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The Colombian artist Fanny SanÃn in front of her painting Oil No. 4 (1968), one of dozens of Abstract Expressionist works on display at the Action, Gesture, Paint exhibition at Londons Whitechapel Gallery, on Feb. 8, 2023. The exhibition highlights how the movement emerged across the world during the mid-twentieth century. (Ellie Smith/The New York Times)
by Charlotte Jansen
LONDON.- When the landmark abstract expressionism show The New American Painting arrived at Londons Tate gallery in 1959, it featured work by 17 artists: all of them American, and 16 of them men. Financed in part by the CIA to promote liberty and independence as American ideals, the show toured throughout Europe. In London, the audience was receptive. The show drew record visitors to the museum, and while not everyone appreciated the radical new works with aggressively applied paint, everyone was talking about them: British critics responded in more than 30 reviews. Had the Americans finally hit upon an autonomous artistic language that wasnt derivative of European styles? Critics seemed to agree that they had, and that New York, for the first time, had superseded Paris as avant-garde arts new frontier. Sixty-four years later, a very different version of the abstract expressionist story is being told in London. The Whitechapel Gallery show Action, Gesture, Pa ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The first UK exhibition to explore the concept of sin in art, Sin brings together eight rarely loaned paintings from the National Galleryâs collection dating from the 16th and 17th centuries with two special loans by contemporary artists Tracey Emin and Ron Mueck. The Gallery at The Arc is one of just four venues in the UK to host the touring exhibition and the only venue in the south of England.
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| Timothy J. Clark's exhibition 'Modern Master' now open at Lois Wagner Fine Arts | | Glenstone acquires celebrated photo trove from Pilara Foundation | | Dasha Zhukova's artful rise | 
Timothy J. Clark, "Mid-Coast Gulf Station", 11 x 14. Watercolor on laid paper.
NEW YORK, NY.- Right on the heels of the critically acclaimed exhibition, 'American Travelers', at the Hispanic Society Museum in New York, where the paintings of Timothy J. Clark, hung alongside Childe Hassam, El Greco and Goya, Lois Wagner Fine Arts opened the 'Timothy J. Clark: Modern Master' exhibition currently on view at 15 East 71st Street, Suite 2A, until March 10th. My work in watercolor continues to adapt long-forgotten furtive painting methods that were mastered by Turner and Sargent," says Timothy J. Clark. Using delicate archival papers, feather quills, hand-ground paint, and Buddhist candles, the exhibition at Lois Wagner Fine Arts merges both expression and joyous techniques, all part of the visual orchestra of color and light. Christopher Byron Crossman, the noted art historian and curator says, Clark reminds us that watercolors are about how time looks and feels, special moments that ... More | | 
Diane Arbus, A young Brooklyn family going for a Sunday outing, N.Y.C., 1966
POTOMAC,MD.- Glenstone Museum announced today the acquisition of a celebrated collection of works from Andrew and Mary Pilara and the Pilara Foundation in San Francisco. Consisting of 112 photographs by 10 renowned artistsDiane Arbus, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Rineke Dijkstra, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Peter Hujar, Zanele Muholi, Paul Strand, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Francesca Woodmanthis exciting acquisition diversifies and expands Glenstones collection, reflecting the museums foundational commitment to photography as an artistic medium. Considered one of the most significant photography collections in North America, the Pilara Foundation Collection was assembled through expertise, passion, and deliberate pursuit over the past twenty years and is characterized by numerous masterpieces by photographers whose works mark the historical intersection of modern art and ... More | | 
Dasha Zhukova at a party thrown by V Magazine to close out Paris Fashion Week, at La Perouse in Paris, March 7, 2017 (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
by Caitlin Moscatello
NEW YORK, NY.- If theres one place in the world thats fighting today for freedom and democracy, where people men, women and children, everybody are dying as we are having dinner right now, that is Ukraine, chef José Andrés told a well-heeled crowd at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in November, as he accepted an Innovator Award from the Wall Street Journal Magazine, a Ukrainian flag pin on his lapel. Attendees rose to their feet and broke into applause. Among them was Dasha Zhukova, a philanthropist, entrepreneur and socialite. For a decade, she was married to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. The former couple, who divorced in 2017, still have an arts foundation and co-own the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow; Zhukova also continues ... More |
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| 'Reaching for the Stars: From Maurizio Cattelan to Lynette Yiadom Boakye' opens at Palazzo Strozzi | | A major touring exhibition from the National Gallery is now on display at The Gallery in The Arc, Winchester | | Pierre Apraxine, assembler of a remarkable trove of photos, dies at 88 | 
Michael Armitage, Mangroves Dip, 2015. Oil on Lubugo bark canvas; cm 221 x 170,2. Courtesy Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.
FLORENCE.- A major exhibition in Palazzo Strozzi celebrating the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collections 30th anniversary with over 70 artworks by leading Italian and international contemporary artists. The Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi is presenting Reaching for the Stars. From Maurizio Cattelan to Lynette Yiadom Boakye, an exhibition exploring the luminaries of contemporary art today in over 70 works selected from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection by leading Italian and international contemporary artists including Maurizio Cattelan, Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst, Lara Favaretto, William Kentridge, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Sarah Lucas and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Produced in collaboration between the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Reaching for ... More | | 
Installation view.
WINCHESTER.- The first UK exhibition to explore the concept of sin in art, Sin brings together eight rarely loaned paintings from the National Gallerys collection dating from the 16th and 17th centuries with two special loans by contemporary artists Tracey Emin and Ron Mueck. The Gallery at The Arc is one of just four venues in the UK to host the touring exhibition and the only venue in the south of England. Paintings on display include Venus and Cupid by Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Mass of St Giles, Jan Steens The Effects of Intemperance (about 1663-5) and Rembrandts The Woman taken in Adultery (1644) - the first Rembrandt to be displayed at The Arc. Kirsty Rodda, Visual Arts Exhibitions Manager at Hampshire Cultural Trust, commented: We are absolutely thrilled to have been able to secure such an important exhibition from the National Gallery for display at The Arc. Sin is touring to just four locatio ... More | | 
Pierre Apraxine pictured in the Librairie Serge Plantureux, a vintage photographic print store in Paris on Aug. 25, 2005. (Ed Alcock/The New York Times)
by Randy Kennedy
NEW YORK, NY.- Pierre Apraxine, a courtly self-taught connoisseur of photography who helped build one of the greatest private holdings of pictures, the Gilman Paper Company Collection, which vaulted the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the forefront of photography institutions after its acquisition, died Feb. 26 at his home in Manhattan. He was 88. His death was confirmed by Jeff Rosenheim, curator in charge of the Mets photography department, which acquired the collection in 2005. Born into exiled Russian nobility and numbering among his forebears an admiral who served under Peter the Great, Apraxine had trained in classical draftsmanship and art history in Brussels before essentially falling into the photography ... More |
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| For sale: Memories from one of Hollywood's most enduring love stories | | Rafael Viñoly, global architect of landmark buildings, dies at 78 | | Leland Little to hold spring collector vehicles auction | 
From left, the actors Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman at the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, Conn., on Nov. 8, 2002. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
by Livia Albeck-Ripka
NEW YORK, NY.- Shackles from the film Cool Hand Luke; a script from the 1963 comedy A New Kind of Love; the wedding dress that Joanne Woodward wore the day she married Paul Newman in 1958. These artifacts, along with some 300 others, tell the story of a union between two of Hollywoods most enduring film stars that lasted more than a half century. It began in 1953 and lasted until Newman, a magnetic titan of the screen, died in 2008 at the age of 83. Woodward, 93, a formidable talent, has kept a private life since she was diagnosed with Alzheimers disease in 2007. The objects will also take on another kind of value later this year, when they are put up for sale in a series of auctions by Sothebys. If previous demand for Newmans ... More | | 
432 Park Avenue, a 1-400-foot condo tower designed by architect Rafael Viñoly, in New York, April 22, 2020. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
by Fred A. Bernstein
NEW YORK, NY.- Rafael Viñoly, a Uruguayan-born architect whose New York-based firm was responsible for major commercial and cultural buildings in nearly a dozen countries, died Thursday in Manhattan. He was 78. His death, at a hospital, was caused by an aneurysm, according to his son, Roman, who is a director at the firm. Viñoly was not known for a particular style, but he did have a penchant for enclosing large spaces under glass, creating luminous interior courtyards. In New York, he may have been best known for 432 Park Ave., a condo tower that, at nearly 1,400 feet, was briefly the tallest residential building in the world. Its gridded exterior has been praised by critics for its restrained elegance. But residents, some of whom paid tens of millions of dollars ... More | | 
Rare 1957 BMW Isetta Cabriolet.
HILLSBOROUGH, NY.- On Wednesday, March 15th, at 12:00pm (EDT) Leland Little Auctions will hold its Spring Collector Vehicles Auction, following a slate of auctions including their largest ever Rare Spirits Auction and their Signature Spring Auction. The Spring Collector Vehicles Auction offers buyers an array of highly sought-after and rare vehicles. A top lot of note is a 1934 Packard Twelve 1107 Dietrich Convertible Sedan painted in complementary shades of green. A prestigious and rare beauty such as this can typically only be found in museums or elite automotive collections. Leland Little will present this 1934 Packard to be judged at the Amelia Concours d'Elegance on Sunday, March 5th. Other highlights include a 1968 Mercedes Benz 250SL, the beautiful styling of which earned it the nickname "Pagoda," and a classically beautiful 1988 Porsche 911 Carrera in Marina Blue. Both of these vehicles hail directly from a respected South Carolina collec ... More |
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| Tyre Nichols' photography will soar on Desert X Billboards | | Jesse Treviño, Chicano artist whose muse was San Antonio, dies at 76 | | Portraits of Elvis and dreamlike visions at the 31st Outsider Art Fair | 
A handout image shows a Desert X installation rendering of Tyre Nichols Originals. The outdoor art exhibition in California will feature six photographs that Nichols took in Memphis, where he was fatally beaten by police officers. (GoFundMe Tyre Nichols Memorial Fund via The New York Times)
by Jori Finkel
PALM SPRINGS, CALIF.- Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old Black man who died in January after a brutal beating by police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, never had the chance to exhibit the photographs he took of his adopted hometown. But starting this weekend, a selection will appear on roadside billboards as part of the Desert X biennial a highly adventurous and occasionally political art exhibition that can be viewed at outdoor sites across the Palm Springs area. We think about this as a way of celebrating Tyres imagination, said Neville Wakefield, the Desert X artistic director who moved quickly to include Nichols alongside 11 more established artists. He was an aspiring photographer, and in that sense were commemorating not just his life but the creative potential of all lives truncated or cut short by police violence. Ben Crump, the lead lawyer representing the Nichols family, called it the first major exhibition showcasing work by Nichols, whose longtime passions i ... More | | 
In a photo provided by Treviño Family shows, Los Piscasoros (1986). Jesse Treviño, a lauded Mexican American artist who lost the use of his dominant right arm in a land mine explosion as a soldier in the Vietnam War, but who went on to conjure vast murals and dramatic paintings with his left arm that were displayed in three presidential libraries and the Smithsonian Institution, died on Feb. 13, 2023, in San Antonio. He was 76. (via Treviño Family via The New York Times)
by Alex Williams
NEW YORK, NY.- Jesse Treviño, a lauded Mexican American artist who lost the use of his dominant right arm in a land mine explosion as a soldier in the Vietnam War, but who went on to conjure vast murals and dramatic paintings with his left arm that were displayed in three presidential libraries and the Smithsonian Institution, died Feb. 13 in San Antonio. He was 76. The death, in a hospice facility, was confirmed by Anthony Head, the author of the 2019 book Spirit: The Life and Art of Jesse Treviño. Head said that the cause had not been determined, but that Treviño had been hospitalized for pneumonia in recent months and had had cancer but was in remission. Treviño became famous in San Antonio and beyond for his large-scale paintings depicting the hard realities and soaring ... More | | 
Frankenpelvis, part of Paul Laffoleys Life and Death of Elvis Presley: A Suite, 1985-1995 at the Outsider Art Fair, in the Metropolitan Pavilion, Manhattans Chelsea neighborhood, March 3, 2023. (Lila Barth/The New York Times)
by Will Heinrich
NEW YORK, NY.- The 31st annual Outsider Art Fair, which opened Thursday night at the Metropolitan Pavilion in the Chelsea neighborhood and runs through Sunday, is New Yorks largest clearinghouse of work by self-taught and marginalized artists. In some respects, its fairly constant. Major dealers such as the Ricco/Maresca Gallery (Booth A11) of Manhattan and the Fleisher/Ollman Gallery (Booth A5) of Philadelphia tend to stick to the same large exhibition spaces, and you can always find work by mainstays of the outsider genre: Drawings by Bill Traylor, a formerly enslaved person who produced hundreds of unforgettable animal silhouettes in his 80s, and by MartÃn RamÃrez, known for the tunnels and dreamlike cowboys he made in California mental institutions, are scattered all over the fair. But the other constant, alongside these standards, is an overdose of blaring novelty. Gathering 64 exhibitors from eight countries, including a full dozen new to ... More |
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 Mutant, parasitic impostor queens lurk in ant coloniesNEW YORK, NY.- To thrive, ant colonies rely on everyone pulling their weight. For raider ants, this means diligent scouts track down other nests, then direct hundreds of savage foragers to attack. They return with pincers gripping dead young ants to feed the settlement. Clones are produced. The colony thrives. But raider ants are among about 50 species plagued by impostors: parasitic ants that resemble queens. They greedily eat the colonys food, but shirk their own foraging duties, and can only hatch more parasites instead of workers when they reproduce. How the fake queens emerge has long puzzled scientists. Its a real mystery how these things arrive, said Ken Ross, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Georgia. A study published Tuesday in Current Biology offers a solution. A supergene that mutates rapidly, between a single ... More  Tom Sizemore, intense actor with a troubled life, dies at 61NEW YORK, NY.- Tom Sizemore, a tough-guy actor whose career, which included roles in major films like Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down, was overshadowed at times by his problems with substance abuse and the law, died on Friday in Burbank, California. He was 61. The death was announced by his manager, Charles Lago. The cause was not immediately known, but Sizemore suffered a stroke on Feb. 18, which caused a brain aneurysm. He had been in a coma and on life support since then. Sizemore could be intense, charismatic and manic in roles as soldiers, thugs, cops, killers and, in a television movie, baseball player Pete Rose. As Sgt. Mike Horvath in Steven Spielbergs Saving Private Ryan (1998), he was the devoted second in command to Captain Miller (played by Tom Hanks) in a small group of Army Rangers whose mission ... More  Review: The Philharmonic departs from business as usualNEW YORK, NY.- Gustavo Dudamel, recently named, to cheers, as the New York Philharmonics next music director, will arrive to lead the orchestra officially in 2026. But the time before then shouldnt be thought of something to be endured or, at worst, a slog. Just look to the Philharmonics program this week titled The March to Liberation and conducted by Leslie B. Dunner which Thursday had a streak of urgency and plenty of orchestral splendor. A world premiere from Courtney Bryan, Gathering Song, with text by Tazewell Thompson, opened the show; William Grant Stills Symphony No. 2 followed; and, after intermission, a 45-minute, oratorio-style work by veteran composer Adolphus Hailstork, Done Made My Vow, A Ceremony. Squint at this sequence a premiere from an up-and-comer, a venerable half-hour symphony, a dramatic ... More  Steve Mackey, a mainstay of the Britpop band Pulp, dies at 56NEW YORK, NY.- Steve Mackey, the lauded bassist, songwriter and producer who made his name laying down dance-floor-friendly grooves for the British band Pulp during its 1990s pinnacle, as it transformed itself from a little-known art-rock collective to a festival-headlining Britpop powerhouse, died Thursday. He was 56. His death was announced on social media by his wife, Katie Grand. She did not say where he died or cite a cause, although she noted that he had died after three months in hospital, fighting with all his strength and determination. With Hollywood-worthy looks and an image of tailored cool, Mackey provided the pulsing bass lines that helped whip audiences into a frenzy as Pulp cycled through glam-rock, acid-house, disco and indie-pop influences on 1990s anthems like Common People and Disco 2000, two of the five Top 10 singles ... More  A year into war, Russian artists still must navigate a tricky pathNEW YORK, NY.- A production of Prokofievs War and Peace that opens this weekend at the Bayerische Staatsoper was never supposed to be this contentious. But the continuing war in Ukraine has turned the 1946 opera, which features many Russian artists and nationalistic themes, into a vexed issue for the Staatsoper, one of Germanys leading houses. Staff members raised concerns over the past year about presenting a work with Russian militarism at its heart while Russian bombs were falling on Ukraine. The productions creative team has made changes to dial down any sense of Russian patriotism or pro-war sentiment, saying that its important to keep staging Russian works even as the war continues. Vladimir Jurowski, the Russian-born conductor who is the Staatsopers music director, said that he had questi ... More  Post-sales results for Holabird's Treasures from the Shelves auction RENO, NEV.- The online auction contained more than 1,400 lots in many categories, to include mining, bottles, stocks, philatelic, militaria, Native Americana, numismatics, general Americana and much more. An archive of material pertaining to Old West author, artist and historian Ernest L. Reedstrom (1928-2003) sold for $2,625; a USS Utah photo diary of the Tampico Affair of 1914 and the invasion of Veracruz, Mexico brought $1,750; and a circa 1894-96 Oriental coffin flask out of Lamar, Colorado, lavender in color, realized $1,500 in Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLCs Treasures from the Shelves auction held February 18th-19th, live and online. The auction featured over 1,400 lots in many collecting categories, to include mining, bottles, stocks, philatelic, militaria, Native Americana, numismatics and general Americana. More items from important ... More  Blackwell Auctions' March 18th American Sale to feature what made America greatCLEARWATER, FLA.- Americas rich cultural history is laced with heroes and scalawags, blue-blooded entrepreneurs and immigrant achievers who rose from the humblest beginnings. All who contributed to the colorful tapestry of our 246-year-old nation whether saintly or scurrilous are part of our nations story, which serves as the backdrop for Blackwell Auctions March 18 event titled The American Sale. The 395-lot auction contains art, historical objects, and highly important signed ephemera, along with many other near-apocryphal pieces that will stun collectors. Highlight categories of the sale include a collection of deaccessioned early American through 20th century presidential documents, letters and autographs; and a collection of legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakleys personal possessions (with family provenance). In ... 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More  Outsider Art Fair celebrates 31st edition in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Thursday night, the Outsider Art Fairthe only fair dedicated to self-taught art, art brut and outsider arthosted a VIP Preview in celebration of its 31st edition. On view from March 2-5, 2023 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan, the fair features over 65 exhibitors from 28 cities representing 8 countries, with 12 first-time exhibitors. Since 1993, the fair has amassed a diehard following in large part due to the urgency of the work on display, which are uninfluenced by the conventions of classical or fashionable art, as Jean Dubuffet described in his 1947 art brut manifesto. Thirty years later, the fair continues to embrace the inclusive, nonconforming, and renegade spirit in which it was founded. Notable Guests: Robert De Niro (Actor), Claire Danes & Hugh Dancy (Actors), Jack Antonoff (Musician), Margaret Qualley (Actor), ... 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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was born March 05, 1696. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the "Rococo" style. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. In this image: View of the ceiling of the Imperial Hall in the Wurzburg Residenz.
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