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Delmonico Books publishes "Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection"
NEW YORK, NY.- Delmonico Books announces Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, a book that spans a century of defamiliarized art in celebration of the myriad ways in which artists challenge us to see the everyday world with fresh eyes. This substantial volume brings together nearly 250 art works spanning more than 100 years that ask us to reconsider how we look at the world. Brought together by Chara Schreyer over the course of three decades, these works invite us to rethink our perception of the everyday in the wake of Duchamps radical reimagination of the art object and the Russian literary critic Viktor Shklovskys conception of making strange. Whether looking at the idea of making strange in the work of Marcel Duchamp and Georgia OKeeffe, the legacy of Minimalism and its discontents in the sculptures of Donald Judd and Felix GonzÃ¡lez-Torres, the ... More

Joan Didion, conservative
NEW YORK, NY.- If its really true, as Michael Wolff reported Monday for Richard Rushfields Hollywood newsletter The Ankler, that Random House will not be releasing a planned compilation of Norman Mailers writings on some sort of political-correctness grounds Mailers 1957 essay The White Negro was allegedly invoked as a cassus cancellatus then honestly, Im a little bit disappointed in cancel culture. The Mailer estates representative has disputed the report, and Random House claims it never planned to publish the collection. But the book is reportedly moving to a telling destination: the same specializing-in-the-deplorable publishing house that took on Woody Allens memoir and picked up Blake Baileys Philip Roth biography. If Mailer was really given a politically motivated push, its a sign that our would-be apparatchiks are getting lazy. To take aim at J.K. Rowling, Dave ... More

Norman Mailer book to be released by Skyhorse
NEW YORK, NY.- Last year, in the wake of growing partisan division in America and the Jan. 6 riots, friends and strangers kept asking John Buffalo Mailer what his father, author Norman Mailer, who died in 2007, would make of this moment. He realized there was already an answer in some of the essays and other writing by his father, including stark warnings about the fragility of democracy and the threat of political violence. He spoke to J. Michael Lennon, who wrote a biography of Norman Mailer, and together they began planning a collection of Mailers work on the subject. That collection, which includes previously unpublished writing from Mailers archives and excerpts from letters, manuscripts and interviews, has been acquired by Skyhorse, after Mailers longtime publisher, Random House, declined to make an offer on the submission. He had a fantastic relationship with ... More

In $500 million trading card deal, Fanatics buys Topps
NEW YORK, NY.- Topps, the business that put Bazooka bubble gum together with baseball cards more than half a century ago, now belongs to a fast-growing sports memorabilia empire that nearly knocked Topps out of the baseball-card game. On Tuesday, Topps announced that it had sold its sports card business to Fanatics, a multibillion-dollar, 10-year-old company whose licensing business was built on sports fandom, technology and networking. The deal values Topps sports and entertainment division at slightly more than $500 million, according to people with knowledge of the situation, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the information is confidential. Topps had previously announced a deal to go public. But in August, the company was blindsided when it lost its licensing agreement with Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players ... More

New exhibition features paintings and sculpture that reference other works of art
WATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museum has opened Pictures in Pictures, a new exhibition drawn from the Museums permanent collection that brings together paintings and sculpture that include secondary images of other works. Whether his or her own earlier works, those of their contemporaries, or works sourced from another place and time, these gestures provide insight into the artists creative life, often adding layers of meaning to the narrative. Organized by Alicia G. Longwell, Ph.D., Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and Education, Pictures in Pictures features 21 works dating from 1845 to 2006 and spanning a range of art movements. Pictures in Pictures continues the longstanding tradition of artists who include images of other paintings in their work. In 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeers interiors, the artwork in the space was often prominently ... More

Rio cancels its carnival street parties
RIO DE JANEIRO.- While Rio de Janeiros renowned Carnival parade will go on, the city will cancel its street parties, the mayor said Tuesday, to the dismay of millions of revelers who pour into the citys public spaces every year to celebrate and wash away any sorrows in samba, sweat and beer. The freewheeling public parties wont be possible, Mayor Eduardo Paes said at a news conference Tuesday. Its been decided: There wont be street Carnival in the tradition of the past. Paes said the official parade, in which samba groups put on elaborately choreographed shows in an area flanked by bleachers that seat 56,000 people, would be held, but with some health precautions. But Cariocas, as Rio residents are known, were devastated. I was very excited, very hopeful, for the 2022 Carnival, even more so after a year without Carnival, said JoÃ£o Victor Ramos, 26. Ramos, a ... More

Museum fÃ¼r Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg opens DRIFT's most extensive presentation in Germany to date
HAMBURG.- On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the internationally well-known artists DRIFT are staging their most extensive presentation in Germany to date at the Museum fÃ¼r Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. From January 7 to May 8, 2022, DRIFT will transform the MK&G into a sensual experience space on 350 square meters with three spectacular kinetic room-filling sculptures. Self-luminous real dandelion seeds, magnificent silk flowers that gracefully unfurl and retract, and a spatial installation that mimics the behaviour of plants and animals allow visitors to experience the deep connection between humans and nature. Parallel to the exhibition, DRIFT was commissioned by the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, in close coordination with MK&G, to develop a performative artwork that will illuminate the exterior of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg in a new light ... More

Solo exhibition of 10 new works by Wes Lang opens at Almine Rech New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech New York is presenting Pink and Blue, a solo exhibition of 10 new works by Wes Lang. This is Lang's third solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from January 6 to February 5, 2022. The skull is always present because Im obsessed with my own death, says Wes Lang of the memento-mori like motif that has permeated his work since the 1970s when, in elementary school, he first developed a habitual tendency to doodle skulls. Im always thinking about death and trying to be accepting of it. I dont want to paint myself , the skull is a stand in for that. Ive got a skull, I just cant see it. And to clarify, this desire to mull on the temporal nature of life is not meant to inspire hopelessness but ratherlike the monks who practice maranasati, or death awareness such contemplation aims to dissolve the egos stranglehold, filling life with abundan ... More

No. 1 card collection makes its auction debut this month
DALLAS, TX.- Stephen Parthum began collecting sports cards in 1990 because a co-worker told him they were good investments enough, if he was lucky, to put a kid through college. Parthum, then a 30-year-old coin collector, believed that as good a reason as any to dive into cardboard. I loved sports, and I loved the hobby, and if I could ever make money it was all well and good, he says. And I was hooked. Except Parthum did not collect like anyone else. He did not run out and buy boxes of new product, nor did he scoop up any old Hall of Famer he could fit into his mitt. Instead, his was a mercurial, methodical approach: Parthum, a collector of coin types, bought the very first and very last card from each set in which he was interested initially, from baseball, football, basketball and hockey (the last, his personal favorite); then, from boxing and soccer and so forth; then, from old TV ... More

Nye & Company announces online Chic and Antique Estate Treasures auction
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers two-day, online Chic and Antique Estate Treasures auction planned for Wednesday and Thursday, January 19th and 20th, at 10 am Eastern time both days, will offer a wide variety of fine and decorative arts, with a concentration on 17th thru 20th century paintings, furniture from the 18th through the 21st century, silver and jewelry. The auction will be headlined by property from a private Southern New Jersey collection, the NAMITS collection, property from descendants of the New York and Philadelphia Clinedinst family, property descended in the Fulton, Ludlow, Livingston and Phillips families, property from the estate of John Strawbridge Lloyd of Philadelphia and, lastly, a small selection of Rev War-era property approved for deaccession by the Fraunces Tavern Museum in New York City. A headliner of the auction is one of the ... More