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First responders transport a women from inside of the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, on Saturday, March 12, 2022. Two women were stabbed Saturday afternoon inside the museum resulting in a chaotic scene that had patrons running for the exits. C.S. Muncy/The New York Times.
by Karen Zraick and Nadav Gavrielov
NEW YORK, NY.- Two employees were stabbed at the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan Saturday afternoon, police said. The suspect, who was still being sought, was a man whose membership had recently been revoked because of disorderly conduct, authorities said. John Miller, deputy commissioner for the Police Departments Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureaus, said the suspect was denied entrance to the museum around 4:15 p.m. The man became upset and then jumped over the reception desk and proceeded to attack and stab two employees of the museum multiple times, Miller said. The victims were wounded in the neck, back and collarbone areas and were rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where both were in stable condition. Julia Garcia Valles, 24, a tourist from Spain, was waiting in line on West 53rd Street to enter the museum when people shouting shooting began to rush out the doors in a panic. Some fell to the floor in the confusion, she said. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Cleon Peterson: Mr. Sinister, albertz benda, NY. March 3- April 2, 2022. Photo: Thomas Mueller.
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| Exhibition presents four hundred years of drawing from the RISD Museum | | The Grimanis of Venice share their treasures again | | For this art collector, owning isn't everything | 
Anton Løvenberg, Study of a Sculptural Male Torso, ca. 18401850. Gift of Frederick Lovenberg.
PROVIDNCE, RI.- The RISD Museum announces Drawing Closer: Four Hundred Years of Drawing from the RISD Museum, on view March 12 through September 4, 2022. Drawing Closer brings together 67 works from the RISD Museums collection of European drawings produced between the 1500s and the 1800ssome recently acquired, others never before exhibited. The exhibition is conceived as a guide to looking at these works from the perspectives of their makers while highlighting the breadth, depth, and variety of a living collection that is used today to teach and inspire students and visitors. The exhibition and its accompanying digital catalog, is an invitation to consider how and why drawings were created, paying special attention to the materials they were made of and to the functions they served both in the artists studio and in the world outside it. Seven distinct but interrelated sections explore media and techniques such as pen, chalk, ink w ... More | | 
The so-called Tribuna, a room built by Giovanni Grimani in the 16th century to showcase his collection, at the Museo Palazzo Grimani in Venice, Sept. 19, 2021. Susan Wright/The New York Times.
by Elisabetta Povoledo
VENICE.- Visitors to this city have plenty of opportunities to explore the tastes of deep-pocketed, visionary collectors like Peggy Guggenheim, whose Grand Canal palazzo is a treasure chest of 20th-century American and European art, or François Pinault, who rotates his contemporary art collection between two Venice venues. But that was true even hundreds of years ago. Take the case of the Grimani family. In the 16th century, their palazzo near the church of Santa Maria Formosa, a short stroll from St. Marks Square, became something of a must-see for A-list visitors to Venice (including Henry III of France), thanks to the rare and prestigious antique statuary collected by Giovanni Grimani (1506-93), patriarch of Aquileia, and before him his uncle Cardinal Domenico ... More | | 
The art collector Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, at home in Madrid, Feb. 2, 2022. Gianfranco Tripodo/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- It is one thing to collect art, but quite another to help produce it. Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, a fourth-generation collector in the Thyssen family, has found a way to do both. I grew up in a family where ownership was nine-tenths of the game, said Thyssen-Bornemisza, whose familys treasures both inherited and acquired by her father, Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza now reside in the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid. But contemporary art and working with living artists gives you a completely different field of possibilities. Since creating her foundation Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) 20 years ago, now with hubs in Madrid and Vienna, the 63-year-old Swiss-born philanthropist and activist has taken a more fluid approach to the art of collecting. Working directly with artists including Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Olafur Eliasson, Carsten Höller, Sharon ... More |
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| Blum & Poe, Los Angeles opens an exhibition of works by Marc Richards | | Reynolds' Portrait of Omai at risk of leaving UK | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of new paintings by Walton Ford | 
Marc Richards: Los Angeles Portraits. Installation view, 2022. Blum & Poe, Los Angeles. Photo: Josh Schaedel. © Marc Richards, Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe is presenting Los Angeles Portraits, a selection of drawings by Marc Richards. Organized by Jonas Wood, the works shown here depict well-known figures in the Los Angeles art scene prior to the global turning point of 2020. Taken as a whole, this collection of work presents a time capsulethe opportunity to revisit a moment of blossoming social art history in Southern California, blissfully frozen on a precipice. A catalog of the work in Los Angeles Portraits will launch in tandem with the exhibition. Up the stairs behind an elegant storefront on La Brea in Los Angeles Marc Richards prepares for his first solo exhibition. Gallery debuts might happen every weekend, but rarely does an artist emerge after almost fifty years of trading and collecting art, and even more rarely at one of the most prominent contemporary art galleries, Blum & Poe, organized by established artist Jonas Wood. Im 72 years old and I ... More | | 
Portrait of Omai, oil on canvas 236 by 145.5 cm. (93 by 57 in.) Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) painted c. 1776.
LONDON.- A painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds depicting a Pacific Islander who travelled with Captain Cook on HMS Adventure to London in 1774 is at risk of leaving the country unless a UK buyer can be found. Worth £50 million, Portrait of Omai is a full-length, life-size painting from the 18th century. It depicts one of the earliest and most celebrated Polynesian visitors to England in flowing white Tahitian dress. The painting is inextricably linked to the great voyages of discovery and exploration during this period. It offers an important insight into the British reception, understanding, and representation of people from beyond Europe at that time in history. The artist, Sir Joshua Reynolds, was one of the foremost British painters of his day. He became the first President of the Royal Academy and his work and beliefs had a profound impact on subsequent generations of British artists. Portrait of Omai technically exemplifies Reynolds at his best and is a masterpiece of 18th-century British pai ... More | | 
Walton Ford, Kooloo-kamba, 2022. Watercolor, gouache, and ink on paper. Image size: 60 x 42 in. 152.4 x 106.7 cm. Frame size: 63 1/4 x 45 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. 160.7 x 114.9 x 5.7 cm © Walton Ford. Photo: Tom Powel Imaging. Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian opened an exhibition of new paintings by Walton Ford. Opening on March 11, 2022, this is his first exhibition with the gallery in New York. Absorbing the techniques prevalent in scientific field studies, explorers notebooks, and lushly illustrated natural history books, Fords watercolors recast, reverse, and rearrange the conventions of wildlife art. His practice is research-driven, responding to such diverse inspirations as Hollywood horror movies, Indian fables, medieval bestiaries, colonial hunting narratives, and obscure zookeepers manuals. Fords visions are consistently of wild rather than domestic animals. His monumental paintings seek to show us what it means for such animals to live not so much in nature as in the human imagination. Cabeza de Vaca (2021) takes its name from the sixteenth-century Spanish explorer. Shipwrecked on the Gulf Coast in 1528, he journeyed ... More |
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| J. Garrett Auctioneers to offer The John Phifer Marrs Collection | | From Rembrandt to Rothko: Spring exhibitions at the Norton offer insight into major Palm Beach Collections | | 'This is everyone's Culture': Ukraine's architectural treasures face destruction | 
Large painted paper panel in the Summer Harvest pattern by Gracie, depicting a landscape with a tea house, bridge and garden, 87 inches by 73 inches, the top of the panel frame drilled to hang.
DALLAS, TX.- A special collection curated by John Phifer Marrs the noted Southern interior designer known for an elegant, fresh and inviting design method called the New Southern Style will be sold in a two-day online-only auction planned for the weekend of April 2nd and 3rd by J. Garrett Auctioneers of Dallas, at 10 am Central both days. Nearly 700 lots will come up for bid. Pieces from John's own collection will including fine European and American antiques and fine art, said Julie Garrett VanDolen, an officer with J. Garrett Auctioneers. She added, John has selected wonderful items that are perfect for creating a strong foundation for collecting antiques, fine silver, European art and unique decorative pieces for the home. Mr. Marrss work has been regularly featured in local and national publications, to include Architectural Digest, Traditional Home, Texas Home and many others. He just r ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Bust of a Woman with a Hat (Buste de femme au Chapeau), 1962. Linocut on Arches paper, artists proof. Image: 24 ¾ x 21 in. (62.9 x 53.3 cm) Frame: 38 ½ x 33 ¾ in. (97.8 x 85.7 cm) Promised Gift, Private Collection © 2022 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Art announces four major exhibitions drawing on the depth of its community of art collectors. Key artists on view in these exhibitions include Louise Bourgeois, Albrecht Dürer, Theaster Gates, Alberto Giacometti, Childe Hassam, Candida Höfer, Jasper Johns, Anselm Kiefer, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Glenn Ligon, Agnes Martin, Mario Merz, Yoshitomo Nara, Piet Mondrian, Georgia OKeeffe, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Mark Rothko, Edward Ruscha, Cy Twombly and Andrew Wyeth. The exhibitions are: From Hassam to Wyeth: Gifts from Doris and Shouky Shaheen (through May 1), showcasing major oil and watercolors from American artists in the late 19th to mid-20th centuries that were gifted to the Norton in 2020. The Howard and Judie Ganek Collection ... More | | 
The Dormition Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 8, 2012. Originally dating from the 11th and 18th centuries, it was destroyed in World War II and rebuilt some 50 years later. Joseph Sywenkyj/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Russias invasion of Ukraine brought searing images of human tragedy to witnesses around the world: thousands of civilians killed and injured; broken families, as mothers and children leave in search of refuge while fathers and other men stay behind to defend their country; and millions of refugees having already fled to neighboring countries, after just two weeks of war. In addition to that human suffering, a second tragedy comes into focus: the destruction of a countrys very culture. Across Ukraine, scores of historic buildings, priceless artworks and public squares are being reduced to rubble by Russian rockets, missiles, bombs and gunfire. In 2010, I saw some of Ukraines vibrant and, sadly, often overlooked culture firsthand while writing a travel article about the beautiful, centuries-old wooden churches in the western region ... More |
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| Christie's Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale live for browsing | | Templon opens an exhibition of works by Jeanne Vicerial | | Groundbreaking exhibition dedicated to art of Mississippian peoples opens at Dallas Museum of Art | 
William Turnbull, Sculpture. Estimate: £100,000150,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- Christies Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale, taking place on 23 March 2022 is highlighted by William Turnbulls Sculpture (1956, estimate: £100,000150,000). Another example from this edition is currently featured in the Postwar Modern New Art in Britain 1945-1965 exhibition at the Barbican in London along with work by Prunella Clough, whose painting Fishermen with Sprat Nets II (1949, estimate: 30,00050,000) is included in the online sale. Coming to auction for the first time in more than 70 years, the work depicting fishermen and dockers, has been in the same private collection since 1949 and a related work is in the collection of Pembroke College, Oxford. Also included in the Postwar Modern New Art in Britain 1945-1965 exhibition at the Barbican, Aubrey Williams work is currently exhibited in the Life Between Islands Caribbean-British Art 1950s Now at the Tate Britain in London, and William ... More | | 
Jeanne Vicerial, Vénus ouverte #2 (detail), 2020, textile, knitted yarns (proprietary technique), dried flowers from the Villa Medici, 180 x 80 cm, 71 x 31 1/2 in., unique.
BRUSSELS.- Templon presents for the first time the work of French artist, seamstress and researcher Jeanne Vicerial. A resident of the prestigious Villa Medici program in Rome in 2020, Jeanne Vicerial, became, at not yet 30, the first French Phd Graduate in fashion design. Through her practice, she questions the mechanisms at work in the design of contemporary clothing and proposes an alternative to the Taylor-made/ready-to-wear dichotomy associated with fast-fashion culture. Just like a runway show of static models, the exhibition unveils a dozen of sculptures of innovative textiles and textures, which are at the heart of current issues around ecology and the articulation between ready-to-wear and haute couture. In the Brussels space, her dresses created from a single thread of several hundred kilometers long, imitating muscle fiber, strangely echoe the human ... More | | 
Chase Earles and Starr Hardridge, Caddo and Muscogee (Creek), EVERLASTING FIRE
PLATE, 2019, acrylic and plaster on ceramic, National Cowboy & Western Heritage
Museum, 2019.35.
DALLAS, TX.- Over 1,000 years ago, Mississippian peoples comprised an exceptional society that spanned eastern North America, distinguished by the construction of large earthen mounds. One of their most important cultural and ceremonial centers was Spiro, located in present-day Oklahoma. The Spiro mounds are one of the United States most important ancient Native American sites, as well as an archaeological find unmatched in modern times. Yet, despite creating a sophisticated ancient culture, the Spiro people are nearly forgotten in the pages of history books. Opening March 13, 2022, at the Dallas Museum of Art, Spirit Lodge: Mississippian Art from Spiro presents nearly 200 ancient and contemporary works created by the Mississippian peoples and their ... More |
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 Martian meteorite lands at Heritage Nature & Science AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Events get described too often as being out of this world, to the point that for some, it can become a tired fall-back cliché. In the case of Heritage Auctions March 24-25 Nature & Science Signature® Auction, the description could not be more accurate. A Martian Shergottite Meteorite, NWA 12335 (estimate: $80,000+) is an extraordinary rarity for the most serious collectors of nature and science or space exploration. It is one of fewer than 275 approved meteorites from the Red Planet. For perspective, that is fewer than a half of one percent of the roughly 72,000 classified meteorites. This magnificent specimen was found in 2018 in Northwest Africa. It is of the Shergottite variety and weighs 1.49 kilograms (3.3 pounds), making it the second-largest of six pieces, trailing only the MAIN MASS, which weighs 2.3 kilograms ... More  Carnegie Museum of Art shares first round of commissions and partnerships for 58th Carnegie InternationalPITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art announces five commissions slated for the 58th Carnegie International that will be realized at the museum and throughout the city of Pittsburgh in the lead-up to the opening day of the exhibition on September 24, 2022. The 58th Carnegie International follows the geopolitical imprint of the United States since 1945 to situate the international within our local context. This framework prepares a historical ground for the movements of images, ideas, objects, and people that incite emancipatory expressions and artworks. The International attempts to encourage conversations around a range of actual and representational operationsmigration, appropriation, expropriation, and decolonizationand address cultures resistance to the disruptions and dislocations generated by these interventions and their lasting ... More  Ron Miles, understated master of jazz cornet, is dead at 58NEW YORK, NY.- Ron Miles, whose gleaming, generously understated cornet playing made him one of the most rewarding bandleaders in contemporary jazz, if also one of its most easily overlooked, died Tuesday at his home in Denver. He was 58. His label, Blue Note Records, said in an announcement that the cause was complications of a rare blood disorder. Miles had only recently gained the wider attention that he had long deserved, and his death proved as wrenching as it was unexpected for a jazz world already reeling from a cavalcade of untimely deaths during the coronavirus pandemic. Pianist Jason Moran paid tribute to Miles in a Facebook post, praising the spirit that he poured into both his compositions and his contributions to other peoples bands. Hed make a chart with so much soul and simplicity, Moran wrote. And he would ... More  Thierry Goldberg opens an online solo exhibition of works by Paige BeeberNEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg is presenting Variable Intertwined an online solo exhibition of works by Paige Beeber. The exhibition runs from March 11- April 8, 2022. Paige Beeber's works reverberate with a meticulous vitality. Heavily influenced by her sculptural background, Beeber delights in the tangibility found through the use of multiple mediums. Her work exposes a certain tactile nature as each piece weaves together an ever-shifting combination of structural design elements, patterns, anthropomorphic shapes, textures, and vibrant splashes of color. The works in Variable Intertwined were all completed during Beebers recent residency in Sicily. During her residency, Beeber became fascinated with the surrounding architecture, especially the way in which shadows moved across the surface as day transitioned into night. Several of the ... More  Sotheby's auctioneer David Redden donates archive to Getty Research InstituteLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute has received the donation of the papers of David Redden, the longest serving auctioneer at the venerable auction house Sothebys. The collection documents Reddens entire career in the auction world. Working at Sotheby's for 42 years, from 1974 until 2016, Redden is notable for the high-profile sales which he personally developed. A passionate collector himself, Redden created new auction categories out of popular collecting passions: space artifacts, sports memorabilia, comic books, arcade machines, and computer animation art. A portrait of both Redden and his milieu at Sotheby's, the collection comprises personal files, slides, photographs, complete sets of auction catalogs, and related ephemera. This archive, shaped by Redden's personal engagement, and documenting his first- ... More  Bruce Duffy, hailed for his ambitious first novel, dies at 70NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Duffy, an ambitious, inventive writer whose debut novel, The World as I Found It with its improbable leading man, Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein received rapturous reviews but nevertheless failed to make him a lasting literary star, died on Feb. 10 in hospice care in Rockville, Maryland. He was 70. His daughter Kate Duffy said the cause was complications of brain cancer, which was diagnosed in 2011. For all the praise he received in his mid-30s, Duffy produced only three novels, with long gaps between the publication of each the fruits of a career in which he wrote mainly on the side while earning a living as a security guard, corporate consultant and speechwriter. His acclaimed first novel, published in 1987, grew out of a fascination with Wittgenstein. Duffy conceived the book as a fictional biography, with ... More  Leo Marx, who studied clash of nature and culture in America, dies at 102NEW YORK, NY.- Leo Marx, a cultural historian whose landmark book exploring the pervasive intrusion of technology on nature helped define the field of American studies, died Tuesday at his home in Boston. He was 102. The death was confirmed by his son Steve. Marx, who taught for many years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, became a pioneer in an eclectic and still evolving quest to determine an American national identity, a pursuit that came under intense criticism after the Vietnam War, when scholarship took up issues like multiculturalism and social equality. American studies, as conceived by its early practitioners, was an amalgam of intellectual history; the history of ideas and literature; and portions of other disciplines like philosophy, psychology and art history. Early on, scholars in the field described an air of intense excitement as traditional ... More  India's art history united in a single sourceNEW YORK, NY.- The history of art in India, going back 10,000 years to the Bhimbetka cave drawings, has long been told through a Western lens or written by Indian scholars in a dense, academic style that felt inaccessible to many. But that will soon change, when the MAP Academy Encyclopedia of Indian Art arrives online April 21. With more than 2,000 initial entries, peer-reviewed by some of the worlds leading art historians and experts on South Asia, it is a project whose scope has not been tried before. If there is an encyclopedia of Indian art in Antarctica, I dont know about it, but its definitely not in India, said Abhishek Poddar, founder of the Museum of Art and Photography, or MAP, in Bangalore, India, which initiated the project. There was not a single comprehensive encyclopedia that existed, which is quite a shame. The open- ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Georges de La Tour was born March 13, 1593. Georges de La Tour (March 13, 1593 - January 30, 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.
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