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A visitor photographs Maurizio Cattelan's piece titled "Comedian," at Art Basel Miami Beach in Miami, Dec. 4, 2019. Ephemeral works of art, like Cattelans creation out of fruit, can often pose conservation challenges for the museums that have them. John Taggart/The New York Times.
by Graham Bowley
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Few art works sold in the past few years have drawn as much attention as Comedian by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, in part because, despite its price and ironic humor, it is at its heart a banana that one tapes to a wall. The sly works simplicity enticed collectors to pay as much as $150,000 for it at a Miami art fair last fall, an act of connoisseurship that delighted them but astonished the many people who had not imagined that a, um, sculpture of fruit on a wall could command such a price. Now the works aesthetic merit is being reinforced by the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan, which is accepting it into its collection as an anonymous donation. We are grateful recipients of the gift of Comedian, a further demonstration of the artists deft connection to the history of modern art, said the Guggenheims director, Richard Armstrong. Beyond which, it offers little stress to our storage. In fact, C ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Simon Lee Gallery is presenting The sudden longing to collapse 30 years of distance, Toby ZieglerÂs sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, in which the artist explores the complex relationships between experience and memory, image and data, through the twin lens of figuration and abstraction.
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 | | New York plans statue of justice Ginsburg, 'daughter of Brooklyn' | | Real-life 'Pianist' possessions up for auction in Poland | | President Harding's family battles over exhuming his body | 
In this file photo taken on May 21, 2018 US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks after receiving the American Law Institute's Henry J. Friendly Medal in Washington, DC. JIM WATSON / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday that the state would erect a statue in Brooklyn to honor Supreme Court Justice and feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg, who was born in the New York City borough in 1933, died Friday at 87 after serving 27 years on the high court, where she stood for equal rights for women and minorities. "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg selflessly pursued truth and justice in a world of division, giving voice to the voiceless and uplifting those who were pushed aside by forces of hate and indifference," Cuomo said. "While the family of New York mourns Justice Ginsburg's death, we remember proudly that she started her incredible journey right here in Brooklyn," he said. Ginsburg, who also attended law school and then was a law professor in New York City, was known for her native Brooklyn accent. Cuomo said he would appoint a commission to come ... More | | 
The black Montblanc Meisterstuck pen and a 1934 Omega pocket watch, the only Wladyslaw Szpilman possessions to have survived the war in Poland, are displayed in Warsaw on September 15, 2020. JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP.
by Bernard Osser
WARSAW (AFP).- A fountain pen, silver pocket watch and other prized possessions of the late Jewish-Polish composer Wladyslaw Szpilman, the real-life hero of the Oscar-winning film "The Pianist," go under the hammer in Warsaw next week. "This watch and pen that he bought on a trip to Paris in 1937 survived his whole stay in the Jewish ghetto, then kept him company in the ruins of Warsaw," said Szpilman's son Andrzej, who is organising the auction with his brother Krzysztof. The renowned musician, who died in 2000, came to the world's attention in Roman Polanski's film based on Szpilman's autobiography -- available in some 40 languages. The black Montblanc Meisterstuck pen, the pocket watch and a tie that is now part of the collection at the Polin Museum of the History of Polish ... More | | 
A portrait of President Warren G. Harding provided by the Library of Congress. DNA evidence is persuasive that James Blaesing, 70, is the grandson of the 29th president and his mistress. Library of Congress via The New York Times.
by Heather Murphy
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- There is no real dispute that James Blaesing is the grandson of President Warren G. Harding and his mistress. But the wounds of that revelation have resurfaced in court, as relatives of the 29th president, many now in their 70s, argue over a proposal to exhume Hardings body as the 100th anniversary of his election approaches. On one side is Blaesing, who says the exhumation is necessary to prove with scientific certainty that Harding was his grandfather, even though the DNA evidence is already persuasive, and to confirm his and his mothers membership in a historic American family. He also wants to bring along a television production crew to document the opening of the tomb. On the other side are several Harding relatives who ... More |
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| | wHY's new expansion of David Kordansky Gallery opens in Los Angeles | | Lisson Gallery to open on Cork Street in Mayfair | | Christian Liaigre, minimalist interior designer, dies at 77 | 
Terraced-stair corridor to David Kordansky Gallery's new sculpture courtyard and exhibition space. Featuring 'The Three Fates' (2020) by Will Boone. Photo: Elon Schoenholz.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- wHY designed the original building for David Kordansky Gallery in Mid-City, Los Angeles, in 2014, and the 12,818 square foot expansion adds two new exhibition spaces and a landscaped courtyard for a range of new programming, including performance, film, and outdoor sculpture. In LA, so many great moments of cultural exchange happen in backyards where people feel at home, said wHYs Creative Director, Kulapat Yantrasast. We felt that the David Kordansky Gallery environments should highlight this unique aspect of the citys cultural life. The art scene in LA is very down-to-earth and personal, and I think exhibition spaces should reflect that rather than trying to appear commercial or corporate. As in the case of the original gallery building (a former martial arts center), the expansion repurposes existing structures on the busy La Brea corridor. In contrast to the dramatically ... More | | 
Lisson Gallery has occupied six different addresses on or immediately around Bell Street at various times since 1967.
LONDON.- Lisson Gallery announced the opening of a new space in Mayfair for six months. Launching during Frieze Week 2020, the gallery will be at the heart of London's Frieze activity, alongside the fair's planned off-site projects, performances and events. Supplementing the gallery's historic locations on Bell and Lisson Streets, Lisson's new Mayfair outpost will present a variety of solo and group exhibitions, opening with Horizon on 6 October with work by artists including Ai Weiwei, John Akomfrah, Allora & Calzadilla, Mary Corse, Ryan Gander, Hugh Hayden, Anish Kapoor, Lee Ufan and Stanley Whitney. The opening coincides with the launch of Lisson's new space in New York, at 508 West 24th Street, which opened with Ryan Gander's exhibition, These are the markers of our time as well as Lisson's newly-opened gallery in East Hampton. Lisson Gallery has occupied six different addresses on or immediately around Bell Street at various ... More | | 
An undated photo via Liaigre of Christian Liaigre, whose sparse interiors and elegant if unadorned furniture exemplified 1990s minimalism. Via Liaigre via The New York Times.
by Penelope Green
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Christian Liaigre, a French interior and furniture designer whose muscular and elegant objects in wood, bronze and leather were emblematic of 1990s minimalism, and whose influential clients included Karl Lagerfeld, Calvin Klein, Rupert Murdoch, Larry Gagosian and the Mercer hotel in SoHo, died Sept. 2 in Paris. He was 77. His design firm, Liaigre, announced his death on Instagram without specifying the cause. Liaigre (pronounced lee-AY-gruh) had been an art student and a drawing teacher and had worked with show horses before he began to make furniture in the early 1980s. By the turn of the next decade, a chunky, cracked wooden stool inspired by Brancusis sculpture Endless Column had become his calling card, its gutsy and elemental shape a corrective ... More |
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| | Exhibition of new work by Trenton Doyle Hancock spans both of James Cohan's locations | | Two Flash Gordon newspaper strips from 1940 light up Heritage Auction's European Comic Art event | | Galeria Jaqueline Martins to open in Brussels | 
Installation view, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Something American, James Cohan, September 17 - October 17, 2020. © Trenton Doyle Hancock, 2020. Image courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York. Photo by Phoebe d'Heurle.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting Something American, an exhibition of new work by Trenton Doyle Hancock, on view from September 17 to October 17 at 48 Walker Street and 291 Grand Street. The exhibition spans both of the gallerys locations, with new paintings in Tribeca and a presentation of the second chapter of Hancocks ongoing graphic novel in the Lower East Side. This is the artists seventh solo exhibition at James Cohan. Over a career spanning nearly twenty-five years, Trenton Doyle Hancock has created a singular body of visual art that exuberantly subverts and synthesizes his omnivorous influences to invent a world entirely his own. This exhibition features new paintings that demonstrate the breadth and dexterity of Hancocks ... More | | 
Alex Raymond Flash Gordon Sunday Strip Original daté 07-07-40 (King Features Syndicate, 1940).
DALLAS, TX.- Any Alex Raymond primer should begin with this excerpt from A History of the Comic Strip, written in 1968 to coincide with an exhibition in the hallowed halls of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs at the Palais du Louvre. Of all the great comic-strip creators, Alex Raymond unquestionably possessed the most versatile talent, it begins. Other artists surpassed him in the creative power of boldness of style, others in the development of the plot or in accuracy of dialogue. But none possessed as varied an array of talents talents that enabled him to master all the various types of strips at which he tried his hand. In 1934, while only his mid-20s, the New Rochelle, N.Y., native created three strips for his employer King Features Syndicate. One was Secret Agent X-9, a collaboration with The Maltese Falcons author Dashiell Hammett; another was Jungle Jim, which ... More | | 
Jaqueline Martins. Courtesy Galeria Jaqueline Martins.
BRUSSELS.- Galeria Jaqueline Martins announced the opening of a new gallery space in Brussels, Belgium in October 2020. Since its inception in São Paulo in 2011, Galeria Jaqueline Martins has had a distinctly international outlook, bringing pioneering and often overlooked historic Brazilian artists to international prominence for the first time. The Belgium outpost will be the gallerys first permanent presence outside of Brazil. Galeria Jaqueline Martins will open in Brussels on 17 October, inaugurated by a solo exhibition showcasing the work of Hudinilson Jr. (1957 2013), one of the foremost Brazilian artists of his generation; renowned for his influence on the development of Brazils art scene between 1970-2000, and for his active role in collectives and experimental shows. Hudinilson Jr. pioneered xerography in Brazil during the late 1970s, making fragmented copies of his own nude body parts using a Xerox ... More |
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| | Exhibition at Martos Gallery features new sculpture-asiinstallation by Kayode Ojo | | Art Gallery of South Australia announces new Board Chair | | New digital database to provide unprecedented access to the past, present and future of Glastonbury Festival | 
Kayode Ojo, ill go on losing millions its just what i do, 2020 (detail). Glass, mirror, Crate and Barrel champagne glasses, Timeformachine. Heavenly Hercules model airplanes.
NEW YORK, NY.- A great tale often carries two arcs to the story: one where everything goes right, and the other where everything goes wrong. Such is the storyline for Martin Scorseses 2004 biopic The Aviator, and for Kayode Ojos second exhibition with Martos Gallery. For this exhibition, Ojo considers the value of both successes and failures, the ones we see and the ones we dont see. The exhibition features new sculpture-as-installation. For The Aviator, Ojo maintains a sense of servitude of the object but here, it is both as single compositions and in serial repetition. What happens when you uncover the life of an object in stages? Scant moments of opulence shine throughout the space and richness is revealed in the clarity of things and it all somehow feels part of a prolific moment. With this new body of work, ... More | | 
Jason Karas is an experienced lawyer and commercial adviser.
ADELAIDE.- The Government of South Australia and the Art Gallery of South Australia announced that Mr Jason Karas has been appointed as the incoming Chair of the Art Gallery Board. Karas, who currently sits on AGSAs board, will take the place of Tracey Whiting AM. Premier Steven Marshall and South Australias Minister for the Arts said Tracey Whitings contribution to the Art Gallery Board, along with her wider contribution to the states arts and culture sectors, has been greatly appreciated. Traceys outstanding contribution to South Australias cultural landscape has been immense, and her being awarded Member of the Order of Australia earlier this year is testament to her energy and passion for the arts, I would like to thank Tracey sincerely for her service to the Board, and the state, and wish her all the best for her future endeavours. said Premier Marshall. I would also like to congra ... More | | 
Courtney Love, 1999 © Ann Cook.
LONDON.- To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first ever Glastonbury Festival, which took place on 19 September 1970, the V&A announces a new project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), to create an online database that will provide unrivalled access to the past, present and future of Glastonbury Festival. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world-renowned Festival was unable to celebrate its 50th anniversary this year at Worthy Farm. As the cultural and creative sector suffers one of the toughest times in recent history, this new database demonstrates the V&A and AHRCs commitment to promoting the importance of the performing arts. In 2014, the V&A became the home to the Glastonbury archive for the nation. Documenting the cultural importance of the worlds leading performance Festival, the collection brings together posters, stage designs, costumes, interviews, films and other memorabilia to safe ... More |
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 'States of Mind: Art and American Democracy' to coincide with the presidential electionHOUSTON, TX.- Alison Weaver, the Suzanne Deal Booth Executive Director of the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, announced the reopening of the galleries on September 19 with the fall exhibition States of Mind: Art and American Democracy, on view through December 19, 2020. Reflecting on some of the most pressing topics facing American democracy, States of Mind is timed to coincide with the 2020 presidential election in order to encourage dialogue around current social and political issues. Many of the works on view examine the status of our countrys founding principles of freedom and equality, while others engage with questions of voting access, gun control, and immigration policiesthree issues that are common throughout the United States and of particular concern to Texas. States of Mind does not attempt to cover the myriad ... More Alvar Aalto Museum receives a donation from the Allan and Bo Hjelt Art FoundationThe furniture donation from the Allan and Bo Hjelt Art Foundation made it possible to create Artek´s 1940s interior for the Alvar Aalto Museum´s permanent exhibition. Allan Hjelt (1885-1945) was a leading figure in Finnish economy and a patron of the arts. In addition to business, he cherished the cultural relations between Finland and Italy and became Italys Consul General to Finland already in 1924, and later on Honorary Consul General for Finland in Rome. During the Second World War, he was Finlands Trade Representative attached to the Embassy of Finland in Bern, Switzerland. Allan Hjelt owned the export company Italo-Finlandese, which took wood-industry products to Italy, and brought back goods such as textiles, foodstuffs, wines, and typewriters and other machines. Hjelt´s relationship with Aino and Alvar Aalto and Artek were strengthened ... More Blum & Poe opens an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Aaron Garber-MaikovskaLOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe is presenting an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Aaron Garber-Maikovska. This is the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery and follows the recent announcement of his representation. 4 from 3 dancers is the fourth in a series of recent exhibitions exploring a new body of work, the title referencing the generative nature of this growing oeuvre. These prior presentations were titled homebirth, POSTPARTUM, and Daughterbiographical nods to the birth of his daughter, his experience as a father, and this most recent exhibition and landmark in recognition of the arrival of a fourth family member, Garber-Maikovskas son. On view across four gallery spaces, the artist shares paintings in large and medium scale, along with new mobile video documents. A forthcoming performance will also be live streamed ... More Major new exhibition explores history & legacy of "commonwealth" in VA, PA, PRRICHMOND, VA.- On Saturday, the exhibition component of Commonwealth (September 12, 2020 January 17, 2021), a hybrid digital/in-person experience organized by the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU (Richmond, VA), Philadelphia Contemporary (Philadelphia, PA) and Beta-Local (San Juan, PR) opened at the ICA at VCU. The project explores the complex history and legacy of commonwealth in each of the three locations and responds to the events of 2020 which have shed a new light on the unequal structures that shape our lived realities and the ways that people might come together to make the world more equitable. Commonwealth features new co-commissioned work by artists Firelei Báez, Carolina Caycedo, Duron Chavis, Alicia DÃaz, Sharon Hayes, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Nelson Rivera, Monica Rodriguez, and The Conciliation ... More Make a collage with your newspaperNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Looking for a way to digest the news and make sense out of everything going on in the world or to just create something beautiful? Turn your newspaper into a collage. Its a great way to make a time capsule that archives memories, records newsworthy events and tells a story from your point of view. To get started, gather your supplies. All you need is a newspaper, a pair of scissors (ripping by hand will work in a pinch), glue or glue stick and a piece of paper, a journal or canvas on which to build your collage. Read through the newspaper however youd like starting with your favorite section, in order or jumping around. As you read, cut out things that you find interesting, beautiful, timely or compelling. Do you want to create a collage of things that resonate with you? Or to sum up the top news stories in an ... More Gigantic dog sculptures welcome New Yorkers back to Broadway in the Garment DistrictNEW YORK, NY.- The Garment District Alliance is welcoming back New Yorkers to Midtown Manhattan with a series of gigantic, playful dog companions as part of its latest public art exhibit, Doggy Bags, created by artist Will Kurtz. The newly created works for this exhibit include: Maisy, pug; Stanley, basset hound; Spicy, chihuahua; Harriet, English bulldog; Gomer, bull mastiff; and Daphne, vizsla. Doggy Bags is located on Broadway in the Garment District between 38th and 40th Streets through November 20th. The installation is part of Garment District Art on the Plazas, a year-round public art program made possible through Arterventions, a subpart of the New York City Department of Transportations (DOT) Art Program. The Garment District Alliance and DOT work closely to coordinate and install exhibits and individual pieces, which enhance ... More Stephen Cohen, influential historian of Russia, dies at 81NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Stephen Cohen, an eminent historian whose books and commentaries on Russia examined the rise and fall of Communism, Kremlin dictatorships and the emergence of a post-Soviet nation still struggling for identity in the 21st century, died Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 81. His wife, Katrina vanden Heuvel, the publisher and part owner of The Nation, said the cause was lung cancer. From the sprawling conflicts of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the tyrannies of Stalin to the collapse of the Soviet Union and Vladimir Putins intrigues to retain power, Cohen chronicled a Russia of sweeping social upheavals and the passions and poetry of peoples that endured a century of wars, political repression and economic hardships. A professor emeritus of Russian studies at Princeton ... More Modern Art opens a solo exhibition of new works by Ron NagleLONDON.- Modern Art opened a solo exhibition of new works by Ron Nagle. This is his second solo exhibition with the gallery, comprising eighteen small-scale sculptures and a group of drawings made within the past three years. Ron Nagles sculptures might measure only the size of a clenched fist, but their intricate, dynamic panoramas evoke planetary domains. Stuccoed façades meet twiggy appendages, while slick, oily layers ooze over the sharp edges of perfect, geometric blocks. Meticulously crafted out of arrangements of texturally and formally contrasting elements, Nagles abstractions are both other-worldly and entirely of this one: they evoke a range of influences reaching between mid-century hot-rod cars of the US West Coast, and the composite sensibility of Japanese shibui and wabi-sabi. His new works for Modern Art oscillate between ... More French butcher seeks to carve out Unesco distinctionPARIS (AFP).- Victor Dumas is convinced that his fellow French butchers wield their knives unlike any others, and is hoping the UN will agree they deserve pride of place at the global culinary table. Dumas, 21, has been touring France for the past year in a campaign to win recognition of his skills from the Unesco cultural agency, which curates a list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. "There's a really distinct way of carving in France," he told AFP this week in Paris, where he met with chefs as well as fellow butchers known for their dedication to using everything from "nose to tail". Travelling to Belfast for the World Butchers' Challenge in 2018, where he took third prize in the apprentice category, made him realise the French had elevated the age-old craft of carving up animals to an art. "In a beef carcass, we're going to come up with ... More Pace Gallery opens an exhibition featuring Nina Katchadourian's Monument to the Unelected (2008-ongoing)NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting an exhibition by Nina Katchadourian featuring Monument to the Unelected (2008ongoing), a set of lawn signs created by the artist featuring the names of every candidate who ran for President of the United States and lost. These campaign signs are installed throughout the south wall of the expansive library at Paces 540 West 25th Street space, among some 10,000 art historical volumes and a vast repository of archival materials and catalogues produced over the gallerys six-decade history. The exhibition will run from September 18 to December 12, spanning the time before and after the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Concurrently, Monument to the Unelected is also being exhibited across three other locations: SMoCA in Scottsdale, Grand Central Arts in Santa Ana, and at Catharine Clark ... More Colin Kaepernick's rookie NFL debut 49ers jersey heads to Julien's Auctions Dec. 4LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions announced today that Colin Kaepernicks official San Francisco 49ers rookie debut jersey has been added to the previously announced Icons & Idols: Sports, the world-record breaking auction house to the stars highly anticipated sports event, taking place Friday, December 4th, 2020, live in Beverly Hills and online at juliensauctions.com. The white Reebok 7 signed jersey by the former NFL quarterback, who became the face of this generations new civil rights movement and an American cultural figure, is estimated to sell at $80,000 - $100,000. Kaepernick wore this jersey in his NFL debut as a San Francisco 49er on October 2, 2011, when he entered the game in the first quarter for a handoff to Frank Gore for a five-yard run against the Philadelphia Eagles. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American glass artist Dale Chihuly was born September 20, 1941. Dale Chihuly (born September 20, 1941, Tacoma, Washington, is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur. In this image: Dale Chihuly sits in front of a wall featuring his drawings in the cafe during a preview of the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit at the Seattle Center in Seattle. The new, permanent 1.5 acre exhibit is located near the base of the Space Needle. It looks at the career of Chihuly and features an eight-gallery exhibition hall, conservatory and garden as well as a cafe with a selection of Chihuly's collections of vintage accordions, radios, clocks and other mid-century memorabilia.
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