role in the 1993 musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, died Tuesday at his home in Cranbrook, British Columbia. He was 68. The death was announced by his family. No cause was given. In his review of Kiss of the Spider Woman for The New York Times Frank Rich praised Carver's portrayal of Molina, a gay window dresser who escapes the psychological horrors of a Latin American prison through movie-musical fantasies (performed by Chita Rivera), and arrives at his own heroic definition of masculinity. Carver, Rich wrote, was riveting. J. Kelly Nestruck, chief theater critic for The Globe and Mail, the Canadian newspaper, called Carver an utterly compelling, otherworldly performer. The Washington Post called his Molina a role he ... More | | 
Previously, Deborah held a position as Curator for Hayward Gallery Touring where she conceptualised and initiated the Hayward Curatorial Open (still ongoing) and co-curated a number of touring exhibitions.
LONDON.- Deborah Smith has been appointed Director of the Arts Council Collection. Deborah will be taking up her new post on 7 September. Deborah is a highly respected curator with an impressive track record in contemporary art. For the past two decades she has worked across interdisciplinary practices to commission art, curate exhibitions, and develop public programmes in partnership and collaboration with a wide range of artists and organisations. Deborah has worked with major international contemporary arts organisations as Head of Programmes (Interim) at the Contemporary Arts Society and Head of Programmes (Interim) at Serpentine Galleries, and is already familiar with the work of the Collection, having worked for three years at Birmingham Museums Trust as Curator for the Arts Council Collections National Partners Programme. During this tenure Deborah was responsible for acclaimed exhibitions including 'I Want! I Wa ... More | | 
To make a free reservation and read the full Arts Center reopening protocols, visit jmkac.org/reservations or call 920-458-6144.
SHEBOYGAN, WIS.- The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboyan, Wis., has reopened to the public with new hours and timed-entry reservations. COVID-19 has brought many changes to the ways we conduct our daily lives and the ways the Arts Center continues to engage people in rewarding arts experiences, said Sam Gappmayer, Arts Center director. The safety and well-being of our visitors and staff has been our top priority in developing policies and staff training that allow us to open our doors again. Since its temporary closure earlier this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Arts Center has implemented several significant measures based on guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local and state authorities. As always, Arts Center admission is free. Some of the new measures include the following. Public hours have been reduced to allow for deeper cleaning of the Arts Center facilities. The Arts Center is open Wednesday through Sunday from ... More |
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 "Who was the first woman in your family to vote?" A National Art and Storytelling exhibition is now liveNEW YORK, NY.- Women Leading the Way is an online exhibition featuring essays and posters created by over 300 high school students from across America and honoring the extraordinary women who fought for suffrage as well as the female family members who were the first to exercise that inalienable right. Organized by Mireille Miller, art teacher at Lycée Français de New York, the project showcases the work of thirty schools in seventeen states, and begins by challenging students to delve into the history of the fight for suffrage and then to answer a simple question: Who was the first woman in your family to vote? Women Leading the Way boasts a rich collage of intimate family stories and essays about suffrage heroines, enhanced by artistic renderings. It was to culminate this Spring in an extensive exhibition at Sothebys New York. The event was ... More The Florida Aquarium successfully spawns threatened pillar coral for the second year in a row TAMPA, FLA.- For the second year in a row, scientists at The Florida Aquarium in Apollo Beach have successfully spawned threatened Atlantic pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) though lab-induced techniques. The scientific marvel occurred this week in a research laboratory as a part of a scientific spawning project called Project Coral. The corals spawned at nearly exactly the same time as last year, at approximately 100 minutes after sunset on the second day after the full moon of August. Pillar coral is an extremely challenging species to collect eggs and sperm from in the wild and raise large numbers of offspring, said Keri ONeil, Senior Coral Scientist at The Florida Aquarium. The lab-induced spawning allows us to produce more larvae with a much higher diversity of parents than we ever could from wild spawning. The high level of synchrony ... More Bernard Bailyn, eminent historian of early America, dies at 97NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Bernard Bailyn, who reshaped the study of early American history with seminal works on merchants and migrants, politics and government, and recast the study of the origins of the American Revolution, died Friday at his home in Belmont, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He was 97. His wife, Lotte Bailyn, said the cause was heart failure. Although his name may not ring a bell with the legions of readers who devour bestselling books on the founding of America, few historians since World War II have left an imprint on that field of study that rivals Bailyns. From the beginning, his work was innovative: He was among the first historians to mine statistics from historical records with a computer. And his insights and interpretations, notably in his classic 1967 work, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, could ... More Make time to make! 300 New short courses from October to April launched at West Dean CollegeCHICHESTER.- West Dean College of Arts and Conservation is on a mission to get more of us tapping into our creativity with a new Make Time to Make campaign to launch a wide range of 300 short courses which have just been released online (westdean.ac.uk). From October 2020 to April 2021, new courses include Crime Writing; Letterpress; Japanese woodblock printmaking and Painting on the iPad. There will also be a week in February (14-18) devoted to Sustainability titled RE-SEEN, that encourages participants to reclaim or reinvent through courses such as plastic-smithing and sustainable weaving aswell as re-using and recycling your exisiting paintings or print work, making sculpture from scrap metals and creating ceramics incorporating found objects. The College offers an escape to recharge, get hands on with arts and craft ... More FreedmanArt presents an extended version of "Shadowboxing" exhibition NEW YORK, NY.- Shadowboxing" at FreedmanArt in New York City joins the works of photographer Nona Faustine and painter Kit White in a tete-a-tete that grapples with history, national memory, landscape, racism, and violence. Faustine and White engage with American history in their respective practices, as well as their use of the photographic image to share distinct perspectives on a contested American landscape, both past and present. -Excerpted from Bomb Magazine review, December 18, 2019 by Stephanie Goodalle Kit White now comments: "Who would have known that under Faustine's images lay the powder keg that was about to blow, bringing with it a message that was right before everyones eyes, but unseen. One of Faustine's powerful photographs depicts the now doomed statue of Theodore Roosevelt that stands before the Museum ... More Forum Gallery opens an exhibition of fresh paintings and drawings completed in recent monthsNEW YORK, NY.- Forum Gallery has reopened to the public and to celebrate it is presenting First Impressions: New Works and New Acquisitions, on view from August 6th through September 26, 2020. First Impressions: New Works and New Acquisitions is an exhibition of fresh paintings and drawings completed in recent months by the gallery's dedicated and talented artists shown together with recently acquired works of historical importance. Most of these works have not been shown due to the pandemic, which caused the cancellation of exhibitions the gallery had planned and art fairs they attend. Highlights among the 29 works on view include impressive paintings by Forum Gallery artists William Beckman, Paul Fenniak, Linden Frederick, Alan Magee, Daniel G. Massad, Alyssa Monks, Brian Rutenberg, Maria Tomasula, and Tula Telfair. New drawings ... More Guggenheim presents Summer of Know with artist group For FreedomsNEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim presents four public programs for the Summer of Know, an annual conversation series dedicated to engaging with current issues and designed to spark cross-disciplinary dialogue and debate. This year, the series is cocurated by For Freedoms, a platform by artists for creative civic engagement, discourse, and direct action. These discussions feature contemporary artists, activists, policy makers, and thought leaders who are at the forefront of the ideas, organizing, and actions most urgently impacting society and culture today. The first program of the 2020 series will be held on Thursday, August 13, at 2 pm. For Freedoms members, artists Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas, and art historian and producer Michelle Woo will lead a discussion on healing, justice, and the power ... More New exhibition to feature works from photographer David HarpST MICHAELS, MD.- Forty years of images by documentary photographer David W. Harp will be on display this fall at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in a new exhibition titled Where Land and Water Meet: The Chesapeake Bay Photography of David W. Harp. Scheduled for Sept. 25, 2020 through Sept. 20, 2021, Where Land and Water Meet will be on view in CBMMs Steamboat Building gallery, as well as in a virtual format. Harps inspiration comes from exploring literal and figurative edges: shorelines, communities, habitats, and traditional worklife where culture and nature connect, creating the essence of what defines the Chesapeake. From dozens of black and white Tri-X film shots of legendary skipjacks including Rebecca T. Ruark and intimate portraits of captains and crew, to Kodachrome and Fujichrome images capturing marsh ... More Studio Museo Francesco Messina opens exhibition of works by Maria Cristina CarliniMILAN.- An ideal dialogue between masters of sculpture. The monumental works of Maria Cristina Carlini inhabit the spaces that once belonged to Francesco Messina (19001995) and which still preserve his waxes, bronzes and works in clay in the silence of the former church of San Sisto. Here, among the great twentieth-century sculptors portraits of women and athletes, Carlinis woods grow, and her imprints, craters and burnt pages multiply. Signs, traces and memories of a landscape evoke geographies and geologies inspired by the earths moods, by the wild places of an archaic and sublime nature. From 10 July to 8 September 2020, the exhibition Maria Cristina Carlini: Geologies, Memories of the Earth, curated by Chiara Gatti and based on a project by Raffaella Resch, is being housed in Studio Museo Francesco Messina, the former ... More Guallart Architects win housing post-covid competition in ChinaBARCELONA.- Guallart Architects has won the international competition for the design a mixed-use community in the Xiong'an new city (China), defining a new standard in the post-Covid era, that can be applied as a raw model in different cities around the world. The proposal presented under the title "the self-sufficient city", defines an urban model, that merges the traditional European urban blocks, the Chinese modern towers, and the productive farming landscape. This new urban environment where people can live, work and rest, will allow their residents to produce resources locally while they are connected globally, providing a full life even in moments of confinement. "We cannot continue designing cities and buildings as if nothing had happened," says Guallart, " Our proposal stem from the need to provide solutions to the various crises that are taking ... More Athens Muslims fear mosque delay after Hagia Sophia conversionATHENS (AFP).- After Turkey turned Istanbul's Hagia Sophia museum back to a mosque, Muslims in Athens fear their own official place of worship, delayed for over a decade, will be held back again. The project to open a state-sanctioned mosque in Athens, the only European capital that does not have one, was launched in 2007. But it immediately ran into strong opposition from the influential Orthodox Church, as well as from nationalist groups. "I think after this incident, it might be even more difficult to open the official mosque that we have awaited for ten years," says Imam Atta-ul Naseer, who runs a makeshift mosque in a central Athens apartment. An architectural marvel of the 6th century, the Hagia Sophia Byzantine basilica was converted into a mosque in 1453 after the capture of Constantinople by the Ottomans. In 1934, the founder of the ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Michael Kors was born August 09, 1959. Michael Kors (born Karl Anderson, Jr.; August 9, 1959) is an American fashion designer. He is best known for designing classic American sportswear for women. In this image: Heidi Klum, Nina Garcia and Michael Kors pose for a photograph while doing an interview promoting the launch of the new season of Project Runway in Times Square on Thursday, July 19, 2012.
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