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Soomin Jung Remmler, When you think of me., 2021. Graphite, colored pencil, gouache and fluorescent gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The McNay Art Museums dedication to highlighting San Antonio artists expands this year with the opening of two presentations focused on visual artists living and working in the Alamo City. Drawn in San AntonioToday and Artists Looking at Art: Jenelle Esparza opened Wednesday, February 2, with a dynamic presentation of contemporary artworks on view at the McNay for the first time. Located in the Charles Butt Paperworks Gallery through September 11, 2022, Drawn in San AntonioToday highlights the work of 22 San Antonio-based artists and expands on the definition of drawing. A departure from the traditional understanding of drawing as lines on paper, contemporary drawings are often made with unconventional materials. From animations rendered on a computer screen to photographic imagery and elements of collage, blending traditional and nontraditional mediums can connect the seemingly unrelated in unexpected ways. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Fausto Melotti. Theatre', Installation view, Hauser & Wirth London, Photo: Alex Delfanne, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
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| SFMOMA appoints Christopher Bedford as its new Director | | Exhibition at TOTAH features eleven new works by Mel Bochner | | Photographer's death casts harsh light on the cold streets of Paris | 
Christopher Bedford. Photo: Christopher Myers.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has appointed Christopher Bedford to lead the museum as its new Helen and Charles Schwab Director. Transitioning from Neal Benezra who has been Director since 2002, Bedford will start in June, joining SFMOMA from his current position as Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), which he has held since August 2016. Presented to SFMOMAs Board of Trustees as a unanimous choice by the museums search committee following a recruitment process exacting in scope and breadth, Bedford has been selected to create change, realize SFMOMAs values, further the museums ability to serve both its local Bay Area community and the international art world and lead the museum towards a successful, purposeful and equitable future. The search for a new director has been an almost year-long process, led by a search committee of nine trustees with a range of lived and pro ... More | | 
Mel Bochner, I Don't Get It/I Still Don't Get It/So What?, 2021. Monoprint in three parts in oil with collage, engraving and embossment on handmade paper, 60 Ã 60 inches (152.40 Ã 152.40 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- TOTAH presents I STILL DON'T GET IT, featuring eleven new works by Mel Bochner, on view from February 10th, 2022 through April 16th, 2022. This is the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery, following the duo Bochner/Boetti inaugural exhibition at TOTAH in 2016. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Christopher Bollen. These are works of visual art, but I think of the words that form them as analytical objects to be shuffled, rearranged, and piled up. The gradual deviation of meaning from word to word, from word to phrase, from phrase to phrase makes it appear as if there was some governing logic being sought, but never found. In the process of being made, the text often becomes smudged, sometimes illegible, language becomes gibberish. Alliteration and dissonance in both ... More | | 
Michel Mompontet, a journalist and friend who first drew attention to Mr. Roberts death in social media posts that went viral, said it was a cruel irony that Mr. Robert a humanist who relished the emotional openness of flamenco artists seemed to have suffered from the apathy of bystanders. Photo: Michel Mompontet @mompontet / Twitter.
by Aurelien Breeden
PARIS.- On a cold night last month, René Robert, an 85-year-old Swiss photographer, fell onto the pavement of a busy Parisian street and remained there for hours seemingly unassisted, apparently ignored by a stream of passers-by. When a medical team eventually arrived, Robert was found to be unconscious and died later in the hospital of severe hypothermia. Many in France were appalled by what appeared to be a blatant lack of compassion in the nations capital. But making the episode even more poignant were the identities of those who first found him and called for help two homeless ... More |
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| Sotheby's auction of Louis Vuitton & Nike "Air Force 1" by Virgil Abloh soars to record-breaking $25.3 million | | The Metropolitan Museum of Art to renovate its galleries for Ancient Near Eastern and Cypriot Art | | One of evolution's oddest creatures finds a fossilized family member | 
The Louis Vuitton and Nike Air Force 1 by Virgil Abloh. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- In a highly anticipated auction that marked the first-ever release of the Louis Vuitton and Nike Air Force 1 and Louis Vuitton pilot case created by Virgil Abloh, the 200 lot sale achieved a total of $25.3 millionmore than eight times the auctions overall $3 million high estimatesetting multiple new benchmarks, including the highest known public records for the most valuable sneaker and fashion auctions ever staged, and the most valuable charity auction at Sothebys in nearly ten years. Proceeds from the sale will benefit The Virgil Abloh Post-Modern Scholarship Fund, which in partnership with the Fashion Scholarship Fund, supports the education of academically promising students of Black, African American, or African descent. The blockbuster auction was highlighted by Lot 1, Size 5, which achieved $352,800 more than 23 times its $15,000 high estimate. Lot 181, a size 11, ha ... More | | 
View of the Cypriot galleries from the south. Rendering by NADAAA.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the complete renovation of its galleries for Ancient Near Eastern and Cypriot Art. The reimagined space will introduce an innovative and forward-thinking approach to presenting art from Cyprus and ancient West Asiaa vast region that includes ancient Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, the Eastern Mediterranean coast, Yemen, and Central Asiaby creating a more deeply engaging experience and providing spaces for contemporary discourse and discussion. The renovation will also bring these two major collection areas, which previously have been displayed separately, into dialogue with each other, reflecting areas of interconnection between their cultures in antiquity. The Museum has selected the Boston-based architectural firm NADAAA, led by principal designer Nader Tehrani, for the $40 million, 15,000-square-foot project. The new galleries are ... More | | 
An artist's rendering of the rare Opabinia specimen, based on the second opabiniid fossil ever discovered. Opabinia, which swam the seas of Earths Cambrian era some 500 million years ago, was not just a one hit wonder. Franz Anthony via The New York Times.
by Jack Tamisiea
NEW YORK, NY.- Of all the strange creatures unearthed from the Burgess Shale a cache of remarkable Cambrian fossils deposited in the Canadian Rockies none has been quite as transfixing as Opabinia. And for good reason with five compound eyes and a trunklike nozzle that ended in a claw, Opabinia seems otherworldly, like something imagined in a science fiction novel, rather than a swimmer in Earths oceans some 500 millions years ago. In Wonderful Life, his bestselling opus on the Burgess Shale, evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould labeled Opabinia as a weird wonder, and said it belonged among the pantheon of evolutionary icons like Archaeopteryx, Tyrannosaurus ... More |
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| Getty Museum presents 'Grand Design: 17th Century French Drawings' | | Exhibition at Gagosian presents sculptures by Anthony Caro from the 1960s and 1970s | | Arnolfini opens an exhibition of works by Paula Rego | 
Studies for a Ceiling Decoration with the Apotheosis of Psyche (detail), about 1680, Charles de la Fosse. Pen and black ink and brush and watercolor over red chalk on paper, 10 1/4 Ã 14 1/4 in. Getty Museum, 2001.47.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Presenting the Getty Museums collection of 17th century French drawings in its entirety for the first time, Grand Design: 17th Century French Drawings, open through May 1, 2022, addresses the emergence of a distinctly French school of art and explores the role that drawing played in the process. Today we recognize drawings by Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain as landmark achievements of 17th-century European art, says Timothy Potts, Maria Hummer-Tuttle and Robert Tuttle Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. But in fact, drawing lay at the heart of all artmaking in 17th-century France, from the decoration of palaces and churches to the illustration of books. Drawing was where it began. French art came into its own during the 17th century, often called the Grand Siècle, or Great Age, of France. This period witnessed a series of violent political upheavals at home, the first stages of colonial expansion over ... More | | 
Jack Bush, Brown Pole, 1967. Acrylic on canvas, 57 7/8 x 26 5/8 in. 147 x 67.6 cm © SOCAN, Montreal and DACS, London 2022. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. Courtesy Gagosian.
LONDON.- Gagosian is resenting Caro and North American Painters, an exhibition of sculptures by Anthony Caro from the 1960s and 1970s shown together with contemporaneous paintings by his friends and peers. Contextualizing aesthetic dialogues between Caro and his fellow artists, Caro and North American Painters features significant floor sculptures by Caro including Capital (1960), Month of May (1963), Smoulder (1965), and Hog Flats (1974). Paired with these works are paintings by American artists Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and Larry Poons, as well as Canadian artist Jack Bush. Caro was among the most influential British sculptors of his generation and his career had a transatlantic reach. During a trip to the United States in 1959, he observed the emerging American art firsthand, encountering the work of David Smith and befriending Frankenthaler, Noland, and critic Clement Greenberg. Upon his return ... More | | 
Paula Rego, Mist I (from Pendle Witches series), 1996. Etching and aquatint, plate size 35.8 x 29.5 cm / paper size 67.5 x 52.1 cm. Edition of 30. Courtesy Paula Rego and Cristea Roberts Gallery, London ©️ Paula Rego.
BRISTOL.- Arnolfini presents the work of Portuguese artist Dame Paula Rego RA - unarguably one of the most important figurative artists of her generation delving into her extraordinary imagination and celebrating the alchemical process of printmaking that is as central to her practice today as it has always been. Following on from the largest retrospective to date of the artists work at Tate Britain (July to October 2021), and exhibitions with Cristea Roberts Gallery (new representatives of the artists prints), Hogarth House and Museum de Reede, in Belgium (both 2021) and Victoria Miro (late 2021) Rego returns to Arnolfini almost 40 years after her first exhibition with the gallery (in 1982-83), creating an opportunity for a new generation of visitors to explore the artists subversive stories. Featuring over 70 prints from across Regos extensive career, Subversive Stories ventures inside the artists d ... More |
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| National Gallery of Victoria acquires Lavinia Fontana painting, first woman professional painter in Europe | | Hauser & Wirth presents a selection of sculptures, ceramic pieces and works on paper by Fausto Melotti | | Christie's presents 'Deep Impact: Martian, Lunar and Other Rare Meteorites' | 
Lavinia Fontana, Mystic marriage of St Catherine, c. 1575. Oil on copper, 48.5 x 33.6 cm. Felton Bequest, 2021.
MELBOURNE.- Italian artist Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) is widely recognised as the first woman to become a professional painter in Europe, winning many prestigious commissions and becoming the first woman admitted into the illustrious guild for painters in Rome, the Accademia di San Luca. Generously acquired by the Felton Bequest, Fontanas Mystic marriage of St Catherine, c. 1575, is the first painting by this important artist to enter a public collection in Australia and brings a new perspective to the NGVs strong holdings of Italian Baroque paintings. Fontana established her reputation by producing portraits and small devotional works, such as Mystic marriage of St Catherine. This painting illustrates a vision experienced by the Christian martyr, St Catherine of Alexandria (c. 287 c. 305 CE), in which she consecrated herself to Christ. Catherine lived in Egypt when it was under Roman rule and was persecuted ... More | | 
Fausto Melotti, In palude (In the Swamp), 1984. Brass, painted wood, painted fabric, 41 x 42 x 26 cm. Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich. © Fondazione Fausto Melotti, Milano. Courtesy Fondazione Fausto Melotti, Milan and Hauser & Wirth.
LONDON.- A selection of sculptures, ceramic pieces and works on paper by Italian sculptor, painter and poet Fausto Melotti are displayed for the first time at Hauser & Wirth in London. Curated by writer and curator Saim Demircan, the exhibition places an emphasis on the theatrical within Melottis practice and includes works spanning four decades from the 1930s until his passing in 1986. As Demircan says, it wasnt until the early 1980s that he designed set pieces for the actual stage. This exhibition looks back throughout Melottis lifetime to consider how theatre conceptually as much as a dramatic art informed the artists own creativity. Fausto Melotti is considered a pioneer of Italian art and is acknowledged for his unique contribution to the development of mid-century European Modernism. Coming of age in prewar Milan and living ... More | | 
NWA 12690 The third largest piece of Mars on Earth. Estimate: $500,000-$800,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Open for bidding from 9-23 February is Christies Deep Impact: Martian, Lunar and Other Rare Meteorites online-only sale. There is something for everyone with estimates ranging from $400 to $800,000 and 62 of the 66 lots offered at no reserve. Highlights include meteorites containing the oldest matter humankind can touch and others with gemstones from outer space. The auction also features a meteorite whose pressure wave knocked a mountain climber off his feet and another that took a cow off its feet in the only meteorite fatality on record. There are a dozen offerings from the Moon and Mars and nearly another dozen from the most famous museums in the world. Meteorites that potentially seeded life on Earth as well as several natural sculptures from outer space are also featured along with the most beautiful extraterrestrial substance known. Leading the sale is NWA 12690, ... More |
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 Venus Over Manhattan now representing Cornelius AnnorNEW YORK, NY.- Venus Over Manhattan announced today that the gallery now represents artist Cornelius Annor in New York. The gallery will present a group of the artists recent works as part of Art Basels OVR:2021, and is planning a solo exhibition of Annors work for 2023 in New York. Cornelius Annor paints portraits and figurative works that picture moments of community and intimacy, set in domestic spaces. Annors subjects stem from memory and personal history in Ghana. With roots in personal memory and photography, the artist casts scenes of private life onto large-scale canvases. Annors paintings typically include arrangements of fabric, adding to the intimacy and evocativeness of the portraits. His use of traditional Ghanaian textiles lends a textural quality to his work, which has become characteristic of his artistic style. The backgrounds of the ... More  The Estate of Emory Ashford Schwall, Sr. to be auctioned by Ahlers & OgletreeATLANTA, GA.- Items from the estate of Emory Ashford Schwall, Sr., with residences in the affluent Buckhead area of Atlanta as well as on Sea Island, Georgia, will be offered online on Saturday, February 27th, by Ahlers & Ogletree, starting at 10 am Eastern time. Mr. Schwall's collections are highlighted by fine paintings by listed artists, period antique furniture, fine rugs, English and French porcelain, china and objets dart over 550 lots in all. Emory Schwall was born in Moultrie, Georgia in April 1928 and came to Atlanta in 1945, where he studied architecture at Georgia Tech. But he gave that up in favor of a career in law. He was admitted to the state bar of Georgia in 1950 and enjoyed a stellar, 70-year career as a trial attorney. He was a tremendous orator with a keen intellect and sharp wit. Ashford met his future bride, Margaret Peggy McCready, in ... More  Benedict Cumberbatch has heard your confusion about 'The Power of the Dog'NEW YORK, NY.- It wasnt because he had already experienced the hoopla surrounding the Oscars or that fame has left him blasé. But Benedict Cumberbatch dozed through the announcement this morning that he was up for his second best-actor Academy Award nomination, this time for his portrayal of Phil Burbank, the cunning and cruel cattleman at the heart of Jane Campions The Power of the Dog. I think everyone heard about it but me, he said rather sheepishly in a call from Los Angeles. I was asleep and I didnt turn my phone on. I got an email last night from someone at Netflix saying, Look, no matter what happens were so proud, its such a great movie and such a great performance. I mean, it was a lovely, beautiful email. And I went, Oh, God, its happening tomorrow. No tossing and turning for the man who has played one of the most abhorrent ... More  Exhibition at OJMCHE's Menashe Gallery features four large-scale works painted by Henk PanderPORTLAND, ORE.- OJMCHE's Menashe Gallery exhibition features four large-scale works painted by the artist in response to Portland's 2020 protests for racial justice. The police killing of George Floyd in May 2020 shocked many citizens in Portland and around the country into a long-delayed reckoning for equal justice under the law. In some respects such an uprising had not seen since the 1960s. When the neighborhood around the Justice Center in Portland became the site of intense demonstrations it was no surprise to those who know his art that Henk Pander turned his artistic vision on this historic place and time. Henk Pander is no novice to making politically inspired paintings. His long career includes a series of paintings depicting his childhood memories of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam; the fate of Europes Jews; the Vietnam War; September ... More  Museum acquires archive of nearly 200 rare documents related to soldiers of color in the Revolutionary WarPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Timothy Caesar. Cuff Liberty. Jabez Pottage. Jonas Sunsaman. Nearly 200 rare documents bearing the names of Black and Native American soldiers who served during the Revolutionary War are now in the collection of the Museum of the American Revolution. The archive was acquired from a private collection, thanks to the generosity of several donors. The collection of original muster rolls, pay vouchers, enlistment papers, discharge forms, and other documents was assembled from auctions, rare manuscript dealers, and other collectors over the past two decades. The archive documents the military service of men of African and Native American descent who served in the ranks of the Continental Army. Telling the story of the American Revolution accurately means telling an inclusive story that acknowledges the diverse ... More  Tate Britain presents a multi-channel video installation by Danielle DeanLONDON.- Tate Britain unveiled a new exhibition by artist Danielle Dean. Deans work spans video, painting, installation, social practice and performance, and questions how individuals are shaped by commercial narratives around them, particularly in advertising. Titled Amazon this new work consists of a multi-channel video installation in which Dean summons fictive landscapes to explore the changing nature of human labour, examining practices of production, data extraction and commercial advertising. This is the latest in Tate Britains ongoing Art Now series of free exhibitions showcasing emerging talent and highlighting the latest developments in British art. Danielle Dean explores the effects of media and cultural production on the mind and body. Her work is imaginative, often blurring fact and fiction, using the aesthetics and language ... More  Decoding Dickens' secret notes to himself, one symbol at a timeLONDON.- For more than a century, Charles Dickens scholars have tried, without much success, to decipher a one-page letter written by the author in symbols, dots and scribbles. The letter sat for decades, unread, in a vault in the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, until recent months, when two Americans with backgrounds in computer science were able to make substantial headway in decoding the letter. They were motivated by a challenge from the University of Leicester, which posted a copy of it online and promised 300 British pounds, or $406, to the person who could make the most sense of it. The winner of the competition, Shane Baggs, a computer technical support specialist from San Jose, California, had never read a Dickens novel before. He transcribed more symbols than any other of the 1,000 people who entered helping ... More  Kathleen Guzman joins WorthPoint's board of directorsATLANTA, GA.- WorthPoint, the world's largest online resource for researching, valuing and preserving antiques, art and collectibles, today announced that Kathleen Guzman, former auction house executive and noted authority on fine art and collectibles, has been elected to the corporations board of directors. Guzman brings with her a broad range of leadership experience in the antiques and fine art trade, as well as a long track record of business acumen with collectors and resellers. Kathleens valuable domain expertise will be crucial in leading WorthPoint as it develops new products and services key to our customers success, said Will Seippel, founder and CEO of WorthPoint. Her experience in the business of buying and selling antiques, fine art and other high-end collectibles brings a unique perspective ... More  Norma Waterson, a key figure in Britain's folk revival, dies at 82NEW YORK, NY.- Norma Waterson, a vaunted fixture in British folk music for decades whose familial singing group, the Watersons, helped spur the genres revival in the 1960s, died Jan. 30. She was 82. Her daughter, Eliza Carthy, also a highly regarded singer and musician, announced the death on Facebook but did not say where Waterson died. She said Waterson had been in ill health for some time and was recently hospitalized for pneumonia. Waterson had a dynastic influence in British folk, not only for her work with the Watersons but also through her collaborations with the singer she married in 1972, Martin Carthy, himself a pivotal figure in British acoustic music, as well as through her joint albums and concerts with Eliza, their daughter. She formed the Watersons in 1965 with her younger siblings Mike and Elaine (who performed as Lal), ... More  Lin-Manuel Miranda on writing lyrics in Spanish and the heartbreak of 'Dos Oruguitas'NEW YORK, NY.- It was just one of those Tuesdays for Lin-Manuel Miranda. The composer, lyricist and actor known for In the Heights and Hamilton had trouble getting his youngest off to preschool, and his older sons school bus was running late. He sat down with his wife, attorney and engineer Vanessa Nadal, just in time to catch the Oscar nominations. The real joy in watching, he said, was how many friends Im lucky enough to know that made such amazing work this year. He texted Ariana DeBose when she was nominated for best supporting actress for West Side Story and hit up costume designer Paul Tazewell when he scored a nod for the same film. When Germaine Franco was recognized for best original score on the Disney animated film Encanto, which Miranda wrote songs for, he screamed for the whole neighborhood to hear. Encanto ... More  The Kirov Academy, a leading ballet school, to close in MayNEW YORK, NY.- The Kirov Academy in Washington D.C., an elite ballet school founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church, plans to close in May after serving as an important dance training ground for three decades. Parents were informed by email in November that the school was winding down its operations. As much as we love the Kirov Academy, we cannot ignore the financial reality, the Kirovs executive director, Pamela Gonzales de Cordova, wrote in the email. School officials declined to detail those financial realities of the academy, which offered academic and music programs in addition to its lauded Russian-style ballet training. Thomas Walsh, president of the academy and the Universal Peace Federation, founded by Moon, said in an email: Last year, it became clear that we could no longer rely on the necessary funding ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French illustrator and painter Honoré Daumier died February 10, 1879. Honoré-Victorin Daumier (February 26, 1808 - February 10, 1879) was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century. In this image: Honore Daumier, Lunch in the Country, c. 1867-1868. Oil on panel, 26 x 34 cm. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Photo © National Museum of Wales.
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