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A logging port near Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, March 21, 2022. Ten thousand years after our species began forming primitive agrarian societies, a panel of scientists on Saturday took a big step toward declaring a new interval of geologic time: the Anthropocene, the age of humans. (Ashley Gilbertson/The New York Times)
by Raymond Zhong
NEW YORK, NY.- The official timeline of Earthâs history â from the oldest rocks to the dinosaurs to the rise of primates, from the Paleozoic to the Jurassic and all points before and since â could soon include the age of nuclear weapons, human-caused climate change and the proliferation of plastics, garbage and concrete across the planet. In short, the present. Ten thousand years after our species began forming primitive agrarian societies, a panel of scientists on Saturday took a big step toward declaring a new interval of geologic time: the Anthropocene, the age of humans. Our current geologic epoch, the Holocene, began 11,700 years ago with the end of the last big ice age. The panelâs roughly three dozen scholars appear close to recommending that, actually, we have spent the past few decades in a brand-new time unit, one characterized by human-induced, planetary-scale changes that are unfinished but very much underway. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Kongkee-Warring States Cyberpunk, installation, 2022 © Asian Art Museum.
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| Phillips achieves the highest annual total in company history for the second consecutive year | | Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival announces highlights of its 27th edition in May 2023 | | Karma opens a solo exhibition of work by Robert Grosvenor. | 
Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Circus No. 12 Face 44.30), 2014. Estimate: $8,000,000 - 12,000,000. Sold for: $9,809,000 / £8,268,045 / 9,473,434.
NEW YORK, NY.- Stephen Brooks, Chief Executive Officer, said, Phillips is in the midst of an extraordinary period of growth one unlike anything weve experienced and the results from 2022 are a testament to both the resilience of the market and our strength within it. On the heels of 2021, our first billion-dollar year, we consigned our highest value work ever Jean-Michel Basquiats Untitled from the collection of Yusaku Maezawa, which realized $85 million. This result led to the most successful auction in company history, and our top three auctions all took place within twelve months of one another, an extraordinary feat compounded by a global Evening Sale sell-through rate of 96%. This momentum can be seen company-wide, Private Sales seeing a 20% increase and each of our auction categories realizing important new milestones, including an unprecedented two-year streak of selling 100% ... More | | 
Wolfgang Tillmans, Icestorm, 2001. Image courtesy of the artist, David Zwirner, New York / Hong Kong, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin / Cologne, Maureen Paley, London.
TORONTO.- Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival has announced highlights of the 27th edition of the annual citywide event spanning the month of May 2023. Canadian and international artists will present lens-based works in exhibitions, site-specific installations, and commissioned projects at museums, galleries, and public spaces across Toronto. Among these are CONTACTs critically acclaimed Outdoor Installationsa central component of the Festivals Core Program. Inaugurated in 2003 with four projects, this program of public artwork celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2023, with a number of guest curators participating in activating 19 sites throughout the city. The preliminary list of artists, documentary photographers, and photojournalists featured across the Core Program of gallery exhibitions and outdoor installations includes: ... More | | 
Robert Grosvenor, Untitled, 2021-2022, Auto body shell, resin, oil paint.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Karma is presenting a solo exhibition of work by Robert Grosvenor. Located at 7351 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, the show runs from November 12 to December 23, 2022. A painted steel exterior exposes patches of movement, signs perhaps of a human hand. The color, a greenish yellow, coats a form which is at once recognizable and enigmatic. Placed atop rubber tires, a form of a classic American car is evoked, yet further modified by Grosvenor to become a sculpture which resists representation. In another work, a curving form in blue is made of fiberglass, wood cardboard. The structure also features curving edges, but in place of a sanded, smooth surface, its swoops are studded with rows of soft semi-spheres. Reminiscent of modern furniture, the work radiates from Grosvenors practice which finds in mid-century technologies and cultural lores the means to expand the definitions of sculpture ... More |
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| The Chazen Museum of Art explores nature's beauty and an environment in crisis in exhibition | | Hauser & Wirth Institute publishes Franz Kline's catalogue raisonné | | Klára Hosnedlová joins White Cube | 
Severin Roesen, Still Life with Watermelon, ca. 1858-1871. Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1/8 in. Max W. Zabel Fund purchase.
MADISON, WIS.- Americans have long engaged with the United States iconic landscapes, identifying with them, turning to them for inspiration and mining them for natural resources. The Chazen Museum of Art at the University of WisconsinMadison showcases this relationship and its effects in Resource & Ruin: Wisconsins Enduring Landscape, on view Dec. 19, 2022-March 26, 2023. The exhibition will feature approximately 40 works, including paintings, sculpture, ceramics and more, that date from the 18th century to the present. While many of the objects on view will be from the Chazens permanent collection, visitors will also see several important loans, including four works from the Wisconsin Historical Society. For centuries, American artists have engaged with nature and captured it in their work. However ... More | | 
Franz Kline, photographed by Peter A. Juley & Son, late 1950s. Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Photograph Archives, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth Institute announced the publication of a new, digital catalogue raisonné, Franz Kline Paintings, 19501962, developed under the direction of Kline scholar Dr. Robert S. Mattison. This publication is now freely accessible online, allowing researchers and the public to view 256 paintings, many rarely seen or exhibited, which Kline (1910 - 1962) created during the final years of his life. This ambitious period in the artists career, characterized by dynamic black-and-white abstract paintings, has been under-documented, and the publication of this catalogue raisonné marks a new opportunity to open avenues into Kline scholarship and increase public knowledge of his work as well as his contributions to the history of art. Kline is one of the essential figures of mid-century American art ... More | | 
Portrait of Klára Hosnedlová, 2022. Photo © Laura Schaeffer.
LONDON.- White Cube announced representation of Klára Hosnedlová (b. 1990, Uherské Hraditě, Czech Republic). Berlin based, but part of the first post-Communist Czech generation, Hosnedlová fuses elements of science fiction, technology and the natural world in her charged, narrative mise-en-scène. Inspired by novel spaces, including the 60s and 70s Modernist and Brutalist architecture of Central Eastern Europe, Hosnedlová combines performance, sculpture and embroidered painting in works which can be understood as a single artwork entity. Hosnedlovás solo exhibition To Infinity opens at Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, 4 March 4 June 2023, with a further solo presentation at Kunsthalle Basel scheduled for January 2024. Her first solo exhibition with the gallery will take place at White Cube Bermondsey, London in 2025. Klára Hosnedlová ... More |
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| Immersive Asian futurist fantasy combines ancient poetry and modern anime | | Milestone's Winter Toy Extravaganza closes the books at $750K, with rare Diamond Planet Robot in the lead | | Flint Institute of Arts announces gallery dedicated to African American and African Diaspora Artists | 
Kongkee-Warring States Cyberpunk, installation, 2022 © Asian Art Museum.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Kongkee, an award-winning animation director and visual artist, takes you back to the future in an odyssey more than 2,000 years in the making. Part comic book, part motion picture, part meditation on history repeating, the immersive experience of Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk traces the legendary Chinese poet Qu Yuans soul on a journey from the ancient Chu Kingdom to an imagined 21st century Asia of cyborgs, electric rock, and surprising romantic reunions. Making its North American debut only at the Asian Art Museum, Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk invites visitors to step into a glowing series of animated vignettessome projected across walls and ceilings, some featured on screens for more intimate viewing, some accented with interactive elements. The exhibition also features galleries of Kongkees art sketched in response to displays of age-old Chinese artworks from the museum ... More | | 
Masudaya (Japan) 15in battery-operated Target Robot from the fabled Gang of Five robot series. All original and complete, including correct dart gun with dart. Excellent condition. Sold near high estimate for $14,400.
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO.- Nearly 880 lots of high-quality antique and vintage toys crossed the auction block at Milestones December 10 Winter Toy Extravaganza, chalking up $750,000 and making many collectors Christmas dreams come true. Fueled by strong international interest, four dozen robots and space toys easily achieved liftoff, with an extremely rare color variation of a Yonezawa (Japan) tin windup Diamond Planet Robot leading the group. At 10 inches high, Diamond Planet is the largest of all windup robots produced during the golden era of postwar Japanese toymaking. The 100% original robot with a blue body and red arms was offered together with a high-quality repro box and sold within estimate for $33,210. From the legendary Masudaya (Japan) Gang of Five series, a 15-inch-tall battery-operated Target Robot presented ... More | | 
Installation View, The Flint Institute of Arts.
FLINT, MICH.- The Flint Institute of Arts announces the creation of a gallery space dedicated to artworks by African American and African Diaspora artists from the museums permanent collection. Located at the north end of the Contemporary Collection (Charles Stewart Mott) wing, this gallery highlights some of the most important artists from the mid-20th century to present day through paintings, sculpture, and mixed media works. The first installation in this space features African American artists and those featured employ a variety of styles and themes, ranging from figurative to abstract art. Today, they are leaders in the art world, pushing the boundaries of where art is going and what it represents. Exploring themes related to community, including ideas of history and place, identity and representation, social justice and self-expression, these artworks encompass thematic areas of people, place, and perspective. Many of the artists ... More |
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| Hillwood acquires pieces from the Paley-Romanov Collection to enhance Russian Art and Library Collections | | Trophy-level rarities, including 3 unique U.S. coins, head to Heritage Auctions in January | | Ann Helmreich named Director of the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian | 
Portrait of Irina Paley, Hubert de Monbrison, 1941. Oil on canvas.
WASHINGTON, D.C..- Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens recently purchased a collection of 335 items, ranging from the 1800s to 1900s, to add depth to the museums Russian imperial and research collections. Acquired from a private collector and originally belonging to the family of Princess Olga Valerianovna Paley (1865-1929) and Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich (1960-1919), including their children Prince Vladimir Paley (1897-1918), Princess Irina Paley (1903-1990), and Princess Natalia Pavlovna Paley (1905-1981), the unique collection tells the story of five generations of the Russian imperial family, from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries, while living in exile. The items include three imperial portraits; one lithograph; two family icons; a series of drawings and paintings by Nicholas IIs sisters; twenty-eight groupings of objects and documents, including framed family photo portraits, some of which are signed ... More | | 
1870-S Three Dollar Gold, SP50. Legendary San Francisco mint rarity. Only available example. Ex: Woodin-'Colonel' Green-Eliasberg-Bass
DALLAS, TEXAS.- To many collectors, the ultimate opportunity involves a chance to acquire something unique, a stand-alone trophy that nobody else could have. Collectors of top U.S. coins will have three such opportunities within a week at Heritage Auctions, the worlds leading auctioneer of coins and currency, when a trio of unique trophy-quality coins are offered in The Bass Collection, Part II US Coins Signature® Auction - Orlando FUN Jan. 5 and the FUN US Coins Signature® Auction Jan. 11-15. The selection of unique coins coming to Heritage Auctions in January is extraordinary, says Todd Imhof, Executive Vice President of Heritage Auctions. Opportunities to acquire coins like these come along once in a lifetime if that. To have three such chances within such a short timespan simply underscores the significance of these two auctions ... More | | 
Anne Helmreich, new director of the Smithsonians Archives of American Art. Photo Credit: Loli Kantor
WASHINGTON, D.C..- Anne Helmreich has been named the director of the Smithsonians Archives of American Art, effective Feb. 27, 2023. Helmreich is currently the associate director of grants programming at the Getty Foundation and brings 35 years of experience in higher education and arts administration to this new role. The Archives of American Art fosters advanced research by accumulating and disseminating primary sources that document more than 200 years of the nations artists and art communities. Helmreich will oversee its Washington, D.C., headquarters and research center, New York City research center and Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery. She will also oversee its collections development, exhibitions and publications, including the Archives of American Art Journal, the longest-running scholarly journal in the field of American art. Additionally, Helmreich will lead the Archives digitization program ... More |
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In the Gallery: Andrew Graham-Dixon on the Old Masters Evening Auction and Sir Joseph Hotung
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 A success for the first Vietnamese sale at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr in ParisPARIS.- Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr held its first successful sale in Paris dedicated to Vietnamese Modernity under the direction of specialist Joan Yip (Wednesday 14 December). The 67-lot sale achieved a total of 413,188 with more than 75% of lots sold, many of them well above their estimates. A blend of Vietnamese and French traditions, the paintings in this sale explored not only the golden age of Vietnamese art (1930-1945) but also the pre-war and post-war period. Trained mostly at the prestigious Indochina School of Fine Arts in Hanoi (EBAI), the artists mastered European techniques and media - notably oil painting - and transposed brushwork, life drawing, plein air painting and a particular use of colour with their own artistic tradition, creating a Vietnamese Modernity. A 1960 oil on silk painting entitled Peonies and Delphiniums by Le Pho ... More  Exhibition explores the art book in all its' many guisesLONDON.- HackelBury Fine Art is exhibiting Art + Books, exploring the art book in all its many guises. The exhibition celebrates the art/artists book as a form of collaboration - between art and text and between artists, writers, galleries and publishers. For many years, HackelBury has worked with artists to produce art books. Their publishing arm, Imprint, has seen five books produced in collaboration with numerous artists which often document important work which would otherwise go unseen. Art + Books highlights a selection of these collaborations, including Doug and Mike Starns Gravity of Light, the first book to celebrate the full breadth of the Starns innovative photographic career, Alys Tomlinsons Lost Summer and Willy Ronis Willy Ronis: The Master Photographers Unpublished Album, a photo-book which retraces his career and contributions to photography ... More  25 years of Art Paris: A powerful anniversary edition under the sign of commitmentPARIS.- Art Paris is celebrating its 25th anniversary with an edition that will bring together some 133 galleries from 25 different countries at the Grand Palais Ephémère from 30 March to 2 April 2023. Art Paris which was founded in 1999 - is organised by France Conventions, a French family-run business. Thanks to the efforts of its owners, Julien and Valentine Lecêtre, together with fair director Guillaume Piens, in the space of 25 years, Art Paris has become a leading spring arts event, an innovative art fair that fosters discovery, setting out to explore in depth the world of modern and contemporary art. A regional, national and cosmopolitan fair, Art Paris has put the spotlight on many countries or continents art scene: Russia (2013), China (2014), Singapore and Southeast Asia (2015), Korea (2016), Africa (2017), Switzerland (2018), Latin America (2019) and the Iberian Peninsula (2020) ... More  Herbert Deutsch, co-creator of the Moog Synthesizer, dies at 90NEW YORK, NY.- Herbert Deutsch, who helped develop the Moog synthesizer, a groundbreaking instrument that opened up new frontiers in electronic music and brought a futuristic sheen to landmark recordings by countless artists, died Dec. 9 at his home in Massapequa Park, New York, on Long Island. He was 90. The cause was heart failure, his wife, Nancy Deutsch, said. Herbert Deutsch, a Hofstra University music professor and experimental composer, joined forces with Robert Moog, an engineer and inventor, to introduce a modular voltage-controlled synthesizer in 1964. With its otherworldly sounds, which could call to mind both a Gothic cathedrals pipe organ and an extraterrestrial mother ship, the Moog (the name rhymes with vogue) was the first synthesizer to make a significant impact on popular music. Its debut marked the dawn of the synthesizer age ... More  From behind bars, inmates award France's latest book prizeSARAN, FRANCE.- On a recent afternoon near Orléans, in the Loire Valley, members of the jury of Frances newest literary prize trickled out of their prison cells. They walked past tall white fencing topped with barbed wire, past metal detectors, security cameras and heavy doors that clanged shut, and into a small, brightly lit classroom with barred windows. The inmates more than a dozen men and women held at the Orléans-Saran Penitentiary Center had gathered to discuss novels published in France this year and pick the one they thought was the best. One suggested Le Mage du Kremlin (The Wizard of the Kremlin), a fictionalized look at the Russian presidents inner circle. Another rooted for La Petite Menteuse (The Little Liar), a novel that explores the post-#MeToo era. Debates were spirited, reviews were blunt one inmate called a book exceptionally boring ... More  Beryl Grey, acclaimed British ballerina, is dead at 95NEW YORK, NY.- Beryl Grey, a British ballerina known for her theatrical glamour, exceptional technical ability and international appeal, died Dec. 10. She was 95. The English National Ballet confirmed the death in an announcement. It did not say where she died. On Oct. 9, 1949, Grey, dancing the role of the Lilac Fairy in the Sadlers Wells Ballet production of The Sleeping Beauty at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, helped make history. The occasion was the first night of the companys appearance in America. It became especially famous for Margot Fonteyns performance as Princess Aurora. But even before Fonteyns entry, the troupes triumph had been assured, above all by Grey, exhibiting her extraordinary range and warmth as both a dancer and an actress. The Sadlers Wells Ballet became a fixture in New York culture ... More  Kunié Sugiura Photogram acquired by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenNEW YORK, N.Y..- Alison Bradley Projects recently announced that Kunié Sugiura's photogram, Yayoi Kusama Cp AP (2003), has been acquired by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Sugiura's Yayoi Kusama Cp AP (2003) is currently on view in One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection on the lower level of the museum. The exhibition runs through Spring 2023. Kunié Sugiura (b. 1942, Nagoya, Japan) moved to the United States in 1963 to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) where she received her BFA in 1967. While at the SAIC, Sugiura studied under the conceptual photographer Kenneth Josephson. Sugiura works in varied photographic mediums. During the 1970s Sugiuras practice combined photography with acrylic paint on canvas. These photo-paintings remain some of the artists most seminal works in her oeuvre ... More  New program first to interpret Museums' African art collectionSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Lhola Amira: Facing the Future launched the Fine Arts Museums of San Franciscos new African art program, foregrounding the permanent collection as a site of exploration for the evolving nature of African arts and their meanings today. Helmed by Natasha Becker, inaugural curator of African art, the program features contemporary artists whose work draws on and engages the artistic and cultural traditions of Africa. First to present, Lhola Amira (b. 1984, Gugulethu, South Africa) embodies South African Nguni spiritual practices in THEIR* life and work, emphasizing the power of remembering ancestors. Natasha Becker has designed a program that is timely and relevant in its approach, interpreting the Fine Arts Museums collection of African art as a body of aesthetic practices that are very much alive in the work of contemporary artists from the African ... More  A gilded Gaveau piano and Flora Danica dishware highlighted Moran's Traditional Collector auctionLOS ANGELES, CA.- To wrap up their 2022 schedule, Morans held their Winter Traditional Collector auction last Tuesday, December 6th. Having over 350 lots, this sale included a collection of porcelain cockatoo figures, decorative bronze sculptures, Louis XVI and Louis XV-style furniture, an impressive selection of quality silver tableware, and fine art from artists such as John Frederick Herring, Sr., and Emil Prinz. Among the highlights there were noteworthy items in a range of categories including fine art, decorative art, and dinnerware. But the top lot was in furniturea gilded Gaveau grand piano. Lot 1068 was a Gaveau Et Cie Louis Birarello French grand piano. Estimated $30,000-50,000, this stunning instrument was designed with a Louis XV-style case with fruitwood marquetry and gilt-bronze mounts, and came with a matching contemporary bench ... More  JD Malat Gallery opens a major retrospective of works by Mimmo RotellaLONDON.- JD Malat Gallery is presenting Mimmo Rotella: The Urban Poet, a captivating solo exhibition by the Italian post-war artist Mimmo Rotella (1918 2006). This major retrospective brings together a vast array of never-before-seen works from the different periods of Rotellas practice. Created in collaboration with the Italian Embassy, the exhibition explores a variety of themes, from challenging the concept of traditional figurative art, to highlighting deconstruction and décollage as his primary artistic instrument. Born in Catanzaro, Italy, Rotella is known for his elaborate and innovative décollage artworks made from torn advertising posters, as well as rethinking old film posters. From the very beginning of his career, Rotella was open to experimentation, moving from figuration to new-geometric paintings, and, eventually, to his signature décollage technique ... More  Ooido Syoujou's first solo exhibition with Blum & Poe on view in TokyoTOKYO.- Blum & Poe is presenting Ooido Syoujous first solo exhibition with the gallery. Consisting of a multitude of colored fragments with minute gaps, Ooido Syoujou's (b. Osaka, Japan, 1984) abstract paintings seem to twinkle, evoking a backlit prism or a smattering of distant stars. The artists painting process requires an acute attention to detail and a meticulous nature, yielding works that transmit a tremendous intensity and vibrant energyas if to depict an entity of both cosmic and microscopic proportions. As the artist meditates on the natural world through his work, Ooido conjures the principles of Charles and Ray Eamess Power of Ten (1977)the constitution of a single atom mirrors the expanse of the universe. Ooido began making art after a life changing trip to the forest of Yakushima, a Japanese subtropical island in Kagoshima Prefecture ... More |
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Gabriella Boyd @ GRIMM 
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Frances Macdonald
Flashback On a day like today, Italian sculptor and painter Mimmo Paladino was born December 18, 1948. Paladino was born in Paduli, Campania, on December 18, 1948, but grew up and trained in Benevento. He now lives in Rome and Milan, but still has a studio in the little town near Benevento. In this image: Mimmo Paladino, Mattinate (Puglia Suite) No. 7, 2011. Watercolour with collage. Paper and image 58.0 x 77.0 cm.
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