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Gagosian: Tom Wesselmann © Art Basel.
by Scott Reyburn
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Organizers of Art Basel, the centerpiece of the European art market calendar, have canceled the show in Basel, Switzerland, in September because of ongoing health and safety concerns related to the coronavirus pandemic. The 50th anniversary edition of the event, featuring more than 250 international galleries, had originally been scheduled to take place in June, but had been postponed to Sept. 15-20. The Swiss Federal Council had delayed its decision on whether the fair could go ahead until later this month. Uncertainty about the regulatory environment, together with concerns about the financial risks for exhibitors and partners, as well as ongoing impediments to international travel, had been additional factors in the decision to cancel, Art Basel said in a statement. We are acutely aware that our galleries are facing unprecedented challenges and economic difficulties, and we had fervently hoped to support the art markets recovery with a successful ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Spain's Minister for Culture and Sports Jose Manuel Rodriguez Uribes unveils a giant banner during the reopening The Prado Museum in Madrid, on June 6, 2020 as lockdown measures are eased during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Museums are reopening in the Spanish capital with new security measures in place after a three-month closure due to the coronavirus health crisis. Gabriel BOUYS / AFP
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 | | Quarantined in a museum | | Building a new sanctuary on Long Island for culture lovers | | The French artist who saw the pandemic coming | 
Jeran Halfpap, the caretaker, at the Kingsland Homestead in Queens on May 26, 2020. The resident caretakers of some of New Yorks cherished landmarks may have the citys strangest work-from-home assignment. Stefano Ukmar/The New York Times.
by Stefanos Chen
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Antonio Cruz, like so many New Yorkers in this pandemic, is stuck at home. Except in his case, home is a 28,000-square-foot, Greek-Revival mansion in a forest in the Bronx. And he lives there rent free. Cruz, 49, is the steward of Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum in the northeast corner of the borough, through a city program called the Historic House Trust, a partnership of the Department of Parks and Recreation and several nonprofit groups. He is one of just 22 resident caretakers living free of charge to protect and maintain some of the citys oldest and most cherished properties, all of which are now closed to the public because of the coronavirus. Its like a vacation, at least compared to life before the virus, Cruz said on a recent, spotty phone call the landline in the 1840s home was on the fritz, and cell service can be unreliable on the roughly 2,700-acre grounds of Pelham Bay ... More | | 
In an image provided by Michael Heller, a sketch of Herman Melville, by Eric Fischl, is featured on a window of the Church, a new arts center in a former Methodist church in Sag Harbor, N.Y. Michael Heller via The New York Times.
by Dorothy Spears
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Almost two years ago, married artists April Gornik, 67, and Eric Fischl, 72, bought a deconsecrated white clapboard church in Sag Harbor, New York, a former whaling village on the East End of Long Island, where they have lived for more than three decades. Inspired by its stone foundation, rare in an area with mostly sandy soil, and the craftsmanship of its soaring rafters, the couple were loath to see yet another local building become an opulent private home. Eager to draw upon Sag Harbors history the village is home to a vibrant and long-standing African American community and Long Islands first synagogue, and is a haven for artists and writers Gornik and Fischl have transformed the church into a community arts center and artists residency. The conversion of the Sag Harbor United Methodist Church has been a labor of love for the couple, who sold their lofts in Manhattan to raise money for the project. It is ... More | | 
In this file photo visitors watch "Global Agreement (2018-2019) by Neïl Beloufa, during the Venice Biennale in Italy, May 8, 2019. Gianni Cipriano/The New York Times.
by Jason Farago
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The accomplished young French Algerian artist Neïl Beloufa has a knack for seeing the shape of the future earlier than most. His proudly disjointed videos and sculptures, seen in this country in solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, take the chaos of our information stream as both their subject and their medium: furniture can sprout phone chats or Google Maps indicators, and lovers and criminals talk like they learned English from reality TV. He turns a gimlet eye, too, to the workings of fake news and real bigotry, as in his powerful project Occidental (2017), a film about racist policing and urban unrest that feels dismayingly relevant again this week. Protests and prejudices, elections and ecosystems, cable news chatter and Facebook-fueled freakouts: these are the wellsprings of art for Beloufa, who was born in Paris in 1985. And also pandemics. For his new online project Screen Talk, a pressing, kooky, brill ... More |
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| | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art opens an exhibition of works by Tetsumi Kudo | | Items from the collection of French actress Sarah Bernhardt to be sold by Dix Noonan Webb | | Roland Rudd appointed Chair of Tate | 
Tetsumi Kudo, Souvenir 'La Mue', 1967. Mixed Media, 61 x 38 x 24 cm. Private Collection ©Tetsumi Kudo Adagp, Paris 2020 / VISDA.
HUMLEBÃK.- Tetsumi Kudo (1935-1990) is currently being rediscovered, yet for many people he will be a new acquaintance when Cultivation opens at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. In the exhiÂbitions laboratory of peculiar cultivation environments we can study Kudos radiantly coloured and grotesque proposals for the cultivation of life in the situation he calls the new ecology. Kudos works meet the present with a remarkable relevance and tap into todays environmental, cultural and political agendas as early formulations of what we today call the anthropocene. Louisianas collection includes two striking work assemblages by Kudo, and they form the starting point for the exhibition, which focuses on the artists production in the 1960s-70s and his visualizations of our new ecology a self-created swamp of polluted nature, technology and decomposed ... More | | 
The selection of lots is being sold on behalf of her great-great-granddaughter, Michele Gross, who lives in the UK.
LONDON.- Six items from the personal collection of the famous French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) including an emerald and diamond set locket, enclosing a lock of her sons hair, will be offered for sale by International coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists Dix Noonan Webb in a live online auction of Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 1pm, through their website. The French emerald and diamond set oval locket pendant is estimated at £400-£600 and within the locket is a small lock of blond hair from Bernhardts son, Maurice. The selection of lots is being sold on behalf of her great-great-granddaughter, Michele Gross, who lives in the UK. She said: I inherited the items from my mother and father my father was the great grandson of Sarah Bernhardt and I have a delightful photograph of him and his sister, Terka, in a ... More | | 
Roland has served as a Trustee of Tate since 13 November 2017.
LONDON.- The Board of the Trustees of Tate announced that it has appointed Roland Rudd to succeed Lionel Barber as Chair on the conclusion of his term on 30 January 2021. Roland has served as a Trustee of Tate since 13 November 2017. In accordance with the Museums and Galleries Act, the Trustees elect the chair from one of their number. The process for the appointment was overseen by Dame Moya Greene as Senior Independent Trustee. The choice was made by private ballot. Lionel Barber said: Tate is one of the worlds leading cultural institutions. It will have a significant role to play as the UK recovers from the impact of Coronavirus. I am delighted that when I step down in January, Tate will have an experienced chairman, knowledgeable about the institution and passionate about what matters most: the art that it shows. Roland Rudd said: Maria Balshaws vision of making Tate relevant and enriching ... More |
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| | Virus forces scaled down D-Day commemoration in France | | New exhibition features collaboration between Museum Ludwig and the platform Contemporary And (C&) | | Jimmy Capps, guitarist on numerous country hits, dies at 81 | 
An officer of the French Army salutes near the flag of the United States during a ceremony in Vierville-sur-Mer, northwestern France, on June 6, 2020, as part of D-Day commemorations. Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP.
VIERVILLE-SUR-MER (AFP).- The 76th commemoration of the World War II allied landing in France was cut to a strict minimum on Saturday owing to restrictions stemming from the coronavirus. Celebrations that normally draw big crowds were held without veterans and were intentionally "simple, sombre and strong" in the words of French junior armed forces minister Genevieve Darrieussecq. The fighting involved more than 200,000 soldiers from both sides by the end of June 6, 1944, and while a precise death toll has not been established, the BBC cites as many as 4,400 among the Allies, and an estimated 4,000 - 9,000 Germans. At Vierville-sur-Mer, known to many as Omaha Beach, the Patrouille de France air display team made two passes on Saturday, trailing blue, white and red smoke to open a ceremony attended by around 100 people, including ambassadors from eight allied countries and Germany. ... More | | 
Installation view of C& Center of Unfinished Business. Here And Now at Museum Ludwig: Dynamic Spaces, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2020 © Contemporary And. Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln/ Nina Siefke.
COLOGNE.- For the exhibition Here And Now at Museum Ludwig: Dynamic Spaces, the Museum Ludwig is collaborating with the platform Contemporary And (C&). Founded by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, C& sees itself as a dynamic space for issues and information on contemporary art from Africa and its Global Diaspora. To this end, C& uses various formats: the hubs are the online art magazines Contemporary And and Contemporary And América Latina, featuring exhibition reviews, interviews, columns, and news from the international art world. New, digital artworks are also shown, and a printed magazine is published three times a year. The exhibition presents these activities and C&s offline projects and connects them with other artistic positions. The long-term project C& Center of Unfinished Business is the focus of Dynamic Spaces. It is a participatory reading room that is expanded depending ... More | | 
Capps was a guitarist on signature hits like Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man".
by Bill Friskics-Warren
NASHVILLE (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Jimmy Capps, a versatile guitarist who played on some of the biggest country hits of the 1970s and 80s and was a member of the Grand Ole Oprys house band for more than five decades, died in Nashville on Monday. He was 81. His son Mark confirmed the death but did not specify the cause. Known among his peers as the master of smoothness for his seemingly effortless technique, Capps was a guitarist on signature hits like Tammy Wynettes Stand By Your Man, George Jones He Stopped Loving Her Today and Barbara Mandrells I Was Country When Country Wasnt Cool. He also contributed the filigreed acoustic guitar figure to Kenny Rogers The Gambler and the gutbucket electric guitar riff to the Oak Ridge Boys Elvira. All five of those records reached No. 1 on the Billboard country singles chart; Elvira, The Gambler and Stand By Your Man were major ... More |
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| | NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery livestreams premiere sound work by Zimoun | | 4 books to inspire your inner designer | | Guy Bedos, who made France laugh at itself, is dead at 85 | 
Tracing: Zimoun will start at 6pm GST on Tuesday, June 9, and will be livestreamed on the Gallerys Facebook page.
ABU DHABI.- The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery has announced the rollout of its second digital archive: the Zimoun exhibition. Going live on June 9, Zimoun is the second in a series of launches inviting the public to reunite with curators and artists as part of TRACE: Archives and Reunions. To mark each launch, The NYUAD Art Gallery will host a reunion with the artist. For this reunion, Swiss artist Zimoun will premiere a new work composed specifically for the Gallerys online audience: a sound performance, to be experienced at home, with headphones, in the dark. Tracing: Zimoun will start at 6pm GST on Tuesday, June 9, and will be livestreamed on the Gallerys Facebook page. The exhibitions digital archive, which will launch online that same evening, will feature a wide range of videos, photos, digital downloads of the publications such as the Youth Guide, as well as an excerpt from the first- ... More | | 
In an undated handout image, Canteen building at the Sanatorium for Writers on Lake Sevan in Armenia, 1969, designed by the architects Gevorg Kochar and Mikhael Mazmanyan. From the book Soviet Design: From Constructivism to Modernism 19201980. Mikhail Churakov/Shchusev State Museum of Architecture via The New York Times.
by Eve M. Kahn
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Fresh ways of seeing can end up joyously shared planetwide, sometimes even in eras more terrible than the spring of 2020, as these design books reveal. Readers in confinement may be able to feel swept away to Soviet hydroplane interiors, Danish doll makers workshops, nightclub backrooms and well-disinfected hotels. Could we ever need more insight than we do now about how to dry our hands in washrooms while touching almost nothing? Samuel Ryde, a British photographer, pays homage to air blowers mounted near sinks that can help us, in Hand Dryers (Unicorn Publishing Group, $15, ... More | | 
French humorist Guy Bedos has died at the age of 85, his son Nicolas announced on social media on May 28, 2020. Frederick FLORIN / AFP.
by Théophile Larcher
PARIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Guy Bedos, who drew inspiration from Lenny Bruce in becoming one of Frances most popular and bitingly satirical comics in a 60-year career that took him from nightclubs to movies, television and the theater, died on May 28 at his home in Paris. He was 85. His son Nicolas Bedos announced the death on Twitter. His daughter Victoria Bedos said by phone that her father had had Alzheimers disease. Much like Bruce, Bedos was a ferocious political commentator in his satirical, even cynical, sometimes melancholic routines, whether depicting patently racist characters or just downright silly ones. His outspokenness, complete with crude language, could infuriate politicians of all stripes on the one hand and feminists on the other. One memorable sketch that ... More |
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 After 25 years, San Francisco's maverick conductor moves onSAN FRANCISCO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Back in the 1990s, Lou Harrison, a maverick American composer then in his late 70s, was living south of San Francisco. A beloved musical guru in the Bay Area, he had long been ignored by the prestigious San Francisco Symphony. Michael Tilson Thomas changed that. The first piece he conducted as the orchestras music director, in September 1995, was a Harrison premiere, a teeming piece for an enormous ensemble, including Javanese gongs, oxygen tanks, organ the works. And San Francisco under Tilson Thomas swiftly became a home for music by other iconoclasts, too, while burnishing its sterling reputation in the standard repertory. After 25 years, Tilson Thomas transformational tenure ends this spring. It was to have been the occasion for a tour to Europe and Carnegie Hall, as well as ... More Emergency fund launched to help composers with commissions inspired by works at Tate ModernLONDON.- ORA Singers, the award-winning vocal ensemble, is launching an Emergency Composers Fund to provide work for composers who have been so disastrously affected by the COVID-19 crisis. Celebrated for its commissioning of new works, ORA Singers will offer eight choral commissions as part of an exciting collaboration with Tate Modern. This visionary initiative coincides with the announcement of a new Chair for the ensemble, the Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt. The £12,000 Emergency Composer Fund is open to any composer who is resident in the UK and the eight chosen composers will each receive a £1,500 commission to write a new choral work inspired by works of art, specifically chosen by Tate Modern from their international collection: Agnes Martin, Morning 1965 Helen Frankenthaler, Vessel 1961 Ibrahim El Salahi, Reborn Sounds ... More Exhibition illustrates the lifestyle and aesthetics of Korean heritageHONG KONG.- Soluna Fine Art is presenting the group exhibition An Ode to Life at Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong. This show illustrates the lifestyle and aesthetics of Korean heritage, and it is curated for the viewer to interpret the attitudes, and ways of living in Korean culture. This group exhibition includes sixteen contemporary artists that work across various mediums, including paintings, photography, objects and crafts. An Ode to Life is on view at PMQ from 03 June to 04 July 2020. The uncanny dream of reconnecting with nature returns to our conscious more than ever, especially amid the materialism and neoliberal civilization where nature and human modern lifestyle are positioned in an oppositional binary. Despite the ambivalence between human and nature, throughout the history of civilization, humans al- ways have complex cultural traditions and rituals that remind one to remember the infinite freedom, peace and joy when human ... More Christie's 'Art from the Kiln: Ceramics through the Centuries' open for bidding 3-24 JuneLONDON.- Christies announces a themed online ceramics auction, Art from the Kiln; Ceramics Through the Ages, comprising 45 lots with estimates from £500. The sale presents works of ceramic art from 500BC to 2020, including antiquities, 14th century Syrian pottery, Chinese and Japanese porcelain, Italian maiolica, European porcelain, English slipware and Scottish pottery. These works, spanning two millennia and originating from across the globe, sit happily alongside a plaque painted by Chagall and works by leading contemporary ceramicists such as Hitomi Hosono, Kate Malone, Felicity Aylieff, Enrique Perezalaba Red and Bouke de Vries. The sale illustrates the ceramicists craft as not merely practical and technical, but also a highly creative artistic endeavour. Clay has been a creative medium for thousands of years and in all their fired forms ... More The very best of Harry Potter expected to sell for £100,000EDINBURGH.- One of the few first edition copies of Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone, inscribed and signed by J.K. Rowling will be sold by Lyon & Turnbull auctioneers in Edinburgh on June 17. The book is expected to sell for £80,000-120,000. Famously the first edition, first impression, of the first Harry Potter book was only printed in 500 copies. Of these around 300 were given to libraries and schools and are typically in poor condition while of the remaining 200 copies only handful were then inscribed by J.K. Rowling for friends, acquaintances and family members. This copy is one such work, inscribed: 6-9-97 / For James, Kate and Laura, with best wishes, J.K. Rowling. The date (September 1997) is less than three months after the books publication in June of that year. At auction, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone has reached ... More Museum of Contemporary Photography announces Snider Prize winner and honorable mentionsCHICAGO, IL.- The Snider Prize is a purchase award given to emerging artists in their final year of graduate study. The winner receives $3,000, and two honorable mentions each receive $500 towards the purchase of work to be added to the MoCP's permanent collection. Sponsored by Lawrence K. and Maxine Snider, the Snider Prize forms a part of the museum's ongoing commitment to support new talent in the field of contemporary photography. Widline Cadet is a Haitian-born artist. Her practice draws from personal history and examines race, memory, erasure, migration, immigration, and Haitian cultural identity from within the United States. She uses photography, video, and installations to construct a visual language that explores notions of visibility and hyper visibility, black feminine interiority, and selfhood. She earned her BA ... More The Cleveland Museum of Art will reopen June 30CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art will reopen its building in University Circle on Tuesday, June 30, at 10:00 a.m. The CMAs top priority will be the health and well-being of its visitors, staff and volunteers, and the museum will implement rigorous safety procedures that adhere to the guidance set forth by state and local officials, as well as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). A limited number of free, reservation-only timed tickets for June 30 and the month of July will be available to members in a presale beginning June 15 and to the public from June 22. Parking fees for the museums garage may be paid in advance during the ticket reservation process. In this first phase of reopening, a staggered maximum of 500 visitors per day will be permitted in the building. In addition to on-site visitation, the CMA will continue to lead in the virtual ... More Museum to launch digital storytelling project using data about the movement of people during lockdownLONDON.- As part of a brand new public engagement initiative around the environmental impacts of Covid-19, the Natural History Museum is collaborating with data visualisation company Beyond Words to illustrate how the movement of people has altered during lockdown. Using a variety of open source data, the Museum will engage people with the dramatic societal changes that have taken place since lockdown measures were announced on 23 March. Through compelling infographics, articles, videos and social media which bring this data to life, the Museum will crowdsource perspectives from the public to discover which three environmental impacts of the lockdown they are most interested in. The project, which has received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council, will culminate in a live interactive online event in which audiences ... More Grace Edwards, Harlem mystery writer, dies at 87NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Though she began writing at age 7, Grace Edwards waited until she was 55 to publish her first novel. That book, In the Shadow of the Peacock, was a lush portrayal of Harlem during World War II, a girls coming-of-age story set against the race riots of the time. It was a place holder for the six detective stories she would later write, mysteries set in Harlem starring a female cop turned sociologist and accidental sleuth named Mali Anderson, always with a backbeat of jazz. The first of these, If I Should Die, was published in 1997, when Edwards was 64. She was 87 when she died Feb. 25 at Downstate Hospital in Brooklyn, her death receiving little notice at the time. She had had dementia for three years, her daughter, Perri Edwards, said. In the late 1960s, Grace Edwards and a friend ran an Afrocentric dress ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin was born June 07, 1848. Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 - 8 May 1903) was a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. In this image: Paul Gauguin. Figure Tahitienne circa 1892-3. Height 10 5/8 in. Wood. Inscribed with the monogram PGO (at the bottom).
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