| The wizard of jeans | | Cleveland Museum of Art to transfer Ptolemaic statue of a man to State of Libya | | MoMA opens TadáskÃa's first solo presentation in the United States |
Benjamin Talley Smith at the wall of jeans, hung from dark to light, in his Los Angeles office on April 24, 2024. (Nori Rasmussen/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- One overcast Sunday morning, Benjamin Talley Smith, an apple-cheeked 45-year-old with a thing for a Canadian tuxedo, was at the Rose Bowl flea market in Los Angeles shopping for jeans. He was wearing jeans a beat-up pair of Levis and an equally worn Levis jeans jacket and rooting through piles of jeans. He wasnt looking for collectible jeans, ... More | |
Statue of a Man, 200100 BCE or later. Egypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (30530 BCE).
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Department of Antiquities of the State of Libya and the Cleveland Museum of Art today announced an agreement in principle for the transfer of a Ptolemaic statue of a man to the State of Libya. The statue is a black basalt figure acquired by the CMA in 1991. Based on new information provided by the Department of ... More | |
Installation view of Projects: TadáskÃa, on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York from May 24 through October 14, 2024. Photo: Jonathan Dorado.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces Projects: TadáskÃa, on view in the Museums street-level galleries from May 24 through October 14, 2024, as well as the acquisition of the exhibitions centerpiece, an expansive work on paper titled ave preta mÃstica mystical black bird (2022), into MoMAs collection. TadáskÃa is ... More |
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| ICP opens a survey of 20 years of Yto Barrada's work in photography | | Freeman's │ Hindman to offer over 1,400 lots of books, manuscripts, and historical ephemera | | Sotheby's to offer Modern & Contemporary Art including Prints in Cologne |
Yto Barrada, Tumbling Blocks 49, 2017. © Yto Barrada, Courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- This summer, ICP presents a solo exhibition of work by internationally acclaimed multi-disciplinary artist, Yto Barrada. Part Time Abstractionist, a survey of 20 years of Barradas work in photography, explores her investigations into photography and abstraction, beginning in the early 2000s through the present. These two modes of working are consistent throughout Barradas work and offer ... More | |
Herman Melville (1819-1891). Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851.
Estimate: $12,000 - $18,000
CHICAGO, IL.- Freemans | Hindman presents a month of books, manuscripts, and historical ephemera this spring across five sales in three salerooms. In all five auctions, the firm will offer more than 1,400 lots with a total estimated value of nearly $2.5 million. Book Month at Freemans | Hindman kicks off in Cincinnati on May 31 with American Historical Ephemera and Photography. ... More | |
The highlight of the entire auction is a work from the Modern & Contemporary Art section: Friedensreich Hundertwasser Soleil sur Tibet. Estimate: 150.000-200.000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
COLOGNE.- The Modern & Contemporary Art including Prints sale presents an attractive selection of Prints & Multiples and Modern & Contemporary Art in Cologne from 5 to 12 June 2024. The summer auction includes 117 lots, divided into Prints (53 lots) and Modern & Contemporary Art (64 lots). Estimated at a total of around 2 million, outstanding artistic positions from different ... More |
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| Exhibition features historic photographic portraits of 11 men who held the nation's highest office | | The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents 'Metahaven: Chaos Theory' | | New exhibition celebrates women artists who revolutionized fiber as a powerful medium for contemporary art |
Abraham Lincoln by George Clark, ambrotype campaign pin, 1860. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
WASHINGTON, DC.- To mark the 2024 presidential election, the Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery will present Picturing the Presidents: Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes from the National Portrait Gallerys Collection. This exhibition features historic photographic portraits of 11 men who held the nations highest office. Curated by Senior Curator of Photographs Ann Shumard, the exhibition ... More | |
Metahaven, Chaos Theory, 2021. Single channel film, 25 min. (film still). Courtesy the artists © Metahaven.
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Metahaven: Chaos Theory, the year's first exhibition of Film & Video exhibition series. This program, celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2024, is permanently devoted to artistic practices associated with the moving image. Chaos Theory is a unique film installation by Metahaven, the renowned collective founded by Amsterdam-based artists Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden in 2007. Encompassing a variety of mediums including ... More | |
Emma Amos, Winning, 1982, acrylic on linen with hand-woven fabric, 75 Ã 64 in. (190.5 Ã 162.6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, museum purchase made possible by the Catherine Walden Myer Fund, 2019.15, Copyright 1982, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Fiber has long inspired women artists, although their ingenuity with threads and cloth was often dismissed as domestic work and therefore inconsequential to the development of 20th-century American art. Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women seeks to address ... More |
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| Albertina Museum presents an exhibition of works by Eva Beresin | | More than 500 fine items will cross the auction block at Ahlers & Ogletree's summer auction | | The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art appoints Malcolm Reading Consultants to manage upcoming architectural competition |
Eva Beresin, A Look in the Mirror, 2020. Oil on canvas. Private Collection, Vienna © Eva Beresin. Photo: Peter M. Mayr.
VIENNA.- In describing the artworks of Eva Beresin, one might speak of an encounter between beauty and horroror of a marriage between the fantastical and the terrifying. The painterly and graphic worlds of this Hungarian artist, who has lived and worked in Vienna since 1976, are filled with hybrid creatures, grotesque figures, and curious imaginary beings. Beresin frequently depicts her human subjects engaging in animal-like behaviors, while the numerous bona fide animals ... More | |
Three-quarter length oil on canvas Portrait of William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806), unsigned, by an artist from the School of John Hoppner R.A. (English, 1758-1810) (est. $3,000-$5,000).
ATLANTA, GA.- A 1997 Steinway ebony Model M baby grand piano and bench; a large pair of Paul Ferrante crystal 12-light Anniversary chandeliers in the Louis XIV taste; and a print on paper from a 1910 photograph by Edward S. Curtis are just a few of the expected highlights in a Summer Estates & Collections auction scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, ... More | |
The open international competition is expected to launch in early fall and run for six months. Photo: Emily Bruhn, image courtesy of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City announced today that it has engaged specialist consultancy Malcolm Reading Consultants (MRC) to manage the forthcoming architectural competition for the museums new expansion. The open international competition is expected to launch in early fall and run for six months. We have spent several ... More |
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Sloane Street Auctions to sell extensive art holdings from the collection of the father of modern JeddahLONDON.- Dr Mohammed Said Farsis remarkable art collection has supplied landmark auctions with millions of pounds worth of Middle Eastern and Western art over the past two decades. Credited with having the greatest group of modern Egyptian art in private hands, his collection now promises to dominate Sloane Street Auctions June 12 sale in London, with exceptional pieces, adding works by Henry Moore, Salvador Dalà and David Hockney to the mix. The former Mayor of Jeddah (1972-86) he is known as the father of Saudi Arabias modern port city also led the planning for redeveloping Mecca and Medina. That extended vision placed art at the centre of the urban environment as he embarked on replicating the glories of Beiruts corniche in Jeddah. In doing so, Dr Farsi looked to artists such as Lebanons Aref El Rayess and Shafiq Mazloum, Egypts Mustafa Senbel and several ... More Exhibition of new work by artist Michael Raedecker opens at GRIMMAMSTERDAM.- GRIMM presents back on earth, an exhibition of new work by London-based Dutch artist Michael Raedecker at the gallery in Amsterdam (NL). This marks Raedeckers eighth solo exhibition with GRIMM, and coincides with Amsterdam Art Week, a city-wide programme celebrating the Dutch contemporary art scene. To accompany this event, the artist will be signing copies of his recent monograph published by Phaidon titled everything, but not everything at GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL), from 2 - 5 pm on Saturday, 1 June. back on earth continues Raedeckers exploration into the symbiotic and often parasitic relationship between nature and humanity to understand our place in the world and draw attention to the proximity and power of nature in relation to the urban environment. The exhibitions title refers to the idea ... More Cinematic, undiscovered, CilentoNEW YORK, NY.- From a piazza in the town of Castellabate on the Cilento coast of Italy, you may lift your eyes over the rim of your cappuccino and drink in a panorama of sky and Mediterranean Sea from Salerno to the Gulf of Policastro. Looking way, way down, a fruited plain of vineyards, lemon trees and white fig stretches to the flanks of green mountains decked with wisps of vapor. Standing at the same point in 1811, Napoleons brother-in-law, appointed king of Naples in the early 19th century, uttered words that the town has engraved on a wall near the castle: Qui non si muore. Roughly, Here you do not die. Of course, people do die in the Cilento, a region south of the Amalfi Coast. But they also live longer than most, thanks to the Mediterranean diet, first studied in these parts. It is more accurate to say that here, eternal life is a more ... More Two more 'Succession' actors are Broadway bound, in 'Job'NEW YORK, NY.- Job, a two-character thriller about a psychological evaluation going awry, started small, with a run last year at SoHo Playhouse. Word-of-mouth was good, the New York Times review was positive and sales were strong, so this year it transferred for another off-Broadway run at the Connelly Theater in the East Village. Now the play, written by Max Wolf Friedlich and directed by Michael Herwitz, is planning to make the leap to Broadway, with a two-month run beginning this summer at the Hayes Theater. The Broadway production, like the off-Broadway runs, will star Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon. Both of them appeared in the HBO series Succession Friedman was a member of the principal cast, playing Frank Vernon, the chief operating officer of Waystar Royco, and Lemmon appeared in the show ... More Billionaire plans dive to the Titanic in a newly designed submersibleNEW YORK, NY.- A real estate billionaire in Ohio is planning an underwater voyage to the site of the Titanic shipwreck, where a submersible imploded on its approach to the sea floor a year ago, killing all five passengers on board. Shortly after the OceanGate disaster, Larry Connor, 74, a real estate investor and amateur adventurer, contacted the co-founder of Triton Submarines, Patrick Lahey, imploring him to build a submarine that could reach the depths of the Titanic safely and repeatedly, according to The Wall Street Journal. The two men aim to explore and conduct scientific research at the site, located off the coast of Newfoundland, 12,500 feet under the sea, in a two-person submersible that Triton is designing in the summer of 2026. Our is just not a trip to the Titanic, Connor said in an interview Tuesday. Its a research mission. The other purpose is to ... More Where royals once hunted in France, a green forest welcomes everyoneNEW YORK, NY.- In popular imagination, Frances Fontainebleau is inextricably linked to its grand Château. But when I visit, I typically skip it entirely. Yes, the 1,500-room Château de Fontainebleau that was inhabited by French kings and emperors for eight centuries may seem the most arresting attraction in this region 37 miles south of Paris. Instead, its the surrounding forest that entices me to return again and again. The 50,000-acre Forest of Fontainebleau was once prized by the royals for its exceptional hunting grounds. Now it is Frances second-largest national forest and part of the Fontainebleau & Gâtinais UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, drawing 15 million visitors annually for bouldering, trail running, forest bathing and other activities, thanks to a topography that combines forested, wet and dry environments, and three massifs ... More The man behind the effortless, viral groovesNEW YORK, NY.- Dancers sometimes talk about finding the pocket a kind of flow state where rhythm and movement are so perfectly married that the dancing is not just on the music, but in it. Choreographer and dancer Shay Latukolan lives in the pocket. His deceptively simple dances have an effortless groove, yet attend to every detail of the pop hooks theyre often built for. And like those hooks, they get stuck in your head. That catchiness acts as a lure in rapper Childish Gambinos Little Foot Big Foot video, released this month. Latukolans choreography blends old-school Nicholas Brothers-style showmanship with TikTok dance vocabulary, an irresistible mix. Its charm makes the videos dark second-act twist a signature move for Gambino (alter ego of actor Donald Glover) all the more shocking. The tone is lighter ... More Exhibition at Galerie Miranda brings together 5 contemporary positionsPARIS.- A selection of photographs by established contemporary artists, all represented by Galerie Miranda and whose different practices illustrate the wealth of the landscape genre. With some new works, the exhibition offers a dialogue between formal and documentary approaches - such as Gérard Dalla Santa's beautiful homage to Walker Evans - and others, more radical, like that of John Chiara whose monumental approach that sublimates the ordinary. Marina Berio (is a visual artist from New York City. She studied photography, drawing, sculpture and art history in college, obtaining her MFA in Photography at Bard College. Marina Berio has been awarded grants by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Pollock/Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Aaron Siskind Foundation, and ... More Fondation Louis Vuitton opens 2024 spring exhibitions: Henri Matisse and Ellsworth KellyPARIS.- Fondation Louis Vuitton is reaffirming its mission: to promote the art of our time to the widest possible audience. Committed to presenting landmark works of modernity, the Fondation celebrates modern artists who proposed new models and challenged perceptions. At the same time, through the Open Space program, which aids and promotes emerging talent, the Fondation supports contemporary creators who boldly set out to reinvent our times. From May 7 to September 9, 2024, a landmark exhibition dedicated to The Red Studio (1911) by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is being presented simultaneously with a new retrospective of the work of Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), which features paintings, sculptures, photographs, and drawings. Additionally, as part of LVMHs support of the Olympic Games ... More Susanne Page, who took rare photos of the Hopi and Navajo, dies at 86NEW YORK, NY.- Susanne Page, whose intimate photographs of the Hopi tribe and Navajo nation opened a rare window on the everyday culture of Indigenous people in Americas Southwest, died May 13 in Alexandria, Virginia. She was 86. The cause of her death, at the home of her daughter, Kendall Barrett, was brain cancer, another daughter, Lindsey Truitt, said. Page was in the midst of a 40-year career as a photographer for the United States Information Agency when she began creating vivid images of Native Americans and the flora and fauna that sustained them work that embraced the beauty of the natural world and its profound spiritual significance to those Indigenous people. Her work appeared in magazines such as National Geographic and Smithsonian and in several books. Along the way she introduced the subject of Native ... More Barry Kemp, who unearthed insights about ancient Egypt, dies at 84NEW YORK, NY.- Barry Kemp, an archaeologist whose decades of painstaking digging at the abandoned capital of a mysterious pharaoh helped revolutionize our understanding of how everyday ancient Egyptians lived, worked and worshiped, died May 15 in Cambridge, Britain, one day after his 84th birthday. The death was announced by the Amarna Project, an archaeology nonprofit where Kemp was director. It did not specify a cause or exact location. Almost from the moment he arrived to teach at Cambridge University in 1962, fresh out of college, Kemp was a phenomenon. When he was just 26, he published an article in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology that greatly shifted the debate about a set of burial structures from around 3000 B.C., showing they were most likely forerunners to the pyramids. Much of his work had little to ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Robert Ryman was born May 30, 1930. Robert Ryman (born May 30, 1930 - February 8, 2019) was an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. He was best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings. He lived and worked in New York City. In this image: Robert Ryman, Untitled, signed and dated 61; signed four times and dated 61 three times on the overturned left edge, oil on canvas, 48 3/4 x 48 3/4 in. 123.7 x 123.7 cm. Est. $15/20 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
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