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Heide Museum of Modern Art unveils first Australian survey exhibition of celebrated US photographer Catherine Opie
MELBOURNE.- Heide Museum of Modern Art has unveiled the first survey exhibition in Australia of renowned American photographer Catherine Opie. Presented at Heide from 1 April to 9 July 2023, the exhibition Catherine Opie: Binding Ties brings together more than fifty key works traversing the artists historic and recent practice. Since the 1990s, Catherine Opies photographs have challenged and illuminated our understanding of notions of personal and political affiliation, the central theme of the exhibition. In 1994 Heide exhibited eighteen of Opies portraits in the exhibition Persona Cognita, curated by Juliana Engberg, which represented Opies first showing in Australia. Now almost three decades later ... More

Pace Gallery announces representation of Grada Kilomba
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace is pleased to announce its representation of the Berlin-based Portuguese artist Grada Kilomba in the United States. Kilomba, whose work centers on decolonial storytelling, has nurtured a practice spanning video, performance, staged readings, photography, and sculptural and sound installations. The artists first presentation with Paceopening at the gallerys New York flagship on May 12will mark the US debut of her installation 18 Verses (2022). Pace will represent Kilomba in collaboration with Goodman Gallery. Kilombas work draws on memory, trauma, gender, postcolonialism, and notions of selfhood to interrogate concepts of knowledge, power, and cyclical violence. The artists approach to these subjects is informed by her training in psychoanalysis and Frantz Fanon studies along with her past work with war survivors ... More

DNA confirms oral history of Swahili people
NEW YORK, NY.- A long history of mercantile trade along the eastern shores of Africa left its mark on the DNA of ancient Swahili people. A new analysis of centuries-old bones and teeth collected from six burial sites across coastal Kenya and Tanzania has found that, around 1,000 years ago, local African women began having children with Persian traders and that their descendants gained power and status in the highest levels of pre-colonial Swahili society. The findings help elucidate the foundations of Swahili civilization, and suggest that long-told origin stories, passed down through generations of Swahili families, may be more truthful than many outsiders have presumed. The genetics corroborate the Swahili peoples own history that they tell about themselves, not what others were saying about them, said Esther Brielle, a geneticist and postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University ... More

Ahlers & Ogletree announces 3-Day Auction, April 20-22 in Atlanta
ATLANTA, GA.- A period Louis XV ebony and gilt bronze bureau plat, an equestrian study in oil by Rosa Bonheur (French, 1822-1899), and a large bronze winter scene sculpture after Evgeni Lanceray (Russian/French, 1848-1886), are just a few of the expected highlight lots in Ahlers & Ogletrees three-session April Estates & Collections auction slated for April 20th, 21st and 22nd. The auction, starting at 10 am Eastern time all three days, will be held live in Ahlers & Ogletrees new location on Atlantas Upper West Side, at 1788 Ellsworth Industrial Boulevard, near The Works, and online. The over 1,200 lots will include items from the private collections of Barry Hunter, owner of Parc Monceau; and Bruce Cusmano, owner of Metropolitan Artifacts. Session 1, on Thursday, April 20th, will feature 489 lots of Asian arts, English and American antiques, fine art and decorative arts ... More

'Spring Again, Spring Ahead' group show now on view at No 20 Arts
LONDON.- No 20 Arts is pleased to present SPRING AGAIN, SPRING AHEAD, a group show inviting the viewer to question existing perceptions. Featuring works by Raymond Attfield, Andrea Christodoulides, Helen Bur, Nick de LeÃ³n, Jim Threapleton and Jukka Virkkunen, six artists are brought together to represent inner thought processes in different ways. Using both abstract and figurative forms, they each attempt to convey the emotions that result from our experiences of the external world. Raymond Attfield is an artist, architect and musician based in London and Provence. His artistic practice is affected by an ongoing interest in the culture and conflicts of urbanism. Produced over decades in the artists Provence studio, No 20 Arts is proud to finally share Rays beautiful works to a wider audience. Helen Bur is a British artist based in Cornwall. In her oil paintings ... More

Paul Jacobsen will be exhibiting 'Light Work' at signs and symbols through April 29th
NEW YORK, NY.- signs and symbols opened Light Work by Paul Jacobsen, last month, the artist's second solo exhibition at the gallery featuring six new paintings. Long interested in the techniques and tools that reveal the mechanisms of art- making, exemplified by his signature photographic lens flares in previous series, his latest works pursue similarly elusive subjects: the conditions of light and the invisible systems of material and labor. Light Work thus considers the interplay of the formal elements of painting and the structural underpinnings of daily life, blending trompe- l'oeil illusions with a bold color palette. The first of Jacobsen's unlikely subjects are the wooden frames that support a painting's shape, protect it during crated transportation, and even give structure to the walls on which it hangs. Typically covered by linen or drywall, this pine wood instead provides the literal framework ... More

Review: In 'Shucked,' a glut of gleeful puns and 'cornography'
NEW YORK, NY.- Puns, pundit John Oliver has said, are not merely the lowest form of humor but the lowest form of human behavior. The academy agrees. In the 1600s, no less a literary luminary than John Dryden denounced lowbrow verbal amusements that torture one poor word ten thousand ways. You may know how that one poor word feels after seeing Shucked, the anomalous Broadway musical about corn that opened Tuesday at the Nederlander Theater. For more than two hours, it pelts you with piffle so egregious not just puns but also dad jokes, double entendres and booby-trapped one-liners that, forced into submission, you eventually give in. Many of the puns, which I will not try to top, are of course about corn, from the title on down. The story is, after all, set in the fictional Cob County, where the locals, long isolated from the rest of the world by a wall of cornrows, ... More

Comedians in stores selling lamps
NEW YORK, NY.- While on hiatus last spring from his job as a writer and director for Late Night With Seth Meyers, Mike Karnell went to Mercanteinfiera, a trade fair in Parma, Italy, where he had one mission: Find the lamps. There, he met an older Italian vendor who invited Karnell to visit his warehouses in Milan. I thought to myself: In the future, I want to be a fragile old man selling fragile old lamps. How do I work backwards from there? Karnell, 35, said. About a year later, Karnell found a path. In February, he opened FloraLuce, a shop in New York City that specializes in vintage lamps and lighting fixtures. The lamps, which include some he purchased during his expedition in Milan, are primarily from Italy, were made between the 1930s and the 1980s, he said, and range in price from $500 to $4,000. Karnell runs the business with his wife, Sarah Schneider, a former Saturday Night Live ... More

Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr to offer collection of French icon Alain Delon
PARIS.- The Collection of French film star and legend, Alain Delon, one of the great screen presences of the 20th century, will be offered at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr in the sale Alain Delon: 60 Years of Passion in Paris on Thursday 22 June 2023. With a superb selection of sculptures and fine drawings from the Italian Renaissance and from the French 19th century, the Alain Delon Collection is made up of masterpieces by great names from the history of art, including Veronese, Beccafumi, Corot, Delacroix, Millet, Dufy, Gleizes and many more. The sale will comprise 81 lots and the total estimate for the works is 4 - 5m. For more than 60 years, Delon (born 1935) has been a discerning and passionate art collector. He recalls the moment he was bitten by the collecting bug. There are two things I regard as my legacy; my acting career and my art collection. I am so proud of them both ... More

Jewels from the descendants of Alfred, Lord Tennyson star in Bonhams London Jewels sale
LONDON.- Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victorias reign, the great Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) loomed large in the Victorian imagination. His work inspired numerous artistic interpretations, most notably from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who considered him one of their immortals. His eldest son Hallam who would also act as his fathers secretary would go on to become Governor-General of Australia, and Hallams wife Audrey who would often help transcribe the poets words would become one of the founders of Australias first maternity hospital for women in the outback. Offered directly by descendants of the great poet, jewels from the Tennyson familys collection will be offered as part of Bonhams London Jewels sale on 26 April at New Bond Street, London. Consisting of 18 lots (lots 17-35), the collection is led by a diamond hair ornament owned by The Hon ... More