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Curator Dr Helen Scott with paintings by Mary Cameron at Edinburgh's City Art Centre. Image © Ian Georgeson.
EDINBURGH.- Over the past 40 years the City Art Centre has housed over 500 exhibitions, shown priceless treasures from across the world to priceless paintings made by Edinburgh children and welcomed 100,000s of visitors through its doors and is now a well-established, respected and cherished Scottish cultural resource. Other activities marking the 40th anniversary in the coming weeks include; The City Art Centre is 40!, a curated a digital exhibition of much-loved and favourite paintings chosen by past members of staff, artists and people closely involved with the City Art Centre over the years presented via Art UKs Curations series. Tessa Asquith-Lamb, one our best-loved local artists, has created two special videos with the City Art Centres Public Programmes section to celebrate the milestone, featuring the artists favourite painting, 'Tristan ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Joline ten Welscher from licensed taxidermy company Inside-Out Animals takes part in the dismantling of a juvenile female humpback whale skeleton that has been hanging in the National Museum of Ireland since 1910, on September 11, 2020, in Dublin, Ireland. The skeleton is being removed to allow access for roof work due to start next year. Dating back to 1856, the boxy museum tucked away beside the prime minister's office in the city centre is known affectionately to Dubliners as the "dead zoo". Paul Faith / AFP
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 | | Freeman's to offer Jackson Pollock painting once thought to be lost | | Christie's to offer over 60 works by Robert Motherwell from the Dedalus Foundation | | Michael Werner Gallery, London opens an exhibition of major works by German artist Georg Baselitz | 
Considered lost for many years, Jackson Pollocks Pennsylvania Landscape returns to the art market with this event.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On October 5th, 2020, Freemans will hold its single-owner auction of the Collection of Dr. Henry & Mrs. Fannie Levine. This special sale honors the legacy of these prominent Philadelphia collectors. It is also a rare opportunity for discerning buyers seeking blue-chip material offered for the first time in decades. Considered lost for many years, Jackson Pollocks Pennsylvania Landscape returns to the art market with this event. Collectors will also find a diverse offering of work by Karel Appel and Paul Jenkins, as well as a 1949 still life by Bernard Buffet. Curiosity and love of learning connected all of the Levines endeavors, from their careers in medicine to their passion for travel, music, and art collecting. They frequented museums and galleries, both in Philadelphia and around the world. They brought home carefully-wrapped treasures in their suitcases whenever they returned from holiday. Over the year ... More | | 
Robert Motherwell, Roth-Händle, aquatint and collage, on Auvergne à la Main Richard de Bas, 1975. Sheet: 19⅝ x 15¾ in. (499 x 400 mm.) Estimate: $3,000-5,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, Christies will present Works by Robert Motherwell from the Dedalus Foundation, consisting of over 60 works by Robert Motherwell, including paintings, prints and works on paper. Founded by the artist in 1981, the Dedalus Foundation is devoted to preserving Motherwells artistic legacy and his archives, and has continued to support individuals and institutions through grants and programmatic initiatives. In this two-part sale, Christies will present a career-spanning selection of works from the Dedalus Foundations holdings, offering a unique opportunity to own a part of Motherwells legacy and the Dedalus Foundations history. The collection will be sold across the live Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 7 October, 2020, at Christies New York, and Robert Motherwell Prints from the Dedalus Foundation, a dedicated online-only sale of Prints by the artist, which will be open for b ... More | | 
Georg Baselitz, Ein Vogel (A Bird) Bird), 1972. Oil on canvas, 63 3/4 x 51 1/4 inches, 162 x 130 cm. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London.
LONDON.- Michael Werner Gallery, London is presenting an exhibition of major works by German artist Georg Baselitz, one of the most important painters of the second half of the 20th Century. I Was Born into a Destroyed Order begins in the 1960s and surveys the first three decades of the artist's career. A selection of seminal paintings, works on paper and sculpture are on view. Georg Baselitz was born Hans-Georg Kern in the Saxon village of Deutschbaselitz in 1938, into the destruction of the Second World War and the subsequent occupation and partitioning of his homeland. As he explains in a 1995 interview, "I was born into a destroyed order, a destroyed landscape, a destroyed people, a destroyed society. And I didn't want to re-establish an order: I'd seen enough of so-called order." In 1961 he adopted the name of his hometown and as the art historian Richard Shiff keenly observes, "this action announced the presence of his birthplace ... More |
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| | Sotheby's to present two highly important handscrolls from the Yuan and the Qing dynasties | | Bonhams New York announces 'The Martin Cohen Collection: The Final Chapter' | | Pace opens an exhibition of new works by American artist Trevor Paglen | 
Ren Renfa (1255-1327), Five Drunken Princes Returning on Horseback (detail). Ink and colour on paper, handscroll, 35.2 by 210.7 cm. Estimate: HK$80,000,000 - 120,000,000 / US$10,340,000 15,510,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- This October in Hong Kong, Sothebys will present two highly rare and important handscrolls formerly in the Qing Imperial Collection, as the centrepieces of its Fine Classical Chinese Paintings pre-sale exhibition. Made during the Yuan and Qing dynasties, these extremely precious and prized scrolls are marvels of ingenuity and skill, and their unveiling this autumn will provide an unprecedented opportunity for the public to view them together. Commissioned by the Kangxi Emperor in the late seventeenth century, The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour tells the story of a journey taken by the Emperor across southern China, chronicling daily life in the towns and countryside along the way. Similar in ambition and detail to the Bayeux Tapestry, it brings China and its people of three hundred years ago to life. Ever since its ... More | | 
Attilio Spaccarelli, Important Cameo Amphora with Dionysic Scene, (1891). Estimate: $100,000-150,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- On October 6 Bonhams will present The Martin Cohen Collection: The Final Chapter, featuring important interior and design pieces from the impressive collection of the renowned dealer, collector and design connoisseur, Martin Cohen. The sale will be followed by an online-only Part II, which will run from October 7 on bonhams.com. Highlights of the sale will include items created especially for the former Fifth Avenue mansion of New York pharmaceutical magnate, George Kemp including early pieces designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany (son of Charles L. Tiffany, founder of the eponymous jewelry and silver firm, Tiffany & Co.). Among the items offered will be an Important sofa designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany for ASSOCIATED ARTISTS, circa 1879, which has an estimate of $200,000 - 300,000. The sofa was created especially for the opulent salon of Kemp house (which is now the Armani store on the corner of 56th and 5th Avenue). The acc ... More | | 
Installation view of Trevor Paglen: Bloom, Pace Gallery, 6 Burlington Gardens, London, September 10 November 10, 2020. © Trevor Paglen, courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery. Photo: Damian Griffiths, courtesy Pace Gallery.
LONDON.- Pace returns to its physical space with an exhibition of new works by American artist Trevor Paglen. Held both at 6 Burlington Gardens and on the gallerys digital platform, Bloom is being presented from 10 September to 10 November 2020 and explores Paglens central themes of artificial intelligence, the politics of images, facial recognition technologies, and alternative futures. This is Paces second exhibition with the artist. It coincides with two solo exhibitions presented at The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (4 September 2020 14 March 2021) and at OGR Turin (10 October 2020 10 January 2021). Paglen's complex and pioneering work examines the systems and technologies that shape society. Computing systems that collect, interpret, and operationalize data that defines and tracks identity, movement, and habits fuel the artists broad practice. Employing ... More |
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| | Terence Conran, designer and retail magnate, is dead at 88 | | PEER opens an exhibition of recent works by Kathy MacCarthy | | Charlottesville removes Confederate statue near site of white supremacist rally | 
Terence Conran in the Terence Conran Suite at Boundary in the Shoreditch district of London, a project consisting of three restaurants, rooms and suites, on Oct. 5, 2009. Jonathan Player/The New York Times.
by Robert D. McFadden
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Terence Conran, a London designer and retailing magnate who eased the gloom of postwar British austerity with stylish home furnishings affordable on a teachers salary, and then suffered financial reverses before reinventing himself as an international restaurateur and doyen of modern design, died Saturday at his country home in Berkshire, England. He was 88. His family confirmed the death in a statement, without specifying the cause. Blind in one eye since childhood, Conran was an entrepreneur of mercurial moods and missionary zeal who created an empire to market his designs, stores known in Europe as Habitat and in America as Conran Shops. After his business declined, he opened restaurants in London, Paris ... More | | 
Kathy MacCarthy, Pendant III, 2020. Fibreglass, 118 x 30 x 152 cm.
LONDON.- Kathy MacCarthy grew up in post-industrial Liverpool in the 1960s and 70s. Her memory of the landscape of abandoned domestic and manufacturing buildings throughout the city, coupled with the development of her interest in the body as form and mass has continued to provide a rich foundation for her work. After completing her MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 1983, MacCarthy worked with a range of media including wood, aluminium, plaster and latex. In 2008, after following a part-time one-year ceramics course at a nearby community college, she alighted on a material that enabled her to have a more immediate and visceral engagement that best suited her ambitions for the work. All of the sculptures at PEER have been produced in the past five years. Many of them obliquely reference vessel shapes a vase, jug or amphora perhaps but MacCarthy distorts, mutates and renders them useless. Some of these shapes look coll ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on August 22, 2017, the "At Ready" statue of a Confederate soldier and two Civil War cannons stand in front of the Albemarle County Court House on in Charlottesville, Virginia. MARK WILSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- The US city of Charlottesville on Saturday dismantled a statue of a Confederate soldier just blocks from the site of a deadly white supremacist rally in 2017 -- Virginia's latest move to strip away tributes to the pro-slavery Civil War south. The "At Ready" statue, which depicts a Confederate soldier holding his rifle, was erected in front of the Albemarle County courthouse in Charlottesville in 1909 -- 44 years after the US Civil War ended. Albemarle is the first Virginia locality to use a process for removing Civil War statues that Governor Ralph Northam signed into law this year. A crowd gathered to watch the statue's removal, dancing to music broadcast by a local radio station. People stood behind metal barricades and cheered as workers unscrewed plaques from the statue's stone plinth, and then attached straps ... More |
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| | 'Nomadland' wins top prize at Venice film festival | | New book offers a clear-eyed and complex retrospective of Michael Ray Charles | | Annet Gelink Gallery now representing Bertien van Manen | 
Disney's Marketing Director for Italy, Davide Romani acknowledges receiving the Golden Lion for Best Film on behalf of US director Chloe Zhao for "Nomadland" during the closing ceremony on the last day of the 77th Venice Film Festival. Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP.
by Alexandria Sage and Fiachra Gibbons
VENICE (AFP).- "Nomadland" by director Chloe Zhao scooped the top prize at the Venice film festival on Saturday, the first woman to win the Golden Lion in a decade. The film, an ode to American wanderlust and the highs and lows of the open road, won the top honour in a competition billed as a relaunch of global cinema bruised by the coronavirus crisis. Starring Frances McDormand, it is set among a motley tribe of ageing van dwellers, down on their luck and roaming the West. The double-Oscar winner plays a widow who takes to the road after losing her home. Its Chinese-born director Chloe Zhao picked up the coveted award 10 years after Sofia Coppola's 2010 win for her film "Somewhere", in a year in which nearly half of the films in the main competition were directed by women. Via ... More | | 
Featuring nearly one hundred color images, this is the first in-depth examination of the work of Michael Ray Charles, whose provocative paintings recast images of racism in consumer culture.
AUSTIN, TX.- Michael Ray Charles is the most comprehensive presentation yet of the work of an artist who rose to prominence in the 1990s for works that engaged American stereotypes of African Americans. With a background in advertising and an archivists inquisitiveness, Charles developed an artistic practice that made startling use of found images and offered critiques of the narratives they fostered. Immersing readers in the imagination of this daring painter, Michael Ray Charles celebrates and contextualizes a singular, major figure in the art world. Art historian Cherise Smith collaborated with the artist to curate nearly one hundred color plates documenting nearly thirty years of visual art. These plates are framed by an interview with the artist and by Smiths own deep interpretive essay on Charless work. Smith explores topics ranging from the controversy resulting from Charless prov ... More | | 
Bertien van Manen, Helen and Camy with dog, Cumberland, 1987 (detail). Gelatin silver print paper: 44 x 29 cm. Edition of 7 plus 2 artist's proofs. Courtesy Annet Gelink Gallery.
AMSTERDAM.- Annet Gelink Gallery announced its representation of acclaimed photographer Bertien van Manen (1942). With a career spanning over 40 years and a number of legendary photo books to her name - amongst them A hundred summers, a hundred winters - Van Manen is known for her intimate, detailed portraits of life as others live it. Recent exhibitions include a large retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, on view until September 20th, as well as exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. Her work is part of the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, MoMA, New York, and Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris amongst others. Van Manen's first solo exhibition at the gallery will take place in Spring 2020, to coincide with the release of her newest publication. Van Manen started out photographing her ... More |
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 Poop wine? Vile alcohol on show at Swedish museumMALMO (AFP).- Poop wine and scorpion vodka are just some of the stars of a new exhibit on revolting alcohol at the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmo in Sweden. A large jug of a yellowish semi-translucent liquid is the centre piece of the new exhibit: wine made from human excrement. "This is traditional Korean medicine. This is not something that people drink anymore. It's an historic drink and it was drunk in order to cure bone breakage and bruises," the museum's director Andreas Ahrens, who prepared the concoction himself, explains to AFP. He is adamant that "now it smells more like alcohol than faeces", as he removes the cap for a whiff. "But when you're making it, the smell is quite horrendous," he admits. Visitors' reactions range from gag reflexes to smiles of amusement as they take in the different beverages on display. Among the pieces ... More Quilts from military fabrics on view in Adelaide for the first time at the David Roche Foundation ADELAIDE.- Wartime Quilts, a blockbuster exhibition when shown in New York in 2017 and now War and Pieced: The Annette Gero Collection of Quilts from Military Fabrics are on view in Adelaide for the first time. 25 breathtaking examples of geometric quilts - some of which contain as many as 25,000 pieces of fabric - are included, made from richly coloured wools by soldiers, sailors and regimental tailors. Dr Annette Gero, a world authority on these historical quilts, owns the largest private collection of military intarsia quilts spanning the 18th to 20th centuries. Many date from the Napoleonic Wars through the Crimean War to the British colonial wars in India and southern Africa as well as from World War I. This is a rare opportunity to see these incredible quilts said Robert Reason, Museum Director, The David Roche Foundation. Now largely overlooked, ... More Most valuable belongings of the outstanding pianist Władysław Szpilman will be put up for auctionWARSAW.- The Steinway piano belonging to one of the most famous pianists, Władysław Szpilman, can be viewed in public for the first time in the biggest Polish auction house DESA Unicum. The story of the artist was shown in the Oscar-winning film The Pianist by Roman Polański. It was on this piano that he composed his most popular works. Other items which can be seen at the exhibition (from 11 September) and then purchased at the auction (on 22 September) include i.a. a pen and a pocket watch, which are the only personal belongings of the artist that survived the Warsaw Ghetto, or the exceptional score of the suite The Life of Machines. More than 50 amazing items belonging to one of the most eminent Polish musicians will be auctioned off on 22 September. A companion of Szpilmans entire musical career, the Steinway piano from 1937 was ... More M 2 3 opens an exhibition of new work by Connor McNicholasNEW YORK, NY.- M 2 3 is presenting Where Remote Futures Meet Remote Pasts, an exhibition of new work by Connor McNicholas. The exhibition remains on view through 11 October 2020. We need to make kin symchthonically, sympoetically. Who and whatever we are, we need to make-withbecome-with, compose-withthe earth-bound. 1. Consider what making with might mean to you. 2. Walk through the space. 3. Take a CD with you (keeping in mind the precedents you are making with as you draw from a decreasing pile). 4. When you arrive back home later, note down how your first answer may have changed. As a circuit board carefully rests inside a conch shell and ivy feeds into a fluorescent bulb, in reading Connor McNicholass work a viewer is called upon to consider a new materiality, and what his structures might look like at the end ... More For these shows, take a hikeNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Theres a moment late in Cairns, a lovely, peaceable sound walk created by singer and scholar Gelsey Bell and presented by HERE Arts Center, in which Bell will ask you to do something drastic: Take out your earbuds. Maybe that doesnt seem so extreme, but when was the last time you put away your phone, shut your eyes, stilled the mental whirl of worries, statistics and undone errands, and just listened? People who have tired of Zoom plays (dont raise your hands all at once, please!), will welcome the opportunity to listen outdoors and screen-free. After all, if a sound walk doesnt get you into the theater, at least it gets you out of the house. Promenade plays, in which audience members walk from physically distanced scene to physically distanced scene, have become a mainstay of pandemic theater. In Cairns ... More Exhibition features works made in New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s by Virginia JaramilloNEW YORK, NY.- Hales opened Conflux, a solo exhibition of historic works by Virginia Jaramillo (b. 1939, El Paso, Texas). Her third solo exhibition with the gallery features works made in New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s. Conflux coincides with Jaramillos first solo museum show Virginia Jaramillo: The Curvilinear Paintings, 1969 1974 at the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas opening in Fall 2020. In the paintings and natural linen fiber works exhibited in Conflux we see a break from the smooth, pristine surfaces of her curvilinear paintings which came before. Here, Jaramillo explores different techniques, experimenting with washes of paint, ground earth pigments and formulated linen fiber. Representing a period of great artistic freedom in her six-decade career, these pivotal works reflect Jaramillos meticulous way of working which ... More Museo di Palazzo Grimani displays portrait of Giovanni Grimani by Domenico TintorettoVENICE.- The Direzione regionale Musei Veneto and Venetian Heritage announce the purchase of the portrait of Giovanni Grimani (1506 1593), Patriarch of Aquileia and one of the most illustrious members of this aristocratic Venetian family to which we owe the current aspect of the palace located in Santa Maria Formosa and the collection of statues once located in the room of the palace called the Tribuna. The portrait, attributed to Domenico Tintoretto and dated to the early seventeenth century, is to be located in the Sala a Fogliami as part of the project Domus Grimani 1594-2019, the exceptional exhibition that celebrates the return of Giovanni Grimani's collection of classic statues to Palazzo Grimani, after more than four centuries. Thanks to a report by the Ufficio Esportazioni di Milano del Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali e per il turismo, ... More Huge cache of Gerry Anderson's production puppets, models, props and scripts comes to auctionWOKING.- A huge hidden archive of models, props, scenery and scripts linked to Thunderbirds genius Gerry Anderson has come to light after more than 30 years. Cleared from Bray Studios after Andersons production company wrapped up its final series of Terrahawks in the mid 1980s, the archive became the property of Julian Bell, a driver and handyman at the studios who was gifted it by one of the senior directors acting under Andersons authority because they had no storage facilities for it and wanted it cleared out. Production puppets, models of aircraft and other machinery, sets, Gerry Andersons personally annotated scripts and even storyboards for a series of Thunderbirds that was never filmed are included in the consignment, which will go under the hammer in a dedicated auction expected to raise hundreds of thousands of ... More Galerie Guido W. Baudach opens an exhibition of works by Tamina AmadyarBERLIN.- Galerie Guido W. Baudach is presenting the exhibition out of the blue by Tamina Amadyar. The exhibition marks the third solo show of the Berlin-based artist with the gallery. Tamina Amadyar practices a new, unique kind of color field painting that is decidedly located in the contemporary context. On the basis of situational sketches, she translates biographical narratives and personal visual experiences into abstract image creations of various hues and formats. Her paintings are both reduced and color intensive at the same time. Each work only has two colors. Amadyar mixes the paints herself, using pure pigment and a gelatin-like glue. The resulting material is not just characterized by an enormous luminosity. It also allows an exceptionally variable density of color - qualities the artist knows to use with virtuosity. Amadyar paints with always ... More Leviathan task: saving the whales in Dublin's 'dead zoo'DUBLIN (AFP).- A huddle of specialised staff at Dublin's "dead zoo" perform a high-wire puzzle, delicately disassembling two whale skeletons that have dangled airborne for over a century. Nigel Monaghan, who as keeper of the Natural History Museum is in charge of the extensive, and sometimes alarming, collection of taxidermied creatures within, looks on. "Dismantling a whale skeleton when you have no manual and user guide, you're relying on the general knowledge of animal skeletons," he told AFP. "It's a little bit like working with a jigsaw, but without a box and a nice picture on the front." The boxy museum tucked away beside the prime minister's office in the city centre is known affectionately to Dubliners as the "dead zoo". Dating back to 1856, it is part of the sprawl of the National Museum of Ireland and is currently at the start of an extensive ... More Reggae giant Toots Hibbert dead at 77WASHINGTON (AFP).- Toots Hibbert, a founding father of reggae music and credited with giving a name to Jamaica's prime cultural export, has died at the age of 77. Hibbert, a five-time Grammy nominee known for such hits as "Pressure Drop," died Friday night in Kingston, his band Toots and the Maytals said on Instagram. The cause of death was not specified, but Hibbert had reportedly been hospitalized with breathing trouble and was awaiting the results of a Covid-19 test. Hibbert never achieved the global fame of Bob Marley but was a towering, respected and much-loved figure nonetheless, both at home and abroad as an ambassador for a global musical movement. Over the course of his career, he performed with such musicians as Keith Richards and Eric Clapton, with a sound that evoked elements of rock, R&B, soul and gospel. Hibbert's ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Japanese architect Tadao Ando was born September 13, 1941. Tadao Ando (born September 13, 1941, in Minato-ku, Osaka, Japan and raised in Asahi-ku in the city) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was categorized by Francesco Dal Co as critical regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field. He visited buildings designed by renowned architects like Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn before returning to Osaka in 1968 and established his own design studio, Tadao Ando Architect and Associates.
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