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More than 150 original works such as drawings, prints, and sketches from the Paul and Belinda Firos collection (provided by PAN Art Connections) are exhibited, and this encore exhibition reinforced the media art section.
SEOUL.- An encore exhibition of Toulouse Lautrec, one of the pioneers of modern graphic arts, is being held at the Hangaram of Seoul Arts Center from June 6 to September 13, 2020. This exhibition is an encore exhibition of Toulouse-Lautrec solo exhibition held from January 14 to May 16 of this year. Due to COVID-19, the exhibition in Florida at the Polk Museum, which was to follow, was re-scheduled for February 2021. As a result, a reopening in Korea, which was successfully overcoming COVID-19, was proposed, and an encore exhibition was held. In the aftermath of the COVID-19, it was once again a chance to seen by the art loving audience. More than 150 original works such as drawings, prints, and sketches from the Paul and Belinda Firos collection (provided by PAN Art Connections) are exhibited, and this encore exhibition reinforced the media art section. Eight oil paintings by Toulouse Lautrec are selected and reproduced as media ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A visitor at the German Historical Museum (DHM) stands in front of German painter Anton von Werner's 1893 painting " Inauguration of the Reichstag by Wilhelm II in the white Hall of the city palace in June 1888" in Berlin on August 14, 2020, amid a Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. With Covid-19 cases surging in Germany as many residents return from holidays abroad, authorities are declaring nearly all of Spain, including the tourist island of Mallorca, a coronavirus risk region. John MACDOUGALL / AFP
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 | | Museums and other New York cultural institutions can open Aug. 24 | | Belgian designer accuses Virgil Abloh of copying. Again. | | Phillips' September Editions Auction to include works by Andy Warhol from the Collection of Toni Schumacher | 
Whitney Donhauser, left, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at the Museum of the City of New York Winter Gala, Feb. 11, 2020. Krista Schlueter/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Museums and other cultural institutions will be allowed to open in New York City starting Aug. 24, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday, following five months of a pandemic shutdown that has resulted in substantial layoffs and financial crises for many of these organizations. The announcement came as the state has seen less than 1% of all coronavirus tests return positive for seven straight days, Cuomo said in a news conference. Cuomo surprised administrators by announcing last month that museums would not be allowed to open in Phase 4, which started July 20. The plans to lift the lockdown on cultural institutions come with some significant restrictions on the reintroduction of visitors. Institutions will be required to keep the buildings at 25% occupancy and to use a timed ticketing system, which would allow museums to carefully regulate how many people are ... More | | 
The fashion designer Virgil Abloh in Chicago, April 16, 2019. David Kasnic/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On Tuesday night, rapper, designer and presidential candidate Kanye West passionately defended his longtime friend and former creative partner Virgil Abloh on Twitter. Virgil can do whatever he wants, he wrote. Do you know how hard its been for us to be recognized? The intended audience of Wests posts: Walter Van Beirendonck, 63, a veteran Belgian designer who had accused Abloh of copying his work for his latest Louis Vuitton mens collection, presented live in Shanghai on Aug. 6. On Aug. 7, Van Beirendonck, who is the head of the fashion department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, posted an image of one of his own designs, a shirt with the words I HATE FASHION COPYCATS appliquéd on the front. The next day, he posted an image on Instagram of a look from the Louis Vuitton mens show next to another of his designs, from a 2016 collection. Both of the looks featured mens suits in primary ... More | | 
Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Muhammad Ali, 1978. Screenprint in colours, on Strathmore Bristol paper, the full sheet. 101.7 x 76 cm. Estimate £60,000 - 80,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips will present a selection of works by Andy Warhol from the Collection of the legendary German goalkeeper, Harald (Toni) Schumacher. The three works to feature in the Editions Evening sale this September are the complete set of Beethoven prints; a Marilyn, and a Muhammed Ali. Three iconic works, collected by an icon in his own right, who had a personal connection to each piece. Marilyn was Schumachers first purchase in the early 1980s as his career and his teams success was reaching a peak. Having admired Warhols work for some time, Schumacher was then introduced to the artist in 1983 by gallerist Hermann Wünsche. Warhol agreed to take Schumachers portrait, visiting him in Germany and snapping 30-50 Polaroids of the star footballer, which resulted in two paintings and four unique prints. Due to his relationship with Andy Warhol both the Marilyn ... More |
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| | Prolific art collector, patron and philanthropist Bill Arnett passes away | | Jersey Mickey Mantle wore hitting penultimate home run could fetch $1 million+ | | In late summer, Anselm Kiefer captures the harvest | 
Bill Arnett became an art dealer and collector specializing in non-Western civilizations. Photo: Bard Wrisley, 1991.
ATLANTA, GA.- Metaphorically speaking, I am betting on art. William Sidney Arnett, pioneering art collector, patron, and philanthropist, was always a few decades ahead of his time. He devoted most of his adult life to championing previously underappreciated art forms and artists, from Sub-Saharan Africa to the Black American South. He died peacefully, at his time, age 81, on August 12th, in Atlanta. Born May 10, 1939, in Columbus, GA, to Hilliard B. Arenowitch and Minna Moses Arenowitch, Bill was a collector (marbles, comic books, baseball cards, butterflies) and standout athlete (especially baseball) from an early age. After attending Georgia Tech and the University of Pennsylvania, he graduated from the University of Georgia. He moved to London and quickly became a lifelong devotee of the visual arts, eventually traveling to more than sixty countries to study and collect art. In 1964, ... More | | 
1968 Mickey Mantle Game Worn & Signed New York Yankees Jersey Attributed to 535th Home Run, MEARS A10.
DALLAS, TX.- The jersey worn by New York Yankees legend Mickey Mantle when he drilled the next-to-last home run of his extraordinary career could bring $1,000,000 or more in Heritage Auctions' Summer Platinum Night Sports Collectibles Catalog Auction Aug. 29-30. Mantle's bomb into the upper deck of Detroit's Tiger Stadium was remarkable for more than the fact that it was the next-to-last round-tripper 52 years after his career ended, his 536 homers still rank 18th in the history of the game of his Hall of Fame career. Wearing the offered 1968 Mickey Mantle Game Worn & Signed New York Yankees Jersey Attributed to 535th Home Run, MEARS A10 (estimate: $1,000,000+), Mantle hit his shot off of Detroit ace Denny McLain, the 24-year-old fireballer who was putting the finishing touches on one of the finest seasons in baseball history. McLain already had won his 30th game of the season no pitcher has reached that ... More | | 
Anselm Kiefer, Walther von der Vogelweide, 2020 (detail) Emulsion, oil paint, acrylic, shellac and gold leaf on canvas, 280 x 380 cm (110,24 x 149,61 in). © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Georges Poncet.
SALZBURG (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- While the Salzburg Festival in Austria has been forced to limit its offerings in a year marred by the global pandemic, art lovers in town are in for a treat. In a season unlike any other, a smaller crowd is being accommodated at the events and performances, and gallerist Thaddaeus Ropac hopes many of them will come to his show of new works by celebrated German artist Anselm Kiefer. The event, which runs through Oct. 3, features 18 monumental paintings and an installation, a sculptural piece encased in glass. All were produced in Barjac, a town in southern France where Kiefer lives part time. Ropac, an opera fan and Austrian native, said the Salzburg gallery, which opened in 1983, was active all year round but even more so during the summer. The town becomes a cultural hub, so bustling you can feel it in the air. This year, the ... More |
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| | Calvin Ma's "Duck Out" provides insight into social anxiety | | Grounds For Sculpture reopens outdoor sculpture park | | Ty Cobb bat could surpass $250,000 at Heritage Auctions | 
Calvin Ma (American, born 1984), Duck Out, 2019. Ceramic, glaze, and resin, 18 x 12 x 8 in. Crocker Art Museum, gift of the Artist, 2019.91. Photo by Calvin Ma.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum welcomed to its collection Duck Out, a gift from Bay Area sculptor Calvin Ma, whose ceramic figure is suspended in the moment of fight or flight. Duck Out joins Around and Around, another sculpture by Ma, in the Museums renowned collection of international ceramics. Through both sculptures, Ma provides a window into social anxiety, a disorder that impacts nearly 15 million American adults who experience a persistent, intense fear of being judged by others. [1] I never really felt comfortable in my own skin in social settings, so I created these characters to help tell stories about it, Ma Says. [2] Born and raised in San Francisco, Ma studied industrial arts at San Francisco State University, originally pursuing an interest in toy design. He later transitioned to ceramics, earning his Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from the Academy of Art University. Ma ... More | | 
Dina Wind, Harp of David #1, 1985/2018. Courtesy of Grounds For Sculpture. Photo by David Michael Howarth Photography.
HAMILTON, NJ.- Grounds For Sculpture (GFS) has reopened its premier outdoor sculpture garden, inviting the public to explore nearly 300 contemporary sculptures set in a 42-acre landscaped park with new health and safety procedures in place. Founded by Seward Johnson, GFS features the foremost collection of the artists sculptures as well as works by both established and emerging sculptors, including Clement Meadmore, Anthony Caro, Beverly Pepper, Kiki Smith, George Segal, Magdalena Abakanowicz, and Isaac Witkin. To provide moments of whimsy and discovery, the sculptures are set within paved terraces, pergolas, and courtyards across the park and juxtaposed with natural woodlands, ponds, and bamboo groves. While the outdoor art gardens have reopened, indoor special exhibition galleries remain closed. Rebirth: Kang Muxiang, a special outdoor presentation of six large-scale ... More | | 
1923-25 Ty Cobb Game Used Bat Gifted to Fellow Hall of Famer Joe Sewell, PSA/DNA GU 10.
DALLAS, TX.- An examination of Tyrus Raymond Cobb's baseball exploits presents quite the dilemma. What fueled the baseball legend's brilliance more: his immense, myriad skills, or a competitive fire that made him one of the most feared and in some circles, despised players ever to lace up the spikes? The answer, as is the case with many complex individuals like Cobb, was both. Presented as an essential cache in Heritage Auctions' Summer Platinum Night Sports Collectibles Catalog Auction Aug. 29-30 will be 31 lots representing the player some consider the greatest hitter of all time. Cobb's 1923-25 Ty Cobb Game Used Bat, is a rare opportunity to own a prime artifact from the all-time great. The battle-scarred signature model Hillerich & Bradsby boasts a flawless PSA/DNA GU 10 rating, along with the grip tape that the Baseball Hall of Fame's first inductee favored a rarity on Cobb collectibles and dark staining from the tobac ... More |
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| | Steidl to publish Koto Bolofo's 'One Love, One Book' | | Kayne Griffin Corcoran exhibits works by Mika Tajima on Galleryplatform.la online viewing room | | Shann Syed now represented by Bradley Ertaskiran | 
Koto Bolofo: One Love, One Book. Text by Koto Bolofo. Book Design: Holger Feroudj / Steidl Design, 192 pages, 280 images, 8 x 10 in. / 20.2 x 25.6 cm. Four-color process. Hardback. US$ 25.00 / 20.00. ISBN 978-3-95829-734-0.
NEW YORK, NY.- How does an artists dream book become a reality? How is paper made? What do the serpentine spaces of Steidl Publishers look like? How does a bookbinder miraculously transform printed sheets into the proud volumes on your bookshelf? Koto Bolofo reveals all this and more in One Love, One Book, his photo-documentation of the worlds of papermaking, printing and bookbinding. Bolofo began his visual journey at Hahnemühle Paper Mill, founded in 1584 and today one of the worlds oldest, capturing the combination of artisanal know-how and advanced technology on which Hahnemühles quality is based. His next stop was Göttingen, where he shows an insiders view of how Steidl books are made and their dedication to creating multiples: books as democratic art objects ... More | | 
Mika Tajima, Negative Entropy (Stripe International Inc., Accounting Department, Mint, Quad), 2020. 73 3/8x 55 7/8 x 2 1/4 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kayne Griffin Corcoran is presenting works from Mika Tajimas Negative Entropy series as part of cycle 2 of Gallery Platform from Aug 13 - 19, 2020. Tajimas research-based practice explores the technologies and ideologies that cultivate the subtle molding of human behavior through aesthetic conditioning. She analyzes the amorphous zones that intersect productivity and leisure, examining how human behavior and emotional experiences have transformed within the long sweep of capitalist development. Negative Entropy is a series of abstract Jacquard woven acoustic portraits of industrial and information production. The subject of these portraits have been factories that employ industrial textile Jacquard looms (precursors to digital technology), facilities that comprise the infrastructure of the information economy, and other new types of energy ... More | | 
Shann Syed in his studio in London. Photo: Jonathan Bassett.
MONTREAL.- Bradley Ertaskiran announced representation of Shaan Syed. Shaan Syeds paintings are thorough investigations into simplified forms, texture and colour. He employs a distinctive palette repeatedly into often large-scale paintings that become ongoing series. His paintings are recognizable in their tension between the graphic lines of hard edge abstraction and gestural and personal mark making. Syed layers paint, saw-dust, and, at times, plaster onto the surface of the canvas in order to build up texture, while subsequently pulling it off and forcing it into neat and tightened up lines and sections. He often scrawls his name or words documented over time into the canvas in English and Arabic, literally inserting himself and his personal narrative into a tradition of modern abstraction. Shaan Syed was raised in Canada in a new immigrant family by a Protestant British mother and a Muslim Pakistani father, ... More |
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 Out now: John Cohen's 'Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream' NEW YORK, NY.- One cold sunny morning in December 2018, Gerhard Steidl drove from New York City to see John Cohen at his rambling home in upstate Putnam Valley. The purpose of the visit was to pick up originals to be scanned for Cohens Look up to the Moon, his book of photos from Morocco in 1955 and published by Steidl in 2019. But in the organized chaos of Cohens barn-cum-studio they stumbled across another group of prints from across his 60-year career: I didnt know what to do with them, he recalls, They werent a book or an exhibit, or for sale. They were not of one subject. To Cohens surprise and delight, Steidl took the boxes under his arm, and the photos now appear for the first time here in Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream, Cohens most lyrical and personal book, as well as his last. Sequenced wholly by mood and intuition and eschewing ... More The Line announces Reaching Out, a new public sculpture by Thomas J PriceLONDON.- Established in 2015, The Line is Londons first dedicated public art walk; an outstanding, free outdoor art gallery, following the line of the Greenwich Meridian along a route which passes through 3 of the most diverse boroughs in the UK (Newham, Tower Hamlets and Greenwich). To mark the 5th anniversary of the critically acclaimed art walk, The Line announced the unveiling on 5th August of Reaching Out, a new, specially commissioned sculpture by London-based artist, Thomas J Price. Depicting an anonymous everywoman absorbed in a process of silent communication, she is striking in her ordinariness, yet, as a public monument, is remarkably rare. As has been brought to the fore in recent Black Lives Matter debates, there is a startling lack of representation in public art and Reaching Out will be one of only three public sculptures ... More Some light in the darkness for London's West End LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Finally, some light in the darkness. The Donmar Warehouse has made stage history as the first playhouse here to open its doors to a paying public in the almost five months since the coronavirus lockdown began. Brave? Yes, and, even better, with a brilliant production. The chosen title, running through Aug. 22, is a new and apposite adaptation of Nobel laureate José Saramagos 1995 novel, Blindness. The story of a society sent into free fall by a pandemic is having its premiere before socially distanced audiences that will find its message urgent. Provocative, disturbing, yet with glimmers of hope near the end, this Blindness has been conceived by Tony Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens and director Walter Meierjohann as a sound installation heard via headphones. There are no actors present. ... More 'We are the guinea pigs': Hollywood restarts its blockbuster machineNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Like most actors, Bryce Dallas Howard is used to showing up on film sets knowing what lines shes supposed to say, when shes supposed to say them and, often, not much more. Things are very different on Jurassic World: Dominion, one of the first major Hollywood studio films to restart production since the coronavirus pandemic led to a global shutdown in March. Before agreeing to return to Pinewood Studios outside London, Howard and other members of the cast grilled producers and executives from the studio behind the movie, Universal, through a series of Zoom calls and emails about what precautions were being taken. Howard now knows everything from how to attach her microphone before filming she does it herself outside, with help from her dresser, as a boom operator wearing a mask ... More Is Bach better on harp?NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- I suppose I have some explaining to do to my perplexed fellow musicians, as well as to Glenn Gould devotees. Why? I decided to transcribe Bachs Goldberg Variations for harp. Im the first to admit that my project a recording comes out Sept. 18 on the record label of Kings College, Cambridge can sound outré or precious. But I come by it honestly: My musical path has been a tad unorthodox. The child of a harpist and a trombonist, I was home-schooled in rural Tennessee to allow for a weekly rotation of lessons on harpsichord, organ and piano, intermingled with youth orchestra and choir practice (and my mother yelling at me from the kitchen about my harp technique). At 16, I headed to a small British boarding school before studying history at Kings College while serving as organ scholar there. I then ... More Wallace Foundation & SMU DataArts release new reportDALLAS, TX.- SMU DataArts, in partnership with The Wallace Foundation, today released a reportThe Alchemy of High-Performing Arts Organizations that identifies common strategies that leaders of 20 high-performing arts organizations reported using to achieve organizational health. Though the study was undertaken prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is shared with the hope that the past experiences of these organizations may inform thinking about strategies for recovery. The paper is co-authored by SMU DataArts Director Zannie Voss, Ph.D. and Research Director Glenn Voss, Ph.D., and is available for direct download on the Wallace Foundation website as well on the SMU DataArts website. The report examines two cohorts of organizations: 10 with a long track record of high performance and 10 that engineered ... More ICA at VCU Chief Curator to step downRICHMOND, VA.- The Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University announced today that Stephanie Smith is stepping down as Chief Curator on October 1, 2020. Smith has served as the ICAs chief curator since fall 2016, was deeply involved in the opening of the ICA in 2018, and helped shape its curatorial vision and program. During her nearly four years with the ICA, Smith spearheaded several landmark exhibitions including this falls Commonwealth project, collaborated on various initiatives across VCU and Richmond, and alongside the curatorial team built a robust series of innovative programs that deepened the ICAs engagement with the community. Stephanie was instrumental in setting the ICAs curatorial vision and under her leadership we have built an incredible lineup of timely and incisive exhibitions and programs, ... More Billy Goldenberg, TV, movie and stage composer, dies at 84NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Billy Goldenberg, an Emmy-winning composer who worked with Barbra Streisand and Elvis Presley, scored Steven Spielbergs early work and wrote the theme music for more than a dozen television series, has died at his home in Manhattan. He was 84. Gary Gerani, a friend who is making a documentary about Goldenberg, said the cause was most likely heart failure. He said fire department personnel found Goldenbergs body on the morning of Aug. 4 after he had failed to answer his door for a delivery. He had died overnight. Goldenbergs TV career was blossoming in the late 1960s when he met Spielberg at Universal Studios and began composing the music for a number of the young directors television efforts, including the horror anthology series Night Gallery, the whodunit drama Columbo ... More Marchmont House set to unveil new sculptures plus £1m creative spaces GREENLAW.- New studios and workshops plus two specially commissioned sculptures will be unveiled next month at the spectacular 18th-century Marchmont House in the Borders. More than £1 million of private money has been invested in the Creative Spaces project which aims to provide high quality, affordable work spaces for artists and craft makers. A special event marking the launch of the studios and workshops with talks, tours, films and catering by celebrity chef Valentine Warner will take place on 19 September. Marchmont House has one of the finest collections of UK sculpture and the event will also include the unveiling of two newly commissioned pieces called Sky Boat and Dancing Tree by Charlie Poulsen. Hugo Burge, Marchmonts director, said: Artists and craft makers are facing incredibly tough times at the moment, but we ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter and etcher Agostino Carracci was born August 16, 1557. Agostino Carracci (or Caracci) (16 August 1557 - 22 March 1602) was an Italian painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, and art teacher. He was, together with his brother, Annibale Carracci, and cousin, Ludovico Carracci, one of the founders of the Accademia degli Incamminati (Academy of the Progressives) in Bologna. In this image: Selfportrait as a watchmaker.
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