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Rock and roll memorabilia belonging to Jim Irsay, the owner of the Indianapolis Colts, at Navy Pier in Chicago, Aug. 2, 2022. While other NFL owners sail on their yachts far from prying eyes, Irsay roams the country showing his museum-quality memorabilia and jamming with rock legends. (Joshua Mellin/The New York Times)
by Ken Belson
NEW YORK, NY.- Jim Irsay is not your typical team owner, especially in the buttoned-up NFL. Last month, Irsay, owner of the Indianapolis Colts, replaced his coach with a former player whose only coaching experience was leading a high school team. A few weeks earlier, Irsay called for a scandal-plagued owner to be removed despite his own very public troubles. And he continues to use his Twitter account to mourn the loss of beloved rock stars and football players and post videos of himself singing classic Bob Dylan songs in his raspy smokers voice. Irsays hobby also speaks to his singularity. While other owners splurge on art work, beachfront property and European soccer teams, Irsay has spent $100 million building a collection of music, sports and other pop culture memorabilia. He paid $4.9 million for the guitar that Kurt Cobain used in the music video for Smells Like Teen Spirit, He acquired one of Ringo Starrs vintage drum sets for more than $4 million. And this past s ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Do Ho Suh, photograph: Daniel Dorsa
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| Dutch artists turn to gold at Bonhams Old Master Paintings Sale | | Do Ho Suh opens exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia | | A groundbreaking generative digital artwork by Beeple, opens at M+ today |
A trumpeter at a casement window with another figure holding an upturned wine glass by Willem Van Mieris the Elder. Sold for £390,900.
LONDON.- A painting by 17th century Golden Age Dutch painter David Teniers the Younger (Antwerp, 1610-1690, Brussels) illustrating the mysterious process of the transformation of base metal into gold, Interior of a laboratory with an Alchemist at work with a stuffed alligator hanging from a ceiling beam, sold for £529,500 at Bonhams Old Master Paintings sale in London on Wednesday 7 December 2022. The sale made a total of £1,814,858. The painting was part of the Roy Eddleman collection, which was sold to benefit the Quantum Institute, University of California, Irvine. The goal of the Institute is to stimulate the discovery of new quantum science phenomena by developing collaborations between investigators in a broad range of scientific endeavours and to motivate future generations to study quantum science through educational and outreach activities. Lisa Greaves ... More | |
Do Ho Suh, Stove, Apartment A, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA, 2013, polyester fabric, stainless steel wire, and glass display case with LED lighting, image courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul and London, © the artist, photograph: Jeon Taeg Su.
SYDNEY.- A major new survey by internationally renowned artist Do Ho Suh, opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), as part of the 2022-2023 Sydney International Art Series. This is the first solo exhibition of the South Korean artists work in the Southern Hemisphere. Exclusive to Sydney, the extensive exhibition premieres the new installation, Rubbing/Loving Project: Seoul Home (20132022). Do Ho Suh (born 1962, Seoul) is known for his large-scale sculptural and installation works which address the often-complex relationships between the body, memory and space. This is the artist's first solo exhibition in Australia and represents one of his most comprehensive projects to date. It spans three decades ... More | |
HUMAN ONE.
HONG KONG.- M+, Asias first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, unveils the Asia premiere of HUMAN ONE, an iconic kinetic video sculpture by digital art pioneer Beeple , in the museums Focus Gallery today. The work is on view until 30 April 2023. Beeple: HUMAN ONE presents a dynamically changing hybrid digital-and-physical artwork, which shows the first human born inside the metaverse, a 3D virtual world accessible only through the internet. The work depicts a human figure the artist calls traveller who appears within a seven-foot-tall spinning box-like structure composed of four monolithic LED screens. The traveller wears an astronaut suit and treks forward in an endlessly evolving virtual landscape. Designed as a continuous digital display that will periodically evolve over time, HUMAN ONE presents an ongoing conversation in response to current events ... More |
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| Morphy's adds quality and beauty to holidays with elegant Fine & Decorative Arts Auction | | Stephenson's to auction the last of Perry Pfeffer's legendary collection of rock concert posters | | Mysteries of a Venetian perfectionist revealed in Washington |
Exquisite signed/numbered Tiffany Studios Nasturtium table lamp with 19in (dia.) leaded-glass shade featuring multicolored confetti glass tiles and flowers in various shades of red, orange, purple and yellow against a green ground. Tiffany-stamped telescoping cats-paw base. Excellent condition. Estimate $120,000-$160,000.
DENVER, PA.- Arguably, Morphys most-loved sale from its always-busy calendar of events, the annual pre-Christmas Fine & Decorative Arts Auction consistently delivers luxury, rarity and peerless quality to discerning collectors and holiday gift-givers. This years edition, which will be held on December 19 and 20, is brimming with superior jewels and watches, paintings, art pottery, silver, and dazzling Tiffany Studios lamps. Morphys Pennsylvania gallery is decked out in finery and glowing with soft light from more than two dozen antique art-glass lamps. Several especially rare Tiffanys lead the selection. In our Fine & Decorative sales, we always make an extra effort to include lamps that are genuinely rare and exceptional, said Dan Morphy, founder and president of Morphy Auctions. Three Tiffanys, in particular stand out in our December event, starting with the Nasturtium lamp. ... More | |
Bill Graham Presents Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana and Pearl Jam, New Years Eve, December 31, 1991 Cow Palace (San Francisco) concert poster. Original first printing denoted by 19in x 13in size. Artist: Harry Rossit. Comes with LOA from Arlene Owseichik. Estimate $500-$700.
SOUTHAMPTON, PA.- The third and final auction of rock concert posters from the estate of Perry Pfeffer (circa 1949-2020), visionary founder of Postercade, will be held at Stephensons Auctions suburban Philadelphia gallery on Sunday, December 11. All additional forms of bidding will be available, including absentee, phone and live via the Internet through LiveAuctioneers. The private collection featuring artist-signed rarities from San Franciscos Summer of Love and the heyday of New Yorks Fillmore East attracted international media interest when Parts I and II were auctioned by Stephensons in August 2020 and again in January 2021. The December 11 session consists of 233 lots of premier posters with additional consignments of Beatles collectibles and classic rock and jazz LPs. The sale is every bit as impressive as the previous Pfeffer outings ... More | |
Vittore Carpaccio, The Virgin Reading, c. 1505, oil on panel transferred to canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.354.
WASHINGTON, DC.- For Henry James, our man in Italy, There is something ridiculous in talking of Venice without making him almost the refrain. The year is 1882, the American writer is not yet 40, and the him is Vittore Carpaccio: the painter of the early Renaissance whose narrative cycles of Christian saints decorate churches and confraternities all around the maritime city. James is falling in love with Venice and writing a first essay in which he gasps before the paintings of Tintoretto and Giovanni Bellini and whines about the other tourists. (Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice, there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. Still true!) He finds that Carpaccio, more than Tintoretto, sailed nearer to perfection, though he feels no need to dwell on the point, his fame being brighter to-day, James wrote in 1882, than it has ever been. Not quite so bright these days. With the coming of the 20th century ... More |
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| Goldin Acquires Sell My Comic Books, enabling anyone to seamlessly appraise & list their comics for sale | | Red 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe with rare split rear window brings $129,800 in Miller & Miller's auction | | Art Rotterdam 2023 new sculpture park celebrates connection with the city of Rotterdam |
Leading comic book Buyer & Appraisal firm brings to Goldin deep expertise & aervices that enable every collector to get the best price for their items.
RUNNEMEDE, NJ.- Leading collectibles marketplace Goldin announces the acquisition of leading comic book buyer and appraisal service Sell My Comic Books, immediately making buying, selling,appraising and pressing comics a more seamless experience for anyone. As a result of the acquisition, collectors and investors will be able to more quickly and easily submit their comics to be appraised and then listed and sold through the Goldin marketplace. The experts at Sell My Comic Books bring to Goldin combined decades of experience buying and appraising valuable comic books. Sell My Comic Books also adds deep expertise creating educational and entertaining written and video content that will provide buyers and sellers with information about their favorite comic books. Additionally, Sell My Comic Books will offer Goldin customers other best-in-class services including comic book pressing, an industry-approved process ... More | |
1963 Corvette split window coupe, one of the rarest and most coveted of all the Corvettes, purchased in 1983 and stored in a dry heated garage ever since,(CA$129,800). From the lifetime collection of Gary Archer, a collector who aggressively sought out gas pumps, petroliana advertising, automobilia, soda signs and old toys.
ONTARIO.- A bright red 1963 Chevrolet Corvette coupe with the rare and highly desirable split rear window roared off for $129,800 in an online-only Automobiles, Advertising & Toys auction held December 3rd by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. The runner-up lot was a 1940s double-sided porcelain Chrysler Plymouth Fargo dealer sign that made $29,500. Prices quoted are in Canadian dollars and include an 18 percent buyers premium. All 241 lots in the sale were from the lifetime collection of the late Gary Archer, a collector who aggressively sought out gas pumps, petroliana advertising, automobilia, soda signs and old toys. The family reflected on what Gary paid for certain pieces. It was like winning the lottery, said Ethan Miller of Miller ... More | |
M.Simons, Hadrien Gérenton, Rotting the Ripening, (Komodo Dragon), 2017. On display in the New Art Section.
ROTTERDAM.- From Thursday 2 February to Sunday 12 February, the iconic Van Nelle Fabriek in Rotterdam will be hosting the 24th edition of Art Rotterdam. Over a total surface area of 10,000 m2, over one hundred leading national and international galleries will be exhibiting works by both up-and-coming and established artists. Two new developments in this edition: the Sculpture Park presentation, supported by Stichting Droom en Daad, and the central placement of the New Art Section. Sculpture Park will feature ten to twenty primarily large-scale works of art related to nature or the urban environment. The presentation will be located in the Tabaksfabriek (Tobacco Factory), one of the industrial and historic sections of the Van Nelle Fabriek. The architectural details are being developed by spatial design studio Tom Postma Design (known not only for their work at Art Rotterdam, but also Art Basel ... More |
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| Box covering Columbus statue in Philadelphia must be removed, court rules | | Madeleine Bialke, M. Florine Démosthéne, Sahara Longe, Nadia Waheed at the Alexander Berggruen Gallery | | Ora Ora signs rising artist Joseph Tong, exclusive representation in greater China and South Korea |
Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus by Sebastiano del Piombo.
NEW YORK, NY.- A Pennsylvania court ruled on Friday that the city of Philadelphia must remove the plywood box covering a statue of Christopher Columbus that, in recent years, has been a source of contentious debate over colonialism and heritage. The 146-year-old marble statue among the first in the U.S. dedicated to the Italian explorer who sailed to the Americas on behalf of Spain more than 500 years ago has been particularly divisive in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in 2020, which prompted protests against racial injustice and renewed conversations about polarizing landmarks. On Friday, a panel of judges in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reversed a 2021 decision that had permitted the city to keep its box around the statue, effectively ending officials attempt to hide what it considered ... More | |
M. Florine Démosthène, Judge By Your Own Lies, 2022, collage on paper (ink, mylar, pigment stick, and glitter), framed 44 x 30 in. (111.8 x 76.2 cm.).
NEW YORK, N.Y..- Alexander Berggruen is now presenting Madeleine Bialke, M. Florine Démosthène, Sahara Longe, and Nadia Waheed. This exhibition opened Tuesday, December 6, 2022 with a reception, and will end on January 11, 2023. Framing narratives with space for mystery, compassion, and intrigue through figuration, Madeleine Bialke, M. Florine Démosthène, Sahara Longe, and Nadia Waheed open portals to access the surreal. Though varied in their inspirations and context, the artists in this show each usher uncertainty into their paintings, enchanting a viewer in the spaces between the seen and the unseen. Madeleine Bialke paints anthropomorphized landscapes where the full-bodied trees become the principal individuals, equipped with personalities, emotions ... More | |
Joseph Tong and his series Ex Materia (Transfiguration).
HONG KONG.- Ora-Ora has announced its representation of the highly sought-after Berlin-based artist Joseph Tong in Greater China and South Korea. Tong will mark his debut with Ora-Ora in March 2023, with a dedicated solo show at the gallery's Tai Kwun space in Hong Kong. Titled Ex Materia - The Primacy of Being, Tongs inaugural exhibition at Ora-Ora will coincide with the Art Basel Hong Kong week. Often examining points of cross-cultural intersection between Eastern and Western philosophical, theological and mythical canons, Tong introduces visual narratives in which to debate, dissect and evaluate how these belief systems interrelate in a contemporary idealogical context. CEO and co-founder of Ora-Ora, Dr. Henrietta Tsui-Leung said, From the first time I experienced Josephs work, I looked for ways for us to collaborate. His intellectual curiosity, his artistic audacity, and the breadth of his aesthetic ... More |
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Art+Science Pathway Tour: Art Talk with K ate Smith
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Dundee Contemporary Arts presents a new body of work by Glasgow-based artist Matthew Arthur Williams
DUNDEE.- Dundee Contemporary Arts announced the presentation of a new body of work by Glasgow-based artist Matthew Arthur Williams, marking his first major solo exhibition in a UK institution. Williams artistic practice is marked by close collaboration with others, and a commitment to creating projects that explore visibility, care, love, family, memory, representation and resistance. His work expands on traditional understandings of portraiture by concentrating on defying erasure; building an archive of subjects and shifting narratives; and by considering what it means to be Black, to be queer, and to inhabit rural environments. Soon Come centres around a newly commissioned film and sound installation, presented alongside photographic work which has been developed using conversations, interviews and materials from both public and private histories ... More
Latest exhibitions at the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, features works by Craig Drennen and Steve Locke
BLACKSBURG, VA.- Moss Arts Center exhibitions feature works from artists Craig Drennen and Steve Locke. The exhibitions Craig Drennens First Acts, Scene 2, a collection of paintings, mixed-media installation, and video inspired by an obscure Shakespeare work, and Steve Lockes the daily practice of painting, consisting of 114 portraits Locke painted over the course of a year. Works from two prominent artists are on display in Virginia for the very first time. The latest exhibitions at the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech feature two solo shows Craig Drennens First Acts, Scene 2, a collection of paintings, mixed-media installation, and video inspired by an obscure Shakespeare work ... More
"José Lerma: Quieto, Quietud, Quietudes" at Almine Rech in Shanghai, China
SHANGHAI.- Almine Rech Shanghai began this past December 9th José Lermas first solo show at the gallery, and his first solo exhibition in China. The exhibition will end on January 7th, 2023. José Lermas recent hyper-painterly portraits are paradoxically austere. The copious amount of paint loaded onto each canvas counters the scant number of brushstrokes: only three to ten per piece. Though impasto typically conveys dynamism and spontaneity, here it rigidly describes static heads from the front or side. Stark and solemn, the faces in profile evoke Piero della Francescas classicizing double portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino. Only in place of the early Renaissance masters diaphanous oil glazes is the opposite extreme: clotted slabs of acrylic. With so few marks and fast-drying paint thickened with gels and other materials, Lermas pictures require careful planning ... More
Hamish Kilgour, whose New Zealand cult band had reach, dies at 65
NEW YORK, NY.- Hamish Kilgour, a founding member of the New Zealand band the Clean, who was celebrated among fans of underground music for his propulsive drumming and his countercultural approach to life, has died. He was 65. He was found dead in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Monday, 10 days after being reported missing, police there said. His death was referred to the coroners office. A central figure in the crop of freewheeling New Zealand musicians on the independent label Flying Nun that came to be called the Dunedin sound, Kilgour spent four decades as a musician, singing and playing percussion and later the guitar. He eventually played with more than 100 bands, including the Great Unwashed, the Sundae Painters and Monsterland, and lived for almost 30 years in New York, where he formed the band the Mad Scenet ... More
An opera company's precarious future has some worried about a ripple effect
LONDON.- When Leigh Melrose, a rising British opera star, looked at his calendar recently, much of the next three years were blocked out for one company: English National Opera. He was signed up to sing multiple roles there, starting with the lustful dwarf Alberich in the companys new Ring cycle, a coproduction with the Metropolitan Opera that was meant to head to New York. Melrose said that hed had his wig fitting for that role, and that rehearsals for The Rheingold, the first installment in Wagners four-part epic, were scheduled to begin Dec. 28. But now, he said, all those plans seemed uncertain. Last month, Arts Council England, a body that distributes government arts funding here, announced it was shutting off a grant to English National Opera worth 12.4 million pounds (about $15 million) a year ... More
When Jewish artists wrestle with antisemitism
NEW YORK, NY.- Antisemitism has such a long, violent history that it seems absurd to claim its getting worse. Compared with when? And yet, theres something about our current moment that feels different. Consider a recent Sunday. I woke up to news reports that two men were arrested at Penn Station with weapons, a swastika armband and a social media history of threats to attack a synagogue. After taking a shower, I opened my dresser to find my Kyrie Irving T-shirt. The Brooklyn Nets player was returning to the NBA that evening after being suspended for tweeting a link to a documentary that cast doubt on the Holocaust. I didnt expect getting dressed in the morning to turn into a test of loyalties between my favorite basketball team and my murdered ancestors, but here we are. That night, when I arrived at Barclays Center ... More
Review: Michelle Dorrance returns to the Joyce. Where's the zip?
NEW YORK, NY.- Music means everything to Michelle Dorrance its been that way for as long as she can remember. As she writes in a program note for her latest show, what moves her about her favorite tap dancers is feeling pure emotional energy moving through a body to make music. Usually thats the sensation you come away with after spending an evening with this tap choreographer and dancer: an energetic, emotional conversation between music and dance. Its never just been about the tap dancing joy she creates on a stage, but a dedication to a different kind of rhythm the pacing of her programs and dances. They fly. For her two-week engagement at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan, Dorrance has presented an oddly uneven experience, lethargic in its momentum. The dances felt unfinished ... More
47 Canal opens Danielle Dean's second solo exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- Horizongrabber is Danielle Deans second solo exhibition at 47 Canal. For this exhibition, the artist presents a selection of new works that coalesce her ongoing inquiries into labor, racial capitalism, and the shaping influence of advertising on human subjectivity. For the past several years, Dean has researched in the Ford Motor Company archives, exploring the system of mass production pioneered by the American company in the early 20th century, along with the visual tropes and culture of the companys advertising. Her research has surfaced Fordlândia, an industrial plantation that Henry Ford erected in the Brazilian rainforest that corralled workers into standardized schedules, hamburger and tinned peaches for meals, and architecture modeled on the farm towns of the American Midwest ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American-Swiss painter Mark Tobey was born December 11, 1890. Mark George Tobey (December 11, 1890 â April 24, 1976) was an American painter. His densely structured compositions, inspired by Asian calligraphy, resemble Abstract expressionism, although the motives for his compositions differ philosophically from most Abstract Expressionist painters. His work was widely recognized throughout the United States and Europe. In 1921, Tobey founded the art department at The Cornish School in Seattle, Washington.
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