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Carlos Luna at MOAS.
DAYTONA BEACH, FL.- The Museum of Arts & Sciences opened the Ladies First: The Art of Carlos Luna exhibition for guests to experience. The exhibit features work by one of the foremost contemporary Cuban American artists, Carlos Luna, who is part of a generation of Latin American artists who embrace their strong heritage and traditions while reinventing themselves along the way. Luna tells stories and narrates fables through detailed and richly painted canvases, mixed media works on paper, lavish tapestries, sculptures, and installations. Ladies First, curated by Carol Damian Ph.D., former director of the Frost Art Museum and chair person of FIUs Department of Art and Art History, highlights one of the foremost recurring themes in Lunas work. The women the ladies always come first, whether they are the subject or included as a subtle or obvious reference the power behind the throne, Dr. Damian remarked in an essa ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Rotterdam depot is not only showing how the collection is cared for, but also the test stage of a highlights presentation. Collection favourites such as Brueghel and Basquiat can now be inspected from all angles thanks to glass easels by architect and designer Lina Bo Bardi.
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| Saved! Appeal successfully raises 25k needed to purchase Hogarth's portrait of Walpole for Strawberry Hill | | Christie's announces Monet's 'La Mare, Effet De Neige' will highlight 20th Century Evening Sale in New York | | Black artists lead Turner Prize shortlist | 
William Hogarth (1697-1784), Portrait of Horace Walpole, later 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797), aged 10, the sundial inscribed with the hours in Roman numerals, Cupid pointing at X oil on canvas, 17 x 14 in.
TWICKENHAM.- A public appeal has raised the £25k needed to ensure that Portrait of Horace Walpole, later 4th Earl of Orford (1717 1797), a highly significant and rare early (1727-28) work by William Hogarth (1697-1784) will remain on public view in the UK at Walpoles, Strawberry Hill House. This means Strawberry Hill Trust should now be able to acquire the painting from a private collection. It has been offered to the nation in lieu of death duties but the painting is valued at £230,000 more than the amount of tax due, so the museum needed raise the funds to bridge the gap. Unusually for a museum appeal, the Trust already had most of the money: the importance of the painting had been recognised by the National Heritage Memorial Fund which generously awarded the Trust £115k and the Art Fund which kindly gave £90k. That left Strawberry Hill Trust needing to raise the remaining £25k by 14 April 2022 howeve ... More | | 
Claude Monet, La Mare, effet de neige (detail).Signed and dated Claude Monet 75 (lower left) Painted in Argenteuil in 1874-1875. Estimate: $18 million 25 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced Claude Monets masterwork La Mare, effet de neige (estimate: $18 million 25 million) will be a highlight of the 20th Century Evening Sale taking place live on 12 May 2022 at Rockefeller Center. A historic masterpiece, the exemplary painting was among the selection of Monet canvasses represented at The Fourth Impressionist Exhibition in 1879. The work is incredibly fresh to market, having been held in a single private collection for over 70 years. Christies Restitution Department was privileged to provide research that helped facilitate a settlement agreement between the current owners and the heirs of Richard Semmel, the persecuted collector, who owned the painting during the Nazi era. The painting will be on exhibition at Christies Hong Kong 20-21 April. Anika Guntrum, International Director, 20th & 21st Century Art, remarks: Claude Monets La mare, effet de neige is undeniabl ... More | | 
Veronica Ryan, Infection (2020-21) Bronze, plaster, paper, plastic net, seeds, other materials. Commissioned by Spike Island, Bristol and supported by Freelands Foundation. Photograph by Max McClure. Copyright Veronica Ryan. Courtesy Spike Island, Bristol, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York and Alison Jacques, London.
LONDON.- Ingrid Pollard, a pioneering Black female photographer, and Veronica Ryan, a Black sculptor who found widespread recognition in her 60s, are among the nominees for this years Turner Prize, the prestigious British visual arts award. The four-strong shortlist was announced Tuesday in an online news conference at Tate Liverpool, an art museum in northern England. Heather Phillipson, who has presented several high-profile public artworks in Britain, was also nominated. In 2020, she installed The End in Trafalgar Square, London, a work that included a 31-foot statue of a dollop of whipped cream, with a fly on it. The fourth artist on the list was Sin Wai Kin, a nonbinary artist born in Toronto. Pollard, 69, who was born in Guyana and moved to Britain as a child, has been getting attention since the 1980s ... More |
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| Kunsthaus Bregenz opens an exhibition of works by Dora Budor | | Salmagundi spring auctions boost the historic club n New York City | | Sotheby's gets the royal treatment: Exhibitions, events & auctions set to celebrate the Jubilee | 
Dora Budor, Pucks (bagarreurs), 2021 (Detail). Installation view Continent, second floor Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2022. Photo: Markus Tretter. Courtesy of the artist © Dora Budor, Kunsthaus Bregenz.
BREGENZ.- Trained as an architect, the Croatian-born artist Dora Budor regards buildings and institutions as tectonic, infra-structural, and gendered systems. Against the aesthetic pursuit of making buildings, she commits to a politics of selectively taking them apart. In Continent, Budor introduces a crisis to Peter Zumthors building, probing its physical intactness through a series of interventions that foreground concealed operations, force external structures inwards, and make the invisible resonant. One meter from Kunsthaus Bregenzs northeastern facade, a manhole leads to an underground collector duct that encircles the foundations of the entire building. Its so-called diaphragm walls extend vertically into the soil, mirroring the height of the above-ground structure. Their function is to prevent the collapse of surrounding buildings and ... More | | 
Walter Hatke, Vestiges, Oil on linen, 36 x 35 x 1.5. Sold for $2700.
NEW YORK, NY.- Americas oldest art auction, the historical New York City based Salmagundi Club hosted their first in-person public auction in over two years with a very successful two-day fundraising auction event, which was co-promoted by Roland Auctions NY, on Friday, April 8th and Saturday, April 9th. Both sessions were held live at the legendary Salmagundi Club at 47 Fifth Ave. New York, NY in its 1854 built townhouse headquarters, the oldest house on Fifth Ave. The auctions were presented live as well as online through Live Auctioneers, spotlighting work by many of the clubs top emerging and established artists. The auction featured all original portraits, still life, landscapes, photography and other genres, with all purchases to support both the artist and the club. Over 200 original works of art by Salmagundi Club members were offered, being both affordable and professionally framed. A unique addition to the auction ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Reigning Queens, 1985. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Her Majesty the Queens Platinum Jubilee in June represents a momentous cultural moment in celebration of her 70 years on the throne. Alongside being honoured partners of The Platinum Jubilee Pageant, Sothebys will present a month-long programme of exhibitions and events marking this joyous national milestone, which will complement the traditional fine art marquee auctions this Summer. Spanning the visual, performing, literary and culinary arts, and providing a platform for the next generation of artists, the Jubilee season will showcase the breadth, diversity and excellence of British creativity. The galleries will be taken over by specially curated exhibitions of royal portraits, rare aristocratic jewels and important manuscripts, including works loaned from prestigious private collections from 28 May15 June. Alongside the exhibitions, visitors will be welcomed to a diverse programme of talks, debates and musical ... More |
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| The Bruce Museum announces gift of major collection of European and American art | | Phillips announces highlights from the London New Now Auction this April | | National Endowment for the Humanities announces $33.17 million in grants | 
Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967), Bridle Path, 1939, oil on canvas, 23 3/8 x 42 1/8 in.
GREENWICH, CONN.- The Bruce Museum announces the promised gift of a major collection of European and American artranging from French and American Impressionism to the works of Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Andrew Wyeth, and otherswhich will come as a bequest from an anonymous Greenwich couple. The private collection of 70 works, encompassing paintings, sculpture, watercolors, drawings, prints, and photographs, will be the largest gift of art in the Bruce Museums 112-year history. This gift is unprecedented in its scale and quality, and these works will further define the New Bruce as a museum that explores global stories of Modern and Contemporary art, said Robert Wolterstorff, the Bruce Museums Susan E. Lynch Executive Director and CEO. We are profoundly grateful to the donors of these magnificent works, who have actively supported the Greenwich community for decades and n ... More | | 
Annie Morris, Medium Stack, 2018 Estimate: £50,000-70,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips announced highlights ahead of the New Now auction in London. The sale on 28 April is led by a selection of works from exciting young emerging and blue-chip contemporary artists alike, including Amani Lewis, Doron Langberg, Kehinde Wiley, Emmanuel Taku, Oscar Murillo, Caroline Walker, and Rafa Macarrón, among others. Further highlights include a series of six groupings of Andy Warhols Polaroids and a selection of ten works from contemporary African artists including Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude and Marion Boehm, whose work has been donated by Africa First in order to benefit the Africa First Artist Residency Program. The New Now sale will take place on 28 April at 3pm. Charlotte Gibbs, Associate Specialist, Head of New Now, said, From the cutting edge to celebrated Pop artists, the vibrant offering we are presenting this April really captures the spirit of New Now. We are delighted to offer an exquisite work on paper by ... More | | 
Outside the Tenement Museum in New York, Dec. 15, 2020. Karsten Moran/The New York Times.
by Laura Zornosa
NEW YORK, NY.- A book about Motown Productions, the film and television arm of the legendary Motown Records; preservation of the traditional language and lifestyle of Yupik and Cupik Alaskan Native people; and research on how communities and insurance companies in Bermuda understand risk caused by rising sea levels and climate change are among the 245 projects across the country that are receiving new grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grants, which total $33.17 million, support historic collections, exhibitions and documentaries, humanities infrastructure, scholarly research and curriculum projects. Among the 13 categories in which the grants were awarded, the most money $11 million went toward 23 infrastructure and capacity building challenge grants, which leverage federal funds to spur nonfederal support for cultural ... More |
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| FDR speeches and Alicia Keys album added to National Recording Registry | | Freeman's upcoming auctions put significant Americana on full display | | Major body of contemporary artworks donated from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection | 
One of the recordings selected this year includes Alicia Keys first album, Songs in A Minor.
by Colin Moynihan
NEW YORK, NY.- Franklin D. Roosevelts speech about a date which will live in infamy. Rock band Journeys song about a small-town girl livin in a lonely world who takes a midnight train going anywhere. And firsthand descriptions of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. Each of those are unforgettable sounds of the nations history, the Library of Congress said Wednesday, adding that they are among 25 recordings selected this year for inclusion in the National Recording Registry. Since 2002, the librarian of Congress, with advice from experts, has picked recordings that are at least 10 years old and are culturally, historically or aesthetically significant for inclusion in the registry. The program, library officials said, aims to provide a long-term archival home for the preservation of the recordings and to acknowledge their importance. The registry reflects ... More | | 
John Hancock Letter.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans spring auction season is highlighted by rare, remarkable Americana collectors opportunities, led by a May 3 American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts auction and a May 4 Books and Manuscripts auction. From manuscripts and documents to silver, furniture, art, and design objects, these two sales bring the best of early American culture, politics, and artistic production to market. Freemans May 3 American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts sale brings collectors a fine selection of early Americana with impressive provenance, led by Nicolino Calyos View of the Schuylkill River & Fairmount Park Water Works, a sweeping oil-on-canvas view of 19th -century Philadelphia ($100,000-150,000). A rare embroidered and painted Plan of the City of Washington offers a different kind of cityscape: a map of Washington, D.C. worked with silk threads, watercolor and ink on a silk ground by Grace Turner ... More | | 
Paul McCarthy, Tomato Head (Burgundy), 1994. Fiberglass, urethane plastic, rubber, metal, and clothing, 213.3 x 139.7 x 111.7 cm. Installation view Tomato Heads, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, California. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth, London and Zurich. Photo: ©Douglas M. Parker Studio.
LONDON.- Started in 1994, the D.Daskalopoulos Collection is today an extended yet focused collection of contemporary art by leading international and Greek artists. The artworks included in the Collection are drawn from the artistic practice of recent decades and focus on the human body as a source of creativity and the vessel of existential, social and ideological struggle. The Collections inner compass is orientated towards the most elemental and universal issues of the human condition. The Collection gives particular prominence to large scale installations and sculptures, as well as drawing, collage, film and video. Exhibitions of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection have taken place at the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2010-2011); Guggenheim ... More |
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Picasso's Nus masculins (Les trois âges de la vie)
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 Christie's presents a season of exceptional prints and multiplesNEW YORK, NY.- Christies will present a selection of Prints and Multiples throughout its spring season in New York. Available to view at Rockefeller Center from 16 22 April, the works from the first Prints and Multiples sale of the season will be offered on 22 April. Alongside the sale viewing will be prints highlights from the upcoming Post-War and Contemporary Art Day sale in May. The wide selection of works span from the 19th Century to present day, featuring works from Pablo Picasso, Edvard Munch, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd and Roy Lichtenstein. Highlights from the April live sale include two works from distinguished series in master printmaker Andy Warhols career Superman, from his Myths series ($200,000-300,000) and Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, from Reigning Queens ($150,000-200,000). Also on offer are a ... More  James Cohan opens an exhibition of new work by Tuan Andrew NguyenNEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting Unburied Sounds, an exhibition of new work by Tuan Andrew Nguyen, on view from April 12 through May 7 at the gallerys 52 Walker Street location. This is Nguyens second solo exhibition at James Cohan. Tuan Andrew Nguyens work explores the power of narrative through video and sculpture. His projects are based on extensive research and community engagement, creating imaginative realities that draw deeply from inherited histories and counter-memory. In Unburied Sounds, Nguyen explores the ways in which material contains memory and holds potential for transformation, reincarnation, and healing. The centerpiece of the exhibition is The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon, 2022, a single-channel video installation exhibited alongside related sculptural objects crafted ... More  Almine Rech now represents Minjung KimPARIS.- Almine Rech announced the representation of Korean artist Minjung Kim in Shanghai, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, and New York. Her first collaboration with the gallery will be a solo exhibition at Almine Rech New York in 2023, and then a solo show at Almine Rech Paris, Matignon in 2024. Almine Rech will also feature Minjung Kim's work at TEFAF New York 2022 and Art Basel Basel 2022. Born in South Korea and working in Italy, Minjung Kim is well-known for her layered translucent ink works. Using traditional Korean Hanji paper in her paintings, the flow and perceived three-dimensionality of her works evoke a sense of serenity that embraces light and space. The pleasing color palette is subdued and gentle while maintaining a powerful representation of beauty and commentary on her vision of the world. Minjung ... More  Inaugural CIFO-Ars Electronica Award granted to five Latin American artistsLINZ.- Five artists from across Latin America have been selected for the inaugural CIFO-Ars Electronica Awards: Dora Bartilotti, Electrobiota Collective, Thessia Machado, Amor Muñoz, and Ana Elena Tejera. Launched this year by Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) and Ars Electronica, the awards advance the practices of emerging and mid-career Latin American artists working with technology in the field of new media and digital art, providing up to $30,000 per recipient to develop a major new commission. In addition to joining CIFOs renowned permanent collection of Latin American art, the resulting works will be presented in an exhibition as part of the Ars Electronica Festival, the major international platform for the intersection of arts, technology, and society, at the Lentos Art Museum, in Linz, Austria, from ... More  Art Market San Francisco announces calendar of events and installations for its 10th editionSAN FRANCISCO, CA .- Art Market San Francisco was built by its city, for its city - it has become known as the ideal place for the discovery, exploration, and acquisition of modern and contemporary art, and the optimal environment for collectors at all levels. Its return to Fort Mason Centers Festival Pavilion from April 21st through 24th will yet again exemplify why it is the leading and longest running art fair in the Bay Area. Back after a two year pandemic-impacted hiatus, Art Market San Franciscos 10th edition is a true testament to its respected tradition, its vision to improve the ecosystem of events in the visual arts, and its collaboration with the dedicated and resilient local arts community. As such, the fair will be recognized on opening night with the honor of receiving an official proclamation from the City of San ... More  Kim McAleese appointed as Director of Edinburgh Art FestivalEDINBURGH.- The UKs largest annual festival of visual art announced Kim McAleese as its new Director. She takes up the position ahead of the 18th edition of the festival, which returns from Thursday 28 July to Sunday 28 August 2022. Founded in 2004, Edinburgh Art Festival is the platform for the visual arts at the heart of Edinburghs August festivals, bringing together the capitals leading galleries, museums, production facilities and artist-run spaces in a city-wide celebration of the very best in visual art. Each year the festival comprises newly commissioned artworks by leading and emerging artists, alongside a rich programme of exhibitions curated and presented by partners across the city. As Edinburgh celebrates 75 years since the foundation of its August festivals, McAleese joins Edinburgh Art Festival to deliver ... More  Lilly Chan appointed as Managing Director of Bonhams USNEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams has appointed Lilly Chan as Managing Director, Bonhams US. Lilly will work closely with Leslie Wright, Chairman of Bonhams North America, to build on the companys recent expansion. Based in New York, Lilly joins Bonhams with decades of experience leading business, marketing and operations through transformational growth in the worlds of luxury, financial services, retail markets and auction houses. As Global Managing Director for the worldwide Asian Art department at Christies in Hong Kong, she led the team through a strategic and organisational transformation, achieving record profits over a six-year period. As the Managing Director of Asia for Phillips auction house, also in Hong Kong, she built a regional team, expanded into new markets and opened three new offices within 18 ... More  Christie's presents magnificent splashed ink and colour masterpieces by Zhang DaqianHONG KONG.- Christies Fine Chinese Modern and Contemporary Ink Paintings and Calligraphy sale will be held on 29 May, featuring a series of rare splashed-ink and colour masterpieces by Zhang Daqian (1899-1983) from the 1960s and the 1970s. Christie's will present several magnificent masterpieces of Zhang Daqian, many of which are making their auction debut. The most notable work, Temple with Waterfall, is a masterpiece from the artist's Brazil period, splashed in vibrant mineral pigment. The painting was kept by the artist himself for many years. Like Temple at the Mountain Peak (which was offered by Christie's Hong Kong in Spring 2021) and other vital works from the 1960s, Temple with Waterfall was specially selected by Zhang to be sent to Japan for luxurious mounting. In 1978, Zhang Daqian was invited by the South Korean ... More  Super-rare 1953 War of the Worlds movie poster goes to auction at Ewbank's with £12,000 price tagWOKING.- One of only five known surviving British film posters promoting the 1953 Hollywood movie of The War of the Worlds is expected to sell for up to £12,000 on April 22. The poster, consigned by the person who bought it in 1953, at a local cinema when the film was released, will be offered by Ewbanks Auctions in their Vintage Posters sale. Its as though the poster has come home, says Ewbanks partner and specialist Alastair McCrea. The whole story is set locally, with the Martians in H.G. Wells story landing on Horsell Common before attacking Woking, which is our local town. Paramount Pictures film transferred the initial action to Southern California in the United States, while the poster is dominated by one of the fantastic Martian space ships, whose iconic design did so much to influence science fiction ... More  Singing, and signing, Beethoven's 'Fidelio' in Los AngelesLOS ANGELES, CA.- DJ Kurs has been the artistic director of the Deaf West Theater, a theater company created here by deaf actors, for the past 10 years. But he had never seen the Los Angeles Philharmonic or been to the Walt Disney Concert Hall, its renowned home, even though he grew up in Southern California. He will be there this week, though, leading seven actors from Deaf West in an innovative production of Fidelio, Beethovens opera about the rescue of a political prisoner, in a collaboration with a cast of singers and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The actors along with a chorus from Venezuela whose members are deaf or hard of hearing and will also be signing will be center stage on opening night Thursday, expressively enacting the lone opera of a composer who had progressive hearing loss while writing masterpiece after masterpiece. ... More  Michel Bouquet, award-winning French actor, dies at 96NEW YORK, NY.- Michel Bouquet, a French actor whose talent for suggesting passion and turmoil beneath a bland, middle-class facade made him a favorite of new wave directors, died Wednesday in Paris. He was 96. The Elysee Palace, the office of the French president, announced the death in a statement. Bouquet, one of Frances great theater actors, found a special niche in film in the late 1960s and 70s playing ordinary Frenchmen, somber and reserved, with complicated inner lives and deep reserves of emotion, a contrast heightened by his impassive, guileless face. He played the lethally jealous husband in Claude Chabrols Unfaithful Wife (1969) and the advertising executive leading a double life in that directors Just Before Nightfall (1971). He was one of Jeanne Moreaus hapless victims in the François Truffaut ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French photographer Robert Doisneau was born April 14, 1912. Robert Doisneau (14 April 1912 - 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. In the 1930s he made photographs on the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism. In this image: French photographer Robert Doisneau photographed by Bracha L. Ettinger in his studio in Montrouge, 1992. Photo © Bracha L. Ettinger.
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