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Uzodinma Iweala, chief executive officer of The Africa Center, in New York, March 31, 2023. Iweala has helped move the institution beyond museum to a landing place for the African diaspora, focusing on its ideas and impact. (Elias Williams/The New York Times)
by Dionne Searcey
NEW YORK, NY.- A recent panel on Africas external debt might seem like an odd fit for an arts institution with a permanent collection that includes a ceremonial Baule mask from Ivory Coast and a 2003 mixed-media piece by acclaimed artist Wangechi Mutu. But it was part of deliberate programming by The Africa Center, a New York institution that after decades of meanders in both location and mission has emerged with new leadership and a new optimism that it can find an audience for dynamic and richly varied events centered on expanding peoples understanding of Africa. We want to convince you these things do affect our daily lives and are worthy of our attention, said Tunde Olatunji, associate director of policy for The Africa Center, as he moderated the debt panel earlier this year that featured researchers from Nigeria and Kenya. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition views « Gina Pane, Préliminaire », commissariat par · curated by Emma-Charlotte Gobry-Laurencin, Mennour (47 rue Saint-André-des-Arts, Paris 6), 2023 © Gina Pane, Adagp, Paris, 2023. Photo. Archives Mennour. Courtesy Anne Marchand and Mennour, Paris.
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| ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair returns to New York for its 63rd Edition | | 'Jan-Ole Schiemann: New Paintings' now on view at Kasmin | | Sherrie Levine Wood now on view at David Zwirner in New York |
Lavishly illustrated portable Bible from Italy.
NEW YORK, NY.- The ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF) - officially sanctioned by Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) and International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and produced and managed by Sanford L. Smith + Associates - returns to the Park Avenue Armory in New York City from April 27th-30th, 2023 for its 63rd Edition. The NYIABF is a cultural pillar of New York and returns as a much-anticipated highlight of the busy Spring season. Universally referred to as the worlds finest antiquarian book fair, NYIABF is excited to reveal nearly 200 exhibitors this year from around the world, continuing to live up to its reputation as a highly international fair. The fair has attracted a diverse audience of literary luminaries, influencers, celebrities, art, design and book enthusiasts and collectors both seasoned and entry level. In recent years, NYIABF has increasingly ... More | |
Jan-Ole Schiemann, Insectoid, 2023, mixed media on canvas, 90 1/2 x 110 1/4 inches, 230 x 280 cm. Photo: Mareike Tocha. Courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jan-Ole Schiemanns second solo exhibition at Kasmin will present new paintings and works on paper from April 27 June 3, 2023 at the gallerys flagship location, 509 West 27th Street, New York. Schiemanns energetic constructions are characterized by boldly abstract figures, vivid cumulous color clouds, and an assertive, instinctive use of shape and line. The artists most recent compositions meld fragments and echoes from his former visual vocabulary with new devices that together push the language of gestural abstraction into new territories. The artists complex compositions begin as references drawn from archives of vintage animation and his own meticulous sketches. Using the edge of his rectangular picture plane as the first rule of play, Schiemann begins a game of decision-making, toying with the ... More | |
Sherrie Levine, Fitz: 1, 1994 (detail). © Sherrie Levine. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner announces an exhibition of work by American artist Sherrie Levine at the gallerys 69th Street location April 27July 21, 2023. For this exhibition, the artist will present a never-before-seen suite of wood-panel paintings as well as a new installation of found-object sculptures, including a Japanese burlwood kitsune fox figurine, a New Guinea ceremonial stone mortar head, and a wooden scholar figure. Together, the works in this presentation demonstrate Levines ongoing inquiry into concepts surrounding ownership, authorship, originality, and authenticity, as well as her enduring interest in materiality. A concurrent exhibition of Levines work will be on view at the gallerys Paris location. Levine rose to prominence as a member of the Pictures Generation, a group of artists based in New York in the late 1970s and 1980s whose work examined the structures ... More |
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| 'Liza Lou: i see you' now on view at Thaddaeus Ropac | | 'Harmony Hammond: Accumulations' opens today at Alexander Gray | | Earliest-known, Virginia-made horse racing trophy is acquired by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation |
Liza Lou, Heart Meat, 2022-2023. Acrylic paint on glass beads, 142,24 x 140,97 x 5,08 cm (56 x 55,5 x 2 in).
PARIS.- i see you is an exhibition, opening April 27th at Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, of new paintings by the LA-based artist Liza Lou in which she methodically draws sequences of circular shapes across delicate grounds of gesso and oil paint. With subtle layers of pale, calming tones, the large-scale paintings will surround visitors on the sunlit ground floor of Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais, inviting them to enter a visual meditation on colour, line, and form. In her new works, Lou purls together hand-drawn shapes to form a large graphite tapestry in which gently undulating patterns seem to fade in and out of view. Pale grounds of blue, yellow, green, purple and pink resemble the changing light of Southern California, anchoring the paintings in the place and time of their making. Lou embraces the legacy of Colour Field painting and the California ... More | |
Now and Then, 2022. Oil and mixed media on canvas, Approx. 48 x 48 in each (121.9 x 121.9 cm each); 48 3/8 x 96 3/4 in overall (122.9 x 245.7 cm overall)
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Gray Associates, New York presents Harmony Hammond: Accumulations, the artists sixth exhibition with the Gallery beginning today and continuing through June 10th, 2023. The show features a selection of paintings from the last three years that continue Hammonds project of imbuing abstraction with bodily content and a corporeal narrative, disrupting the utopian myth of modernist abstraction. Underlying this practice is the artists belief that materials and the ways they are manipulated can bring social and political content into formal abstraction. Sited in the intersection between painting and sculpture, Hammonds new works expand on her signature thick paint and near-monochrome palette. She explains her heavily layered surfacesstained and disturbed b ... More | |
Madison Horse Racing Trophy, marked by Johnson & Reat (1804-1815), Richmond, Virginia, ca. 1811, silver, Museum Purchase, The Friends of Colonial Williamsburg Collections Fund, The Joseph H. and June S. Hennage Fund, Mark S. Farnsworth, and Partial Gift of the Family of Randolph Madison, Jr., 2023-13.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- In October 1810, a horse named Madison (likely in honor of President James Madison), won first place in a race held at the New-Market racecourse in Petersburg, Virginia. Its owner, Revolutionary War veteran Burwell Bassett Wilkes (1757-1815) of Brunswick Country, Virginia, received a $400 cash prize for the win. Although Wilkes, who had turned to farming and breeding in the decades following the war, had several prized racehorses, this victory was certainly his greatest equestrian triumph. To mark the event, Wilkes converted his stakes into a monumental and unparalleled piece of early Virginian silver holloware. Known as the Madison ... More |
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| Powerful photographs documenting humans' impact on the environment to be presented at Hindman | | Mauritshuis acquires new tulip for its collection | | Ed Sheeran, accused of copying Marvin Gaye, testifies he wrote his song |
Vik Muniz (born 1961), Madalena, from the series "Aftermath," 1998. Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindmans May 2nd Photographs auction features a wide range of works from its beginnings in the 19th century to contemporary works of art. With the recent celebration of Earth Day in mind, the sale includes a selection of works with a strong environmental focus by artists such as Peter Beard, Edward Burtynsky, Michel Ghatan and Sebastião Salgado. Burtynskys remarkable photographs bear witness to the impact of human industry on the planet, while Beard, Ghatan and Salgado, in their own very individual ways, focus on the ongoing threat to indigenous African tribes and wildlife from climate change, hunting and war. Highlights include: Lot 36 | Edward Burtynsky (born 1955), Dryland Farming #28, Castile-La-Mancha, Spain, 2010 | Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000 Lot 95 | Michel Ghatan (born 1975), The Twins, Masai Mara, Kenya, 2021 | Estimate: $5,000 - 7,000 ... More | |
Balthasar van der Ast, Vase with a Single Tulip c.1625.
THE HAGUE.- The Mauritshuis has acquired a new flower still life by Balthasar van der Ast. Vase with a Single Tulip from c. 1625 is a rare painting (26.5 x 20 cm) showing only one flowering tulip. Watercolour drawings with the same scene have been preserved in full, such as in tulip albums for bulb growers. In contrast, only two Dutch paintings with a single tulip are known from the 17th century. In 2022, the panel was part of the exhibition In Full Bloom as a showcase for the tulip theme. With Vase with a Single Tulip, the Mauritshuis can present an even more complete picture of the developments in flower still lifes from the early 17th century onward. The recent acquisition shows a red and white coloured tulip. In the 17th century, these "broken" tulips with flamed petals were the most popular, the reason why paintings almost never depict plain tulips. The only thing people didn't know then is that the "flames" on the tulip were the result ... More | |
Ed Sheeran departs federal court in Manhattan, April 25, 2023. (Anna Watts/The New York Times)
by Ben Sisario
NEW YORK, NY.- Pop singer Ed Sheeran took the witness stand Tuesday at a closely watched copyright trial in which he stands accused of copying his ballad Thinking Out Loud from Marvin Gayes Lets Get It On, and told a jury that he and a collaborator had written their song based on their own experiences. Appearing at federal court in Manhattan in a dark suit and blue tie, with his red hair tousled, Sheeran was asked by lawyers for the plaintiffs in the case, who own rights to Gayes song, about whether Sheeran and his co-writer, Amy Wadge, had created Thinking Out Loud independently. Yes, Amy Wadge and I wrote the song Thinking Out Loud, Sheeran testified, explaining that they created the song, about holding on to romance throughout a long life, after seeing the affection ... More |
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| Bertoia's May 11-12 toy auction slated as hybrid event | | Nunu Fine Art New York opens today | | Leila Cartier to join Houston Center for Contemporary Craft this summer |
Circa-1910 Herschel Spillman carved carousel goat which came off a platform at Coney Island, N.Y., was sold at auction in 1995 and subsequently restored to its original colors. Estimate $10,000-$15,000.
VINELAND, NJ.- Bertoias has a springtime treat in store for toy, bank and antique advertising collectors on Thursday and Friday, May 11-12. The Bertoia family will be hosting a 1,000-lot hybrid event that opens with a day-long cataloged gallery auction, followed the next day by a full slate of new discoveries presented in the Bertoia Basics online-only format collectors love. Bertoias president and principal auctioneer Michael Bertoia will open the first lot to bidding at 10 am Eastern time on both days. Bidders may also participate in the Thursday sale by phone, absentee or live online. The May 11 session is noteworthy for the consistently high quality seen across its many categories. It includes Part II of a private collection of cast-iron automotive and motorcycle toys Bertoias introduced in March. The collection contains one superior example after ... More | |
Ariamna Contino, Transition #11, 2023. Hand cut paper (Strathmore cold press paper acid free 300 g) and gold leaf. 40 1/2 x 28 3/4 in. (103 x 73 cm.) Courtesy of the artist and Nunu Fine Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nunu Fine Art, an international art program dedicated to presenting a broad cross-section of emerging and established talents founded by veteran dealer Nunu Hung in Taipei in 2014, is pleased to announce the debut of a new 2,000 square-foot outpost in New York City, opening on April 27, 2023. The first contemporary art gallery of its kind in Taipei to present an international artist roster, Nunu Fine Art remains committed to ongoing cultural exchange at its first location outside of Taiwan. The new space will open with an exhibition of new multimedia work by celebrated Cuban social practice artists Ariamna Contino and Alex Hernández-Dueñas. REVERSE marks the artists first dual exhibition in New York City. The gallery will host a public opening reception with the artists on April 27, 2023, from 68 PM. ... More | |
Her appointment follows her role as executive director of CraftNOW Philadelphia.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Board of Directors of Houston Center for Contemporary Craft announced that Leila Cartier will be the Centers executive director beginning July 17th. Her appointment follows her role as executive director of CraftNOW Philadelphia, an organization uniting institutions, scholars, and artists to promote the role of the city in the fields of craft and making. Cartier brings a wealth of strategic and administrative leadership experience to HCCC, as well as a deep understanding of and connections in the world of contemporary craft. During her tenure at CraftNOW, she directed an annual portfolio of activities, featuring Philadelphias most renowned arts institutions; formed key partnerships; and developed a series of programs focused on economic opportunity through craft. Her work fortified the organizations original mission, substantially expanded its range ... More |
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Sothebyâs Spotlight: Mark Godfrey on Three Masterworks by Gerhard Richter
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'Summer, 1976' review: The path to freedom starts with a friendship
NEW YORK, NY.- Holly and Gretchen. Those are the little girls names, so dissimilar in the way they hit the ear: one soft, warm and breathy; the other sharp-edged and cramped. Just like their mothers. The children are 5, maybe 6, when they first play together and hit it off, instant pals suddenly eager to see each other every day. In Summer, 1976 David Auburns bittersweet, comic memory play that means their mothers, diametric opposites, will be hanging out a lot, too. This is a fortunate thing for us, the audience. Because in Daniel Sullivans sun-dappled Broadway production for Manhattan Theater Club, Laura Linney plays the austere, censorious Diana to Jessica Hechts vastly chiller Alice or, as Diana describes this fresh acquaintance, a sleepy-eyed little hippie with her shorts and her coconut ... More
Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers announces 'Comics, Toys & Video Games Auction', live and online, May 6th
CRANSTON, RI.- Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers will present an auction titled Graded Showcase: Comics, Toys & Video Games on Saturday, May 6th, online and live in the Cranston gallery at 63 Fourth Avenue. This will be a fun, 154-lot auction, said Travis Landry, Bruneau & Co.s Director of Pop Culture. The focus is on professionally graded comics, toys and video games. In the spirit of May 4th and the Revenge of the 6th, the auction will open with a selection of CAS graded Kenner Star Wars action figures, followed by a collection of Hasbro Transformers Beast Wars. Comic offerings will be highlighted by Part 2 of the Henry Anderson collection of Golden Age comics, pulled from a box at the familys uncles house that was saved from the dumpster. The comics category will be led by three offerings from Fox F ... More
Rare example of Second World War Bomber unveiled after decade of conservation
COSFORD.- The Wellington, one of only two remaining, has moved from the Conservation Centre into the public display hangar and will be the centre piece of a new Bomber Command exhibition opening in May. The fuselage and inner wings section can now be viewed by visitors, while the remaining work of attaching the huge 31ft outer wings, engines, propellers and front turret to the aircraft will be carried out over the next few weeks. Members of the public will be able to view some of the final steps towards its completion as the Museums Conservation team work within the hangar. The Wellington was widely used as a night bomber in the early years of the Second World War, and famous for its geodetic fuselage structure designed by Barnes Wallis. By 1942 Wellingtons were the most numerous aircraft in Bomber Com ... More
African American Museum, Dallas exhibition of Southern African contemporary masterworks now open
DALLAS, TX.- The highly-anticipated exhibition, If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future, made its worldwide debut at the African American Museum, Dallas in historic Fair Park. Made possible by the beloved restaurant group Nandos, one of the largest collectors of contemporary Southern African art in the world, the exhibition features nearly 90 pieces from more than 60 emerging, mid-career and established artists. Free and open to the public, the exhibition runs through Aug. 13. Some of the most notable Southern African-based artists will have work on display, including Zanele Muholi, Kudzanai Chiurai, Claudette Schreuders, Patrick Kagiso, Igshaan Adams, Stephen Hobbs, Anastasia Pather, Penny Siopis, William Kentridge, Portia Zvavahera and Samson Mnisi. The selection of work is drawn from ... More
Michael Denneny, 80, dies; Editor created outlets for gay literature
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Denneny, an openly gay editor at a major New York publisher who started a pioneering imprint that was devoted to LGBT literature and who helped found a magazine billed as a gay version of The New Yorker, died on April 15 at his home in Manhattan. He was 80. His brother, Joe, his only immediate survivor, said the cause was likely a heart attack. For about 30 years, Denneny multitasked his way through a jampacked publishing career. His major mainstream successes included Judith Thurmans 1982 biography of Danish writer Isak Dinesen; Watergate burglary mastermind G. Gordon Liddys 1980 memoir, Will; and journalist Randy Shilts magisterial, bestselling history of the AIDS crisis, And the Band Played On (1987). In 1976, Denneny and Chuck Ortleb started Christopher Street, a m ... More
China detains Taiwan-based publisher in national security investigation
TAIPEI.- A Taiwan-based publisher who disappeared while in China has been detained for suspected violations of security laws, Chinese authorities confirmed Wednesday, fanning concerns in Taiwan that Beijing is sending a warning to the islands vibrant publishing sector. The publisher, Li Yanhe, widely known by his pen name, Fu Cha, is a Chinese citizen who has been living in Taiwan since 2009. His company, Gusa Publishing, is well known in Taiwan for books that cast a critical eye on Chinas ruling Communist Party. Li had returned to China early last month to visit relatives but fell out of contact shortly after, according to his colleagues and friends. Lis detention is a strong blow and will have a chilling effect, Bei Ling, a writer from China living in Taiwan, said Wednesday. Publishing houses, publishers and fre ... More
Popular Diptych series continues with four new books
NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection expands its popular Diptych series with four new titlestwo already available, two to be published this summer. The books focus on Titians Portrait of a Man in a Red Hat, a bronze oil lamp modeled by Riccio, Bronzinos Lodovico Capponi, and the recently acquired pastel Portrait of a Man in Pilgrim's Costume by Rosalba Carriera, all from the Fricks permanent collection. These 2023 publicationsbringing the number of titles in the Diptych series to thirteenprovide fresh perspectives on Frick artworks by pairing art historical essays with contributions from contemporary cultural figures. Currently available in the Museum Shop at Frick Madison and online, Titians Man in a Red Hat focuses on an exquisite Italian Renaissance portrait from the 1510s ... More
Review: Dancing with the flowers and Douglas Dunn
NEW YORK, NY.- Douglas Dunn isnt afraid of color, or even of dizzying patterns placed on color. Costumes that slip into the outlandish? Bring them on. This is a choreographer and dancer who merges formalism with the fantastical. He met his match, years ago, in visual artist and designer Mimi Gross. They first worked together in 1979, when she designed the body-conscious, colorful costumes for Foot Rules. In Garden Party, Gross has taken their collaboration to a new level by transforming Dunns studio into a springtime oasis, within which 10 dancers, including Dunn, immerse themselves in a lush and somewhat leafy setting: a quirky and whimsical dance garden. They also wear Gross costumes, gorgeously cut leotards, each different but each embellished with a pop of fluorescent yellow. From time to time, th ... More
Star choreographer Alexei Ratmansky on Russia's cultural war
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexei Ratmansky was scrolling through social media recently when he came across a startling post. A video showed rehearsals from a production of The Pharaohs Daughter at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, that Ratmansky, the renowned ballet choreographer, had worked on before Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Ratmansky had severed ties with the Mariinsky at the start of the war. But the video suggested that the company was still using some of his choreography, though his name had been removed from the production, a version of the 19th-century ballet by Marius Petipa. Ratmansky, who is of mixed Russian and Ukrainian descent and grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine, posted a statement on social media last month calling the episode the most painful professional experience in m ... More
Harry Belafonte, folk hero
NEW YORK, NY.- Of the many (many) job titles you could lay on Harry Belafonte singer, actor, entertainer, talk show host, activist the one that nails what hes come to mean is folk hero. Not a title one puts on a business card or lists in, say, a Twitter bio. Folk hero is a description that accrues over time, out of significance. Youre out doing those other jobs when, suddenly, what youre doing matters to people, to your people, to your country. Belafonte was a folk hero that way. Not the most dynamic or distinctive actor or singer or dancer youll ever come across. Yet the cool, frank, charismatic, seemingly indefatigable cat who died Tuesday, at 96, had something else, something as crucial. He was, in his way, a people person. He understood how to reach, teach and challenge them, how to keep them h ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter and illustrator Jan van Goyen died April 27, 1656. Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (13 January 1596 - 27 April 1656) was a Dutch landscape painter. Van Goyen was an extremely prolific artist; approximately twelve hundred paintings and more than one thousand drawings by him are known. In this image: River Scene, 1652.
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