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Pablo Bronsteins Historical Rhode Island Decor, part of last years Raid the Icebox Now installation at the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, R.I. That the pandemic did damage to museums is unquestioned but their resilience has been remarkable. Via RISD Museum via The New York Times.
by Jason Farago
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- You thought a museum with no visitors would be a quiet one? Not last year it wasnt not when the longest closure of Americas cultural institutions since World War II coincided with intense scrutiny of just how those institutions behave. Leadership was working overtime. Staff and audiences raised their voices, sometimes angrily. Its natural to want to get back to normal after such a devastating suspension; in Los Angeles, museums were closed for over a year. But U.S. museums in 2021 have a far bigger challenge than flipping the lights back on. The pandemic has depleted the accounts of the nations museums; earned revenue dropped to near-zero, and philanthropy has not made up the difference, even as board members portfolios enjoyed a bull run. Museums have had to slash their programming and payroll the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, for example, has cut its budget by 25%. Some, including the Brooklyn Museum and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold their May Timed Marketplace Auction on Mon, May 24, 2021 11:00 AM GMT-5. The sale features fabulously priced clearance items and newly listed items at pricing perfect for dealers or collectors. Shop the Marketplace with Artemis Gallery nearly every month - you never know what you'll find next. In this image: Costa Rican Jade Necklace w/ Emeralds, Gold. Estimate $6,000 - $9,000.
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| Disabled people fear being left behind as U.K. culture venues reopen | | University of Georgia undergraduate helps organize museum exhibition | | National Gallery and the Barber Institute of Fine Art acquire Lovis Corinth portrait | 
Sonia Boue in Oxford, England, May 19, 2021. Boue believes that following Britains lockdowns, it should be easier than ever to identify with, and consider the needs of, disabled people. Lauren Fleishman/The New York Times.
by Alex Marshall
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Before the pandemic hit Britain last year, Michelle Hedley could only go to her local theaters in the north of England if they happened to be doing a captioned performance. That happened five times a year at best, said Hedley, who is deaf. But during the pandemic, suddenly, she could watch musicals all day and night if she wanted, as shuttered theaters worldwide put shows online, often with subtitles. I started watching anything and everything simply because I could! Hedley, 49, said in an email interview. Even subject matters that bored me! I viewed more theater than I had done (it felt like) in a lifetime, she added. Now, Hedley fears this access is about to be lost. On Monday, theaters, museums and cinemas started reopening across ... More | | 
Edward August Bell (American, 1862 1953), Blue and Brown (Contemplation), ca. 1900. Oil on panel. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Extended loan from the Collection of Barbara Guillaume. GMOA 2019.17E.
ATHENS, GA.- Meghan Gerig, who is graduating from the University of Georgia this May with her bachelors degree in art history, served as co-curator of the exhibition Echoes from Abroad: American Art from the Collection of Barbara Guillaume, on display at the Georgia Museum of Art at UGA from May 22 to August 15. The exhibition pulls from the collection of Georgia Museum of Art board member and art collector Barbara Guillaume, spanning the period from 1878 to 1940 and including many different artists with varying styles, techniques, genres and stories, but similar origins, particularly an exposure to international artistic movements and a growing rejection of academic standards. Many American artists went to Europe to learn new techniques and styles, so when they returned home, the influence of Europe was apparent in their art (hence the ... More | | 
Lovis Corinth Portrait of Dr Ferdinand Mainzer, 1899; Accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated jointly to the National Gallery and the Henry Barber Trust; Image: © The National Gallery, London
LONDON.- A painting by the German artist Lovis Corinth (1858 1925) has been allocated in lieu of tax jointly to the National Gallery, London, and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham. The first object under the Acceptance in Lieu Scheme to have been allocated to more than one museum or collection, the picture will be displayed in rotation, and will be seen first at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham as it re-opens to visitors this week. The portrait of Dr Ferdinand Mainzer (18711943), a German-Jewish gynaecologist, historian and writer, and a key cultural figure of early 20th-century Berlin, was painted by Corinth in 1899. The artist and sitter were to become great friends but in the 1930s, Mainzer became active in the Solf Circle, a Roman Catholic group which, at considerable danger to themselves, fiercely opposed Hitler and the Nazi regime. Mainzer and his ... More |
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| A new $260 million park floats on the Hudson. It's a charmer. | | Elizabeth Hohimer presents new and recent works at Gerald Peters Contemporary | | Terence Riley, architectural force in the museum world, dies at 66 | 
Little Island, which floats over the Hudson River near West 13th Street in Hudson River Park, on the site of an old pier in New York, May 17, 2021. Amr Alfiky/The New York Times.
by Michael Kimmelman
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Rising from the Hudson River alongside Manhattan, Little Island preens atop a bouquet of tulip-shaped columns, begging to be posted on Instagram. Outside, its eye candy. Inside, a charmer, with killer views. Mega-mogul Barry Dillers $260 million, 2.4-acre pet project and civic mitzvah, near 13th Street in Hudson River Park, is the architectural equivalent of a kitchen sink sundae, with a little bit of everything. Who knows what it will feel like when crowds arrive this weekend. I suspect they will be enormous. Because nothing in New York gets built without a struggle, opponents battled for years in court to stop Little Island. The park-within-the-park was conceived nearly a decade ago to replace Pier 54 on Manhattans West Side. In 1912, the RMS Carpathia brought survivors of the Titanic to Pier 54. It had become a venue for outdoor concerts in recent years but ... More | | 
Elizabeth Hohimer, Shadows at Moonrise (Quadriptych), 2021. Cotton dyed with collected clay, rayon, indigo, pine paper, silk and ash tapestry in steel frame, 24 x 24 inches (each).
SANTA FE, NM.- Gerald Peters Contemporary is presenting Negotiated Desires, featuring new and recent works by Elizabeth Hohimer, on view at the gallerys Santa Fe location. Elizabeth Hohimers site-specific, land-based practice is an immersive study of desert atmospheres in the western United States. From her childhood in Texas to her recent travels throughout the West, Hohimer has felt a closeness to the land and a deep appreciation for the space and light of the region. In her tapestries, scale, open structure and color combine to convey the impression of luminosity. Hohimer s signature atmospheric compositions employ a reduced palette reminiscent of the desert landscapes that inspired the work. Using pinks, beiges and creams, Hohimer explores the expressive potential of nuanced color tonalities to negotiate the confines of the compositional structure. Interested in conveying the transcendent, Hohimers ... More | | 
Terence Riley, chief curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, at the museum in New York, Nov. 5, 2005. Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times.
by James S. Russell
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Terence Riley, who as an architectural curator and museum director was instrumental in bringing to fruition two of the most important works of 21st-century museum architecture, died Monday at his home in Miami. He was 66. His family said the death was sudden but did not disclose the cause. As chief curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Riley helped select and guide the Tokyo-based architect Yoshio Taniguchi in MoMAs $858 million expansion, which was completed in 2004. Later, as director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, he worked with the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron to create a new home for the museum that has been acclaimed for its design and integration into its environment. Along with his museum duties, Riley maintained an architectural practice, founded ... More |
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| Museum of Palazzo Grimani opens 'The Room of the Doge and 'Georg Baselitz: Archinto' | | Kasmin opens group exhibition: New Old Histories | | Masterpiece by Jan Matejko makes a rare visit to the National Gallery | 
The Doge's Room. Photo: Matteo De Fina.
VENICE.- The Museum of Palazzo Grimani in Santa Maria Formosa is presenting Domus Grimani. The Room of the Doge - the new set-up of one of the palaces most spectacular and evocative rooms returning to its Renaissance splendour and Archinto, the show dedicated to German artist Georg Baselitzs new works, twelve of which conceived especially for Palazzo Grimani, will remain on long-term loan to the museum from the artist thanks to an exceptional agreement. Palazzo Grimani, thus, confirms its leading role in the Venetian cultural scene with two new projects highlighting the dialogue between Ancient and Contemporary art, in a unique place which represents an exception in the citys architectural and artistic landscape. The result of the collaboration between Venetos Regional Directorate for Museums (Direzione regionale Musei Veneto) and the Venetian Heritage Foundation, the relocation of the Greek and Roman ... More | | 
Tanya Merrill, The American Chestnut Tree, 2021. Oil on linen, 48 x 36 inches, 121.9 x 91.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist, 303 Gallery, New York, and Kasmin, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Histories are created, disseminated, and passed down, but they are also altered, forgotten, and re-shaped. Featuring artists Charlie Billingham, Alexander Harrison, Andrea Joyce Heimer, Esteban Jefferson, and Tanya Merrill, New Old Histories showcases artists who variously co-opt, critique, and upend conventions of historical painting, and in the process provide a lens through which to view the world today. Billingham's boisterous paintings, screens, and interior installations appropriate imagery from the satirical prints of Regency England. Men in undone formalwear and powdered wigs are disconnected from their original contexts so that the absurd, comic, and grotesque become snapshots of bestial inclinations. The artists technical approach focuses ... More | | 
Jan Matejko, The Astronomer Copernicus. Conversations with God, 1873 (detail). Oil on canvas, 226 à 315 cm Frame: 293 Ã382 à 24 cm. The Jagiellonian University Museum, Kraków (MUJ 2715851/I) Photo by Grzegorz Zygier.
LONDON.- An iconic painting of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, by the most famous Polish painter of the 19th century, Jan Matejko, is making a rare visit to the National Gallery, the first time it will ever have been seen in the UK. The 10-foot wide painting, which rarely leaves its home in the Senate Chamber of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, is part of a new exhibition introducing visitors to the work of Jan Matejko (18381893). Despite being largely unknown outside his homeland, this highly original and distinctive artist is widely regarded as the national painter of Poland. Matejko, (pronounced Ma tay coe), is revered by Poles for his huge, teeming, minutely detailed depictions of key moments in the nation's history. This particular work ... More |
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| Christie's announces 'Proof of Sovereignty: A Curated NFT Sale by Lady PheOnix' | | Private Eye now open in the IMA Galleries at Newfields | | Game of words seeks to revive fading Greek dialects | 
Auriea Harvey (b. 1971), Minoriea Bust Version 1 (Digital Version 2), 2021. HTML artwork with 3D model and augmented reality. Dimensions variable. Estimate unknown. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced a collaboration with Lady PheOnixone of the most respected voices in the new media landscape todayto present an expertly curated sale of both legacy and newly created artwork as unique NFTs. The online auction, PROOF OF SOVEREIGNTY, not only brings together more than 20 new media artists utilizing blockchain technology, but also employs metadata, storage and legal standards that have been virtually absent from millions of artworks associated with non-fungible tokens until now. PROOF OF SOVEREIGNTY will be live online from May 25-June 3. Leading the auction is a historic NFT from the Estate of Nam June Paikconsidered the grandfather of video artthat both memorializes and revitalizes the artists seminal work, Global Groove, originally aired on WNET-Channel 13 in 1974. Paiks famous piece heralds the age of global connectivit ... More | | 
Gladys Nilsson (American, b. 1940), Mt. Vondervoman: during turest rush, 1967, watercolor on paper, 36-1/2 à 28-1/2 à 2 in. (framed). Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Promised Gift of Michael J. Robertson and Christopher A. Slapak © Gladys Nilsson. Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.- Discover the audacious work of a group of daring young artists from Chicago known as the Imagists in the exhibition, Private Eye: The Imagist Impulse in Chicago Art, open in the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields now through December 5, 2021. A group of artists began exhibiting at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago in the mid 1960s. Their distinctive work drew on many resources such as comic books and popular culture, and their audacious, highly idiosyncratic, and personal approach set them apart from contemporaries working on either the East or West Coast. By the mid-1970s, after numerous exhibitions had launched their work on an unsuspecting public, the artists were dubbed The Chicago Imagists. Now, more than 50 years after their first appearance, the Chicago Imagists ... More | | 
An employee of "Just", a game company that created "Dopiolalia", a new card game aiming to revive interest in fading dialects in Greece works, on May 20, 2021 in Athens. Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP.
by John Hadoulis
ATHENS (AFP).- Whenever Marilena returns to Crete, it only takes a short spell with friends before her native island dialect kicks back in. But the 44-year-old mother of two knows that her young son and baby daughter will likely never fully learn the distinctive oral tradition of her ancestors that dates back centuries. "I lived in Crete until the age of 18, while they will grow up in Athens. They won't have the opportunity to learn as we did," she says with a tinge of sadness. With the use of dialects on the wane in Greece according to linguists, a new card game called Dopiolalia (meaning patois in Greek) now aims to boost interest in dialects, both living and extinct. "Languages are disappearing... our aim was to rescue them," the game's creator Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos said. Thousands of Greeks -- the exact number is unknown -- in several parts ... More |
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 Exhibition at Peter Blum Gallery brings together works by a group of five artistsNEW YORK, NY.- Field of Vision brings together a group of five artists who are acutely sensitive to formal play in creating their own distinct painterly languages. Emphasizing the continued malleable nature of painting as a practice, each artist uses deep material knowledge in their innovative approaches to the medium, allowing for the works to be read intuitively and sensorially. Kamrooz Aram (b. 1978, Shiraz, Iran) has developed a rich painting practice that reconsiders the position of ornamental and decorative art within the trajectory of Modernism. Referencing the exoticized arabesque in his paintings, the organic forms enclosed in framing borders are pulled from grids in a process of drawing and erasure. This heightens the connection to the ornamental and renegotiates ornaments subordinated role in Western abstraction. Sarah ... More  Theodora Allen's first institutional solo exhibition on view at Kunsthal AarhusAARHUS.- Kunsthal Aarhus is presenting Saturnine, the first institutional solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Theodora Allen. Interweaving the artists emblematic use of symbols, the exhibition engages with a history of Saturn, the celestial body said to have been the cause of a melancholic dispositionfrom ancient myth and the Middle Ages through to the present. At times appearing as itself, a large ringed orb, and at others as affect, the figure of the planet joins Allens representations of recurrent motifs that are informed by cultural and emotional influence. Alongside Saturn, depictions of markers such as serpents, wildfires, moths, hourglasses and hallucinogenic plants present a language that is seen rather than uttered. Within the emblematic traditiona form positioned squarely between visual arts and literature, ... More  Ruth Freitag, librarian to the stars, dies at 96NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Isaac Asimov was enthralled with her and wrote her a limerick. Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan wrote in their introduction to Comet (1985) that one of the most pleasant experiences in writing this book was meeting her. Numerous other science writers acknowledged their debts to her in forewords to their books. Ruth Freitag, a reference librarian at the Library of Congress for nearly half a century, was unknown to the general public. But she was, in more ways than one, a librarian to the stars. Known for her encyclopedic knowledge of resources in science and technology, Freitag (pronounced FRY-tog) was sought out by the leading interpreters of the galaxy. She developed a particular expertise in astronomy early in her career. Her learnedness became so comprehensive that she opened up new worlds to Asimov, ... More  Cultural institutions still waiting for $16 billion in federal aidNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Five months after Congress approved a $16 billion federal aid program to help live-performance venues and cultural institutions survive the pandemic, more than 12,000 applicants have sought help but no money has been disbursed yet. But some venue owners, theater producers and museum officials eager, and in cases desperate, for financial help after more than a year of steep pandemic losses could soon learn if help is on the way. The Small Business Administration, which runs the program, said in a statement Friday that the highest-priority applicants those that lost 90% of their revenue compared with the prior year are tentatively scheduled to receive notices about the fate of their applications beginning next week. But some business owners are wary of the promise after weeks of delay ... More  Colonial Williamsburg welcomes Tom Savage as Director of Educational Travel and ConferencesWILLIAMSBURG, VA.- Art lecturer, author, historian and cultural site tour leader J. Thomas Savage is joining The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation as Director of Educational Travel and Conferences starting July 12. Tom Savage is an internationally known and respected expert who will bring new vigor and creative energy to our venerable conference and travel programs, said Ronald L. Hurst, the Foundations Chief Curator and Vice President for Museums, Preservation, and Historic Resources. A frequent collaborator with members of the Colonial Williamsburg team, his new position will in many ways be a homecoming. A Virginia native and William & Mary graduate, Savages career has spanned the public and private arts world with career highlights including service as Senior Vice President and Director of Sothebys Institute of Art ... More  Nottingham Contemporary opens solo exhibitions by Allison Katz, Mélanie Matranga and Erika VerzuttiNOTTINGHAM.- Nottingham Contemporary is presenting three solo exhibitions, by Allison Katz, Mélanie Matranga and Erika Verzutti. For each of the artists, the exhibition marks their first institutional solo presentation in the UK, and features new bodies of work. Katzs paintings use humour, puns and language games to explore the mediums relationship to questions of identity and expression. Matranga combines film and installation works to explore the dualities and contradictions of our interior and exterior lives. Verzuttis sculptures in bronze, cement and papier mâché, combine references to the natural world and art history, playfully confronting the canon. Titled Artery, Allison Katz's exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary is the London-based Canadian artist's first institutional solo show in the UK. It is a collaboration with Camden ... More  The very finest NBA Top Shot moments, featuring LeBron James' tributes to Kobe Bryant, up for grabs DALLAS, TX.- The consignor calls these "The Most Highly Sought After NFTs in NBA Top Shot History," and that might be underselling it. In the May Sports Showcase Auction, which goes into extended bidding at 10 p.m. CST Thursday, Heritage Auctions will sell as a single lot three coveted Top Shots immortalizing the close-knit relationship between the greatest Los Angeles Lakers of the 21st Century and two of basketball's all-time best: Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. This non-fungible token (NFT) trio, assembled by NFT developer The House of Kibaa and never before offered together, is expected to sell for more than $1 million. That's because these three moments are the very top Top Shots ever produced: 2020 LeBron James NBA Top Shot (Series 1) From The Top - Dunk #26/59 2019 LeBron James NBA Top ... More  Emily McDaniel appointed inaugural Director, First Nations, Powerhouse MuseumSYDNEY.- The Powerhouse has today announced the appointment of Emily McDaniel, an esteemed curator, educator and writer from the Kalari Clan of the Wiradjuri nation in Central New South Wales, in the new role of Director, First Nations. The most significant First Nations role appointed by the Powerhouse since the museum was founded in 1881, Emily McDaniel in the Director, First Nations leadership role will establish a First Nations Team that will be central to the renewal of the Powerhouse Museum. This will include the development of the new flagship Powerhouse Parramatta, the expansion of the Museums Discovery Centre, the renewal of Powerhouse Museum Ultimo and the ongoing programming of Sydney Observatory. Working with the Chief Executive Lisa Havilah, McDaniel will develop and lead policies, strategies, museum practice ... More  'History in the Making' explores design materialsMELBOURNE.- Featuring works made from ancient timber, animal parts, synthetics, industrial alloys and more, History in the Making explores humanitys relationship to the material world by highlighting how materials and systems of production have influenced human culture, history and present-day value systems. From the invention of synthetic materials as substitutes to expensive animal products, such as ivory and silk, to todays invention of biodegradable plastics in response to ecological decline, the exhibition encourages us to consider the past, present and future of materials and the commercial and cultural systems that underpin them. Through a vibrant and eclectic display of contemporary design drawn exclusively from the NGV Collection, including works presented at the NGV for the first time by Estudio Campana, Lucy McCrae, ... More  Alte Pinakothek announces the first monograph and catalogue raisonnée of the work of Jacobus VrelMUNICH.- His pictures look rather odd, his figures introverted and his street scenes curiously stage-like. Jacobus Vrel appears to record everyday life in the Dutch Republic during the 17th century, yet creates miraculous worlds at the same time. The painter himself is like a phantom. In spite of years of research, the mystery surrounding his identity remains unsolved. We only know his name from a single contemporary inventory and from the signatures on his 50-surviving works, which can scarcely be compared with those of his contemporaries. Vrel was a pioneer in his field. In their austerity and sometimes oppressive silence, his paintings seem unexpectedly modern, and it is for that reason that they are compared with the work of Vilhelm Hammershøi. With detective-like investigations from the authors, and extensive technical examinations ... More  Phillips to offer a unique upcycled suite of furniture by Giancarlo Valle, Marc Jacobs, and Rob WilsonNEW YORK, NY.- A unique set of upcycled furniture, a design collaboration between architect/designer Giancarlo Valle, fashion designer Marc Jacobs, and artist/illustrator Rob Wilson, will be offered by Phillips in its New York Design auction on 9 June. The project began in June 2020 when New Yorkers joined in nationwide protests against police brutality and racial injustice. As a sign of solidarity, design curator Dung Ngo commissioned Rob Wilson to paint a mural on the boarded storefront of Marc Jacobs shop Bookmarc, based on the poignant theme of Unity Through Books. As New York City begins to open again, the mural has been transformedin order to make a contribution toward the advancement of equity for and inclusion of transgender and gender nonconforming people of color. In May 2021, as New York City reopens, Ngo commissioned ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Flemish Baroque painter Bertholet Flemalle was born May 23, 1614. Bertholet Flemalle, Flemal, or Flamael (1614 - 1675) was a Liège Baroque painter. His The Glorification of the Holy Cross is in St Bartholomew's Church, Liège. In this image: Heliodorus driven from the temple, 1658-62.
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