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Basil Watson: KEEP GOING Dont ever stop, keep going. If you want a taste of Freedom, KEEP GOING. My concept for the Harriet Tubman Monument is to depict her as a Leader, a Warrior, a larger than life Spirit of unwavering determination who chose Freedom as the only way to live.
by Christopher Kuo
NEW YORK, NY.- A year ago, the city of Philadelphia invited an artist to design a statue of Harriet Tubman that would stand in front of City Hall to honor the abolitionists legacy and celebrate her connection to the city. Then the complaints poured in. Some incensed artists and community members argued that the city should have used a public selection process rather than awarding a commission, in part because the artist Philadelphia had selected was a white man. The city ultimately responded by ending its partnership with the artist and issuing an open call for submissions. It received 50 applications and has recently unveiled five semifinalist designs, all by Black artists. The controversy over the Tubman statue is part of a broader conversation in the art world about to what extent racial identity should matter. This summer, the New Orleans Museum of Art was criticized for appointing a white woman as its curator of African art. In 2017, protesters called out the Whit ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Pearlman Foundation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents 38 outstanding works from the renowned collection assembled in the second half of the 20th century by New York collectors Henry and Rose Pearlman.
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| Gagosian announces global representation of Tetsuya Ishida, exhibition to follow in September | | Rare figure from Yongle Court spearheads Bonhams sale | | An effort to focus on long overlooked Roma suffering in the Holocaust | 
Tetsuya Ishida, c. 1995. ©Tetsuya Ishida Estate.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian announced the global representation of Tetsuya Ishida, in association with the artists estate. Inaugurating the relationship, this fall the gallery will present the most comprehensive exhibition of the artists work staged outside Japan, and his first ever in New York. Curated by Cecilia Alemani, Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self will open on September 12 at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street. Active as an artist for just a decade, Tetsuya Ishida (19732005) produced a compelling body of work imbued with a profound sense of alienation and emotional isolation from the contemporary world. Coming of age during the 1990s, an era of nationwide economic malaise known as Japans Lost Decade, he ... More | | 
A Gilt Copper Alloy Figure of Manjushri. Ming Dynasty, Yongle Mark and Period (1402 - 24). Estimate: HK$6,000,000-8,000,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The Ming court, spanning more than 270 years of history from 1368 to 1644, was the largest patron of Buddhist art in the history of China. Within that time, it was under Yongles the third emperor of the dynasty imperial patronage when production of gilt copper alloy Buddhist sculptures saw its prime. The sculptures were believed to be employed to insert influence in surrounding regions, either brought as tribute to Tibet by visiting dignitaries or was given to Tibetan monks visiting the Yongle court. One of such, a gilt copper alloy figure of Manjushri, will be offered as a star item at the Bonhams sale of Claude de ... More | | 
In a photo provided by Museum of Romani Culture, Brno shows, Helena MalÃková, right, with a friend in Ostrava, in what is now the Czech Republic, circa 1949. (Museum of Romani Culture, Brno via The New York Times)
by Nina Siegal
NEW YORK, NY.- Before World War II, Helena MalÃková grew up in Uherské Hraditě, a town in Czechoslovakia, where her family lived with other Roma in a settlement of old freight wagons lined up behind a sugar factory, near the Morava River. About 150 families lived in the converted train cars. MalÃková and her family had the only brick house. She was a teenager when the German military invaded in 1939 and forced MalÃková and her family into a camp in HodonÃn, from which most ... More |
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| A speck of old Iceland in ice-cold Lake Michigan | | "In the Context of the Collection: Clemens von Wedemeyer" to open at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein | | Totem pole taken 94 years ago begins 4,000-mile journey home | 
The Hotel Washington, built in 1904 by an Icelandic immigrant named Ben Johnson, on Washington Island, Wis., in August 2023. (Narayan Mahon/The New York Times)
by Carson Vaughan
NEW YORK, NY.- Five hours after leaving Chicago, we ran out of pavement. At the tip of the Door Peninsula in northeastern Wisconsin, the ice cream parlors disappeared. The wine shops and art galleries, too. Just a simple tollbooth, and the breakwaters beyond, and a small archipelago gathered like clouds on the horizon. A grinning crewman waved us aboard a 92-ton ferry, and before my wife, Mel, and I could exit our car, the Arni J. Richter was plowing through Lake Michigan. Like us, it seemed eager to flee the crowds. Washington Island beckoned less than 4 miles ahead, but a certain darkness whispered beneath the lake. The French called this strait Porte des Morts, or Deaths Door, most likely cribbing the moniker from the Potawatomi. Here, where the warmer and shallower waters of Green Bay meet the darker and cooler waters ... More | | 
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Otjesd, 2005. Filmstill / Film still. Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz. © 2023, ProLitteris, Zurich.
LIECHTENSTEIN.- Clemens von Wedemeyer (*1974 in Göttingen, DE) features in the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein collection with three characteristic video installations and two sculptural works. The solo show devised in close collaboration with the artist combines a selection of these with recent works. My stories often arise in the context of a found situation and a place, Clemens von Wedemeyer observes. The artist, whose film and media installations often operate in the realm between real situations and speculative retellings, explores structural principles in both social and historical contexts and also in the film medium itself. For example, the circumstances in which he creates his works generally form an integral part of his works. One focus of the exhibition is on the relationship between film and sculpture and their implicit historiography. The show illustrates how sculptures can seemingly be brought to life and how ... More | | 
Chief Niisjoohl with the Niisjoohl Memorial Pole. Image credit Duncan McGlynn.
by Emma Bubola
LONDON.- Almost 100 years ago, a hand-carved totem pole was cut down in the Nass Valley in the northwest of Canadas British Columbia. The 36-foot tall pole had been carved from red cedar in the 1860s to honor Tswawit, a warrior from the Indigenous Nisgaa Nation, who was next in line to become chief before he was killed in conflict. A Canadian anthropologist, Marius Barbeau, oversaw the removal of the memorial pole in the summer of 1929, while the Nisgaa people were away from their villages on an annual hunting, fishing and harvesting trip, according to the Nisgaa government. Barbeau sent the pole to a buyer more than 4,000 miles away: the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh today known as the National Museum of Scotland. This week, after a decades-long campaign by members of the Nisgaa Nation, the memorial pole finally began its long journey home. A Nisgaa delegation ... More |
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| The Contemporary Jewish Museum opening 'RetroBlakesberg: The Music Never Stopped' | | Highest-graded 1899 Liberty Head Double Eagle takes flight at Heritage's Long Beach Expo US Coins Auction | | UC Berkeley Magnes Collection to present new exhibition of photographer Roman Vishniac | 
Jay Blakesberg, Courtney Love at Lollapalooza, The Gorge, George, WA, July 4, 1995. © Jay Blakesberg.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Contemporary Jewish Museum has opened RetroBlakesberg: The Music Never Stopped, a solo exhibition that travels through some of the most explosive moments in music history through the lens of Bay Area-based photographer Jay Blakesberg. On view starting today, the exhibition explores the connection between music and cultural memory, showcasing photographs that evoke the sounds and stories that have shaped the Bay Area and beyond. The exhibition brings together more than 200 photographs and related ephemera from the years 1978- 2008, when Blakesberg shot exclusively on film. Featuring images of the Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman, Neil Young, Soundgarden, Carlos Santana, and many other influential figures, the exhibition explores both the musicians that changed American music, the fans that experienced it, and the storied career of Jay Blakesberg. ... More | | 
1899 $20 PR67 Ultra Cameo NGC. CAC. JD-1, R.5.
DALLAS, TX.- When only the best will do ... It's a catchphrase that has been used in a multitude of ways, perhaps none more appropriately than when applied to a magnificent 1899 Double Eagle PR67 Ultra Cameo NGC. CAC. JD-1, R.5 that will be among the top attractions in Heritage Auctions' Long Beach Expo US Coins Signature® Auction September 14-17. "This auction features coins of exceptional quality throughout, and this Liberty Head double eagle is as appealing as any," says Todd Imhof, Executive Vice President at Heritage Auctions. "Very few were created in the first place the recorded original mintage was just 84 and the number of surviving examples is significantly lower, around 30. This coin carries the highest grade of any survivor, including the one that is in the Smithsonian Institution. It's the kind of trophy-level coin that can become an immediate centerpiece and demand a spotlight of its own in any collection." The offered coin ... More | | 
Roman Vishniac (1891-1990), [Promenade through the ruins, unidentified location], Berlin, 1947, giclee print from digitized 120mm negative, 2023. Gift of Mara Vishniac Kohn, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley, 2018.15.5.1.23 [2005.329.20.008]. Image courtesy of The Magnes Collection. All rights reserved.
BERKELEY, CA.- The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life opened its newest exhibition, Cities and Wars: Roman Vishniac in Berlin and Jerusalem (1947/1967), yesterday featuring never before seen work by Russian-Jewish photographer Roman Vishniac (1897-1990). Cities and Wars follows Vishniacs journeys to Berlin in 1947 and Jerusalem in 1967. The photographer considered both cities home, each in a very different and unique wayBerlin, a once fabled, and then lost, haven where he had begun his life as a documentary photographer; and Jerusalem, which catered to his deep connection with the Jewish experience, reflects Magnes Curator Francesco Spagnolo. Both ... More |
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| Gallery Wendi Norris now representing Rohini Devasher | | Argentinean artist Gabriel Chaile's first show in Brazil opens at Carpintaria | | New hardcover book is first major career survey of renowned textile artist Billie Zangewa | 
Rohini Devasher holds a BFA in painting from New Delhis College of Art and an MFA in printmaking from the Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton in the UK. She is co-represented by Project 88 in Mumbai, India.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gallery Wendi Norris has announced the representation of New Delhi-based artist Rohini Devasher (b. 1978, New Delhi). Working with video, painting, printmaking, drawing, installation, and other mediums, Devasher maps the complexities of ecology, cosmic space, and atmospheric science viewed through the twin lenses of wonder and horror. Her projects illuminate the weird, seductive, and entangled worlds that emerge from deep research and scientific exploration. I have been enthusiastically following Rohinis artistic evolution for over a decade, states gallery owner Wendi Norris. She is visually depicting some of the most enticing, universal, and awe-spiring philosophical and scientific ... More | | 
Gabriel Chaile Principio de Semejanza, Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro, 2023.
RIO DE JANEIRO.- Principio de Semejanza, Argentinean artist Gabriel Chailes first show in Brazil, takes place at Carpintaria and presents new sculptures built between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Manipulating mud and adobe, Chaile articulates the ritual dimensions of his materials in large-scale figurative constructions that weave together formal allusions to classical statuary like Greek Cycladic sculpture to indigenous craft such as Condorhuasi artifacts from the Tucumán region. In this new body of work, the artist deploys a visual configuration inherited from pre-Columbian peoples, taking minute talismans, many of them measuring less than 3cm, and extrapolating their scale into large dimensions. The figures in the exhibition all have a feminine aspect, with protruding breasts and furrows describing buttocks and genitalia and opulent silhouettes recalling archaic personifications ... More | | 
The Museum of the African Diaspora releases 'Billie Zangewa: Thread for a Web Begun' the first major career survey of work by renowned fiber and textile artist Billie Zangewa.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In 2021, the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco (MoAD) presented the first solo museum exhibition of the work of Malawi-born, Johannesburg-based textile artist, Billie Zangewa (b. 1973). Now, the Museum has released the first major career survey of the artists work in a beautiful 112-page, full-color publication entitled Billie Zangewa: Thread for a Web Begun. Edited by the exhibitions guest curator, Dexter Wimberly, the hardcover volume, packaged in a beautiful slipcase, showcases the past 15 years of Zangewas work as well as new pieces made for the 2021 exhibition. Billie Zangewa: Thread for a Web Begun explores Zangewas creation of literal and figurative tapestries of the everyday lives and contemporary intersectional ... More |
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 Tim Van Laere Gallery presents Rinus Van de Velde's new film, alongside sculptures, and drawingsANTWERP.- Tim Van Laere Gallery presents A Life in A Day, Rinus Van de Velde's seventh solo exhibition at the gallery. In this exhibition, the artist not only presents new drawings in oil pastel, colored pencil, and charcoal but also premieres his third film, A Life in A Day, of which he also shows a selection of sculptures that are part of the film. Rinus Van de Velde's oeuvre reads like a multiverse, in which different storylines always run parallel to one another. He has already created several alter egos that allow him to appropriate different personas and explore worlds that do not (yet) belong to him. The anchor point between all these worlds is always the artist himself, who through a path of impersonations, constructed lies, and appropriations comes closer and closer to the truth about his own person and his artistry. ... More  GRIMM's London Gallery now opening 'Fields of Vision ' by Letha WilsonLONDON.- GRIMM opened an exhibition of new sculptures by Letha Wilson, on view at the London gallery starting today. This is the artists debut solo exhibition in the UK, and her fourth solo exhibition with GRIMM since 2015. The exhibition follows Wilsons recent institutional solo exhibition Ground Spell at The Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, SUNY Purchase, New York, NY (US). Wilsons practice explores the boundaries, intersections and potential of photography and sculpture, synthesizing the seemingly contradictory elements of each medium through material experimentation. By printing directly onto surfaces such as copper, steel, and brass, Wilson introduces a third dimension to the photographic image, often bending, welding and collaging by slotting multiple elements together in a variety of geometric forms. Her practice amalgamates industrial ... More  Elgiz Museum Istanbul exhibiting 'Resurrection' until this NovemberISTANBUL.- Elgiz Museum İstanbul opened a new selection, titled Resurrection, that started on August 2st. In relation with the pandemic, 2020, the exhibition titled Broken Dreams was opened within the shadow of Thomas Struth's artwork titled Wuhan in the collection. As a cyclical part of Broken Dreams exhibition, Resurrection exhibition aims to transcend the destructive impacts and present future hopes through an artistic metamorphosis. Life, a perpetual cycle, embodies the eternal dance of cessation and inception. In every fleeting moment, one existence fades away, giving birth to another. The novelties that emerge serve as heralds of hope, illuminating the path to uncharted possibilities. Humanity, entranced by this rhythmic cadence of life, surrenders itself to the profound interplay of transitions and rebirths. The Resurrection exhibition ... More  Green Art Gallery has announced the representation of Emirati artist Asma BelhamarDUBAI.- Asma Belhamars interdisciplinary practice, now represented by Green Art Gallery, explores the phenomenon of the megastructure in the Emirates and its impact on the topographical memory of local landscapes. Through installation, experimental print, video and three-dimensional modelling, she synthesises the architectural and the organic to construct hybrid spaces that engage with notions of temporality and spatial memory. Her practice is driven by a desire to illustrate the effect that various architectural trends have had on perceptions of the Emirates both locally and globally. Born in 1988 in Dubai, UAE, Belhamar graduated with a BA in Visual Arts from Zayed University, Dubai, UAE (2012) and MFA in Textile Design at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (2017). She completed the Salama bint Hamdan ... More  Wembley Park marks World Alzheimer's Month with free photographic exhibitionLONDON.- September is World Alzheimers Month, the annual global campaign to raise awareness of Alzheimers and dementia. This September, Wembley Park Londons most exciting new neighbourhood is celebrating its collaboration with Alzheimers Society to mark World Alzheimers Month with a special photographic exhibition entitled Football Should Be Unforgettable.Paying tribute to the deep-rooted connection between Wembley Park and English football, the collection features illuminated portraits of English football stars including Jack Grealish, Harry Maguire and Luke Shaw to help raise funds and awareness of Alzheimers Societys work. This has never been more important - dementia is the UKs biggest killer, and one in three people born in the UK today will develop dementia in their lifetime. On the large-format photographs, each footballer reflects on their earliest memor ... More  Nye & Co. announces Chic and Antique Estate Treasures Auction, Sept. 13-1BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers three-day, online-only Chic and Antique Estate Treasures auction planned for Wednesday thru Friday, September 13th-15th, will feature American, English and Continental furniture, an extensive selection of silver and a broad selection of fine art. The event will begin promptly at 10 am Eastern time. The catalog is packed with more than 1,000 lots - a curated mix of fine and decorative arts spanning from the 18th century to the present day. Included will be Part V of property from the Stanley Weiss collection, as well as private collections along the Eastern seaboard from Maine to Pennsylvania. The largest single-owner section of property is being consigned by a private Princeton, New Jersey collector. Highlights include an oil on silk of a mother and child from the French/Vietnamese artist Le Pho. This work dates from his ... More  Tina Howe, playwright best known for 'Coastal Disturbances,' dies at 85NEW YORK, NY.- Tina Howe, who in plays that could be extravagant productions or small-cast gems zeroed in on the humor, heartache and solidity of her characters lives, particularly the female ones, died Monday in Manhattan. She was 85. Her family said the cause was complications of a broken hip sustained in a recent fall. Howe was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in drama, for Painting Churches in 1984 and Prides Crossing in 1997. Her Coastal Disturbances had a 350-performance run on Broadway in 1987 and was nominated for the Tony Award for best play. In the foreword to a 1984 collection of her plays Museum, The Art of Dining and Painting Churches, she described those three works this way, a summary that applies to much of her output: They share an absorption with the making and consuming of art, a fascination ... More  Peach Museum has opened exhibition featuring expressive, adult-themed selfie fun in underground AtlantaATLANTA, GA.- The Peach Museum by the Original Selfie museum creators, recently featured on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, have opened a new 18+ selfie exploration experience location on Underground Atlanta in the heart of Downtown. This new exhibit is content creator's dream, visitors will be treated to an array of thought-provoking and visually stunning exhibits, all meticulously crafted to spark the imagination and encourage vibrant selfies. As a space to create unique and captivating Instagram and TikTok content, Peach Museum offers a variety of backdrops that are perfect for hosting a birthday party, bachelorette party or a private event. Co-founder and visionary behind Peach Museum, Alex Kurylin, shared, This brand new concept is designed to break traditional boundaries and challenge the norms of self-expression. Peach Museum is a sanctuary ... More  Julien's Auctions and Turner Classic Movies present "Legends: Hollywood and Royalty"BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Juliens Auctions and Turner Classic Movies (TCM)the ultimate destination for Hollywood memorabilia auctionsunveiled today their exclusive collection of over 1,400 of the most iconic and fascinating objects synonymous with Hollywoods greatest legends and the worlds most famous cultural figures of all time to be presented in JULIENS AUCTIONS AND TCM PRESENT: LEGENDS: HOLLYWOOD AND ROYALTY, taking place live Wednesday, September 6th, Thursday, September 7th, and Friday, September 8th in Beverly Hills and online. This premium collection will be available to the public to experience and relive timeless moments in pop culture history via exclusive exhibitions, catalogs, on-air and online programming on the companies respective channels and platforms, events and more before offering these ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Helen Levitt was born August 31, 1913. Helen Levitt (August 31, 1913 - March 29, 2009) was an American photographer. She was particularly noted for "street photography" around New York City, and has been called "the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time. She lived in New York City and remained active as a photographer for nearly 70 years. New York's "visual poet laureate" was notoriously private and publicity shy.
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