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In photo provided by The New York Times shows, a screenshot of a Louis Vuitton advertisement for a handbag with the actress Léa Seydoux that appears to use part of a painting by Joan Mitchell, Quatuor II for Betsy Jolas, as the backdrop. The Joan Mitchell Foundation sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Paris headquarters of Louis Vuitton on Tuesday, Feb. 21, alleging the fashion brand had used the artists paintings in handbag advertisements after her nonprofit organization repeatedly declined to give its approval. (Via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Joan Mitchell Foundation sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Paris headquarters of Louis Vuitton on Tuesday, alleging the fashion brand had used the artists paintings in handbag advertisements after her nonprofit organization repeatedly declined to give its approval. Mitchell, who died in 1992, is considered one of the great abstract artists of the postwar period, and her large-scale works regularly sell for over $1 million at auction. At least three of her paintings, known for their vibrant symphony of color, appear in current Vuitton ads starring actress Léa Seydoux. The foundations letter, which was reviewed by The New York Times, asserts that Louis Vuitton infringed on the artists copyright and demands that the luxury fashion brand withdraw its marketing campaign within three days or face legal consequences. It is a grave disappointment to the Joan Mitchell Foundation that Louis Vuitton has such disregard for the rights of an artist and would exploit h ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold an Antiquities | Ethnographica | Fine Art sale on Feb 24, 2023 9:00 AM CST. The sale features classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fossils, Fine Art, Jewelry, more! Gandharan Schist Panel w/ Male Archers. Estimate $2,400 - $3,600.
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| We regret the fossil error. It wasn't the first. | | Yoko Ono at 90 | | Masterwork by Rubens to star in Sotheby's Modern Evening Sale this May | 
The Dickinsonia fossil, reportedly found in a cave famous for its ancient paintings near Bhopal, India. It turned out to be something else entirely. (Gregory Retallack via The New York Times)
by Joshua Sokol
NEW YORK, NY.- At its best, paleontology opens windows into trillions of other lifetimes spent swimming, scuttling, stomping and soaring across this planet. Scientists, the press and the public alike tend to tell and retell these success stories, lionizing intrepid researchers. The most impressive specimens are enshrined in museums. But possibly just as important is when scientists get something wrong, badly, and somebody sets the record straight. In the last pre-COVID lockdown days of 2020, for example, Gregory Retallack, a paleontologist from the University of Oregon, and a few colleagues toured a famous set of Indian cave paintings. Afterward, they announced they had discovered something that previous visitors had overlooked: a 550-million-year-old fossil called Dickinsonia from the dawn of ... More | | 
Phillip Ward, left, and Jennifer Barton, the organizers of Morning Piece for Yoko Ono at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park to celebrate Onos 90th birthday, in New York, Feb. 18, 2023. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
by Jim Windolf
NEW YORK, NY.- At 90, Yoko Ono has outlasted her detractors, just as she more or less predicted she would in Yes, Im a Witch, a defiant song she recorded in the 1970s. Im not gonna die for you, Ono sang. You might as well face the truth / Im gonna stick around / For quite a while / Yes, Im a witch. To commemorate her 90th birthday Saturday, more than 50 artists and fans gathered at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park to take part in Morning Piece for Yoko Ono, a 1960s-style art happening that doubled as a celebration. Many of those who showed up said they had become aware of Ono decades ago, around the time when she was newly married to John Lennon and the Beatles were breaking up. I was a big Beatles fan when ... More | | 
Rubens masterpiece Portrait of a Man as the God Mars returns to Belgium for first time in 200 years. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys unveiled a masterpiece by Sir Peter Paul Rubens: Portrait of a Man as the God Mars, a painting that encapsulates the Baroque masters unrivalled originality and power of expression, and a rare manifestation of one the artists deepest private passions - his complete fascination with the classical world. The works appearance in Brussels marks the first time in some 200 years that the painting has returned to the region in which it was executed, circa 1620. From Brussels, the arresting allegorical portrait will travel to London ahead of its sale in New York, where in a nod to its intensity and innovation - it will be offered in Sothebys Modern Evening Sale this May. Rubens love of classical antiquity is well documented. Having travelled to Italy in 1600, when he was 23, he became quickly captivated by the myths, legends, architecture and art of the classical period, drawing incessantly ... More |
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| Bozar opens an exhibition with works by Swedish artists who are inspired by the spiritual and the occult | | Meadows Museum press preview for "In the Shadow of Dictatorship: Creating the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art" | | Looted artifacts, returned to Yemen, will go to the Smithsonian, for now | 
Swedish Ecstasy exhibition view. © Gilles Njaheut Valler.
BRUSSELS.- From January till July 2023, Sweden is holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. At this occasion and in partnership with the Nationalmuseum Stockholm, Bozar in Brussels presents the ambitious exhibition project Swedish Ecstasy: Hilma af Klint, August Strindberg and other visionaries. The exhibition is curated by Daniel Birnbaum and is on view from February 17 through May 21, 2023. Sweden is often applauded for its pragmatism, great engineers and entrepreneurs. But there is an important yet lesser known aspect of the nations spiritual life, visible in its art and literature. Bozar in Brussels is therefore staging an exhibition that brings together a number of figureheads from the Swedish art scene. Mysticism and esoteric speculation runs like a read thread through their work. In Swedish Ecstasy: Hilma af Klint, August Strindberg and other visionaries, curator Daniel Birnbaum has ... More | | 
José Guerrero (Spanish, 19141991), Blue Intervals, (Intervalos azules), 1971. Oil on canvas, 72 1/4 x 60 1/4 in. (183.5 x 153 cm). Colección Fundación Juan March, Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca, 0187P. © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Madrid. Photo by Santiago Torralba.
DALLAS, TEXAS.- Media are invited to a preview of the Meadows Museums newest exhibition, In the Shadow of Dictatorship: Creating the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art, on Thursday, Feb. 23, at 10:30 a.m. Check in opens at 10 a.m. A light buffet lunch will be served after the program and tours. The exhibition presents a comprehensive selection of highlights from the eponymous museum (Museo de Arte Abstracto Español) whose historic building in Cuenca, Spain, is currently undergoing renovations. This is the first major exhibition of Spanish abstract painting and sculptures to take place in the U.S. since the 1970s. The exhibition will open to the public on Feb. 26 and will run through June 18, 2023. The Dallas presentation will ... More | | 
In a photo provided by Homeland Security Investigations New York shows, an ancient funerary stela, or marker, was one of the 77 looted artifacts formally returned to Yemen by U.S. officials on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. (Homeland Security Investigations New York via The New York Times)
by Graham Bowley and Tom Mashberg
NEW YORK, NY.- As the pressure on museums and collectors to return looted artifacts to their countries of origin has grown in recent years, one issue has been whether some countries are equipped to accept them immediately. On Tuesday, under an agreement designed to recognize such a difficulty, the Smithsonian Institution announced that the U.S. is returning 77 looted artifacts to the government of the Republic of Yemen, but their physical return will be delayed during the current violent conflict there. For the next two years at least, the objects will be housed at the Smithsonians National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, where some may ... More |
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| Exhibition in honour of late north-east artist Sally Madge | | Gillian Jason Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Julia Bennett and Mizuki Nishiyama | | Pirelli HangarBicocca presents "NOw/here" by Gian Maria Tosatti | 
Sally Madge.
LONDON.- The work of a renowned north-east contemporary artist and University of Sunderland lecturer who died during the COVID-19 pandemic is being celebrated in a new exhibition. Sally Madge sadly passed away in 2020 after contracting the virus she was 74. A retrospective exhibition Sally Madge Nowhere Better Than This Place has opened at Newcastle Contemporary Art (NCA) in tribute to Sallys work, which is rooted in the re-making and re-using of every day mundane domestic objects and rituals in such a way as to touch on deeper layers of experience. Sally lived in Newcastle and before retirement taught at Sunderland, first as a Lecturer (Art and Design Education) from 1985 until 1998, then as Senior Lecturer (Visual and Performing Arts) from 1998 until 2006, and finally as an Academic Tutor and Visiting Lecturer (Foundation Studies in Art and Design) from 2006 until 2011. ... More | | 
Umma, 2023 by Mizuki Nishiyama.
LONDON.- Gillian Jason Gallery launches The Earth We Walk Upon | The Ancestors We Bring With Us. American artist Julia Bennett and Japanese artist Mizuki Nishiyama remind us of our primal bond with nature through a selection of paintings, sculpture, and tapestries. Earth exists as the carrier of deep time, its layers of soil become a portal into both the known and unknown. When we bury our hands in its flesh, we entangle ourselves in its history. Julia Bennett and Mizuki Nishiyama plunge into the shimmering underworld to unveil narratives whispered within, reviving the departed and reconstructing themselves in the process. Soil is animated through its metaphorical and physical incorporation into the artists work; in this process the life and dynamism of the natural world is not only unveiled, but brought to the forefront of the artistic discourse. In the words of author T. C. McLuhan: The earth is not ... More | | 
Gian Maria Tosatti, NOw/here, exhibition view at Pirelli , HangarBicocca, Milan, 2023. Courtesy the artist and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. Photo Ela Bialkowska, OKNOstudio.
MILAN.- From 23 February to 30 July 2023, Pirelli HangarBicocca presents "NOw/here," the solo exhibition by Gian Maria Tosatti (Rome, 1980; lives and works in Naples), one of the most interesting Italian artists in recent years. Two impressive painting cycles: with these new textured, abstract, large-format works, the artist who represented Italy in 2022 at the 59th Venice Biennale, offers the public a "sentimental retrospective," revealing his painting practice for the first time. The exhibition "NOw/here," curated by Vicente TodolÃ, consists of two cycles of paintings presented for the first time at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Portraits (2022) and NOw/here (2023). These large-scale works are set up in close relationship with the architecture of Pirelli HangarBicocca, creating moments ... More |
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| "Our Own Work, Our Own Way: Ascendant Women Artists in the Johnson Collection" at CMA | | The Dayton Art Institute announces Mariah Postlewait as Kettering Curator of Photography and Special Projects | | Tim Whiten awarded the 2022 Gershon Iskowitz Prize | 
Nell Blaine, (1922-1996), Anemones with Red Cloth, c 1961-1962. Oil on canvas, 30 x 18 1/4 inches. Copyright the Estate of Nell Blaine. Courtesy: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY.
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art opened the exhibition Our Own Work, Our Own Way: Ascendant Women Artists in the Johnson Collection, on January 21, through Sunday, May 21, 2023. Presented by the Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, South Carolina, the exhibition brings together 42 female artists of the 20th century who had connections to the South including Emma Amos, Beverly Buchanan, Elaine de Kooning, Zelda Fitzgerald, Gwendolyn Knight, and Columbias own Laura Spong while shining a spotlight on several other regional artists. Opening day festivities include a CMA members drop-in as well as a public talk featuring Carter Johnson and Sarah Tignor of the Johnson Collection. This exhibition allows us to consider the artistic innovations of the 20th century from Cubist-inspired still lifes to fully abstract and conceptual ... More | | 
Mariah Postlewait, Kettering Curator of Photography and Special Projects.
DAYTON, OHIO.- After an extensive national search, the Dayton Art Institute is proud to announce the hiring of Mariah Postlewait as the Kettering Curator of Photography and Special Projects. Postlewait brings curatorial, scholarly, and administrative experience to her new role, and will begin the position on Monday, February 6. She most recently served as the Director of the Learning Commons at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and is completing her dissertation at Binghamton University, New York. Postlewaits interests, knowledge and enthusiasm complement those of the DAIs curatorial department. Mariah has a strong background in the history of photography with hands-on studio knowledge as an accomplished photographer. She combines this with a keen interest in education, said DAI Director and CEO, Michael R. Roediger. She will be responsible for all aspects of display, interpr ... More | | 
Tim Whiten. Photo Courtesy of Mehraban Mehrabani.
TORONTO.- The Gershon Iskowitz Foundation in partnership with the Art Gallery of Ontario announced Tim Whiten as the recipient of the 2022 Gershon Iskowitz Prize At The AGO. The award, which includes a $75,000 cash award and a solo exhibition at the AGO is presented annually to an artist who has made an outstanding contribution to visual arts in Canada. For more than fifty years, Tim Whiten has been creating personal and evocative works that unite the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and material realms. He has pursued a creative practice one that includes gestural drawings, sculptures, performances, and installations rooted in a deep understanding of spiritual cultural practices from around the world. Whiten deploys this knowledge in his work, creating intimate experiences that allow for the experience and contemplation of forces beyond our conscious comprehension. His profound spiritual investigations evade easy categorization an ... More |
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 Jack Shainman Gallery open their first solo exhibition of works by Rose B. SimpsonNEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting their first solo exhibition of works by Rose B. Simpson. Located at 513 West 20th Street, the exhibition features Simpsons ceramic and mixed-media sculptures, which are making their New York City debut. Rose B. Simpsons ethereal figures function as her hopes and prayers for both herself and the world around her. These sculptures represent her never-ending investigation into the human condition and act as messengers of her intentions. Growing up on the Santa Clara Pueblo and apprenticing for her mother, a well-known native artist, Simpson learned to express herself through her craft. Just as the clay records the process of making within its surface, these beings are also the physical manifestations of the artists self-work. Whether exploring ancestral memory, post-colonial stress disorder, ... More  'Parade' producers condemn neo-Nazi protest at show about antisemitismNEW YORK, NY.- The producers and star of Parade, a Broadway musical about an antisemitic lynching in Georgia a century ago, condemned a small neo-Nazi demonstration that took place outside the shows first preview performance Tuesday night. The show centers on the story of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager in Atlanta who was convicted in 1913 of raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl. Responding to an outcry about whether Frank had been wrongfully convicted in a trial tainted by antisemitism, the Georgia governor commuted his death sentence. Months later, Frank was lynched by a mob. Ben Platt, the Tony-winning actor who plays Frank, had described the musical revival as a timely story to tell at a moment when antisemitic incidents and hate speech have been a part of political and cultural conversations in America. But the appearance ... More  Review: Rude t-shirts and rude awakenings in 'A Bright New Boise'NEW YORK, NY.- For most who attempt it professionally, playwriting is a hopeless job, with few opportunities to break in and fewer to advance. So its a pleasing irony that playwright Samuel D. Hunter, the reigning bard of American economic dead-endism, has managed such a vibrant career. His trophy case is crowded with prizes: Obie, Whiting, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, MacArthur. The film adaptation of his 2012 play The Whale is up for three Academy Awards at next months ceremony. Even more impressive is that, at just 42, hes had 11 New York City stage premieres in 12 years, from the jumbly satire of Jacks Precious Moment, his local debut in 2010, to the sublime heartbreak of A Case for the Existence of God in 2022. A Bright New Boise, also from 2010, was the first of Hunters plays to achieve widespread notice, and with good reason. It ... More  Iris DeMent is worried about the world. So she made another album.NEW YORK, NY.- While writing songs for her seventh album, Workin on a World, Iris DeMent recalled a vivid memory from her childhood, when she was first struck by Martin Luther King Jr. It was the late 1960s, not long before his assassination, and she was 5 or 6 years old. Her large family she has 15 siblings had just moved from Paragould, Arkansas, to California. There were a gazillion people living in our house, she said from her home in Iowa City, Iowa. The TV was playing, and I heard this booming voice. This was back when TVs were on the floor, so when I turned, I was suddenly eye to eye with Dr. King. Even as a child, she understood that something important was happening. I remember looking around our living room and thinking, I hope the grown-ups are listening to this man. DeMent name-checks King on How Long, ... More  Gustavo Dudamel, superstar maestro, meets New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Gustavo Dudamel, groggy after a late-night flight from Los Angeles but still in good spirits, wandered into a roomful of New York Philharmonic employees, board members and donors Monday afternoon and beamed. I feel like Mickey Mouse, he said as people approached to shake hands and pose for photos. It was Dudamels first visit to New York since being named the Philharmonics next music and artistic director a post he will assume in 2026 after the conclusion of his tenure at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and he was already playing the role of celebrity conductor. During his two-hour appearance at David Geffen Hall, the Philharmonics home, Dudamel, 42, offered few specifics about his vision, saying he needed more time to get to know the city and the orchestra. But he put on full display some of the qualities ... More  "Shona McAndrew: Rose-Tinted Glasses" opens today at CHART GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- CHART is presenting Rose-Tinted Glasses, a solo exhibition by Shona McAndrew, her third at the gallery. Occupying both floors of the gallery, Rose-Tinted Glasses will debut ten paintings and a new larger-than-life-sized sculpture. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, February 23, from 68 pm, and the exhibition will remain on view through April 1, 2023. Following her two previous solo shows at CHART, Muse and Haven, in which McAndrew created intimate portraits of sitters sourced from the artists personal life or social media, Rose-Tinted Glasses finds the artist turning toward self-reflective imagery. Here McAndrew presents paintings of herself and her partner, in various states of repose and undress, luxuriating in each others presence. Drawing inspiration from classical compositions by Old ... More  Berggruen Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by American artist Christopher BrownSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Berggruen Gallery is presenting Christopher Brown: Square Dancing, an exhibition of new paintings by American artist Christopher Brown. This show marks Browns eighth solo exhibition at the gallery. Square Dancing will be on view from February 23 through March 25, 2023. The title of Browns exhibition, Square Dancing, is a pun, an ironic description of the artists playful manipulation of grids and squares that undergird a range of images from cityscapes and gingham shirts to swimming pools and pajamas. As with imagery, style in these new works varies from striped or patterned abstraction in some paintings to representative figuration and written text in others. Throughout, however, threads of light humor and expressive iconoclasm define these new paintings as dealing much more with expression and pictorial invention than ... More  Betts Project opens the second solo exhibition at the gallery by British architect Sam JacobLONDON.- Betts Project is presenting Against Nature, the second solo exhibition at the gallery by British architect Sam Jacob. Against Nature is an exhibition about architecture, landscape and nature. It is also about the guilt, power, loss and hope intrinsic to architecture. Architecture is always against nature. Against as in next to. Against as in contrasting. Against as in protecting. Against as in anticipating. Against as in resisting. Against as in facing. Against as in touching. Against as in challenging. Against as in opposing. Against as defending. Against as defying. Against as a debit. Against as towards. Against as before. Against as comparison. Against as compensation. Against as contradicting. Against as preparation. Against as supporting. The show features two new series of works by Sam Jacob. Ritual Litter features additions of coloured elements ... More  The Met Opera's new season: What we want to seeNEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Opera has long been known for classics like Giuseppe Verdis La Traviata and Rigoletto. But starting this autumn, the 140-year-old company will usher in a new era, sharply increasing the number of operas by living composers in its repertory; they will make up about one-third of the 2023-24 season, the Met announced Wednesday. The shift is part of the Mets efforts to recover from the pandemic and attract new audiences, particularly younger patrons and people of color. Faced with lackluster ticket sales and a cash shortfall, the company has withdrawn $23 million from its endowment and cut the number of performances next season by about 10%. Newer operas, however, have been a bright spot; several have outsold the classics in recent years. We have to offer new experiences, said Peter Gelb, the ... More  Laurie Metcalf to return to Broadway in a horror story, 'Grey House'NEW YORK, NY.- Horror films have become a rare bright spot for contemporary Hollywood. Now a group of theater artists is hoping the genre can work on Broadway, too. Producers Tom Kirdahy (Hadestown) and Robert Ahrens (Little Shop of Horrors) said Tuesday that they are planning to bring an unsettling new play, Grey House, to Broadway this spring. The production will reunite actress Laurie Metcalf and director Joe Mantello, each of whom has won two Tony Awards. Their most recent collaboration, a revival of Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, never made it to opening night because of the coronavirus pandemic. Metcalf, a veteran stage actress also known for her work on television (Roseanne) and film (Lady Bird), will co-star with Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) and Paul Sparks (House of Cards). This will not be Metcalfs first scary ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Ukrainian painter and theorist Kazimir Malevich was born February 23, 1878. Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (February 23, 1878 - May 15, 1935) was a Russian painter and art theoretician. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde Suprematist movement. He was a devout Christian mystic who believed the central task of an artist was that of rendering spiritual feeling.In this image: Kazimir Malevich, Self-Portrait, 1908 or 1910-1911. Gouache on paper, 27 x 26.8.
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