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An Airstream camper by Dean Gillispie, named Spizs Dinette (1998), on display in Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, a show of art made largely by inmates of the U.S. prison system, at MoMA PS1 in New York, Sept. 20, 2020. With two million people behind bars, the exhibition shows the ingenuity of art made by incarcerated people, in restricted space and with few supplies. Karsten Moran/The New York Times.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Were living in a post-fact time, but that doesnt mean there are no facts. Here are some. The United States has the largest population of captive humans on Earth, around 2.4 million, and an outsized percentage of them are Black. Since the 1980s, prison life sentences have quadrupled; the minimum age for imprisonment has dropped; the use of solitary confinement, sometimes referred to as no-touch torture, has grown. The result is the prison-industrial complex we know, a punitive universe walled off from the larger world. What takes place behind those walls? Deprivation and cruelty, but also the production of art, as we learn from Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, a stirring 44-artist show at the reopened MoMA PS1. A beta version of the show appeared in 2018 at the Aperture Foundation in Manhattan, organized by Nicole R. Fleetwood, a professor of American studies and art history at Rutgers University. Fleetwood is also guest curator of ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Photography can be as painstaking as painting, theatre can take the form of a print. Since 2011, Melbourne-based Filipino photographer Emmanuel Tolentino Santos has been roaming the globe with his Rolleiflex and an authentic astronaut costume, wondering if we are becoming aliens in our own planet. The artist uses a purely analog process, hand colouring his own square-format black and white prints, such as ÂAngelsea scrutinised here by artologist Melvin Sim at Art Porters Gallery in Singapore, which is presenting ÂShadow Earth until October 11. Photo Marina Oechsner
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 | | New research leads to exciting re-attribution of important Renaissance plaquette | | White Cube announces representation of the estate of Takis | | 'All you can view' museum treat for Dutch art lovers | 
Bronze rectangular plaquette Victory inscribing a Shield attributed to Antonio Lombardo, circa 1512, 50.8 by 36.2mm.
LONDON.- An important early 16th century Renaissance plaquette, depicting Victory inscribing a Shield, has recently been re-attributed to the renowned Italian Renaissance sculptor Antonio Lombardo (c.14581516), and is one of the highlights of Morton & Edens forthcoming sale of Coins, Medals and Banknotes on 4 November 2020. Tom Eden, of Morton & Eden, said: This, hitherto, virtually unknown plaquette is believed to be the only known casting of this subject. Its recent attribution to the Renaissance artist Antonio Lombardo, the court sculptor of Alfonso I dEste, Duke of Ferrara makes it an exceptionally exciting new art historical discovery. The bronze rectangular plaquette is small, measuring only 50.8 by 36.2mm, and depicts, in exceptionally fine relief, a standing winged figure of Victory. Victory is shown, one foot resting on a helmet, inscribing ... More | | 
Takis was an important figure in the cultural scenes in New York, London, and Paris.
LONDON.- White Cube announced representation of the estate of the Greek artist Takis (1925 2019), as well as a solo exhibition of his works at White Cube Hong Kong from 21 November 2020 23 January 2021. Born Panagiotis Vassilakis in Athens, Takiss practice spanned over seventy years during which he pioneered new forms of sculptures, painting and musical structures to harness invisible forces. The artist, who described himself as an instinctive scientist, incorporated types of energiesmagnetic, acoustic and light waveas fourth dimensions. Takis was an important figure in the cultural scenes in New York, London, and Paris where he crossed paths with a diverse group of artists, including the Beat poets, The Beatles, and Marcel Duchamp, the latter whom dubbed him the ploughman of magnetic fields. Takis also channelled his research into social spheres, using magnets to suspend ... More | | 
Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen. Photo: Ossip van Duivenbode.
ROTTERDAM (AFP).- A Dutch museum on Thursday unveiled a huge ball-shaped, mirrored building that will be the first in the world to offer the public access to its complete collection. Most museums display only a tiny proportion of the works they hold, but the Boijmans Van Beuningen in the port city of Rotterdam hopes to change all that. The giant building, which is still under construction, will let art lovers see all of its 160,000 masterpieces after it opens in autumn 2021. Currently the museum only shows around six percent of its collection, director Sjarel Ex told AFP as he gave media a preview of the "depot". "We are the first in the world," he said. The museum's collection includes works by Dutch painters Rembrandt and Vincent van Gogh, French impressionist Claude Monet and Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali. While some museums allow limited access to their storage areas, the goal is to permanently keep the ... More |
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| | Delay of Philip Guston retrospective divides the art world | | The original 'Spider-Woman' cover that sparked outrage, and forced Marvel to apologize, heads to auction | | Exhibition of new work by Gregory Crewdson opens at Gagosian Beverly Hills | 
Philip Guston, Painting, Smoking. Eating 1973 (detail). Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam © The Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The decision by four major museums to delay until 2024 a much-awaited retrospective of modernist painter Philip Guston, which was announced earlier this week, is roiling the art world, with some calling the decision a necessary step back during a period of surging racial justice protests and others deeming it a cowardly avoidance of challenging works of art. The decision came after museums organizing the exhibition decided that Gustons familiar motif of cartoonish, haggard white-hooded Ku Klux Klansmen needed to be better contextualized for the current political moment. The Guston retrospective, the first in more than 15 years, was supposed to open in June at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. It would then move to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, then to Tate Modern in London, and finally, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Titled Philip Guston Now, it contained ... More | | 
Milo Manara, Spider-Woman #1 Variant Cover Original Art (Marvel, 2014).
DALLAS, TX.- When Marvel Comics unveiled Italian artist's Milo Manara variant cover for Spider-Woman No. 1 in August 2014. there was no shortage of vitriol and condemnation. Media outlets that would normally ignore the doings of the comic-book industry weighed in with outraged essays demanding Marvel "do better," as Time did. In writing about Manara's painting, in which the hero appears to be flashing an entire city's skyline while wearing no more than body paint, Vox wondered "Why Marvel gave us a sexualized Spider-Woman no one asked for." Elle put it plainly: "The image seems to toe the line of pornographic." The Guardian in the U.K. summed up the controversy thusly: "New Spider-Woman comic cover condemned for 'blatant sexualization.'" Marvel's then-editor-in-chief Axel Alonso apologized, sort of, in a Comic Book Resources Q&A: "We apologize I apologize for the mixed messaging that this variant caused." But that didn't stop Marvel from publishing the cover, albeit ... More | | 
Gregory Crewdson, Redemption Center, 2018 - 19 (detail). Digital Pigment Print, 50 x 88 7/8 inches (image size) 57 x 96 x 2 inches (framed size) © Gregory Crewdson. Courtesy Gagosian.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Gagosian is presenting An Eclipse of Moths, an exhibition of new work by Gregory Crewdson. For three decades, Crewdsons photographs of houses, landscapes, and people have become canonical representations of the liminal and forgotten in America. Series such as Twilight (19982002), Beneath the Roses (200308), and Cathedral of the Pines (201314) show fantastical scenes of wonder and anxiety, their quiet, bristling stillness implying an airless claustrophobia that persists even in wide-open expanses. An Eclipse of Moths comprises sixteen large-scale panoramic exteriors, shot using Crewdsons famously meticulous production techniques and longtime technical crew. Set in a postindustrial urban landscape, the series depicts locales of removed isolation, each of which Crewdson spent months scouting and staging before production ... More |
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| | Blue Star Contemporary innovates with first ever Augmented Reality Red Dot Art sale and exhibition | | This carousel has had quite a ride. Will anyone in Japan save it? | | Exhibition at Dallas Museum of Art features 13 new acquisitions, including new work by Dallas artists | 
Installation view.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Blue Star Contemporary (BSC), San Antonios first and longest running contemporary art non-profit, announced the launch of its first ever augmented reality exhibition and fundraising event, which launched to the public on September 23. In line with its mission to innovate, BSC has enhanced its ever-popular fundraiser to respond during a challenging time. The annual Red Dot Art Sale has been reinvented this year through a dynamic augmented reality experience developed exclusively for BSC by San Antonio-based Stoke. The virtual experience complements the exhibition, the Red Dot Show, which also takes place at BSCs physical space from September 23 to October 4, giving the community the opportunity to experience the work of more than 100 San Antonio-based artists in-person, online, or both. Providing Red Dot through multiple free channels helps BSC achieve its goal for the fundraiser to be ... More | | 
People ride the carousel of Toshimaen Amusement Park in Tokyo, Aug. 27, 2020. Noriko Hayashi/The New York Times.
by Motoko Rich and Hikari Hida
TOKYO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- From the shrines of Nikko and the temples of Kyoto to the castles of Matsumoto and Himeji, the Japanese are fiercely proud of the countrys centuries-old monuments of cultural heritage. Not so for a 113-year-old carousel in the nations capital. Despite a celebrated history that includes roots in Germany, a visit by Theodore Roosevelt, a stint in Coney Island in Brooklyn, and nearly a half-century entertaining visitors to the Toshimaen Amusement Park in Tokyo, the El Dorado now sits in storage, its fate unknown. The merry-go-round, and the faded time capsule of a park that housed it, are making way for a Harry Potter theme park a familiar tale in a very old country that tends to discard the merely somewhat old for the new. With ... More | | 
Attributed to Antonio Pereda y Salgado, The Sacrifice of Isaac, c. 1659, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, The Karl and Esther Hoblitzelle Collection, gift of the Hoblitzelle Foundation, 1987.36.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art will open a new exhibition that explores individual and collective meanings through works of art, sacred objects, and design. Drawing from the Museums encyclopedic collection, including 13 new acquisitions and three major paintings by Dallas-based artists, To Be Determined juxtaposes works from across time, geography, and cultures, from the 13th century to the present day, to trace how the resonance of art can shift when presented in new contexts and as viewers imbue them with their own personal meanings. Through an audience-centered, open-ended approach to interpretation, the exhibition additionally aims to affirm ongoing struggles that are manifesting in new ways in the current momentincluding those caused by the pandemic and those related to long-existing barriers and challenges ... More |
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| | Freeman's inaugural Ritual and Culture Auction achieves strong results | | New book offers a fascinating and delightfully offbeat look at the untold stories of the art history world | | London Transport Museum exhibition scoops top national award | 
[Incunabula] Leaf From the Gutenberg Bible. Gutenberg, Johann (printer) (German), (?-1468). Sold for $81,250.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans announced the results of its inaugural Ritual and Culture auction. Kicking off the houses Fall/Winter 2020 fine auction season, the 240-lot sale achieved a sell-through rate of 89% and realized nearly $680,000, well surpassing its pre-sale low estimate, and with 95% of bidding taking place online. A new addition to Freemans fall auction schedule, Ritual and Culture is one of four new, themed auctions that present art and objects from across specialist departments in compelling and unexpected ways. Said Head of Sale, Tessa Laney: This sale featured a series of jewel-like collections that worked in tandem to tell a compelling story about the richness of human culture. Each group was assembled thoughtfully by dedicated collectors who were knowledgeable and passionate about their respective fields. The fantastic results of this sale demonstrate that well-curated collections resonate strongly with ... More | | 
Dasal reveals in this entertaining survey the weird, wacky, and unbelievable backstories of some of the worlds greatest artists and most famous works of art. . . . Both art aficionados and novices will find something to appreciate in this offbeat and informative outing. Publishers Weekly
NEW YORK, NY.- Since 2016, Jennifer Dasal has been wowing listeners with her wildly entertaining podcast, ArtCurious, where she delves into the weird and wonderful stories behind the worlds greatest artists and artworks. Now, in her first book, ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History (Penguin Books; Paperback; On Sale: September 15, 2020), she goes even deeper on the questions that have fascinated her listeners and explores fresh mysteries, including seven chapters of all-new material. Dasal, who is also the curator of modern and contemporary art at the North Carolina Museum of Art, tackles her subjects with humor, lively prose, and thorough research, resulting in a book thats as informative, eye-opening, and entertaining as her podcast. We are surrounded ... More | | 
Hidden London the Exhibition at London Transport Museum © London Transport Museum.
LONDON.- Hidden London, an exhibition which reveals the secrets of the Underground, won the Temporary or Touring Exhibition of the Year category at the 18th annual Museums + Heritage Awards on Tuesday evening, 22 September 2020. For the first time, this years ceremony was held online. Posh frocks and bow ties may have been missing but the excitement was palpable with live streams on Facebook and YouTube allowing professionals from museums, galleries and heritage visitor attractions across the UK and overseas to celebrate the most ground-breaking initiatives of last year. Hidden London The Exhibition gives the visitor a chance to experience an abandoned Tube station underworld and discover the secrets that lurk beneath our busy streets. From stories about Churchill sheltering at the height of the Blitz to tales about a subterranean aircraft factory housed in the Central line tunnels during the Second World War, this eerie yet informative ... More |
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Franz Xaver Winterhalter's "Girl from the Sabine Hills" - Part 2: Origins and Exhibition
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 Historic Canongate tenements returned to former gloryEDINBURGH.- Major conservation work, led by Edinburgh World Heritage, has just been completed on the last of three historic tenements on the Canongate which comprise 16 residential dwellings and 5 shops. Work was funded by the charitys Conservation Funding Programme, which is supported by Historic Environment Scotland. Edinburgh World Heritage also provided expertise, advice and support to the residents and shopowners throughout the project. Also known as cordiners land, 195-197 Canongate is a 17th century tenement, which, together with its neighbours, embodies an important part of the Old Town, part of the Old and New Towns World Heritage Site. The cordiners were tanners, curriers (people who prepared leather for sale) and shoemakers who derived their title from the French "Courdouanier" meaning "of Cordova", the source ... More Victoria Miro announces representation of Doron LangbergLONDON.- Victoria Miro announced the representation of Doron Langberg. The artists first exhibition with the gallery will be held in 2021. An increasingly prominent voice among a new generation of figurative painters, Doron Langberg has gained a reputation for works that, luminous in colour and often large in scale, hinge on a sense of intimacy. Depicting himself, his family, friends, and lovers, Langbergs paintings celebrate the physicality of touch in subject matter and process a closeness that engages with new dialogues around queer sensuality and sexuality. Speaking about his work the artist says, Queerness for me is not just a sexual experience, but a way of being in the world which affects every aspect of my life. Using intense colours and different paint textures and marks to create these everyday scenes, I want to connect with a viewer ... More Michael Rosenfeld Gallery exhibits paintings and works on paper by Benny AndrewsNEW YORK, NY.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is presenting its third solo exhibition for Benny Andrews (American, 19302006), showcasing portraitsa vital and constant genre throughout the artists oeuvre. Benny Andrews: Portraits, A Real Person Before the Eyes features 35 portraits, represented by paintings and works on paper created between 1957 and 1998. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated color catalogue with new scholarship by Jessica Bell Brown, Associate Curator for Contemporary Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Connie H. Choi, Associate Curator, Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem; and Kyle Williams, Director of the Andrews-Humphrey Family Foundation. Benny Andrews: Portraits, A Real Person Before the Eyes traces Andrews commitment to portraiture, beginning in 1957 with Andrews seminal ... More Sotheby's Hong Kong Autumn 2020 Sale series to be held from 3-9 OctoberHONG KONG.- This autumn, in a week-long series of 16 sales spanning categories from Chinese ceramics and paintings, to modern and contemporary art, and jewellery, to watches and wine, Sothebys Hong Kong will offer some 2,000 lots with a combined estimate in excess of HK$2.3 billion / US$300 million. This seasons sales bring together extraordinary works in every category, notably: an exceedingly rare 102.39 carat flawless diamond to be offered with no reserve for the first time in auction history; a highly important handscroll by Yuan Dynasty painter Ren Renfa, formerly in the Qing imperial collection; museum-quality masterpieces by Sanyu and Wu Guanzhong; the stunningly vibrant Abstraktes Bild (649-2) by Gerhard Richter; a fresh-to-market splashed ink and colour painting by Zhang Daqian; the second instalment of the successful Monochrome ... More GOFO ART and China Guardian join hands to launch fundraising campaign HONG KONG.- GOFO Art is collaborating with China Guardian (HK) to launch #WishComeTrueHK fundraising campaign to benefit Make-A-Wish Hong Kong. The campaign aims to help create life-changing wishes for kids with critical illnesses during the COVID-19. A selling charity exhibition of six unique limited-edition prints created by Australian artist Ian Williams to be sold exclusively by China Guardian (HK) at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from 5-10 Oct 2020 and followed by 11-19 Oct at China Guardian (HK) G Art Gallery. GOFO Art and China Guardian (HK) will contribute 100% of net profits from the sale to Make-A-Wish Hong Kong. Ian Williams explores the metaphysics of virtual space through painting. With the rapid development of global technology and the experience of Generation Z with the virtual world, he explores the ... More Dance on film is the only game in town. BalletX takes the field.NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- This much we know: Another fall season of ballet is beginning, and almost none of it will take place in person. Ballet companies need to make dance films, and they need to be better than the forgiveably slapdash were still here video postcards of the early pandemic period. The big guns, like New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater, have announced plans for premieres in the coming months. But a much smaller troupe, BalletX in Philadelphia, is ahead of the game. On Wednesday night, it released four new works. These works will remain available indefinitely, but they arent free. To watch them, you have to subscribe to BalletX Beyond, which also gives you access to premieres later in the season, along with extras like interviews and making-of documentaries. The cheapest plan is $15 a month less than a ticket ... More Charl Landvreugd appointed Head of Research & Curatorial Practice at Stedelijk Museum AmsterdamAMSTERDAM.- Dr. Charl Landvreugd (1971) joins the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam as Head of Research & Curatorial Practice on October the 1st. He will guide research programmes museum-wide and catalyse the Stedelijks aim of broadening its programme and collection and enhancing its accessibility. Landvreugd will draw on his background as an artist and researcher with a special focus on Curatorial Practice to reflect on presentations and the new direction of the Stedelijk. Landvreugd, who was born in Paramaribo, Suriname, and grew up in Rotterdam, is an artist, researcher and exhibition maker. He uses the results of his research to think about migration history, culture and power relations and ways of expressing cultural citizenship and belonging within the world of the visual arts. As an artist, Landvreugds oeuvre largely comprises installation, ... More The collection of British tokens formed by John Rose to be sold at Dix Noonan WebbLONDON.- Almost 500 lots of British Tokens spanning 300 years and covering all corners of the UK from the Collection of John Rose will be offered in a live/online auction by International coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists Dix Noonan Webb on Tuesday, November 17, 2020. As Peter Preston-Morley, Specialist and Associate Director, Dix Noonan Webb, explains: John Rose, a familiar figure in the British token collecting fraternity for many years, first developed an interest in coins as a boy. One day in 1969, going through the trays of coins at Aladdins Cave, a shop in South Croydon, he found some tokens, including an example of the 1649 farthing issued at The Ship Inn, on the north corner of Lincolns Inn, London, his local pub when he first started work as a laboratory technician at the Royal College of Surgeons. This group is estimated ... More Steidl publishes 'Juergen Teller: Plumtree Court'NEW YORK, NY.- This book traces the five-year construction of Plumtree Court, Goldman Sachs new headquarters in Central London, through Juergen Teller's inimitable vision. Teller relished immersing himself in such a long-term project, one thrillingly different to the fashion world he knows so well. From the rising walls of reinforced concrete and lattices of scaffolding, to the sparkling glass facades and gleaming interiors of the finished building, Teller became obsessed with recording intricate details within the larger shifting context: I liked the diggers, cranes, cables, concrete and dirt. Not in a macho or childish way, but appreciating how all this construction work produces such a beautiful mess. The project allowed Teller to draw on his own past experiences of collaborating with architectswith David Adjaye, who built his home (as well as the auditorium ... More Michael Jordan jerseys expected to each surpass $300,000 at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- Photo-matched jerseys from Michael Jordan's most productive scoring season and the earliest known worn jersey from his rookie season each could bring $300,000 or more in Heritage Auctions' Oct. 3 Michael Jordan & Basketball Icons Sports Catalog Auction. "Michael Jordan's prowess on the court is matched only by collector demand for his memorabilia," said Chris Ivy, Heritage's Director of Sports Auctions. "Collectors often are drawn to items from the beginning of a star's career, making the top two lots here a uniform photo-matched to his best statistical season and a jersey he wore during the rookie season that launched his Hall of Fame career absolute must-have relics for the most serious collectors of Jordan and NBA history." Jordan's 1986-87 Michael Jordan Game Worn Chicago Bulls Uniform (estimate: $300,000+) has ... More Abstract Expressionism leads a successful sale at Shannon'sMILFORD, CONN.- Shannons seamlessly transitioned to their new normal hosting an exciting online auction September 17th with lively bidder participation despite the absence of live attendees. In the saleroom, 20 phone bidders sat at socially-distanced six-foot tables and managed to generate the excitement, buzz and results of an in-person auction. Active online participation and aggressive absentee bidding helped drive strong results. Overall, the sale achieved over $3.3 million in total sales with 82 percent of all lots sold. Leading the auction was the highly-anticipated sale of Abstract Expressionist art from the Jeanne and Carroll Berry Collection. The results did not disappoint and listeners could feel the competition as auctioneer Peter Coccoluto fielded bids from the phones. Leading the group was Adolph Gottliebs Untitled #30 from 1970 ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Cambodian photographer and journalist Dith Pran was born September 27, 1942. Dith Pran (27 September 1942 - 30 March 2008) was a Cambodian photojournalist. He was a refugee and survivor of the Cambodian genocide and the subject of the film The Killing Fields (1984). When Cambodians were forced to work in labour camps, Dith had to endure four years of starvation and torture before Vietnam overthrew the Khmer Rouge in December 1978. He coined the phrase "killing fields" to refer to the clusters of corpses and skeletal remains of victims he encountered during his 40-mile (60 km) escape. His three brothers and one sister were killed in Cambodia.
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