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Andy Warhol's 'Campbell's Soup Cans' is on display during a press preview of MoMAs first ever Fall Reveal at Museum of Modern Art on November 13, 2020 in New York City. Cindy Ord/Getty Images/AFP.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Museum of Modern Arts permanent collection is on the move. Its not leaving the building, but its in motion as never before. On Saturday, MoMA will unveil what it calls the Fall Reveal, a rehang of about a third of its holdings, or 20 of 60 galleries. This is the first phase of an ambitious plan to regularly rotate the entire collection. In short, the result bodes extraordinarily well. There are some wonderful acquisitions to be appreciated and some pieces that have been in storage so long they might as well be new. Given its own stand-alone gallery on the fifth floor for the first time, Gerhard Richters wrenching October 18, 1977 takes on a new prominence. This 1988 suite of 15 blurry gray paintings about the capture, suspicious deaths and funeral of the Baader-Meinhof anarchist group meditates, appropriately, on the power of the state. Also here youll find architect Hermann Finsterlins rarely exhibited Study for a House of Soci ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture shows wooden sarcophagi on display during the unveiling of an ancient treasure trove of more than a 100 intact sarcophagi, at the Saqqara necropolis 30 kms south of the Egyptian capital Cairo, on November 14, 2020. Egypt announced the discovery of an ancient treasure trove of more than a 100 intact sarcophagi, the largest such find this year. The sealed wooden coffins, unveiled on site amid fanfare, belonged to top officials of the Late Period and the Ptolemaic period of ancient Egypt. They were found in three burial shafts at depths of 12 metres (40 feet) in the sweeping Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo. Ahmed HASAN / AFP
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 | | Exhibition brings together seminal drawings, paintings, sculpture and wall reliefs by Charlotte Posenenske | | Egypt finds treasure trove of over 100 sarcophagi | | Sotheby's teams up with Fai Khadra for next 'Contemporary Curated' auction | 
Charlotte Posenenske, Streifenbild (Stripe Picture), 1965. Courtesy Deutsche Bank Collection © Photo: Deutsche Bank Collection.
LUXEMBOURG.- Mudam Luxembourg Musée dArt Moderne Grand-Duc Jean presents Charlotte Posenenske: Work in Progress. The exhibition traces the evolution of the pioneering work of Charlotte Posenenske (b. 1930, Wiesbaden; d. 1985, Frankfurt am Main) during the years 195668, a short but prolific period when she was active as an artist. Presented in the Grand Hall, and across the two upper floor galleries, the exhibition brings together seminal drawings, paintings, sculpture and wall reliefs, including the artists final and most iconic modular works. The exhibition highlights Posenenskes critical contribution to the development of serial, site-specific and participatory practices. Embracing reductive geometry, seriality and industrial fabrication, Posenenske developed a form of mass-produced minimalism that pointedly addressed the pressing socioeconomic concerns of the decade by circumventing the ... More | | 
A picture shows a funerary mask on display during the unveiling of an ancient treasure trove of more than a 100 intact sarcophagi, at the Saqqara necropolis 30 kms south of the Egyptian capital Cairo, on November 14, 2020. Ahmed HASAN / AFP.
SAQQARA (AFP).- Egypt announced Saturday the discovery of an ancient treasure trove of more than a 100 intact sarcophagi, dating back more than 2,500 years ago, the largest such find this year. The sealed wooden coffins, unveiled on site amid much fanfare, belonged to top officials of the Late Period and the Ptolemaic period of ancient Egypt. They were found in three burial shafts at depths of 12 metres (40 feet) in the sweeping Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo. Archaeologists opened one coffin to reveal a mummy wrapped in a burial shroud adorned with brightly coloured hieroglyphic pictorials. Saqqara, home to more than a dozen pyramids, ancient monasteries, and animals burial sites, is a vast necropolis of the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. "Saqqara has yet to reveal all of ... More | | 
George Condo, Girl in Striped Dress, 2001. Estimate £20,00030,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This Autumn, Sothebys and Fai Khadra, creative director, multi-disciplinary artist, model and collector team up for this seasons Contemporary Curated, an online sale of artworks from the most established to the emerging generation of artists. Born in Los Angeles and raised between London and Dubai, Fai brings a fresh perspective to the ninth edition of this series in London. With a degree in architecture, Fai bridges his own love for art and design with music and fashion, creating mesmeric stage design for the likes of Drake, Syd, Summer Walker, A$AP Ferg and Buddy, and collaborating with fashion houses including, Dior, Alexander Wang, Moncler and Louis Vuitton. A musician in his own right, Fai has also been featured on projects by Blood Orange. The son of an art collector, Fai was exposed to the arts from a young age, always drawn to creators who have broken, merged and pushed the boundaries in some way from Bruce Nauman to Kara Walker, ... More |
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| | Little Richard's wardrobe and Jimi Hendrix's rare guitars head to Julien's Auctions Icons & Idols | | Exhibition featuring new paintings by Barbara Takenaga opens at DC Moore Gallery | | RETNA, Banksy and Hebru Brantley set records in $1.2 million Heritage Auctions Urban Art event | 
Jimi Hendrix owned and played left-handed Fender Stratocaster electric guitar. Estimate: $300,000-$500,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions has announced the marquee headliners of Icons & Idols Trilogy: Rock n Roll, the world-record breaking auction house to the stars annual music extravaganza on Tuesday, December 1st and Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020 live in Beverly Hills and online at www.juliensauctions.com. Nearly 900 items join the previously announced all-star lineup of artifacts and memorabilia owned and used by some of the worlds greatest music artists of all-time including Eddie Van Halen, Kurt Cobain, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Lady Gaga, David Bowie, Aerosmith and more. A spectacular collection from the Founding Father of Rock and Roll the one and only, Little Richardwill dazzle the auction stage at this years two-day event. Born Richard Wayne Penniman on December 5th, ... More | | 
Barbara Takenaga, Red Meryl, 2020. Acrylic on linen, 54 x 45 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery is presenting Barbara Takenaga: Shibaraku, featuring new paintings in the artists sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition runs from November 12 December 23. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition, with an interview by the artist Tom Burckhardt, with Barbara Takenaga. Shibaraku is a Japanese word that refers both to a type of Kabuki drama and also a word that loosely translates as wait a moment! In fact, each moment with Takenagas paintings will shape and re-shape the forms into something else, creating new beginnings with each glance. Starting with fluid pours of paint onto the canvas, Takenaga then creates undulating shapes with brushstrokes resembling dots, splashes, and sparks coming together and receding in outwardly infinite space. They can be understood as kaleidoscopic layers of outlines, horizons, and atmospheres, that coalesce as ... More | | 
Hebru Brantley (b. 1981), Blue FlyBoy from The Watch, 2013. Painted cast resin and steel, 64 x 20 x 20 inches. Sold for: $38,750.00.
DALLAS, TX.- RETNA's They Can't Come, 2015 set a world record for the artist when it sold for $175,000 to lead Heritage Auctions' Urban Art Auction to $1,189,888 in total sales Nov. 11. This is the fourth time Heritage has set the world record at auction for RETNA, having broken its own record three times. The result nearly doubled the previous RETNA world record, which was set whenSerenity of the mind States Moments of dark days allows Soaring like a search light -High-, 2012, brought sold at Heritage Auctions in March 2019 for $93,750. "We are thrilled to continue to solidify and consolidate our position as the market leaders in the Urban, Street and Graffiti Art, having set record prices for RETNA, Banksy, Hebru Brantley and others in this event," Heritage Auctions Vice President of Modern & Contemporary Art Leon Benrimon said. "We are continuing to see incredible ... More |
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| | Academy Museum completes $388 million pre-opening fundraising campaign goal with closing gift from Laika | | French poets' London home for sale in threat to arts centre plan | | Sophia Loren makes her return to film: 'I'm a perfectionist' | 
More than 13,000 donors contributed to the Campaign for the Academy Museum. © Academy Museum Foundation.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bill Kramer, Director and President of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, today announced that the new institution has exceeded its pre-opening fundraising campaign goal of $388 million. This total encompasses capital gifts, endowments, funding for education programs, and other special gifts. A donation from LAIKA moved the museum over the finish line, closing out a campaign that was launched in 2012. The campaign is headed by chair Bob Iger and co-chairs Annette Bening and Tom Hanks. More than 13,000 donors contributed to the Campaign for the Academy Museum, with gifts coming from individuals, corporations, foundations, and government entities. Cheryl and Haim Saban made the largest contribution with a transformative $50 million gift for which the Saban Building (formerly ... More | | 
Rimbaud (self-portrait) in Harar in 1883.
LONDON (AFP).- The London home where French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine had a tempestuous affair has gone on sale, threatening plans for it to house an arts centre. The 19th-century poets had a scandalous homosexual liaison, living for a few months at the house in Camden in north London, which is their only surviving address in the city. It was here that the poets broke up after Verlaine slapped Rimbaud in the face with a fish. Their story has been turned into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, "Total Eclipse." The house has gone on the market for £1.75 million after the current owner, Michael Corby, had previously backed plans to turn it into a "Poetry House" open to visitors and holding cultural events. Corby could not immediately be contacted for comment. Graham Henderson, chief executive of the Rimbaud and Verlaine Foundation, told AFP on Saturday that Corby had not informed him before ... More | | 
Sophia Loren at her home in Geneva, N.Y. The star, now 86, was looking for a personal connection to a script. Then along came her director son and the Netflix drama The Life Ahead. Edoardo Ponti via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Whatever happened to Sophia Loren? The question is prompted by The Life Ahead, the Netflix drama that premiered Friday and stars the Italian great who once practically defined international glamour. As it happens, her first feature since a TV movie 10 years ago combines her passion for film with the other great passion of her life, her family. Loren, now 86, has long prioritized them over her acting career, but with the new drama, she combines both loves: The movies co-writer and director is Edoardo Ponti, the younger of her two sons. In The Life Ahead, Lorens third collaboration with Ponti, she plays an Italian Holocaust survivor known as Madame Rosa who takes in and eventually bonds with ... More |
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| | In 'Small Axe,' Steve McQueen explores Britain's Caribbean heritage | | UK film industry in rude health despite virus horror | | Demands on nonprofit groups rose in the pandemic, even as volunteering fell | 
Director Steve McQueen in London, Oct. 22, 2020. Ana Cuba/The New York Times.
by Ashley Clark
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It took Steve McQueen a long time to make a film about Black life in Britain. I needed to understand myself, where I came from, the director said of his new project, Small Axe. Sometimes, youve got to have a certain maturity, and I wouldnt have had that 10, 15 years ago. McQueen, who was born in West London to Grenadian and Trinidadian parents, is one of Britains most gifted and garlanded Black filmmakers. Hes best known to American audiences as the director of the star-studded Widows from 2018 and 12 Years a Slave, in 2013, for which he became the first Black director of a best picture Oscar winner. When he collected that trophy, McQueen was already developing the drama project with the BBC that would become Small Axe. Six years later, McQueen is debuting not one, but five films about various aspects of Londons West Indian community, set between the late ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on July 13, 2018 US actor Tom Cruise arrives for the UK premiere of the film Mission: Impossible - Fallout in London. Anthony HARVEY / AFP.
by Jean-Baptiste Oubrier
LONDON (AFP).- Far from being wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic, Britain's film and television industry is enjoying a blockbuster run thanks in large part to a surge in online streaming. Attracting global production teams to spectacular landscapes, gothic castles and state-of-the-art studios in the UK, the nation's film industry has enjoyed big growth in recent years -- also thanks to tax breaks. From blockbuster movie franchises "James Bond" and "Star Wars" to hit US series "Games of Thrones", Britain has a long history of filming international hits despite enduring some lean times. "The UK screen industries are a huge success story and a big contributor to the cultural economy of Europe," said Gary Davey, chief executive of Sky Studios. "We have a wealth of talent right across the UK, both on-screen and off-screen. I don't see that changing anytime soon," Davey ... More | | 
Kathy Wentworth, who has been volunteering with Guide Dogs for the Blind for two decades, walks with one of her service dogs, Liberty, in Portland, Ore., Nov. 11, 2020. Mason Trinca/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Volunteering has fallen sharply in the pandemic, creating an enormous financial burden on the nonprofit organizations that have long depended on the free assistance. Now, leaders of many nonprofit groups are looking for new ways to generate donations to pay for both the rise in demand for their services and the work no longer done by the lost volunteers. Steve Hill is one of those lost volunteers. He began volunteering at a free medical clinic run by his church in Salem, Oregon, as soon as he retired. I retired on a Friday and started there on a Monday, Hill, 65, said. For four years, he spent a day or two a week helping the doctors and nurses with their charts and medical orders and helping schedule visits. That all came to a halt when the pandemic took hold in the Pacific Northwest in March. When the clinic reopened in June, Hill stayed home, worried about ... More |
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 Rance Allen, frontman of a new-sounding gospel group, dies at 71NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Whatever we feel like doing, we do that very thing, Bishop Rance Allen told an audience at Sounds of Brazil in New York in 1986. But we do it to the glory of God. It was a summary of the music he and his brothers had been serving up for almost 20 years as the Rance Allen Group gospel, to be sure, but blended with other influences that, when the group began, made it a pioneer of todays contemporary gospel sound. The Rance Allen Groups repertory mixes traditionalist gospel hymnlike songs that build to fervent, shouting climaxes with more modern kinds of funk, Jon Pareles wrote in The New York Times, reviewing that 1986 performance, from chugging soul music to pop-jazz to thumb-popping disco rhythms. There was, for instance, Just My Salvation, which reworked ... More Rhiannon Giddens aims at 1800s America in her Silkroad plansNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It was initially surprising news when it was announced in July that Rhiannon Giddens was taking over as artistic director of cross-cultural music organization Silkroad. What did Giddens a vocalist, fiddler and banjo player known primarily for helping revive the tradition of Black American string bands have to do with Silkroad, an ensemble founded by Yo-Yo Ma to bring together performers and music connected to the ancient trade routes between East Asia and the Mediterranean? More than might have been apparent. Before Giddens learned to play the banjo, she trained as an opera singer. The classical world isnt foreign to her, and shes performed with Silkroads touring ensemble. And her career has been devoted to the Silkroad-style illumination of hidden commonalities. As a history-minded founding member ... More World's largest video game auction to be held Nov. 20 & 22DALLAS, TX.- The offering of nearly 400 lots in Heritage Auctions' Nov. 19-22 Comics & Comic Auction makes it the largest such event the world's leading video games auctioneer has held. And within that trove is a selection of 35 sealed NES games that went unsold decades ago at a Kmart. This group, aptly referred to as the Kmart Collection, has been exceptionally preserved for almost 30 years, waiting to find new owners who appreciate their significance and importance in the history of video games. Among the top draws in both the Kmart Collection and the auction as a whole is Metroid - Wata 9.4 A+ Sealed [Rev-A, Round SOQ, Mid-Production], NES Nintendo 1987 USA. This title marks the first in the series as well as the first appearance of one of Nintendo's "perfect attendance crew," intergalactic bounty hunter, Samus Aran, Nintendo's first ... More Kohn Gallery opens a solo exhibition with Chicago-based artist Caroline KentLOS ANGELES, CA.- Kohn Gallery is presenting A Sudden Appearance of the Sun, its first solo exhibition with Chicago-based artist Caroline Kent. Interested in a reevaluation of abstract painting, Kents practice is founded on notions of language and textual translation. Much inspired by her Mexican heritage, Kent's artistry is influenced by the bold spontaneity and structuralist dynamics of Mexican sculptors and painters like Pedro Coronel, and the emotional architecture of Luis Barragán during the Twentieth Century. In parallel to Coronel and Barragán, Kent's large-scale works are sumptuous in color and texture, where experimentation and improvisation direct the process an interaction with nature. Kent turns to geometry, color, and pattern as lines of communication, like the visible choreographing of linguistic concepts: rhythm, tone, and measure. ... More Friends forever, filmmakers for nowNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Climb is a movie about a friendship that stands the test of time through some pretty gnarly events. Oh how strangely can life imitate art. I first spoke to the films co-writers and stars, best friends Michael Angelo Covino (who also directed) and Kyle Marvin, in person back in March at a Manhattan hotel. The Climb was slated to be released later that month, but the coronavirus scuttled those plans. While the movie, which takes place over several years, is more about friends who weather disasters frequently of their own making, it is interesting to watch now and wonder how the characters would have dealt with the additional obstacle of a pandemic. After playing the Cannes, Toronto, Telluride and Sundance festivals before the pandemic, and enduring an eight-month postponement because of it, The ... More Sebastião Salgado launches Prix Pictet podcast on sustainability and photographyLONDON.- Prix Pictet announced Prix Pictet: A Lens on Sustainability, a podcast season of six 30-minute episodes where global thinkers, curators, opinion formers and photographers discuss the intersection of photography and sustainability. Produced in association with Editorial Intelligence, each episode centres on an individual theme and incorporates interviews and lively discussions. Contributors include Prix Pictet photographers Daniel Beltrá, Joana Choumali, Richard Mosse as well as guest speakers Sebastião Salgado, Hans Urich Obrist, Hannah Rothschild, Esther Freud, Ekow Eshun, philosophers A.C.Grayling and Roman Krznaric, plus the distinguished journalist Sarah Sands and curators from the New York Public Library, the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Ashmolean Museum. The series launches with Fire, the theme ... More The Yves Saint Laurent wardrobe of iconic dancer Zizi Jeanmaire offered at Christie'sPARIS.- Christies will present Zizi Jeanmaires Yves Saint Laurent wardrobe during an exclusively online sale from January 13th to 26th 2021. The unforgettable performer of Mon truc en plumes, who passed away last summer at the ground old age of 96, is remembered by all. This sale will pay a vibrant tribute to her and Yves Saint Laurent, the designer who was by her side throughout her entire career. The clothes and accessories that make up this wardrobe reflect the image of the queen of music hall with jet-black hair: often black, a stunning silhouette, glitter, embroidery and feathers. The great international career of Zizi Jeanmaire (born Renée Jeanmaire) is closely linked to Roland Petit, whom she met when she was 9 years old at the Ecole de dance de Paris - she was later to become his muse. After the immense success of the ballet Carmen ... More Walker Art Center opens artist Michaela Eichwald's first solo U.S. solo museum showMINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Berlin-based artist and writer Michaela Eichwald (Germany, b. 1967) maintains a restless and fearless belief in the possibility of painting. Bringing together pieces made over the last 15 years, this first US museum exhibition reveals the wide variety of references in her work, drawing on references to theology, philosophy, and art history, while also reflecting on her own life: her surroundings, thinking, reading, and friends. Following studies in philosophy, history, art history, and German philology in Cologne, Eichwald emerged as an artist, with her first exhibition held at Galerie Daniel Buchholz in 1997. The context of Cologneat the time, an undisputed center of European contemporary artproved formative for Eichwald, a place where she maintained a lively exchange of ideas with many intellectuals and fellow ... More How George Benson turned an early 'no' into a career of 'yes'NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- George Benson is many things to many different people, but hes a jazz musician at heart. The 77-year-old guitarist and singer has traversed the worlds of pop, R&B, soul and, of course, jazz, tasting success while also learning how to field any criticism that came from changing his sound along the way. His career has been helped by an unwavering faith in his creative vision and bonds with influential figures that became pivotal to his development. He started out seven decades ago, playing the ukulele in his native Pittsburgh, home to a rich cornucopia of elite Black talent: Art Blakey, Lena Horne, Ray Brown, Paul Chambers. In a recent phone interview, he recalled how Eddie Jefferson, the pioneer of vocalese who wrote jazz standards like Moodys Mood for Love, recognized his own potential for ... More New Geoffrey Beene Archive at Phoenix Art Museum to be unveiled at February virtual eventPHOENIX, ARIZ.- Phoenix Art Museum and Arizona Costume Institute, a Museum affiliate group that supports the institutions fashion design department, will present a virtual unveiling of the new Geoffrey Beene Archive at Phoenix Art Museum on February 11, 2021 at 6 pm. The virtual fundraiser, entitled Geoffrey Beene: A Duet of Fashion and Movement, celebrates a recent gift of more than 350 Beene garments to Phoenix Art Museum from Patsy Tarr, longtime Beene patron, president of the 2wice Arts Foundation, and founder and publisher of 2wice magazines and books, which sets the stage for a future exhibition of Beenes work at the Museum during the 2022-2023 exhibition season. Among the evenings highlights, the event will feature the premiere of an original short film that provides an in-depth look at 25 garments by the designer, ... More The Afrobeats star Davido, an upbeat voice in a turbulent timeNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Davido the American-born Nigerian Afrobeats artist David Adedeji Adeleke has built an international career on songs about love and lust that have collectively amassed more than 1 billion streams. The album he is releasing Friday, A Better Time, is filled with them. But the perky song that opens the LP, Fem (Shut Up), has taken on an unexpected role since it appeared in September: as a protest song for Nigerians demonstrating to end police brutality and corruption. It was on an entirely different subject, Davido, 27, said via a shaky video connection from his home in Lagos, with his fiancée, Chioma Rowland, and their 1-year-old son, Ifeanyi, nearby. What the song is literally saying is to tell somebody that talks too much to shut up. The lyrics, mixing English and Yoruba, boast about ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Georgia O'Keeffe was born November 15, 1887. Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986) was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916, several decades before women had gained access to art training in AmericaÂs colleges and universities. In this image: Jennifer Shapira views three of Georgia O'Keeffe's works, from left, "No. 7 Special, 1915," "Second, Out of My Head, 1915," and "No. 2-Special, 1915" on display at Washington's National Gallery of Art during a press preview of the "O'Keeffe on Paper" exhibit Friday, April 7, 2000.
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