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A photo provided by Matthew Hollow/Royal Government of Cambodia, a sandstone figure of a seated Ardhanarishvara from the 10th century that is one of the dozens of sculptures being returned. Latchford, a scholar of Khmer antiquities who was accused of trafficking in looted artifacts, bequeathed his world-class collection to his daughter. She has returned it to Cambodia. Matthew Hollow/Royal Government of Cambodia via The New York Times.
by Tom Mashberg
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Nawapan Kriangsak found out as a young girl that running in her fathers apartment was forbidden. Her father, Douglas A.J. Latchford, was perhaps the worlds leading collector of Cambodian antiquities, and every corner of his apartment in Bangkok featured a statue of a Khmer deity too valuable to risk to horseplay. When she went to bed as a child, Kriangsak said in an interview, the brooding stone faces would haunt her. Daddy, she would tell him, they walk at night. Last summer, when her father died at 88, they all became hers 125 works that make up what is said to be the greatest private collection of artifacts from Cambodias 1,000-year-old Khmer Dynasty. But Kriangsak also inherited a disquieting legacy. Latchford was not only a recognized scholar of Khmer antiquity, he was also someone who had been accused of having trafficked for decades in looted artifacts. Kriangsak said the collection, dazzling and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Xavier Hufkens is presenting Esther Kläs' third exhibition at the gallery. ll (elle elle) (long lines) continues the artist's investigation of form, openness and presence through new works that span sculpture, photography, drawing and installation. Recently, Kläs began collaborating with choreographer and artist Gustavo Gomes. While mounting the exhibition, Kläs and Gomes produced new video works on site, dealing with joy, time and intimacy. Installation view. Courtesy: the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. Photo: Allard Bovenberg, Amsterdam.
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| Xavier Hufkens opens an exhibition of works by Esther Kläs | | Julien's Auctions to offer Gretsch Family Archive | | An Art Nouveau gem unmasked in Covid-hit Brussels |
Installation view. Courtesy: the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. Photo: Allard Bovenberg, Amsterdam.
BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens is presenting Esther Kläs third exhibition at the gallery. ll (elle elle) (long lines) continues the artists investigation of form, openness and presence through new works that span sculpture, photography, drawing and installation. Recently, Kläs began collaborating with choreographer and artist Gustavo Gomes. While mounting the exhibition, Kläs and Gomes produced new video works on site, dealing with joy, time and intimacy. Falling, with no intention of hitting the ground. A space trick. Summer in the apartment is spent barefooted. In each room the floor tiles follow a different pattern. Paviment hidrà ulic, one by one handmade. They appeared in Catalonia in the 1850s and derive their durability from adding dehydrated Portland cement to coarser layers of sand. The pigment hydraulically pressed ... More | |
Bo Diddley acoustic electric guitar.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions will present Property from the Gretsch Family Archives, a two-day tribute to one of the most celebrated names in music instrument history to take place on Friday, March 26th and Saturday, March 27th live in Beverly Hills and live online at juliensauctions.com. Rocking the auction stage will be the storied American music company Gretschs famous collection of guitars owned, played and/or used as early generation prototypes of their signature instruments by music legends such as Bono, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Brian Setzer, and more. Hundreds of items will be coming out of the Gretsch Family archive and heading to the auction block for the first time, where the public and music collectors will have the opportunity to bid for a piece of their companys rich legacy of world-class and high-end music artisanship. Items include a spectacular fleet of Gretschs signature designed vintage electr ... More | |
The Hotel Solvay, an Art Nouveau gem in Brussels, is now open for public visits François WALSCHAERTS AFP.
by Matthieu Demeestere
BRUSSELS (AFP).- An emblematic Art Nouveau mansion designed by Belgian architect Victor Horta has opened its doors to the public in Brussels, revealing a long hidden jewel of the city's Belle Epoque glory. "It is perhaps even more important in the time of Covid to be able to spend a relaxing moment in the midst of this complete beauty," said Pascal Smet, heritage minister for the Brussels Region. Smet acted as a guide for a handful of journalists around the Hotel Solvay, a three-storey mansion with a majestic staircase where natural light shines through a multi-coloured stained glass window. The mansion was built between 1895 and 1903 on the once glitzy Avenue Louise for the son of Belgian industrialist Ernest Solvay, and ... More |
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| Exhibition of new works on paper by Jason Moran on view at Luhring Augustine | | Colby College Museum of Art acquires work by Hew Locke | | Vatican Museums to reopen Monday after virus closure |
Jason Moran, Epilogue for Keeps, 2020. Pigment on dyed Gampi paper, 20 3/4 x 30 inches (52.7 x 76.2 cm). © Jason Moran; courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. Photos: Farzad Owrang.
NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine is presenting The Sound Will Tell You, a presentation of new works on paper by Jason Moran, which marks the gallerys second exhibition with the artist. Internationally renowned as a jazz pianist and composer, Morans interdisciplinary and often collaborative visual art practice mines the history of music, and its social, cultural, and political subtexts. To create these vibrant and textured works, Moran places a sheet of Japanese Gampi paper on a piano and records his various attacks on the keys. The motion of his hands is tracked in layered lines of saturated pigment, and washes of color spill across the compositions, tracing the pull of gravity, or charting the creases and natural fibers of the paper. Recalling traditions of gestural abstraction and automatic drawing, these works are the material ... More | |
Souvenir 1 (Queen Victoria), 2018. Installation view, Hew Locke 'Heres the Thing' at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham UK, 2019, courtesy the artist and Ikon Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hales and P.P.O.W announced that Colby College Museum of Art have acquired Souvenir 1 (Queen Victoria) (2018) by Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke. Souvenir 1 (Queen Victoria) was exhibited in Lockes solo exhibition Heres the Thing at Colby College Museum of Art in 2020, which had previously been shown at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, USA in 2019. The work is from Lockes series, Souvenirs which grew from his collection and research into Parian busts of Queen Victoria and other royals. Popularised at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, held in London in 1851 as a celebration of modern technology and design, ceramic Parian Ware was an innovative imitation marble produced on a mass scale, allowing middle-class Victorians ... More | |
This file photo taken on March 24, 2020 shows a view of the deserted entrance of the closed Vatican Museums in the Vatican. Andreas SOLARO / AFP.
VATICAN CITY (AFP).- The Vatican Museums, including the Sistine Chapel, said they will reopen on Monday after being closed for 88 days due to coronavirus restrictions -- the longest closure since World War II. The world-famous collections will open their doors to the public from Monday to Saturday, but visitors must pre-book tickets and will be given timed entry slots. Curators used the closure, sparked by Italian government measures introduced to stem the spread of Covid-19, to carry out maintenance and refurbishment works. That included careful dusting of 15th-century frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, which normally attracts six million visitors a year. "The Pope's Museums await you with pleasure!" a statement said. The news comes amid an easing of coronavirus restrictions, with all but five Italian regions put in the low-risk "yellow" category from Monday. That allows bars and restaurants to reopen during the day ... More |
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| Art Museum of WVU announces 2020 collection acquisitions | | Néstor Jiménez opens his first solo exhibition at Proyectos Monclova | | 45 Southern California organizations receive over $5 million for the next Pacific Standard Time |
Roberto Lugo (b. 1981), To disarm: Malcolm X / Tupac, 2020. Ceramic, china paint, enamel, epoxy, gun parts. Museum purchase, Myers Foundations Funds.
MORGANTOWN, WV .- The Art Museum of West Virginia University acquired 56 works of art in 2020, ranging from prints to ceramics to paintings, many of which support the museums mission to diversify its permanent collection. The Art Museum is steadfastly committed to diversifying its holdings by strategically acquiring works by women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ artistssuch Kerry James Marshall and Jaune Quick-to-See Smithin order to tell more inclusive, varied and nuanced histories of artistic production, said Director Todd J. Tubutis. We also continue to build the collection in ways that support and complement teaching and research interests across campus, particularly for students in the School of Art and Design, and reflect the experiences of the region. A new fund was established last year at the WVU Foundation through the generosity of several donors to specifically support the acquisition of works ... More | |
Néstor Jiménez, Para que un deseo se haga realidad, uno de los dos Debe desaparecer, el deseo o la realidad., 2020. Concrete, silicon, MDF, acrylic enamel, acrylic paint, paper, wood and varnish on a round reclaimed black metal sheet, 35.04 x 34.06 x .98 in. 89 x 86.5 x 2.5 cm. Signed and dated backwards.
MEXICO CITY.- What is the importance of being self-sufficient if not learning to be useful to others? This is one of the key questions Néstor Jiménez (Mexico City, 1988) poses in his first solo exhibition at Proyectos Monclova. Conscious that the concept of self-sufficiency is in reality a fantasy because it is always in constant tension with independence on the personal level and social codependency, the work Jiménez presents in this exhibition positions itself between these two concepts. Composed of 28 recent paintings all works were realized during 2020 this exhibition converses with certain ideas of the socialist school and the coming and going between the struggle for individual well-being and the common good. In each work, Jiménez represents the diverse ideological ... More | |
Wendy Red Star, Stirs Up the Dust, 2011. Pigment print on fine art pearl, 29 x 32 inches. Gift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D., Autry Museum, Los Angeles; 2018.16.1. Courtesy Wendy Red Star and Sargent's Daughters, NY © Wendy Red Star.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Foundation announced today $5.38 million in exhibition research grants to 45 cultural, educational, and scientific institutions throughout Southern California to prepare for the next edition of the region-wide arts initiative Pacific Standard Time, scheduled to open in 2024. The landmark series will return with dozens of simultaneous exhibitions and programs focused on the intertwined histories of art and science, past and present, that together address some of the most complex challenges of the 21st centuryfrom climate change and environmental racism to the current pandemic and artificial intelligenceand the creative solutions these problems demand. Over the centuries art and science have come together and come into conflict, learned from one another and built upon shared ... More |
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| Edgar Allan Poe genealogical letter up for auction | | Independent moves to new dates and a new venue for 2021 | | Camille Blatrix's first exhibition with Andrew Kreps Gallery opens in New York |
"This is a stunning example of an autograph letter by America's master of the macabre," said Bobby Livingston, Executive VP at RR Auction.
BOSTON, MASS.- A remarkable Edgar Allan Poe letter to an autograph collector will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. The remarkable one-page handwritten letter signed "Edgar A. Poe," dated November 16, 1843. Letter to Joseph H. Hedges, in full: "I presume the request you make, in your note of the 14th, has reference to my grandfather Gen: David Poe, & not to my father David Poe Jr. I regret to say, however, that, owing to peculiar circumstances, I have in my possession no autograph of either." The recipient, Joseph H. Hedges (ca. 1828-1905), was an early collector of autographs in Philadelphia, clearly seeking the signature of the author's ancestor: either David Poe, Sr., a quartermaster during the American Revolution, or David Poe, Jr., a little-known stage actor. Poe ponders the possibility of both, concluding that his grandfatherwho contributed his personal wealth ... More | |
This years fair will feature approximately 40 leading international galleries.
NEW YORK, NY.- Independent announced its plans for 2021, with a new iteration of the fair alongside new dates and venue. The fair is scheduled to take place from September 9 - 12, 2021 at Cipriani South Street in New York City, a landmark, world class restoration of the Battery Maritime Building due to fully launch later this year. The 2021 edition of Independent takes its inspiration from Independent Projects, a special edition of the fair at the former Dia Center for the Arts in 2014, which at the time was praised by The New York Times as a welcome mutation to the traditional art fair format. This years fair will feature approximately 40 leading international galleries, each invited to present specially commissioned, museum caliber presentations by leading artists that are both relevant and timely to our current moment. Located at the base of Manhattan with views onto the water, Cipriani South Street is within walking di ... More | |
Camille Blatrix, Busy Street, 2021. Wooden marquetry, 21 1/4 Ã 16 Ã 1 inches (54 Ã 41 Ã 2.5 cm). Image courtesy of the Artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Andrew Kreps Gallery is presenting Pop-up, Camille Blatrixs first exhibition with the gallery, as well as the artists first exhibition in New York. For his exhibition at 55 Walker, Blatrix has installed a wall work depicting a chat robot above the gallery entrance, confronting the viewer with the phrase Ask Us Anything. Referencing the pop-ups that are now ubiquitous to e-commerce, the work adopts the benign tone of corporate interaction. This continues throughout the space as Blatrix has painted one of the gallery walls in bright yellow, green, blue, and red, recalling the palette used in logo design. Above the wallpainting, Blatrix has installed new works from his ongoing series of wood marquetries, which incorporate imagery such as machinery and murder hornets. Rendered meticulously in ... More |
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Cicely Tyson kept it together so we didn't fall apart
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- How odd to celebrate someone for not being who weve been programmed to expect. But American entertainment worked hard on the mold that Cicely Tyson refused to fit. So, really, what weve been saluting all these decades was historic defiance. She died on Thursday, at 96, the week after the release of Just as I Am, a juicy, honest, passionately Cicely memoir. (Well, child, Ill tell you: my mouth fell open like a broken pocketbook.) And on the opening pages resides the truth about why, as a performer, she was the way she was. My art had to both mirror the times and propel them forward, she writes. I was determined to do all I could to alter the narrative about Black people to change the way Black women in particular were perceived, by reflecting our dignity. Tyson made this vow in 1972, ... More
Coachella festival scrapped again amid virus fears
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Organizers of the world-famous Coachella music festival, due to be held in April, have been forced to cancel the event because of coronavirus concerns, the second year in a row it has been shut down. Cameron Kaiser, a public health officer for California's Riverside County, where the massive gathering is held, said Friday the order to cancel was based on concerns of "resurgence of Covid-19 both within the county of Riverside and worldwide." He said the Coachella and Stagecoach music and arts festivals, both scheduled to take place in April, attract "hundreds of thousands of attendees from many countries, including several disproportionately afflicted by the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic." "If Covid-19 were detected at these festivals, the scope and number of attendees and the nature of the venue would make it infeasible, ... More
Apocalyptic movies shot during pandemic hit Sundance
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- A virus horror and a last-day-on-Earth comedy -- both entirely devised, shot and edited during the pandemic -- brought an apocalyptic flavor Friday to the Sundance film festival, which has moved online due to Covid. Speaking after "virtual" world premieres at the influential US indie event, the films' creators described how they funneled their boredom and anxiety into creativity by quickly finding ways to safely film during long lockdowns. "I had a slightly hysterical episode about one week into the lockdown... I needed to calm down and part of the calming down was to try and write," recalled "In The Earth" director Ben Wheatley. The first new production to film in the UK after its initial March lockdown, the horror is set in a remote English forest where scientists are conducting mysterious experiments while a virus sweeps through ... More
Kerlin Gallery exhibits a series of black-and-white, silver gelatin photographs by Gerard Byrne
DUBLIN.- Kerlin Gallery is presenting 'Beasts' by Gerard Byrne. 'Beasts', a series of black-and-white, silver gelatin photographs was shot inside the Biologiska museet, Stockholm, a museum which housed a 360-degree diorama depicting a panoramic sweep of the Nordic wilderness, in an elaborate mise-en-scène combining taxidermy with a painted backdrop. The museum remained almost unchanged between 1893 and its unexpected closure midway through Byrnes production, in 2017. The artists interest in the museum was first inspired by the peculiar visual appearance of the diorama, which is illuminated solely by natural light entering from roof skylights. For Byrne, this dependence on daylight blurred the distinction between museum and camera. With its skylights functioning as lens aperture and its diorama of taxidermy animals poised in frozen photographic stasis, the Biol ... More
Solo exhibition of recent paintings by Brian Maguire on view at Rhona Hoffman Gallery
CHICAGO, IL.- Rhona Hoffman Gallery is presenting War Changes its Address and Other Border Stories, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Brian Maguire (b. 1951, Dublin, Ireland). Spanning depictions of Aleppo, South Sudan, and Juárez, Maguire engages with the currency of conflict images.[1] Through large-scale paintings, whose surfaces are as luminous as they are sullen, the urgency within Maguires work often stems from the context and histories his sources portray. From bold depictions of landscapes in the aftermath of massacres, to seemingly innocent and banal interiors, the artist brings the weight that images of war and injustice impress upon our visual lexicon into attention. Coming of age in Ireland during The Troubles, a period of tumultuous sectarian conflict that lasted nearly three decades from 19691998, Maguires work ... More
New online exhibition at Shelburne Museum binds twenty works of art spanning two centuries
SHELBURNE, VT.- Shelburne Museum presents 20 textile masterpieces dating from the first decades of the 1800s to the turn of the 21st century in the newest online exhibition, Pattern & Purpose: American Quilts from Shelburne Museum. The online exhibition opened Thursday, January 28. Pattern & Purpose explores objects that expand our sense of what art can be, and recognize how invention and discovery can be found in the most familiar of places, said Associate Curator Katie Wood Kirchhoff who organized the exhibition. Today, quilt-making is recognized as an art form in its own right, revealing makers skills and personal visions from complex geometric designs that would feel at home in a gallery of pop art to delicate and timeless patterns drawn from nature. Fascinated by design elements of color, pattern, line, and construction, and ... More
RR Auction announces Fine Autograph and Artifacts featuring Animation sale
BOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction's February Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale features a wealth of iconic animation material, including lush hand-painted artwork by esteemed Disney background artist Eyvind Earle, concept paintings by Mary Blair, and numerous original production cels and drawings from classic films. Highlights include; Eyvind Earle signed production key master background set-up of Prince Philip, Fauna, Flora, and Merryweather from Sleeping Beauty. (Walt Disney Studios, 1959) Sensational original production key master background set-up from the Oscar-nominated Disney classic animated feature film Sleeping Beauty. This scene, which is highlighted by a hand-painted Eyvind Earle master background, who signed in the lower right corner in blue paint, shows Prince Philip only moments after surviving his epic battle with the ... More
Exhibitor list announced for first FIAC Online Viewing Rooms
PARIS.- Professionals, collectors and art lovers will discover an exacting selection of modern and contemporary art galleries, among the most emblematic of the international scene: Galerie 1900-2000 (Paris), Air de Paris (Paris), Applicat-Prazan (Paris), Blum & Poe (Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo), Sadie Coles HQ (London), Continua (San Gimignano, Boissy-le-Châtel, Beijing, Habana, Paris), Paula Cooper (New York), Chantal Crousel (Paris), Massimo De Carlo (Milano, London, Paris), Gagosian Gallery (Paris, New York, Beverly Hills, London, Hong Kong), Marian Goodman (Paris, New York, London), Hauser & Wirth (London, Somerset, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Zürich), Max Hetzler (Berlin, Paris), Xavier Hufkens (Brussels), David Kordansky (Los Angeles), Mai 36 Galerie (Zürich), kamel mennour (Paris, London), Victoria ... More
NEH grant to support digital archive of Black choreographers' work
AUSTIN, TX.- In December, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded just under $100,000 for a project spearheaded by University of Texas at Austin Associate Professor of Dance Gesel Mason to support her ongoing project to archive the work of Black choreographers. Mason and co-project director Rebecca Salzer, associate professor of dance and director of the Collaborative Arts Research Initiative at the University of Alabama, received an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for their project Prototyping an Extensible Framework for Access to Dance Knowledge. Through my No Boundaries solo and archive project of Black choreographers, Ive become aware of how the live, performing body can simultaneously hold the past, present and future historiesand the impact on legacy and representation in regard to where ... More
Rice Public Art announces four new works by women artists
HOUSTON, TX.- In support of Rice Universitys commitment to expand and diversify its public art collection, four original works by leading women artists will be added to the campus collection this spring. The featured artists are Natasha Bowdoin (b. 1981, West Kennebunk, ME), Shirazeh Houshiary (b. 1955, Shiraz, Iran), Beverly Pepper (b. 1922 New York, NY, d. 2020 Todi, Italy), and Pae White (b. 1963, Pasadena, CA). Three of the works are site-specific commissions. The Beverly Pepper sculpture is an acquisition of one of the last works by the artist, who died in 2020. Alison Weaver, the Suzanne Deal Booth Executive Director of the Moody Center for the Arts, said, We are honored to add these extraordinary works to the Rice public art collection and are proud to highlight innovative women artists. We look forward to the ways these unique ... More
D Giles Limited to publish 'Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century'
LEWES.- Planned in conjunction with the centennial of The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, this ground-breaking volume offers an unprecedented breadth of insights and inclusive narratives on the Phillipss growing art collection from a range of voices, including artists, critics, and scholars. The publication coincides with a major 100th anniversary exhibition that highlights the museums acquisitions since 2000. Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century features works across wide-ranging media by renowned artists from the 19th to the 21st centuries, including Benny Andrews, Esther Bubley, Alexander Calder, Edgar Degas, Anselm Kiefer, Simone Leigh, and Aimé Mpane. An opening essay by Dorothy Kosinski, artist conversations, thematic essays, and 200 plates with 49 object responses by notable contributors ensure ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning died January 31, 2012. Dorothea Margaret Tanning (August 25, 1910 - January 31, 2012) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet. Her early work was influenced by Surrealism. Tanning's work has been recognized in numerous one-person exhibitions, both in the United States and in Europe, including major retrospectives in 1974 at the Centre National dâArt Contemporain in Paris (which became the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1977), and in 1993 at the Malmö Konsthall in Sweden and the at the Camden Arts Centre in London. In this image: Dorothea Tanning, Untitled (Set Design for The Night Shadow or an Unrealized Ballet), c. 1950. Graphite, ink, and gouache on paper, 25.4 x 35.6 cm, 10 x 14 ins © ADAGP. Courtesy of The Destina Foundation, New York, and Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
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