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| | Miami Art Week: Zachary Balber's Uncensored Secret Performance Stills Can Finally Be Seen | |
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Nicotine Patch Prayers, by Zachary Balber. Archival fine art print on Hahnemühle Hemp paper (from the series Intimate Stranger, 2013-2019).
MIAMI, FLA.- This full series of uncensored secret photographs by Zachary Balber were kept under wraps until now until a statute of limitations had safely passed, allowing the artist to show these to the public. This is the first-ever showing of all 150 photographs, taken when Balber was hired by Miamis biggest real estate moguls to shoot over-the-top celebrity houses. Several are nudes and semi-nudes done in seconds while he rushed to get naked as the realtors were distracted in the next room. These sales photos required bleak, lifeless interiors that Balber just couldnt resist the urge to transform into his secret performance stills. Aptly titled Intimate Stranger, the gallery show is luring the curious over to Miamis Little River Arts District at Artmedia Gallery. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Galerie Parisa Kind invites you to the exhibition by Argentinian artist and filmmaker Tomás Maglione. The gallery is presenting three new and recent video installations as well as a group of light objects by the artist. Photogapher: guenzel_rademacher. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt/M.
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| He sold the world's most expensive artwork. Now he's calling it a day. | | Turner Prize goes to Jesse Darling, a sculptor of mangled objects | | Did the Russians take his family's Tintoretto? He's intent on finding out. | 
Jussi Pylkkänen, the global president of Christies, at the companys London headquarters, on Nov. 30, 2023. (Suzie Howell/The New York Times)
by Scott Reyburn
LONDON.- He is the man who sold the worlds most expensive work of art, a face familiar to the millions who watch livestream auctions on their computers and phones. In November 2017, Jussi Pylkkänen, the global president of Christies, was on the rostrum in New York to sell Leonardo da Vincis Salvator Mundi. The ninth lot of the auction, cannily branded the Last Leonardo by a Christies marketing campaign, took 19 minutes to sell. After a protracted, gasp-inducing duel between two telephone bidders, Pylkkänen finally knocked the Salvator Mundi down for $450.3 million with fees, a record for any artwork, either at auction or privately. The price obliterated the previous high: $179.4 million for Picassos Les Femmes dAlger (Version O) at Christies in New York in May 2015. Pylkkänen was on the rostrum for that sale, too. But now, at 60 and after working at Christie ... More | | 
Jesse Darling, who was nominated for two solo shows, at Modern Art Oxford and Camden Art Center. (Hello Content via The New York Times)
by Alex Marshall
NEW YORK, NY.- Jesse Darling, a sculptor who makes scrappy installations out of mangled objects, won the Turner Prize on Tuesday at a ceremony at the Towner Eastbourne art museum in southern England. The museum is hosting an exhibition of works by the four artists nominated for the prestigious annual British award through April 14. Alex Farquharson, the director of the Tate Britain museum and the chair of the prize jury, said in an interview that Darling, 41, manipulated banal objects in ingenious ways to produce work evoking a society on the verge of collapse. Its always so impressive when an artist, using commonplace items, creates something youve never seen before, Farquharson said. Darling beat three other nominees, including Barbara Walker, who draws portraits of Black subjects, sometimes directly onto gallery walls, and Ghislaine Leung, an installation artist whose ... More | | 
Friedrich Sarre, a German archaeologist and art historian, who is credited with expanding an understanding of Islamic art. (The Sarre family via The New York Times)
by Colin Moynihan
NEW YORK, NY.- In the annals of history painting, few topics have captivated artists more than the Battle of Lepanto, an epic 16th-century naval contest in which massive fleets of Christian and Ottoman galleys clashed off the coast of Greece. Among the numerous depictions of the scene is an enormous, 10-foot-wide version of the engagement created soon after it took place in 1571 that has been attributed to Tintoretto. That work, The Battle of Lepanto, was sold in Venice in 1908 to a German archaeologist and art historian, Friedrich Sarre, the first director of the Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin. The painting hung in that city for a time just before World War II. But then, as was the case with tens of thousands of works of art, its trail grew murky in the chaos of the times. The work was not listed as having been exhibited again in a public setting until the 1980s. Now members of Sarres f ... More |
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| Miami has matured into a cultural capital. What's next? | | This artist's muse has four legs, a tail, and barks | | Asia Week New York, Zoom in on 'Unintended Consequences: An Overview of Objects of Addiction' | 
Hernan Bas works on the installation of his show The Conceptualists, at the Bass Museum in Miami Beach, Fla. on Nov. 22, 2023. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times)
by Brett Sokol
MIAMI, FLA.- Their move overseas from London was all set. We were both 23 years old, right out of art school, recalled experimental filmmaker Dara Friedman of that moment in the summer of 1992, with her then-boyfriend, now husband, sculptor Mark Handforth. Where could we go that was inexpensive where we could start being artists? The unlikely answer was a city the art world had deemed a cultural backwater: Miami. That dismissal of Miami as a merely tropical getaway has shifted. This week sees virtually all eyes within the contemporary art milieu turn to South Florida for the 21st annual Art Basel Miami Beach fair, an event that draws well-heeled art collectors, dealers and curators from around the world. The Basel fair, open to the public Friday to Sunday and featuring 277 galleries hosting booths inside the Miami Beach Convention ... More | | 
Emilie Gossiaux, an artist who is blind, with White Cane Maypole Dance (2023), an installation featuring papier-mâché dog-women dancing, at her first solo museum exhibition in Queens, on Dec. 1, 2023. (Lila Barth/The New York Times)
by Hilarie M. Sheets
NEW YORK, NY.- How does it feel to have your life change in an instant? Emilie Gossiaux was an art student at the Cooper Union in 2010 when she was hit by an 18-wheel truck while on her bike in Brooklyn. Taken to Bellevue Hospital, she had suffered a traumatic brain injury, a stroke and multiple fractures. While Gossiaux ultimately regained her life, she had lost her sense of sight. She struggled to decide if she could, or even wanted to, continue making art. I had to adjust that framework in my head of what it means to be an artist, said Gossiaux, now 34, who had always viewed her ability to draw and paint as my absolute superpower. From age 4, her favorite thing to do was copy cartoons on television. Growing up in New Orleans, she charged other children 25 cents a head for drawing lessons she ... More | | 
Bronze gong (covered ritual wine vessel), China, Western Zhou period, mid-11th to early 10th century BCE. Cast bronze. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.52.91. Photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard College; courtesy of Harvard Art Museums.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Week New York, in collaboration with Harvard Art Museums, is presenting "Unintended Consequences: An Overview of Objects of AddictionOpium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade," now on display there through January 14, 2024. This intriguing webinar explores the interconnected histories of the opium trade and the Chinese art market from the late 18th to early 20th centuries. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, December 13, at 5:00 p.m. EST. Click here to register Dr. Sarah Laursen, curator of "Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade will lead the discussion, unveiling the intricate relationship between opium and Chinese art. This exploration sheds light on their profound impact on the global economy, cultural landscape, education, and, notably, public health and ... More |
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| Christopher Paolini wanted a job involving dragons, so he created one | | 'Hybrid: an Interspecies Opera' comprising film narrating the cutting edge of genetic engineering at Fridman Gallery | | A new management structure at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst | 
Paolini, a best-selling author of young adult fantasy novels, has a new book out, Murtagh. (Josh Redlich via The New York Times).
by Stefano Montali
NEW YORK, NY.- In the months before Christopher Paolini wrote the book that made him a star in young adult fantasy, he built a hobbit hole. Hed been home-schooled, and by the time he turned 15 hed graduated from high school and read many of the classics Leo Tolstoy, Alexandre Dumas and Jane Austen among them. So, in his familys backyard near the banks of the Yellowstone River in Paradise Valley, Montana, he dug a 10-foot hole and converted a massive satellite dish into a makeshift roof. Elaborate plans for a Viking-style mead hall danced through his head. It was about that point when I realized that I really needed to find something else to do, Paolini, who is now 40, said in a video interview from his home. Riding dragons and fighting monsters wasnt a career opportunity, he said, so I tried writing. What came of his effort was Eragon, the story of a farm boy ... More | | 
Dr. Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who is interested in art as research and critical practice.
NEW YORK, NY.- Fridman Gallery is presenting for one more week Hybrid: an Interspecies Opera, Heather Dewey-Hagborg's third solo exhibition with the gallery. Comprising a film narrated by the artist and scored by Bethany Barrett, sculptural works, and animations, the exhibition explores the relationship of cutting edge genetic engineering to the very origins of pig domestication 10 millennia ago. This documentary and personal narrative presents an intimate account of the interspecies relationship at the heart of the science of xenotransplantationspecifically the genetic engineering of pigs to supply human hearts. Comprising a film narrated by the artist, sculptural works, and animations, the exhibition explores the relationship of cutting edge genetic engineering to the very origins of pig domestication 10 millennia ago. This documentary and personal narrative is set to an original score by composer Bethany Barrett and presents an inti ... More | | 
From left: Catherine Reymond, Patrick Ilg , Tasnim Baghdadi, Michael Birchall, Nadia Schneider Willen. Photo: Gian Marco Castelberg
ZURICH.- A new management structure is being implemented at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, representing a new direction for the organisation. For the first time, a collective of five people will be taking on the management of the museum. With this step, the museum is setting an example of how contemporary management structures can be implemented within the art scene. Going forward, flat hierarchies, process orientation and collaborative teamwork will become key elements of everyday working life at the museum. On 9 June 2023, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Migros Museum of Contemporary Art) began an intensive transformation process in order to reposition itself with a forward-looking manage- ment team and move away from the traditional model of artistic directorship. This move allows the Migros Culture Percentage institution to meet the changing requirements placed on a museum by means of a modern ... More |
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| German artist Hans-Jörg Mayer's first survey exhibition at Martos Gallery in New York | | Did that $4 thrift shop painting really sell for $191,000? Nope. | | The Fralin Museum of Art announces Karen Elizabeth Milbourne as new J. Sanford Miller Family Director | 
Hans-Jörg Mayer, Dreamers, 2003. Oil on canvas, 98 3/8 x 66 7/8 in, 250 x 170 cm. Photo courtesy of the artist and Martos Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Martos Gallery opened in November the first survey exhibition of German artist Hans-Jörg Mayer in New York, organized in collaboration with Galerie Nagel Draxler. Featuring paintings spanning three decades, the exhibition will be on view until January 6, 2024. Hans-Jörg Mayer has continually conceived of art history in his own terms, working through its contents using his own tools. He maintains the romanticism of old masters, while repeating the benefits of modernism. For Mayer, god is Andy Warhol, goddess Isa Genzken. Edvard Munch also maintains a seat at the table. In keeping with a Pop Art edict, Mayers content is largely plucked from cultural objects such as magazines, photographs, cinema, pop songs, advertisements, and the internet. The artist, however, largely elides any static, genre-based authoritarianism. His arsenal of forms and gestures is alternatively mediated by an inner register bent toward expressive brus ... More | | 
The Savers thrift store where the Wyeth painting was bought by the Donahues, in Manchester, N.H., on Sept. 16, 2023. A New Hampshire couple was quite happy when a rare N.C. Wyeth work they stumbled upon sold for so much at auction. But when the buyer reneged, the sale and their vacation dreams were undone. (Joe Klementovich/The New York Times)
by Matt Stevens
NEW YORK, NY.- To Tracy Donahue, the whole thing had felt like winning the lottery. And in a sense, she and her husband, Tom, had. Donahues lucky break has been well documented: She strolled into a Savers thrift store years ago, purchased a $4 painting that struck her fancy, and then discovered it was, in fact, a rare and valuable N.C. Wyeth illustration. When the painting sold at auction in September for $191,000, the Donahues, who live in a modest New Hampshire home and seldom have money for adventures, began mentally allocating how they would spend the windfall on bills and a trip to visit their son in Germany. But the person who bid on the painting never paid, a decision that Donahue ... More | | 
Image courtesy of The Fralin Museum of Art and the University of Virginia.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- Following a national search, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has selected Karen Elizabeth Milbourne, Ph.D. to lead the Museum as the new J. Sanford Miller Family director. An innovative leader and curator with more than 20 years of experience in the museum field, Milbourne will assume her new role on Jan. 29, 2024. She succeeds previous director Matthew McLendon, Ph.D., who led the Fralin for six years. She comes to Charlottesville from the Smithsonians National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) in Washington, D.C., where she currently serves as senior curator and acting head of knowledge production. In Karen Milbourne, we have the tremendous good fortune of recruiting a superb scholar and curator of great ambition and distinction, and whose expertise is well matched with The Fralins global art collection, said search committee chair Sarah Betzer. The search commit ... More |
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 'Superman' sketch by Andy Warhol top sale at La Belle Epoque Auction on December 2ndNEW YORK, NY.- La Belle Epoque Auction House presented their Holiday Season Multi-Estates Auction on December 2nd at their stunning 7,000 square-foot space at 71 8th Avenue New York City. The auction, being held live in-person, was also online. This auction featured Contemporary and Modern Art of all kinds, while also offering a wonderful collection of Art Glass from Baccarat, Lalique and Carl Radke, German and French ceramics, sterling silver articles, Christmas memorabilia from the 1930s and collectible baseball cards from the 1950s. The spotlight was on an impressive selection of affordable Contemporary Art at La Belle Epoque on December 2nd, where one lucky bidder walked away with a Superman sketch by Andy Warhol, sketch on Arches paper, stamped on back twice with authentication by Frederick Hughes c.1989 and again in 2001 ... More  Under pressure, English National Opera will move to ManchesterNEW YORK, NY.- For decades, English National Opera, the acclaimed British opera company, has made its home in London. There, it has drawn audiences, nurtured singers and developed a host of major productions, many of which have traveled the world. But facing financial woes and pressure from Arts Council England, which cut off its vital government subsidy last year and urged it to develop a new business model that might include a move away from London English National Opera announced Tuesday that it would move its main base about 200 miles north to Manchester by 2029. The company said in a news release that it would still present a substantial opera season at the London Coliseum, its home since 1968, which it owns and operates. But it will now work to develop new audiences and programs in Manchester. Jenny Mollica, interim ... More  The world loves corridos tumbados. In Mexico, it's complicated.MEXICO CITY.- In many Mexican towns where wars between drug cartels continue to wreak havoc, the sight of a young man at night dressed in black and donning a balaclava would be terrifying. On a recent Saturday in Mexico City, Peso Pluma strutted across the stage in the same outfit, to excited cheers: It was time for the corrido tumbado concert. The 24-year-old breakout star, who makes a modern take on traditional Mexican music, wore a glamorous Fendi version of a sicario (or hit man) uniform. He faced a stadium full of fans and shouted, Are you ready to witness the most warlike concert of your life? The crowd roared back: It was ready. Later, during El Gavilán, the audience sang in unison, Im of the people of Chapo Guzmán, a reference to one of Mexicos most notorious drug lords. Peso Pluma along with acts like ... More  Recent works by senior and emerging artists from Yirrkala in 'Sunrise People' at BundanonSHOALHAVEN, NSW.- Bundanon's new exhibition season, Miwatj Yolŋu - Sunrise People, opened to the public on 28 October 2023, and will continue to 11 February 2024 in the Art Museum. Miwatj Yolŋu - Sunrise People presents the work of 13 senior and emerging Yolŋu artists from across the Yirrkala Community in East Arnhem Land, exploring interwoven stories of land, water, and sky. Exhibiting artists include Noŋgirrŋa Marawili, Dhambit Munuŋgurr, Gaypalani Waṉambi, Mulkuṉ Wirrpanda, Muluymuluy Wirrpanda, Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra, Djakaŋu Yunupiŋu, Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu, Wanapati Yunupiŋu, and artists from The Mulka Project including, Ruby Djikarra Alderton, Ishmael Marika, Patrina Munuŋgurr and Gutiŋarra Yunupingu. Similar to Bundanons location in the Shoalhaven region, Yirrkala is a place where fresh and saltwater ... More  Off-Broadway, a vital part of New York theater, feels the squeezeNEW YORK, NYZ`.- New Yorks nonprofit Signature Theater has three modern performance spaces designed by starchitect Frank Gehry, a long history of cultivating and championing major playwrights such as Edward Albee and Lynn Nottage, and a board chaired by Hollywood star Edward Norton. What Signature doesnt have this fall are plays. The company, a mainstay of the off-Broadway scene, closed its most recent production in July and is not set to start its next show until the end of January. Even as Broadway claws its way back from the coronavirus pandemic, New Yorks sprawling network of smaller theaters, many of them noncommercial in both tax status and taste, is struggling. This is the hardest season yet, said Casey York, president of the Off-Broadway League, citing the combined effects of smaller audiences, shifting philanthropic patterns, ... More  'Cabinet of Curiosities' winter exhibition to open at Gerald Peters Gallery tomorrowSANTA FE, NM.- Gerald Peters Gallery upcoming winter exhibition, Cabinet of Curiosities, features a collection of little gems from a selection of gallery artists. The diversity of artworks prompts the viewer to reflect upon oddities and small wonders found in the natural world. The individual works express one story, but displayed together, a more mysterious universe is imagined, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. Early Renaissance cabinets were proudly put on display by wealthy collectors as a means of illustrating their understanding and command of the world around them, often fabricating or exaggerating their own adventures. Our exhibition takes a playful poke at that notion as we try to understand and catalogue the enigmatic world in which we live. ... More  'Byzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega' is artist's 1st solo museum showNEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of the City of New York, NYCs storyteller for the last century, today shared details about its new exhibition, Byzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega -- the latest in the Museums centennial celebration. This extraordinary show highlights the captivating and colorful artistry of Bronx native Manny Vega, whose mosaics and murals grace the streets, subway stations, cultural hubs, and business facades across East Harlem / El Barrio. Featuring object labels in both Spanish and English, it offers a mesmerizing journey through Vega's distinctive visual narratives as they highlight community tales with themes ranging from African deities to urban mythologies, bridging personal and collective experiences. Opening December 8th, Byzantine Bembé marks the artists first solo museum show. Manny Vega, a masterful visual ... More  'Laurie Simmons: Autofiction' artist's recent series of image-based AI works at Salon 94NEW YORK, NY.- Salon 94 in collaboration with YoungArts presents Laurie Simmons: Autofiction, the artists recent series of image-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) works. This body of work sees Simmons experimenting with AI text-to-image models, as well as painting, drawing, and embroidery, furthering the artists decades-long commitment to picturing women in domestic spaces. Autofiction offers familiar themes from Simmons oeuvre while recognizing her as one of the first artists to seriously embrace AI. Since the 1970s with her radical use of color photography, Simmons has consistently embraced new technologies, eschewing long-held traditions of art-making. Her commitment to experimenting with new tools disrupts gendered preconceptions as they relate to women and technology. As part of her ongoing exploration of new methods for creating ... More  Perrotin Marais in Paris now presenting 'Bauhaus Gal – Theatre' Chen Ke's first solo exhibition therePARIS.- Perrotin is now presenting Bauhaus Gal Theatre, Chen Kes first solo exhibition at Paris gallery. For this new exhibition, the artist created a series of portraits of young Bauhaus students and architectural photographs presented in a theatrical scenography. Chen Ke has been creating paintings based on photographic portraits for several years. Some feature celebrities like Marilyn Monroe or Frida Kahlo, while others show lesser-known people like painter Helen Torr (1886-1967), who inspired Chen Kes 2020 exhibition The Anonymous Woman Artist. Torr exhibited very little and received mostly negative critics unlike her husband, the American painter Arthur Dove. Yet their works shared many formal similarities. Torr stopped painting entirely after Dove's death in 1946. And like so many other women artists, her so far under-appreciated ... More  She has the attention of dance companies, and she is preparedNEW YORK, NY.- Recently at the studios of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, choreographer Amy Hall Garner was working on the ending of a new piece, Century. In choosing the music for this moment, she had picked a recording from the Count Basie Orchestra with a title that might have a special resonance for anyone who has been following her career: This Could Be the Start of Something Big. Its not that Garner, 46, is just starting. But Century her first work for the main Ailey troupe, which debuts Friday as part of the companys season at New York City Center comes close on the heels of premieres for BalletX, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Miami City Ballet and the Paul Taylor Dance Company. In May, she will debut her first piece for New York City Ballet. Suddenly, she is all over the big leagues. I dont take it for granted ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini was born December 07, 1598. Gian Lorenzo Bernini (also spelled Gianlorenzo or Giovanni Lorenzo) (Naples, 7 December 1598 - Rome, 28 November 1680) was an Italian artist who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sculptor of his age and also a prominent architect. In addition he painted, wrote plays, and designed metalwork and stage sets. In this image: After a long restauration, the head of the Medusa by Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini was displayed in Rome, on Wednesday 22 November 2006. The sculpture was exhibited in the Capitol museum in Rome until January. The work of restoration emphasized the lights and the shadows on the sculpture.
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