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Installation view of Max Sulzbachner. Mondnächte und Basler Tamtam. Photo: Julian Salinas.
BASEL.- The Kunstmuseum BaselÂs Kupferstichkabinett (Department of Prints and Drawings) honors the artist Max Sulzbachner (1904Â1985), a native son of Basel, with a retrospective in the HauptbauÂs mezzanine gallery and an accompanying publication that survey his rich and diverse oeuvre. Although Sulzbachner is widely known and abidingly popular with Swiss audiences, his art has never been the subject of a dedicated and comprehensive study. The exhibition and catalogue close this gap in the historiography of art in Basel. Since 2014, the Kunstmuseum BaselÂs holdings of works by the artist have been considerably enlarged by a generous donation: Betty and Hartmut Raguse-Stauffer have given four drawings, thirty woodcuts, and four etchings to the museum. With the addition of these works, the Kupferstichkabinett now has a representative cross-section of SulzbachnerÂs Expressionist early oeuvre, when his creative powers were arguably ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This photograph taken on November 16, 2019 shows the site of Shahr-e Gholghola on a hilltop overlooking Bamiyan. After bearing the brunt of jihadist dynamite and looting by thieves, the archaeological treasures of AfghanistanÂs Bamiyan province are facing a new and possibly more daunting threat: climate change. Mohammad ALI SHAIDA / AFP
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 | | Robert Caro's papers headed to New-York Historical Society | | Extremely rare gold coins of the Mughal Emperor to be offered at Spink USA | | René Magritte, À la rencontre du plaisir (Towards Pleasure) highlights The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 
Robert Caro, who does not use a recorder for interviews, shows pages from a reporting notebook, at his Manhattan office, Jan 3, 2020. Landon Speers/The New York Times.
by Jennifer Schuessler
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Robert Caro is famous for colossal biographies of colossal figures. The Power Broker, his Pulitzer Prize-winning life of Robert Moses, weighed in at nearly 1,300 pages. His as-yet-unfinished biography of Lyndon B. Johnson he likes to call the volume-in-progress the fifth of a projected three totals 3,444 pages and counting. The books are already monumental. And now Caro is getting monumental treatment himself. The New-York Historical Society has acquired Caros papers some 200 linear feet of material that will be open to researchers in its library. And just as important to the 84-year-old Caro, it will create a permanent installation in its museum galleries dedicated to showing how he got the job done. Its like a true weight has been lifted from my shoulders, he said last week in his office off Central Park ... More | | 
India, Mughal Empire, Jahangir (1605-28), gold Zodiac Mohur, Cancer the Crab, 10.91g, Kashmir, AH1034, regnal year 20 (1624), crab framed by 47 sun rays, within a plain circular border with beads in outer margin, rev. Persian legend be hukam shah jahangir yaft sad zewar ba name nur jahan badshah begum zar zarb Kashmir, 20, 1034.
NEW YORK, NY.- Two rare gold coins of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir are on offer at the NY INC coin fair, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel on 19th January. Lot 264 is a Mohur depicting an image of Taurus the Bull, struck at Agra mint (estimate $80,000-100,000). This is an extremely rare and desirable coin made at the Mughal capital. However, the Mohur featuring Cancer the Crab, offered at lot 265 is far rarer, as it was struck at Kashmir mint (estimate $300,000-400,000). Kashmir was the resort of Emperors during the hot season and was a particularly favourite of Jahangir and his most famous wife, Nur Jahan. Very few coins were made there, and this is the only gold zodiac issue know. Produced in the 20th year of his reign (1624), during a long sojourn, it is particularly interesting as its legend ... More | | 
René Magritte, à la rencontre du plaisir (detail) , oil on canvas, 18 1/8 x 21 5/8 in. (46 x 55 cm.) Painted in 1962. £8,000,000-12,000,000 / US$10,500,000-15,600,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
LONDON.- Christie's annual auction The Art of the Surreal will continue on from the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on 5 February 2020, marking the launch of 20th Century at Christies. Painted in 1962, René Magrittes à la rencontre du plaisir (Towards Pleasure) (estimate: £8,000,000-12,000,000) combines several of the artists most iconic motifs into a single, evocative image, creating an elegant summation of the poetic imagination which fuelled his unique form of Surrealism. Purchased directly from the artist shortly after its creation, the painting has remained in the same family collection for over half a century, and is coming to auction for the first time. Olivier Camu, Deputy Chairman, Impressionist and Modern Art, Christies: It is with great expectation that we present this unique masterpiece by Magritte to the market for the first time on behalf of the family ... More |
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| | John Baldessari: An artist in a class by himself | | Galerie Templon opens an exhibition of works by Jan Fabre | | The Snite Museum of Art acquires major work by sculptor Clement Meadmore | 
John Baldessari, the influential conceptual artist and teacher who died Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020 at 88, at his studio in Venice, Calif., Feb. 3, 2016. Monica Almeida/The New York.
by Deborah Solomon
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- It is hard to think of another artist who was more beloved than John Baldessari, who died Thursday at 88. Although he was not a household name, he was hugely influential as a professor, and helped establish Los Angeles as the countrys reigning art-school capital. A tall, soft-spoken man with shaggy white hair and a biblical beard, Baldessari was easy to recognize. His champions like to say that he was much more than a teacher, but the statement offends, with its implicit suggestion that teaching is a mundane pursuit compared with the majesty of making art. The truth is that Baldessari not only loved teaching but made it the central theme of his art. As a founder of conceptual art and professor at the California Institute of the Arts (or CalArts), among other places, he seemed at once enamored of art history but alert to the comic ... More | | 
Skull with Nile Crocodile, 2018. Encre Bic, verre de Murano, squelette, acier inoxydable / Bic ink, Murano Glass, skeleton of an Oriental dollarbird, Stainless Steel, 64,9 x 21,9 x 21,9 cm ; 25 ½ x 8 5/8 x 8 5/8 in. Photo: Pat Verbruggen.
BRUSSELS.- Jan Fabre visual artist, author and theatre artist is back in the capital of his homeland to offer an immersion into the depths of LHeure Sauvage [The Fierce Hour] and present-day vanities. Jan Fabre is considered as one of the most important and innovative figures on the international contemporary art scene. A radical artist whose works have often unleashed passionate responses, Jan Fabre had his own Blue Period during the 1980s, centring on the ballpoint pen, his then favourite material, with which he meticulously covered large expanses of paper to create his metaphorical and tormented drawings. In 1988, at the age of 30, Fabre found himself in Berlin, spending sleepless nights obsessively drawing, colouring and rubbing out an entire cosmogony featuring tornados, cyclones, giant waves and storms. The highly distinctive metallic blue of his disposable pen form mesmerizing landscapes, their details so dense ... More | | 
Clement Meadmore (American, born Australia. 1929-2005), Upbeat, 1984. Painted aluminum, Artists Proof, 910 x 63 x 66. Gift of the Clement Meadmore Foundation.
NOTRE DAME IN.- There is little doubt that Modern and Contemporary sculpture play a significant role in the collection, and by extension, persona of the Snite Museum of Art. The collections of both Ivan Metrović and George Rickey have planned definitive roles. Against this backdrop, the Museum is pleased to announce the gift of major sculpture by Clement Meadmore one of the most compelling and eagerly sought public sculptors of second half of the 20th century. Born in Melbourne, Australia and educated at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Meadmore began making welded sculptures in the 1950s. He moved to New York City in 1963 to more closely experience the vanguard of Contemporary art. Deeply moved by both Minimalism and its forerunning antithesis, Abstract Expressionism, he forged a career as one of most distinguished abstract sculptors of his generation. Meadmore is most widely celebrated for his bold sta ... More |
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| | Exhibitions explore historical and contemporary artistic perspectives on women and mental health | | Two vibrant contemporary & post-war art collections to be offered in Edinburgh | | Bob Wade, sculptor of the outlandishly large, dies at 76 | 
Lynda Bamford, Psychedelic Woman, undated. Image courtesy Bethlem Museum of the Mind.
LONDON.- Bethlem Museum of the Mind and Bethlem Gallery present The Four Ages of Woman and Transitions, two exhibitions exploring historical and contemporary artistic perspectives on women and mental health, from the nineteenth century to the present day. The Four Ages of Woman at Bethlem Museum of the Mind presents extraordinarily diverse representations of womens mental health and life experiences across childhood, youth, middle age and old age. The exhibition includes over thirty works by nineteen artists including Madge Gill, Anna Kavan, Bibi Herrera, Imma Maddox and Cynthia Pell, selected from the Museums extensive collection, and key works on loan. At Bethlem Gallery, contemporary artists Esther Maxwell-Orumbie and Sarah Carpenter have been working with service users and staff of the Mother and Baby Unit at Bethlem Royal Hospital on Transitions, an exhibition looking at identity and the everyday, framed by the complex challe ... More | | 
Gavin Turk, Holy Egg Blue, 2015. Acrylic on canvas, oval, 114.5 cm x 82 cm (41.25 in x 32.25 in). Estimate: £30,000-50,000 + fees. Photo: Lyon & Turnbull.
EDINBURGH.- Lyon & Turnbulls forthcoming Contemporary & Post-War Art auction on 15th January in Edinburgh features two vibrant and charismatic collections of art and photography. The first a European collection of art and photography; the second includes select pieces from the personal collection of artist and mentor Willie Rodger RSA, RGI. The first featured group, an interesting and considered collection of contemporary art and photography, was purchased for a traditional Amsterdam canal house, but then seamlessly transitioned to a new location, a contemporarily re-modelled Georgian flat in Edinburghs West End. As the collector moves again and life changes, the time has come for the collection to be dispersed, to new homes and enthusiasts. Carly Shearer, Head of Sale, talks more This personal collection of art and photography is an intensely revealing insight into the collectors personality ... More | | 
In a photo from Will Larson, Bob Wade with his cowboy boots sculpture in San Antonio in 2014, when it was certified by the Guinness World Records. Will Larson via The New York Times.
by Richard Sandomir
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Bob Wade, a Texas artist whose 40-foot-long iguana sculpture once perched atop the Lone Star Cafe in Manhattan and whose 63-foot-high saxophone lured patrons to a blues nightclub in Houston, died Dec. 24 at his home in Austin. He was 76. His wife, Lisa Wade, said the cause was cardiac arrest. For more than 40 years, Wade who was known by the nickname Daddy-O built whimsical, outsize public art that nodded to Texas culture of bigness, gaining renown for his uninhibited style but also drawing attention as a serious artist in some circles. Like most of his creations, his iguana, which he christened Iggy, could not be ignored. Inspired by a stuffed iguana a friend had brought him from Mexico, Wade used wire mesh and polyurethane foam ... More |
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| | Richard Saltoun Gallery opens second instalment of 'Maternality', a group exhibition | | Chairman of H&H Classics sells his personal collection of Matchbox cars for over £300,000 | | The Cornell Fine Arts Museum acquires works by Puerto Rican artists | 
Aimee Gilmore, Milkscape (Column), 2016. Digital print on fabric, 450 x 335 cm © Aimee Gilmore; Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery, London. Photo by Ben Westoby.
LONDON.- Maternality is the second instalment of the two-part show on maternal politics and embodiment which focuses on reproduction and the materiality of maternal bodies. Curated by Catherine McCormack, the exhibition finds its starting point in the etymological root of the word mother as synonymous of matter (mater/materia in Latin) in a group show exploring female reproductive bodies in terms of material relations, both physical and political. Works embedding physical substances of reproductive bodies from breast-milk in Aimee Gilmores ethereal fabric banner Milkscapes (2016) to cervical cells in Helen Chadwicks Viral Landscape No.3 (1988) are featured beside fibre sculptures by Carmen Winant and Robyn Leroy-Evans who employ fabric as a reflection ... More | | 
Matchbox Superfast 68a Porsche 910.
LONDON.- One of Britains best-known and most respected classic car auctioneers, Simon Hope, chairman and founder of H&H Classics has sold his Matchbox 1-75 model collection of nearly 3,000 cars and trucks for a premium inclusive total in excess of £300,000. Simon says it was something of a wrench to sell, even at that price, as it was a collection he put together with love and passion over some 60 years, starting when he was a young boy. His grandma would not let him play with them on her lovely mahogany dining table, so he simply played with them by taking them out of the box and then putting them back practically untouched. The collection, rightly noted as one of the finest in the world and comprising some extremely rare examples, was in mint condition, including their original boxes, attracted bidders from all over the world. Simon, 68, based in Warrington Cheshire, where H&H Classics is headquartered, kept his cars in prist ... More | | 
Daniel Lind-Ramos, Vencedor: 1797 (Victorius: 1797), 2018-19, Mixed media, 67 x 70 x 33 in., The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College, Gift of Barbara 68 and Theodore 68 Alfond. 2020.1.1 © Daniel Lind-Ramos.
WINTER PARK, FLA.- The Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida announced a series of new acquisitions by contemporary Puerto Rican artists. Committed to collecting and exhibiting works by artists who represent multiple experiences and diverse backgrounds, including the interests and affinities of our Central Florida community, CFAM is proud to share the acquisition of works by Antonio Martorell (b. Santurce, Puerto Rico, 1939), Rafael Trelles (b. Santurce, Puerto Rico, 1957), and Daniel Lind-Ramos (b. LoÃza, Puerto Rico, 1953). Martorell's ¿Quéslaque? Es que la... (2018) and Trelles' La Autopista del Sur (2011) will be featured for the first time at CFAM in January in the exhibition The Place as Metaphor: ... More |
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Restoration of J. Pierpont Morgan's Library: Pigeon Abatement
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 Ugly Betty' creator dies aged 45LOS ANGELES (AFP).- "Ugly Betty" creator Silvio Horta has been found dead in Miami, the show's actresses said Tuesday. Horta's agent said a statement from the family was expected shortly. Although no cause of death was given, a report in Variety said Horta, 45, had died by suicide. Horta developed the hit ABC show "Ugly Betty" based on a Colombian telenovella. The series charted the progress of a geeky secretary attempting to forge a career at a New York fashion magazine. Both the show -- executive produced by Salma Hayek -- and its breakout star America Ferrera won Golden Globes. "I'm stunned and heartbroken to hear the devastating news of 'Ugly Betty' creator, Silvio Horta's death," Ferrera wrote on Instagram Tuesday. "His talent and creativity brought me and ... More Jack Garfein, Director from Actors Studio's heyday, dies at 89NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Jack Garfein, a Holocaust survivor who became a noted director, producer and acting teacher, working with some of the greatest actors and playwrights of his era, died Dec. 30 at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 89. His family said the cause was leukemia. Garfein was at the heart of the Actors Studio in Manhattan in the 1950s, when it was staging attention-getting work based on the method-acting principles of Konstantin Stanislavski. Garfein was one of the last surviving early members of the Studio, the film and theater historian Foster Hirsch said by email, adding that he in effect had become a historian of the Studios earliest and most illustrious period. He first drew wide notice as the director of End as a Man, Calder Willinghams adaptation of his own novel about harsh life in a Southern military academy. The play, ... More The Collection: Where Art Meets Fashion unveils immersive installation by artist Anila Quayyum AghaROSEMONT, ILL.- The Collection: Where Art Meets Fashion, the multifaceted contemporary art program located within Fashion Outlets Chicago, announced the unveiling of the programs latest site-specific installation by Pakistani artist Anila Quayyum Agha. The two-part interactive installation, Shimmering Mirage (Red) and Descent into Light will transform the grand entrance of the shopping center with vibrant light and exuberant patterning. The installation will be completed and on view to the public in January, 2020. The addition of Aghas interactive installation will provide our shoppers with a dazzling immersive experience from the moment they walk in our grand entrance, said Senior Marketing Manager Katie Walsh. This work exemplifies Macerichs dedication to support a diverse range of artists ... More US surfing book wins top French graphic novel prizePARIS (AFP).- The American writer AJ Dungo won one of France's top graphic novel prizes Wednesday for his heart-breaking tale of love, loss and surfing, "In Waves". Dungo's acclaimed story is on one level a sideways history of surfing's Hawaiian pioneers and how the Malibu wave rider Tom Blake revolutionised board design. But it was the powerful parallel narrative of Dungo's own tragic love for his late partner Kristen Tuason, a fellow surf fanatic who died of bone cancer, which moved the judges of the BD Fnac/France Inter prize. Tuason helped the Florida-born illustrator, who lives in Los Angeles, overcome his fear of the sea before her death aged 25 in 2016. "In Waves", 27-year-old Dungo's first book, has been compared to William Finnegan's meditative Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, "Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life". Drawn in steely aquatic ... More Asya Geisberg Gallery opens an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Katarina RiesingNEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery presents "Razor Burn", an exhibition of paintings on stretched silk and colored pencil drawings by Katarina Riesing. This will be the artist's first New York solo exhibition. At first glance the work's infatuation with laborious detail and rich material - especially in the hand-embroidered gold thread, use of silk, or the exquisitely-rendered swirls of patterned stocking - seem inspired by a northern Renaissance luxuriance. Yet Riesing's insistence on close croppings, and sometimes awkward, unsightly (i.e. the show's title) or uncomfortably erotic aspects of the body, reveal surreptitious squirming. Even when we are turned on, we feel perhaps that we shouldn't be watching. The confrontational intimacy of such compositions is paradoxically reserved, as Riesing leaves plenty unsaid in her otherwise recognizable ... More Exhibition at albertz benda features a new body of work by Tsibi GevaNEW YORK, NY.- albertz benda presents Tsibi Geva: SUBSTRATA, on view from January 9 through February 15, 2020. The exhibition features a new body of work created over the past two years, defined by Gevas focus on deconstruction and abstraction to convey the emotional and cultural tenor of his surroundings. Motifs of terrazzo tiles, stone walls, and latticework, which have been prevalent in Gevas paintings since the nineteen-nineties, are pushed to the forefront in these new works. These Mediterranean urban patterns, once abstracted, become a reflection of a collective subconscious, revealing a conflicted, restless landscape where borders are in a constant negotiation. The various patterns are applied in layers that flow into one another, in entropic fashion. With expressive and spontaneous gestures, Geva collapses the distance between the precarious ... More Jane Lombard Gallery opens Michael Rakowitz fifth solo show with the galleryNEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery presents, The invisible enemy should not exist (Room F, section 1, Northwest Palace of Nimrud), an ongoing project by Iraqi-American artist, Michael Rakowitz. This exhibition is the artists fifth solo show with the gallery. The invisible enemy should not exist (Room F, section 1, Northwest Palace of Nimrud), features bas-reliefs from Room F in the Palace of Nimrud, located in modern-day Iraq, and marks the New York debut of his film The Ballad of Special Ops Cody. The exhibition will remain on view through February 22nd. Rakowitzs ongoing project, The invisible enemy should not exist, was first shown in 2007 at the former Lombard-Freid Gallery. For the initial iteration, Rakowitz merged data from the University of Chicagos Oriental Institute, UCLA, and Interpol, to recreate artifacts that were destroyed ... More The Archivio Conz will showcase a selection of 24 "prepared pianos" by major avant-garde artistsBERLIN.- The Archivio Conz, in collaboration with the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, has announced Pause: Broken Sounds/Remote Music. Prepared pianos from the Archivio Conz collection a five-day event and exhibition showcasing avant-garde artists prepared pianos selected from Italian collector and patron Francesco Conzs collection. From January 1519, 2020, the KW main exhibition space will be the stage for performances, tying the artworks to various contemporary approaches and explorations on sound. Selected from a collection of over 65 prepared pianos, the 24 works in the exhibition are deeply tied to the history of the Archivio Conz. Under the direction of Stefania Palumbo and chief curator Gigiotto Del Vecchio, the Archivio Conz is dedicated to presenting and preserving the archive and publishing project of Francesco ... More The UK's biggest new museum The Box announces two public art commissions PLYMOUTH.- The largest multi-disciplinary arts and heritage space to open in the UK in 2020, The Box, Plymouth announces two new public art commissions by internationally acclaimed artists Antony Gormley and leading Portuguese installation artist Leonor Antunes. The two artists are the first names to be revealed from The Boxs ambitious contemporary art programme for its inaugural year in 2020. Both artists will create works as part of the museums opening exhibitions that will stay in The Boxs permanent collection and provide legacy by becoming part of the fabric of the city. The Box is collaborating with these two remarkable artists, honouring Plymouths tradition as a city of makers and crafts people, as well as its strong historical associations with adventure and exploration. Leonor Antunes will create a remarkable fused glass design for the ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, art collector Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, was born January 09, 1875. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (January 9, 1875 - April 18, 1942) was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She was a prominent social figure and hostess, who was born into the wealthy Vanderbilt family and married into the Whitney family.
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