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The Barnes Foundation, Detail Room 19, North Wall. Photographer: Sean Murray. Image © The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. Photo by Sean Murray.
by Ted Loos
NEW YORK, NY.- If a visitor goes to the Barnes Foundation, and a favorite Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse or Pierre-Auguste Renoir is missing because it is on loan to the Louvre, is the Barnes still the Barnes? Art lovers who have not had to imagine such a scenario may face it soon. In July, a Pennsylvania judge granted the Barnes petition to lend a limited number of storied paintings from its collection galleries to other institutions and to also display them temporarily outside the set configurations established by the obsessive founder, Albert C. Barnes (1872-1951) when he was alive. (An exception was in the 1990s when highlights of the collection toured internationally to raise money to renovate the original building.) The decision comes just when the drama around the Barnes Foundations 2012 move from its original suburban home in Merion, Pennsylvania, to a sleek new facility in Philadelphia, sparking years of controversy and outcry, had finally died down. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The leafcutter ant colony at the Solomon Family Insectarium, where visitors can observe the ants cutting and transporting pieces of foliage, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Aug. 8, 2023. Since a new wing opened in May, almost 1.5 million people have visited the museum, and most are thought to have explored the four floors of the Gilder Center that are open to the public. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times).
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| The Morgan Library & Museum announces new appointments | | A 'Digital Heist' recaptures the Rosetta Stone | | SFMOMA announces acquisition of more than 100 objects that underscore collecting priorities | 
Sarah W. Mallory, Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum has announced five appointments across its curatorial, conservation, and merchandising departments. Sarah W. Mallory joins as Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints, Rebecca Pollak joins as Associate Paper Conservator, and Aubrey Herr joins the Morgan as Director of Merchandising Services. Rounding out the appointments are two new Belle da Costa Greene Curatorial Fellows: Emerald Lucas in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, and Samantha Mohite in the Departments of Printed Books and Bindings and Literary and Historical Manuscripts.It is my pleasure to welcome these five outstanding individuals to the Morgan, said Colin B. Bailey, Director of the Morgan Library & Museum. Our staff across our curatorial, conservation, and merchandising departments shape how the Morgan engages with the public in our mission to provide access to one ... More | | 
Chidi Nwaubani, who set up the artist collective Looty, at The British Museum in London, July 25 2023. (Tom Jamieson/The New York Times)
by Farah Nayeri
LONDON.- The Rosetta Stone is to the British Museum what the Mona Lisa is to the Louvre in Paris. Every day, throngs of visitors to the London museum take smartphone snaps of the etched black slab that was seized from Egypt more than 200 years ago and never went back. Except that, in the next month, the Rosetta Stone is returning home in a manner of speaking. At Fort Qaitbay in Rashid, along Egypts northern coast, visitors will soon be able to stand where the Rosetta Stone is thought to have been found, point their smartphones at a QR code and watch the stone pop out of their screens in an augmented-reality installation. The stone is being digitally repatriated by Looty, a collective of London-based designers who, as they put it, virtually reclaim artifacts in Western museums that were plundered during colonial times. Chidirim ... More | | 
Pacita Abad, If My Friends Could See Me Now, 1991; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, purchase, by exchange, through a gift of Peggy Guggenheim; courtesy Pacita Abad Art Estate; photo: Don Ross.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Arthas announced that it has recently acquired more than 100 works of art, reflecting an incredible range of formal and conceptual innovation and highlighting a spectrum of lived experiences. The new acquisitions represent SFMOMAs priorities as the museum grows and diversifies its holdings, emphasizing the work of artists with connections to the Bay Area, artists part of the LGBTQIA+ community, women artists and artists of color. SFMOMAs collecting vision also embraces practices and objects that help illuminate social, political and cultural happenings through a vast array of artistic and personal perspectives. Todays announcement follows the recent news that SFMOMA became the first museum to acquire a capsule apartment from the Nakagin Capsule Tower. Works by artists with connections to the Bay ... More |
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| Phoenix Art Museum announces retirement of Asian art curator, plans for national search | | Japanese-made 1966 Batmobile tin toy roars to world-record $150,000 at Heritage | | 20th century artists experimenting with letters, words, and symbols as visual motifs at Norton Simon Museum | 
Janet Baker, PhD, has been named Curator Emerita of Asian Art in honor of her distinguished service during her more than two decades as the Museums curator of Asian art.
PHOENIX, ARIZ.- Phoenix Art Museum has announced that Janet Baker, PhD, has been named Curator Emerita of Asian Art in honor of her distinguished service during her more than two decades as the Museums curator of Asian art. Baker, who is retiring on August 31, joined the Museum in 2000 and over her 23-year tenure guided the expansion of the Museums holdings in Chinese, Japanese, Sri Lankan, Indian, and contemporary Asian art, more than doubling the collection by adding 3,000+ objects. She also organized wide-ranging exhibitions that explored art forms from across the Asian continent spanning from antiquity to the present. Recently, Baker stewarded a major acquisition of more than 50 Indonesian textiles, the first works from Indonesia acquired into the Museums Asian art collection. As Curator Emerita, Baker will remain ... More | | 
Batman Open Top Red Batmobile with Original Box (Yonezawa, 1960's).
DALLAS, TX.- Holy Wind-Up Batmobile! After a long, fierce bidding war, a Batmobile tin toy made in 1966 for the Japanese market roared out of Heritage Auctions for $150,000 to lead Heritage's two-day Ultimate Batman Collection Signature ® Auction. The ultra-rare wind-up with a painted plastic Batman at the wheel and the original box is now the most valuable Batman toy ever sold at auction. Yonezawa, one of the most imaginative and successful Japanese tin toy makers of the 1950s and '60s, made the Batmobile, which, on August 4, raced past the previous auction record for a Bat-toy set in 2021. It was also far from the sole Japanese-made Bat-toy to shatter expectations during the sold-out Aug. 4-5 event, totaling $1,395,762. "The Batman Japanese tin toys certainly made their mark," says Heritage's Consignment Director of Action Figures and Toys, Justin Caravoulias. "They accounted for more than $459,000 of the total." ... More | | 
Liubov Popova (Russian, 18891924), The Traveler. 1915 Oil on canvas, 56 x 41-1/2 in. (142.2 x 105.4 cm). Norton Simon Art Foundation.
PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents Word as Image, an exhibition showcasing 20th century artists who experimented with letters, words, and symbols as visual motifs. Culled from the Museums collection, the objects on view offer humorous and thought-provoking encounters between pictorial and linguistic modes of expression. Artists whose work is in the exhibition include Pablo Picasso, Liubov Popova, John Cage, Andy Warhol and others. At the beginning of the 20th century, words appeared as elements in avant-garde compositions, where they were used to break down distinctions between art and daily life. In Picassos Still Life with Bottle of Marc (1911), splintered lines and shapes reinvent the genre of trompe loeil still-life. Only the legible letters E, vie and Marc prompt the viewer to perceive ... More |
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| Jamie Reid, 76, dies; His anarchic graphics helped define the Sex Pistols | | 1907 Ultra High Relief Double Eagle brings $4.32 million | | National Gallery celebrates pioneering women of modern art with new exhibition | 
An undated photo by Jack OBrien of Jamie Reid, whose anarchic designs for the Sex Pistols scandalized polite society in the 1970s. (Jack OBrien via The New York Times)
by Alex Williams
NEW YORK, NY.- Jamie Reid, whose searing cover art and other graphics for the Sex Pistols, featuring ransom-note lettering and defaced images of the queen, outraged polite British society nearly as much as the seminal punk bands anarchic anthems and obscenity-laced tirades, died on Tuesday at his home in Liverpool. He was 76. His death was confirmed by John Marchant, a London gallerist who represents Reids archive. No cause was given. Reid was a product of the radical left of the 1960s, and his fiery political attitudes matched his incendiary art over a career that spanned more than six decades. He was eventually embraced by the art establishment: His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, ... More | | 
1907 $20 Ultra High Relief, Inverted Edge Lettering, PR69 PCGS. Judd-1909, Pollock-2003, JD-4, High R.7.
DALLAS, TX.- A 1907 Ultra High Relief Double Eagle, PR69 and an 1829 Capped Head Left Half Eagle, PR66+ Cameo sold for a combined $8.16 million to lead The Harry W. Bass Jr. Core Collection, Part IV US Coins Signature® Auction to $20,739,900. The event was presented by Heritage Auctions, an Event Auctioneer Partner of the ANAs World Fair of Money, and was the fourth and final installment of the collection offered through Heritage, and brought the combined total to $83.66 million; as with the earlier installments, proceeds from this event will benefit dozens of Dallas-based non-profits supported by the Harry W. Bass Jr. Foundation, with a particular emphasis on early childhood education and literacy in Dallas. "The coin world has long known the value of Harry W. Bass Jr.s breathtaking collection, and we were honored to have been chosen to bring it to auction for the first time," said Todd Imhof, Executive Vice President ... More | | 
Grace Cossington Smith, Interior in yellow, 1962-64, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1965.
CANBERRA.- The National Gallery of Australia continues to highlight the contribution of Australian women artists with Know My Name: Making it Modern, an exhibition that opened 5 August 2023. Advancing the National Gallerys gender equity initiative, Know My Name: Making it Modern celebrates the works of pioneering women artists who changed the course of modern art in Australia. This August, the National Gallery explores the impact that early modernist women artists have made on Australian art history through major presentations of work by Margaret Preston, Grace Cossington Smith, Clarice Beckett, Olive Cotton, Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme, with a focus on the on the dynamic period between the 1920s and the late 1940s. Dr Deborah Hart, Henry Dalrymple Head Curator, Australian Art, said the strength of the National Gallerys collection is revealed in ... More |
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| Artist Haein Kim's portraits of powerful women at Edinburgh Art Festival explore the modern woman's psyche | | Holocaust Center to screen documentary about World War II Jewish Partisans | | Palm Springs Art Museum announces exhibition of Mexican graphic design from past to present | 
Haein Kim, Hard Body, Soft Emotions, 2023. Colour pencils on paper, 57 x 76cm.
EDINBURGH .- Sierra Metro Gallery in Edinburgh are delighted to announce the first international solo exhibition for Australian artist Haein Kim. An award winning animation director and illustrator, based in Sydney Australia, Kim marries her Visual Arts practice alongside her commercial animation work for clients including Uniqlo, WeTransfer, MTV and Its Nice That. PAIN2POWER is her first solo exhibition of new works drawn on paper which explore the modern womans psyche and feature a playful world of humorous and bold protagonists who readily express their fear, anxieties, love and determination. Inspired by the work of Japanese artist Misaki Kawai, block colour artworks of Henri Matisse as well as a host of fellow Asian creative women, Haein Kims figurative artworks see characters fill the canvas with eye-catching exaggerated proportions and bright colours. Kims pieces are created using a labour intensive process of drawi ... More | | 
The 2022 documentary Four Winters uses eyewitness testimonies of Holocaust survivors who were partisans interwoven with archival footage. Stocktons Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center will hold a screening of the movie on Aug. 24 at the Tilton Square Theatre in Northfield.
GALLOWAY, N.J..- Its a question that Gail Rosenthal hears a lot, especially in her job as the executive director of Stockton Universitys Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center. Why didnt the Jews fight back? They did! And many were called partisans, and they fought in the woods mostly in Eastern Europe and Nazi-occupied Europe, she said. To bring more attention to this part of the Holocaust, the center will hold a screening of an award-winning documentary titled Four Winters: A Story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery in World War II. The film uses eyewitness testimonies of Holocaust survivors who were partisans interwoven with archival footage. The one-time only screening will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 24, at the Tilton ... More | | 
Santiago MartÃnez Alberú, Suave, No.1, 2019. Courtesy the designer.
PALM SPRINGS, CA.- Palm Springs Art Museum recently opened a new exhibition of graphic design from Mexicos past and present to examine the field's development over the past century and its role in the countrys popular culture. The exhibition, Eso es la vida/This is life, includes examples of posters, typography, and sign painting, as well as video and digital media that reveal visual communication as a vital facet of everyday life. It is at the museums Architecture and Design Center, Edwards Harris Pavilion. Eso es la vida brings foundational figures like José Guadalupe Posada and the Taller de Gráfica Popular into dialogue with contemporary practitioners including Estudio Herrera, the Red de Reproducción y Distribución, Carla Valdivia Nakatani, and others. Beginning with the state efforts to create a new national public after the Mexican Revolution, the exhibition recounts a history leading to contemporary ... More |
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 Columbia-born artist Rodney McMillian receives Key to the City and S.C. State House by the Columbia Museum of ArtCOLUMBIA, S.C. .- The Contemporaries, an affinity group of the Columbia Museum of Art, have revealed two new museum acquisitions by Columbia-born artist Rodney McMillian. The CMA is the first museum in the Carolinas to acquire McMillians work. Both paintings are currently on display in the CMAs collection gallery 20, where they will remain on view through October. At a reception on August 7 at the museum, Columbia City Councilman Dr. Aditi Bussells presented McMillian with a Key to the City. S.C. State House Representative Todd Rutherford honored McMillian with a resolution. McMillian is one of the most thoughtful and engaging American artists working today, said Della Watkins, CMA executive director. The paintings acquired by the ... More  Andrew Dosunmu's Visual World - New Monograph from Damiani BooksNEW YORK, NY.- The first photography book by the internationally acclaimed Nigerian filmmaker, photographer, and music video director Andrew Dosunmu, Monograph (Damiani Books, 2023) offers a personal selection of visionary work he has created over the past 20 years. Featuring sumptuously colorful images, the book presents the visual world of Dosunmu as an artist. Edited by Beatrice Dupire, who worked closely with Dosunmu to curate the cinematic flow of images in the book, Monograph captures the artists aesthetic vision filled with color, pattern, and movement. Images individually and collectively present a celebration of global culture, with sensuality, dignity, playfulness, and vitality. The book features a conversation between Dosunmu and his longtime friend, artist Arthur Jafa. Monograph includes stills from Dosunmus music videos and ... More  Twelve large-scale installations to be displayed at the Armory Show's 2023 Platform this SeptemberNEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show announces the 2023 Platform projects, curated by Eva Respini, Deputy Director and Director of Curatorial Programs at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Platform 2023 is dedicated to large-scale installations and site-specific works under the theme of "Rewriting Histories," spotlighting artists who expand or challenge the canon of art, history, or culture. The section delves into artists responses to the constraints of official archives and narratives, utilizing sculptural forms to address the gaps and omissions in history. Respini has chosen the following twelve artists: Agnes Denes presented by Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects (New York) and Marc Selwyn Fine Art (Los Angeles); Woody De Othello presented by Jessica Silverman (San Francisco); Teresita Fernández presented by Lehmann Maupin (New York, Seoul, London, Palm ... More  Simone Leigh Sculpture acquired by National Gallery of ArtWASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has acquired Sentinel (2022) by Simone Leigh (b. 1967), the first work by the artist to enter the collection. Sentinel is a new edition of the sculpture from the US pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, where Leigh was the first Black woman artist to represent the United States in the exhibitions 127-year history. Her work was also included in the Biennales central exhibition, The Milk of Dreams, for which she was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Participant. The sculpture will be installed in the East Building atrium in September 2023. The acquisition was made possible through a gift of funds from the Glenstone Foundation. We are thrilled to bring this exceptional work by one of Americas greatest living artists into the collection of the National Gallery of Art. Sentinel will stand tall in the East Buildings ... More  Richard J. Whalen, biographer of Joseph P. Kennedy, dies at 87NEW YORK, NY.- Richard J. Whalen, who in his diverse career wrote a bestselling biography of Joseph P. Kennedy, the patriarch of the Democratic political dynasty, before joining Richard Nixons 1968 presidential campaign as a speechwriter but who left before the election and wrote a critical book about him died July 18 in Yorktown Heights, New York. He was 87. His daughter, Laura Whalen Aram, said his death, at a nursing home, was caused by pneumonia. Whalen was 27 and working at Fortune when the magazine published his 13,000-word profile of Joseph Kennedy in January 1963. His article described how he had accumulated great wealth and rose to become chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission and then, early in his time as the United States ambassador to Britain, with the war looming, publicly urged coexistence ... More  Jon Batiste has got the whole wide music world in his handsNEW YORK, NY.- Nothing is simple when it comes to Jon Batiste, a pianist, television personality, New Orleans musical scion and jazz-R&B-classical savant. He spent seven years as the smiling, melodica-toting TV bandleader on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, yet he found some of his widest acclaim for solemn protest performances in Brooklyn after the murder of George Floyd. He beat Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish for album of the year at the Grammys in 2022, despite his We Are having just a fraction of their sales and then presented American Symphony, a Walt Whitmanesque canvas of funk, Dixieland jazz, operatic vocals and Native American drums at Carnegie Hall. Now comes Batistes most commercial project yet: World Music Radio, an album with guest appearances by Lana Del Rey, Lil Wayne and K-pop ... More  African Artists' Foundation announces the second edition of 'Dig Where You Stand' in GhanaLOMÃ, TOGO.- Following the successful inaugural edition of the travelling exhibition Dig Where You Stand in 2022 in Ghana, African Artists Foundation (AAF), a non-profit organization and art space based in Lagos, Nigeria, is proud to announce its second iteration, titled Dig Where You Stand - From Coast to Coast: Seke. Exploring the regenerative potential of art in Africa and its diasporas, this years edition takes place in Lomé, Togo, using art as a restorative medium to investigate the impact of colonial systems in coastal cities and develop new ways of addressing decolonization, restitution, and repatriation. Starting yesterday, this years edition is being held at the former colonial palace Palais de Lomé, Togos first major contemporary art museum, and satellite venues in various locations in Lomé. Curated by Rosemary Esinam ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Herb Ritts was born August 13, 1952. Herbert "Herb" Ritts (August 13, 1952 - December 26, 2002) was an American fashion photographer who concentrated on black-and-white photography and portraits, often in the style of classical Greek sculpture. He took many photos of famous actors, models, and more.
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