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Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life installation view at Tate St Ives 2022. Photo © Tate Photography (Sam Day).
SAINT IVES.- Tate St Ives presents a landmark retrospective on the iconic British artist Barbara Hepworth (19031975). Encompassing almost 50 sculptures, as well as rarely seen drawings, paintings and archival materials, Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life celebrates one of the most influential sculptors of the twentieth century and the special significance of St Ives on her work. Originally staged at The Hepworth Wakefield near the artists birthplace, Tate St Ives has collaborated with the gallery to reimagine the exhibition for the Cornish context in which Hepworth lived and worked. It emphasises how the areas rugged landscape and close-knit artistic community became important sources of inspiration. These local connections are evident in the titles of many key works, such as Curved Form (Trevalgan) 1956 and Sea Form (Porthmeor) 1958, while her engagement with the wider world of international events is explored through works such as D ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Museum of the American Revolutionâs award-winning 2019-2020 special exhibition Cost of Revolution: The Life and Death of an Irish Soldier is now available to virtual visitors from around the world through a robust online experience.
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| Mickey's copyright adventure: Early Disney creation will soon be public property | | Sotheby's projects 2022 sales of $8 billion, highest total in the company's 278 year history | | Art Spiegelman on life with a '500-pound mouse chasing me' |
The version of the iconic character from Steamboat Willie will enter the public domain in 2024. But those trying to take advantage could end up in a legal mousetrap.
by Brooks Barnes
NEW YORK, NY.- There is nothing soft and cuddly about the way The Walt Disney Co. protects the characters it brings to life. This is a company that once forced a Florida day care center to remove an unauthorized Minnie Mouse mural. In 2006, Disney told a stonemason that carving Winnie the Pooh into a childs gravestone would violate its copyright. The company pushed so hard for an extension of copyright protections in 1998 that the result was derisively nicknamed the Mickey Mouse Protection Act. For the first time, however, one of Disneys marquee characters Mickey himself is set to enter the public domain. Steamboat Willie, the 1928 short film that introduced Mickey to the world, will lose copyright protection in the United States and a few other countries ... More | |
Sandro Botticelli, The Man of Sorrows (1444-5 - 1510). Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, N.Y..- Sothebys announces landmark 2022 results driven by continued innovation, exceptional series of marquee auctions in both Fine Art and Luxury, three single-owner collections totaling over $100 million, further expansion of global audiences and successful integration of RM Sothebys and Sothebys Concierge Auctions into the core business. Sothebys total consolidated sales are projected to reach new heights of $8 billion for 2022, with Fine Art and Luxury auction sales currently standing at $6.4 billion - including Sothebys online sales at $580 million, and totals from newly-acquired businesses RM Sothebys and Sothebys Concierge Auctions - while Private Sales are set to reach over $1.1 billion for the third consecutive year. Expanded offerings and digital reach continue to attract new bidders across the business: over 40% of bidders this year were new to Sothebys (reaching nearly 50% ... More | |
Art Spiegelman at his home in the Soho neighborhood of New York on Dec. 19, 2022. (Sara Messinger/The New York Times)
by Alexandra Alter
NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent afternoon, Art Spiegelman was sitting in the living room of his SoHo apartment, puffing on an e-cigarette that he wears around his neck, clipped to a pen holder so that he doesnt misplace it. Im always losing things, he explained. He was feeling more disoriented than usual, having just returned home after several weeks on the road a two-week road trip across the South with his son, Dash; a research excursion to a comics museum in Columbus, Ohio, for a new project; and a stop in Cincinnati to attend a memorial service for cartoonist Justin Green, a close friend and mentor of his. The whirlwind trip capped a momentous and chaotic year for Spiegelman, an iconic cartoonist, who was thrust into a national debate about censorship and rising antisemitism ... More |
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| Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts presents two new exhibitions | | For Richmond, a compelling new chapter | | Comprehensive exhibition at Zentrum Paul Klee explores the work of Isamu Noguchi |
Installation view of Elisabeth Kley: Minutes of Sand, 2022 at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Courtesy of the artist and Bemis Center. Photography by Colin Conces.
OMAHA, NEB.- Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts presents two new exhibitions; Elisabeth Kley: Minutes of Sand and Opulence: Performative Wealth and the Failed American Dream on view from December 9, 2022 through April 16, 2023. Minutes of Sand showcases Kleys ceramics alongside print yardage which was created while in-residence at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, PA. Opulence: Performative Wealth and the Failed American Dream is a group exhibition celebrating lavish, decadent aesthetics while exploring the socioeconomic conditions that drive some within marginalized communities to revel in them. Elisabeth Kleys work sits at the distinctive confluence of pattern, decoration, and contemporary art. Known for her black-and-white patterns featured in ceramics, drawings, paintings, and site-specific installations, the artist draws inspiration from motifs featured in ornamentation, architecture, interior decoration ... More | |
Kehinde Wileys Rumors of War statue at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Va., Dec. 19, 2019. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
by Julie Besonen
RICHMOND, VA.- History is not necessarily being rewritten in Richmond, Virginia, but there is a compelling new chapter in the works. The state capital, once the capital of the Confederacy, is reckoning with its legacy of slavery and Jim Crow-era racism: The mansion-lined Monument Avenue is now devoid of Confederate statues, and just recently, on a busy intersection 2 miles away, the last remaining city-owned statue of a Confederate officer, Ambrose P. Hill, was brought down. A stroll around the city reveals hilly pockets that are stuffed with history, from railroad lines to old tobacco warehouses, from Queen Anne, Victorian, Georgian and Beaux-Arts facades to the Greek Revival splendor of the Virginia state Capitol building, designed in part by Thomas Jefferson. The citys topography rises from the James River and is eminently walkable, but as you explore, dont get buried in your phones maps, since many brick sidewalks ... More | |
Isamu Noguchi, My Mu, 1950. Seto stoneware, 34,3 x 24,1 x 16,8 cm. The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York. Photo: Kevin Noble. The Noguchi Museum Archives, 00212 © INFGM / 2021, ProLitteris, Zurich.
BERN.- The Zentrum Paul Klee is devoting a comprehensive exhibition to the Japanese-American world citizen and important sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi (19041988). It reveals a radically interdisciplinary uvre that brings together art and de- sign. Isamu Noguchi is one of the most experimental artists of the 20th century, and one of the most important sculptors and designers of the United States. His varied body of work is marked by a search for the connection between art and life: among other things he made stage sets, light objects, furniture, public gardens and playgrounds. He drew inspiration from past and contemporary cultures: Japanese gardens, astronomic observatories in India or the abstract art of Surrealism. As a politically committed artist he used his interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to expand the understanding of sculpture. He was not interested in making objects solely for galleries ... More |
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| Menahem Schmelzer, Jewish theological seminary librarian, dies at 88 | | December sale at Clars garnered multiple local and international bidding | | In this show, Mack the Knife is a woman |
A Chinese Torah in the collection of the Jewish Theological Seminary studied by Professor Menahem Schmelzer, rear, in New York on Feb. 9, 1973. (Edward Hausner/The New York Times)
by Joseph Berger
NEW YORK, NY.- Menahem Schmelzer, a Hungarian refugee who for more than two decades was the doting custodian of one of the worlds greatest collections of ancient Hebrew and other Jewish manuscripts and books as the librarian of the Jewish Theological Seminary, died Dec. 10 at his home in New York City. He was 88. His family confirmed the death. During Schmelzers tenure as chief librarian, from 1964 to 1987, the seminarys collection of almost 245,000 volumes was a primary destination for scholarly inquiry into the history and literature of the Jewish people. It houses a rare-book room with irreplaceable contents: volumes of Talmud and Passover Haggadahs from the Middle Ages; richly decorated marriage documents from the 17th century; a 15th-century prayer book, handwritten in Florence and illuminated with gold leaf ... More | |
A diamond and white gold brooch, Van Cleef & Arpels. Sold for $46,875.
OAKLAND, CALIF.- Winter Fine Jewelry & Timepieces Auction of Clars Auction Gallery achieved a 78% sold by lot and a 123% hammer above low estimate for sold lots. There were over 1,500 bidders participating the sale. Signed jewelry was a highlight of the sale, including makers like Van Cleef & Arpels, Tiffany and Cartier. One of the top lots in the Winter Fine Jewelry & Timepieces sale was lot 5246, a diamond and white gold brooch by Van Cleef & Arpels. After a competitive bidding war among the internet, phone bidders, and in-house bids, the Van Cleef & Arpels diamond brooch achieved $46,875.00 by a buyer from the East Coast. Clars fine art department had a successful December auction with several works greatly surpassing their expected estimates. The Guy Irving Anderson (American, 1906-1998) oil and paper on board, titled Homage to Sadat, flew past its $3,000 - $5,000 estimate, selling for a total $17,500. The artists popularity ... More | |
Starting with The Threepenny Opera, the Volksoper in Vienna is reconsidering a series of works and inviting audiences to join the discussion. © Stadler/Bwag.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Threepenny Opera could be considered an antiopera as much as its menacing lead character, Macheath, is an antihero. This satirical and existential piece spoofed opera and, in doing so, broke the rules and pushed the art form of musical theater forward. And this is precisely the lure for the Volksoper in Vienna. The house stages musicals and operas, often with a new spin. Right now, it is exploring The Threepenny Opera, with a new production running through January. The 1928 work, based on the 18th-century work The Beggars Opera by John Gay, was written by German composer Kurt Weill and German dramatist Bertolt Brecht as a harsh satire of capitalism just before the rise of Nazism. The shows antihero, Macheath, is a criminal among a rogues gallery of friends and business acquaintances relishing in the corruption and greed of 19th-century England, but with a wink to pre-fascist Germany ... More |
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| David Dibosa appointed Tate's Director of Research and Interpretation | | UCCA presents Geof Oppenheimer's first solo exhibition in China, "People in Reverse." | | Toledo Museum of Art selects Beth Lipman as 53rd Guest Artist Pavilion Project (GAPP) Artist in Residence |
David Dibosa. Photograph by Gavin Freeborn.
LONDON.- Tate has appointed Dr David Dibosa as Director of Research and Interpretation. Taking up the role in April 2023, he will lead the development of a thriving research community within and beyond the organisation. David will also support Tates interpretation team in engaging audiences in the galleries as well as online. He will be a key representative of Tate across the museum and academic sectors. David Dibosa is currently Reader of Museology at University of the Arts London, having taught at universities in London for more than twenty years and regularly lecturing around the world. His research has focused on museum practices. He also has an extensive publication history and broadcasting background. Among many other initiatives, he was part of the research team that led the project Black Artists and Modernism alongside artist Sonia Boyce. Earlier this year he presented The Great Salvador Dali ... More | |
Installation view.
BEIJING.- From December 23, 2022 to April 9, 2023, UCCA presents Geof Oppenheimer: People in Reverse. The show marks Geof Oppenheimers (b. 1973, Washington, D.C.) first solo exhibition in China. For more than two decades, Oppenheimer has worked in mediums including sculpture, video, drawing, and photography to explore how social and political relations are embedded within images and objects. Featuring new work commissioned by UCCA, this exhibition is centered on cast statues of three archetypal figuresthe businessman, the flagbearer, and the observerplaced within an immersive environment formed out of custom-made walls, floor coverings, mass-produced products, and raw materials. These artworks were presented last year as part of the Diriyah Biennale, Feeling the Stones, which was curated by a team from UCCA, in a space specially constructed to recreate the proportions ... More | |
Beth Lippman. Photo by Rich Maciejewski.
TOLEDO, OHIO.- The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) has named Beth Lipman as the 53rd Guest Artist Pavilion Project (GAPP) Artist in Residence. The Wisconsin-based artist, who works primarily in colorless clear glass, will visit TMA Dec. 7-16 to create new work and share her process. On Dec. 9 at 7 p.m., she will give a talk on her studio practice and anticipated work in ReGift, an exhibition opening at the Toledo Museum of Art in summer 2023. The site-specific glass installation investigates the life of Florence Scott Libbey. "What is special about having Beth as a GAPP artist is that she is coming, in part, to make work for this site-specific installation, which is not typically the focus of the GAPP artists, said Diane Wright, TMAs senior curator of glass and contemporary craft. She is simultaneously moving forward an objective to support experimentation in glass through a commissioned work, while connecting us to our history ... More |
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Winner of the Fondation Prince Pierre of Monaco's 48th International Prize for Contemporary Art, at La Casa Encendida
MADRID.- The Star-Spangled Banner (2020), the winning work of this years PIAC, now being shown shown alongside two other works by Christine Sun Kim at La Casa Encendida since 11 November 2022 to 26 February 2023. This exhibition is on view during the International Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO) in Madrid. First awarded in 1965, the Prix International dArt Contemporain (PIAC) has been organized by the Fondation Prince Pierre of Monaco since 1983. Since 2010, it has been awarded every three years by the Artistic Council after consultation with international experts from the artistic world. The winner receives a sum of 75,000, which may include funding for the production of an original work ... More
Wild and Wilde: At celebrity cemetery, nature takes on starring role
PARIS.- Dry leaves rustled under Benoît Gallots footsteps as he rambled his way across the rugged terrain. Stopping by shrubs of laurel and elder, he pulled aside their foliage to uncover a crumbling stone colonnade. A parakeet, perched up in a nearby tree, squawked. It looked like a scene deep in one of Frances luxuriant forests but this was inside one of the worlds most visited burial grounds, Père-Lachaise cemetery, nestled between traffic-laden avenues in eastern Paris. The cemetery has long been known as the final resting place for celebrated artists, including Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde and Ãdith Piaf. But in recent years, it has also become a haven for the citys flora and fauna. Foxes and tawny owls are among the many animals calling it home. Natures taking back its rights, said Gallot, the cemeterys curator, responsible ... More
Keith Piper to create new work at Tate Britain in response to Rex Whistler mural
LONDON.- Tate today announced that celebrated British artist Keith Piper will create a new work to be shown alongside and in dialogue with the Rex Whistler mural at Tate Britain. Keith Piper (b.1960) is renowned for his artistic responses to specific historical relationships and geographical sites. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as a founder member of the BLK Art Group and has gone on to stage solo exhibitions at museums and galleries across the UK, Europe and USA. His output as an artist ranges from painting and photography to video and digital media. Piper also works as a curator, researcher and academic and is an Associate Professor at Middlesex University, London. Alex Farquharson, Director of Tate Britain, said: Keith Pipers work has always reflected his deep interest in important but overlooked histories ... More
Museum of Jewish Heritage announces "Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark"
NEW YORK, N.Y..- In fall 2023, New Yorks Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will launch its first exhibition developed for elementary school-aged students. Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark will commemorate the 80th anniversary of one of the most effective episodes of mass resistance in modern history. Designed for visitors ages 9 and up, the exhibition will use age-appropriate themes of separation, bravery, and resilience to help young people make connections to their own lives and reflect on the dangers of prejudiceas well as their own potential for compassionate, moral, and courageous collective action and upstanding. Using state of the art technology and creative storytelling, including dynamic hologram technology, Courage to Act will immerse visitors in this inspiring story ... More
Svigals + Partners advances architect, Alana Konefal, Leader of Complex Projects
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- Architecture, art, and advisory firm, Svigals + Partners has announced the advancement of team leader, Alana Konefal, AIA, to Associate Principal. A skilled architect with an expertise in uniting people of diverse backgrounds to advance large-scale projects, Konefal leads design teams and consultants on various complex projects in education, science/technology, workplace, and healthcare. Noted for her strengths managing day-to-day operations and focusing on client missions and goals, she currently heads the revitalization of the Elm City Bioscience Center from an underutilized office building into one of New Havens most vital biotech hubs. In 2020, Konefal oversaw the completion of extensive renovations at Central Connecticut State Universitys Barnard Hall and the regional expansion of Biohaven Pharmaceuticals in Yardley ... More
Tang Contemporary Art presents: Orkys: HIMBAD Solo Exhibition curated by Michela Sena
BANGKOK.- Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok is currently presenting, since December 16th, Orkys : HIMBAD Solo Exhibition, curated by Michela Sena in its Bangkok space. "ORKYS - Breaking the boundaries between street and the white box" is the first solo exhibition from street artist HIMBAD with Tang Contemporary Art made in collaboratin with Ader Wu Art Advisory. The event will continue through January 28th, 2023. Just like the orchids adapt to different environments, we find HIMBADs artworks spread around the most random locations! An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it. Confucious. In the East the orchid represents perfection (for the symmetry of its petals with the stem) and purity, while in the West its related to love, for its ability to grow everywhere. Orkys is the scientific term for orchid and it's the title of the show ... More
A literary scene where parties are part of the agenda
NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent winter evening, Cat Fitzpatrick and Kay Gabriel were trying to decide how the former would introduce the latter, who was about to read from her new novel, A Queen in Bucks County. Fitzpatrick mentioned that the book had made her cackle on the PATH train. Making other trans women crack up in public had been her goal, Gabriel said. Fitzpatrick had invited Gabriel, as well as about 100 more people, to her row house in South Brooklyn for a winter salon celebrating LittlePuss Press, a small press Fitzpatrick started with Casey Plett last year. The two women, who met almost a decade ago at a writing conference, came into their own as writers and editors amid what Plett calls the trans lit renaissance of the early 2010s. With firsthand knowledge of that not-so-long-ago moment, Plett and Fitzpatrick are now trying to spur another renaissance all their own. And like many other indie presses and publications that dot the New York literary landscape ... More
Nélida Piñon, provocative Brazilian novelist, is dead at 85
NEW YORK, NY.- Nélida Piñon, a trailblazing Brazilian author whose provocative writing won some of the worlds most prestigious prizes, and who made history when she became the first woman to preside over the countrys literary academy, died Dec. 17 in Lisbon, Portugal. She was 85. Her secretary and longtime friend Karla Vasconcelos da Silva said the cause was complications of emergency surgery that she had undergone after battling stomach cancer. Piñon is widely regarded as one of Brazils greatest contemporary writers, admired for her masterly use of Portuguese and her playful approach to literary form. Literature opened the doors of paradise and, at the same time, of hell to me, Piñon told a Portuguese radio station in 2021, referring to the highs and lows of the writing process. I always lived with intensity ... More
A musical modernist's newly polished, smiling guise
NEW YORK, NY.- For devotees of fiendish musical modernism, Bernd Alois Zimmermann was one of the 20th centurys most notorious and at times elusive composers. Born in Germany in 1918, he was among the generation of musical prodigies whose early studies were waylaid and then fully interrupted by the rise of the Nazi party, which drafted Zimmermann into service on both the eastern and western fronts of World War II. Yet after his discharge in 1942, the composer quickly resumed the kind of polymathic, globally curious aesthetic that the Third Reich had sought to stamp out of German music academies. By the 1950s, when he had become a part of the postwar German avant-garde, Zimmermann also declared his interest in Brazilian moods of saudade, American boogie-woogie, as well as the similarly eclectic music of French composers such as Darius Milhaud ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros was born December 29, 1896. David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros, December 29, 1896, in Chihuahua â January 6, 1974, in Cuernavaca, Morelos) was a Mexican social realist painter, better known for his large murals in fresco. Along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, he established "Mexican Muralism." In this image: Unfinished 1940s mural painted by David Alfaro Siqueiros, in Escuela de Bellas Artes, a cultural center in San Miguel de Allende, Gto.
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