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A 40-year-old painting whose provenance lay at the center of one of the stranger art authentication cases in recent history, in Chicago, June 30, 2016. The owner of a painting and a gallery had sued Peter Doig, insisting he falsely denied creating the work but a federal judge ordered sanctions after ruling there was no evidence of that. (Whitten Sabbatini/The New York Times)
by Graham Bowley
NEW YORK, NY.- Artist Peter Doig, who fought efforts by a former corrections officer and a gallery to attribute a painting to him even going so far as to sue him when he denied painting it has won a $2.5 million judgment against those parties and their former lawyer. Judge Gary Feinerman of the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois ruled in the artists favor last month in an unusual case in which Doig had been accused of disowning a landscape that the corrections officer and the gallery had hoped to sell. Feinerman had previously ruled in Doigs favor in the case in 2016, finding that the artist had not painted the work, after which the artist sought sanctions. In his Dec. 30 ruling, Feinerman supported the sanctions because he said the parties pursued the case against Doig even when it should have been absolutely clear to them that their claims were factually meritless and stood no chance of success. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day René Daniëls, Works on Paper, Modern Art Bury Street, exhibition view, 13 January - 25 February 2023. Photo: Ben Westoby. Courtesy: the artist, the René Daniëls Foundation, Eindhoven and Modern Art, London.
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| 2022 at Hindman: 40th year features over $100M in sales, expansion & memorable collections | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of new photographs by Roe Ethridge | | Want a giant neon Twitter bird? You'll have to bid more than $17,000. |
An Andrew Clemens (American, 1857-1894) Williams and Upham Contractors for River and Harbor Improvements Sand Bottle. Price Realized: $860,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- 2022 was a historic year for Hindman. The auction firm reported over $100 million in total sales, marking a record revenue for the second year in a row. The firm also grew significantly across the country to a total of 16 offices and presented major collections for sale. The majority of the 140 auctions in 2022 exceeded their estimates, with a 121 percent average sell-through rate by value and an 89 percent average sell-through rate by lot. More than 30 new records were set. Throughout the year, buyers from more than 70 countries competed for works. 2022 was without a doubt a year of milestones at Hindman, remarked Executive Chairman Jay Krehbiel. From a record in sales to the opening of new locations in New York, Boston and Miami, it was truly a momentous year. Im thrilled that we are kicking off 2023 with Alyssa Quinlan, our former Chief Business Development Director, as CEO, and am looking forward ... More | |
Roe Etheridge, Polychronic for the times of of your life, 2022. Dye sublimation print on aluminum, 50 x 33 in. Edition of 5 and 2 AP. © Roe Etheridge.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian announces American Polychronic, an exhibition of new photographs by Roe Ethridge that shares its title with the recently published first comprehensive survey of the artists work from 1999 to 2022. Another exhibition of new work by the artist, also titled American Polychronic, is concurrently on view at Andrew Kreps Gallery from January 13 to February 18, 2023. Moving within and between photographic genres, from art historically informed portraiture and still-life composition to the styled and coded world of the fashion shoot and the bottomless well of stock and online imagery, Ethridge juxtaposes staged scenes with chanced-upon vignettes, pursuing a formal language that trades in visual friction and the wry transgression of structural rules. His ever-expanding catalogue of hybrid images reflects the textures of contemporary American society, expanding on a formal sensibility peculiar to the generic Methodist ... More | |
Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco, Nov. 18, 2022. Twitter is auctioning off surplus corporate assets from its San Francisco headquarters, jettisoning artifacts of a barely bygone era in Bay Area tech. (Jason Henry/The New York Times)
by Michael Levenson
NEW YORK, NY.- Since Elon Musk took over Twitter in October, the company has been in turmoil, as he has aggressively cut costs, laid off half of the companys full-time workers and hunted for new ways to raise revenue. Now, Twitter is auctioning off surplus corporate assets from its San Francisco headquarters, jettisoning artifacts of a barely bygone era in Bay Area tech. While the online auction doesnt signal the end of Twitter, the collection evokes a more flush time when the companys tastes reflected its status as a hot tech world employer. The 631 lots include a blue electric light display shaped like Twitters bird logo, which had attracted a bid of more than $17,000; a bird statue, which had a bid of $16,000; a 6-foot decorative planter shaped like the @ symbol (bidding was up to $4,100); and five espresso machines ... More |
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| David Hill Gallery presents 'Streets of New York' | | Richard Avedon's monumental murals featured in Met exhibition | | Collection of Jack and Ellen Phillips earns nearly $1.5 million at Andrew Jones Auctions |
Werner Bischof, Cop Tossing Night Stick, New York, 1953.
LONDON.- Streets of New York is an exhibition of Big Apple life, as captured by five masters of their craft. Curated by David Hill and Carrie Scott and featuring previously unseen images, the show includes work from the late 1940s through to the early1970s, the period generally considered the golden age of street photography. In alphabetical order, the five photographers in Streets of New York are Werner Bischof, the first non-founding member of Magnum Photos; Mario Carnicelli, who this year received the inaugural Prix Viviane Esders in recognition of his career as a photographer; Harold Feinstein, described by the New York Times as one of the most accomplished recorders of the American experience; Larry Fink, hugely influential, with many exhibitions, photobooks and books on photographic theory to his name; Marc Riboud, Magnum Photos photographer, whose humanist eye recorded some of most iconic images to be represented ... More | |
Richard Avedon (American, 19232004), The Young Lords: Pablo "Yoruba" Guzmán, Minister of Information; Gloria González, Field Marshal; Juan González, Minister of Education; Denise Oliver, Minister of Economic Development, New York, February 26, 1971. 20 à 16 in. (50.8 à 40.6 cm) The Richard Avedon Foundation © The Richard Avedon Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- To celebrate the centennial of Richard Avedons birth in 1923, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a selection of the photographers most innovative group portraits in the exhibition Richard Avedon: MURALS, opening January 19, 2023. Although Avedon first earned his reputation as a fashion photographer in the late 1940s, his greatest achievement was his stunning reinvention of the photographic portrait. Focused on the short period between 1969 and 1971, this exhibition will explore a critical juncture in the artists career, when, after a hiatus from portraiture, he began working with a new camera and a new sense of scale. The exhibition will be organized around three monumental photomurals in The Met collection (the largest measures nearly 10 x 35 feet) ... More | |
Oil on canvas painting by Edgar Alwin Payne (American, 1883-1947), titled Fishermen's Harbor, Concarneau, France ($81,250).
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- Bidders nationwide and around the world responded enthusiastically to the collection of Jack and Ellen Phillips of San Diego, California, which blasted through its pre-sale estimate by more than one and a half times, totaling $1.487 million and White Glove status in an online auction held January 15th-16th by Andrew Jones Auctions. The auction was a time capsule collection of important California plein air paintings, Americana, clocks, fine silver, antiques, Native American works and decorations amassed over fifty years by the Phillipses. Jack, a Naval engineer, and Ellen, a schoolteacher, were high school sweethearts in Colton, Calif. They married in 1961 and a year later began their collecting journey together. The busy pre-sale preview brought in a host of new faces to our galleries as well as established buyers, collectors and art and antique aficionados who braced the unusually soggy ... More |
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| A.D Art Space presents a solo exhibition of figurative paintings by Soji Adesina | | Obsessed by the present, who's got time for Old Masters? | | John Cale's musical journey knows no limits |
Pink Skin II.
ANTWERP.- A.D Artspace is excited to invite the public to view and experience intriguing figurative renditions by Nigerian multidisciplinary artist, Soji Adesina. Titled Colour of the Coloured: Layered Pigments, this exhibition of paintings which marks the artists first solo exhibition in Belgium, features new works built on an existing concept by the artist from the series, Colour of the Coloured in which he critically examines racialisation by highlighting the implication of language in a social construct built around skin tone. In this series, Adesina begins his interrogation with a visual literal interpretation of the word Colour(ed), as used in the term people of colour for people of other races that are not Caucasian or White. This series provides a gateway to reflect on the ways in which the phrase has been / is being used to categorise and segregate races based on skin tone, and most times with overt or subtle hint of superiority or infer ... More | |
In a photo provided by Christies shows, The Reading Party by de Troy (1735 (Christie's via The New York Times)
by Scott Reyburn
NEW YORK, NY.- The art market, like pretty much everything else in our culture, has become all about the here and now. The seismic shift in collecting taste from the old to the very new was summed up in December by a little-reported result in Christies annual evening auction of master paintings in London. Highest price of the night was $3.6 million for the 1735 canvas The Reading Party, an acutely observed scene of an elegant young woman reading aloud to two aristocratic friends in a park. One of just 11 known tableaux de mode, or pictures of fashionable life, by Jean-François de Troy, this museum-worthy masterwork set a seemingly impressive auction high for the artist. But that price was the same as the record $3.6 million ... More | |
John Cale in Los Angeles, Dec. 28, 2022. At 80, the musician who helped found the Velvet Underground before a prolific run as a producer and solo artist is releasing a new LP and mentoring new generations of avant-garde creators. (Chantal Anderson/The New York Times)
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Just a few years after hed left the provincial Welsh mining town where he was born, a 23-year-old John Cale was invited along with his friend Lou Reed and their budding band the Velvet Underground to Andy Warhols Factory in New York. The first day you walked in, you joined the Academy, Cale said in the industrial but cozy lounge of his studio on a recent afternoon, recalling the first meeting with the pop art power broker who would become the bands manager. The atmosphere of that place was really special, he added; artists from all over came in and unzipped a bag of magic. The musician, now 80, was reminiscing on an uncharacteristically gloomy January day in Los Angeles ... More |
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| The Met announces co-chairs for the Spring 2023 Costume Institute Benefit | | Thaddaeus Ropac exhibits 100 works on paper from the Joseph Beuys family | | Mesmerizing contemporary paper arts at the Grolier Club NYC |
Penélope Cruz during the 92nd annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, Feb. 9, 2020. (Noel West/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the co-chairs for The Costume Institute Benefit on May 1, 2023, in New York. Michaela Coel, Penélope Cruz, Roger Federer, Dua Lipa, and Anna Wintour will serve as the evenings co-chairs. The dress code for the event will be In honor of Karl. The Benefit (also known as The Met Gala®) takes place annually on the first Monday in May and marks the opening of The Costume Institutes spring exhibitionthis year, Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beautyand provides the department with its primary source of funding for exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, operations, and capital improvements. Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty will explore the German designers stylistic vocabulary as it was expressed in through linesaesthetic themes that appear time and againin his fashions from the 1950s to his final collection in 2019 and spotlight his unique ... More | |
Joseph Beuys, Untitled (Honey Pot), 1949. Pencil on torn envelope, mounted on paper coated with ferrous watercolour or Beize. Sheet: 29.5 x 21 cm (11.61 x 8.27 in) © Joseph Beuys Estate / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2023.
LONDON.- Presenting almost 100 works on paper from the Joseph Beuys family for the first time in the UK, Joseph Beuys: 40 Years of Drawing is the first major exhibition dedicated solely to the artists drawings to take place in London for 30 years. The drawings on view span the four decades of Beuyss creative output; from the early representational works of the 1940s and 1950s to the conceptual sketches created from the mid-1960s that reflect the radical shift in his practice when drawings became integral devices related to the performances and sculptures he produced in the 1970s and 1980s. To mark the exhibition, Antony Gormley has been invited to curate a standalone room of Beuyss drawings, which are placed in conversation with his own works on paper. Titled SENSE: Beuys / Gormley, this presentation highlights the continuing influence of Beuyss legacy ... More | |
Regina St. John (1944); active 1984-. Chena River Marblers. Swoon, overmarbled paper, Chevron Gel-git pattern, 2017. Acrylic paint, on Neenah Texoprint paper, 19 ½ x 25 ½ in. (49.5 x 64.8 cm). Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Regina and Daniel St. John. Photograph: Thomas J. Watson Library.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Grolier Club in New York CityAmericas oldest and largest society for bibliophilescelebrates visionary contemporary American artists who revolutionized and re-energized the creative legacy of paper arts. Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s tells the story of 53 imaginative and innovative artists who, working independently and together, revived the largely forgotten arts of marbled and paste paper design. On view from January 18 through April 8, 2023 in the Grolier Clubs ground floor gallery, the exhibition is curated by Mindell Dubansky, Museum Librarian for Preservation at the Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art ... More |
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Forum Gallery opens 'Tula Telfair: From a Distance'
NEW YORK, NY.- From January 19 to March 4, 2023, Forum Gallery presents Tula Telfair: From a Distance, the eighth solo exhibition for the Artist at the gallery. For this exhibition, Telfair has created twenty-four oil on panel paintings in an intimate scale, a departure for the Artist best known for her grand-scale, heroic landscapes. In From a Distance, each 24 x 18 inch painting evokes the birds-eye view captured from an airplane window or a mountain peak. We see scenes of mysterious mountaintops and waterfalls veiled in mist, fiery volcanic eruptions, and haloed plains and valleys revealing the subtle curvature of the earth. Hauntingly familiar, these are invented vistas conjured by the Artists mind, portals inviting us to explore immersive and lush, natural worlds. About this newest body of work, Telfair writes ... More
'The ability to say yes' to stories long neglected on the screen
NEW YORK, NY.- Like so many anxious filmmakers the week before the start of the Sundance Film Festival, Erica Tremblay was tucked inside a dark room in Los Angeles, prepping the final sound mix for her feature debut, Fancy Dance. Tremblay has one of those quintessential Sundance tales: abandoning her career in publishing at age 40 to pursue filmmaking, specifically to tell stories centered in her Seneca-Cayuga Nation in Oklahoma. Her first short film, Little Chief, premiered at Sundance in 2020. Her script for Fancy Dance was accepted into the 2021 Sundance Lab, and with the help of the Sundance Institute, she secured financing to make the movie. Production concluded in September, and just three months later, her film was chosen out of 10,000 submissions to be shown at this years festival, which begins Thursday ... More
Lupe Serrano, ballerina of power and fire, is dead at 92
NEW YORK, NY.- Lupe Serrano, a former prima ballerina with American Ballet Theater who danced with Rudolf Nureyev and trained generations of dancers, died Monday in Syosset, New York. She was 92. The cause was complications of Alzheimers disease, her son-in-law Robert Chasanoff said. A petite powerhouse, Serrano dazzled audiences with virtuosic technique, steely strength and an exuberant stage personality. She excelled in classical and modern choreography during her 18 years with the New York company, which she joined as a principal dancer in 1953. At the time, American ballet was still catching up to the technical standards set by dancers in Cuba, Russia and elsewhere in Europe Serranos early training was in Chile and Mexico City and American audiences had rarely seen a female dancer achieve the soaring jumps ... More
Helen Toomer appointed Director of PHOTOFAIRS New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Creo announced today the appointment of veteran arts leader Helen Toomer as Director of PHOTOFAIRS New York, the new contemporary art fair dedicated to photo-based works and digital media launching in September. Toomer brings to her role more than fifteen years of experience across the commercial and non-profit sectors, with a track record of launching new organizations and convening the arts community. Toomer oversees the fairs strong curatorial approach, bringing together contemporary photography in all its forms and exploring its intersections with new and emerging technologies, including filmmaking, VR, and NFTs. Forging a distinct role in the New York arts ecology, PHOTOFAIRS New York will connect collectors and visitors with galleries from around the world to discover ... More
Almine Rech New York presents an exhibition of tapestries by Phyllis Stephens
NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech New York is excited to host the latest series of tapestries, The Movement of Material, by esteemed Atlanta-based quilter and visual artist Phyllis Stephens. The first solo exhibition Stephens will be partaking in with Almine Rech, this collection of ten new works radiates a vibrant joyous energy that will undoubtedly leave audiences feeling inspired. At the core of this exhibition is an appreciation for the energy of dance. The series alludes to the artists own history and passion for movement. Dancing has been an integral part of her creative process and life, transforming any time and space into one of happiness and inspiration. Reminiscent of family gatherings, time spent with friends, or embracing ones own self, dance transforms an instinctual part of the human experience into a beautiful performance of life itself ... More
Pollock-Krasner Foundation awards Pollock Prize for Creativity to Shahzia Sikander
NEW YORK, NY.- The Pollock-Krasner Foundation announced today that the Pollock Prize for Creativity is awarded to Shahzia Sikander, a visual artist examining language, empire, and migration through feminist perspectives, questioning colonial and imperial power structures. The $50,000 award honors Sikanders multimedia exhibition, Havah to breathe, air, life, at Madison Square Park and at the neighboring Courthouse of the Appellate Division, First Department of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. The work is Sikanders first major, site-specific outdoor exhibition in sculptural form and is on view from January 17 through June 4, 2023, before traveling to Houston, Texas. The Pollock Prize for Creativity was established by the Foundation in 2016 to honor Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollocks legacy and is awarded to an artist ... More
Rose Art Museum announces 2023 Perlmutter Award
WALTHAM, MASS.- The Rose Art Museum named Arghavan Khosravi (b. 1984) the 2023 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence. Since 2002, the Perlmutter Residency has been part of the Rose Art Museums longstanding tradition of promoting emerging artists of extraordinary talent whose work addresses contemporary issues of vital urgency. Born in Shahr-e Kord, Iran, Khosravi lived in Tehran until 2015, when she came to Brandeis University to study art. She pursued her MFA at RISD and since then has been developing a unique hybrid style, creating richly symbolic work that critically explores the complex relationship between the oppression and self-empowerment of women across various cultural milieus. Having known Arghavan since her time as a post-baccalaureate art student at Brandeis University ... More
For documentarian Alice Diop, only fiction could do justice to a tragedy
NEW YORK, NY.- When French director Alice Diop attended the trial of Fabienne Kabou, a woman who left her 15-month-old daughter on a beach to drown, she wasnt intending to make a movie. She felt an unusual identification with the person at the center of the 2016 case, she said in a recent interview, who like her was a Black woman of Senegalese descent with a mixed race child. She believed there was a nearly mythological dimension to the tragedy. As the proceedings unfolded, however, Diop realized she wasnt the only woman who had been drawn to the town of Saint-Omer in the north of France to observe Kabou. Looking around her during the defenses closing arguments, Diop saw others in tears. The story was bringing everybody back to profound and very personal issues, Diop said through an interpreter during an interview in New York last week ... More
Apollo Art Auctions will present its finest ancient art selection ever, Jan. 29
LONDON.- Apollo Art Auctions will launch its new season of gallery events with a January 29 sale generously laden with ancient fine art, antiquities and rare coins. Bidders who are unable to attend in person may bid remotely by phone, online or absentee, and everyone can enjoy the visually stunning auction catalogue online. With its exceptional photography and authoritative descriptions of rare art and artifacts, the auction book takes the reader on a virtual journey of the greatest civilizations of the world, traversing Classical Europe, Egypt and the Near East, and both southern Asia and the Far East. By means of a collaboration between Apollo Art Auctions and Coinllectibles a blockchain-technology company that supports the collectibles industry through its focus on art and rare memorabilia an exciting new feature will be introduced at the 491-lot auction ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Paul Cézanne was born January 19, 1839. Paul Cézanne (19 January 1839 - 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. In this image: Paul Cézanne (French, 1839â1906). Recto: The Chaîne de l'Etoile Mountains (La Chaîne de l'Etoile avec le Pilon du Roi), 1885-1886. Watercolor and graphite on wove paper; Verso: Unfinished Landscape, undated. Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, Sheet: 12 3/8 x 19 1/8 in. (31.4 x 48.6 cm). BF650. Photo © 2015 The Barnes Foundation.
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