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The Geneva Free Port in Switzerland on May 19, 2016. A U.S. Treasury report on money laundering in the art market said steps taken by the Swiss authorities had lessened the risk on transactions in free ports, though vulnerabilities remain in the United States. Fred Merz/The New York Times.
by Graham Bowley and Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- Addressing concerns that the art market has become a ripe setting for illicit financial transactions, the Treasury Department released a study Friday that said that, while it had identified some vulnerabilities, it does not recommend immediate government intervention to install further regulations. The study cited some evidence of money laundering using high-end art, mentioning, for example, a financier who prosecutors said bought artworks with money siphoned from the Malaysian government. And it suggested a number of potential measures that could be instituted in the future, but it concluded that such strictures were not currently a priority. We have found that while certain aspects of the high-value art market are vulnerable to money laundering, its often the case that there are larger underlying issues at play, like the abuse of shell companies or the participation of complicit professionals, so we are tackling those first, Scott Rembrandt, a senior Treasury offici ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, 'A painter... of sorts: Allan Kaprow. Selected Works 1953 - 1975' at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse, until 12 March 2022. ã Allan Kaprow Estate. Courtesy Allan Kaprow Estate and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Jon Etter.
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| Hauser & Wirth presents paintings and drawings by Allan Kaprow | | Christie's to offer the fine and decorative arts collection of legendary fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy | | Christie's to offer the visionary collection of Mahinder and Sharad Tak | 
Allan Kaprow, Standing Nude Against Red and White Stripes 1955. Oil on canvas, 165.4 x 126.4 cm / 65 1/8 x 49 3/4 in. Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography Zurich. © Allan Kaprow Estate. Courtesy Allan Kaprow Estate and Hauser & Wirth.
ZURICH.- Hauser & Wirth brings the work of Allan Kaprow, one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century, to its gallery on Limmatstrasse. With the invention of Happenings and Environments, Kaprow embarked upon a career of intellectually rigorous, site-specific, and timed works that defied commoditization and ultimately gave birth to performance and installation art. While Kaprows radical innovations in the realm of performance shifted the course of 20th-century American art, he began his career as a painter, studying with Hans Hofmann and focusing on the medium in the 1950s. A painter
of sorts presents paintings and drawings by Kaprow from this period, as well as a selection of his video works from 1975. The exhibition depicts a clear trajectory for the artists practice, from paintings and drawings to his ... More | | 
The timing of the announcement of the sale coincides with the 70th anniversary of the first haute couture collection Hubert de Givenchy presented in Paris.
PARIS.- Christie's announced the sale of the exceptional fine and decorative arts collection of legendary fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy, featuring more than 1,200 lots of French and European Furniture and works of art, including sculpture and paintings from Old Masters to Modern and Contemporary works. Each object was chosen with Hubert de Givenchys meticulous eye and reflects his exquisite taste. Drawn from two of de Givenchys most iconic and elegant homesthe Hôtel d'Orrouer in Paris and the Château du Jonchet in the Loire Valleythe collection includes many exceptional objects unseen on the market for decades as well as more recent works acquired towards the end of his collecting journey. Christies will offer this extraordinary collection at auction in Paris from 14 to 17 June (live sales) and from 8 to 23 June 2022 in a dedicated online sale. The timing of the announcement of the sale ... More | | 
Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2004), The Banyan Tree. Oil on canvas, 69 x 69 in. (175.3 x 175.3 cm.) Painted in 1994. Estimate: $1,800,000-2,500,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- During New Yorks annual Asian Art Week in March 2022, Christies will present over 40 works from The Visionary Collection of Mahinder and Sharad Tak as part of the live auction, South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art Including Works from the Collection of Mahinder and Sharad Tak on 23 March 2022. A selection of highlights from the collection will be on view at Christies London between 1 to 6 February, followed by private viewings in Mumbai. All lots from the auction will then be exhibited as part of Christies Asian Art Week preview in New York from 18 to 22 March. Nishad Avari, Head of Sale, South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art, Christies, remarked: Over the last fifty years, Mahinder and Sharad Tak have put together one of the most important collections of South Asian modern and contemporary art in North America. Apart from pioneering collectors, they are dedicated patrons of the arts and ... More |
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| New research into UK touring exhibitions published today | | Challenging material, evocative forms characterize sculpture by Nevine Mahmoud at Wadsworth Atheneum | | James Bidgood, master of erotic gay photography, dies at 88 | 
Exhibition visitors viewing work by Mairi Chisholm as part of No Mans Land: Womens Photography and the First World War a touring exhibition by Impressions Gallery, which premiered at Impressions Gallery, Bradford in 2017.
LONDON.- New research, Going Places: Touring and shared exhibitions in the UK commissioned by Art Fund in partnership with Creative Scotland, was published today providing an overview of current practice and future potential for touring and sharing museum and gallery exhibitions and visual arts programmes within the UK. Over 200 museum, gallery and heritage professionals across the four nations were surveyed to find out how cultural organisations are working together to share collections and programme temporary projects. The research will inform the development of funding programmes of support and help to build a strong UK-wide policy framework. The research highlights the following key developments in UK exhibition touring: Touring models tailored to local contexts - A vital step for post-pandemic survival, given the trend towards ... More | | 
Nevine Mahmoud, Wax Lips seated, 2021. Polyester resin, plastic, plastic chair, and steel hardware. Courtesy the artist and M+B, Los Angeles. Photo: Ed Mumford.
HARTFORD, CONN.- Glass, stone, and resin compose sculptural works by Nevine Mahmoud that simultaneously evoke the human body, inanimate objects, and organic forms. They are at once natural and manufactured; alive and disembodied; inviting and disturbing. The nine works in the exhibition are arranged across the gallery space by the artist, who is deeply engaged in exhibition design, to propel visual associations and conversations between the works. Nevine Mahmoud / MATRIX 188 is on view at the Wadsworth February 3May 1, 2022. Mahmouds seductive, alluring forms spark curiosity as they continually shapeshift before your eyes, said Patricia Hickson, the Wadsworths Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art. From animal to vegetal to mechanical, the fluid connotations of her sculptures connect a surreal sensibility with feminist fearlessness. Mahmoud works with rigorous materials, including hard ... More | | 
James Bidgood, a photographer and filmmaker, in New York, April 29, 2019. Bidgood, who elevated erotic gay photography to an art in the 1960s and 70s with his carefully staged phantasmagoric pictures, and who was the anonymous director behind Pink Narcissus, a gay film released in 1971 that became something of a cult classic, died on Jan. 31, 2022, in Manhattan. He was 88. Vincent Tullo/The New York Times.
by Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK, NY.- James Bidgood, who elevated erotic gay photography to an art in the 1960s and 70s with his carefully staged phantasmagoric pictures, and who was the anonymous director behind Pink Narcissus, a gay film released in 1971 that became something of a cult classic, died Jan. 31 in Manhattan. He was 88. Brian Paul Clamp, director of his gallery, ClampArt, said his death, in a hospital, was caused by complications related to COVID-19. Bidgood, who came to New York from Wisconsin at 18, was a drag performer in the 1950s at Club 82 in the East Village, where he also sometimes designed sets and costumes. By the early ... More |
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| The Winter Show announces dates, new location, and exhibitors for 2022 fair | | Nils Stærk opens group exhibition: 'Betamax' | | Ben Vautier's first ever solo show in Britain opens at Cardi Gallery | 
Rendering of The Winter Show 2022 at 660 Madison Avenue. Courtesy of The Winter Show and Owen Walz.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Winter Show announced that the 68th edition of the fair will take place April 110, 2022 at 660 Madison Avenue, the former flagship location of Barneys New York, following the postponement of its previously scheduled January dates due to surges in COVID-19 cases. The 2022 edition will feature a curated exhibition of 62 dealers that will have booths installed across four floors of the historic building. The interim location neighbors the Park Avenue Armory, offering a familiar location for the Shows committed patrons, collector base, and exhibitors. Following this temporary move to accommodate the new dates, The Winter Show, a benefit for East Side House, will return in 2023 to its longtime home at the Park Avenue Armory. We are thrilled that The Winter Show will once again take place in person in New York City. Although it will look slightly different from the fair we have become so familiar ... More | | 
Installation view of Betamax at Nils Stærk. Photo: David Stjernholm.
COPENHAGEN.- The exhibition title Betamax is a reference to Sonys 12.7 mm home-video-tape format launched in 1975. The name is derived from the tapes drive mechanism, which resembles the Greek letter beta. In spite of several superior attributes, including a better-quality picture, it was nevertheless outpaced by the VHS system on the global market. At present, the VHS- and Betamax formats are a thing of the past, for younger generations perhaps just words without body. Words that have disappeared from our language, replaced by new standards for digital representation such as JPEG or NFT. In an etymological sense, the word technology is made up of téchnë, Greek for arts and craft, and lógos, meaning thought and reason. Technology has since become truly distanced from its original meaning and assumed an almighty and, at times, inhumane character. Consciousness constantly creates new things, ... More | | 
Ben Vautier, PENSER, 2014. Signed lower right. Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 80 cm. 31 1/2 x 31 1/2 in.
LONDON.- Cardi Gallery is presenting, Sehnsucht, the first ever solo show in Britain dedicated to French artist Ben Vautier (b. Naples, 1935; lives and works in Nice). Displayed on the ground floor of the Grafton Street townhouse is a selection of paintings he created between 1975 and 2016. The show marks Bens return to Mayfair after sixty years of absence. In October 1962, invited by Daniel Spoerri to partake in the Festival of Misfits, for two weeks Ben took residence in a cage behind Gallery Ones shop window in North Audley Street, a living sculpture on display around the clock, surrounded by a maze of boldly painted texts on panels. London proved pivotal for the development of his practice: it was here that he first met George Maciunas, the father of newly formed Fluxus, and he soon became the 100% Fluxus man, completely blurring the boundaries between art and life through irreverent performances, gigs, ... More |
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| Exhibition features a length performance film and photographic series created by Moses Sumney | | Tchoban Foundation opens an exhibition dedicated to Soviet architect Boris Iofan | | Amsterdam Museum relocates temporarily to Hermitage Amsterdam | 
Film still from Blackalachia.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nicola Vassell Gallery is presenting Moses Sumney: Blackalachia, a feature length performance film and photographic series created by the artist in the North Carolina stretch of the Blue Ridge Mountains during the summer of 2020. Sumneys auteurial debut highlights issues at the center of his interdisciplinary practice, including non-binary thinking, isolation, emotional introspection and historical Black cultural influence. The film's title cites the relationship between Blackness and the Appalachian region, and the forced severance of the two, on which Sumney elaborates, There is a history of Black people in Appalachia, there is a history of Black music being the foundation of bluegrass and country. There is a history of migration into and out of Appalachia. Im so deeply invested in a reintegration into nature. This sincere contemplation results in a performance piece about performance, framed by th ... More | | 
Design for the Barvikha sanatorium. Perspective view of a courtyard with part of the building, 1940, watercolour, brush, red chalk on paper, 556 Ã 416 mm.
BERLIN.- This exhibition is dedicated to the work of one of the most important Soviet architects, Boris Iofan (1891-1976). 2021 marked the 130th anniversary of his birth. From 1932 to 1947, Iofan was considered a key figure in the architecture of the USSR and Moscow. His proximity to Joseph Stalin made him the court architect. Iofan not only brought his own architecture to life during those years; he also implemented the dictators architectural visions. Some of these visions were realised in the Soviet pavilions at the 1937 Worlds Fairs in Paris and 1939 in New York. In 1937, Iofan entered into direct competition with Albert Speer when the two architects respective pavilions were built opposite each other. However, some other visions never made it beyond Iofans drawings. Boris Iofans most important work was the design for the gigantic but never built Palace of the ... More | | 
Typhoon (Glenn de Randamie) - Elieser. Photo: Umberto Tan.
AMSTERDAM.- The Amsterdam Museum is relocating to Hermitage Amsterdam and will be open to the public there from Saturday 5 March 2022. Amsterdam Museums current location, the former City Orphanage (Burgerweeshuis) at 92 Kalverstraat, is closing for major refurbishment work. From March 2022 until 2025, the Amsterdam Museum wing at the Hermitage Amsterdam will be home to the Amsterdam Museum where it will present a completely new collection including not just the traditional history of Amsterdam, but also alternative voices and lesser-known and more recent histories of the city. In addition, temporary exhibitions will give voice to residents and lovers of the city, enabling them to present their Amsterdam. Through its display of familiar objects from its collection and new or lesser-known work, the Amsterdam Museum annexe at the Hermitage will emphasise that there is not just ... More |
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The Red Boy: from conservation studio to Gallery wall | National Gallery
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 Michel Rein Gallery opens the first solo show of Sébastien Bonin's work in Paris PARIS.- Michel Rein Gallery is presenting the first solo show of Sébastien Bonin in Paris after Nycthéméral (2019, Michel Rein, Brussels). The Black Maria is to cinema what the camera obscura is to photography. A term previously used for police vans, Thomas Edisons employees applied it to this other black box on wheels, the first studio in the history of cinema. An enclosed, abstract space, open to the sky of possibilities, the Black Maria permits dreams and even exists solely to produce them. From this point on, the simulacrum becomes a central element whose function is to reveal. This semblance is constructed by isolating a single element in the image or, conversely, by accumulating a mass of information. Sébastien Bonin works in different media including painting, photography and sculpture letting the works decide which medium ... More  Abrasive Paradise on view in Kunsthal KAdE and the ElleboogkerkAMERSFOORT.- Kunsthal KAdE opened the exhibition 'Abrasive Paradise', in which twelve contemporary artists are invited to reflect upon the utopian ideal of a makeable world, within a world that turns out to be anything but makeable. For the first time, a second exhibition location will be used: the Elleboogkerk in Amersfoort, within walking distance of Kunsthal KAdE. In 2022, it is 150 years since Piet Mondriaan was born in Amersfoort. The starting point for the exhibition 'Abrasive Paradise' is his search for an 'Earthly Paradise': a modernist dream to build a perfect world based on form and style, in which people strive freely for the true, good and beautiful. And the human being? He must not be of himself, but only part of the whole. Once he no longer feels his individuality, he will be happy in the earthly paradise he has created. (Piet Mondriaan, Paris, ... More  Exhibition at Alison Bradley Projects brings together works by six artistsNEW YORK, NY.- Alison Bradley Projects is presenting its winter exhibition, bringing together works by six artists to contemplate the fluidity of artistic practice across different mediums. This exhibit showcases a selection of two and three dimensional works that challenge the boundaries of material as conceptual, ephemeral and tactile. The title of the exhibition, Kankaku, can be understood in two ways, depending on the kanji used間隔 refers to the interval, the space between; and 感覚 refers to a feeling, sensation or impression. As we move through the winter, Kankaku offers an interval, a moment of reflection to consider the convergence of identity, sensation, and temporality the promise of pause that comes with winter. Tadaaki Kuwayamas (b. 1932, Nagoya) monumental paintings display no subjective expression, harnessing the power of materiality ... More  National Museum of African Art opens an exhibition of works by Iké UdéWASHINGTON, DC.- Iké Udé: Nollywood Portraits is on display at the Smithsonians National Museum of African Art. Multimedia artist Iké Udé celebrates the luminescent beauty and mystique of Black visionaries by turning his lens on the talented people who drive Nollywood, Nigerias $3 billion film industry. Known for his performative and iconoclastic style and vibrant sense of composition, Udés photographs use color, attire and other markers to make elegant yet unexpected portraits. His photographs make a bold statement about the power of African identities, despite centuries of attempted erasure by Eurocentric art history and notions of beauty. Currently based in the U.S., Udé is originally from Nigeria. After three decades away, he returned to Lagos, Nigeria, in 2014 to photograph its celebrities. The exhibition features 33 of Udés 64 portraits of Nollywood ... More  New York Times best seller on how to analyze art to up your problem-solving gameNEW YORK, NY.- The FBI, NATO, State Department, Interpol, NYPD, Scotland Yard, Fortune 500 companies, Navy Seals and more have all hired New York Times Best-Selling attorney, former Frick Collection Head of Education and art historian Amy E. Herman (media features include NPR, BBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review and more) to help them solve their toughest problems. Herman uses works of art to teach people how to hone their perception and visual intelligence, presenting a paradigm-shifting twist on problem-solving. Astute observation is critical to professional success. The ability to observe is grounded in the perception of visual information and the effective articulation of what the eye sees and what the brain interprets. Learning to reconsider how we perceive the world around us optimizes ... More  A radical new model turns the NFT into a tool for decolonizationAMSTERDAM.- For decades - if not centuries - people on plantations in Congo and elsewhere have been deprived of their culture and forced into unpaid labor, supporting wealth and art in the global north. In one of the first global instances of digital restitution, The Congolese Plantation Workers Art League (CATPC) claims their heritage using the magic powers of NFTs (Non-Fungible Token). The Balot NFT, to be minted on February 11th 2022, will put digital ownership of culture back into the hands of the many and helps buy back land once stolen and exhausted, reintroducing sustainable ways of governance, land use, and community-building. In a radical new model of restitution, blockchain-based NFT technology becomes a tool for decolonization. The Balot sculpture was carved in 1931, during a Pende uprising against rape and other ... More  The Moss Arts Center features artists Namwon Choi and Shin-il Kim in two new solo exhibitionsBLACKSBURG, VA.- The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech presents two solo exhibitions featuring the work of artists Namwon Choi and Shin-il Kim. The Shape of Distance showcases Chois vivid monochromatic landscapes, including a 16-foot mural print, while In Between Five Colors includes recent multimedia sculptures by Kim, select early stop-motion animations, and a new projection sculpture fabricated on-site at the Moss Arts Center. The exhibitions will be on view through March 26. Choi and Kim joined Brian Holcombe, Moss Arts Center curator, for a moderated conversation that is now available to view online. Presented in the Ruth C. Horton Gallery, this exhibition consists of 12 gouache paintings on geometric shaped-panels and two painted sculptures anchored by a 16-foot mural print of Chois tondo painting, Shape of Distance (faceted ... More  David Gordon, a wizard of movement and words, dies at 85NEW YORK, NY.- David Gordon, a venerable, award-winning choreographer and director who was a founding member of the 1960s experimental collective Judson Dance Theater, died Jan. 29 at his home in the New York City borough of Manhattan. He was 85. His son, Ain Gordon, said the cause had not been determined. To David Gordon, art was life and life was art. He was part of a generation that broke the rules about what a dance could be, paving the way to postmodernism. Gordon, who was also a founding member of the improvisatorial group Grand Union and director of the Pick Up Performance Company, wove aspects of his private life into his performance works, which he reframed over the years to create an ever-evolving choreographic tapestry. His satirical humor, impeccable timing and ability to see the stage as a kind of moving painting ... More  Jon Zazula, early promoter of heavy metal, dies at 69NEW YORK, NY.- Jon Zazula, who with his wife, Marsha, founded Megaforce Records and was an important figure in the emergence of heavy metal music, giving Metallica, Anthrax and other bands their start, died on Tuesday at his home in Clermont, Florida. He was 69. Maria Ferrero, the couples first employee at the label and later the founder of Adrenaline PR, which specializes in promoting metal bands, said the cause was chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, a neurological condition. Marsha Zazula died in January of last year at 68. Metallica memorialized Zazula in posts on its Twitter feed. In 1982, when no one wanted to take a chance on four kids from California playing a crazy brand of metal, Jonny and Marsha did, and the rest, as they say, is history, the band said. At that time, the Zazulas were trying to make a few bucks selling ... More  For a composer at 90, there's nothing but timeNEW YORK, NY.- Ãliane Radigue lives and works in a second-floor apartment in the Montparnasse neighborhood of Paris. A weeping fig tree looms above her head; across the loftlike room are three large windows adorned with house plants. The windows face a school across the street which, she wrote in a recent email, gives its rhythm to days, weeks and months. She has lived there for the past 50 years, steadfastly writing a great deal of slow, very minimal, mostly electronic music. The work of Radigue, who turned 90 on Jan. 24, often seems static on first hearing. Her most famous piece, the Buddhism-inspired Trilogie de la Mort, lasts three hours and seems vast and empty. Yet zoom in on the musical material and you will find that each line is inching its way along, however deliberately. Time, silence and space are the main factors constituting ... More  City Ballet gets a modern dance fixNEW YORK, NY.- Clearly, choreographer Jamar Roberts had a feeling about what the world needed now: a lift, a boost, a jolt of hope. Who would disagree? Its February, and the pandemic is still out there, faded but always looming. At New York City Ballet, Roberts translates the need for pleasure into a dance in which jazz composer Wayne Shorters music drives a cast of eight first in solos and duets, then in trios and, finally, as a collective to achieve a state of abandon. George Balanchine once said of dance and music: If you see music simply as an accompaniment, then you dont hear it. I occupy myself with how not to interfere with the music. In Emanon in Two Movements, set to Shorters Pegasus and Prometheus Unbound, Roberts doesnt exactly interfere with the music, although he doesnt really reveal a different, dancerly side of it, either. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Austrian painter and illustrator Gustav Klimt died February 06, 1918. Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 - February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In this image: Lady with a Muff (1916-1917).
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